Frits on July 15th, 2010

A two day (July 23rd and 24th) Palestinian folklore and culture festival will take place in the Elsaraya theater in Jaffa’s old-city, with a theater show (Cappucino in Ramalla), the movie Jaffa, directed by Eyal Sivan, an Arab, English, Hebrew book fair, Palestinian cuisine, traditional Palestinian dresses and an oud-music show by Elias Wakileha. For [...]

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Frits on May 4th, 2010

I did find a lovely article in Haaretz Magazine, last Friday, written by Ruth Eshl about the famous dancer, choreographer, teacher and scholar Dvora Bertonov,who died two weeks ago at the age of 95 in Tel Aviv. Dvora, born in Georgia in 1915, immigrated with her family to Palestine in 1915 and settled in Tel [...]

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Frits on April 24th, 2010

The play, written by Amir Nizar Zuabi: ‘I am Yusuf and this is my Brother’ will be brought on stage in Jaffa’s Al Anis Auditorium on Wednesday, May 5th (20:30), after a ‘sell out run‘ in London. The play, in English, is by the ShibirHur Theater Company with music by Habib Shihadeh Hanna. Kate Basset [...]

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Frits on April 8th, 2010

The awesome and touching theater/video-art experience: ‘The Girl Who Could Not Kneel’, based on the diaries of Etty Hillesum (who was killed in Auschwitz in 1943 ) will be set on stage again at the Tmooneh Theatre on Monday, April 12th at 20:30 and on Wednesday, April 14th at 20:00. The play is directed by [...]

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Frits on March 21st, 2010

The violin virtuoso, conductor and master-instructor Itzhak Perlman will return to Tel Aviv (for a while?). Perlman, born on August 31st. 1945 in Tel Aviv, is living with his wife and kids in New-York. He gave an interesting interview to Noam Ben-Zeev in Haaretz last week . We say: Welcome Home, Itzhak!!

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Frits on March 14th, 2010

The Vertigo Dance Company will give two sparkling dance/ballet shows at the Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Neve-Tsedek. On Tuesday, March 23rd. and Tuesday, April 27th: White Noise and on Wednesday, March 28th: Mana. A must for all ballet-lovers…

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