Michael Handelzalts

'Monologues from the Kishke,' touches your heart and other parts; a rare Yiddish play today that celebrates the culture of Eastern European Jews instead of mourning its decline.

Watching these five 3D minutes, it suddenly dawned on me that it was to that ruined city that my parents returned. There, in Warsaw, they started to build their life anew, a life to which I owe my own.

'The Imaginary Invalid' at Jerusalem's Khan Theater is Udi Ben Moshe's third attempt at directing the 17th century playwright - and not one to remember.

What stops us from attending to a minor malfunction before it gets out of hand and needs an overhaul, or is deemed worthy of discarding and replacement?

What sets Tiran’s choices as a director apart is the fact that he chooses specific thematic materials that reflect a sensitivity that transcends the aesthetic and is, first and foremost, ethical.

Why was the Herzliya Ensemble shut down, 13 years after it was founded, and did it ever stand a chance?

Today's 'writings' are not what they used to be. There are 'texts,' 'tweets' and 'posts,' and walls are not what they used to be either.

In the context of the holiday, reclining allows our bodies to savor the fact that we are telling our children the tale of our liberation as a people, as free human beings. Sit back and enjoy.

An emotional conflict between Israelis and a Russian immigrant are at the heart of Yosef Bar-Yosef's The Citrus Grove," now being revived at Tel Aviv's Beit Lessin Theater. It's the people, not ideas or society, that matter most

A few thoughts on reading between the lines of the Torah, in light of coalition wranglings over the issue of 'sharing the burden.'

'Cycling with Moliere' is about two theater actors rehearsing a play but, in essence, this is really a story about interpersonal relations, about different philosophical approaches to life and about the manner in which language - in this case, French - shapes both our lives and reality.

Everything you ever wanted to know about a word that just oozes the idea of sex.

David Mamet takes on affirmative action and white liberalism.

The versatile character actress, who died recently, may not have played leading roles, but could undertake virtually any female role in any play and perform it with talent.

Three plays brought the classics back after a prolonged absence, and one of them is outstanding.

On why the application that is all the rage is called 'Twitter,' and why the verb denoting the act of using it is 'to tweet.'

What happens when an Ashkenazi critic 'Flower of the Neighborhood,' a stage musical based on the songs of Kobi Oz at the Be’er Sheva Theater?

Hanoch Levin’s play ‘Solomon Grip’ works well in Yiddish, reflecting themes like death.

The existence of wisdom teeth in the human body until this very day can be utilized in the ongoing discussion between those who believe in evolution and the creationists.

The people of English theater prove they know both how to remain faithful to the tradition and to stage Shakespeare properly, how to surprise us and buck tradition, and nevertheless how to produce a fascinating and challenging show.

Faced with London's staggering variety of theater options, I picked the hugely enjoyable revival of Stephen Sondheim's 'Merrily We Roll Along,' a musical told in reverse.

The winner of the 2012 competition is not really a word or a phrase.

'The Trojan Women,' a Jewish-Arab-Japanese adaptation of the classical play, provokes high expectations. So why does it lose altitude almost from the very start?

I remember the days when I would endanger lives to meet my deadline before new technologies revamped the logistics of journalism.

Israel-European theatrical collaborations are no longer rare, but rarely does a co-production seem as necessary as Sara von Schwarze's 'In Between,' a joint production of the Cameri and Stuttgart's Schauspielebuhnen theater.