Theater

Theater in Israel is distinctive in its many different elements-contemporary and classical, local and foreign-with playwrights, actors, directors and producers of many backgrounds collaborating together. Several high-level theater schools in Israel include the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio and the School of Visual Theater.

The Israeli theater scene is very active with many theaters and dozens of companies performing throughout the country, and around the world. In addition to Hebrew, Israeli theatre is performed in Arabic, Russian and English.

Above: The Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts.

The New York Times raved over Israel's Gesher Theatre Company's production of The Slave when it featured at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2004. The Cameri Theatre sold out several Hebrew performances of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in Washington, D.C.

Itay Tiran, the lead actor in the Cameri Theatre's Washington production of Hamlet, recently won an AICF scholarship. It has become increasingly common to see Israeli playwrights, directors, actors and actresses in performances across the United States, and American actors also perform in Israeli theater companies. In addition, American universities will regularly perform Israeli theater.

Right: The Cameri Theatre's performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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