Joshua Sobol isn’t interested in exploring dramatic possibilities but making sure his equation about the inevitable mechanics of violence works out.
Guy Ben-Aharon
Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “The Hearing” — Academic Freedom, Under Pressure
Scripts like The Hearing also provide an optic through which to examine our own nation’s problems.
Theater Review: Did You Hear the One About the Lawyer With the Cellphone? – “Kol’s Last Call”
An entertaining but surprisingly slight monologue from Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.
Theater Review: “Days of Atonement” — Sin Overload
There are just too many traumas on Hasfari’s checklist, too little time allotted to dramatic depth.
Theater Review: “Happy Ending” — A Dark Comedy About Terminal Cancer
Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.
Fuse Theater Review: Israeli Stage’s “Fertile” — Powerful Theater About Difference
Romona Lisa Alexander’s impressive talent for chameleonic invention is well-suited to this demanding script.
Theater Review: “Oh God” — An Audacious Israeli Comedy
Anat Gov’s play about wrestling with life and God is an outrageously provocative script that showcases the best of contemporary Israeli art.
Theater Review: “Oh God” – Psychoanalysis Saves The World!
Maureen Keiller and Will Lyman have performed numerous staged readings of Oh God and their intimate knowledge of the text shows.
Theater Review: At Israeli Stage—Alma Weich Places a “Price Tag” on Violence
The timeliness of this staged reading made for one of the most heated and engaged talk-backs for any of the presentations in Israeli Stage’s six-year history.
Theater Review: “The Strawberry Girl” — Harvest of Horror
Israeli Stage has opened its sixth season, which is dedicated exclusively to female playwrights, with a haunting work that examines the complicity of an ordinary German in the Holocaust.