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54  ❯❯  The Top 10 of Everything

           Performing Arts

















     Orchestral concert performance at the Jerusalem Theatre
                                  Zappa Club
         Jerusalem Theatre
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         MAP L6  •  20 David Marcus St,
                                  www.zappa-club.co.il
     Talbiyeh, West Jerusalem  •  www.  Israel’s top sponsor of live music,
     jerusalem-theatre.co.il   Zappa hosts Israeli and international
     Israel’s largest cultural complex,   talent at venues in Tel Aviv, Herzliya,
     officially the Jerusalem Centre for   Jerusalem, Haifa, and Binyamina.
     the Performing Arts, has four per-
                                  Cameri Theatre, Tel
     formance spaces hosting local and   4
     international dance and theater –   Aviv-Jaffa
     with English surtitles for some   MAP X2  •  19 Shaul HaMelech Blvd
     productions – art-house films, and   •  www.cameri.co.il
     concerts (the Jerusalem Symphony   Based in the Tel Aviv Performing
     Orchestra is based here).    Arts Center (TAPAC), the repertory
                              company here stages Israeli plays
                              and world classics translated into
                              Hebrew in five auditoriums. Some
                              productions have English surtitles.
                                  Yiddishpiel, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
                              5
                                  MAP W2  •  Performances at
                              Tzavta, 30 Ibn Gabirol St  •  (03) 525
                              4660  •  www.yiddishpiel.co.il.org.il
                              About 11 million Jews spoke Yiddish
                              on the eve of World War II; today
                              perhaps 600,000 do. To help keep
     Modern exterior of HaBima Theater  Eastern European Jewish cul ture
                              alive, Yiddishpiel stages colorful,
         HaBima Theater, Tel
     2                        often nostalgic, Yiddish productions.
         Aviv-Jaffa
                                  Al-Kasaba Theatre and
     MAP W3  •  2 Tarsat Blvd  •  www.  6
     habima.co.il                 Cinematheque, Ramallah
     Founded in Moscow in 1917, Israel’s   MAP F4  •  Hospital St, Ramallah
     national theater company moved to   •  www.alkasaba.org/english.php
     Tel Aviv in 1928. It stages modern   An active community space hosting
     and classic Israeli and international   theater productions for adults and
     plays in its four auditoriums. Some   children, and daily movies. There’s
     productions have English surtitles.   also a gallery space and resto-bar.

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     Date 24th June 2015
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