Tel Aviv and theaters fund incubators to set stage for new class of dramatists
Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. Illustrative: An Israeli couple wait for a play to begin in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2013. (Zuzana Janku/Flash 90) A spate of new plays commissioned from young Tel Aviv playwrights may be one way the beleaguered culture industry is fighting back against the strangling effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Over half a million shekels is being invested by the Tel Aviv municipality and the city’s four most established repertory theaters — Habima Theater, Beit Lessin Theater, Gesher Theater and Cameri Theater — t...
Source: timesofisrael.com