4 Best Performing Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded in 1944, this long-standing Hebrew performance theater, located in the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, offers a useful "See it in Hebrew, Read it in English" program every Tuesday, in which the performance is simultaneously translated into English. Shows range from classic plays to international dramas, comedies, and local pieces.

One of Israel's largest repertory theaters, the Beit Lessin Theatre hosts works by Israeli playwrights in Hebrew.

This troupe is rooted in the Russian Revolution, when a group of young Jewish artists established a theater company that performed in Hebrew—this at a time when Hebrew was barely a living language. Subsequent tours through Europe and the United States in the 1920s won wide acclaim. Many of the group's members moved to Israel and helped establish a theater company that now inhabits multiple spaces, including a nicely renovated complex at Habima Square. Even though the vast majority of productions are in Hebrew, many are also simultaneously translated into English.

In Old Jaffa, HaSimta Theatre features avant-garde and fringe performances in Hebrew (or sometimes without words at all).