The Jerusalem Theatre is a cultural venue that brings together all the arts of stage, screen, visual and plastic arts. We work to present a contemporary artistic idiom and to create original initiatives and fascinating connections that express the meeting between idea and art.

Every year nearly a million visitors come to the Jerusalem Theatre to enjoy the hundreds of artists and actors from Israel and abroad in over 1,000 cultural events.

Each evening the theatre presents plays by the finest leading theatres in Israel, fringe ensembles and independent artists. Also presented on the theatre’s stages are dance performances by the leading companies from Israel and abroad. Concerts, musical performances in a variety styles from jazz, to pop and rock, from Israeli song to world music. Cultural encounters and lectures are held in the theatre, edited and presented by leading lecturers in their respective fields, entertainment, plays, concerts, performances for children and quality film.

The theatre also continues to develop original productions, festivals and special events including the End of Summer Festival, the Piano Festival and the Black and White Festival.

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The Jerusalem Theatre is the permanent home of key cultural institutions: the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Orchestra East West, the Mikro Theatre and the Israel Festival.

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The Jerusalem Theatre is located in the centre of the old and much appreciated Jerusalem neighbourhood of Talbiya, next to the Presidential Residence, the Prime Minister’s Residence, the Islamic Museum, Hansen House and other major cultural institutions.

The theatre building is a unique architectural work in itself. Elements of stone and concrete dominate, inside and out, consisting of three basic structures: a framework of walls that surround a hill in low horizontal terraces that rise from the earth extending to the ceiling of the stage tower; a system of spaces of different sizes; a sculptural array outside and inside the theatre. The Jerusalem Theatre has been declared a unique building and is listed for historical preservation by the Jerusalem Municipality.

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The building was dedicated in October 1971, containing a single hall, the Sherover Theatre, named for the Sherover family, whose donation paid for the theatre. In the 1980s, with the aid of a contribution from the Crown family of Chicago on behalf of the Jerusalem Foundation, the Jerusalem Municipality and government support, an additional wing was added to the theatre that includes 3 halls: the Henry Crown Hall, the Rebecca Crown Hall and the Uzi Wexler Hall. In recent years two additional halls have been opened to the public on both sides of the Sherover Theatre, where the Telad television studios were previously located: the Mikro Theatre Studio and the Studio.

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Approximately 80 exhibitions are presented annually in eight foyers of different sizes, located throughout the compound, including works in all areas of the plastic arts, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and three-dimensional works in a variety of materials. Entrance to the exhibitions is free during the theatre’s opening hours.

Additional information about the exhibitions now showing at the Jerusalem Theatre