John Malkovich brings 'The Music Critic' to Israel in rare international booking

Two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy Award-winning actor John Malkovich is scheduled to return to Israel on April 13 to star in the satirical theatrical-musical production The Music Critic at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium (Heichal Hatarbut) in Tel Aviv.The Music Critic – written and conceived by Russian-German Jewish violinist and composer Aleksey Igudesman – blends classical masterpieces with some of the most scathing historical reviews ever written about them.On stage, Malkovich embodies an “evil critic” who insults iconic composers, declaring that Robert Schumann merely “fancies himself a composer,” Johannes Brahms is a “giftless bastard,” and the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin are simply tedious.A live ensemble, featuring Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo, fights back against Malkovich's verbal assaults by performing live renditions of the disputed music by Bach, Mozart, Debussy, and Prokofiev.Malkovich reads a real, brutally harsh critique written about his own careerThe performance culminates in a grand…