John Nathan
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review: ‘a play as Jewish as they come’
This quintessentially Jewish work tackles the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and is also a really smart and funny comedy
Small town life and casual racism in 1960s Israel
A study in the differences between Indian and Moroccan Israeli communities set against the ochre colours of the Negev desert
Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’
The author’s own words are deployed to chilling effect in this measured and gripping play
Waiting for Godot review: ‘I defy anyone not to see themselves on this stage’
Superb acting carries this re-staging of the mind-bending classic by Samuel Beckett
A Good Jewish Boy review: ‘elegiac paean to a fading community’
This first feature by director and co-writer Noé Debré could so easily have ended up as a kosher kitchen sink drama. Instead, it’s a gem
Why Am I So Single review: ‘a work in progress’
Love lives that turn out to be little less interesting for a show of two and a half hours
‘Why I tackled Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in my Royal Court play’
Mark Rosenblatt’s work about the children’s author and self-confessed antisemite opens this week
The Real Thing review: ‘Stoppard at very top of his game’
This slick revival of his 1982 play combines comedy and cleverness in a way that would come across as intellectual show-boating in the hands of a lesser writer
The Critic review: ‘acidic revenge plot in 1930s London’
Ian McKellen’s stone-faced critic is a delicious embodiment of cruelty and wit
Wiesenthal review: ‘Inside the mind of a Nazi hunter’
This play shows the humanity and humility of a man devoted to bringing Nazis to justice and sets the record straight about what the word ‘genocide’ means
Firebrand review: ‘Jude Law’s Henry VIII’
The actor is on terrifying form in this film which uses poetic licence to excellent effect
Death of England review: ‘love and hate across the racial divide’
Seeing this play in the wake of Britain’s far-right riots gives it added poignancy
Meet commercial theatre’s ‘socialist’ producer
The man behind Why Am I So Single? which opens this week explains why he treats actors like family and never wants to overcharge for tickets
Blink Twice review: ‘men are the enemy of women’
Revenge is best served on a toxic male tycoon’s private island in this film which starts as a rom-com but which becomes a thriller
Shifters review: ‘friends without benefits’
It is beautifully performed, but this will they, won’t they romance never quite takes off
Between the Temples review: ‘excruciating in the best way’
This comedy is based on the kind of ineffectual and hapless Jew that gentiles have long liked most, but it’s Jewish plea to live life to the full is one we can all get behind
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