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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review: ‘nothing else like it in the West End’

This musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story is right on the button

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Terrific: the cast on stage at Ambassadors Theatre

Two rising Jewish talents: Mark Edelshtein as Vanya and Mickey Madison as Anora

Anora review: ‘Romeo and Juliet with more sex and drugs’

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Sophie Cox as Einehildur in Reykjavik at Hampstead Theatre Credit: Mark Douet

Reykjavik review: “brimful of humanity and grief”

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Talent spotter: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Brian Epstein in Midas Man

Midas Man review: ‘Epstein entrances in sympathetic biopic’

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Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’

This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved

2 min read

October 31, 2024 15:54

Slip of the tongue: an oleaginous alien in Venom

Dr Strangelove review: ‘Coogan is bang on the button’

The actor is priceless in this timely revival of Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuke comedy

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October 31, 2024 15:42

War room: Steve Coogan (centre) in Dr Strangelove Credit: Manuel Harlan

The Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’

The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustling

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October 23, 2024 09:57

Rise of a hustler: Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump

Almeida Theatre 1950s double bill: ‘An angry return to the kitchen sink’

Arnold Wesker’s Roots has been paired with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger –eight decades on the East End Jewish playwright emerges as the more potent dramatist by far

2 min read

October 23, 2024 09:08

Mansplaining: Billy Howle and Ellora Torchia in Look Back in Anger Photo: Marc Brenner

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

2 min read

October 22, 2024 16:00

Frenemies: (left to right) Caroline Catz, Joshua Malina, Simon Yadoo and Dorothea Myer-Bennett Photo: Mark Senior

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

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October 10, 2024 13:11

Sisters in arms: Liraz Charhi as Sara and (right) Netta Garti as Nicole

Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’

The author’s own words are deployed to chilling effect in this measured and gripping play

3 min read

October 8, 2024 15:05

Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’

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

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September 26, 2024 15:52

The cast of Waiting for Godot, now showing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, star in this re-staging of the classic Samuel Beckett play. (Photo: Marc Brenner)

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

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September 20, 2024 12:12

He's kosher: Michael Zindel as Ruben Bellisha in A Good Jewish Boy Credit: Simon Birman, Moonshaker Films

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

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September 19, 2024 17:06

The cast of Why Am I So Single in rehearsal Credit: Danny Kaan

‘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

6 min read

September 19, 2024 10:40

Giant playwright: Mark Rosenblatt Photo: Manuel Harlan

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

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September 13, 2024 16:29

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John Nathan

Latest from John Nathan

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review: ‘nothing else like it in the West End’

Anora review: ‘Romeo and Juliet with more sex and drugs’

Reykjavik review: “brimful of humanity and grief”

Midas Man review: ‘Epstein entrances in sympathetic biopic’

More from John Nathan

Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’

Dr Strangelove review: ‘Coogan is bang on the button’

The Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’

Almeida Theatre 1950s double bill: ‘An angry return to the kitchen sink’

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review: ‘a play as Jewish as they come’

Small town life and casual racism in 1960s Israel

Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’

Waiting for Godot review: ‘I defy anyone not to see themselves on this stage’

A Good Jewish Boy review: ‘elegiac paean to a fading community’

Why Am I So Single review: ‘a work in progress’

‘Why I tackled Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in my Royal Court play’

The Real Thing review: ‘Stoppard at very top of his game’