John Nathan

Edinburgh festival: The Jewish back story to its most controversial play

Meet the writer behind a work of satire about the trans-culture wars

She’s not Babs, but Imelda Staunton is a fab matchmaker

Film review: Twisters, ‘A spectacle but as memorable as a breeze’

After George Clooney’s Perfect Storm and 1996’s Twister, here is yet another tornado movie

Theatre review: Slave Play, ‘An evening primed to cause tension and offence’

Viewing this play through a Jewish lens you can see the disconnect that can form between two loving people with different histories, says John Nathan

Stephen Schwartz: ‘My shows either flopped or were hits like Wicked’

The composer of Wicked, Stephen Schwartz has a new production opening in London – can The Baker’s Wife finally put its troubled past behind it, 50 years on? John Nathan meets the greatest living composer in contemporary musical theatre

Moon trek where one (better) film has gone before...

Kinds of Kindness, review: a kind of invitation to defy conventional thinking

The Marilyn Conspiracy review: An evening of ... conspiracies

The Bikeriders review: Jodie revs it up in this tale about bikers on a dead end

Kiss Me, Kate review: this kissing lark is all in the line of duty

Bimah me up! Meet the circus rabbi who prays as she flies

Rabbi Miri Lawrence will be performing this Sunday with The Blumenfeld Circus

Freud’s Last Session review: This is a movie with play envy