John Nathan

Theatre review: Passing Strange ‘The music is excellent’

Stew’s autobiographical musical misses its originator

Theatre review: Fawlty Towers The Play. ‘Everything one would have hoped for’

Three sitcom episodes do not a play maketh

Made In England review: an ode to the art of making great films

Few documentaries have more to say about filmmaking than this one about Powell and Pressburger

Spirited Away review: Japanese imagination lands on a West End stage

Puppets and costumes combine with top-drawer stagecraft to conjure the most outlandish sequences

The biblical story of Song of Songs hits the London stage

Jewish and Arab Ofra Daniel represents the half of Israel the haters prefer to ignore. She tells our writer how her identity is bound up in her musical about being trapped in a loveless marriage

The American Society of Magical Negros review: Good idea, but not good enough for an entire film

This would work as a Saturday Night Live sketch, but that’s about it

Machinal review: superb depiction of a life trapped by conventions

Sexually repulsed by her spouse, the affair is the Young Woman’s only source of hope

Outnumbered: I’m now a shul bouncer and my mother, wife and daughters are amused

There were ripples of suppressed laughter when I announced my first security security shift

Civil War review: On the horrifying road to a very disunited States

London Tide review: A tide that laps at your knees, rather than sweeping you away

The Comeuppance review: Grim repear comes calling at the college reunion

A fast, furious and justifiably gory revenge flick

Dev Patel’s directorial debut about India’s criminal underground is underpinned by a moral cause