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review Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters review: A filthfest that’s too smug for its own good

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Sweary wordplay: Olivia Coleman (left) and Eileen Atkins

Corruption issues: Matt Smith and Nigel Lindsay in An Enemy of the People Photo: Manuel Harlan

An Enemy of the People: Question Time makeover for Ibsen’s classic play

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Irina Starshenbau as Shoshana Borochov with Douglas Booth as Thomas Wilkin (Photo: Jon Rushton Film Publicity & Consultancy)

Shoshana: ‘It’s not even-handed when it comes to depicting Jewish victims of violence’

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Power to the people: Joshua Ginsberg as Jewish boxer Sam (in striped jumper)

Inside the new show exploding myths about Cable Street

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Mum moves in, my back gives up

In a household where ages span 90 years, John Nathan’s the only man in the house

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February 8, 2024 12:49

Leave the boxes to the professionals. (Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images)

Theatre review: The Hills of California

This family reunion is great – but it’s no Jerusalem

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February 8, 2024 09:42

The Hills of California - a co-production between Neal Street Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions at Harold Pinter Theatre. Key Creatives: Written by Jez Butterworth Directed by Sam Mendes Design by Rob Howell Lighting Design by Natasha Chivers Sound Design, Composing and Arrangement by Nick Powell Choreography by Ellen Kane Musical Supervision and Arrangement by Candida Caldicot Casting by Amy Ball Young Person’s Casting by Verity Naughton Associate director is Zoé Ford Burnett Cast: Laura Donnelly Leanne Best Ophelia Lovibond Helena Wilson Bryan Dick Shaun Dooley Corey Johnson Richard Lumsden Natasha Magigi Nancy Allsop Sophia Ally Alfie Jackson Lara McDonnell Lucy Moran Nicola Turner

Film review: Occupied City : Steve McQueen’s documentary on Amsterdam’s Shoah memories

The horrors of the past that lurk in the shadows

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February 8, 2024 09:36

Film review: Occupied City : Steve McQueen’s documentary on Amsterdam’s Shoah memories

Theatre review: Plaza Suite: ‘A perfectly-formed play and Sarah-Jessica Parker is a revelation.’

Ticket prices are high but for fans of Neil Simon this is an unmissable revival

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February 1, 2024 14:07

Theatre review: Plaza Suite: ‘A perfectly-formed play and Sarah-Jessica Parker is a revelation.’

Film review: The Zone of Interest: ‘Hopefully it will win Oscars’

Capturing the ordinariness of atrocity

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February 1, 2024 13:39

Christian Friedel in The Zone of Interest

That’s Life! to a new Shoah fairy tale

Samantha Spiro who played Esther Rantzen in One Life is now the narrator in a new play about the Holocaust

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January 26, 2024 12:08

World of good: Samantha Spiro on stage at The Marylebone Theatre

The Holdovers review: A beautifully wrought comedy that took me back to 1970

Twenty years after Sideways, director Alexander Payne reunites with Oscar-nominated Paul Giamatti

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January 25, 2024 14:55

The human touch: Dominic Sessa as Angus and Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Mary in director Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (Photo: Seacia Pavao / 2023 Focus Features LLC)

Don’t Destroy Me, Arcola Theatre review: It’s hugely satisfying to see this lost-forever world of post-war Jewish Brixton revived

Tricia Thorns’s ambitious production vaults us powerfully back to a particular moment in Anglo-Jewish history

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January 25, 2024 14:36

Eddie Boyce, Timothy O'Hara and Nathalie Barclay on stage at the Arcola Theatre (Photo by Phil Gammon)

Kin at the National Theatre: This is a play that makes the case for Israel

Those who have bought into the narrative that the Jewish state is white and colonialist entity need to watch this show

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January 18, 2024 16:34

Physical theatre: the dancing in Kin is superb

Mean Girls review: What’s the point of the rehash? It’s hilarious

You’ve already seen the film, but Tina Fey’s version is so funny you never lose interest

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January 18, 2024 16:26

Mean Girls

Film review: Poor Things – ‘A tornado of a performance from Emma Stone’

Sex in the cinema need not be exploitative

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January 12, 2024 12:39

Ramy Youssef and Emma Stone in Poor Things.

Review of Stranger Things, The First Shadow: This show redefines what we can depict on page

Not a moment of this three-hour drama triumph lasts a second longer than you want it to [Missing Credit]

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January 11, 2024 15:50

Butter wouldn't melt: Henry Creel

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