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Apex Predator review: ‘this supernatural psychodrama just about works’

John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realism

1 min read

Sophie Melville as Mia and Bryan Dick as Joe

Production photo of Balanchine - Serenade, The Royal Ballet ©2025 Foteini Christofilopoulou

Balanchine: Three Signature Works ‘This was Balanchine at his best’

A chance to get a bit of American pizzazz

2 min read

Defying expectations: the cast of Dear England, with Gwilym Lee as Gareth Southgate (light sleeves) on stage at the National Theatre Photo: Marc Brenner

Dear England review: ‘permission to be patriotic’

How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’

2 min read

Out for blood: James Daly as Dracula Photo: Matt Crockett

A Comedy of Terrors review: ‘a hoot’

This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire

1 min read

The Seagull review: ‘Cate Blanchett gives it pitch–perfect pizzazz’

The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy

2 min read

Farewell Mister Haffman review: ‘an unlikely ménage à trois’

There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Dance review: Romeo and Juliet

The Royal Ballet shines in a classic production

1 min read

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The Last Laugh review: ‘a love letter to British comedy and three of its funny men’

This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse

2 min read

A gleam in your eye: Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper; Bob Golding as Eric Morecambe and Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse Photo: Pamela Raith

Unicorn review: ‘Stephen Mangan, Nicola Walker and Erin Doherty in threesome’

Having explored a gay couple being attracted to a straight relationship in the play Cock, Mike Bartlett now turns to a heterosexual relationship where a spouse wants a same-sex affair

1 min read

Throuple therapy: Erin Doherty (Kate), Nicola Walker (Polly) and Stephen Mangan (Nick) in Unicorn Photo: Marc Brenner

This Menuhin show is all about the words, not the music

The granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The Passenger

5 min read

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Richard II review: ‘has lessons for Trump’

The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he should

1 min read

Right royal: Jonathan Bailey as King Richard Photo: Manuel Harlan

The Value of Names review: ‘a bitter ode to the victims of McCarthyism’

Jeffrey Sweet delivers a dark play about a previously blacklisted Jewish comic who refuses to let go of the past, even if it’ll destroy him

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

Katherine Lyle as Norma, an aspiring actress (left), and Jeremy Kareken as her father, Benny, a retired comic who was blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s. Photo: Zack Layton

Elektra review: ‘Oh. Is that it?’

Is this a must-see production of the classical work? As Elektra puts it (throughout): no

2 min read

Just say yes: Stockard Channing as Clytemnestra Photo: Helen Murray

As Long As We Are Breathing review: ‘poignant but not enough punch’

The message that it is possible to replace trauma with inner peace is reassuring, but it is prioritised over the drama of Holocaust survivor Miriam Freedman’s story

1 min read

Hidden treasures: Caroline Gruber as Miriam Freedman in her eighties Photo: Arcola Theatre

September 5 review: ‘superbly constructed account of the 1972 atrocity’

Palestinian activists in New York are calling for a boycott of this film, but any movie houses that cave it will be doing viewers a disservice

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Reading the room: most of the film takes place in the electric twilight of the control room

Oliver! review: ‘has the audience begging for more’

Simon Lipkin’s Fagin is the best but not only reason to buy a ticket for this sublime revivial of the masterpiece

2 min read

Picking pockets: Simon Lipkin as Fagin in the Gielgud Theatre production Photo: Johan Persson

Dance review: Onegin/Three short ballets

‘In the swooping, passionate pas de deux you can see how they both enjoyed extending classical vocabulary in exciting, sensual ways’

2 min read

Bruno Serraclarain in Four Last Songs (Photo:Emily Nuttall)

London transfer and national tour for Fiddler on the Roof

The beloved production is set to take on London’s Barbican before heading across the UK and Ireland

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Adam Dannheisser as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof

Dance review: Giselle ‘The dancing is beautiful’

Erina Takahashi shines in this ENB production

1 min read

Dance review: Giselle ‘The dancing is beautiful’

After the Lavoyah review: ‘Corbyn revenge fantasy with shades of Berkoff’

Let’s hope Nick Cassenbaum builds on the wild success of this fearless Yiddishe heist

1 min read

Twice the win: Gemma Barnett and Dylan Corbett-Bader play twins Lauren and Don Photo: Alex Brenner

Comedian spreads Jewish joy

Debra Tammer tells the JC that creativity is the best weapon against antisemitism in the arts

5 min read

Debra Tammer says that being pushed out of artistic circles allows Jews to be even more creative

2024 in review: theatre

This year Patrick Marber directed The Producers, Nachtland and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Were there a Theatre Practitioner of the Year award, it would have his name on it

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2024 in review: theatre

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Goldie Frocks and Bear Mitzvah review: ‘this homage to the shmatte trade needs a slight trim’

This kosher show does to the fairy tale what Yiddish theatre once did to the classics, but it is, what is called in both theatre and and tailoring circles, a bit baggy

1 min read

Panto pandemonium: Ian Sackville's magician Morris (with a copy of this newspaper) Credit: Eamon B Shanahan

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