Jewish theatreJewish Literary Foundation launches initiative to promote emerging playwrightsThe Jewish Playwrights Programme, whose cohort of writers will develop their own full-length plays over six months, aims to empower new Jewish voicesBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
TheatreMary Page Marlowe review: ‘no life is uninteresting’ ★★★★Susan Sarandon brings steel to Tracy Letts’s play about the unremarkable life of one American woman, but it is Andrea Riseborough who delivers an outstanding performanceBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreThe Land of the Living review: ‘Fatally wears its messaging on its sleeve’ ★★★Based on interviews with journalist Gitta Sereny, this new play about child victims of war spans 45 years – but still takes too long to answer its main mysteryBy John Nathan1 min read
ADHDMeet the Jewish women tackling ‘medical misogyny’ with hard factsWomen’s ailments have long been trivialised, but these two authors have some remediesBy Gaby Koppel5 min read
TheatreAmy Rosenthal on what drove the Mitford Sisters to extremesThe playwright believes her new play answers this long-standing questionBy John Nathan4 min read
TheatrePatrick Marber: I’m seen as the ‘Jew director’ of our timesThe director on why he saturated The Producers with a Jewish sensibility, about his late-onset Jewishness and why he thinks hatred from strangers is not the worst thingBy John Nathan5 min read
Theatre‘I love playing a Jewish villain’Israeli actor Neta Roth explains why she can’t wait to bring the biblical figure Salomé to life in the hotly anticipated West End production of Oscar Wilde’s eponymous play this monthBy Natalie Blenford6 min read
Theatre The Producers review: ‘deserves to end up on Broadway’ ★★★★Patrick Marber’s inventive new production, which transferred to the West End this week, avoids the big-Broadway-show thing but The Great White Way is surely where it’s headedBy John Nathan2 min read
Theatre‘The stuff of dreams’ – Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning Giant to hit Broadway next yearThe debut play written by writer-director Rosenblatt, about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, won three Olivier awardsBy Elisa Bray2 min read
TheatreBorn With Teeth review: ‘hollow as a crown’ ★★It is odd that director Daniel Evans has chosen this work, which isn’t really a history play at all, for his inaugural production as co-artistic director of the RSCBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreJuniper Blood review: A topical warning of what’s to come ★★★★Mike Bartlett’s latest play grapples with the issue of environmentalism and sustainability through a group of people ideologically dividedBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreWhat if Hitler had met Freud? You can find out nowIn their new play, legendary writing duo Marks and Gran reveal that Sigmund meeting Adolf is not so far-fetched after allBy Maurice Gran3 min read
TheatreEvery Brilliant Thing review: ‘a funny play about suicide’ ★★★★After 70 uninterrupted minutes, we emerge knowing something of life under the pall of depression and suicide – and it makes for a funny and moving night outBy John Nathan2 min read
Edinburgh FringeMarcus is Alive review: A balm for anyone who’s ever asked ‘Why me?’ ★★★★Jewish actor Marcus Freed tells the true story of the LA hit-and-run accident that nearly killed him in this profound, vivid one-man showBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
Edinburgh FringeHoney Honey Moon Moon review: Jewish newlywed couple make pitch-perfect duo in this charming musical comedy ★★★★Don’t be put off by the G-rated energy of musical duo Marnina and Micah of ‘Couplet’ – their whimsical show about wedding plans gone awry is definitely for adultsBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
Edinburgh FringeArab-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid brings story of life ‘in between’ to debut Fringe show – just don’t let the title scare youIn ‘Between the River and the Sea’, renowned Israeli actor Sweid reflects on a life lived between Jewish and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian worlds – and being a father to Jewish childrenBy Eliana Jordan4 min read
