What to see this winter, from Marty Supreme to Into the Woods

Marty Supreme, on general release, 26 December

Timothée Chalamet is already being tipped for an Oscar for his role as the late Jewish table tennis legend Marty Reisman in Marty Supreme. The fictional sports drama based on the American champion ping pong player is directed by Josh Safdie, who cowrote it with Ronald Bronstein. Judaism has a history of success in the sport, with many early table tennis champs being Eastern European and German Jews. Also starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Fran Drescher.

Off his own bat: Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme[Missing Credit]

Cover-Up, select UK cinemas December and Netflix 26 December

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh was born in Chicago in 1937 to Yiddish-speaking parents who immigrated from Poland and Lithuania. This political thriller traces his explosive career. Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power of investigative journalism and is directed by Academy Award-winner Laura Poitras and Emmy Award-winner Mark Obenhaus.

Seymour Hersh[Missing Credit]

Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, select cinemas from 2 January

It’s the final month of the BFI’s retrospective of iconic Jewish American documentary-maker Frederick Wiseman whose groundbreaking career spans seven decades, and who also started acting in his nineties (he appears in Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming film A Private Life). Wiseman’s most recent film is an epic four-hour observation of a family restaurant in rural France that has held the coveted three Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations and is adored by foodies worldwide.

[Missing Credit]Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Cable Street, Marylebone Theatre, 16 Jan to 28 Feb
Following two sold-out runs at Southwark Playhouse last year, the musical of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street returns to London. Written by award-winning composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin and playwright Alex Kanefsky and directed by Adam Lenson, the production is set in the heart of London’s East End, where Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists started to march. The show celebrates a community of Jews, Irish workers, trade unionists, labour and communist parties, who united with a call for action, and features a powerful contemporary score.

Raphael Wallfisch: Composers in Exile, Southbank Centre, 18 January

One year ago, British cellist Raphael Wallfisch appeared in documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz, which centres on the story of his cellist and Holocaust survivor mother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. He now performs with pianist Simon Callaghan in major works by composers who fled the horrors of the Second World War. Included in this diverse concert are Bartók and his Rhapsody No.1, which reflects the fiery folk music of his native Hungary before he moved to America; Mieczysław Weinberg who escaped Poland; and Szymon Laks who wrote his Cello Sonata before he was deported to Auschwitz where he conducted the concentration camp orchestra.

BBC/Two Rivers Media/Toby TrackmanRaphael Wallfisch

Cohen, Bernstein, Joni & Me, Upstairs at The Gatehouse, 20 January to 1 February

It’s the first full London run for acclaimed actor, singer, songwriter, and character artist Deb Filler’s heartwarming musical show. Raised in a Jewish immigrant family in New Zealand (she calls herself “Kibrew”), whose identity was shaped by song, Filler tells of funny encounters with cultural icons in her one-woman show about her life in the music industry. On her musical quest through the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, Leonard Bernstein performs for her alone, she drives Leonard Cohen to the airport in New York, and she joins Joni Mitchell backstage in Vancouver.

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting, National Portrait Gallery, 12 February to 3 May

The UK’s first exhibition to focus on the artist’s works on paper includes drawings displayed for the first time. One of Britain’s foremost figurative painters, Freud is celebrated for his raw and intensely observed portraits and nude studies. This exhibition explores his lifelong commitment to capturing the human form, and focuses on his mastery of drawing in pencil, pen, ink, charcoal and etchings. One etching depicts the artist’s fashion-designer daughter, Bella Freud.

Broken Glass, Young Vic, 21 February to 18 April

Set in 1938 Brooklyn, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass follows Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg who are living increasingly separate lives. When Sylvia reads about the violent attacks of Kristallnacht and suffers sudden paralysis, her husband, who is focused on assimilating, takes her to Dr Hyman for help, and a bond reveals the cracks in their marriage. Jordan Fein directs this first major London production in 15 years of the play which premiered in 1994 and won a Laurence Olivier Award. Starring Tony nominee Eli Gelb as Phillip.