ShowbizShowbiz: yesterday’s antisemitism warrior queensNew rock musical Rise tells a story of Jewish defiance and rebellionBy Nicole Lampert1 min read
TheatreRhinoceros review: ‘don’t follow the herd’The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede aheadBy John Nathan1 min read
Theatre Jewish talent triumphs at the Olivier AwardsFiddler on the Roof and Giant lead the winsBy Ellie Grant1 min read
TheatreApex Predator review: ‘this supernatural psychodrama just about works’John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realismBy John Nathan1 min read
FilmThe film of Seven Jewish Children is as foul as the stage versionThe original play allowed no space for the reality of Israel or Gaza today – and the film follows suitBy Jane Prinsley4 min read
Theatre 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’By John Nathan2 min read
TheatreA Comedy of Terrors review: ‘a hoot’This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampireBy John Nathan1 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 comedyBy John Nathan2 min read||March 15, 2025 20:27
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 unconvincingBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read||March 14, 2025 16:14
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 MonkhouseBy John Nathan2 min read||March 5, 2025 13:36
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 affairBy John Nathan1 min read||February 27, 2025 15:09
This Menuhin show is all about the words, not the musicThe granddaughter of the great classical violinist on her first stage play, an adaptation of the 1938 German novel The PassengerBy John Nathan5 min read||February 19, 2025 20:04
Richard II review: ‘has lessons for Trump’The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he shouldBy John Nathan1 min read||February 18, 2025 18:15
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 himBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read||February 14, 2025 16:29
Elektra review: ‘Oh. Is that it?’Is this a must-see production of the classical work? As Elektra puts it (throughout): noBy John Nathan2 min read||February 11, 2025 17:44
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 storyBy John Nathan1 min read||February 6, 2025 13:37
