Theatre2025 in review: TheatreJohn Nathan chooses the best plays of the year, from a new stage adaptation of Mel Brooks’s musical The Producers to a comic revenge fantasy about the kidnap of Jeremy CorbynBy John Nathan4 min read
TheatreIt is called Christmas Day but it is about being JewishNigel Lindsay on why he’s pleased to play a Jew on the London stage amid soaring antisemitismBy John Nathan5 min read
JW3Meet the Jewish Cinderella at the heart of JW3’s Chanukah pantoCinderella is a baker in the Kosher Kingdom in this Jewish version of the classic fairy taleBy Eliana Jordan1 min read
Theatre The Wanderers – review: Marriage? Be careful what you wish for ★★★★The first act of this clever play about two Brooklyn marriages is a little ponderous, but stick with it – the second act is more than worth the waitBy John Nathan2 min read
Jewish theatreThe Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’Playwright Anna Ziegler on her new work about two very different Jewish marriagesBy Elisa Bray4 min read
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
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
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||September 17, 2025 11:18
She dreaded sitting next to a Chasidic woman – until the conversation that changed everythingA play coming to Edinburgh Fringe explores tensions between secular and Orthodox women through a conversation set 30,000 feet above groundBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||August 1, 2025 08:49
25 must-see Jewish shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2025This year’s festival boasts an abundant lineup of Jewish talent – here are the JC’s top picksBy Eliana Jordan8 min read||July 16, 2025 15:46
The drama society creating a non-political space for Jewish artists to thriveActor Natan Paul-Collis started the Jewish Dramatic Association of London as a safe space for Jewish writers, directors and performers – and he’s just getting startedBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||July 14, 2025 14:16
West End venue drops queer Jewish musical after anti-Israel backlashPhoenix Arts Club cancels Israeli actor’s satirical show after online criticismBy Jane Prinsley5 min read||July 10, 2025 12:23
My play about being young, gay and strictly OrthodoxA formerly frum writer on how he hopes his ex-community will watch his new workBy John Nathan5 min read||April 30, 2025 14:18
Showbiz: yesterday’s antisemitism warrior queensNew rock musical Rise tells a story of Jewish defiance and rebellionBy Nicole Lampert1 min read||April 17, 2025 13:06
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
London transfer and national tour for Fiddler on the RoofThe beloved production is set to take on London’s Barbican before heading across the UK and IrelandBy Jane Prinsley1 min read||January 21, 2025 14:29
