Jewish Culture MonthJewish bakery to take centre stage in Edinburgh playDOUGH will be shown twice next week as part of Jewish Culture MonthBy Ben Conway3 min read
Jewish theatreNIUSIA review: ‘it increasingly feels as if we’re listening to the wrong story’ ★★★Beth Paterson’s journey to her Jewishness is a worthy story, but her Holocaust survivor grandmother steals the showBy John Nathan2 min read
Jewish theatre‘Here, I’m a star’: Richard Kind on the victory lap that is his West End runPlaying Max Bialystock in The Producers is a full-circle moment for the oh-so Jewish actor, who can’t help but be a leading manBy John Nathan4 min read
Jewish theatreYentl review: ‘Isaac Bashevis Singer would be pleased’ ★★★★The writer was not impressed with the Barbra Streisand adaptation of his short story, but this performance captures its mysticism and humanity so well, he would surely approve itBy John Nathan1 min read
Jewish theatreThe Yentl I play does not identify as male or femaleThe star of a new production of the shtetl tale on why she sees the protagonist as non-binaryBy John Nathan4 min read
Theatre Here There Are Blueberries review: ‘What makes a Nazi a Nazi?’ ★★★★★This forensic Pultizer-finalist docu-play settles the question of what allows a person to perpetrate atrocity while enjoying the normal pleasures of lifeBy John Nathan2 min read
TheatreWhat Hitler’s henchmen and women did in their time offJohn Nathan meets a writer whose Pulitzer-finalist play, inspired by a Nazi photograph album, is making its UK debutBy John Nathan6 min read
Inside the big Jewish theatre fightbackAmid the hurtful cancellations and quiet blockings, a defiant Anglo-Jewry is springing up with shows that celebrate Jewish identity and concernsBy Elisa Bray8 min read||February 11, 2026 12:07
2025 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||December 24, 2025 13:09
It 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||December 18, 2025 14:12
Meet 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||November 30, 2025 22:38
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||November 12, 2025 16:36
The 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||October 22, 2025 13:06
Jewish 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||October 16, 2025 16:00
Patrick 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||September 22, 2025 13:04
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 12:18
