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
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
Edinburgh FringeShe 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
Edinburgh Fringe25 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
Jewish theatreThe 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
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 13:23
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 15:18
Showbiz: yesterday’s antisemitism warrior queensNew rock musical Rise tells a story of Jewish defiance and rebellionBy Nicole Lampert1 min read||April 17, 2025 14:06
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
The playwright who puts his Jewishness centre stageNick Cassenbaum’s Jewish revenge fantasy about Corbyn has been seen as ‘too Jewish’ by theatres, but he continues to do his shtickBy John Nathan5 min read||January 16, 2025 17:56
After the Lavoyah review: ‘Corbyn revenge fantasy with shades of Berkoff’Let’s hope Nick Cassenbaum builds on the wild success of this fearless Yiddishe heistBy John Nathan1 min read||January 15, 2025 15:24
‘You need to know about evil to play the Happiest Man on Earth’Acclaimed American actor Kenneth Tigar on why he was attracted to the challenge of playing a Holocaust survivor who spent the rest of his life preaching peaceBy Imogen Garfinkel5 min read||November 28, 2024 14:13
Wickedly Jewish! New musical is chock-a-block with talented Jewish starsThe Yellow Brick Road is paved with Jewish talent for one of this year’s biggest film releasesBy Jane Prinsley2 min read||November 19, 2024 10:49
