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Fiddler on the Roof review: a fresh revival that’s true to tradition
Will Jordan Fein’s new production prove to be a miracle of miracles?
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She’s not Babs, but Imelda Staunton is a fab matchmaker
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Stephen Schwartz: ‘My shows either flopped or were hits like Wicked’
The composer of Wicked, Stephen Schwartz has a new production opening in London – can The Baker’s Wife finally put its troubled past behind it, 50 years on? John Nathan meets the greatest living composer in contemporary musical theatre
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This new musical stars a thoroughly modern Moses
A husband and wife team have written a new musical based on the Exodus story
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Tony Awards 2024: Big winners Stereophonic and Merrily We Roll Along are Jewish
Daniel Radcliffe and Jeremy Strong were the other lead winners in the 77th awards ceremony
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From Odesa to the West End: Golda the musical
Golda Amirova’s Jewish journey of courage, comedy and conflict
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The Witches review: Child killers hidden among us in Dahl’s dark family show
Bertie Caplan is superb in a production that pleasingly provides a platform for young Jewish talent in a musical based on famous children's book writer's story
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Jephtha review: A night at the opera that I would like to forget
Allan Clayton has a magnificent tenor voice but it is simply not suited to Handel - one contributing factor that makes this production a big mistake
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Dudu Fisher: the Israeli star who wanted to be a dentist but became a superstar
The singer/actor is celebrating his 50th year in showbiz - but, as he tells the JC, his life could have gone in a very different direction
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Sunset Boulevard review: Doesn't matter if you've seen this show before, you have not seen it like this
Nicole Scherzinger's Norma Desmond transmits a tragic ego the size of the cinema screen in Jamie Lloyd’s slick musical
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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends review: All hail Broadway royalty
Seventy-five-year-old Bernadette Peters rolls back the years in Cameron Macintosh’s tribute to the late musical theatre genius
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Next to Normal review: Great songs, shame about the writing
I cannot remember a show that was so annoyingly written yet so impressively performed as this production about the repercussions of a mother's manic depression
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Everything we know about Ethan Slater, Ariana Grande’s rumoured new Jewish boyfriend
Judaism influenced ‘every aspect of my life’ says her Wicked co-star and rumoured fling
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Crazy For You review: The joy of Gershwin adds fizz to our straitened times
Charlie Stemp stars as hapless New York banker Bobby Child in a fizzing, delightful morale booster
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Obituary: Maria Charles
A formidable presence who played Yente opposite Topol in Fiddler on the Roof
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FIddler on the roof co-creator Sheldon Harnick dies at 99
The writer was inducted into the Broadway hall of fame for his work on the iconic show
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