Theatre‘Delight in other people’s creativity’: Nicholas Hytner hails return of ‘The History Boys’ for first West End run in 20 yearsThe acclaimed director expressed his hope that a renewal of his award-winning production can resonate with the younger generationBy Daisy Blakemore-Creedon1 min read
TheatreRent review: ‘Brimful of New York’s life-affirming and, through its composer, Jewish energy’★★★★★Jonathan Larson tragically died the night before the preview of his rock musical. Thirty years on, his show is being fully staged for the first timeBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreThe Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France, 1940 review: ‘her brilliant mind and humiliated body’ ★★★Julia Pascal’s new play highlights a harrowing period in the life of one of the most acclaimed intellectuals of the last centuryBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreThis show tells my father’s musical story better than Polanksi’s The PianistWladyslaw Szpilman’s famous Shoah memoir has been adapted for the stage and his exacting son approvesBy John Nathan6 min read
JW3JW3 to stage first major theatre commission in nearly a decade‘Trudy Zeller Lives Here’ will run for two weeks at the Jewish cultural centre next springBy Ben Conway1 min read
Theatre Steven Berkoff: an exclusive extract from his new memoir Shouting At NightThe actor looks back on his first trip to Israel, and the extraordinary experience of being directed by Stanley Kubrick in A Clockwork Orange in his hotly anticipated autobiography out next weekBy Steven Berkoff5 min read
Theatre Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Soho Place, review: Billy Crudup delivers one of the performances of the year ★★★★★With Gillian Anderson as Martha, this production directed by Marianne Elliott is up there with the best of Edward Albee’s 1962 classicBy John Nathan1 min read
The Standard of Living review: Rory Kinnear and Natalia Osipova are a class act ★★★The principal Royal Ballet ballerina and Russian-Jewish superstar makes her West End debutBy John Nathan2 min read||October 1, 2026 10:38
Golden Boy review: Josh O’Connor packs a punch in his return to the stage after 11 yearsThe actor has a sensitive face and the torso of a fighter – and conveys the human equivalent of a knife edge as he switches between sweetness and raw rage in this rarely staged Broadway hitBy John Nathan1 min read||September 22, 2026 18:25
Man to Man review: Tilda Swinton leads dangerous double life to survive the Nazis ★★★★The actor is ironic, mischievous and has the presence of a loose canonBy John Nathan2 min read||September 16, 2026 13:21
John Malkovich pulls out of Israel performance over ‘unacceptable and untenable’ press releasePromotional material for the play included quotations from the two-time Oscar nominee, which he insisted he never saidBy Ella Bloom1 min read||September 9, 2026 12:09
A Month in the Country review: Who cares about the fate of these privileged Russians? ★★★Even Sophie Okonedo’s Natalya comes across as more high maintenance than tragically unhappyBy John Nathan1 min read||September 9, 2026 10:01
Annie Wobbler (Revisited) review: Arnold Wesker’s working-class women tread the boards again’ ★★★The Jewish playwright wrote these one-woman monologues for Nichola McAuliffe and 45 years on she is breathing new life into themBy John Nathan1 min read||September 8, 2026 18:13
John Malkovich to return to Israel in new musical satireThe two-time Oscar nominee will star in The Music Critic at Tel Aviv’s Charles Bronfman Auditorium next yearBy Ella Bloom1 min read||September 7, 2026 16:28
Einstein as you have never seen him beforeJohn Nathan meets the writer and actor of a one-man play about the genius physicistBy John Nathan3 min read||September 4, 2026 09:48
Maureen Lipman brands actor ‘cowardly’ after he quits play over her Israel viewsThe Bafta-nominated star insisted she would not be ‘bullied’ by ‘virtue-signalling’ colleaguesBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||September 2, 2026 17:24
