TheatreBroken Glass review: There’s an urgency to Arthur Miller’s most explicitly Jewish play today ★★★★American director Jordan Fein is back on a London stage after a triumphant revival of Into the WoodsBy John Nathan2 min read
TheatreDracula review: Cynthia mesmerises but the show lacks real bite ★★★★The performer’s acting gifts are on full display in this spectacular adaptation of the gothic novel, but the evening never achieves the tension generated by many other West End dabblings in the supernaturalBy John Nathan2 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
theatreInside 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
Theatre Arcadia review: ‘gardens, maths and heart in Stoppard’s masterpiece’ ★★★★This play is proof that the late playwright can make you feel as much as thinkBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreGuess How Much I Love You?: ‘the acting elevates the writing’ ★★★The performances in this portrait of a pregnancy in crisis are marvellous. But whether the play reveals anything about love is questionableBy John Nathan1 min read
Challah, humour, the Holocaust and meJohn Nathan meets a writer-performer whose latest show is inspired by her encounters with Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen – and being the daughter of a Shoah survivorBy John Nathan4 min read||January 20, 2026 18:07
The Merchant of Venice postponed in Sydney after Bondi Beach attack due to antisemitism concernsWilliam Shakespear’s 500-year-old play is often seen as including antisemitic tropes, especially in the character of Jewish money lender ShylockBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||January 15, 2026 13:19
Woman in Mind review: Sheridan Smith sparkles in Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy ★★★★★The actor will surely be in line for an umpteenth Olivier nomination for her quicksilver performance of Susan and her disintegrating mindBy John Nathan1 min read||January 11, 2026 21:11
Into The Woods review: Goyishe Brothers Grimm gloriously reinvented by a Jewish creative team ★★★★★Jordan Fein’s masterpiece interpretation of this European fable draws from real life to subvert the idea of happily every afterBy John Nathan2 min read||January 6, 2026 12:59
Christmas Day review: A not-quite-realised effort at Jewish catharsis ★★★Arguments over Jewish identity become super-heated in this dark comedy full of timely – although unfortunately random – elementsBy John Nathan2 min read||December 24, 2025 14:41
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
Slam Frank, the controversial play that knows who’s in on the joke ★★★★★The musical spoof that tauntingly reimagines Anne Frank for the ‘woke’ world is not just rage baitBy Jocelin Weiss3 min read||December 18, 2025 17:20
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
This version of Roald Dahl’s BFG shows that giants can be small and pathetic ★★★★Unlike The Witches in which Dahl was accused of having Jews in mind when he created the cabal of child-killers, Jewish theatregoers can relax with this adaptationBy John Nathan2 min read||December 16, 2025 17:40
