TheatreThe Hunger Games On Stage: Concept and spectacle aplenty but no heart ★★This theatrical adaptation of the trailblazing dystopian movie by Jewish director Gary Ross lacks the emotional depth of the film and book franchisesBy John Nathan1 min read
Theatre 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
Theatre This revival of Othello should be called Iago ★★★★David Harewood is in the title role, but it is Toby Jones who steals the showBy John Nathan1 min read
TheatreThe Assembled Parties: ‘Oberman is in the form of her life’ ★★★★The Jewish actor stands out in this beautifully performed play about Jews at ChristmasBy John Nathan2 min read
TheatreUnbelievers review: A mother in the grip of her worst nightmare ★★★Nicola Walker conveys with fevered obsession how a mother’s mind implodes when her teenage son disappearsBy John Nathan1 min read
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
Mary Page Marlowe review: ‘no life is uninteresting’ ★★★★Susan Sarandon brings steel to Tracy Letts’s play about the unremarkable life of one American woman, but it is Andrea Riseborough who delivers an outstanding performanceBy John Nathan1 min read||October 13, 2025 16:35
The Land of the Living review: ‘Fatally wears its messaging on its sleeve’ ★★★Based on interviews with journalist Gitta Sereny, this new play about child victims of war spans 45 years – but still takes too long to answer its main mysteryBy John Nathan1 min read||October 9, 2025 15:13
Amy Rosenthal on what drove the Mitford Sisters to extremesThe playwright believes her new play answers this long-standing questionBy John Nathan4 min read||September 25, 2025 15:31
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 12:04
‘I love playing a Jewish villain’Israeli actor Neta Roth explains why she can’t wait to bring the biblical figure Salomé to life in the hotly anticipated West End production of Oscar Wilde’s eponymous play this monthBy Natalie Blenford6 min read||September 18, 2025 13:35
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 11:18
‘The stuff of dreams’ – Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning Giant to hit Broadway next yearThe debut play written by writer-director Rosenblatt, about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism, won three Olivier awardsBy Elisa Bray2 min read||September 17, 2025 10:14
Born With Teeth review: ‘hollow as a crown’ ★★It is odd that director Daniel Evans has chosen this work, which isn’t really a history play at all, for his inaugural production as co-artistic director of the RSCBy John Nathan1 min read||September 12, 2025 13:27
I used to perform in the West End on Friday nights. Now I stay in to light Shabbos candlesCaroline Pakter tells the JC about her journey from showbusiness to Orthodox JudaismBy Gaby Wine5 min read||September 3, 2025 14:54
