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
TheatreMary 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
TheatreThe 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
TheatreAmy Rosenthal on what drove the Mitford Sisters to extremesThe playwright believes her new play answers this long-standing questionBy John Nathan4 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‘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
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
Juniper Blood review: A topical warning of what’s to come ★★★★Mike Bartlett’s latest play grapples with the issue of environmentalism and sustainability through a group of people ideologically dividedBy John Nathan1 min read||August 29, 2025 14:06
What if Hitler had met Freud? You can find out nowIn their new play, legendary writing duo Marks and Gran reveal that Sigmund meeting Adolf is not so far-fetched after allBy Maurice Gran3 min read||August 27, 2025 17:02
Every Brilliant Thing review: ‘a funny play about suicide’ ★★★★After 70 uninterrupted minutes, we emerge knowing something of life under the pall of depression and suicide – and it makes for a funny and moving night outBy John Nathan2 min read||August 15, 2025 16:25
Oscar Levant: The Hollywood pianist who self-destructedDoug Wright, writer of a new play about the unfulfilled career of Jewish talent Oscar Levant, shines the spotlight on Hollywood’s most gifted has-beenBy John Nathan5 min read||August 14, 2025 15:07
The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review: A riveting, rip-roaring comedy with a Jewish heart ★★★★★This French farce about the lesbian Jewish modernist couple is full of absurdity, profundity and make-believe – an unmissable delightBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||August 11, 2025 11:54
