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
Theatre 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
Theatre‘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
TheatreBorn 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
JudaismI 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
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 15:06
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 18:02
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 17:25
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 16:07
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 12:54
Burlesque: The Musical, Savoy Theatre – ‘Flimsy plot but impressive singing’ ★★★The show is adapted from the 2010 film starring Cher and Christina AguileraBy John Nathan1 min read||August 5, 2025 17:09
Royal Opera House announces cancellation of Israel shows after pro-Palestine backlashCovent Garden claimed that the decision was made before a public pressure campaign from Artists for PalestineBy Gabrielle Apfel1 min read||August 5, 2025 16:21
Legendary theatre school founder, Sylvia Young, dies aged 85She helped launch the career of Amy Winehouse, and was famed for her kindness and dedicationBy Siam Goorwich3 min read||July 31, 2025 17:01
Cast announced for the London premiere of Jewish play The WanderersTwo Jewish couples confront essential questions in award-winning playwright and screenwriter Anna Ziegler’s playBy Elisa Bray2 min read||July 28, 2025 17:24
