This beautifully balanced play gives an overlooked part of our martime nation’s culture its due
By John Nathan
This year’s Jewish fringe is more reflective than previous programmes, says festival leader
By Jane Prinsley
Playwright Estee Stimler brings her upcoming comedic play Smother to London for one night only this month
By Eliana Jordan
The actor is priceless in this timely revival of Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuke comedy
Joy Sable didn’t enjoy all the offerings at the Royal Opera House and Linbury Theatre, but a dance critic can’t exist on classics alone
By Joy Sable
Arnold Wesker’s Roots has been paired with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger –eight decades on the East End Jewish playwright emerges as the more potent dramatist by far
This quintessentially Jewish work tackles the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and is also a really smart and funny comedy
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Israeli playwright Gur Piepskovitz’s upcoming work explores themes of otherness and self-discovery
The author’s own words are deployed to chilling effect in this measured and gripping play
Here are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and November
By Elisa Bray
Superb acting carries this re-staging of the mind-bending classic by Samuel Beckett
This reworking of the popular classic features mesmerising new choreography and a powerful reinterpretation of the narrative
Mark Rosenblatt’s work about the children’s author and self-confessed antisemite opens this week
This slick revival of his 1982 play combines comedy and cleverness in a way that would come across as intellectual show-boating in the hands of a lesser writer
This play shows the humanity and humility of a man devoted to bringing Nazis to justice and sets the record straight about what the word ‘genocide’ means
