John Nathan
The playwright who puts his Jewishness centre stage
Nick Cassenbaum’s Jewish revenge fantasy about Corbyn has been seen as ‘too Jewish’ by theatres, but he continues to do his shtick
A Complete Unknown review: ‘Timothée Chalamet does Bob Dylan justice’
As its title promises, the film perpetuates a messianic-like mystery about the troubadour, but if you want to see an actor at the top of his game you are in for a treat
After the Lavoyah review: ‘Corbyn revenge fantasy with shades of Berkoff’
Let’s hope Nick Cassenbaum builds on the wild success of this fearless Yiddishe heist
Babygirl review: ‘follow your heart’s desire’
Nicole Kidman’s character appears to have it all, but her sex life is not what she needs it to be
How A Real Pain took Jesse Eisenberg on a road trip to his psyche’s ‘ground zero’
Hollywood star Jesse Eisenberg tells John Nathan about what compelled him to make a movie that took him to the very house in eastern Poland where his great aunt had lived before the Nazi death squads arrived – and to the gas chambers at Majdanek concentration camp
Nosferatu review: Drips with gothic horror and launches Lily-Rose Depp
American director Robert Eggers’ film takes inspiration from F.W. Murnau’s silent 1922 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2024 in review: theatre
This year Patrick Marber directed The Producers, Nachtland and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. Were there a Theatre Practitioner of the Year award, it would have his name on it
2024 in review: film
The year’s cinematic wonders include a movie about the last Jews in a Paris suburb and the best double act to grace the silver screen
Goldie Frocks and Bear Mitzvah review: ‘this homage to the shmatte trade needs a slight trim’
This kosher show does to the fairy tale what Yiddish theatre once did to the classics, but it is, what is called in both theatre and and tailoring circles, a bit baggy
The Producers review: ‘an edgy revival with a heimishe soul’
In this terrific show, Andy Nyman plays a sweeter version of Mel Brooks’s greatest creation Max Bialystock
Rumours review: Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance in G7 satire
World leaders take on zombies and a giant brain in this genre-defying film
Ballet Shoes review: ‘everything a family show should be’
The first major stage adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s children’s classic is superb
‘I’ve entered the Jewish stage of my career’
Until he played a Chasidic Jew in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank this year, Simon Yadoo, 45, had never had a Jewish role. Now he’s treading the boards in the Jewish panto Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah too
Nightbitch review: ‘it’s a film for mums’
Bullied by a two-year-old’s tears, a woman’s fire extinguished in a pool of wee-wee and need, there is a kind of catharsis in this tale about the spirit-sapping reality of bringing up children
The Devil Wears Prada review: ‘style over substance’
The outfits might be amazing, but this devil is wearing the emperor’s clothes
The Happiest Man On Earth review: ‘epic yet intimate’
Performed with zest and humility, this one-man play shows the world what the world genocide actually means
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