John Nathan
Sunset Boulevard review: Doesn't matter if you've seen this show before, you have not seen it like this
Nicole Scherzinger's Norma Desmond transmits a tragic ego the size of the cinema screen in Jamie Lloyd’s slick musical
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends review: All hail Broadway royalty
Seventy-five-year-old Bernadette Peters rolls back the years in Cameron Macintosh’s tribute to the late musical theatre genius
Frank and Percy review: Encounters of a limited nature
Directed by Sean Mathias and first seen at the Theatre Royal Windsor, this play would work well on the radio
The Russian playwright speaking out against Putin in the shadow of the Shoah
Dmitry Glukhovsky new drama examines the moral compromises some people make with evil regimes
The White Factory review: An important addition to the Shoah canon
Dmitry Ghlukhovsky’s new play investigates how good people can be corrupted under relatively little pressure
God of Carnage review: Middle-class parents go to war
Art playwright Yasmina Reza's play centres on two couples on a spectacular collision course
Farewell Mr Haffmann review: Dinner date with the Nazi ambassador
This could so easily have been a comedy of manners if there was a tweak to the setting
A Mirror review: A timely lesson on dictatorship
Sam Holcroft’s witty and inventive new play shines a vital light on authoritarian regimes
Sophie Zucker: ‘You don't have to always cast me as the loud Jewish girl’
The Jewish comedian talks about playing Jewish characters and who's allowed to do Jewface
Next to Normal review: Great songs, shame about the writing
I cannot remember a show that was so annoyingly written yet so impressively performed as this production about the repercussions of a mother's manic depression
The Arc review: A trilogy of new Jewish plays
This year's trio of dramas showcasing new talent are thought-provoking and moving but fail to venture out of the comfort zone
A guide to happiness by Israel’s polymath and 101 great minds
Meet Haim Shapira, a philosopher, mathematician and game theorist whose book draws on the wisdom of many thinkers
Three kosher plays on one London stage
The future of Jewish writing in British theatre is finally looking bright and beautiful, discovers John Nathan
Word-Play review: Intense drama spoiled by leaden moments
Rabiah Hussain’s uneven play exploring the complexities of language drips with righteous indignation
Grenfell, In The Words Of Survivors review - Pointing the finger for a criminal injustice
A powerful verbatim play which is created from interviews with the residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower fire
Disruption review - Properly insightful about Artificial Intelligence
Hersh Ellis’s well-acted production conveys complex arguments about a hot-button issue
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