John Nathan
Theatre review: A Little Life - Unbearable pain among NYC’s beautiful people
Current preoccupation with use of terms such as abuse and trauma to describe behaviours that are merely insensitive is ruthlessly exposed in adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel
Guys & Dolls theatre review: Thrills and a spill as Hytner takes risks and hits the jackpot
The ambition of the evening astounds with the director’s first big musical in years
Topol: A performer of immense charisma who brought Tevye to life
The actor, who has died, aged 87, played the role 3,500 times and was regarded as Israel’s greatest export since the Jaffa orange
The Merchant of Venice theatre review: Oberman’s Shylock takes on the fascists
Shakespeare’s problematic play is imbued with a Jewish sensibility - with actress excelling as first woman to play Shylock in a significant production of the work
Shirley Valentine theatre review: Shirley sets herself free
Sheridan Smith holds court in revival of Willy Russell's one-woman play
Medea theatre review: A mother takes her bloody revenge
Sophie Okonedo is utterly compelling in Dominic Cooke’s steely, modern-dress production
How Arlene Phillips danced from poverty to fame
We meet the choreographer as she prepares an immersive production of Guys & Dolls
Theatre review: Standing at the Sky’s Edge - 'It aspires to be a state of the nation musical'
This Sheffield show amounts to less than the sum of its parts
Theatre review: Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons - 'What if words were limited?'
Starry cast of Poldark's Aiden Turner and Jenna Coleman fail to rescue Sam Steiner’s unconvincing romcom
Theatre review: Winner’s Curse - The most that can be said about the show is that there is nothing else like it.
This tale of diplomacy is a mixture of play and interactive stand up
Linck & Mülhahn Theatre review: Two women in love? Or something more trendy?
Historical play about a married couple in 18th-century Prussia who were tried when it was discovered that the husband was born a woman is dulled by its messaging
A diplomat and a TV producer plot a comic end to conflict
Daniel Taub and Dan Patterson discuss their new play, Winner's Curse
Shylock as you've never seen her
Get ready for the Shakespeare character based on outspoken East End boobas, says Tracy-Ann Oberman
The Unfriend Theatre review: Killer on a cruise
Steven Moffat's farce is the perfect antidote to our winter of discontent
In the Net Theatre review: Eruv in a criss-cross crisis
Misha Levkov’s debut has an interesting conceit but it needs believable characters who live in a convincing period and place to turn it into an evening of drama
Jewish conspiracy theories are well-represented on London stages
Two new productions have raised Jewish eyebrows
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