November 03, 2022 15:06

Tammy Faye Theatre review: A 'miracle' central performance drives musical about Bible Belt America

Katy Brayben excels as the evangelist who wins over her TV flock with her toothy, homespun charm

October 28, 2022 10:05

Marvellous Theatre review: Stoke City’s soul scores another feel-good goal

Tale of a big-hearted life makes for a triumphant opening show for Nica Burns' sparkling new venue

October 20, 2022 14:06

Good Theatre review: How a decent man transformed into a Nazi

David Tennant stars as a German academic who descends to barbarity but it's Elliot Levey who stands out in excellent revival of CP Taylor's play

October 14, 2022 15:14

Theatre review: The Band's Visit - A miraculous musical

Michael Longhurst’s exquisite new production pairs two superb Israeli performers - Alon Moni Aboutboul and Miri Mesika

October 06, 2022 15:06

‘It’s right and proper that Jews play Jews’ says Elliot Levey as he prepares for his role in a new production of Good

Fresh from playing Herr Schultz in Cabaret, Levey is now set to play another German Jew in CP Taylor's classic play

October 06, 2022 14:55

Theatre review: John Gabriel Borkman - Fall of an arrogant man

Simon Russell Beale excels as the disgraced banker in Ibsen's study of the hubris and arrogance of those who believe in their own infallibility

September 29, 2022 12:07

Jews. In their own words Theatre review: 'Packs a hugely powerful punch'

This production undoubtedly represents a moment in the battle against Left-wing antisemitism

September 23, 2022 18:06

An old play and old attitudes

The row over Caryl Churchill's 13-year-old play Seven Jewish Children carries on

September 22, 2022 14:17

We’ve come a long way since Fiddler! A history of UK Jews on stage and screen

Depiction of Jews has happily moved on from the crass stereotypes so common in the early 20th century

September 22, 2022 11:44

Rose Theatre Review: A Holocaust survivor in her own words

Maureen Lipman is at the top of her game in monologue that guides us through the epic life of an 80-year-old, Ukrainian-born, Miami hotel-owning widow

September 22, 2022 11:44

Handbagged Theatre review: When the Queen met Mrs T

Fascinating dramatisation of what happened during the weekly meetings of our most divisive prime minister and our most unifying monarch

September 15, 2022 14:24

Royal Court Exclusive: Jonathan Freedland and Vicky Featherstone on their new play about antisemitism

‘If there had been anxiety it would have been on the part of the Royal Court': John Nathan meets two of the creative team attempting to atone for the theatre's sins of the past

September 15, 2022 10:13

Who Killed My Father theatre review: The personal is political for this father and son

Edouard Louis’s autobiographical book about visiting his estranged father in northern France is converted into an absolutely gripping tale of reconciliation and loss

September 08, 2022 11:00

Silence Theatre review: Witnesses silenced by the telling of their tales

Format of stage adaptation of Kavita Puri's Partition Voices, about the casual carving up of land on religious grounds on the subcontinent, sadly imposes a repetitive and predictable pall over the material

September 01, 2022 15:39

Tikkun Olam Theatre review: Who gets to remember the Shoah?

In this online production, the fight to build a Holocaust memorial next to Parliament is the subject of Dutch stage director Teunkie van der Sluijs's debut play

September 01, 2022 11:17

This Orthodox mum was the first woman to cycle round the world

A new musical features the incredible life of Annie Cohen Chopkovsky