John Nathan
The street-fighters who taught British fascists: don’t f*** with the Jews
Documentary film-maker David Herman’s latest work charts the history of Jewish self-defence in the UK. John Nathan meets him
Dead Don’t Hurt review: Can you love the son of a man who raped your wife?
A View From the Bridge review: bridge in the shadow of a Miller classic
Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet, ‘A muscular and modern take on Shakespeare.’
Film review: A House in Jerusalem ‘Where this film flounders is in its depiction of a British Jewish family’
Film review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ‘Expect to be gripped’
Theatre review: Passing Strange ‘The music is excellent’
Stew’s autobiographical musical misses its originator
Theatre review: Fawlty Towers The Play. ‘Everything one would have hoped for’
Three sitcom episodes do not a play maketh
Made In England review: an ode to the art of making great films
Few documentaries have more to say about filmmaking than this one about Powell and Pressburger
Spirited Away review: Japanese imagination lands on a West End stage
Puppets and costumes combine with top-drawer stagecraft to conjure the most outlandish sequences
The biblical story of Song of Songs hits the London stage
Jewish and Arab Ofra Daniel represents the half of Israel the haters prefer to ignore. She tells our writer how her identity is bound up in her musical about being trapped in a loveless marriage
The American Society of Magical Negros review: Good idea, but not good enough for an entire film
This would work as a Saturday Night Live sketch, but that’s about it
Machinal review: superb depiction of a life trapped by conventions
Sexually repulsed by her spouse, the affair is the Young Woman’s only source of hope
Outnumbered: I’m now a shul bouncer and my mother, wife and daughters are amused
There were ripples of suppressed laughter when I announced my first security security shift
Civil War review: On the horrifying road to a very disunited States
London Tide review: A tide that laps at your knees, rather than sweeping you away
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