Theatre

Oliver! review: ‘has the audience begging for more’

Simon Lipkin’s Fagin is the best but not only reason to buy a ticket for this sublime revivial of the masterpiece

Dance review: Onegin/Three short ballets

‘In the swooping, passionate pas de deux you can see how they both enjoyed extending classical vocabulary in exciting, sensual ways’

London transfer and national tour for Fiddler on the Roof

The beloved production is set to take on London’s Barbican before heading across the UK and Ireland

Dance review: Giselle ‘The dancing is beautiful’

Erina Takahashi shines in this ENB production

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

Comedian spreads Jewish joy

Debra Tammer tells the JC that creativity is the best weapon against antisemitism in the arts

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

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

Dance review: The Nutcracker: ‘An absolute delight’

Ballet Shoes review: ‘everything a family show should be’

The first major stage adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s children’s classic is superb

‘Why I’m playing Fagin in a yarmulke’

Simon Lipkin is about to fulfil a boyhood dream playing the child-grooming thief in the West End. He explains what attracts him to a role widely seen as antisemitic

The Devil Wears Prada review: ‘style over substance’

The outfits might be amazing, but this devil is wearing the emperor’s clothes

‘You need to know about evil to play the Happiest Man on Earth’

Acclaimed American actor Kenneth Tigar on why he was attracted to the challenge of playing a Holocaust survivor who spent the rest of his life preaching peace

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

Barcelona review: ‘Lily Collins has the acting chops to fill a stage’

The Emily in Paris star acquits herself well in her stage debut