The composer’s swansong is best described as a play with some music
By John Nathan
The children’s author’s deep-seated loathing of Jews is slowly and shockingly revealed in this West End transfer of Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning play
Actor Emma Kingston on why she is relishing playing Elphaba in West End smash Wicked
By Nicole Lampert
A formerly frum writer on how he hopes his ex-community will watch his new work
Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the table
The action is updated to 21st century Britain
Why turn John Schlesinger’s famous 1968 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight into a musical? Does the story really need more music?
New rock musical Rise tells a story of Jewish defiance and rebellion
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The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede ahead
Fiddler on the Roof and Giant lead the wins
By Ellie Grant
John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realism
The original play allowed no space for the reality of Israel or Gaza today – and the film follows suit
By Jane Prinsley
How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’
This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire
The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy
There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing
By Imogen Garfinkel
