Support venues that aren't boycotting Jewish creatives, says Tsitsit director
This year’s Jewish fringe is more reflective than previous programmes, says festival leader
Dr Strangelove review: ‘Coogan is bang on the button’
The actor is priceless in this timely revival of Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuke comedy
Almeida Theatre 1950s double bill: ‘An angry return to the kitchen sink’
Arnold Wesker’s Roots has been paired with John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger –eight decades on the East End Jewish playwright emerges as the more potent dramatist by far
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank review: ‘a play as Jewish as they come’
This quintessentially Jewish work tackles the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and is also a really smart and funny comedy
‘My own breakup inspired my sweet and sinister LGBT comedy’
Israeli playwright Gur Piepskovitz’s upcoming work explores themes of otherness and self-discovery
What Nathan Englander talks about when he talks about his Anne Frank play
The American writer on the Patrick Marber-directed stage adaptation of his 2011 Pulitzer-finalist short story ahead of its UK premiere
Giant review: ‘Dahl is called to account’
The author’s own words are deployed to chilling effect in this measured and gripping play
The shows you won’t want to miss – on stage and screen
Here are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and November
Waiting for Godot review: ‘I defy anyone not to see themselves on this stage’
Superb acting carries this re-staging of the mind-bending classic by Samuel Beckett
Akram Khan’s Giselle review: An outstanding reimagining of a classic
This reworking of the popular classic features mesmerising new choreography and a powerful reinterpretation of the narrative
‘Why I tackled Roald Dahl’s antisemitism in my Royal Court play’
Mark Rosenblatt’s work about the children’s author and self-confessed antisemite opens this week
Manchester production of Shakespeare play axed after director refused to remove pro-Palestine references
Theatre bosses and the director disagreed on the adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a report claims
The Real Thing review: ‘Stoppard at very top of his game’
This slick revival of his 1982 play combines comedy and cleverness in a way that would come across as intellectual show-boating in the hands of a lesser writer
Death of England review: ‘love and hate across the racial divide’
Seeing this play in the wake of Britain’s far-right riots gives it added poignancy
Full cast announced for new play What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander’s play stars West Wing and Scandal star Joshua Malina in his London stage debut
Shifters review: ‘friends without benefits’
It is beautifully performed, but this will they, won’t they romance never quite takes off
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