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
By John Nathan
The year’s cinematic wonders include a movie about the last Jews in a Paris suburb and the best double act to grace the silver screen
Theatre promises to ‘reflect’ after youth production sparks fierce row
By Jane Prinsley
In this terrific show, Andy Nyman plays a sweeter version of Mel Brooks’s greatest creation Max Bialystock
The first major stage adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s children’s classic is superb
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
By Francine White
UKLFI has accused the theatre of creating a hostile environment for Jewish visitors
By Imogen Garfinkel
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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
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Performed with zest and humility, this one-man play shows the world what the world genocide actually means
The Emily in Paris star acquits herself well in her stage debut
This musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story is right on the button
This beautifully balanced play gives an overlooked part of our martime nation’s culture its due
This year’s Jewish fringe is more reflective than previous programmes, says festival leader
The actor is priceless in this timely revival of Stanley Kubrick’s classic nuke comedy
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
This quintessentially Jewish work tackles the inherited trauma of the Holocaust and is also a really smart and funny comedy
