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Dylan Corbett-Bader and Gemma Barnett as twins Dan and Lauren in Revenge: After the Levoyah
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Revenge: After the Levoyah is ‘a love letter to Jewish Essex’ says writer Nick Cassenbaum
By Jewish News Theatre Critic Poppy Shulman
Satirical comedy about a heist garners five star reviews
Simon Lipkin as Fagin reimagined as a loving rogue in a kippah with his name in Hebrew
Oliver! as never beforeIsn’t that Fagin wearing a kippah?
By Brigit Grant
Dylan Corbett-Bader and Gemma Barnett as twins Dan and Lauren in Revenge: After the Levoyah
January 14, 2025, 5:02 pm
Revenge: After the Levoyah is ‘a love letter to Jewish Essex’ says writer Nick Cassenbaum
Satirical comedy about a heist garners five star reviews
By Jewish News Theatre Critic Poppy Shulman
Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock Credit: Marc Brenner
January 14, 2025, 1:15 pm
OPINION: Alas, Merchant of Venice 1936 feels like 2025
Tracy-Ann Oberman’s revival offers a haunting reflection of today’s hatred, as the play’s warnings against prejudice resonate with unnerving urgency in the aftermath of 7 October
By Jonathan Baz
Debbie Chazen as Mama Behr in Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah. Photo: Eamonn B Shanahan, Capture with Pride
December 16, 2024, 8:40 am
REVIEW: Goldie Frocks and the Bear Mitzvah, JW3
Comic genius, outrageous outfits and stellar performances combine to make a bear-iffic pantomime
By Sarah Miller
Simon Lipkin as Fagin reimagined as a loving rogue in a kippah with his name in Hebrew
December 13, 2024, 6:03 pm
Isn’t that Fagin wearing a kippah?
Simon Lipkin was 12 when he first played Dickens dubious character.Now he has reinvented him for the West End
By Brigit Grant
Alastair Falk
December 6, 2024, 5:52 pm
UK Jewish Arts Foundation launches
New organisation aims for funding and support for Jewish arts organisations and creatives
By Poppy Shulman
December 6, 2024, 5:43 pm
REVIEW: The Grey Zone, at The White Bear
One-man adaption of Geoffrey Williams’ play Drowned or Saved tells Holocaust story through the eyes of Primo Levi
By Poppy Shulman
Emma Davies and Peter Clements in How To Survive Your Mother. Photo: Charles Flint Photography
November 21, 2024, 7:30 pm
REVIEW: How to Survive your Mother, King’s Head Islington
Jonathan Maitland's fast-paced play about a charismatic and highly unusual woman is filled with comedy and music
By JN Theatre Critic Poppy Shulman
Joshua Malina, Caroline Catz, Simon Yadoo and Dorothea Myer Bennett star in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,
October 22, 2024, 5:27 pm
REVIEW: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stellar performances and totally relatable topics make this new play at the The Marylebone Theatre a must-see
By Jewish News Theatre Critic Poppy Shulman
The Morning After by Richard Fitchett was one of the plays performed at Jewish Dramatic Association of London's launch event
October 15, 2024, 4:01 pm
Initiative ‘provides safe place for Jewish theatre-makers’
The Jewish Dramatic Association of London launches in Highgate
By JN Theatre Critic Poppy Shulman
Jonathan Hansler as Stalin in Vodka with Stalin
October 14, 2024, 7:47 pm
New play tells how a Jewish girl from London became an ‘enemy of the people’
Vodka With Stalin opens in Highgate this week telling the true story of communist Rose Cohen who was murdered under the dictator's regime
By Francis Beckett
Michael Aloni as Arthur Miller and Jasmine Blackborow as Marilyn Monroe
September 30, 2024, 6:40 pm
Michael Aloni on stage in Richmond? I’m there!
Who wouldn't travel west to see the Israeli actor as playwright Arthur Miller?
By Brigit Grant
Writer Nathan Englander and director Patrick Marber unite in the serious comedy. pic Matt Crockett
September 29, 2024, 7:45 pm
A ‘serious’ comedy about Anne Frank?
Writer Nathan Englander and director Patrick Marber bring Shoah talk fuelled by wine to the stage
By Francine Wolfisz
The all-female cast of What's Funny About Oxbow Lakes?
August 14, 2024, 11:35 pm
Comedy youth production forms part of Camden Fringe Festival 2024
What's Funny About Oxbow Lakes? has been written and produced by Jewish girls from north London
By Louisa Walters
Adam-Dannheisser as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Regent's Park. pic: Marc Brenner
August 7, 2024, 8:13 pm
Raising the roof! Safe and starry opening of Fiddler in Regent’s Park
Director Jordan Fein brings his family history to his new production of the Jewish musical
By Brigit Grant
July 18, 2024, 9:30 am
Meet the community’s top 60 under 40 Creatives and Media stars: 21-60
From celebrities and social media influencers to journalists, musicians and designers, we reveal the Anglo-Jewry trailblazers making waves in the creative and media world
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