Shortlisted for
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February 2012 Rainer Hersch's Victor Borge – two comedy piano virtuosos for the price of one!For JR OutLoud, Rainer Hersch talks to Judi Herman about his take on the comedy legend at the piano that was Danish-Jewish-born Victor Borge. And there's just a taste of the show which got five star reviews in Edinburgh...... more>> |
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January 2012 Kerry Shale and his new play The Prince of West End LaneYou will almost certainly have seen and heard writer and actor Kerry Shale, a regular American (even though he's Canadian!) on BBC Radio 4 Drama and a regular reviewer on BBC One’s Newsnight Review...... more>> |
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November 2011 Goodbye BarcelonaGoodbye Barcelona is billed as a “Passionate Musical” and it lives up to its name, telling the story of how thousands of volunteers from all over the world made their way to Spain to fight against Fascism in the 1930s by joining the International Brigade. In this anniversary year of the start of the Spanish Civil War, writer Judith Johnson and composer/lyricist Karl Lewkowicz tell the story of Sammy...... more>> |
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August 2011 As Sir Antony Sher returns to the West End in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, he talks to Judi Herman for JR OutLoudBroken Glass tells the story of Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg, a New York couple living in Brooklyn in 1938. Phillip, obsessed with work and his own desire to assimilate, has little time for his wife, but when Sylvia suddenly becomes paralysed after reading newspaper reports of Kristallnacht in Germany, Dr. Harry Hyman is called in...... more>> |
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August 2011 Award-winning American playwright Alfred Uhry talks about his dark musical Parade, currently revived at London’s Southwark PlayhouseThe Southwark Playhouse in London is staging a major revival of Parade, the acclaimed Broadway musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry and award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown..... more>> |
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March 2010 A Jewish King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Company!As the Royal Shakespeare Company takes the cream of its Stratford Shakespeare repertoire to New York's Park Avenue Armory as part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011 this July and August, Judi Herman talks to actor Greg Hicks. .... more>> |
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July 2011 Amy Shindler aka Ambridge’s Brenda Tucker takes to the stage in Hampstead in Brian Daniels’ comedy A Big Day for the GoldbergsAs Brenda Tucker she’s about to marry into the Archers clan – though so far she’s a bit evasive about naming the big day! As Michelle Goldberg in Brian Daniels’ warm, funny family comedy A Big Day for the Goldbergs,. .... more>> |
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July 2011 Chicken Soup with Samantha Spiro..…If you've seen Samantha Spiro playing the idealistic matriarch Sarah Kahn in the current production of Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley at London's Royal Court Theatre, you'll know why she's getting rave reviews. .... more>> |
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October 2010 Yes, Henry Goodman!Henry Goodman is currently playing |
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September 2010 Elliot Levey plays Robespierre in Danton’s DeathThe French Revolution holds an almost horrified fascination because of the extraordinary violence if its well-named ‘Reign of Terror’, when thousands lost their heads to ‘Madame Guillotine’ .... more>> |
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September 2010 Von Ribbentrop's Watch – a real-life dilemma is transmuted into a thought-provoking comedy by Marks and GranThe writing partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran has brought us some of TV’s best-loved comedies, including Birds of a Feather, Goodnight Sweetheart and Shine on Harvey Moon .... more>> |
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September 2010 Into the Woods with Stephen Sondheim – a birthday treat!It’s Stephen Sondheim’s eightieth birthday year and one of the highlights of the celebrations here in the UK is the production of his musical Into the Woods .... more>> |
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August 2010 La Bohème: Judi Herman finds Puccini’s penniless Bohemians in modern day London – in a latter day synagogue!Puccini's romantic story of doomed love in a colony of penniless but aspiring young artists in late nineteenth century Paris is full of life and colour and fun but ultimately it’s designed to tug at the heart strings .... more>> |
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March 2010 Modelling SpitfiresAward-winning writer/performer Vanessa Rosenthal has a great track record both on stage and radio .... more>> |
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January 2010 Building bridges – Friends of the Earth Middle East bring together students from Israel, Jordan and Palestine for Eco-Workshops on Kibbutz LotanThis audio is in two parts as it is a programme-length feature At the end of 2009, even as events in Copenhagen hit the headlines, Friends of the Earth Middle East brought together around one hundred secondary school students aged 14-17 .... more>> |
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January 2010 Meeting Eva SchlossJames Still’s play And Then They Came for Me (Remembering the World of Anne Frank), is largely based on the story of Eva Schloss .... more>> |
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October 2009 Dannie Abse reads four of his poems for JR OutLoudWhen Dannie Abse spoke to Judi Herman as part of the focus on the Jews of Wales, he was good enough to read four of his poems .... more>> |
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October 2009 Our ClassTadeusz Slobodzianek’s play Our Class, exploring the events leading up to and the repercussions of the massacre of 1,600 Jews in a small Polish .... more>> |
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August 2009 Tim Roseman and Theatre503To date 2009 has been a bit of an annus mirabilis for theatre practitioner Tim Roseman. .... more>> |
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August 2009 Denis Norden OutLoudRadio and TV personality, wit, raconteur, comedy script writer, in a career stretching back more than sixty years Denis Norden has definitely achieved the status of ‘national treasure’. .... more>> |
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August 2009 Debbie Chazen in The Girlfriend ExperienceDebbie Chazen is on a bit of a roll at present, with frequent appearances on screen, radio and stage. The Junoesque performer with the gorgeous giggle, wicked sense of fun .... more>> |
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July 2009 Jordy Pordy: Taking the Bull by the Horns by Jordan HerskowitzFor JR OutLoud the young writer/performer Jordan Herskowitz talks to Judi and performs extracts from his one-man autobiographical show Jordy Pordy: Taking the Bull by the Horns .... more>> |
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July 2009 Dr Korczak’s Example by David GreigJanusz Korczak was a Polish Jewish educator, doctor and writer, who devoted his life to establishing the rights of the child... more>> |
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July 2009 A Personal Journey , an exhibition of paintings by
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