Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are very much alive in my memories of unforgettable theatre, says Judi Herman, as she reflects on the first production by Tom Stoppard, who died last month…
The German-British Jewish painter has died at the age of 93. Art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen looks back at his life and vital contribution to European art…
Israeli author Meir Shalev was born on 29 July 1948, just after the foundation of the State of Israel. He was part of the generation that includes historian Benny Morris, fellow writer David Grossman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was born to a family of wordsmiths…
Sir Antony Sher was one of the great actors of our time, perhaps best known for his outstanding performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1980s to his trilogy as Falstaff (2014), Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (2015) and Lear (2016, 2018), all…
March 1993, we had tickets to see Jackie Mason at the Dominion Theatre in London’s Tottenham Court Road. We knew what shtick to expect having experienced him on the radio and TV, including his own sarcastic opinion that he was “too Jewish”, especially for a nice middle-class…
To see the lighted candles in their huge chandeliers is truly magical. Upstairs in the ladies’ gallery lurk the spirits of donnas and señoritas in their designated seats behind the wooden lattices. As they look down on their menfolk, they modestly wave their fans, revealing dark, discriminating…
We were saddened to hear that one of our long-time readers, Norman Bright, passed away on the morning of Sunday 6 June. He was a man of many words – all of which had the power to induce fits of laughter – and had a disposition as sunny as his name suggests. We were lucky…
Dame Fanny Waterman DBE passed away peacefully on the morning of Sunday 20 December in her residential care home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. She is survived by her two sons, Robert and Paul, and six granddaughters. Born in Leeds in 1920, Waterman studied at the Royal College of Music…