Danielle Goldstein

August 15, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Jew…ish ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

August 15, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Max, the Jewish half of this energetic black comedy, bounds on stage, somewhat startling a middle-aged woman in the front row. He immediately launches into a delightfully sardonic and uplifting funk-inspired opening number about being Jewish, complete with rhyming couplets and…

Danielle Goldstein

August 10, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

August 10, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind ★★★

Diana Dinerman, who was raised in Washington DC, was a researcher and teacher at the University of Minnesota, but she felt something was missing from her life. In 2013, she took a 'Feminine Power' online course, which awakened…

Dani Silver

July 26, 2019

Theatre, Reviews

Oklahoma! ★★★★

Dani Silver

July 26, 2019

Theatre, Reviews

Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s first great collaboration was a sensation when it premiered in in New York in 1943 at the height of the War. The duo of upper middle-class Jewish New Yorkers hit a nerve when they reimagined Lynn Rigg’s 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs…

Danielle Goldstein

June 24, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Bitter Wheat ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

June 24, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

To date, John Malkovich has not given the world his Richard III. On the strength of David Mamet’s not so forensic demolition of monstrous Hollywood mogul Barney Fein, with the right script he would do justice to Shakespeare’s dangerously appealing villain, though here…

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2019

Previews, Theatre

Prisoners of the Occupation

Danielle Goldstein

June 12, 2019

Previews, Theatre

A controversial new play comes to London this Sunday as part of Vibrant 2019 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights. Written and performed by Palestinian political prisoners, alongside Israeli playwright Einat Weizman, Prisoners of the Occupation has already been banned…

Danielle Goldstein

May 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Does My Bomb Look Big in This? // Blueprint Medea

Danielle Goldstein

May 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Does My Bomb Look Big in This? // Blueprint Medea

When we discovered that two playwrights of Jewish heritage were both launching shows exploring the predicament of women pushed to extremes by their experiences, circumstances and backgrounds, we simply had to…

Danielle Goldstein

May 21, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Death of a Salesman ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 21, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

For months now there's been an unusually large amount of attention given to the work of Arthur Miller. Revivals of lesser known plays, such as Incident at Vichy, stagings of his autobiographical dramas, notably The Price, and now the Young Vic has extended its run of Death of a Salesman…

Danielle Goldstein

May 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Song of Dina ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Dina is the only daughter of the patriarch Jacob, silent and passive apart from one action, which has terrible unforeseen consequences. "She went out to meet the women of the land" where Jacob has settled his family and has a sexual encounter with Shechem the local Hivite prince…

Danielle Goldstein

May 6, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Man of La Mancha ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 6, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

This Tony Award-winning musical by the Jewish creative team of Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion and Dale Wasserman is as much about the story of writer Miguel de Cervantes, as of his most famous creation Don Quixote. Cervantes was tried by the Spanish Inquisition for the Jewish blood…

Danielle Goldstein

May 3, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

The Glass Piano ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

May 3, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Alix Sobler has form weaving drama from historical stories, breathing life into real characters and populating her worlds with believable fictional roles. In 2016 London played host to The Great Divide, her take on the 1911 fire in a New York garment factory that killed 146. The capital…