Celebrated Jewish South African director Yaël Farber has a reputation for the power and physicality of her productions. Her treatment of Spanish playwright Federico Lorca’s dark fable grabs its audience by the throat from the get go and pulls it into his story of feuding families caught in a spiral…

With opening number ‘Four Jews in a Room Bitching’ and two of 35 songs mentioning bar mitzvah in the title, it's fair to say that Falsettos has a firm footing in Jewish culture. Sondheim collaborator James Lapine is responsible for the book and his own collaborator of choice, William Finn…

One of the cruellest diseases that can afflict an individual is Alzheimer’s, gradually erasing memory, sense of self and awareness of the bonds of love and friendship. My own mother, almost 94 now, has had dementia for some years, so I speak from personal experience. One of the closest…