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Judi Herman
December 12, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Borders and Games ★★★★

Judi Herman
December 12, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Borders and Games ★★★★

Henry Naylor writes theatre that makes you sit up and listen. He needs you to engage with the terrors and injustices of the Syrian conflict now; he wants you to share his indignation at historic wrongs and persecution in Nazi Germany. But equally he knows that to hammer…

Tagged: theatre reviews, reviews, theatre

Judi Herman
November 30, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Fanatical ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 30, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Fanatical ★★★★

Welcome to Angel8Con and the happy crew of cosplayers (that’s fans dressed as their onscreen idols). This world might be alien to the rest of us mere mortals, but it looks like huge fun in this appealingly inventive new musical by Matt Board (music and lyrics) and Reina Hardy (book)…

Tagged: theatre reviews, theatre, musical theatre, musicals

Judi Herman
November 15, 2018
Interviews, Theatre

Interview: Neil Marcus

Judi Herman
November 15, 2018
Interviews, Theatre
Interview: Neil Marcus

As a producer with form, particularly in musical theatre and cabaret, you spend years working on a project. On Fanatical in particular since 2015… Musicals take a long time to gestate. The process from getting an idea to getting it on stage takes years. I developed a show called…

Tagged: theatre interview, musical theatre, musicals

Danielle Goldstein
November 14, 2018
Previews, Music

EFG London Jazz Festival 2018

Danielle Goldstein
November 14, 2018
Previews, Music

Have you ever considered Israeli contributions to culture? Sure, there are highly respected authors, great violinists, a burgeoning film industry and even success in Eurovision. But jazz? You’ll be surprised by how big the waves Israelis are making on the worldwide jazz stage…

Tagged: EFG London Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, music preview, festival, jazz

Judi Herman
November 14, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Pinter Three and Pinter Four ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 14, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Pinter Three and Pinter Four ★★★★

Season supremo Jamie Lloyd has an extraordinarily clear vision of how to weave Harold Pinter’s playlets together. Plus his cast of starry names work with total commitment and teamwork as an ensemble. Pinter Three is a combination of short sharp sketches framed by two…

Tagged: theatre reviews, Harold Pinter, Pinter at the Pinter

Judi Herman
November 12, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Brexit ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 12, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Brexit ★★★★

This is a fast-moving, merciless satire comes from barrister and playwright Robert Khan, and writer and podcaster Tom Salinsky (who also nimbly directs). This pair of Jewish wits offer a take on Brexit that is, if anything, sharpened by its arrival in London after selling out in Edinburgh…

Tagged: theatre reviews, brexit, political theatre, satire, political satire

Judi Herman
November 7, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Bury the Dead ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 7, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Bury the Dead ★★★★

Bronx-born Jewish writer Irwin Shaw served in the US army in World War II, but he wrote this haunting expressionist drama in 1936, aged only 23. Although he sets it in “the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night”, it is perhaps more a comment on the waging…

Tagged: theatre reviews

Judi Herman
November 5, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Semites ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 5, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Semites ★★★★

“You don’t make peace with your friends; you make peace with your enemies.” Audience members are already actively engaged by the time they hear this powerful opening declaration. Smiling performers Ben Nathan and Lara Sawalha have invited them to take off their shoes as…

Tagged: theatre reviews, Israel/Palestine

Judi Herman
November 1, 2018
Reviews, Theatre

Honour ★★★★

Judi Herman
November 1, 2018
Reviews, Theatre
Honour ★★★★

Henry Goodman was last seen playing artist Lucian Freud in Alan Frank’s one-man play Looking at Lucian. In Honour – Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s telling dissection of relationships – Goodman plays George, a respected pillar of the literary…

Tagged: theatre reviews

Rebecca Taylor
October 31, 2018
News

A letter from JR's editor

Rebecca Taylor
October 31, 2018
News
A letter from JR's editor

We are shocked and devastated by the tragic events that took place last Friday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and we send our deepest condolences to the Pittsburgh community. Our thoughts are with you. Mass support for the community has poured…

Tagged: Pittsburgh Synagogue, open letter, news

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