Danielle Goldstein

March 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Betrayal ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

March 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Jamie Lloyd’s brilliantly successful visionary season of Pinter’s work comes to a fitting climax with the playwright’s 1978 semi-autobiographical memory play. Betrayal plays its anatomy of an adulterous relationship backwards, beginning in 1977 (two years after it has ended) and ending where…

Danielle Goldstein

March 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Admissions ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

March 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Joshua Harmon can make you laugh and cringe simultaneously. He gives his characters space for long rants – and plenty of rope to hang themselves. In his earlier hit comedy Bad Jews, relationships come under strain when family members are forced together for their…

Danielle Goldstein

March 13, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Strike up the Band ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

March 13, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Last week saw the American ambassador to the UK using strangely combative language in defence of US chlorine-washed chicken and yet another awkward love-in/stand-off between his current boss and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. So this 1927 collaboration between the Gershwin…

Danielle Goldstein

February 28, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Come From Away ★★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 28, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

From the Canadian Jewish husband and wife writing team Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away tells the incredible true story of how the residents of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed the passengers of planes from around the world grounded by the 9/11 attacks…

Danielle Goldstein

February 26, 2019

Reviews, Music

Roots ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 26, 2019

Reviews, Music

Earlier this month a sweet little debut album came courtesy of Minim Singers. Entitled Roots, it comprises seven ethereal tracks, which total at just over 13 minutes, that reimagine and revive traditional Jewish choral songs. "Our mission," explains co-chair Sophie Ross, "is to give life…

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

The American Clock ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

February 18, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

It’s open season on Arthur Miller in the UK right now, as this second autobiographical play looking back to the legacy of the Great Depression joins The Price on the London stage, with All My Sons waiting in the wings to follow in April. It’s also a sign of the times that both the…

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

News

Kicking out antisemitism at Chelsea FC

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

News

Professional footballers are not used to sitting still. Their world is built on movement, whether gliding across a football pitch or on airplanes and coaches as they travel to and from matches. Even at rest, their muscles twitch. They fidget, tap their feet, fiddle with phones. But when…

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

Features, Opinion

Is the UK’s Jewish community under threat?

Danielle Goldstein

February 16, 2019

Features, Opinion

Is the UK’s Jewish community under threat?

In the spring of 1945, George Orwell wrote an introduction to Animal Farm, his allegory of the way cults of personality can lead to dictatorship. Yet when Secker and Warburg published it in mid-August of that year, Orwell’s…

Judi Herman

February 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

The Price ★★★★

Judi Herman

February 14, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Arthur Miller pours the pain he and his family suffered during the deprivations of the Great Depression into this 1968 play. He tells the story of two brothers meeting for the first time in 15 years, confronting each other and their demons in the condemned New York apartment building…

Judi Herman

February 11, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Pinter Seven ★★★★

Judi Herman

February 11, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

At first sight these paired two-handers from 1957/8 seem poles apart. The protagonists of A Slight Ache are upper middle-class stockbroker belt denizens Flora (Gemma Whelan) and Edward (John Heffernan), complete with precisely clipped 50s vowels. In The Dumb Waiter…