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…

Danielle Goldstein

May 3, 2019

News, Art

New to the Ben Uri Gallery

Danielle Goldstein

May 3, 2019

News, Art

This week the Ben Uri Gallery acquired a new addition to their collection, a painting by Solomon Hart, one of the 19th century’s most important British Jews. Entitled The Writing on the Wall, this watercolour is thought to depict the interior of one of the first British synagogues…

Danielle Goldstein

May 2, 2019

News, Music

Douze Point Israel!

Danielle Goldstein

May 2, 2019

News, Music

For the first time in the history of Eurovision, the internationally adored song contest will be held in Tel Aviv. To celebrate the fact, and to encourage visitors to get out and explore the glorious city, Israel's Tourism Board has released an Insider’s Guide to Celebrating Eurovision…

Danielle Goldstein

May 1, 2019

News, Theatre

Avital Raz: My Jerusalem

Danielle Goldstein

May 1, 2019

News, Theatre

At a time when Trump can declare Jerusalem to be the Jewish capital, accusations of antisemitism plague the Labour Party, and negative feelings towards Israel rise, this solo performance from Avital Raz feels very timely indeed. My Jerusalem is a politically charged tale of a drunken…

Danielle Goldstein

April 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

All My Sons ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

April 30, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

London’s Old Vic Theatre is a leader in the current revelatory series of revivals of the plays of Arthur Miller. The American Clock, his ‘wide-screen’ kaleidoscopic examination of the disintegration of the American dream, through the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash and…

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Little Miss Sunshine ★★★

Danielle Goldstein

April 5, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

Folk are passionate about the 2006 Oscar-winning movie that takes its audience on a road trip from New Mexico to California in the company of the dysfunctional, financially challenged Hoover family. The aim of the trip? To traverse 800 miles in a battered old VW bus in just 48 hours…

Danielle Goldstein

April 1, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

Song of Dina

Danielle Goldstein

April 1, 2019

Interviews, Theatre

In Genesis, chapter 34, a horrific series of events is set in motion. Dina, the only daughter of the patriarch Jacob, goes out “to meet the women of the land” where Jacob and his family have settled. She encounters Shechem, the local Hivite prince. According to Genesis, he “took her and…

Danielle Goldstein

March 22, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

The Rubenstein Kiss ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

March 22, 2019

Reviews, Theatre

James Phillips’ award-winning 2005 play was inspired by the story behind the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1953 for allegedly providing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Esther and Jakob Rubenstein are the fictional Jewish couple, whose similar fate is a given…

Danielle Goldstein

March 21, 2019

Reviews, Music

The Blue Book ★★★★

Danielle Goldstein

March 21, 2019

Reviews, Music

The Voice of Song and Prayer, known colloquially as the ‘The Blue Book’, has been the foundation of Jewish choral music in the UK and the Commonwealth ever since it was published in London in 1899. It was originally written for mixed female and male voices – common practice in…