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David Broza sings Leonard Cohen

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David Broza sings Leonard Cohen

This month Leonard Cohen would have turned 88 and to mark the occasion, Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza is releasing a trio of Cohen covers. The first, released on the bard’s birthday, 21 September, will be the lilting love letter that is ‘So Long, Marianne’. Following this a month later…

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Two Ukrainian Plays ★★★★

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Two Ukrainian Plays ★★★★

A dark, surreal tragicomedy and a stark, heartbreaking monologue in a double bill by two women playwrights digs deep into the human situation of individuals caught up in the conflict in Ukraine. What is immediately striking as you watch this hard-hitting pairing of dramas, actually…

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In conversation: Jeremy Sassoon

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In conversation: Jeremy Sassoon

As Jeremy Sassoon undertakes a run of his show MOJO: Musicians of Jewish Origin at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we caught up with the British Jewish singer and pianist to find out what music offers that psychiatry doesn’t, his worst and best performances and what’s next for the…

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Kafka and Son ★★★★★

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Kafka and Son ★★★★★

Based on Franz Kafka’s famous Letter to His Father, award-winning Canadian director and producer Alon Nashman turns in a deeply moving and credible interpretation of the Czech writer's turbulent relationship with his father Hermann. The sparse set, featuring hundreds of black…

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Ivor Dembina: Old Jewish Jokes ★★★★

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Ivor Dembina: Old Jewish Jokes ★★★★

Thirty years ago I saw Ivor Dembina walk onto a stage in north London and announce to an unsuspecting crowd: “Right, let’s have the Hatikvah” (a 19th-century Jewish poem and Israel's national anthem). It was an early sign of the path he was looking to tread. One of my favourite…