Danielle Goldstein

November 29, 2021

Obituaries

Stephen Sondheim 1930-2021

Danielle Goldstein

November 29, 2021

Obituaries

It was in 1972 that Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company arrived in London. With apparently no storyline, save for the efforts of his friends to change the marital status of Bobby, the bachelor guy around whom these couples and girlfriend hopefuls revolve, it may have puzzled some…

Danielle Goldstein

July 26, 2021

Obituaries, Comedy

Jackie Mason 1928-2021

Danielle Goldstein

July 26, 2021

Obituaries, Comedy

March 1993, we had tickets to see Jackie Mason at the Dominion Theatre in London’s Tottenham Court Road. We knew what shtick to expect having experienced him on the radio and TV, including his own sarcastic opinion that he was “too Jewish”, especially for a nice middle-class…

Danielle Goldstein

June 18, 2021

Obituaries

Erica Gordon 1941-2020

Danielle Goldstein

June 18, 2021

Obituaries

To see the lighted candles in their huge chandeliers is truly magical. Upstairs in the ladies’ gallery lurk the spirits of donnas and señoritas in their designated seats behind the wooden lattices. As they look down on their menfolk, they modestly wave their fans, revealing dark, discriminating…

Danielle Goldstein

June 8, 2021

Obituaries

Norman Bright 1936-2021

Danielle Goldstein

June 8, 2021

Obituaries

We were saddened to hear that one of our long-time readers, Norman Bright, passed away on the morning of Sunday 6 June. He was a man of many words – all of which had the power to induce fits of laughter – and had a disposition as sunny as his name suggests. We were lucky…

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2021

Obituaries

Paul Ritter 1966-2021

Danielle Goldstein

April 7, 2021

Obituaries

The death has been announced of actor Paul Ritter, who succumbed to a brain tumour this week aged just 54. Ritter was the brilliantly versatile actor who played eccentric dad, Martin Goodman, in the most perfect of sitcoms, Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner. The setup is that every…

Danielle Goldstein

January 12, 2021

Obituaries

Dame Fanny Waterman 1920-2020

Danielle Goldstein

January 12, 2021

Obituaries

Dame Fanny Waterman DBE passed away peacefully on the morning of Sunday 20 December in her residential care home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. She is survived by her two sons, Robert and Paul, and six granddaughters. Born in Leeds in 1920, Waterman studied at the Royal College of Music…

Danielle Goldstein

November 10, 2020

Obituaries

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks 1948-2020

Danielle Goldstein

November 10, 2020

Obituaries

The inopportune death of Rabbi Sacks last Saturday is a tragedy for the world. The ideas he's been communicating so engagingly and effectively since he first went into print in the 1990s have now become widely adopted, and have recently acquired a new urgency: the importance…

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2020

Obituaries

Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020

Danielle Goldstein

September 23, 2020

Obituaries

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last Friday, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old. Throughout her life Ginsburg held great importance, fighting for gender equality and women's rights for much of her career…

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2020

Obituaries, Theatre

Sir Ronald Harwood 1934-2020

Danielle Goldstein

September 9, 2020

Obituaries, Theatre

Born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, 1934, Harwood is best known for the stage shows and the screenplays of The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was…

Danielle Goldstein

August 5, 2020

Obituaries, Art

Suzanne Perlman 1923-2020

Danielle Goldstein

August 5, 2020

Obituaries, Art

Jewish artist Suzanne Perlman passed away, aged 96, on the morning of Sunday 2 August. Talented, passionate and extremely hard-working, Perlman was active right up until her death: appearing in conversatoin with her grandson Matthew for Insiders/Outsiders festival just a few…