Despite a long history of living in relative peace with their neighbours, I have to admit that my first recollections of hearing about the Jews of Baghdad was when I read about the shocking fate of nine of them, hanged in public, along with three Muslims and two Christians, all accused…

Truman Productions’ mission statement is to develop and amplify new, female-led contemporary Jewish writing. Its latest show, These Demons by Rachel Bellman, is a warm, funny and properly hair-raising drama that ticks all those boxes and more. In a run-down cottage in the woods…

The Łódź Ghetto, established by the Nazis in Poland, was always on the infamous list of places where Jews were confined before eventual deportation (for most) to the death camps. This partly fictionalised account of its inception is all too plausible. That the Russian writer…

As a cultured and affluent-looking couple celebrating their golden wedding share leftover cake from the party over a crossword, you could be forgiven for assuming we were already tackling marriage. But when another woman…

It’s 40 years since the musical set in the Côte d'Azur drag club of the title, and based on Jean Poiret’s Francophile farce, opened on Broadway, where it ran for four years. With book and lyrics by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy) and a wonderfully vivid score, by turns…