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A Land Without People: An Israel state of mind
Brian Rotman [left] with actor Jules Brown who plays the part of Ernest Bevin among others and costume designer Emily StuartFiona Leckerman chats to playwright Brian Rotman about his new show,...
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The Amy enigma: Our verdict on the year’s most controversial film
A new documentary about late pop star Amy Winehouse has split opinion and upset her family. Fiona Leckerman watches Amy and speaks to the creative team behind the film, which features unseen archive...
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Meet Andrew Sachs: There’ more to me than playing Manuel!
Andrew Sachs’ autobiography is called I Know Nothing, but Fiona Leckerman discovers that the man who played the most famous waiter in TV history knows a great deal indeed. You know him as Manuel from...
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A week in the life of… Norwood!
To truly understand Norwood, you have to see what it does first hand, as it is only then that you realise how all encompassing the organisation is and how many people benefit from its existence. A week...
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She Nails it! Providing colourful tips to the rich and famous
Providing colourful tips for the rich and famous is a full-time job for Lucy Tucker. Fiona Leckerman met her. Lucy Tucker, the start’s technician Lucy Tucker’s nails are the first things I notice about...
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Fiddler on the Roof at the Proms gets ripples of Mazel Tov!
Bryn Terfel as Tevye leads the company of Grange Park Opera in a production of Fiddler on the Roof, at the BBC Proms on Saturday 25 July with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by David Charles...
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Guess who’s coming To dinner? Dinner with Saddam
Fiona Leckerman meets James Bond author Anthony Horowitz, who’s also penned new stage comedy, Dinner With Saddam The cast of Dinner With Saddam, including Sanjeev Bhaskar, right What would happen if...
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Review: Dinner With Saddam ****
Dinner With Saddam, Menier Chocolate Factory **** Dinner With Saddam has all the ingredients of a fine feast for its audience to digest, a farce with a political main course, a stellar cast and all...
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Dough screenwriter Jeremy Freedman remembered through charity screening
Before Jeremy Freedman’s untimely and tragic death in April at the age of 36, he left behind an astonishing amount of work. The award-winning scriptwriter will be celebrated and remembered at a special...
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Review: Frances Ruffelle at The Crazy Coqs ****
By Fiona Leckerman Watching Frances Ruffelle perform without her singing On My Own, the song that launched her career as a musical theatre actress and singer would have been a travesty, so when she...
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A graphic guide to Freud..
A graphic novel about Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and his research on the diagnosis of hysteria is an accessible and interesting read, says Fiona Leckerman A memory from Freud’s early...
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Review: The Screenwriter’s Daughter ***
Jenny Hecht was the daughter of prolific screenwriter Ben Hecht and their tumultuous relationship is the subject of Larry Mollin’s play The Screenwriter’s Daughter, now showing at the Leicester Square...
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Sheridan Smith shines in Funny Girl *****
As opening lines go, “Hello Gorgeous” is as iconic as it gets, when Sheridan Smith greets her reflection as Fanny Brice in The Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Funny Girl, writes Fiona...
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Review: The Pianist of Willesden Lane ****
Mona Golabek stars in this staggeringly moving account of her mother’s evacuation from Vienna via the Kindertransport, writes Fiona Leckerman. Mona Golabek sits at the keys of the grand piano, her...
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Review: Drawing Life at Barbican *****
Shocking, immensely emotive, touching, painfully sad and disbelief – these are all words that could aptly describe the experience of watching Drawing Life, performed at the Barbican to mark the end of...
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Review: Ruby Wax’s Sane New World ****
By Fiona Leckerman Having only experienced Ruby Wax through the small screen, she has always been somewhat cartoonish, a living caricature with her wide red lipped smile and voice so distinctive you’d...
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Review: Run, The Vault *****
A graffiti lined walkway leads to the underground maze of dark tunnels that house The Vault arts festival and it is here, underneath Waterloo Station, that Stephen Laughton’s play Run was performed...
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Review: Poppy and George at Watford Palace Theatre **
By Fiona Leckerman Playwright Diane Samuels’ latest offering commissioned by Watford Palace Theatre is Poppy and George, an unconventional love story set among the cloths of an East End costumier’s in...
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Review: NotMoses, The Arts Theatre ***
By Fiona Leckerman The promise of writer and director Gary Sinyor’s new play NotMoses, playing at The Arts Theatre, is a comedy of biblical proportions – according to the strap line – and a...
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Reviewer’s double-barrelled attack on NotMoses is an insult to audiences
Fiona Leckerman By Fiona Leckerman There is something particularly NotFunny about distinguished theatre critic John Nathan’s follow-up article in this week’s Jewish Chronicle attacking Gary Sinyor’s...
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