Spirited Away review: Japanese imagination lands on a West End stage

Puppets and costumes combine with top-drawer stagecraft to conjure the most outlandish sequences

Machinal review: superb depiction of a life trapped by conventions

Sexually repulsed by her spouse, the affair is the Young Woman’s only source of hope

The Turkish Jew who’s now that waiter from Barcelona

Hemi Yeroham is taking on the role of Manuel in a stage version of Fawlty Towers. He shares how he is priming himself for the punishing part and why following in Andrew Sachs’ footsteps is such an honour

London Tide review: A tide that laps at your knees, rather than sweeping you away

The Comeuppance review: Grim repear comes calling at the college reunion

Power of Sail, review: Diving into the choppy waters of the US culture wars

This play shows how a white supremacist world view is gaining momentum, even in the upper echelons of American society

MJ The Musical review: Jacko show is an off-the-wall Thriller

The show’s star Myles Frost matches the moves of the best dancer of a generation

Meet the playwright who doesn’t think free speech is sacred

This week US writer Paul Grellong’s campus drama about the bounds of freedom of expression premieres in the UK

Review: For Black Boys… Nothing on stage now is more essential than this

The air was charged with the cathartic sense of sterotypes at last being dimantled

Arts agenda: From ‘Pickle’ to klezmer, get ready for showtime

Comedy featuring the ‘Jewish Bridget Jones’ and a klezmer celebration are among the best Jewish cultural events coming up this season

An education in what made the creator of the NHS tick

The Human Body review: silver-screen style... NHS substance

Roald Dahl’s antisemitism is the subject of a new play at the Royal Court

Giant, the debut play written by Mark Rosenblatt, stars John Lithgow and will be directed by Nicholas Hytner

Nachtland review: Is that a Hitler in the attic?

Maybenburg’s play warns the Shoah was not the end of German antisemitism

Theatre review: The Hills of California

This family reunion is great – but it’s no Jerusalem

Theatre review: Plaza Suite: ‘A perfectly-formed play and Sarah-Jessica Parker is a revelation.’

Ticket prices are high but for fans of Neil Simon this is an unmissable revival