Danielle Goldstein

1 week ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

The BBC broadcaster has died aged 78. David Herman looks back at his influential career in TVAlan Yentob was one of the key figures in the golden age of BBC television in the late 20th century. He joined the organisation as a trainee in 1968. By 1973 he was working on BBC1’s flagship arts documentary series Omnibus. He produced his breakthrough film Cracked Actor in 1975, about the musician David Bowie.

1 week ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Seven decades on and Arthur Miller's thriller based on the Salem Witch Trials still hits a pertinent nerveArthur Miller’s 1953 drama may be set in late 17th-century Massachusetts, but it’s no secret that he uses the Salem witch trials – which led to the imprisonment and even hanging of innocent men and women – as a metaphor for McCarthyism. The campaign of political repression named for the Senator who instigated it was ignited by fear of Communism spreading in the USA.

2 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

An extraordinary feat of animation that offers perspectives from the heart – and heartless – amid the horrors of the HolocaustWe are deep in a forest during wartime, a world of grinding poverty, cold and hunger. An ageing woodcutter’s wife is stumbling through the snow to find wood.

3 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

A well-rounded thriller of an adaptation of David Mamet's film of the same nameForget daytime TV quiz shows, we're delving deep into the criminal underworld in this revival of Richard Bean's adaptation of David Mamet's 1987 film noir House of Games. Deception is very much at the heart of play here, whether it's during literal gaming or metaphorically as a con unfolds.

3 weeks ago | jewishrenaissance.org.uk | Danielle Goldstein

Stephen Sondheim bids a dreamlike farewell in this colourful posthumous musicalAre the couple sweeping the stage part of the show or management making sure it’s spic and span for performance, I wonder. So convincingly diligent yet laid back were the pair that it took me time to realise they were Tracie Bennett and Denis O’Hare, designated in the programme simply as ‘Woman’ and ‘Man’ – the staff of the wealthy couple about to take their friends for lunch.