New releases from Joe Wilkes, Honey and the Bear, and Hannah James and Toby Kuhn
Latest editorial
Theatre Preview: The Rubenstein Kiss
Director Joe Harmston explains why a cold-war drama, inspired by the terrible fate of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, still resonates today
Gripped: Director Joe Harmston
[Scott Rylander]
Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album
Reviews of T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tamikrest, and Dub Colossus
The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
“YOU can’t deny yourself, you can’t deny the memory that history holds within your body, the life lived even before you lived, the life before you were born.”
That’s one of the many striking lines in James Phillips’s play The Rubenstein Kiss, the story of the Rubensteins, a deeply devoted Jewish couple whose communist idealism leads to their world being torn apart by suspicion and treachery which then echoes through the generations.
Similar stories
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY