Review: Jihad! The Musical (Whatsonstage, 17 Jan)
Jihad! The Musical has everything you could want in a light-hearted fringe musical with satirical undertones: catchy tunes, funny lines, topical humour and non-stop energy. Zoe Samuel and Benjamin Scheuer have created an original piece of musical theatre which deserves to play to full houses at the Jermyn Street Theatre for the rest of its run.

Review: Jihad! The Musical at Jermyn Street, SW1 (The Times, 15 Jan)
This musical’s appearance on the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe brought out the protesters, many of them declaring that its staging was particularly misjudged as, only five weeks earlier, Islamic terrorists had driven a flaming car into Glasgow airport. And now here’s Jihad! again, presented a few yards from the nightclub that the same gang tried to blow up and a few days after a bomber almost destroyed a plane over Detroit.

Review: Laughing at what scares us the most (The Globe and Mail, 15 Jan)
The next time you’re walking through airport security, mentally calculating the volume of your ChapStick and travel-sized Listerine, spare a thought for poor Mikey Hicks, who first got patted down when he was 2. That was six years ago.

Article: Learning to laugh at terror (Daily Telegraph, 11 Jan)
Satire is an effective weapon in the fight against extremism, and Chris Morris’s new film Four Lions and revamped show Jihad! The Musical are the latest exam