Hammersmith Apollo, LondonIn his tour Here If You Need Me, the comic makes laugh-out-loud look easy with jokes about conjugal argy-bargy, smutty downloads – and a bit of politicsIs there a better no-frills standup at work today than Kevin Bridges? You’…
Continue ReadingReading Town HallThe standup’s new tour covers cross-cultural identity, Hollywood mix-ups and exactly how honest to be about your children’s arts and crafts outputHow British is Sindhu Vee? And how Indian? That’s what her new standup show Swanky addres…
Continue ReadingRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonWith a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production‘To liberty, and not to banishment,” exclaims Celia to Rosalind, the e…
Continue ReadingComedian reveals cancer in a joke-packed video, saying she will undergo a double mastectomy and ‘I’ll be keeping you abreast of everything, Australia’Comedian and actor Judith Lucy has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.In a video share…
Continue ReadingThe actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in FebruaryRowan Atkinson will return to the stage next year to play Blackadder, Mr Bean and othe…
Continue ReadingWhen Barbara Scully tried to get a job after years as a stay-at-home mum, no one would hire her. So she made her own work as a writer and broadcaster – and soon found herself on TV and stageIf anyone had told Barbara Scully five years ago that she woul…
Continue ReadingWyndham’s theatre, London Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s surprise guests in comedy of clipped social embarrassmentHay Fever, now one of Noël Coward’s best-known and mos…
Continue ReadingAn addict meets his sponsor in David Ireland’s two-hander, Gillian Anderson dazzles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Winsome Pinnock’s audio dramas are revelatoryFor an addict in the Alcoholics Anonymous programme, the fifth of the 12 steps includes con…
Continue ReadingNearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production After its 2017 premiere off-Broadway, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play transferred to Los Angeles…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonThis latest bulletin from the Irish standup’s fraught life delves deep into her OCD and dismay at her own foiblesPeople talking about their mental health is boring, says Catherine Bohart. Even listening to herself do so frays the pa…
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