Royal Albert Hall, LondonShiny-suited and slick, the US standup fired off peppy and sometimes taboo-teasing gags about his cultural identity, married life and visits to a fertility clinicYou can’t say Aziz Ansari doesn’t know his audience. He begins Sa…
Continue ReadingIn 2019 Lampaert woke up unable to recognise his friends, his parents, even his own name. After decades of anxiety, abandonment and bullying, was his mind just trying to shield him from his past?On the day his life changed, Eric Lampaert woke up and sa…
Continue ReadingIn 2019 Lampaert woke up unable to recognise his friends, his parents, even his own name. After decades of anxiety, abandonment and bullying, was his mind just trying to shield him from his past?On the day his life changed, Eric Lampaert woke up and sa…
Continue ReadingThe horny TV series has inspired a whopping four comedy shows this summer. Their makers explain why musical theatre and steamy action are such good bedfellows – and why there’s no rivalry between themFive minutes was all it took. The stars of Heated Ri…
Continue ReadingThe standup on bad gigs at motorway service station hotels, her nan’s reviews and the pressure to be ‘prize pig’ at the Edinburgh fringeWho did you admire when you were starting out?I loved Lee Evans because of how he ran around on stage. I want to be …
Continue ReadingFrom returning comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti to Flo & Joan’s cheeky One Man Musical, these are surefire standouts at the fringeEdinburgh festival 2026 reviewsIt may contain a brief moment of actual tree-hugging but this bracing solo show by Bry…
Continue ReadingThis late-night escapade became a word-of-mouth festival favourite. The show’s creators discuss the method behind its madness – and why you’ll laugh without knowing whyDeep within the cavernous Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, robed monks stan…
Continue ReadingSadler’s Wells, London Hideki Noda’s spectacular vision of villainous biotech and bone conduction is full of dazzling coups but gets bogged down in its earnest messageThis wacky futuristic fantasy by Japanese writer-director Hideki Noda aims high. It o…
Continue ReadingStephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough This celebratory show by Tim Firth and Gary Barlow delivers emotional openness alongside cracking jokesOne of the great qualities of Calendar Girls is its ordinariness. It takes place in a landscape of Morrisons supe…
Continue ReadingAfter her death this week aged 86, colleagues of The Good Life actor remember a star who remained kind, funny and grounded despite her formidable stage presenceActor and artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe Continue reading…
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