Sign of the four: Sherlock Holmes returns for Christmas comedy by two duos

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice have created songs for a Theatreland mystery by Humphrey Ker and David Reed. We find out how they doubled up for the detective’s ‘gory’ new caseNew songs by musical colossi Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. A script by …

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Stewart Lee Vs the Man-Wulf review – fur flies as the beast is unleashed

Oxford PlayhouseMorphing from shock-jock lupine to hand-wringing liberal, Lee lambasts the comedy of cruelty in scathing, slapstick style‘Sick of comedy, sick of me, sick of my own thoughts.” That’s where we find comedy’s most esteemed curmudgeon at th…

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Stewart Lee Vs the Man-Wulf review – fur flies as the beast is unleashed

Oxford PlayhouseMorphing from shock-jock lupine to hand-wringing liberal, Lee lambasts the comedy of cruelty in scathing, slapstick style‘Sick of comedy, sick of me, sick of my own thoughts.” That’s where we find comedy’s most esteemed curmudgeon at th…

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Stewart Lee Vs the Man-Wulf review – fur flies as the beast is unleashed

Oxford PlayhouseMorphing from shock-jock lupine to hand-wringing liberal, Lee lambasts the comedy of cruelty in scathing, slapstick style‘Sick of comedy, sick of me, sick of my own thoughts.” That’s where we find comedy’s most esteemed curmudgeon at th…

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Guy Williams: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The New Zealand comedian delivers a crash course on Kiwi pride: a drunk PM, yodelling lesbians, and (of course) Flight of the ConchordsMore summer essentialsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastI really appreciate this opportunity…

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Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show review – eccentric observation and wonderment

Soho theatre, LondonThe Yorkshireman’s half-banal half-profound ruminations on the subject of sight won me overA career that might be more successful if only he could describe to people what he’s actually doing. That’s how Rob Auton describes his life’…

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The week in theatre: Inside No 9: Stage/Fright; Cymbeline – review

Wyndham’s; Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonSteve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith turn into their own live tribute act; plus, a bold attempt to make sense of Shakespeare’s wayward late tragicomedyGleaming with comic gore, intricately written, showered wit…

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The Gift review – an existential ‘poo-dunnit’ that keeps on giving

Park theatre, LondonAn anonymously delivered box of something unmentionable sends an advertising worker into a spiral in Dave Florez’s comedyA cake box arrives in the post, sent special delivery to Colin (Nicholas Burns), a 40-something north Londoner …

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Inside No 9: Stage/Fright review – slick chills in Shearsmith and Pemberton’s creepy West End comedy

Wyndham’s theatre, LondonThe double act transfer their TV hit to the stage in an ingenious edge-of-your-seat, one-step-ahead show which is in love with old theatres and their ghosts‘We finally ran out of ideas!” jokes Reece Shearsmith towards the end o…

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Bron Lewis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This comedian’s love language is sharing scare videos – but she also loves Kristen Wiig, Aaron Chen and a skit about checking out of AirbnbsSummer essentialsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastI’m Bron Lewis, stand-up comedian, r…

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