Royal 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…
Continue ReadingOVO Hydro, GlasgowAhead of the sitcom’s new series in 2027 the full TV cast reunite for a masterclass in comfort comedy, adding musical interludes to the familiar suburban bedlamIt may have started as a one-off special in 2013, but seven series and fiv…
Continue ReadingThe comedian on his lonely obsession with the Phantom, his love of Tom Lehrer, and his early life as a piracy criminalYour show Hero Complex is based on your childhood obsession with the Phantom. The comic book character doesn’t really have superpowers…
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