Marylebone theatre, LondonDarren Raymond’s update drops Rylance’s impostor into a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding, with clever rhyming couplets but less political stingSpitting posh platitudes through false teeth so bucked they might enforce a liquid diet, r…
Continue ReadingStephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom dramaFor play number 92, Alan Ayckbourn returns to his preoccupation of …
Continue ReadingThe Ali G and Borat creator is reported to be taking the lead in The Popinjay Cavalier, a swashbuckling comedy Tarantino is developing for early 2027He will soon be seen resuming his old Staines rudeboy persona in the film Ali G: Who Iz I?, but Sacha B…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonA dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman showThe mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama Playfight. At first, …
Continue ReadingThe comedian and actor on his love of Ghostbusters, why Shaun Micallef made him stick his hand up a cow’s bum and trusting Robert Irwin with his lifeYou’re on the new season of Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey, where you explored your Scottish roots. Wh…
Continue ReadingComedian and his wife, Cerys Morgan, set up charitable foundation in memory of Felix, who died shortly after birthRussell Howard has announced the death of his baby son, in what he described as the “most devastating time of our lives”.The 46-year-old c…
Continue ReadingThe ex-marketing manager’s win, for his spoof Sycamore Gap-inspired whodunnit Rewilding, arrives just as he’s gearing up for a new season of hit sketch show SNL UK – which he calls ‘the hardest job of my life’For the last month, Chris Cantrill has been…
Continue ReadingSwinton takes a dead man’s identity, Glasgow’s heir to Billy Connolly heads on tour and Gillian Anderson, Keira Knightley and Natalia Osipova all hit the stage• See all of our unmissable autumn arts recommendations here Continue reading…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Chicken Shop Date co-writer gives a gossipy, erudite account of his relationship with how he looks in this assured debutAt a fringe noticeable for the polish even of its rookie standups, here’s another debut showing no…
Continue ReadingAfter a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with people?Stewart Lee is somewhat fretfully tidying his …
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