Underbelly Boulevard, LondonDylan MarcAurele’s musical comedy couldn’t be trashier but there’s fun to be had mixing twerking with 1400s TuscanyThe Pope vapes, Michelangelo uses Zoom, and Leonardo da Vinci foretells the career of Marisa Tomei. This is n…
Continue ReadingRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Thin tale of neighbourly spirit is loaded with groansome gags but the hoedowns and show tunes are full of flavourAw, shucks. There’s plenty to love about this US import, a country musical with a zany corn obsessio…
Continue Reading@sohoplace, London A new arrival at Alcoholics Anonymous meets with his apparently composed sponsor in David Ireland’s knotty, often hilarious two-handerJack Lowden wasn’t away from the stage for as long as his Slow Horses co-star Gary Oldman but it’s …
Continue ReadingRichmond theatre, London Ted Lasso star’s return as his camp and bumptious northern know-it-all alter ego also makes room for more of the real MohammedThe last time I saw Nick Mohammed live, I witnessed one of the all-time theatri…
Continue ReadingBush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humourIn the week that Keir Starmer warned that immigrants might reduce Britain to …
Continue ReadingNoël Coward theatre, LondonThe sheer rate of jokes, from groanworthy to dynamite, may leave you crying helpless tears of laughter in this farce from the Mischief company‘Vodka martini.” “Shaken?” “Yes, but I’ll be fine.” If groanworthy jokes of that ca…
Continue ReadingTheatre producer of the longest running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, who was also a great talent spotterThe elegantly rumbustious West End theatre producer John Gale, who has died aged 95, made his name and his fortune when, in 197…
Continue ReadingTheatre producer of the longest running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, who was also a great talent spotterThe elegantly rumbustious West End theatre producer John Gale, who has died aged 95, made his name and his fortune when, in 197…
Continue ReadingSoho Theatre, LondonWhether singing or crawling cleavage-first over the shoulders of her crowd, the eccentric diva asks what an artist should do in such ominous times‘I do think in 90 mins,” says the kamikaze cabaret performer Meow Meow, “we can really…
Continue ReadingSydney comedy festivalThis one-hour musical about the former NSW premier is a crowd-pleaser – if you’re happy to settle for jokes that are convenient rather than cleverFive years ago, locked in our homes and isolated from our loved ones, we invented ne…
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