Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival‘I don’t have any family connections in comedy or television, my leg up was that I went to a posh university that had this relationship with Edinburg…
Continue ReadingFringe Society CEO says venues could offer concertgoers ‘morning after’ shows or tempt residents who ‘want to hide’Organisers of Edinburgh fringe events have been urged to be “pretty smart” and capitalise on the decision by Oasis and AC/DC to play gigs…
Continue ReadingFrom a very hungry crocodile to some equally famished zombies, a superstar Compton rapper to a Smallville superhero: our critics choose the eye-opening arts events that will dazzle you over the next few monthsA Midsummer Night’s DreamBridge theatre, Lo…
Continue ReadingFrom a very hungry crocodile to some equally famished zombies, a superstar Compton rapper to a Smallville superhero: our critics choose the eye-opening arts events that will dazzle you over the next few monthsA Midsummer Night’s DreamBridge theatre, Lo…
Continue ReadingUnderbelly 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…
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