@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 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…
Continue ReadingReading Rep theatreThree generations of soon-to-be-weds unload their emotional baggage into the Thames in Camille Ucan’s comedyJerome K Jerome was not kind about Reading in Three Men in a Boat. Sculling along the Thames, his narrator observes how the t…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Moody and Gary McNair’s innovative DIY solution to Covid restrictions will be revamped for a series of in-person, one-off showsWhen the 2020 Edinburgh fringe was cancelled due to Covid-19, producer Francesca Moody and theatre-maker Gary McNai…
Continue ReadingRiverside Studios, LondonHumour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys numberMight there be an overlap between sci-fi fans – I speak as one myself – and audiences who…
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