The duo’s First Final UK Tour is more amusing than astonishing but demonstrates what drew them to the confounding craft in the first placePenn & Teller’s professional relationship is almost as old as I am. And yet I can remember a time – probably w…
Continue ReadingWe follow our loser hero from tooth fairy credits to funeral debts in a comedy of financial errors exploring money as a transactional link through all relationshipsThe award-winning French author, director and composer David Lescot’s play Dough is all …
Continue ReadingJermyn Street theatre, LondonLaughs give way to an interrogation of monogamy and jealousy as a couple open up their marriage in Miles Malleson’s playMiles Malleson’s 1933 drama is a reminder that polyamory existed long before it became a trendy term fo…
Continue ReadingUnicorn theatre, LondonConstantly surprising, this fresh take on the ‘it’s behind you!’ routine leaves its young audience asking ‘how did they do that?’Suppose you put on a play and no one turned up. Or the audience came but you just couldn’t see them….
Continue ReadingThe stage version of the much-loved sitcom, which finished on TV 25 years ago, will be written by the duo behind the original series and feature several members of the original castSnooty news anchor Sally Smedley, gung-ho reporter Damien Day and etern…
Continue ReadingIn the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewedRichard Marsh has clearly seen Die Hard more times than he’s had Christmas dinners. He’s here in h…
Continue ReadingThe writer of the acclaimed Patricia Gets Ready… returns with a lockdown-inspired comedy drama about a drug dealer having a power cutThe trigger for a play can be many things: a moral dilemma or a political event, a true-life story or a misheard anecdo…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonAmped-up visual gags and a cast that brings its own distinctive comic gifts to the Bard’s dialogue ensure a contemporary feel to the classic comedySean Holmes is associate artistic director at the Globe and there’s a lightnes…
Continue ReadingConceived by the artistic director of Birmingham Rep, Sean Foley, the award will be open to all with the winner receiving £25,000A new playwriting prize dedicated to comedy has been launched in honour of Victoria Wood on what would have been the standu…
Continue ReadingTraverse, EdinburghGary McNair delivers verbatim interviews and misremembered Connolly routines from ordinary people in this love letterThere is an air of Nick Park’s Creature Comforts about Gary McNair’s “love letter” to Billy Connolly. The performer …
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