London’s eight-week underground arts fest returns to Waterloo and the South Bank in January. Here’s a dozen picks to get started …James McNicholas: The Boxer30-31 JanuaryThe former Beasts sketch comic should have been a contender for the 2019 Edinburgh…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity Hilarious, sincere, sexy and brutal, Fitter is a deep-throated examination into modern masculini…
Continue ReadingTell us about your standout stage show of the year – we’ll feature a selection of your favourites later this monthWhat was your favourite theatre, comedy or dance show of the year? Please briefly explain why (250 words max) by filling in the form below…
Continue ReadingVaults, LondonZoe Lyons is a pyjama-clad deity with wrath-management issues and a retinue of doubtful angels in David Javerbaum’s enjoyable comedyIt began as a Twitter account, which begat a book, which begat a Broadway show, in which God descended amo…
Continue ReadingThe Guardian’s theatre critic was at the sketch group’s first show in 1960. It was the beginning of a friendship … and a satire boom that changed the worldMy first sighting of Jonathan Miller was at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh in August 1960. I was…
Continue ReadingTransgressive, intimidating and smeared with ketchup, the performer loves to give audiences more than they’ve bargained for – from an X-rated Jesus to a bare BoudiccaLucy McCormick pulls her elbow back and closes her left eye. Whoosh, twang, thud: the …
Continue ReadingThe comedian has written his first play – on whether science can prove that the Almighty exists. But first, there are some hecklers to deal with … Schrödinger’s cat can be both alive and dead – so surely David Baddiel can be both a comedian and a pla…
Continue ReadingState-of-the-art West End theatre opens its doors with a season including plays by Cormac McCarthy and Lucy PrebbleA “novel in dramatic form” by Cormac McCarthy, a revival of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect and dramas directed by Kathy Burke and Yaël Farber …
Continue ReadingBack on tour for the first time in 15 years, the trailblazing comedian has some scores to settle. How can he be a sellout, he asks, if he was never radical to begin with?They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes – but my inner 13-year-old would never for…
Continue ReadingIn 1987, Dan Watson’s dance routine failed to nab first prize from a panel of pesky bluecoats. He revisits this haunting childhood experience in his new comedy show, VenusGood art often chimes with our own life experiences and gives us cause to reflect…
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