What gets you hot? The sweaty, brutally honest show about bodies

They were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…

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What gets you hot? The sweaty, brutally honest show about bodies

They were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…

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Ian McKellen review – heartfelt hilarity from a crusader of the stage

Everyman, CheltenhamShakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatreScratch a great actor and you often find a born comic underneath and, watching Ian McKellen’s itinerant solo sho…

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge to star in Fleabag on stage for the last time

The actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews when it was staged in a tiny venue at the Edinburgh festival i…

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Yes! Yes! Yes! We must break the silence about female pleasure

Doctors made me feel silly and men offered to fix my vaginal woe. But speaking up about sexual dysfunction has given me back the voice I had lost in bedIt’s time for me to stop lying about sex. To my ex-partners, I’m sorry I wasn’t as honest with you a…

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Yes! Yes! Yes! We must break the silence about female pleasure

Doctors made me feel silly and men offered to fix my vaginal woe. But speaking up about sexual dysfunction has given me back the voice I had lost in bedIt’s time for me to stop lying about sex. To my ex-partners, I’m sorry I wasn’t as honest with you a…

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Comic Strip’s riotous Soho club reborn as state-of-the-art theatre

New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area’s rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80sA tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the “rebellious” spirit of London’s Soho is to open in the building where …

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It’s the comedy economy, stupid! Elf Lyons on the true cost of standup

After a Franglais Swan Lake, the comic explains economics with sex dolls in ChiffChaff. She talks about loving horror, how guinea pigs helped her through illness and standing up for comedians Elf Lyons loves economics. Or rather, as she warbles to The …

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Trixie Mattel review – glittering, belittling comedy from Drag Race star

O2 Academy, Newcastle Ill-judged jokes and a lack of wit and grit make for a tedious set from one of the queens on RuPaul’s seriesIn an interview with Rolling Stone, drag queen Trixie Mattel said she was taken aback by the positive response to her uniq…

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Miles Jupp: my double life as Mr Banks from Mary Poppins

Having been repeatedly told that he looks like David Tomlinson, Miles Jupp now finds himself playing the mildly aristocratic character actorThere is something unnerving about feeling that someone else has lived through your career before you’ve even ha…

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