It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell allAcross the road from Victoria Station is one of London’s longest-running musicals, Wicked. Walk fu…
Continue ReadingCelebrated for her performances in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly! Channing also earned an Oscar nomination for Thoroughly Modern MillieCarol Channing, the American actor who originated the roles of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes an…
Continue ReadingBattersea Arts Centre, LondonThe storyteller sets out to list all 20,000 of his possessions in a show that misfires despite some delightful apercus‘I have a house with lots of things in it,” says Daniel Kitson, “and this is a show about those things.” …
Continue ReadingBlanchett and Hiddleston get sexual, there are chills in a Glasgow tower block, Matthew Bourne takes on the star-crossed lovers, plus Catherine Tate, Tim Minchin and Ben Elton return to the road Continue reading…
Continue ReadingIskander, a theatre-maker and former NHS executive, succeeds David Jubb, who called it a ‘fantastic appointment’Battersea Arts Centre in south London has appointed Tarek Iskander as its new artistic director and chief executive. Iskander plans to “rein…
Continue ReadingAfter four decades of festive fun in York, the actor and writer is hanging up his frock and hobnailed boots. He looks back at the Theatre Royal’s panto family‘I must say I never expected there to be quite this much fuss,” Berwick Kaler says, indicating…
Continue ReadingAfter the ‘attacks’, tabloid fear-mongering and a devastating horror film, clowns were meant to be all clapped out – with pirates and princesses muscling in. So why is business booming?Don’t be fooled by those painted-on smiles. If the rumours are to b…
Continue ReadingThe comedian and her artist-activist friend have teamed up for Hamburger Queen, a beauty pageant that celebrates fatnessA few months ago, I went to see a show and when I got to my seat, I sat down. Or rather, I tried to sit down. I realised quite quick…
Continue ReadingWhich plays left you speechless? Which dancers swept you off your feet? Who got you giggling? Nominate your favourite stage show of the year Continue reading…
Continue ReadingBristol Old VicNarrating his life via sonnets and speeches, the motormouth comic delivers a show that is both egotistical and endearing‘I’m trying to alchemise the work of our greatest playwright,” says Russell Brand, “into a tonic for our times.” My L…
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