In the movie Shakespeare in Love, the theatre owner Philip Henslowe outlines the formula of his new...
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Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit give every impression of having something to say. The two performers of...
Both his previous shows having almost killed him, the bar for success is set low for John...
‘It was a time of extraordinary violence,” says James Bonas. “There’s Elizabeth I deciding to have her...
It’s seven years since Michelle Wolf addressed the White House correspondents’ dinner, but she still gets a...
Henry Naylor started out in comedy but the lines that get the biggest laughs in Monstering the...
There is no shortage of one-person plays about the pressures of growing up in a conservative culture....
The room is hot, sticky and covered in trampled confetti. A mashup of noughties bangers impels our...
There’s a bait-and-switch to begin newcomer James Trickey’s show, which starts with our host in sunglasses raving...
We can agree that a cabaret involving pickled vegetables is conceptually funny. The stars of a variety...
In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a...
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s postwar musical might seem like an incredulous romance but it holds...
‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?
‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?
In Vasenka, a fictional town under military occupation, a deaf boy is shot by soldiers and the...
‘I would love you to rearrange my insides.” It’s a shocking line that would stand out in...
Exactly how fine was the “fine” relationship at the heart of Bella Hull’s show? She greets us...
This musical comedy about billionaire tech gurus Steve Jobs (Kane Oliver Parry) and Bill Gates (Dan Buckley)...
It’s rich of Tim Key, his agent tells him, playing the underdog “when you’re lighting up cinemas...
This is a one-to-one show that requires you to get up-close to its sole performer, Oliver Ayres....
Miriam Margolyes is ensconced in the garden room of a fancy Edinburgh hotel, framed by tasteful greenery...
The Comedian’s Comedian podcast, in which comic Stuart Goldsmith interviews one standup per episode, has now featured...
