Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Theatre Royal, BathOn a spectacular set creating Nosferatu-like shadows, Keith Allen expertly negotiates patriarch Max’s rapid turns in a bleakly humorous production exploring relationship…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe playwright’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling
‘I’ve high hopes of dying young,”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMSunday, February 27, 2022
American actor and singer who played Major Margaret Houlihan – ‘Hot Lips’ – in the 1970 film M*A*S*HWomen in M*A*S*H (1970), Robert Altman’s boisterous comedy about a mobile army h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMThursday, February 24, 2022
Theatre Royal, BathThere are nice slapstick set-pieces but this two-hander loses any sense of marital crisis and has perfunctory sitcom gags
If Terry and June had wrestled with ennui, the re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe staging and writing zing nicely as an ensemble cast convincingly struggle to hold on to their youth by sleeping around, sexting and experimenting with throup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Theatre Royal, BrightonThe 1987 revenge movie returns as a play, with Kym Marsh starring as a blandly monstrous ‘bunny boiler’ spurned by her married lover
Lock up your rabbits! The 1987…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMMonday, December 13, 2021
As we head into Christmas, actors who have tackled the son of god – from the trans woman who caused outrage in Glasgow to the weed-smoking Black Jesus – relive the role
When the comic ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
This spin on The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway hit in the 70s and became a film with Diana Ross. Now, the tale of Black joy takes Dorothy from a Manchester tower block and BLM protests to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Above the Stag, LondonThe gags come thick and fast in this bawdy adult panto, which is set in a funeral parlour and channels Joe Orton
Who loves Dick? It’s hard not to in the bawdy adult p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
Arts theatre, LondonThis lads-together jukebox show is well sung and should go down well with office outings, but the synthetic bonhomie has a strangely cultish feel
Welcome to The Jungle, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, October 31, 2021
Barbican, LondonThis anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated
“Your package will arrive in 60 minutes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThursday, October 28, 2021
He was adored as Geoffrey the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, as he stars opposite Cush Jumbo in Hamlet, the actor discusses stardom, being one of the first Black Othellos – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Ambassadors theatre, LondonIan Shaw plays his film star father Robert in this behind-the-scenes tale of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster
In the waters off Martha’s Vineyard in 1974, three …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMFriday, September 24, 2021
Above the Stag, LondonAn illicit affair blossoms around a Victorian London park in this gentle comedy from the creator of Taggart
It is 1850s south London and the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMMonday, September 20, 2021
How do you turn hit musicals like Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and Dear Evan Hansen into films? You axe songs, throw out plots and don’t worry about anyone’s favourite bit
Choosing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMThursday, September 16, 2021
Theatre Royal BathKelly is the raging old stager and Clary his pomposity-puncturing assistant in Ronald Harwood’s perennial favourite
Any play that contains a show-must-go-on message is bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, September 13, 2021
Fire up the DeLorean! The Desperate Housewives actor is playing the time-travelling scientist in the Back to the Future musical – now he can finally sing in Christopher Lloyd’s accent
G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, August 16, 2021
Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny Girls
In the late 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, April 25, 2021
Dominic Monaghan has starred in Lord of the Rings and Lost. But neither compare to the joys of gardening in LA – and raising deadly creatures
To be part of one cultural phenomenon could be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMMonday, April 5, 2021
The pandemic inspired many works of art but two furious, turbulent plays written at its onset still tower over the rest. As both return, we explore their enduring power
On 3 July 1981, a sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, March 4, 2021
The French director and dramatist reveals how he pushed Hopkins into giving one of the most wrenching performances of his career in an unflinching dementia drama also starring Olivia Colman
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMThursday, November 12, 2020
As he publishes a moving memoir, the comedian and Bake Off contestant tormentor talks about homophobic heckles, still living with his parents – and why he’s never been in love
In a deser…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThursday, November 5, 2020
The creator of the cult show is not going quietly into his 70s. He talks about coming out as trans, going ‘loopy’ on crack – and speaking in tongues after suffering a stroke
Richard O�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, October 22, 2020
The Pulitzer-winning show about gender-fluid bohemians in a time of pandemic is back. As Rent hits Manchester, the original cast remember its barrierbusting magic – and its tragic, visiona…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMThursday, September 10, 2020
Is performing for young audiences easier? Far from it say the comedians who do clubs at night and CBBC shows by day
What do standup comics do in the daytime? A glance at television schedules…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, August 10, 2020
Lily Savage, The League of Gentlemen, Fleabag and a host of telly sensations started out on tiny stages at the extravaganza. In its absence, who will be next?
Paul O’Grady’s first night …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMFriday, June 19, 2020
Acclaimed actor whose dazzling career included memorable roles in Alien, Chariots of Fire and The Lord of the Rings
Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, was a brilliant actor in all media whose c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
Sidi’s new online soap opera brings all the overheated thrills of Mexican telenovelas to the home counties
If a Mexican TV company set a Spanish-language soap opera in a bland British town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Riverside Studios, LondonAlice Krige’s commanding presence can’t ignite this stark adaptation, which suffers from needless narrator interjections
Ingmar Bergman adaptations have provided…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMThursday, January 9, 2020
His influence is everywhere – but is the great, groundbreaking comedian being forgotten? Twenty-five years after his death, we reassess his impact
The reports of Peter Cook’s death on 9…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMThursday, December 12, 2019
London PalladiumJulian Clary, Paul O’Grady and Matt Baker vamp it up in this big-budget extravaganza yet it’s a case of double the entendres and half the story
Now in its fourth year, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM 
