Thursday, 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 11:36AMSunday, December 1, 2019
They revel in filth and have names like Sinderella and Jack Off the Beanstalk. But is there more to X-rated panto than gross-out gags?
Panto season is under way and Pinocchio is on stage in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
He’s the musicals maestro who’s now starring in everything from Joker to Gemini Man. He reveals how he went from working men’s clubs to Hollywood – via a Pinteresque spell in theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
He’s been a blissful Bottom in Nick Hytner’s Dream and triumphed with the breakneck Barber Shop Chronicles. Now the rising actor is in a 50s political drama that chimes with today’s ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSunday, September 1, 2019
He dresses like a New Romantic and played Johnny Marr and Danny Baker. Now the rising Welshman is taking on his most painful role yet
On my way to interview Laurie Kynaston, who is about to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
The procedure left the comedian with sexual anxiety – and a tell-all show at the Edinburgh festival
Journalistic etiquette decrees that any delicate questions are usually saved until near …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
How do actors cope with having their defining line shouted at them in the streets – for decades? Richard Wilson, Maureen Lipman and Tony Robinson tell all
When it happens to Richard Wilson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMMonday, July 1, 2019
Her revelations about Harvey Weinstein sparked #MeToo. Now, as the disgraced mogul’s trial approaches, the actor is back with an Edinburgh show
Sometimes Rose McGowan can say his name, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
After the smart-aleck sitcom Community and the outrageous Hangover movies, the rude and raging comedian is returning to standup
Rage, mania and disinhibition are the common factors in Ken Je…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Assembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge WellsThere may be a weary air to some of the obligatory scripted smut, but Clary’s affectionate put-downs remain acutely calibrated
A week shy of his 60th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Combining TED talk and party, the comic’s gigs challenge sexism and body-shaming. Now she’s riffing on Mary Magdalene, singing Cher to Richard Curtis – and hoping viewers watch again a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
The story of a sound engineer recording effects for an Italian horror film is coming to the Donmar Warehouse. It’s not a gorefest, say its director and writerThe first thing you see when y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMMonday, February 4, 2019
She wrote, directed and starred in prickly comedies that put power in women’s hands. But she did not see her greatest success. As Waitress hits the stage, stars remember an explosive talen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMMonday, January 14, 2019
From Freddie Mercury to Queen Anne, awards season is set to be dominated by queer characters played by non-LGBT performers. So is this sexuality’s equivalent of blackface – or is it simp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMThursday, December 20, 2018
After 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, December 13, 2018
London PalladiumRollerskating snowmen, a hydraulic dragon, a Strictly duo and Nigel Havers are among the attractions in this variety pantoWith Snow White, Julian Clary enters his third conse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMSunday, November 18, 2018
Trailblazing comic, Oscar-nominated writer and acting sensation Elaine May is back on Broadway. Nathan Lane, Cybill Shepherd and others reveal what makes her tickThe very idea ought to be mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, October 21, 2018
His films tackled paedophilia, abortion and deadly dachshunds. In his debut play, the barbed laureate of US cinema explores the race and class dynamics of childcare. But his own nanny isn’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, August 13, 2018
The 29-year-old Bostonian followed a string of racist tweets all the way to a white nationalist meeting – and turned the experience into his new Edinburgh showThe 29-year-old Bostonian com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Homos, Or Everyone in America is set in an almost quaint pre-Grindr world. Its writer reveals how his funny, provocative drama was inspired by a hate crimeIn the opening scene of Jordan Seav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMMonday, August 6, 2018
The character comic switches roles like a regenerating Time Lord in her new Edinburgh show, Faces of Grace – from a wannable Love Island contestant to a cat-loving lonerIt became clear to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
As her horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writesIt’s a sunny Sunday morning in a middle-American kitchen. Walt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, May 11, 2018
It is Britain’s favourite type of humour, the go-to gag for everyone from Carry On stars to Bake Off hosts. But are fnarr fnarr jokes just another example of male sexual entitlement?If you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, April 29, 2018
His first work Bash got him excluded from the Mormon church. Now, as its three plays are revived in London with a modified script, Neil LaBute talks religion and R-rated moviesIt is common f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMMonday, April 23, 2018
His frenetic hip-hop history The Get Down may have floundered but there’s no stopping the director. He talks about his Elvis movie, his boho love life – and resurrecting Strictly Ballroo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
After a bedtime story with a giant teddy, you fly with geese and cross rickety rope bridges. Our writer steps into SomnaiImmersive entertainment is so widespread now, from the intimately dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:21AMFriday, January 19, 2018
With vehicles belching fumes at 7mph, car chase franchise fails to translate to stageOutside of Jaws, it would be tough to think of a movie idea less suited to the theatrical treatment than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
The Electra star on sharing the stage with Kristin Scott Thomas, never taking the job home with him and his small-screen appearance with Mark Rylance in Wolf HallAudiences at the exhilaratin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMMonday, November 13, 2017
A new version of the classic musical moves Damon Runyon’s characters to uptown New York, with an all-black cast and a burst of bebop and gospelThe cast of Guys and Dolls are lending some e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Dressed in capes and drinking Corpse Reviver cocktails, audiences explore a crypt and a vampire’s boudoir in the film company’s atmospheric theatre showFor anyone who grew up in the 1960…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMThursday, August 31, 2017
In Outlaws to In-Laws, seven short plays chart how gay lives have changed decade by decade since the 1950s, from a time of blackmail to a world of dating apps. Three writers – Jonathan Kem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM 
