1,037 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
TV channel U&Dave has announced its award for best joke at the fringe, launched in 2008, won't be given this year
It's beyond a joke for pun-lovers. The traditional list of the funniest …
The actor will follow stars including Lenny Henry and Sue Perkins, leading the hit show in which a performer enlists the audience's help to tell 'funny, sad and unique' story
Minnie Driver h…
Swan theatre, Stratford upon Avon A sharp new version of Somerset Maugham's 1926 tale of adultery is led by the Game of Thrones star and includes a jazz score by Jamie Cullum
Anyone awaiting…
A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and 'Queen' Lear
It's billed as a play not a musical but Stereophonic, the US hit now in London, has some…
At 78, the great choreographer is enjoying a career-spanning celebration in Oslo. He reflects on his leap from dance to visual art and why he feels snubbed by Britain
A gang of young dancers…
Cooke, who ran the Royal Court for several years, will succeed Rupert Goold at the illustrious London venue in 2026
Dominic Cooke has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Almei…
Clooney's Broadway hit, Disney musical Frozen and a taster for a new romcom at Stratford East are among this month's highlights
Here is that rarest of opportunities: a live stream for a hit …
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, London Thin tale of neighbourly spirit is loaded with groansome gags but the hoedowns and show tunes are full of flavour
Aw, shucks. There's plenty to love ab…
A prolific performer with the National Theatre, the actor and playwright " who was married to Zoë Wanamaker " was also a regular on TV, starring in Doctor Who
The actor and writer Gawn Gr…
@sohoplace, London A new arrival at Alcoholics Anonymous meets with his apparently composed sponsor in David Ireland's knotty, often hilarious two-hander
Jack Lowden wasn't away from the sta…
Over the course of an illustrious career, Strouse composed music for Broadway shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause but was best known for Annie's evergreen songs
The composer Charles St…
Greek theatre, Syracuse Two searing new productions, performed in a hallowed space by intense ensembles, bring strikingly fresh energy to the ancient dramas
Concurrent London productions rec…
Reading Rep theatreThree generations of soon-to-be-weds unload their emotional baggage into the Thames in Camille Ucan's comedy
Jerome K Jerome was not kind about Reading in Three Men in a B…
Francesca Moody and Gary McNair's innovative DIY solution to Covid restrictions will be revamped for a series of in-person, one-off shows
When the 2020 Edinburgh fringe was cancelled due to …
The musician is to debut as a theatre composer for W Somerset Maugham's 1926 comedy adapted by Laura Wade and directed by Tamara Harvey
Jamie Cullum is to make his debut as a theatre compose…
Krapp's Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect wi…
Behind-the-scenes look at the TV juggernaut's transformation into a theatrical spectacular, interactive acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil and a spellbinding tribute to Kneehigh are among this…
The Place, London Arresting show from Northern Rascals charts the growing distance between two young men
This bedroom looks like it has been ripped out of a building. Its walls are edged wit…
Unicorn theatre, LondonRejected by adults, the far-from-home heroine is embraced by cheering children in Debbie Hannan's comical show
If you took one of Tove Jansson's Moomins, sprayed them …
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare's tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel's novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month's highligh…
Wardrobe theatre, BristolDaisy Kennedy and Mia Macleod tussle with capitalism, class cliches and the cost of living in this smart two-hander
Meet Daisy and Mia. One is working class, the oth…
Hampstead theatre, LondonSophie Melville and Laura Whitmore star in an ambitious yet flawed play about the pressures of parenthood
John Donnelly's new play is perceptive about early parentho…
Little Angel theatre, LondonThe big top pops up inside a book as puppeteer Lizzie Wort whirls through a jaunty carnival of acts
Roll up, roll up! Abracadabra! There's barely a trad circus tr…
Royal Court, LiverpoolA cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace's epic novel about a manager who prized socialism
In 2016, an adaptation of David Peace's The Dam…
Sherman theatre, CardiffRebecca Jade Hammond's assured drama about two girls groomed for drug trafficking switches between humour and terror
What a punchy play. Rebecca Jade Hammond has writ…
