823 stories by "Guardian Staff"
Comedian, celebrity vegan and Edinburgh festival regular, Sara Pascoe joins us on Tuesday 27 May what will you ask her?Sara Pascoe never set out to be a standup. Comedy started as a hobby, …
Here are 10 one-liners on the subject of food. Do you know which standup is responsible for each of them? Continue reading...
As Frank Skinner reveals he will appear in the latest Doctor Who series, take a look at these other standup,
sketch and sitcom comedians from John Cleese to Catherine Tate who have guest …
They're practising their silly walks, expecting the Spanish Inquisition and always looking on the bright side of life ... Monty Python are back. Their show at the O2 arena promises 'comedy, …
The RSC's stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's novels garnered rave reviews from audience members who took to social media during and after the performances Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies rev…
Kathleen Turner is back on stage in London, starring in Bakersfield Mist. See how well you know her best lines on stage and screen match the quote to the film or play Continue reading...
I agree with Marina Warner's comments regarding Lucy Bailey's Titus Andronicus at the Globe (Comment, 12 May), but I don't believe the play aspires to new levels of savagery. As she rightly …
Rambert dancers bring new life to the Rolling Stones and Buddy Holly track, Not Fade Away, in this extract from their show, Rooster. Christopher Bruce's snake-hipped homage to the 1960s, set…
A factory dispute in the American Midwest shouldn't be the stuff of musical magic. But The Pajama Game earned its stripes with Broadway pedigree and Hollywood pizzazz. As Richard Eyre's hit …
Standup, panel-show regular and Stephen Fry's favourite Canadian funnywoman ... on Tuesday, Katherine Ryan will be joining us in the hotseat. From her Comic Relief turn as Nicki Minaj to her…
Lucy Bailey's 2006 production of Titus Andronicus the Bard's bloodiest play is back at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London. Its graphic depictions of murder and revenge are causing some …
As the much-loved playwright celebrates his 80th, revisit selected highlights from his stage and screen career Mark Lawson on Bennett at 80: 'everything but a national treasure' S is for spl…
Photographer Ingrid Bugge spent nearly two years in residence with the Danish Royal Ballet and employed digital techniques to capture movement and animate dance sequences. The result is The …
Fifty years ago this week, Entertaining Mr Sloane opened at the Arts Theatre Club in London. Joe Orton became the talk of the town and his short but extraordinary career took flight. Revisit…
Watch a sketch from Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns' new show for Channel 4Cardinal Burns return to Channel 4 at 10.30pm on 30 April with a new series of their stylish and surreal comedy…
Neil Patrick Harris, Mark Rylance and Chris O'Dowd are all up for acting awards while the shows Machinal, After Midnight and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder have bagged several nomin…
Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns return to Channel 4 at 10.30pm on 30 April with a new series of their comedy sketch show. Take a first look at what's in storeReading this on mobile? Watc…
It's Hedwig v Les Mis, Stephen Fry v Mark Rylance and Idina Menzel v Kelli O'Hara see who's nominated for what at this year's TonysBest playAct One Continue reading...
Following news that Harry Hill and Steve Brown's X Factor musical is to close, we'd like to hear from those who've paid for tickets I Can't Sing X Factor musical to close after just six-we…
Neil Patrick Harris is having a ball on Broadway as Hedwig, an East German 'slip of a girly boy' whose botched sex op results in an 'Angry Inch' which also becomes the name for Hedwig's roc…
In the year of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, the box-office hit Shakespeare in Love has been adapted for the stage by Lee Hall. Go behind the scenes with the play's director Declan Donnellan…
On the Bard's 450th birthday, find out how Shakespeare became Shakespeare. A new play based on the film Shakespeare in Love, adapted by Lee Hall, has its world premiere in the West End in Ju…
Could Richard III handle Hamlet in a punch-up? Is Benedick more fanciable than Beatrice? Is Falstaff craftier than Cleopatra? Celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday by pitting his characters…
On the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, Michael Billington has picked the best Hamlets he's seen in each decade of his theatregoing life. To help you choose your own favourite Princ…
TS Eliot's Gus isn't the only theatre cat. Plenty of playhouses have their own resident moggy: they're not just useful as mousers but also keep up the company's spirits and make the occasion…
