48 stories by "Tom Lamont"
Wonderground, London Is it risky to clap (a possible cause of distraction, disaster, death) when a circus performer is mid-routine? Balanced on a stiff, trembling arm over broken glass,&nbs…
Lyric, London W6Two British detectives, Stone and Lee, interrogate a suspect. The head of a decapitated prostitute has been found in the Thames, and this pair seek the killer. A procedural! …
Johnny Flynn on his role in the hit play Jerusalem, a troubled tour of the US and the problem of achieving a work-life balance…Hours back from a working trip to New York, hours away from a…
Duke of York's, LondonA study of personal discontent, written by and starring the American actor Zach Braff, All New People gets under way with a visual gag about suicide. Silent, delicate, …
Trafalgar Studios 2, LondonA Saturday-night pull is the starting point for Stefan Golaszewski's new play, bleakly funny business when presented as forensically as this: a Lynx Africa-scented…
Bush theatre, LondonAfter 39 years above a pub on Shepherd's Bush Green, the famously compact Bush theatre is moving to a bigger building around the corner ("We'll have a real stage door!" I…
The Hustle star explains why being cast as Cool Hand Luke plays havoc with your dietAfter a week rehearsing a new stage version of Cool Hand Luke, Marc Warren has today eaten his first hard-…
From the best double acts to shows that would grace HBO, we pick the highlights of 2011The 2011 Edinburgh fringe is 16 days old. By now, performers will have snatches of dialogue ingrained s…
How is Tom Rosenthal planning to make punters laugh? With stories about his brilliance at egg and spoons races'Was I funny?" asks Tom Rosenthal, as we walk out of the London pub where w…
News and gossip from the festivalâ– Minor fringe trend of 2011: mid-show treats for the audience. At The Caroline Carter Show at Zoo Roxy, free Jack Daniel's is distributed to spectator…
Tom Lamont reviews The Oh Fuck Moment, Your Last Breath, The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik, Hamlet House of Horror, A Slow Air, Dry Ice and SkittlesThe girl in the corner smashed her gran's fa…
Edinburgh can be lonely without someone to talk to, or disagree with, about the shows you've seen. A new site promises to help'With so much to see," says James Baster, of the sheer volu…
Tom Lamont reviews Dance Marathon, Sold, Release, Thirsty, Young Pretender and Translunar ParadiseMy Hawaiian hula wasn't up to scratch, I knew, even as I concentrated hard on undulating my …
News and gossip from the festivalâ– Established performers tend to avoid handing out fliers for their own shows: a bit gauche. Nobody told Hollywood actor John Malkovich, however. "Malk…
Fresh from her success with Scott & Bailey, ex-Corrie star Suranne Jones looks forward to being a Top Girl in the West EndIt's been green tea, no booze and "just the odd fag" all week for Su…
Offbeat cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish discuss their singular act and their love of popTourists aren't sure what to make of cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish, as they totter along London's Sout…
An audience nodding off en masse is the last thing most players crave. But that's what Duckie hope to achieveSending your theatre audience to sleep can't often be the artistic ideal, but the…
The actress talks about appearing on the London stage and her recurring role in Doctor WhoThat hair " you could pick Alex Kingston out of a crowd of hundreds thanks to her distinctive cresce…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's plays have seen him feted here and in America. And now he's turning his writer's eye on London lifeIn a room on the top floor of a rehearsal studio in south London, w…
The British actress and the American star of Lost prepare to play troubled siblings in a new work by Neil LaButeThe set of Neil LaBute's new play has only just been built at the Vaudeville t…
The Mad Men star on being Peggy Olson, taking to the West End stage with Keira Knightley, and Ricky Gervais's winning ways at the Golden GlobesElisabeth Moss has her feet up. We are in …
The IT Crowd star, currently tackling Ayckbourn at the National, on why good comedy needs an element of darknessThere are only so many boxy power-suits an actor can wear without itching for …
Mat Horne has had a rocky time since Gavin & Stacey. A bit of Chekhov will cheer him up…The story of Mat Horne's 2009 is one retold, surely, by publicists and producers pressing torches to…
