The cult heroes are back with their 'best sketches ever'. After success with Ladhood, Stath Lets Flats and Parlement, are they still hoping for that elusive Sheeps TV series? Fifteen years i…
From the Marx Brothers to Albert Camus and Claire Keegan, concise storytelling can get to the heart of the matter What role do the arts have at a time of political change when little is cert…
Fierce and fantastic, the artists who make up the collective Drag Syndrome explain why performing helps them express who they really are Continue reading...
From performing in a bin to arm-wrestling rivals, the standup cut his teeth at a Nottingham pub's chaotic Just the Tonic nights. As the thriving comedy club chain it grew into turns 30, he r…
More and more comedians are uploading their improvised encounters with audience members. But do these interactions detract from the craft of standup? The front row of a comedy club is a scar…
Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years The Garrick Club has named Judi Dench and Siân Phillips as dist…
Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité's play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London Continue reading...
The cast of Canadian B-boy Crazy Smooth's new show on their breathtaking moves, their multiple surgeries and why hip-hop needs 'living libraries' of experience "When everybody strips off and…
Culden Faw Estate, Henley-on-ThamesThe Scottish clown and his pals have taken over in a family caper combining comedy, slapstick, dropped plates and acrobatic skills Tweedy's MASSIVE Circus …
Actor says he is reluctantly following medical advice to 'protect my recovery' Ian McKellen has said that with "the greatest reluctance" he is taking medical advice to "protect my recovery"…
A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare's work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman What is the Shakespeare canon if not the idea…
Punchdrunk Enrichment Stores, LondonTouching on migration stories, memory, grief and community, the story of a grandfather's life told through a series of cryptic riddles is a charming exper…
A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic's list of the fringe's most promising tickets Olga Koch stepped into the big league a…
This month's picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance Micheál Mac Liammóir's 1960 solo show interweave…
Troubadour Wembley Park theatre, LondonUpdated with references to net zero, the 1984 musical is back on track in all its outlandish glory What bald-faced audacity led Andrew Lloyd Webber to …
Tron theatre, GlasgowJohnny McKnight's snappy revival makes us all complicit in Philip Ridley's satire on capitalism and consumerism What moral compromises has the Christian right had to ma…
From watching his father star in Lloyd Webber's mega-hit in futuristic 1980s Japan, to taking his own family to its reboot in London this year, writer Johny Pitts recounts how Starlight Expr…
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, LondonThis magical production sets the drama against the backdrop of Indian partition, allowing a deft exploration of dual heritage and cultural displacement …
Alfie Friedman delves into the dark side to star in Linnie Reedman and Joe Evans' Southwark Playhouse production It was Oscar Wilde's only novel, but one whose subject matter about the desir…
Ustinov Studio, BathThe Dane's trilogy of works inspired by Greek myths concludes with a remarkable performance that adds a hint of redemption to the tale Over two years and three Deborah Wa…
Old Vic, London; Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon; Savoy theatre, LondonJames Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin struggle for urgency in Joe Penhall's drama about a threatened female MP; climate crisis…
The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead Born in Cambridge in 1957, Simon McBurney is…
Comedian David Rose on the perils of audience interaction while doing standup. Plus a letter from Clive Needle While reading your recent article about comedians and crowd work (Crowd work i…
The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Tw…
Youth groups from Serbia and Kosovo who organise the Mirëdita Dobar Dan cultural event accuse Serbia's interior ministry of failing to protect them from intimidation Organisers of a festi…