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The comedy industry is in crisis and we could all do with hearing a few jokes. Here's a guide to the virtual gigs you can enjoy this week
Like all comedy clubs, the Angel in London is closed…
Available onlineLive cabaret becomes alternative sketch show as the Stamptown gang make merry with Zoom-era laughs
Can you capture online the raucous energy of the best live comedy cabarets?…
The comedian, actor, and writer on the things that make him laugh the most
Honours even between Neil Hamburger and Kate Berlant, both US comedians. I like loads of British acts just as much …
The Southbank Centre in London is the latest institution to warn of disaster. It is time for decisive government action
A vocal minority in the UK say the arts are parasites on the state, le…
Our new series on lost theatre classics begins with an exceptional play about the dashed hopes of a middle-aged Jamaican woman
When the theatrical lockdown ends, I suspect there will be a te…
Available onlineAnna Tsygankova is utterly graceful as the exotic dancer in Ted Brandsen's fine ballet for Dutch National Ballet
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watc…
Available on Netflix★★★☆☆/★★☆☆☆Oswalt's frothy set about ageing, Jesus and fitness freaks keeps the laughs coming, while a barking…
The Australian standup feared she would spook audiences with her frank examination of trauma, but it made her a star. With new show Douglas on Netflix, she's taking risks of a different kind…
The Guardian and the Unicorn theatre present a fun series of 15-minute performances, created in lockdown, for children aged three to eight. Brother Anansi and Brother Snake is available from…
Berliner Ensemble unveils auditorium with most chairs ripped out, but some left in pairs, for a socially distanced audience who can visit the toilet during the play
Going to the theatre afte…
The self-employment income support scheme is due to end. This will be catastrophic for thousands of creative people
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Willy Russell's play, about a working-class woman's Open University education, made a star of Julie Walters. It was first staged 40 years ago this summer " here's a look back at its history …
Soho Theatre On DemandNaomi Sheldon fuses comedy with candour as she tracks a woman's sexual journey from liberated teen to unfulfilled adult
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,"…
The award-winning writer of The Inheritance pays tribute to the life and works of the acclaimed author and activist who died at the age of 84
Larry Kramer, groundbreaking author and Aids ac…
Available onlineIan Rankin's stalwart detective struggles with self-isolation in one of six quarantine-themed short films from the National Theatre of Scotland
Hottest front-room seats: the …
The playwright, author and activist Larry Kramer has died aged 84 after a storied life. Kramer wrote the groundbreaking play The Normal Heart and worked tirelessly to assist those with HIV/A…
Available on NetflixGadsby follows up her hit show Nanette with a swaggering set that blazes with well-earned confidence
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online
The last …
Available onlinePatrick Sandford makes an astonishing dramatisation of childhood abuse and its consequences over a lifetime in this eloquent film
In 2016, Patrick Sandford performed an autob…
Kramer founded pioneering Gay Men's Health Crisis group
Playwright and author died Wednesday morning in Manhattan
The groundbreaking American writer and tireless activist for gay rights and…
Available online Forest Fringe release a jolly bunch of downloadable plays, games and diversions to inject some performance into lockdown life
Forest Fringe have never been one for conventio…
Tickets will soon go on sale for a 'socially distanced' version of 2019 sellout to shore up theatre's 'seriously perilous' finances due to the coronavirus pandemic
Claire Foy and Matt Smith …
When Chester Storyhouse asked how freelancers were faring under Covid lockdown, it was left 'shocked and enraged' at how perilous their finances are. Now it is calling for national action
Th…
BBC commissions choreographer Corey Baker's splashy new lockdown-friendly take on the classic ballet
It has been performed by ballet companies in the grandest of opera houses around the worl…
From care work to shelf-stacking, many standups have taken up jobs to survive lockdown " highlighting how privilege has created a two-tier system in comedy
On 16 March, when Boris Johnson ad…
Beauty, strength and bags of energy: BBC Four's Men at the Barre documentary gets up close and personal with the Royal Ballet dancers on the rise
'It's a golden era of male ballet dancers." …
