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The Girls creator hits back at a porn parody of her comedy show, Doug Stanhope wades into the Oklahoma God debate, and Dutch TV is slammed for satirising the Woolwich murderIn a week when Je…
Demonstrators to stage 'no grey areas' gathering to promote 'visibility, solidarity and responsibility' in theatre industryA silent demonstration in support of change in the theatre industry…
From Malian band Songhoy Blues to the Natural History Museum's show about venomous beasts, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days…
Oval House, LondonSex workers and professional actors take to the stage together to undermine received ideas in a ramshackle but engaging eveningEarlier this year, the Young Vic handed over …
The American standup and actor on the things that make her laugh the most, from Paul Foot to her motherIt was Paul Foot's private show for specially selected audience members at a small pub …
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdictsBlack Swan, directed by Darren Ar…
Tchaikovsky's ballet of betrayal has inspired Darren Aronofsky's psycho-horror, Matthew Bourne's feral males and a shocking tale of Irish clerical abuse. Beneath the sparkle, why does the da…
The 83-year-old artist gets her first major London exhibition, while James Franco's semi-biopic of director Tommy Wiseau opensRose Wylie: Quack QuackIt feels as if the art world has been pla…
George Carlin used comedy to satirise taboos in modern America. Few performers have such civil liberties in mind todayWit, wisdom and lots of swearing ... US comic George Carlin. Photograph:…
The Big Yin's timeless gig at London's Royal Albert Hall sees him in typically energetic and incorrigibly childish moodTitle: Billy and AlbertDate: 1987 Continue reading...
Izzard was inspired by his incontinence knickers routine. Iannucci had to listen to his albums in secret. Al Murray was in awe of his rampant charisma. And he made Susan Calman hurt with lau…
Playwright and film-maker Neil Labute gives 10 reasons why he'd rather direct cheap plays than Hollywood blockbusters No one ever says: "We're losing the light!" Now, this isn't always true,…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnders Lustgarten plays fast and loose with history in his tale of the espionage network surrounding Elizabeth I, but the result is vivid and pungentHistory pl…
Royal Court, LondonThere are echoes of Sarah Kane in Natal'ya Vorozhbit's powerful play exploring the collateral damage suffered by women during Ukraine's conflictTheatre can sometimes jolt …
Coliseum, LondonIvan Putrov's male dance project can at times become a blur of homoerotic schmaltz, but at its best is very good indeedWhen Ivan Putrov launched his Men in Motion project two…
It may seem surprising that water firms have admitted to using divining rods, but even financiers believe in astrology and some airlines won't give you a seat in row 13A science blogger aske…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInspired by the onstage intensity of Nina Simone, the centrepiece of this triple bill blurs real life and performance to spectacular effectWhat does it mean when dancer…
Defining these two terms is a long-running theatre debate. It would help if we stopped imagining them as rivalsWe hear a lot about "devised" theatre and "text-based" theatre in this tiny cor…
After the wild success of Jane Eyre and Peter Pan, the director and her company are conjuring up The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She talks about how the Good Fairy got her into theatre…
Octagon, BoltonStella Feehily's passionate, urgently topical play captures the mix of care and chaos in wards up and down the countrySince the NHS is never out of the headlines and directly …
Actor and comedian best known for his role as Bob Ferris in TV's The Likely LadsRodney Bewes, who has died aged 79, will be most remembered for playing Bob Ferris, the well-intentioned and s…
The residents were expecting bingo. Instead they got lessons in strawberry spitting, a Railway Children spoof " and a stuntman stripping to his underpants…Monday afternoon is usually bingo…
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup and International Student sitcom star delivers jaunty routines about US life but the show suffers when he reacts to a heckler"I have a tone problem," reckons …
Two members of Pussy Riot were in London to tell their story in opposing ways. One felt pointless and cynical, the other powerful and exhilaratingNadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were…
Eight women describe alleged cases of historic harassment against director who called for search for 'Weinstein of British theatre'A leading director who called for a search for "the Weinste…
