The standup and presenter on preshow prayers, blending dance with comedy and the night he bombed at the BBC How did you get into comedy?I feel like comedy got into me. At university, I hoste…
He was Spike the gormless comic in the holiday camp hit and also bagged roles in You Rang M'Lord? and Dad's Army. As he publishes a memoir, Holland talks about frisky stallions, today's 'ove…
Nottingham's Television Workshop, which boasts alumni such as Vicky McClure, is facing a funding crisis It is an institution that has turned out some of the UK's most well-known actors. Star…
The musician lived a wild story of many acts: Jonathan Maitland turned it into a play and read it to him just a year before he died. This is how their encounter went … It's summer 2021 an…
White Horse is based on beloved book and explores importance of place, family, home and belonging The stories about life in Cornwall have flowed in: the hairdresser who gives everyone the sa…
For the 41-year-old brothers, returning to their flat is bittersweet. Their apartment was more than just a home. It was once a stage, a space where they performed original theatre plays away…
Stanley and Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsWitty compositions and appealing performances win over a young audience but the traditionally grisly tale gets lost in the woods Traditionally, Hansel…
The esteemed bipartisan cultural institution has fallen into the hands of the returning president leading to chaos, confusion and a celebrity exodus America's biggest annual gathering of con…
Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain's first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton The date is not in many history books. But it should be. It is 60 years …
As artists call for better access to the arts, Sally Wainwright, Steven Knight, Larry Achiampong and others speak out Working-class creatives don't stand a chance in UK today, leading artis…
The Other Palace, LondonA concussed contestant causes a stir with her unfiltered protest songs, in this caffeinated monologue performed by Daisy Steere This musical satire of reality TV is a…
Tramway, GlasgowSandy Grierson is astonishing as a talking monkey working in a Japanese bathhouse in this slight but theatrically beguiling slice of magical-realism Mizuki Ando has a distres…
Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d'souza-lodhi's play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion Seven months after th…
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Bridge, LondonLuke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice a…
Watermill theatre, NewburyA fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad's true malice is lacking On p…
Her one-woman show Main Character Energy has been a long time coming, with the writer-performer trying drag, standup and clowning to find her funny voice. 'You have to put yourself in the li…
As the Austrian capital honours the legacy of its dance king, the race is on to attract the most punters The music of Johann Strauss streams through Vienna like the stately Danube. Even the …
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe choreographer and director's urgent trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion One of Crysta…
Donmar Warehouse, LondonGreig breathes compassion into her relation with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently A mother lies dying in a hospital…
Almeida theatre, LondonBrimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own …
Sadler's Wells East, LondonThere is a cartoonishness at play, but a coldness too, in this shadowy tribute to the 'weirdo' outsider Birdboy is billed as a show for audiences aged from seven u…
Aviva Studios, ManchesterCrystal Pite and Simon McBurney's three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage into a living thing and morphs between sorrow, humour, fear and reli…
Storyhouse, ChesterA disgruntled child enters a parallel universe where he can select new parents. It has a spirited cast, but the songs are simplistic, stompy and uninspired Who could blame…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonWith a chemistry that's as bright as the modern-day costumes in this weird and wonderful show, the actors turn Shakespeare into a giddy house party cum modern…
Stage and screen actor who appeared in eight of the saucy Carry On films of the 1960s and 70s Julian Holloway, who has died aged 80, was a prolific television actor and voice artist, and had…