Monday, September 5, 2022
With little plot and almost no dialogue, Playtime does not seem an obvious fit for theatre. Will the addition of songs by Martha Wainwright and Chilly Gonzales help?
Comedy doesn’t get any…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMFriday, September 2, 2022
Riverside studios, LondonTwo men trying to spice up their marriage get stuck with their dom in a cosy comedy that’s neither naughty nor revealing
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a pigeo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMWednesday, August 3, 2022
He blazed through the 90s, an explosive mix of hellraising laddishness and sheer comic talent. As the 68-year-old resurfaces in Rehab, a musical about a drug-addicted pop star, he hits the G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37AMThursday, July 28, 2022
Eventim Apollo, LondonKnight and Saunders are full-throated and bristling in the hit musical-from-a-film, with a sprawling cast and hip flasks aplenty
The plot of the 1992 comedy Sister Act …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMThree years ago, the caustic comic had a fatal aortic dissection mid-show. Now a new documentary about the self-proclaimed ‘most banned act in Britain’ reveals a saga of booze and outrag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMMonday, July 25, 2022
Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV careerIt would be misleading to suggest that the actor David Warner, who has died…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMThursday, July 21, 2022
Oscar Jenkyn-Jones was one of the wildest new talents in comedy. But he suddenly disappeared – and reinvented himself as a therapist instead. He explains the joys of swapping the fringe fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Festival theatre, ChichesterEven-handed to a fault, Stephen Beresford’s new comedy coasts by on sub-Alan Bennett humour and the odd eye-roll at wokeness. But its hero’s stance on balloon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, June 9, 2022
Park theatre, LondonCo-written by Hill and Steve Brown, this is a messy jamboree-bag of songs and silliness that pokes enjoyable fun at the messianic ex-PM
Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s X F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMFriday, May 27, 2022
Minerva theatre, ChichesterMark Gatiss directs Reece Shearsmith in Moffat’s cringe-tastic play that more than stands up next to the trio’s celebrated TV work
Inside number nine on a west…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Turbine theatre, LondonSophie Golby and Tom West stray too far from home in their soft-rock musical about the 2015 Paris terror attacks, let down by repetitive numbers with tourist-board lyr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Arts theatre, LondonThis tale about the partners in crime is unsure of the point it’s trying to make but the cast hurl themselves in with winning enthusiasm
A note for anyone unfamiliar wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Theatre Royal, BathOn a spectacular set creating Nosferatu-like shadows, Keith Allen expertly negotiates patriarch Max’s rapid turns in a bleakly humorous production exploring relationship…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, March 31, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe playwright’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling
‘I’ve high hopes of dying young,”…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMSunday, February 27, 2022
American actor and singer who played Major Margaret Houlihan – ‘Hot Lips’ – in the 1970 film M*A*S*HWomen in M*A*S*H (1970), Robert Altman’s boisterous comedy about a mobile army h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMThursday, February 24, 2022
Theatre Royal, BathThere are nice slapstick set-pieces but this two-hander loses any sense of marital crisis and has perfunctory sitcom gags
If Terry and June had wrestled with ennui, the re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe staging and writing zing nicely as an ensemble cast convincingly struggle to hold on to their youth by sleeping around, sexting and experimenting with throup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Theatre Royal, BrightonThe 1987 revenge movie returns as a play, with Kym Marsh starring as a blandly monstrous ‘bunny boiler’ spurned by her married lover
Lock up your rabbits! The 1987…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMMonday, December 13, 2021
As we head into Christmas, actors who have tackled the son of god – from the trans woman who caused outrage in Glasgow to the weed-smoking Black Jesus – relive the role
When the comic ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
This spin on The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway hit in the 70s and became a film with Diana Ross. Now, the tale of Black joy takes Dorothy from a Manchester tower block and BLM protests to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Above the Stag, LondonThe gags come thick and fast in this bawdy adult panto, which is set in a funeral parlour and channels Joe Orton
Who loves Dick? It’s hard not to in the bawdy adult p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMWednesday, November 10, 2021
Arts theatre, LondonThis lads-together jukebox show is well sung and should go down well with office outings, but the synthetic bonhomie has a strangely cultish feel
Welcome to The Jungle, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, October 31, 2021
Barbican, LondonThis anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated
“Your package will arrive in 60 minutes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThursday, October 28, 2021
He was adored as Geoffrey the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, as he stars opposite Cush Jumbo in Hamlet, the actor discusses stardom, being one of the first Black Othellos – an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Ambassadors theatre, LondonIan Shaw plays his film star father Robert in this behind-the-scenes tale of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster
In the waters off Martha’s Vineyard in 1974, three …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMFriday, September 24, 2021
Above the Stag, LondonAn illicit affair blossoms around a Victorian London park in this gentle comedy from the creator of Taggart
It is 1850s south London and the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMMonday, September 20, 2021
How do you turn hit musicals like Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and Dear Evan Hansen into films? You axe songs, throw out plots and don’t worry about anyone’s favourite bit
Choosing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMThursday, September 16, 2021
Theatre Royal BathKelly is the raging old stager and Clary his pomposity-puncturing assistant in Ronald Harwood’s perennial favourite
Any play that contains a show-must-go-on message is bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, September 13, 2021
Fire up the DeLorean! The Desperate Housewives actor is playing the time-travelling scientist in the Back to the Future musical – now he can finally sing in Christopher Lloyd’s accent
G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMMonday, August 16, 2021
Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny Girls
In the late 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, April 25, 2021
Dominic Monaghan has starred in Lord of the Rings and Lost. But neither compare to the joys of gardening in LA – and raising deadly creatures
To be part of one cultural phenomenon could be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM 
