Roy Chubby Brown: baiting, bare-faced cheek that’s grimly unedifying
The veteran comedian's new show all too often rolls unapologetically and unpleasantly with the lowest common denominator
The veteran comedian's new show all too often rolls unapologetically and unpleasantly with the lowest common denominator
It’s no surprise that the run at the Almeida Theatre, starring 'hot property' Paul Mescal and rising star Patsy Ferran, has already sold out
The Donmar's revival of this wartime drama about sacrifice has stirring echoes with Ukraine but is undermined by its serio-comic tone
Rare recordings of the writer in conversation have been gifted to Reading University – and our critic was granted an exclusive first listen
If this is to be Ian McKellen's swansong, then his bravura pantomime turn as Mother Goose is a fitting end to a glorious theatrical career
Theatre emerged from the pandemic into a year of high drama at home and abroad. Why are our dramatists failing to address it?
The Young Vic premieres an uneven tribute to Nelson Mandela, which gets bogged down in domestic strife
The breakout star of The Crown makes a dazzling West End return in Neil Bartlett's new take on Woolf's pioneering work
In his big return to stand-up after a 12-year hiatus, Kay delivers the goods all over again
The NT's new staging has a great deal in its favour, but is let down by uneven verse-speaking and a remorselessly sombre ambience
Best known for his Spock in the Star Trek films, Zachary Quinto is a pitch-perfect Vidal in the West End transfer of Best of Enemies
Leo Butler, one of life’s less obvious panto adaptors, takes the much-maligned stepdaughter to Ancient Egypt in a witty if finicky version
Jasmine Naziha Jones’s bold new drama asks big questions about the West’s handling of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, but doesn't fly
The fine actor Owen Teale has irascibility in spades but lacks Ebenezer's coldness – and maybe the Old Vic just needs a new festive show
Emerging from the shadows, the "Archduke O'Darkdom" kicked off a tour to accompany his new book, TerrorTome, at Leicester Square Theatre
A real life mother and daughter act enlivens this occasionally ponderous touring revival of Shaw's feminist drama