It feels like ages since we last saw Stewart Lee. Which is a good thing because it was getting unhealthy and we felt a bit like stalkers. Recently, he's been touring the country with his new show If You Prefer A Milder Comedian Please Ask For One and he's finishing up with a lengthy run at the Leicester Square Theatre. Phew! Just as we were starting to get withdrawal symptoms...
The show begins in a high street coffee chain and ends in a pear cider which is 100% disappointment. Expect some punchy stuff near the top; inexplicable hostility towards relatively innocuous figures; silences and repetition; sudden and/or gradual shifts in tone, velocity and volume; the possibility of failure and a quasi-serious bit at the end.
The Comedy Store Players, have been performing every week at the Comedy Store in Piccadilly Circus since 1985.Featuring a troupe of well-established regular comedians including Josie Lawrence and Paul ...
What can a sexless middle-aged married man, whose life now consists mainly of watching Scooby Doo cartoons with a four-year-old boy, possibly find to write comedy about? Plenty it turns out. From rio...
Everybody loves a bit of Abba. Ranging from the choppy beats of 'Super Trooper' to the smooth croonings of 'Dancing Queen', their timeless melodies are sure to get you on the dance floor regardless o...
All singing, high kicking fun is the order of the day in this sexy, sleazy musical set in prohibition era Chicago, and following a showgirl named Roxie Hart as she tries to clear her name of a murder she...
Once upon a time the Fab Four were the not quite so fab five, a band that was struggling along and performing rock'n'roll covers in seedy clubs.This new show, making its West End premiere after a run ...
Colin's fiancé has recently drowned and what better way is there to cheer him up than to throw a party for him and invite his old friends? Except the group of friends are hardly the most cheery bunch...
An exhibition showcasing the best of contemporary photographic talent at the National Portrait Gallery right now. On display are the prize-winners from the 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize...
After his death in 2011 comes the National Portrait Gallery's survey of the portraits of Lucian Freud - one of Britain's best loved artists. Freud is one of the major names in post-war British art. His...
Sometimes credited as the creator of the first work of Pop Art, Richard Hamilton is one of the leading figures of British art in the Twentieth Century. Working mainly with painting and collage, Hamilton's...
Jean Valjean is released from 19 years on a chain gang, finds himself excluded from society, and promptly returns to thievery. In a twist of fate, a kindly Bishop lies to save him from a second jail term...