Royal Court, LondonDutch singer Wende performs songs conceived by playwrights – on topics from bloody battles to online dating – with magnetism and a talent for storytellingIn this glorious experiment with mixed results, five playwrights – EV Crowe, Sa…
The Nobodies review – an old-fashioned heist movie turned play
Pleasance theatre, LondonThe real joy of this tale of three working-class friends scheming to save a local hospital lies in its bold, energetic storytellingWriter Amy Guyler has deftly constructed an intricate play about three working-class friends, th…
Cinderella review – not so much a ball as a blast
Gillian Lynne theatre, LondonBewitching melodies abound as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s terrifically OTT but warm and inclusive musical finally arrivesDelayed by a year because of the pandemic, and with last month’s opening night postponed at the 11th hour, A…
Harry Hill on Sean Lock: ‘The comedian’s comedian who took us all by surprise’
Sean’s crazily funny gags reminded me why I got into comedy – his dry humour was always balanced with his wide-eyed wonder at the world• Comedian Sean Lock dies aged 58Sean was maybe a year ahead of me on the London comedy club scene and already had a …
Jade Hackett on hip-hop dance: ‘Black joy is just as powerful as protest’
The choreographer felt the urgent need to bring happiness and relentless fun to the weekender she has curated for the Southbank Centre’s Summer Reunion series‘With the year we’ve had, we just needed people to have insanely, intensely engrossing, almost…
Dragons and Mythical Beasts review – watch out for the tooth fairy!
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonPuppeteers subtly animate a range of folkloric beasties, including a magical unicorn and screechingly strange fairy, in this comical, spellbinding showSomething miraculous is happening. The sun is shining and the k…
Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play
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 GirlsIn the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later t…
Adrian Dunbar cast alongside Cush Jumbo in Hamlet at Young Vic
The Line of Duty actor will play Claudius and the Ghost when the postponed play opens next monthAdrian Dunbar is to join Cush Jumbo in the Young Vic theatre’s production of Hamlet which, postponed for more than a year, will open in London next month.Du…
Una Stubbs: a life in pictures
Una Stubbs – the actor whose long career took in Summer Holiday, Worzel Gummidge, Till Death Us Do Part and most recently Steven Moffat’s Sherlock – has died aged 84.Una Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs obitua…
Una Stubbs obituary
Sparkling actor whose long, eclectic career ranged from Shakespeare to SherlockUna Stubbs, actor in Sherlock and Till Death Us Do Part, dies aged 84Una Stubbs: a life in picturesBright and bubbly, tart and twinkly, Una Stubbs, who has died aged 84, was…