Royal Albert Hall, LondonIf we can get through this review without provoking Tim Minchin to write a song about it, we'll have achieved some kind of closure. Six summers ago, when a Guardian …
Famous for his role as a hard-bitten detective in The Wire, he is starring in a Simon Gray play as Butley, 'a man with no soul', as the serial killer Fred West in a forthcoming TV drama " an…
The West End impresario's first new show in a decade features an animatronic sow, voiced by Kylie. Can he make a silk purse from a sow's ear? Stuart Jeffries meets him to find outCameron Mac…
Arts, CambridgeThe silhouette is unmistakable. The heels are five inches plus, pencil skirt tight as a drum, bust supported by something mighty, hair big as a guardsman's bearskin. Smoke fro…
The story of one woman's struggle against Stalinist brutality and the gulag has electrified Russia. Will it work here? Roman Abramovich seems to think so.The last time I saw Moscow, Scarlett…
Bill Bailey has been described as the world's seventh greatest comedian. But he's a lot better than that. Who else could make inverse femtobarns (look it up) funny?Oh dear, I seem to have pu…