Men Behaving Badly: The Play review – boorish flatmates prattle like it’s 1999
Simon Nye brings back the characters from his hit TV series for a misconceived comedy set on millennium eve
The Rat Trap review – teenage Noël Coward’s jaundiced marital portrait
Bill Rosenfield reimagines the playwright’s early work about the souring relationship between two newlywed artists
Bridget Christie: Jacket Potato Pizza review – how menopause set the standup free
If the comic’s political fervour and clownish fury are sometimes lacking, there is much to enjoy in a show delivered with flair and 10-ton sarcasm
January 2026
10 Chaotic Questions
Wil Anderson: ‘I honestly believe being mistaken for Adam Hills is one of the great gifts of my life’
Pierre Novellie: You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here review – gags so good that resistance is futile
Rotus: Receptionist of the United States review – spiky Maga satire with a seriously funny star
‘I love that there’s this big gay thing in the middle of Scotland’: Ian McKellen and Graham Norton join Alan Cumming for Out in the Hills
Gerry & Sewell review – tragicomic search for a Newcastle United season ticket
Think panto season is behind you? Oh no it isn’t – some haven’t even opened yet
‘It feels so taboo’: Natalie Palamides on playing both halves of a toxic couple and her shocking next show
Chaos, crying and poo explosions: baby-friendly comedy clubs take off in Britain
Kate Owens: Cooking With Kathryn review – recipes for religious repression, rebellion and ruin
Jade Franks on how cleaning toilets at Cambridge inspired her hit show: ‘I’m not watering down the fury – just sneaking it through the back door’
‘I’d never told the same joke twice!’: the explosive rise of Ayoade Bamgboye, Edinburgh’s best new comedian
Woman in Mind review – play stands the test of time for its originality
Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026
Film & Music reader interview
‘Shakespeare? I’d have a go!’ Paul Chuckle on his 50-year comedy career and his new gangster film
December 2025
Comedy Q&A
Andy Zaltzman: ‘Aristophanes is total comedy: political satire, slapstick and dick jokes’
The standup on studying Ancient Greek comedy at university, his worst gig and having the test scores shouted at him during sets
Summer essentials
The 20 best theatre, musicals, dance and opera shows in Australia in 2025
Guardian Australia critics pick the best live stage experiences of the year, including Beetlejuice, The Talented Mr Ripley and a nude ode to literature
2025 in culture
‘The best thing I have ever witnessed on stage’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2025
A transcendent new take on King Lear, a thrilling Evita and a show at Glasgow’s revamped Citizens that reduced one viewer to a ‘blubbering wreck’ are among your highlights
