Theatre Review: Spamalot 11 November, 2006 Starring: Tim Curry, Hannah WaddinghamAt: The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, LondonDate of show: 2nd October 2006 A glorious homage or a horrendous de... Theatre Review: Hay Fever 18 July, 2006 Starring: Dame Judi Dench, Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang, Kim Medcalf, Dan Stevens, Charles Edwards, William Chubb, Olivia Darnley, Lin BlakleyTheatre Royal,... Avenue Q - Review 11 June, 2006 OK, let me be honest. This isn't a review of the currently-previewing-in-the-West-End Avenue Q; I haven't seen it. I'm going to - but I haven't yet. Howev... Book - Alan Bennett Unfinished Tales 30 April, 2006 Alan Bennett has, since the 1960's, been a byword for carefully crafted and well written satire, for excellent play writing and for a very English style of ... Worst Case Scenario - Weddings 12 April, 2006 This book offers a curious mix of extremely useful and pertinent advice for anyone seeking to get married, mixed up with some very odd suggestions and sly ... Theatre Review - Jump 19 February, 2006 At the Peacock Theatre, London until Feb 26th. Old Grandfather! Drunken Uncle! Fierce Father! Dangerous Guy! Cute Girl! Fighting Mother! No, not the... Book Review - That Was The Satire That Was 25 January, 2006 The satire boom of the 1960's explained, to put it briefly. Somewhere between a history and a celebration of all that very British form of comedy - taking t... Book Review: Thud! by Terry Pratchett 5 January, 2006 Koom Valley holds important significance in the history of Discworld. So important that not only is it a place but its name can be used to infer a time an... Little Britain Live 6 November, 2005 Getting to Bournemouth proved problematic, we left at 4:45 but the journey, due to rush hour takes two and a half bloody hours, but the thought of the sho... Theatre Review - Otherwise Engaged 2 November, 2005 Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head star in Otherwise Engaged at the Criterion Theatre in London, in a revival of a play written by Simon Gray and directed by... Book Review - Porridge: The Scripts 21 October, 2005 By Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, edited by Richard Webber When I started reading this book a few days ago, Ronnie Barker was still alive. It saddens me ... Book Review - The Yes Man by Danny Wallace 12 October, 2005 Danny Wallace has become familiar to UK TV viewers. Firstly, he presented a programme about starting your own cult, with predictably mixed results. More r... The Producers - Theatre Review 21 August, 2005 This well known tale follows a familiar path from rags to riches, back again, and finally back to riches. Firstly a film back in 1968, it's now a successf... Theatre of Blood - Review 5 July, 2005 Improbable Theatre have reinvented this spectacular film for the National Theatre in London, and in doing so created a wonderful piece of gory and gloriou... The UN Inspector 5 July, 2005 This is an adaptation of a much older play by Gogol, called The Government Inspector. It's been translated by Charlotte Pyke and updated. It concerns one M...