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HISTORICAL FACTS: 3 - The Untold Story

Church of England vote is a light for gay Christians

Anglicans of all orientations can now find acceptance, love and celebration – but there is a long road still to walk

The Guardian - UK

What an ass! Ghosts star takes on classic Shakespeare character

The latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream features Mathew Baynton in what the actor calls ‘an absolute treat of a role’

The Guardian - UK

In search of strange and sacred sites – the UK’s weirdest walks

Created by three friends fascinated with ancient places, the Weird Walk zine has a cult following. Comic Stewart Lee introduces three magical routes from their new book

The Guardian - UK

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Macbeth review – a strenuously fresh reading with one-liners by Stewart Lee

Benefitting from a Scottish cast and a rewritten Porter’s speech by Lee, Wils Wilson’s production gets at the demonic drive of people desperate for power but hopeless in office

The Guardian - UK

Ahir Shah arrived at Edinburgh with a work-in-progress but leaves as comedy champ

The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah’s grandfather, the standup’s imminent wedding and multicultural Britain

The Guardian - UK

10 times stand-up comedians made brilliant references to heavy metal

From Slayer to Napalm Death, we didn't see some of these hilarious references coming

Metal Hammer

Bard jokes: how music-hall greats inspired Stewart Lee to meddle with Macbeth

The stand-up comedian describes how he gave a modern twist to the Porter’s dark jokes in a new RSC production directed by Wils Wilson

The Guardian - UK

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Lusty singalongs and Brexit portents: the eternal flame of The Wicker Man soundtrack

With British folk songs done by a New Yorker, the soundtrack disappeared for decades – but has now become a touchstone for artists journeying to a nation’s dark heart

The Guardian - UK

‘Jerry was freaked out’ – the writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera on their showdown

In the brilliantly crude opera, the talkshow host ends up in hell after being shot by a nappy-wearing fetishist aiming at the KKK. But, recalls the smash hit’s writer, that’s not what upset the TV legend when he finally saw the show

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle shows you can still get tickets for in April - music, theatre, stand-up and more

The Utilita Arena, O2 City Hall, Theatre Royal, Northern Stage and more all have a stellar line-up of shows this month - get your tickets before they go

Chronicle Live

Sting to join Live Theatre's 50th birthday celebrations in April alongside Jimmy Nail, Stewart Lee and Nadine Shah

Live Theatre in Newcastle will mark its big milestone with a star-studded month ahead of a forward-looking year of new writing

Chronicle Live

The ghosts of rotten Tories haunt my routine

As the Conservative casualties pile up, thank heavens for Lee Anderson, the no-nonsense MP for Ashfield

The Guardian - UK

Thanks to Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories’ bar of shame has reached new depths

The chair of the Conservative party has had to cough up millions of pounds he owed in tax after a dispute with HMRC over an offshore family trust

The Guardian - UK

Prince Harry’s frostbite has taken the heat off the Tories

As our health service collapses, the government have taken cover – behind the Duke of Sussex’s penis

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The trusty tarot has revealed the Tories’ future to me

At a time of unprecedented political turmoil in the UK, I have been asked to play Nostradamus…

The Guardian - UK

The Tories’ Santa tax has brought Christmas to its knees

What good is goodwill, say the Conservatives, if it can’t be monetised?

The Guardian - UK

From jungles to bras, Tory sleaze is lurking

As Matt Hancock and Michelle Mone are proving, the pandemic was just one big payday for the Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

Armando Iannucci: ‘I have ADHD, which explains why I can only work to deadlines’

The satirist on who makes him laugh, Tory attacks on the BBC, and the physics behind his sci-fi sitcom

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Rise up, twitchers! The thinktanks are coming

Time is running out to protect the RSPB and National Trust from climate crisis-denying, neoliberal lobbyists and their nature-hating Tory cronies

The Guardian - UK

Stewart Lee review – underpowered show still stronger than most

Less richly structured than his best work, this looser-limbed evening has given the comic wing-spreading room to experiment

Evening Standard

Stewart Lee: Basic Lee at the Leicester Square Theatre review - classic Lee, sometimes too classic

Easy gags and brilliant ideas combine to make this a show for the faithful, if not necessarily one to win new converts

The Guardian - UK

‘We need an intervention’: five ways to fix the Edinburgh festival fringe

Too pricy, too elitist, just too big? After the criticisms of this year’s event, a panel of festival regulars consider the way forward for Edinburgh’s summer spectacular

Evening Standard

Bubble Rap: How the Queen’s departure really felt in London

We all know where we were when we heard the sad news. Susie Lau was at a comedy show… and in those first hours laughter seemed like the best medicine

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais appears to respond after Stewart Lee trashes After Life

Lee had described the Netflix series as ‘one of the worst things that’s ever been made by a human’

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais appears to respond after Stewart Lee trashes After Life

Lee had described the Netflix series as ‘one of the worst things that’s ever been made by a human’

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