Patrick Kielty: Borderline: reflections on Northern Ireland that are too cosy by half
Kielty is a stand-up uniquely qualified to speak on the topic of his homeland and its borders, but this set, though polished, lacks bite
Kielty is a stand-up uniquely qualified to speak on the topic of his homeland and its borders, but this set, though polished, lacks bite
After a chart-busting album and ‘commuter-belt tour’, Sports Team are ready to shake up British rock
Amid a year of celebrations, Lithuania's second city is grappling with its troubled history – and looking back to a renaissance in the arts
In J O Morgan's sharp, smart novel Appliance, teleporters are invented – and slowly begin to take over our lives
Bill Nighy's childhood dream wasn't to be an actor, it was to be a novelist. To compromise, he’s now voicing his hero: Terry Pratchett
American stand-up Maria Bamford is revered as the ‘comedian’s comedian’. Can her debut UK tour make her a household name?
Lazy judges, politicised decisions, unfair rules: insiders reveal a scandal that stretches across the arts – from the Turner to the Booker
When he hit the mark at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall he was sublime, yet there was an insistent, unfinished vagueness to several routines
Pumped full of cancer drugs and listening to heavy metal, novelist Colm Tóibín felt his brain rewiring – and what came out was verse
The Australian comedian's new touring show is a striking, charming subversion of what audiences have come to expect from her
In Uncanny Valley, an autobiographical show by Thomas Melle, an animatronic doppelgänger brings the novelist’s story to… life?
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's show about Spike Milligan, at the Watermill, should delight his many fans but may not recruit new ones
Philip Oltermann's stranger-than-fiction The Stasi Poetry Circle tells the story of the GDR through its self-defeating literature policies
She's conceived eye-popping tours, Olympic ceremonies and vast, elaborate structures. Yet a Vegas water feature has seemingly defeated her
This whip-smart stand-up set takes the audience’s preconceptions, then satirises not only them, but the idea of satirical comedy itself
The former Mash Report presenter proves he's a master craftsman in this fast-paced set