Top trio visit Comedy Carnival

3:14pm Friday 23rd November 2007

The Comedy Carnival at Battersea's Wessex House has got about as varied a line-up as you could wish for this weekend.

Predictable but a superb, glittering spectacle

4:31pm Wednesday 21st November 2007

That superb musical within a musical 42nd Street, which was first created as a film in 1933 and became a hit stage show in 1980, is still a great experience more than 70 years on, and wowed a packed Wimbledon Theatre this week, writes Sarah Roach.

Mixed feelings about double bill

5:05pm Thursday 15th November 2007

The first of John Mortimer's stories in his comedy double-bill Legal Fictions at Richmond Theatre this week was full of irony and humour, but the second fell short of the mark.

O'Hanlon is such a charmer

4:48pm Monday 12th November 2007

Ardal O'Hanlon deserves full credit for going on stage with no support - apart from a microphone -and entertaining a packed Richmond Theatre with a string of tall stories for almost two hours last Sunday, writes Tony Flood.

Kate’s so captivating

6:58pm Friday 9th November 2007

Little-known Australian actress Kate Atkinson came near to stealing the show from screen legend Tom Conti in Romantic Comedy, at Richmond Theatre this week.

	Putting Ted to bed
	12:54pm Thu 8 Nov 07
	Ardal is not Dougal, Ardal is not Dougal, Ardal is not Dougal. Don't mind me, I'm just banging my head on the table, trying to remind myself that Ardal O'Hanlon is not, for goodness' sake, Father Dougal.

Are retired actors really like this?

5:32pm Thursday 8th November 2007

Fast, fun and frenzied - that was There's No Place Like A Home, featuring some of our best loved comedy actors, at Wimbledon Theatre this week.

	Will's made of the byte stuff
	3:12pm Thu 1 Nov 07
	What a pain it is when a show can't be just boxed, labelled and wrapped up in a media-friendly bow. "A mad inventor accidentally creates a time machine... with hilarious consequences!" "An unemployed poet and a Russian oligarch get stuck in a lift together...atop the Empire State Building!" And so on.

	Maff's life swap
	3:18pm Thu 1 Nov 07
	If Martin Jol is considering a career change following his departure from Spurs, he could do worse than follow Maff Brown into comedy.

Tommy still wowing audiences at 70

3:29pm Wednesday 24th October 2007

Just as Tommy Tune rescued Dr Dolittle in the States, so our own Tommy Steele is now giving the show the kiss of life in the UK, and he had the Wimbledon Theatre audience enthralled with his Peter Pan-like performance this week, writes Tony Flood.

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