What drives an 87-year-old man to spend two hours on a Norwich stage? For Sir Bruce Forsyth, the answer seems to be a genuine love of entertaining.
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Canadian comedian Stewart Francis is back with a new tour called Pun Gent – but not all his jokes are that kindly.
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For more than a decade Karl Minns has kept Norfolk entertained as part of the Nimmo Twins, but his new solo show is a very different beast.
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Mirror balls, muscular men in short-cropped jeans, and, er, the Iron Lady? It might not be an obvious combination but this show is an exuberant delight.
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Young people just want to have fun: that might be a slightly simplistic version of the message behind Cush Jumbo’s The Accordion Shop.
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With questions about cash for access ringing in our ears, the latest production at Norwich’s Theatre Royal puts a dangerous proposition: there might be honour in politics.
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Coppelia is certainly one of the latter, with a frothy and entertaining story of a pair of young lovers split up by an all-too-convincing toymaker’s doll, a high-spirited house break, attempted death by magic and – finally – a marriage and presumably happiness ever after.
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There may have been a plot somewhere deep in Milton Jones’ latest show, but it really didn’t matter.
Explore MoreFrom even before she starts speaking, Lucy Ellinson captures your attention in this impressive solo performance.
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Downton is in financial crisis and there is only one way to save it: though depending on which of Luke Kempner’s many faces you listen to that may be baking, a musical, game show appearances, or marrying an Olympic swimmer.
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Talking about comedy is seldom that funny, so aiming for an entertaining history of it was a brave move for the Reduced Shakespeare Comedy.
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A stag night prank gone wrong is the starting point for this daring and successful murder mystery – and there are plenty of twists and turns before the end.
Explore MoreChristmas Eve and lots of creatures are stirring, as the
Feddington players battle through a chaotic and emotional radio production of
Dickens’s Christmas Carol.
Mark Watson thinks he’s flawed; his performance at the Norwich Playhouse suggests a lot of comic virtue.
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The recently exhumed and re-buried body of Richard III, together with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, has given new topicality to this particularly bloodthirsty Bard’s play.
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