When Scott Turnbull plays ARC in Stockton this September, can you expect a certain amount of lo-fi animation? Yes you ruddy well can. After he’s held a very well received residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year (the Guardian saw fit to fro…

It was a brave/foolish move by Rachel Kushner to centre Creation Lake around the comings and goings of a repugnant spy-cop, Sadie Smith, whose Ayn Rand certainties and judgements get increasingly tedious. In the UK in particular most people think the best…

‘Round the Horne’ was the biggest radio programme in Britain from the mid to late 60s, and the hilarious comedy is being celebrated in a stage performance which is coming to Middlesbrough in early October. Penned by maestros Barry Took and Marty Feldma…