Having spent most of his career performing in low-key art centres around the country, Stewart Lee now has the misfortune of enjoying relative commercial success. As he acknowledges at the beginning of ‘A Room with a Stew’, Colston Hall is packed out with two very different audiences for his show. There are the liberal middle…
It’s May 24, 2015. It’s been one day since Ireland has officially voted in legislation to allow equal marital rights to the LGBTQA community. The previous night’s celebrations are literally the stuff of legend and in its aftermath, the city of Dublin is collectively undergoing what can only be described as a fierce hangover. Yet…
Racing backwards through life I can pepper any experience with anxiety. It’s a perpetually irritating talent that never fails to amuse. My friend Gerry tries to calm me down and reassures me that the tram will ease into Salford with plenty of time to view the unrecognisable landscape before Stewart Lee is on stage. I don’t…
If you couldn’t make it to A Room With a Stew at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds on Tuesday evening, you unfortunately missed a brilliant night’s comedy in one of Suffolk’s cosiest venues. Don’t feel too disheartened, though. Stewart Lee is using this tour to create new material for his upcoming series of…