Saturday Night Live recapSaturday Night LiveThe singer and rapper makes for an awkward host in a subpar episode lifted slightly by cameos from Pedro Pascal, Lady Gaga and Mick Jagger
Saturday Night Live kicks off with the chaos engulfing the United States House of Representatives. Three-time loser Jim Jordan (Mikey Day) is frustrated over his failure to secure the speaker role and is consoled by fellow Republican laughingstocks George Santos (Bowen Yang) and Lauren Boebert (Chloe Fineman), the latter calling in her condolences from a showing of Aladdin while getting felt up. Read More...
The ObserverTechnologySorry you're still hereThat's the greeting awaiting people who log on to a macabre internet forum blamed for encouraging a pact between two men to jump off Beachy Head. Amelia Hill reports on the disturbing increase in suicide chat roomsJosh began suffering nightmares when he was just months old, waking every 90 minutes and screaming as though, his mother still vividly remembers, someone was trying to kill him.
By the time he was two, he was developing one phobia after another: he couldn't go near escalators without almost fainting with fear, while his terror of fire meant his mother couldn't even light the oven if he was in the room. Read More...
StageReviewTheatre by the Lake, Keswick
With an excruciating clash of characters locked in a plot that is equal parts funny, sad and violent, this timeless production is as familiar as it is unsettling
Martin McDonagh’s international hit had its premiere in 1996 but, in form, it could date from any time in the preceding century. Theatregoers since Ibsen would recognise the single set with its realistic representation of a Connemara cottage, the two-act structure and the story of a grown-up daughter whose dreams are thwarted by the demands of a cantankerous mother. Read More...