A tight 5: January 16

DAVID BADDIEL has announced a new ten-week West End run for his stand-up show My Family: Not the Sitcom. The show opens at London’s Playhouse Theatre from March 28 with tickets going on sale on Friday. It has previously run at the Vaudeville Theatre and the Menier Chocolate Factory. Review.

RUFUS HOUND has been nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award. The comic turned musical star is up for best actor in a visiting production for his role in The Wind in the Willows, which ran at The Lowry in Salford last year. He is up against Edward Bennett for Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, Simon McBurney for The Encounter and Michael Pennington for King Lear.

AMERICA’s Comedy Central has ordered a fifth series of Drunk History, commissioning 14 new episodes to air later this year.

AWFUL AUNTIE has become the latest David Walliams book to be adapted for the stage. The new production will open at the Capitol Theatre in Horsham in September 21, before touring the UK. Like the previous Walliams stage adaptation, Gangsta Granny, the show has been produced by Birmingham Stage Company.

OMID DJALILI has become a patron of London-based children’s theatre Polka alongside Kenneth Branagh, Alan Ayckbourn, Joanna Lumley and Gyles Brandreth. He said: ‘In an age of increased digital communications, it is so important to give children access to the magic of live storytelling.’

Published: 16 Jan 2017