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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Bruce Dessau's rating
Reader rating
Description: Musical comedy and observations from the globetrotting Irishman and 2008 if.comedy award winner.
Trains: Tube: Tottenham Court Road 
, Tube / Bus: 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 25, 38, 55, 73, 98, 176 
Phone: 0207478 0100
Website: www.sohotheatre.com
Extra info: Pub, Food
Surprise winner: David O'Doherty won an if.comedy award at this year's Edinburgh Festival
David O’Doherty’s unexpected if.comedy award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival delighted his modest yet fanatical following. Now, with this win under his belt a wider audience is appreciating the appeal of this shaggy-haired Irishman’s understated mission to “rock your world in quite a gentle way.”
This show has been supersized since its summer premiere, with extra jokes, extra songs on cheap Yamaha keyboards and extra whimsy. It is still as slick as John Sergeant’s tango but all the more charming for it. O’Doherty is distracted by fans, digresses and, at one point, rolls around the floor. This is not punchline comedy, more personality comedy. The 32-year-old manchild milks his infectious idiosyncratic worldview for every drop, imagining how it would be wonderful to see a performance of Cats dressed as a mouse and how Argos resembles an exotic mix of shop and bookies, with its tiny pens and paper notelets.
He proves that there are no hack subjects, just hack comedians. Even tackling much-trampled topics such as the internet or texting he sounds fresh. And his daft humour dovetails perfectly into his plinky-plonk songs. One lo-fi gem compares him to Tiger Woods. It is obvious who makes more money, it is less clear who is having more fun.
Until 6 Dec (0207 478 0100).
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
