Ben Baruch

It’s difficult to review an improv show without reviewing the genre as a whole. Reliably hit-and-miss, a group of people roaming through sketches or songs in search of a punchline is glorious when it comes off, and not much better than awkward when it doesn’t. So to enjoy any...

The Horne Section came to the Nottingham Playhouse on 22nd November, bringing their show Four Great Songs, and Eight More Songs. No doubt, it’s a great title for a show. Unfortunately, it was also rather an accurate one. There was never going to be a through-line to tie the...

If you’re familiar with Alex Horne you’ll know the only thing you can expect, is to not know what to expect. After 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Never Mind the Buzzcocks on television, their own radio show on Radio 4, and many sold-out shows at the...

If you had to describe Abandoman in two words, it would be ‘infectious enthusiasm’. If you had to describe them in six, it would be ‘Irish Hip Hop improvised comedy legends’. Six years after they last played the Nottingham Glee Club, one of comedy’s most unique acts is back...

Series one of Broadchurch may well be a close-to-perfect, self-contained series of television, created in Britain. It has every ingredient you could want in a British crime drama – beautiful yet recognisable location and cinematography, music that plays tension like an impeccably tuned instrument, an impeccable cast lead by...

  With this year’s SU Elections coming to a close on Friday, there was still one last opportunity for candidates to win over people’s hearts in the haven that is Crisis. Impact headed along to witness the debauchery of mixing alcohol with student politics, asking students what they really think about the whole elections...