Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, played his show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf at Alexandra Palace Theatre over two weeks in February.
Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, played Alexandra Palace Theatre in Wood Green from Tuesday 3 to Sunday 15 February 2026. The run was the London home of his show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf.
Lee was born in Wellington, Shropshire, in 1968 and grew up in Solihull. He read English at Oxford, then made the BBC series Fist of Fun with Richard Herring in the mid-1990s.
In 2003 he co-wrote and directed Jerry Springer: The Opera with Richard Thomas. It moved from the National Theatre to the West End and won four Olivier Awards, and his BBC Two series Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle later won a BAFTA.
The new show set him against a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the forests of the subconscious who hates humanity. On stage, Lee played a man approaching sixty, his television profile fading, trying to release the beast inside him.
Alexandra Palace Theatre opened in 1875 and stood closed for about 80 years before it reopened in December 2018. Evening shows began at 19:30, the two Sundays had matinées at 15:30, and each performance ran about two hours plus an interval.