Runs until Saturday. COOGAN is still basking in the glow of his success at the BAFTAs, when his inspired TV show I'm Alan Partridge scooped a top award.

And last night he showed that although his best known character - the cringe-inducing TV/radio host from Norwich - is brilliantly conceived, he has plenty more comic creations waiting in the wings.

Let's face it, Manchester lad Coogan is obscenely talented. His singing and impressions are first rate, but it is his timing and execution, combined with top writing that makes him deserve the over-used 'comic genius' tag.

Lowlife brother and sister Paul and Pauline Calf, mysoginistic Latin crooner Tony Ferrino and inept comedian Duncan Thickit kept the packed theatre roaring with laughter, until the undoubted star of the show, Partridge (resplendent in naff green blazer), popped in to share his views on life.

To be honest, last night, apart from Ferrino's act ('My first wife died when a toaster fell into the bath with her. We don't know whether it was suicide or whether she was just hungry.'), there wasn't much that seemed new in the way of material, but Coogan easily managed to keep the (often near the knuckle) show consistently funny. Runs until Saturday. Ian Savage

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