Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Forget cheesy acts, these days cruise ships boast the cutting edge tech to stage hip West End productions and Olivier award-winning musicals – and young people are loving itThe phrase “c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2026
London ColiseumA quartet of conjurors, calling themselves the Horsemen, perform fine feats of escapology and mentalism that are undermined by smoke, lasers and pomposityIs there an opposite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2026
Underbelly Boulevard Soho, LondonA grab-bag of awkward ‘lessons learned’ by a middle-aged entertainer reflecting on her journey, the US comic’s song-filled show has savour and schmaltz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
Royal Albert Hall, LondonShiny-suited and slick, the US standup fired off peppy and sometimes taboo-teasing gags about his cultural identity, married life and visits to a fertility clinicYou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2026
From returning comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti to Flo & Joan’s cheeky One Man Musical, these are surefire standouts at the fringeEdinburgh festival 2026 reviewsIt may contain a brief…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonThe co-host of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update delivers an expertly constructed set of jokes about her quest to live a more embodied lifeAfter serving an eye-catch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PM[SHARE]Elf Lyons mixes humour and heartbreak, Frank Skinner works the crowd, Kristen Schaal returns with a secret – and one man sings the same song over and over againNo fringe festival has been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:35AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
Watford Palace theatreThere’s plenty of devilment as the Pennsylvanian flies the flag for the magnificence of women and riffs on pregnancyThe Best Job in the World, Michelle Wolf’s touri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2026
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonAudience members become unsuspecting mind-readers, and numbers disappear from their memory, in this hugely entertaining showAn audience member is on stage, their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2026
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe comic delivers gags about her life and neighbourhood with choice descriptions and brutal punchlines‘What comes out of here,” says Fatiha El-Ghorri, in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM[SHARE]The unsettling performance artist, who has made some electrifying stage shows in his time, is taking a leap into literature with an eye-opening book, In Pursuit of a Wonderful Nothing. A har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2026
The Crescent, YorkThe comedian addresses a relationship breakup via The Waste Land, Aldi and a dimwit estate agentHow has it come to this? That’s what new show Tilting at Windmills finds J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2026
Bush theatre, LondonMarried aspiring standups confront on stage what they’re concealing in real life, in Piers Black’s compelling two-handerStandup is performance in extremis, self-proje…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2026
When she broke through the glass ceiling and became chancellor, Reeves found her office had its own latrine. Rosie Holt reveals why she turned the story into a play called Churchill’s Urin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2026
Connaught theatre, Worthing Balloons meet the sharper points of competitive parenting over a weekend of back-to-back kids’ parties, in this broad comedy of social mannersSome of my most tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
Glee Club, GlasgowThe masc lesbian comic from New York delivers a superb set with big laughs and twisty logicOld-school standup celebrating the traditional masculine virtues? It’s fallen a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2026
An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflictIt’s the questio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
Richmond theatre, LondonArchive footage and fresh commentary shed light on the craft and chaos of interrogating big names such as OJ Simpson and Donald Trump
What are these shows, in which v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]The Stand Comedy Club, GlasgowThe northerner finds the funny in banalities with this raucous compendium of all-in-it-together bants
Phil Ellis has been watching Netflix specials, and has not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
Soho theatre, London In his latest show, the comedian energetically distils his approach to pursuing futile creative choices with philosophy and silly jokes thrown in
How do you know that yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonThe unassuming US comedian and musician turns her journey to motherhood into a witty, bittersweet and beautifully judged show
'I know this show can be uncomfortable," say…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2026
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on Older Than Jesus, her first " and deeply daft " standup tour
That staple realisation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2026
After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his 'pure comedic instinct'
A cast o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Barbican Centre, LondonFrom Stavros to Wayne Slob, Loadsamoney to DJ Dave Nice, the 64-year-old distilled whole characters and social types
To younger audiences, Harry Enfield may be best kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Brighton Corn Exchange The fantastically confident standup is a blast from the start with her takes on menopause, parenting and her upbringing
Model, actor, journalist, comedian: no doubting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
They wowed the Edinburgh fringe with whip-smart sketches about Nasa engineers and what their audience were thinking. Now the slacker troupe are back on stage " but a long way from TV screens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
Clapham Grand, LondonIn his touring show, Acaster introduces a new alter ego, adding even more layers to his material, along with some trenchant political gags
'I'm the UK's No 1 James Acast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonFearlessly provocative and covered in gunk, Garland delivers a wild and elusive show about queerness and carnality
'It's divisive." Well, you'd think so, a "kink performa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2026
Soho theatre, LondonThe former child magician from New York combines PowerPoint and personal trauma in an off-Broadway import that packs a considerable punch
Two species of modern standup jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2026
Apollo theatre, London Jonathan Lynn's farewell to the beloved parliamentary sitcom casts Griff Rhys Jones as ex-PM Jim Hacker, making one last call on his wily consigliere
Death comes to us…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment " and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage
' Philippe Gaulier, cl…
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