Monday, April 29, 2024
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonThere are shocks aplenty as daredevils perform death-defying acts hair-raisingly close to the audience
Circus used to happen in big tops. The Underbelly Boulevard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2024
Brighton DomeRanganathan's Hustle delivers laughs, but not the shock of the new. It is at its best when we glimpse something meaningful beneath the standard-issue curmudgeonliness
'I'll be h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonPhil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian's career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sights
Cynicism is now and then expressed about the ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
At the world's biggest barrel of laughs, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Rose Matafeo rub shoulders with homegrown stars-in-the-making. Our writer has the time of his life
What's the biggest …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe star's stage presence is impressive as she charts the journey from her religious upbringing to her first sexual encounters and becoming an adored icon
"Premium ticket…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonIn a lively but disjointed show, the comedian " who used to work in HR for the streamer " delivers routines on office life, dating apps and 90s R&B
From the mailroom …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonSnarling at the audience and cracking cynical jokes, Hoffman's intriguing faux-boorish persona wears thin, undermining her subversively funny riffs
Robby Hoffman recently…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2024
London PalladiumThe comic revives Avid Merrion, Keith Lemon and others in a scatological set of unimaginative jokes
Is he funny, or is his comedy the nadir of western civilisation? Not being…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2024
The US comedian, who won an Emmy for the remarkable 2022 special Rothaniel, makes a bemusing visit to London
When Sarah Silverman took to the stage at Hammersmith Apollo one night in 2008, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe Irish comedian refines gossip to a high art in a big-hitting show packed with whipsmart jokes about the panic of settling down in your 30s
The dates on Catherine Boha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 29, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonWith fine one-liners, the crowd-pleasing east Midlander traces their relationship with their parents in a touching show
Sarah Keyworth launched their standup career with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2024
Brighton DomeThe comedian guides us through this life-and-death tale of seizure, diagnosis and treatment with his usual brand of self-deprecation
We have all seen comedians die on stage. Is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thirty years after his death, the Texan who set out to 'topple idols' remains an outlaw truth-teller for many but his raging material can land with a clunk
I could mark out my comedy critic'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness
There's a formula …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2024
Composer and lyricist who was a long-time collaborator of Steve Coogan and Harry Hill, and co-created the award-winning musical Spend, Spend, Spend
The composer and lyricist Steve Brown, who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
Thoughtifier, a new European tour, brings familiar whimsy from the Strictly Come Dancing champ. But does the mirth cramp his musical stylings?
Forty years into his performing career, you kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Various venuesSets from Lily Phillips, President Obonjo and Foxdog Studios may not rival the Edinburgh fringe, but give a bracing sense of the diversity of the comedy scene
We need a new ki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2024
Soho theatre, London New show Mettle finds the comic annoyed about flirting, litter, the climate crisis and more, following a milestone birthday
There are few more familiar standup comedy at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
For the Royal Court and Park theatres, putting on comedy acts is a moneyspinning way to find new audiences. But are playhouses set to stage fewer plays?
Caryl Churchill. Sarah Kane. Chris Ra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2024
Stage revivals of the 70s sitcom and The Fast Show have enough nostalgia value to delight fans. Less certain is what will happen to their more problematic material
The essence of humour is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2024
Pleasance theatre, LondonWith Linus Karp as Paltrow, Joseph Martin as the optometrist and a muppet as his lawyer, Awkward Productions delight in the shallowness, star-worship and bad faith
O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2024
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe Coventry comic's new show centres more on storytelling than polished quips but this is still a boisterous set
In a world where big-name comics prep their tours …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2024
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe up-and-coming Scottish standup's first UK tour finds him in Gervais-ish territory, and his performing flair can't disguise the tired old chauvinism of his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonAcross 75 haywire minutes, Zach Zucker's variety show features fire-breathing, copious nudity and superb performances from acts including Natalie Palamides
'It's taken us…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2024
In their new shows, anarchic theatre company Spymonkey and sketch duo Max and Ivan place the spotlight on their own lives more than ever before
If you're making comedy, or funny theatre, wha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThis quartet " familiar from Veep, SNL and Second City " respond well to audience suggestions but keep rebooting the process rather than delivering a full story
As anyone…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
Her midnight agony aunt clown show became the hot ticket of the fringe " despite the fact that the Estonian never regarded herself as a comic. In fact, she says, she much prefers making audi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2023
The new year's hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen " plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2023
Our critics' highlights of the year include a 24-hour marathon, a standup welcoming hecklers, a reboot of The Matrix and a bus ride filled with emotion' More on the best culture of 2023
10. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2023
Indigo at the O2, LondonAlex Horne's musical comedy band serve up peachy and puerile puns in an endearing, occasionally festive show
The Horne Section. A Christmas show. You can see the logi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
