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]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Indhu Rubasingham has been named as the National's new head. But elsewhere, theatres are ditching this once coveted role altogether. Can a theatre really manage without one?
The king is dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonBoris Johnson and his successors Less Trust and Riches Sooner are satirised in a superb political pantomime directed by Patrick Marber
Keenly anticipated since its summer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2023
Shaftesbury theatre, LondonHi-vis hijinks are here aplenty as the Britain's Got Talent winner revisits his triumphant routines
It's been quite the year for Viggo Venn. Twelve months ago, he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
Old Fire Station, Oxford Alison Spittle's story of three women who meet and reconvene annually for a Christmas Day dip is fun nonetheless
There's more to Christmas than Santa, Jesus and stuf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PM[SHARE]Festive variety show hosts Sanjeev Bhaskar and Jayde Adams are stodgier than Christmas dinner, with all the chemistry of a broken Bunsen burner
To those of us of a certain age, few things a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2023
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonThe Hull comic continues to riff brilliantly on her home city's quirks but you wish she'd reveal more of the 'small angry woman' she describes herself as
Hull is m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2023
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonIt may not attempt anything new but there are eye-catching costumes, catchy songs, some sparkling performances and a droll script by Anna Jordan
Mud, glor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Richmond theatre, LondonPausing her political campaigning to revisit routines that made her name, Izzard seems to be enjoying herself as much as we are
Everyone wants rock stars to play thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
O2 Arena, LondonRoutines about rude Parisians and airline seats should have passed their tell-by date long ago " but Noah's skill reanimates the fun
Trevor Noah opens with a joke about taki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThis one-woman play aims to dramatise Wax's globe-trotting spiritual quest but gets sidetracked into anecdote
This isn't what she usually does, Ruby Wax confides in the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
The opening shows at London's Underbelly Boulevard " Bernie Dieter's Club Kabarett and Batsu! " are less edgy than you might expect, and more pricey, but there are some impressive turns
It w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonIn this giddily inventive show, Minnitt plays a woman trying to bag a beau before her sentence to spinsterdom is declared
'I'm starting to get hysterical," says Rosalie M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Rose Theatre, Kingston upon ThamesFrom a killer song about cosmetic surgery to ditties on doppelgangers and dogging, Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman are still going strong
How …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Can the surreal comedy superstar parlay comedy chops into political power? Izzard certainly wouldn't be the first standup to pivot from telling jokes to canvassing for votes
From Eddie Izzar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonRichard Bean's new play touches on ageing and alienation, care and family love, but focuses on making us laugh
You might guess what kind of night you're in for by To…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
The everyman standup delivers substantial comic payloads by itemising the oddity of human behaviour. A successful formula his new tour continues to exploit
All the countries of the world hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Theatre Royal, BrightonThe comic brings an assured touch to tales of everyday humiliation, and even her terrible musicianship is endearing for a while
Tig Notaro has never had an interval on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Kentish Town Forum, LondonThis is a big stage for a streaming star who's still a rookie standup, and at times his show feels over-engineered and effortful " but he still has enough honesty a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
A mixed bill of standups, presented by the Nanette star and due to be recorded for the streamer, is a valuable response to its Dave Chappelle controversy
When Dave Chappelle released his Net…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2023
As it fills the Royal Albert Hall on tour, the comedians' 'dream restaurant' show questions what ingredients a live performance really needs
'I can't believe this many people like your podca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2023
Assembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge Wells Heartfelt two-act show revels in the manic, painful and sometimes amusing fallout of recovering from alcoholism
Has the advent of trauma-comedy been a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian launches her campaign to become a national treasure with a show that has charm, smut, irony and laughs in equal measure
Rosie Jones was going to write a gag-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup's loud and proud show about female self-sufficiency presents her as an attention-hogging misfit parading her indignities for our delight
Aged 32, Helen Bauer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Criterion theatre, LondonThere's plenty to enjoy here as a cast of non-magicians subvert conjuring convention with song, dance and synchronised skill
As if a career confounding audiences in-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 17, 2023
Hackney Empire, LondonAs the dust settles on his recent tabloid notoriety, Walsh contrasts the domestic landscape of maturity with his wild youth
We had a fun night, says Seann Walsh " "but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Wyndham's theatre, LondonWhere other midlife male standups splash in the shallows of domesticity, dinner parties and feeling tired, Birbiglia dives right into family, death and the meaning o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
Soho Theatre, LondonAs they craft their extended sketches off the cuff, TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi deliver laughs with a surprisingly moving emotional twist
Nothing in comedy defines ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe electrifying Berlant recounts her fictional life in this sharp and silly show directed by Bo Burnham
Comedies don't come hipper than this New York transfer from Kate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe Smiths' songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein " and it works
A lifelong fan of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the New York cabar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 2, 2023
Fresh from this year's jubilant festival, I'm not the only one hoping that it has given up its addiction to growth
"Ticket sales still 19% down on 2019." "Can the Edinburgh fringe survive?" …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
