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Saturday, August 17, 2024

One Man Musical by Flo & Joan review – Andrew Lloyd Webber gets ‘a show about me!’ by Brian Logan

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghGeorge Fouracres portrays the impresario as a haughty squire, while the comedy duo play keyboard and drums ‘Is this show a legal minefield? Yes it is. But on we go…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM

Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That’s Our Name for You) review – still crazily funny after all these years by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn what they bill as their farewell to the fringe, the sketch group address woke-phobic dads, the apocalypse and AI in typically rich and wild style A standup c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM

Rose Matafeo: On and On and On review – a star-crossed love life laid hilariously bare by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTV success has only sharpened the Starstruck creator’s punches as she overshares about the indignities of dating, her fine gags closer to the bleeding edge th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Friday, August 16, 2024

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review – brilliantly ticklish riff on a stack of literary tomes by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Dressed as the publisher’s emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines Some shows have…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Stevie Martin: Clout review – ingenious and silly tech-comedy by Brian Logan

Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Massive Dad star riffs on the benefits of making comedy online, buoyed by arch good humour and high-quality gags within gags Stevie Martin’s show weighs …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Lou Wall: The Bisexual’s Lament review – diary of despair with a list of 69 things to laugh about by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian’s rocky 2023 is explored in PowerPoint, SMS exchanges, rap, musical comedy and online videos The year 2023 was the worst of Lou Wall�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PM

John Tothill: Thank God This Lasts Forever review – skint bon vivant risks it all for comedy by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe irrepressible aesthete, and lapsed primary school teacher, underwent medical trials to fund this effervescent show – and has since been hospitalised There…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM

Rachel Kaly: Hospital Hour review – trauma-comedy reaches new extreme by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Witnessing 9/11 from school as a six-year-old is one of many mental distresses recounted in the New York comic’s often piercingly bleak set Whenever you thin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10AM
Monday, August 12, 2024

Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going to Do One (1) Backflip review – joyous and ingenious by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe American standup and sitcom writer delivers a show of ticklish suspense that somersaults with invention and surprise Not all comedy shows need weighty theme…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM

The truth about life as a privileged comedian: ‘I knew if it all went wrong I could call my parents’ by Brian Logan

Standup Olga Koch, whose dad was once the deputy prime minister of Russia, is weighing in on the debate about class and wealth in the industry in an unusual way – by addressing it head-on …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM

Josephine Lacey: Autism Mama review – unlike any other show at Edinburgh fringe by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic’s debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autism At a festival with 3,6…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AM

At the Edinburgh festival, an extraordinary show lays bare the enormity of grief | Brian Logan by Brian Logan

Or What’s Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our own When someone you love dies, the grief …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Zoë Coombs Marr: Every Single Thing in My Whole Entire Life review – an act of heroic overreach by Brian Logan

Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so far Has autobiographical comedy reached its apotheo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM

Alfie Brown: Open Hearted Human Enquiry review – ‘cancelled’ comic offers complicated mea culpa by Brian Logan

Just the Tonic at the Caves, EdinburghBrown engages in good faith with questions of guilt and remorse, while perceiving bad faith in his critics’ responses to an old routine that included …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AM

Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism review – body dysmorphia comedy is sharp enough to draw blood by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard , EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the comic performs a droll, unsentimental and occasionally heart-stopping pas de deux with the critical voice in her head Hannah Platt…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AM
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Luke Rollason review – shock-haired standard bearer of UK clown boom riffs on fairytales by Brian Logan

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and a lot of toilet roll feature as the star Disney+ comedy Extraordinary explores wishes and their fulfilment All very well being part o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM
Friday, August 9, 2024

Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits review – the nation’s favourite foul mouth by Brian Logan

Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh There’s more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly “Guaranteed to offend…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM

Digested week: Liz Truss’s unintentional comedic turn at Edinburgh fringe | Brian Logan by Brian Logan

A crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr’s life lessons from the Oompa Loompas A tale of two powerful women as the Edinburgh fringe enters its opening week. Nica Burns is a West End pr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Natalie Palamides: Weer review – an outrageously entertaining one-woman romcom by Brian Logan

Traverse, EdinburghPlaying both partners in a sordid three-year relationship, the bold LA clown delivers another unforgettable show Few fringe trajectories have been as joyful to trace these…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The Screen Test review – Betsy Bitterly wisecracks her way through the hell of Hollywood by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Bebe Cave dazzles in a slightly overstuffed monologue about fame, sexism and power in Tinseltown ‘A person waiting to be asked to pretend to be a person.” …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM

Dylan Mulvaney: Faghag review – sparky musical comedy turned redemptive rally by Brian Logan

Assembly George Square, EdinburghShe was chewed up and spat out by the US, but now the TikTok sensation gets to tell her story in this slick production With her TikTok series a smash during …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM

Kemah Bob: Miss Fortunate review – a rollicking Edinburgh fringe debut by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Texan comedian delivers a playful show about a holiday from hell that tackles mental health and wokeness It is rare for an act to firmly establish themselve…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle review – heady mix of uneasy laughs, sexual candour and Titanic spoof by Brian Logan

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghA show about unresolved masculinity combines elements of musical theatre with the experimental comic’s own ruminations on ego and oblivion If you were picking a co…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM

‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners by Brian Logan

Children’s author, YouTuber, ‘sausage bird’ designer … the comic who was born Derek Chickpeas (maybe) talks about cooking up his hilariously daft alter ego – and we pick some of hi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM
Monday, August 5, 2024

Katie Norris: Farm Fatale review – this cat-lady comedy becomes a moggy melodrama by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh This tremendous solo debut finds the comic veering between stranger-than-fiction verisimilitude and hilarious gothic exaggeration ‘Childless cat ladies” ha…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM

Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures by Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDowning Street’s chief of staff is imagined to be gossipy and gregarious in this wickedly silly show Sue Gray is one of the most recognisable names in the UK,…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! review – one hell of a host by Brian Logan

Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh The BBC New Comedy award-winner resurrects a cadaver of an idea as a Rotherham working men’s club MC with a devilish twist Subterranean and claustrophobic, Monkey …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PM

Mhairi Black: Politics Isn’t For Me review – ex-youngest MP trades Commons for comedy therapy by Brian Logan

Gilded Balloon at the Museum, EdinburghThe former SNP wunderkind brings her popular touch to the standup stage, pairing irreverent personal stories with a gasp-inducing exposé of Westminste…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Daniel Kitson detests audience participation but still manipulates us like marionettes | Brian Logan by Brian Logan

The comedian’s show Collaborator involves 160 audience members getting speaking parts – and Kitson has anticipated every possible question, anxiety or misstep What happens when an audien…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers by Brian Logan

Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand? On the edge. Walking a ti…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM
Friday, July 12, 2024

Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy? by Brian Logan

Testosterone-soaked clowning show Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble spikes fun with fear – but the hooligan’s knife-edge moments of vulnerability lead us somewhere different Clowning is a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime