Thursday, June 27, 2024
Soho theatre, London She's a convivial host, but 70 minutes of shops chat, family home videos and the odd song about our comic's love life may leave you eyeing the exit
Many is the standup …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2024
Comedians are increasingly leaning on audience interaction to sell their shows " and changing the nature of the shows themselves
Crowd work. For some, it's the fun bit when standups cruise …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2024
Hackney Empire, LondonThe east Londoner's show majors in blunt putdowns of anything the ebullient standup finds to be up-itself or overrated
"I'm doing alright for myself, gang!" That's quit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonHalf musical comedy, half party, Archie Henderson's show ranges far and wide over the travails of his slinky singer vying for a knighthood
It's the Royal Variety Performa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe daffy duo follow up their westerns parody Cowboys with a silly but still oddly respectful musical-comedy about their grandads' generation
It's quite the pivot going f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2024
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe Mash Report comedian's material on middle age is sharp but it's her political musical numbers that really hit home
If life begins at 40, where does that l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonThe comic traces a path from Arizona to Manhattan with a musical set that never quite lands
The comedian as self-fascinated ego-monster is quite the pose these days. Kate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Apollo theatre, London John Cleese's transposition of his TV sitcom to the theatre has pitch perfect performances, but it never quite becomes a play
What should we hope for when TV hits of y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM[SHARE]Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art, at the Arcola in London, tackles freedom of expression " with particular focus on Gaza
Arts Council England unleashed fury in Februar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2024
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendNow free of cancer, Gilbert looks back on his illness with a characteristic mixture of emotional candour and uproarious humour
A standup show about cancer? It's a fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2024
Marylebone theatre, LondonKiell Smith-Bynoe and Martha Howe-Douglas ably embody Gogol's schemers, but this show doesn't hit any 21st-century targets
You can see why, in 2024, one might reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The 1975 tour documentary Big Banana Feet captures a comic growing into his extraordinary talents " and adjusting to unprecedented fame
In an age where our every selfie, photogenic breakfast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2024
Colchester Arts CentreThe comedian's rightwing alter egos have not yet evolved beyond the two-dimensional in this droll but conventional set
It's lovely to be here in Colchester, says Rosie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2024
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendThe standup delivers an unstructured show with autobiographical anecdotes and routines about henpecked husbands and women called Fanny
How hard should a comedian try…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2024
Soho theatre, LondonA lesser act might have struggled to follow the brilliant Sydnee Washington, but Faustin's swaggering, gossipy shtick is superb
Has Marie Faustin blundered? Support acts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]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] 
