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Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe artist’s energetic live show splices together standup, anecdotes and singing – all inspiring us to flee the monochrome and mundane “Ted Talk – the pant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSalisbury PlayhouseIan McDiarmid is outstanding in two pieces, one as an angry audience member and one a composer’s coda Halfway through Vigilance, the first act of Ian McDiarmid’s solo …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMMilton Keynes theatreGood albeit digressive gags keep the routines endearingly amusing in the comic’s new touring show Regional Trinket “I hate being camp,” says Alan Carr, which would…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMTheatre Royal BathThe much-loved TV series becomes a series of set-pieces rather than a satisfying drama in this stage adaptation Much is made, in the publicity around this stage refit of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSoho theatre, LondonKingsman spoofs the look-at-me egotism that sometimes animates solo shows, as she heaps meta layer upon layer in a tour de force It seems like five minutes ago that Phoeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMHammersmith Apollo, LondonGilligan’s cartoonish parade of misunderstandings and manipulations have perspective and heart When you get rich and famous for your relatable comedy, how do you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMSoho theatre, LondonAmrou Al-Kadhi’s drag alter ego, poised between self-absorption and self-irony, delivers a tart, funny and swaggering tale “Too gay for Iraq, too Iraq for gay.” Tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMSoho theatre, LondonMcGrath is smart and sardonic about the after-effects of British imperialism in Africa – even if she’s just skimming the surface The Berlin Conference of 1884, the le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMNetflixRather than explore the blind spots within modern gender and racial thinking, the comedian’s latest special triples down on the phobia ‘I’m going all the way,” is Dave Chappel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMBloomsbury theatre, LondonThe comedian is on ebullient form in a gossipy touring show about entering one’s seventh decade You can understand why Jenny Eclair might focus her standup on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMLondon PalladiumChris and Rosie Ramsey’s material about their married life is jolly enough, but a five-minute advertorial is rather less so It has 65m downloads and counting. It claims the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMLondon PalladiumThe veteran provocateur, with his usual equal offensiveness policy, is amusing when he isn’t railing at straw men in this revival of his 2019 show Supernature “I’m a wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMHarold Pinter theatre, London A lovely physical performance by Saunders brings moments of joy to an otherwise unsettled production of Noël Coward’s comedy You can have a seance to get in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton The spiritual comedian’s lofty aspirations make way for funny riffs on fatherhood and lockdown in a self-ridiculing set Are we here for laughs, or spiritual…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe Mock the Week man clearly enjoys his turn on the prestige stage, and Jen Brister, Athena Kugblenu and Nina Conti are able supporting players If you must ente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMSoho theatre, LondonThe Russian-born comic racks up the punchlines as she auditions to be a Bond girl, considers British quirks and recalls her schooldays The comedian from far afield, obser…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMLondon Wonderground, Earls Court, LondonJarred Christmas’s human cartoon antics and Hobbit’s virtuoso microphone skills jolly the crowd along – but the show wasn’t as interactive as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMSoho theatre, LondonThe comedian flops in a New York hotel room, sheds his inhibitions at an ayahuasca ceremony and visits a Berlin sex club as he explores his midlife crisis No one zeroes i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThe producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life’s little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetry Comedians…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMAssembly Festival Garden, CoventryOlivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show, which reimagines the Tudor monarch as an in-yer-face Gen-Z teen You might consider the fraught life …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMSoho theatre, London After months of being starved of social contact, David Selley’s celebration of togetherness couldn’t be better timed Diane Chorley’s show made a splash two years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMOnline@theSpaceUKGuileless hero Christopher Blank is ‘born without a single funny bone in his body’ in a one-man play that paints a near future US in broad brushstrokes Comedians becomin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMCush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMLondon WondergroundDon’t expect the shock of the new from the BBC Radio 4 stalwart, but audience suggestions and music really lift the second half Is it a live show – or an impersonation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMThe ex-Inbetweener’s new work-in-progress standup show, about breaking beyond being typecast, has a self-lacerating character The maladroit comic parlaying their anxiety into humour is as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMArcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill “Behaviour that ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMAvailable onlineThe comic riffs on arts careers and money while playing video games and fending off his spirit animal in a likable show Tom Mayhew is performing live on Zoom every night of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMAvailable onlineLacy’s tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrity Tania Lacy’s standup show, Catch a Fallin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMRio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin’s sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festival There are leaps required of artists in this week’s Blue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMNetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east Asia From the other side of a global pandemic, he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMHe turned Art and The Play What I Wrote into smashes. Now he’s handing out flyers for Charlie and Stan. But will pandemic-shy audiences come and see it? Reports of the death of the stere…
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