Friday, October 15, 2021
Theatre 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 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
Soho 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 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
Hammersmith 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 st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PM[SHARE]Friday, October 8, 2021
Soho 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." That's Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
Soho 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 legacy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
NetflixRather 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 Chappelle's ref…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Bloomsbury 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 e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, September 27, 2021
London 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 r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 26, 2021
London 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 white he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Harold 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 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
Royal 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 h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Shakespeare'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 enter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
Soho 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 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 6, 2021
London 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 billed
S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
Soho 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 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The 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 b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 27, 2021
Assembly 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 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
Soho 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 ago on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Online@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 becoming po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Cush 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 05:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
London 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 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 22, 2021
The 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 ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 15, 2021
Arcola 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 causes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Friday, August 13, 2021
Available 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 12:06PM[SHARE]Available 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 Falling St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Rio 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 Tick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 10, 2021
NetflixWang 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 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 6, 2021
He 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 stereot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for standups? Often it depends on who's doing the heckling
In the Guide's weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-cultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy's native tongue
If Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he'd surely be repor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, July 16, 2021
Preston Park, BrightonLou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O'Doherty's delightful stream of consciousness the highlight
Save for incapacitating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE] 
