Tuesday, August 12, 2025
As Jena Friedman, Michelle Wolf and Sam Jay perform at the fringe, they discuss the threats to freedom of speech in the era of Donald Trump
In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMThe Hive, Monkey Barrel, EdinburghIn a precise performance, Hull delivers sharp punchlines, surreal diversions and a dose of the occult
Exactly how fine was the “fine” relationship at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, August 11, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe tricksy standup uses AI to create his own episode of the long-running interview series on which he’s never been invited
The Comedian’s Comedian podcast, in w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSunday, August 10, 2025
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghAmusing vignettes about arrogant consultants and undignified poos keep things light as Phillips documents a harrowing hospital experience
Expectations and reality don…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMThursday, July 24, 2025
An undead club manager, sperm donor shenanigans and the pitfalls of trying to work with AI – just a few of the themes of this year’s hottest tickets
Kent-Walters, winner of best newcomer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, July 22, 2025
The comic was all set to make her debut at the Edinburgh fringe. Then, with hours to go, she had a medical emergency. The former dancer explains how it all fed into her new standup show
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, July 11, 2025
Molly McGuiness is treating audiences to a buffet, sketch troupe Simple Town bring fast-paced fun and Jessica Barton plays Mary Floppins … Here are half a dozen essential acts at the festi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Playhouse East, LondonLily Sinko rages, writhes, provokes and teases her way through the horrifying life story of her storyteller with cartoonish abandon
Magdalena appears from the dark, per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Nish Kumar among comedians warning that rising costs could stop university revues visiting the festival
‘I don’t have any family connections in comedy or television, my leg up was that I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSunday, May 25, 2025
Park theatre, LondonOlive was happy to probe strangers about their mortality – but struggles to face her own
‘It’s weird we don’t talk about it,” declares journalist Olive, the alt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, May 12, 2025
Greenwich Theatre, LondonExpanding her Edinburgh hit, Eleanor Hill replicates her Instagrammed mental health crisis and confronts the destructive compulsion to broadcast it all online
Social…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMFriday, April 25, 2025
The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonUK-specific jokes land well as Sloan shapes the energy in a packed room with a slightly incoherent show held together by her charisma
Dulcé Sloan, a seven-year veteran …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, March 6, 2025
From dancers breaking bones to camera crews forced to take terrible risks, stage and screen jobs can be hugely hazardous, says a scathing new report. We meet workers who feel ‘disposable�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Her one-woman show Main Character Energy has been a long time coming, with the writer-performer trying drag, standup and clowning to find her funny voice. ‘You have to put yourself in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMFriday, January 24, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonAnnette’s stage presence shines in a show full of vivid observations, campy asides and nostalgic pop culture
Amy Annette is the sort of woman who’d rather drop her ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, January 17, 2025
Featuring moshpits and acrobatics, the comic’s wildly physical brand of standup leaves audiences buzzing for hours. Now he’s taking his Edinburgh award-winning set on tour – if he can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMMonday, November 11, 2024
A second Donald Trump presidency may be darker than the first, but his victory has unleashed the creative energies of satirists and standups
“When Trump first won, there was almost a nove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThe Yorkshire-born standups’s surreal take on a working men’s club has bagged him comedy awards and a BBC radio pilot. But even as he dreams of a Mrs Merton-style talkshow, he’s still …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSaturday, November 2, 2024
Performers who staged work at Summerhall have not been paid as firm that runs site challenges corporation tax claim
Artists and theatre companies who staged work at the major Edinburgh fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
She won comedy’s top award, reinvented the romcom and now hosts Junior Taskmaster. So why does the New Zealand comic need Buddhist podcasts to get through the day?
Rose Matafeo is bad at e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMMonday, October 14, 2024
Their Miss Fortunate show – which takes in bipolar disorder, financial ruin and a shocking scamming in Thailand – will ‘take the charge paddles to the chest’ of a comedy career that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMFriday, October 4, 2024
A new theatre adaptation is giving Rose Glass’s creepy tale of religious obsession an industrial north-east slant – but it hasn’t lost the film’s fear factor
“We’re telling a sto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, September 20, 2024
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonVaudevillian musical stages the story of a woman who cast herself as Princess Dinubolu of Senegal to become a beauty queen in 1908 Southend
In Southend-on-Sea, 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, August 23, 2024
The festival’s relentless pace is demanding for performers, especially with an underlying health condition. Three acts explain how their month has gone
An hour before she was due on stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMThursday, August 22, 2024
Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh It starts with boundless energy … then gathers momentum, as this comic’s silliness builds a tale of desperate ambition
Rob Copland rockets into the room, pur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
There are benefits and perils in talking about your personal experiences – as Richard Gadd found after his TV show went viral. So how are Edinburgh acts handling it this year?
‘If you’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
Traverse theatre, EdinburghLeah Shelton plays her grandmother, incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, in this one-woman show that draws on research, recordings and videos to link 1960s Aust…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghCharli Cowgill and Laurie Ward revisit an article by the author of The Female Eunuch in this thought-provoking hour
‘Thank you so much for all you have done fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
The Stand, EdinburghThis movie-mad comic lampoons Hollywood through sketch and song but some of his material could have been left in the cutting room
Films are the best art form, declares Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMMonday, August 5, 2024
Monkey Barrel, the Hive, Edinburgh The acerbic standup delivers a character-comedy show playing some captivatingly awful yet extremely relatable individuals
A scouse woman in a glittery head…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM 
