Thursday 4th August 2022 at the Poodle Club, London. ⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Harmon Leon has the beginnings of a bold, comic-theatrical experiment in The Jokes Saved My Soul. The work is a hybrid of genres (stand-up comedy, multimedia performance art, and musical theatre, to name a few). Through these devices, Leon attempts to convey... Continue Reading →
Audiences won’t need to be spoiled for choice when it comes to “Funny Femmes” - they’ll get three cracking comedy sets for one in this triple bill comedy show from an all-female comedians of colour line-up. Who’s on the bill you ask? Charlie George is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer who was voted LGBTQ... Continue Reading →
“I Miss Any Winehouse” is back! The show is at the Leicester Comedy Festival this week (10th February) and then has a week's run at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre coming up (22-26 March). After that, it will play Brixton House 3- 4 May before heading to The Hope Theatre, Islington from 24-25 July 2022.... Continue Reading →
Following two sold out runs, Linus Karp’s "how to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical 'cats'" is heading out on tour and is set to play at 21 venues across the UK (until March 11th 2022). Billed as “a silly, stupid and queer show all about my love for... Continue Reading →
A very different kind of comedy show is heading to Leeds this September. George Egg cooks live...but without a conventional hob in sight. Combining Stand-up and quirky cookery using unexpected objects, Egg has seen great success touring his previous show internationally to critical acclaim. This new show, Movable Feast, arrives at Leeds City Varieties for... Continue Reading →
Thursday 12th September 2019 at Leeds City Varieties. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tape Face (Sam Wills) is back with his rib-tickling peculiarity, proving that mime remains a winning if under-represented force in the world of comedy. He also proves very nicely that having tape on your face is a gateway to fantastic visual gags filled with expressive reactions... Continue Reading →
Justin Moorehouse is back with a new show - Northern Joker - which tours until January 2020 (tickets here). Here he talks new material, family and where he stands on the ‘anything goes in comedy’ debate... The scope of your material is wide - from politics to family life and plenty in between. Is everything... Continue Reading →
Friday 9th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️ Ah, the world of work - what could be more ripe for a dressing down, a cheeky chinwag or a show intelligently reassuring us that our rates of unhappiness have little to do with things we actually have power over? In this show Mel Byron... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 16th April 2019 at the Crazy Coqs (Live at Zédel). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Musical theatre fans, gather round! Actually, music fans in general, get over here. If you’ve ever physically or facially reacted to a specific note, rewound a song to hear a riff again, or actively forced friends to listen to a particular part of... Continue Reading →
Saturday 13th October 2018 at the First Direct Arena, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Whoopi Goldberg remains as charismatic as ever. She’s a real force on stage and in watching her deliver her latest stand-up show, it’s easy to see that she is just as fearless and straight-talking as she was in her famous New York shows. In... Continue Reading →
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