Mark Watson News

The Epstein Theatre is promising a packed programme of productions and performances to entertain Liverpool audiences this autumn.

With the Summer Open Exhibition currently taking place at the Salisbury Arts Centre until 3rd September, Wiltshire Creative has announced its autumn/winter line up. A fantastic programme of comedy, music, theatre, and performance art has been mapped out from 10th September until 14th January.

Monkey Barrel Comedy has announced its line-up of special shows as part of their Fringe 2022 programme. 

From the heart of Kent, Gulbenkian Arts Centre present their eclectic 2022/23 season with some of the performing arts industries biggest names including Pussy Riot, The Foreign Office, 1927 and Improbable.

Big Tech firms have all pivoted to business models involving advertising, surveillance, addiction and monopoly, reneging on their previous idealistic visions of what the internet could achieve. In Winner Takes All, Alex Kealy is determined to document this because it's the big political tussle of the 21st century and, crucially, not because he recently had a break-up and his ex works at Google.

Today (Mon 6 June) Assembly Festival, announces its final 50+ shows for 2022, including Frank Skinner, Al Murray, Jinkx Monsoon (RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 contestant, season 5 winner); Queen of Fake Alison Jackson; and Fringe favourite Reuben Kaye. 

A one-off recording will give audiences a chance to see comedian Milo Edwards' award-winning 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show Pindos in London on 1st May at Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green.

After an extraordinary period and the exceptional challenges of the pandemic, Pyramid and Parr Hall are bouncing back with a bumper programme for the new season.

With shows already on sale from Ben Hart, Nina Conti, The Showstoppers, NewsRevue and Cirque Berserk, the first official on-sale sees the Pleasance Theatre Trust presenting the comedy big guns.  With both Edinburgh Comedy Awards in their awards cabinet from the last full Fringe, Pleasance’s comedy programme is always unmissable alongside the amazing theatre, circus and family work that Pleasance are known and loved for. 

The last few weeks have been a downer for everyone so over at The Covid Arms Jess Lea-Wilson, Jake Lea-Wilson and landlady Kiri Pritchard-MacLean, have got together with their mates from the music and comedy industry and decided to put on an extra evening of laughter and entertainment at the UK's best-loved virtual pub.

Soho Theatre has announced their upcoming November programming featuring MUM, SESSIONS, MAKROOH and more. 

The Cosmic Shambles Network has announced an enviable list of further guests for this year's season of Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People from King's Place in London. 

Neurotic, multi award winning comedian, author and taskmaster Survivor Mark Watson is bringing his brand-new show This Can't Be It to Swindon Arts Centre on Sunday 24th October.

Gilded Balloon have announced the ten incredibly talented new comedians who have made it through to this year's Grand Final of So You Think You're Funny?

Host Robin Ince will be joined by a plethora of amazing guests from stand-ups to scientists and musicians to mathematicians. His guests will include Dr Helen Czerski, Issy Suttie, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mark Watson, Prof Chris Jackson, Bec Hill, Prof Anil Seth, Prof Andrea Sella, John-Luke Roberts, David Lindo, Natalie Haynes, Matt Parker, Bobby Seagull, Dr Pragya Agarwal, Dr Ben Goldacre, Prof Chris Lintott, Gemma Arrowsmith, Dr Camilla Pang with many more still to be announced.

Anyone looking forward to getting back in to theatres should look no further than Theatre Royal Winchester, which has an exciting season ahead this autumn. From the end of the month through to December the theatre has a varied programme of music, drama, family shows, comedy, and more, with these as a few highlights…

Waterside, Trafford's leading arts venue, is delighted to announce it is re-opening its doors for artists and audiences alike from Monday 17 May '21 with an exciting summer and autumn programme of live theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance and spoken word.

Leicester Comedy Festival started in 1994 with 40 events programmed into 23 venues over 7 days throughout Leicestershire. In 1994 it attracted an audience of 5,000. This year adjusted for Covid constraints the Festival will be livestreamed and will feature over 300 performances from 100+ comedians.

New arts festival streaming service Festv will launch on New Year's Day with a launch showcase – recorded at the Edinburgh's Assembly Roxy – featuring comedian Mark Watson, playwright Gary McNair (A Gambler's Guide to Dying), festival director Hope Azeda (Ubumuntu Arts Festival), singer-songwriter Honeyblood, dance artistic director Tony Mills, and installation artist Laura McGlinchey.

The Causea??s socially distanced concept Costa Del Tottenham flips from outdoors to indoors as the constantly evolving space transforms yet again offering London a unique new space to carry on the party safely yet again.