The series features more than 100 artists, commentators and thought leaders, with 23 commissions, performances from some of the UK’s most exciting names in contemporary arts and entertainment, and testimonies from the public.
To celebrate International Women's Day, leading female comedy community Funny Women is running the inaugural Funny Women Around The World. This exciting and hilarious virtual free event will showcase comedy and entertainment from every corner of the globe to launch the Funny Women Awards.
The Dirty 30 II: Electric Pay-Per-View is a valiant attempt to perform 30 plays in one hour using some digital magic. The 30 plays are an excellent mash-up of audience favourites from the archive and 15 WORLD PREMIERES. However, just like the stage show, the order in which these plays are performed is entirely up to the audience.
The leading showcase for female comedy talent in the UK and Ireland, the Funny Women Awards, has arrived at the final phase in its annual search for brilliant new performers, writers and creators.
London Neo-Futurists Degenerate Fox Theatre present, for the second consecutive year, a weekend of shows in celebration and interrogation of all things femme and female to mark International Womxn's Day!
The Cape Town International Comedy Festival is the largest Comedy Festival in South Africa. It's re-launching in 2020 for one week, starting 1 March 2020 at the Artscape Theatre Centrea??.
Darren Lee Cole, producing artistic director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse and associate producer Matthew Quinn are proud to continue this year's Encore Series - Week Two with a range of shows from clowning to family to comedy to drama, to female empowerment there is something for everyone. Week Two includes Mil Grus, Pockets, Larry, Desiree's Coming Early, Ingenue: Deanna Durbin among the 18 productions featured this year.
Darren Lee Cole, producing artistic director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse and associate producer Matthew Quinn are proud to kick-off this year's Encore Series with a quartet of kick-ass shows including Anya Anastasia: The Executioners, Police Cops: Bad Ass Be Thy Name, Orpheus and Eurydice and Dandy Darkly's All Aboard! among the 18 productions featured this year.
Darren Lee Cole, producing artistic director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse and associate producer Matthew Quinn are proud to kick-off this year's Encore Series with a quartet of kick-ass shows including Anya Anastasia: The Executioners, Police Cops: Bad Ass Be Thy Name, Orpheus and Eurydice and Dandy Darkly's All Aboard! among the 18 productions featured this year.
Commencing on the fullish moon of December 11th in the glow of a candlelit room, The Secret Society of The Sisterhood invites some of the most prolific, iconic and diverse women of our generation to come together in front of an intimate audience, and share personal stories surrounding the topic of the evening.
Darren Lee Cole, producing artistic director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse and Associate producer Matthew Quinn are proud to announce the first round of selections for this year's Fringe Encore Series. The first set of productions hail from Adelaide, Auckland, Brighton, Hollywood, Edinburgh, Orlando, New Zealand & Vancouver and will feature some of the best productions from around the world. This year's Fringe Encores Series will take place between November 27 a?" January 18, 2020. Individual tickets are $39 and can be purchased by visiting FringeEncoreSeries.com.
She was born late, bloomed late and always missed the bus, but a compelling shift has occurred in Desiree Burch's life. Co-host of Netflix's Flinch, and star of Live at the Apollo (BBC) and The Mash Report (BBC Two), is embarking on a tour of her hugely successful Edinburgh Fringe run of Desiree's Coming Early! The tour will begin at Swindon Arts Centre on 4th October 2019 and includes a two week residency at Soho Theatre from Monday 11th November 2019. Tickets are on sale now and available from www.livenation.co.uk.
Amnesty International UK and comedy star and host of hit podcast The Guilty Feminist Deborah Frances-White have teamed up in 2019 to relaunch the much revered Secret Policeman's Tour for the 21st century and are delighted to be bringing it to Manchester in December for its third and final stop this year!
The New York Neo-Futurists Gala comes to Caveat, a live show venue and bar on the lower east side, on Tuesday, November 12th, from 7pm-10:30pm. The award-winning downtown theater's annual fundraiser will celebrate fifteen years of weekly performances and feature entertainment, silent & live auctions, and an open bar of beer and wine.
It's just ten days until Amnesty International UK and comedy star Deborah Frances-White (host of hit podcast The Guilty Feminist) bring the brand new Secret Policeman's Tour to the prestigious Edinburgh Playhouse on Saturday 24th August and they are delighted to announce the final line up for this must-see event of the final weekend of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay will now share entries from his diaries as a junior doctor across two "electrifying" shows of stand-up and music at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Live at the RSC: Comedy Festival.
The Guilty Feminist podcast is a comedy phenomenon with over 65 million downloads since it first launched in December 2015. Hosted by comedian Deborah Frances-White, the world famous podcast has just travelled around the UK with a special touring version of the show and is now set to take London by storm with their biggest and most spectacular live show to date.
GET READY to laugh all month long as comedy takes over The Marlowe Studio in Canterbury this July. Kicking off the month is Equinox on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July.
Acts are now announced for a brand-new Comedy Festival from the Royal Shakespeare Company, in association with Underbelly, including award-winning doctor-turned comedian Adam Kay, Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Bridget Christie, 'one-man opposition party' satirical impressionist Rory Bremner, surrealist master of the one-liner Milton Jones, internationally-acclaimed live act Phil Wang and 'cusp of stardom' up-and-comer Suzi Ruffell.