Amnesty International UK and comedy star Deborah Frances-White of hit podcast The Guilty Feminist are delighted to be launching a brand-new Secret Policeman's Tour with three shows to hit the road throughout 2019 - the first being at London's Hackney Empire on Wednesday 5th June.
The June 2019 So-fi festival announces that it will be presenting works at The Clemente's Los Kabayitos and Flamboyan Theaters (107 Suffolk St. between Rivington & Delancey) and Westbeth (463 West Street between Bethune and West 12th St) June 6th-23rd 2019.
The Guilty Feminist podcast has become a comedy phenomenon with over 60 million downloads since it launched in December 2015. Comedian Deborah Frances-White and her guests discuss their noble goals as 21st century feminists and their hypocrisies and insecurities which undermine those goals.
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces February and March 2019 programming at OBERON, its club-style theater space for cutting-edge performance and a thriving incubator for local and emerging artists. Upcoming events include A.R.T Breakout, Live @ OBERON, and Afterglow @ OBERON series, A.R.T. presentations, and independently produced events.
The Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) reveals its full programme, as this hugely popular event in the comedy calendar returns for its 17th year from Thursday 14 - Sunday 31 March 2019.
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces January and February 2019 programming at OBERON, its club-style theater space for cutting-edge performance and a thriving incubator for local and emerging artists. Upcoming events include A.R.T Breakout, Live @ OBERON, and Afterglow @ OBERON series, A.R.T. presentations, and independently produced events.
Best Of The Dirty Thirty 2018 is a curated collection of our best thirty original plays of the year, which Degenerate Fox will valiantly attempt to perform in just one hour. These plays could be anything: comedy, drama, dance, games, songs, rants, personal, political, experimental - and stuff there just isn't a name for yet. The order of the plays is up to the audience - as we all work to get this chaotically succinct hour of honest performance complete!
VAULT Festival, one of the largest curated arts festivals in the world, has announced more than 400 shows for their 2019 programme. Now in its seventh year, VAULT Festival returns to London from 23rd January to 17th March with the best in new writing for theatre and comedy, immersive experiences, cabaret, live performance and late night parties. Their exciting and diverse programme features shows from more than 2,000 artists, with 53% of work being female-led and 25% of work coming from LGBTQIA+ artists. Starting in 2012 with only 25 shows and 7,000 attendees, VAULT Festival has become the fastest growing arts festival in the UK, hosting over 350 shows in 2018 and welcoming more than 70,000 audience members.
Netflix, the world's leading entertainment service, today unveiled four new unscripted original series and one original special slated to debut later this year. The announcement was made at the Edinburgh TV Festival by Brandon Riegg, VP of Unscripted Originals and Acquisitions for Netflix, where he outlined his vision for unscripted programming as his portfolio increases.
Forget the Houses of Parliament, forget Corbyn Vs. May, there's only one place to see true debate where the gloves are off and nothing is off topic as Chris Betts, (barman of the year 2005, good at knots) challenges you, the audience, on a bus, to pick any topic and he will argue for or against, no matter how taboo the subject. Infidelity; racism, euthanasia, Wales, Chris Betts Vs. The Audience is a fun friendly game show, where the winner is always who can argue the best under the scrutiny of special guest judges, previous guests include, Evelyn Mok, Pierre Novellie, Desiree Burch and Jamali Maddix.
Forget the Houses of Parliament, forget Corbyn Vs. May, there's only one place to see true debate where the gloves are off and nothing is off topic as Chris Betts, (barman of the year 2005, good at knots) challenges you, the audience, on a bus, to pick any topic and he will argue for or against, no matter how taboo the subject. Infidelity; racism, euthanasia, Wales, Chris Betts Vs. The Audience is a fun friendly game show, where the winner is always who can argue the best under the scrutiny of special guest judges, previous guests include, Evelyn Mok, Pierre Novellie, Desiree Burch and Jamali Maddix.
The Dirty Thirty is a collection of thirty original plays which Degenerate Fox will valiantly attempt to perform within just one hour. These plays could be anything: comedy, drama, dance, games, songs, rants, personal, political, experimental - and stuff there just isn't a name for yet. But they're all honest, and they're all fantastically succinct.
Now in their fifteenth year, the Funny Women Awards have announced the finalists for the Stage Award, joining those already announced for the Comedy Writing Award and Comedy Shorts Award for which you can view the entries here.
WP Theater (formerly known as Women's Project Theater), under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Lisa McNulty and Managing Director Michael Sag, is thrilled to announce the lineup for the second biennial Pipeline Festival, showcasing the work of the celebrated WP Lab residency for playwrights, directors and producers from March 29 - April 28 at WP Theater (2162 Broadway & 76th Street.)
A brand new series of The Chris Ramsey Show will be bursting back onto our TV screens this February, but this time with a difference… In a first for Comedy Central UK, critically acclaimed stand-up comedian Chris Ramsey will host his very own weekly topical chat show.
Hoxton Hall today announces the full cast for Female Parts Shorts: A Woman Alone, The Immigrant and A Mother - a collection of short plays directed by Karena Johnson, Artistic Director of Hoxton Hall. Johnson directs Gehane Strehler in A Woman Alone, Clare Perkins in The Immigrant and Rebecca Saire in A Mother. The three monologues will be performed in sequence, opening on Thursday 15 March, with previews from Tuesday 13 March, running until Saturday 31 March.
Now in their fifteenth year, the Funny Women Awards have received a record number of applicants - the Stage Award, alone, received over 400 entries. That number has now been pruned down to 70 female comedians who will compete at this month's regional final stage.
Based on the film inspired by true events, BREAD AND ROSES is the story of a young undocumented Mexican woman who crosses the U.S. border and risks it all in her fight for a living wage, equality and justice.