Elf Lyons News

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see award winning comedian Katie Norris make her solo debut following success with her first foray into solo stand-up comedy.

Wilton's Music Hall has revealed the lineup for its 2024 summer season. The season will kick off this June with The Sorcerer and will continue thorugh the end of the summer. Learn more about the lineup here!

Following sell-out runs at VAULT Festival and Kings Head Theatre, where the show received a host of 5-star reviews and award nominations, Gay Witch Sex Cult is coming to the prestigious Soho Theatre for two nights this April. 

BWW caught up with Cerys Bradley to chat about bringing Not Overthinking Things 2019 to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW caught up with Mary O'Connell to chat about bringing Money Princess to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tickets go on sale today for the second annual Edinburgh Deaf Festival following yesterday's programme launch – which featured an invitation for everyone to come along. 

Playwright Lisa Carroll explores how the contemporary search for intimacy is marred by millennial malaise and trauma cycles in a witty dramedy that’s unexplainably ideologically ambiguous.

Metal Rabbit productions has announced the cast for the world premiere of 'The Misandrist' a penetrating new play by Lisa Carroll (writer of the 'intoxicating to watch' êêêêê BroadwayWorld; Cuckoo, Soho Theatre) which runs at the Arcola Theatre from 10th May – 10th  June 2023.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that more shows for the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be available to book. Learn more about the lineup here!

 Following a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022, the award-winning actor, writer and comedian Elf Lyons is taking her terrifying and darkly funny Stephen King-inspired comedy show on tour this Autumn 2022. Beginning in Bristol on 1st October, before heading across the UK, culminating with nine nights at London’s Soho Theatre, just in time to spice up this year’s Halloween.

BWW catches up with Elf Lyons to chat about bringing Raven to the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

--It's bigger, it's bolder, it's back; VAULT Festival will return from 25th January – 20th March 2022, celebrating its 10th anniversary with its biggest programme to date.  Produced by VAULT Creative Arts, VAULT Festival is one of the largest curated arts festivals in the world and the largest in the UK. In 2022, the festival will feature over 600 shows of the best new theatre, comedy, immersive experiences, cabaret, live performance, and late-night events from the brightest and boldest artists of our time. 

As well as solo shows from the incredible roster of acts, The BIG SHOW returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy's top rated, sold out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15, with a top mixed-bill line-up each evening.

Performers include Nabil Abdulrashid (The Guardian's Top 10 Comedy Shows 2020, ITV's Britain's Got Talent); Fern Brady (Power and Chaos and Sounds of Misfortune for the BBC); Ivo Graham (BBC's Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week); and Shaparak Khorsandi (BBC's QI, ITV's I'm A Celebrity…, Shappi Talk for BBC Radio 4).

The full line-up of arts and cultural events has been revealed for Hope Mill Theatre’s three-week festival, HOPE FEST, which runs in Ancoats, Manchester from 16th July – 8th August. The festival will take place inside a large theatre tent which will accommodate 250 capacity, based beside New Islington Tram Station.

Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre will launch a three-week festival in Ancoats this summer, HOPE FEST, with a programme of arts and cultural events from 16th July – 8th August.

Award winning comedian Elf Lyons has announced the release her critically acclaimed play 'Gorgon: A Horror Story' as a digital audio play. Focusing on the still taboo subject of female anger, the show explores what happens when we are just pushed too far.

The current Coronavirus Crisis has left Monkey Barrel, and many people in the Comedy industry without an income. The 2020 Edinburgh Fringe has been cancelled, Monkey Barrel Comedy Club remains closed and ita??s fabulous team unable to work.  Thata??s why they are hosting the fundraiser show of a lifetime. 

Alexandra Palace has today announced it is welcoming some of the UK's finest stand-up comedians to Comedy On The Terrace, a series of outdoor, socially distanced comedy gigs at one of London's biggest beer gardens. Comedy On The Terrace will take place at Alexandra Palace on Thursday evenings throughout the rest of the summer starting on 13th August.

It's very hard to distillate horror and put it on stage. Theatre works on the separation between audience and performers, and the surprising effects that one can successfully employ live in performance are relatively limited by the realistic nature of the mean, therefore companies usually only rely on well-timed but ultimately cheap jump-scares to achieve their frightening goals.