Taxi ride hailing service FREE NOW has announced four exclusive comedy gigs in London's West End to celebrate the role of local comedy nights – and to highlight the need for audiences to support them.
Taxi ride hailing service FREE NOW has announced four exclusive comedy gigs in London’s West End to celebrate the role of local comedy nights – and to highlight the need for audiences to support them.
Today, Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced 12 new commissions titled The Park Bench Plays a?" a series of micro-plays that illuminate, interrogate and even celebrate today's socially distanced world.
TicketText Group (TTG), the company behind the renowned London King's Cross comedy venue 2Northdown and ticketing operator TicketText, have announced the launch of Laughing Around, a production company specialising in live comedy that will create original digital content.
Ovation, America's only arts network, has acquired the non-exclusive U.S. broadcast rights for select seasons in a multi-title deal with all3media international. The deal is for seasons 7 and 8 of Travel Man (8 x '30, 1 x 60' Christmas special), seasons 7 to 11 of Midsomer Murders (38 x 120'), and two seasons of Gordon's Great Escape (7x60'). The announcement was made today by Scott Woodward, EVP Programming and Production, Ovation.
This October Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards are in the heart of London's West End direct from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Over the course of three nights at the Duchess Theatre - 14th, 21st and 28th October a?'Best Comedy Show winner, Jordan Brookes will be joined by Best Comedy Show nominees Darren Harriott, The Delightful Sausage, Goodbear, Ivo Graham, Jessica Fostekew and others to showcase the comedy stars of 2019.
Dave Gorman, the man behind Dave TV's hit show Modern Life Is Goodish as well as Are You Dave Gorman? and Googlewhack Adventure, is back on the road with a brand new live show, With Great PowerPoint Comes Great ResponsibilityPoint. The hilarious show will be at the Pavilion Theatre on Thursday 24 October, at 8pm.
Jordan Brookes has been announced as the winner of Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Show and Catherine Cohen is Best Newcomer.
Today the 2019 nominees were announced for Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, now in its 39th year, for Best Comedy Show and Best Newcomer.
Don't miss the opportunity to see some incredible comedy in Worthing this October!
Assembly Festival, 31 July - 26 Aug, has a stellar selection of stand up with over 80 shows lined up for audiences, including the star of Netflix's Comedians of the World Aditi Mittal; Indian stand-up Anuvab Pal taking on the British Empire in Democracy and Disco Dancing; the feisty and hilarious Cally Beaton (Best of the Fringe 2017) with her show Invisible; Chris Parker; host of Whose Line Is It Anyway Clive Anderson; Ed Byrne, Frank Skinner, George Egg, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Jason Byrne, Jena Friedman, Joanne McNally, the young and extremely talented impressionist Josh Berry, Larry Dean, Milton Jones in Milton Impossible; Nath Valvo; star of Parks and Recreation comedian Nick Offerman; Nish Kumar; Fringe first-timer & US stand-up star Phoebe Robinson; legends Simon Evans, Russell Howard; Pinder-prize winner Sam Taunton;Shane Todd, Guy Montgomery, Stewart Francis with a new show Into the Punset; Scottish festival favourite Susie McCabe; and Timandra Harkness with her new solo comedy show Take A Risk.
Darlington Hippodrome has lifted the lid on a selection of new shows for its Summer 2019 season.
A second Sydney performance has been added to meet demand for UK comedy royalty David Baddiel's Olivier-nominated one-man stage show My Family: Not The Sitcom. Frontier Comedy are thrilled to announce that David will perform a second Seymour Centre show today 15 September.
A second Sydney performance has been added to meet demand for UK comedy royalty David Baddiel's Olivier-nominated one-man stage show My Family: Not The Sitcom. Frontier Comedy are thrilled to announce that David will perform a second Seymour Centre show on Saturday 15 September.
BWW catches up with Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin to chat about bringing Moon to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
This year PBH Free Fringe is pleased to announce a special roster of rotating shows in a venue offering full disabled access.
BBC Arts and Avalon announce today the casting and directors for DEBUT - a unique new initiative enabling four professional creatives - Bim Adewunmi, Katherine Parkinson, Beryl Richards and Frank Skinner - who have never written for the stage before to create their debut play. All four plays will be directed by emerging directors giving a new generation of talent an opportunity to direct a play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018.
The Pleasance is a place for experiences and, this year, marks Pleasance's boldest programme yet. From the funny to the sorrowful, the political to the magical, the Pleasance has always been a place for incredible stories and 2018 takes this tradition to a new level.
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