Directed by Cal McCrystal and Georgia Murphy, Garry Starr: Classic Penguins takes audiences on an adventure through as many Penguin Classics books as possible with our host, Garry Starr (Damien Warren-Smith). There’s just one thing that’s a bit unusual - Starr is in the nude. Well, not exactly. He is wearing a tailcoat and flippers, but that’s it.
Discover WELFARE, a new play by Abi Zakarian at Derby Theatre, directed by Sarah Brigham. Running from Sep 28 to Oct 12.
A round-up of BroadwayWorld's Edfringe reviews from 2024.
The Lowry, Salford has announced its Contemporary Dance and Circus Seasons for Autumn 2024. Learn more about the lineup here!
The multi-award-winning, sartorially shy comic wunderkind will return with another anarchic masterclass in Garry Starr: Classic Penguins.
Join award-winning performer Damien Warren-Smith as he tries to find a calmer place to be amongst the madness of the monkey business that fills his mind.
In a world where people were busy binge-watching cat videos and falling down internet rabbit holes, the noble art of theatre faced an existential crisis. But never underestimate the power of a whimsical spirit, because I, Garry Starr, am about to share the improbable story of how I saved theatre from going belly up!
GARRY STARR PERFORMS EVERYTHING comes to Southwark Playhouse in November. Performances run 29 November - 23 December. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!
Sydney Fringe Festival, the city’s largest independent arts festival, has announced its full program of over 400 events and 12 festival hubs across the city from 1 - 30 September 2023.
After delighting Wollongong audiences since 2017, The Spiegeltent returns to take over the Wollongong Arts Precinct once more. With three weeks of electrifying live performance, a dash of comedy and splash of family fun, The Spiegeltent’s 2023 season will be brought to life from 7-25 June 2023.
Anna-Jane Casey will be joining the UK and Ireland Tour of the pantomime MOTHER GOOSE as Cilla The Goose with Mairi Barclay, Becca Francis, Shailan Gohil and Laura Tyrer also confirmed to join the company
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions has announced a UK and Ireland Tour of the pantomime MOTHER GOOSE, starring Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose and Mel Giedroyc as the Goose.
Fringe Ignite returns to The Rocks this Friday 2 September from 6pm to late to mark the official opening of Sydney Fringe Festival. A free night of acoustic live music, Fringe Ignite will feature over 20 of Sydney's best local acts presented throughout locations on Nurses Walk and Kendall Lane, plus the Runaway Gardens.
London Clown Festival is a festival of physical comedy and clown influenced contemporary performance, exploring what clown is to the modern performer and their audiences. Packed with physical comedy and Buffoonery London Clown Festival will once again bring the best of UK and International clowning to the capital from 27th June - 9th July 2022.
Garry Starr… The Myth… The Legend… returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour of award-winning, unpredictable and exuberant physical comedy for anyone and everyone with a heart, soul, and funny bone. No prior knowledge of the classics required.
Having single handedly saved the performing arts in 2018 with his multi-award-winning debut show, comic wunderkind Garry Starr returns with Greece Lightning, another anarchic masterclass not to be mythed.
Liverpool's international theatre troupe, Teatro Pomodoro, are returning to the city with a new show this April, entitled 'Sirens, Men and Crabs: A Shipwrecked Odyssey.'
The Cowgate is the heart of Underbelly, home to its new writing theatre, comedy, cabaret and late-night music and mischief.
DAMIEN WARREN-SMITH is an actor and comedian who returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with GARRY STARR CONQUERS TROY. This new show will see Garry Starr casually conquer Troy and school audiences in the great art of Pretendism in another anarchic masterclass to remember.
Garry Starr would like to think he is an actor's actor. Actually, turns out, he's everybody's actor... his debut solo show Garry Star Performs Everything went down rip-roaringly well at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. Having already laid down the entire canon and every conceivable dramatic style in the book, now it is time to see if he can casually conquer Troy.
