The critically acclaimed improvisational frontrunners The Showstoppers are not only bringing their Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical to Pleasance Grand this year, the team are also dropping by Pleasance Above with their unique blend of spontaneous musical theatre and whimsical kids entertainment, The Showstoppers' Kids' Show. Aimed entirely at children, The Showstoppers' story factory will be open for business from 3rd - 21st August at 11:40am.
Every night the cast of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical pull off something incredibly ambitious; they create a real musical from scratch, not just an improv night with songs but a full story with characters you can care about, a live band of incredible musicians, and seamless choreography.
The critically acclaimed improvisational frontrunners The Showstoppers are not only bringing their Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical to Pleasance Grand this year, the team are also dropping by Pleasance Above with their unique blend of spontaneous musical theatre and whimsical kids entertainment, The Showstoppers' Kids' Show. Aimed entirely at children, The Showstoppers' story factory will be open for business from 3rd - 21st August at 11:40am.
Amused Moose Super Saturday, the excellent, top-value, quality-comedy-in-London-tonight, features a great bunch of skillful stand-ups coming direct from Soho's only multi-award-winning comedy club, recommended by TimeOut, and just a few minutes from Kings Cross tube/rail station. The next installment is set for today, Saturday 27 February 2016.
On March 24th 2016 The Hippodrome are excited to be introducing an all new improv Supergroup, featuring the mega-talents of Josie Lawrence (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Comedy Store Players), Cariad Lloyd (Austentatious), Pippa Evans & Ruth Bratt (Showstopper!).
Amused Moose Super Saturday, the excellent, top-value, quality-comedy-in-London-tonight, features a great bunch of skillful stand-ups coming direct from Soho's only multi-award-winning comedy club, recommended by TimeOut, and just a few minutes from Kings Cross tube/rail station. The next installment is set for Saturday 27 February 2016.
5 p.m.Following a 10-week engagement wowing audiences and critics alike in the first-ever season for an improvised musical in the West End, the run of SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL is being extended, with a transfer to the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. For just 10 more performances between 15th February and 25th July, audience suggestions will be transformed instantly into all-singing, all-dancing shows with unpredictable and hilarious results.
It is week nine. I have been to Mars, twice. I have scattered my mother's ashes (and inhaled them) from a Norwegian mountain. I have tamed lions, I have been a nun, I have fixed cars and served custard. I have sung about being polite in Britain and how to defrost the fridge. I have loved so many partners, I have wept over their bodies, I have been married at least a dozen times.
As the perfect antidote to the season of enforced merriment, Birmingham Repertory Theatre hosts a series of cabaret nights with a difference throughout December. With a wickedly funny line-up and for six nights only, the Dirty Grotto will titillate even the most bah-humbugs from 10 - 19 December.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has been wowing audiences and critics alike in this first ever season for an improvised musical in the West End. Every night audience suggestions are transformed instantly into all-singing, all-dancing shows with unpredictable and hilarious results. The show is now in its final three weeks at the Apollo Theatre.
'So far this run I have played four different types of pigeon, a North Korean chicken farmer and Ronald McDonald,' writes Showstopper!'s Sarah-Louise Young...
Week two of our ten-week run and we're getting into the swing of things. The preview week is over, we've had press night; or rather press day - unusually for the West End, we did a matinee and an evening show on opening day and invited reviewers to see both performances, just to show that Showstopper really is different every show.
Amused Moose Piccadilly will welcome top comedy in the swishest venue in town at Soho's Sanctum Hotel on Friday 6 February 2015, featuring Katherine Ryan (Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo), Pippa Evans (Showstopper star), Markus Birdman (Amused Moose Comedy Award finalist), and Ian Smith (BBC2 Popatron).
Chase away the Monday blues with an 'alf and a larf! at The Comedy Store on Monday 12th May. HemiHelp, the national charity for hemiplegia, will be hosting an evening of fun and laughter and the star guest is none other than the amazing Al Murray. As one of the UK's best-loved and most successful comics, Murray is renowned for his alter-ego, the Pub Landlord. The brilliant Paddy Lennox will be compering the evening and the line-up will also boast other fantastic names from the world of comedy including Jonny Pelham and Pippa Evans (as Loretta Maine).
Produced by Extempore Theatre (the new name for award-winning experimental theatre company The Sticking Place), creators of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and The Terror Seasons, Britain's only annual festival of horror theatre and Grand Guignol, The 6th Annual London Improvathon takes place over 50 hours from Friday 11 January at 7.00pm to Sunday 13 January at 9.00pm at Hoxton Hall. Check out photos from the event below!
Showstopper! The Musical has returned to the Fringe again after another successful year of improvising shows on the audience's cues. We asked the company's Lucy Trodd to tell us all about her Edinburgh experiences...
MARCH AT THE WAM BAM CLUB boasts Comedy, Magic, Music, and Burlesque at CAFE DE PARIS, 3 Coventry Street, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1D 6BL. Spring is in the air, so it is with renewed energy and a radar fixed on fresh talent that Wam Bam invites you to shake off those winter cobwebs and get out the glitter.
