Comedy
Stand-up comedy, parody, and the like.
We’re in the last week of the Fringe.
As the title suggests, When you Improv on a Star is what you expect; a Disney musical, based purely on…
For over 30 years, the outrageously talented trio that is Fascinating Aïda has been entertaining audiences in…
West Bromwich-based comic Masai Graham has won this year's Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe.
In the 1980s, the TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi, set in a 1960s holiday camp run by yellow coats with all its behind…
The award winning BBC Radio 4 series may have gone to bed in the 80s but it has risen thirty years on as…
Originally performed at the 1977 Edinburgh Fringe, John Godber’s Bouncers is a script that, much like its…
There’s nothing unusual these days about groups re-forming and touring with old material to bathe their fans…
It’s not raining. I can’t believe it’s not raining.
‘Why are we given so much life?’ asks Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. ‘The Lounge’ poses the same question…
At the Fringe 2015, I was tickled pink by Buckle Up, a brilliantly devised, farcical play about the crazy…
Chalked hair, heavily applied lip liner wrinkles and a distinct lack of weary joints, Z Theatre Company’s…
Enter with caution and an open mind as your every move is under the magnifying glass at the mercy of the…
What happens when you put the Macbeths, Richard III and Juliet Capulet into a psychiatrist’s chair? Dr Bard…
The Fringe 2016 is nearly a week old.
If you have ever felt pressured and under appreciated in your place of work, at least you aren’t a part of…
It’s a good thing the title specifies ‘abridged’ – as we are told almost immediately, the ‘original’ script…
Blue smoke and green lights pervade the stage area as the seats fill up for The Pleasance Opening Gala. The…
Immortalised by a franchise whose comedy is an iconic staple of British culture, the life and strife of the…
Found, quite literally underground, beneath the excitable streets of Edinburgh, the Trainspotting cast are…