Available onlineThe comic riffs on arts careers and money while playing video games and fending off his spirit animal in a likable showTom Mayhew is performing live on Zoom every night of this year’s fringe, not from a stage but from his sofa. The stor…
Continue ReadingThe festival is back – and so are stage fright and self-loathing. But this year’s event has been small and beautifulI normally find Edinburgh fringe an extremely trying time. Now it’s an extremely trying time with fewer people.Before setting off this y…
Continue ReadingThe festival is back – and so are stage fright and self-loathing. But this year’s event has been small and beautifulI normally find Edinburgh fringe an extremely trying time. Now it’s an extremely trying time with fewer people.Before setting off this y…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineLacy’s tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrityTania Lacy’s standup show, Catch a Falling Star, is performed to an empty room and available on demand throu…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineLacy’s tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrityTania Lacy’s standup show, Catch a Falling Star, is performed to an empty room and available on demand throu…
Continue ReadingRio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin’s sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festivalThere are leaps required of artists in this week’s Blue Tick festival, showcasing internet comedy on the big screen. It’s a…
Continue ReadingRio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin’s sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festivalThere are leaps required of artists in this week’s Blue Tick festival, showcasing internet comedy on the big screen. It’s a…
Continue ReadingNetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east AsiaFrom the other side of a global pandemic, here comes Phil Wang’s maiden Netflix special. Due for a spring 2…
Continue ReadingNetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east AsiaFrom the other side of a global pandemic, here comes Phil Wang’s maiden Netflix special. Due for a spring 2…
Continue ReadingThis August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…
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