Theatre and comedy acts at this year’s festival break down their expenses and consider the financial risks“The big, difficult cost this year is accommodation,” says RoguePlay’s artistic director Kim Wildborne. The physical theatre company is heading to…
Continue ReadingPreston Park, BrightonMatafeo offers up heartbreak hilarity and Wang brings his dad jacket to the charming outdoor event with the nastiest hecklers on the south coastIt is, says host Suzie Ruffell, the only gig where you get heckled by gulls. Or worse:…
Continue ReadingCracking comedy, an eclectic mix of theatre – and aerial dance in an ice rink. Our critics share their picks for the August arts extravaganzaRhod Gilbert: Work in Progress Gilded Balloon Teviot Continue reading…
Continue ReadingWe’re a little over a month out from the ComedyPRO programming part of Just For Laughs festival and as the… MORE
Just For Laughs announces ComedyPRO programming. Awards recipients include Bert Kreischer and Quinta Brunson appeared firs…
The Irish comedian on good gigs, bad gigs, her standup heroes and what makes a good soupHow did you get your start in standup?I did work experience at a radio station when I was in college. The breakfast DJ was Bernard O’Shea, a big comedian in Ireland…
Continue ReadingWe follow our loser hero from tooth fairy credits to funeral debts in a comedy of financial errors exploring money as a transactional link through all relationshipsThe award-winning French author, director and composer David Lescot’s play Dough is all …
Continue ReadingComedians Sophie Duker and Jacob Hawley discuss how to draw revellers away from pop stars while Glastonbury’s Charlotte Lang explains what it takes to win over the cabaret tentYou’re in a massive tent. People are walking in and out, chatting, spilling …
Continue ReadingJust For Laughs is coming back to Toronto for 2023. The comedy festival will be hosting some of the biggest… MORE
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The writer of the acclaimed Patricia Gets Ready… returns with a lockdown-inspired comedy drama about a drug dealer having a power cutThe trigger for a play can be many things: a moral dilemma or a political event, a true-life story or a misheard anecdo…
Continue ReadingJust For Laughs, one of the largest and most-prestigious comedy festivals in the world just announced the first list of… MORE
Ali Wong, Russell Peters, Anthony Jeselnik and more announced as performers Just For Laughs Montreal 2023 lineup ap…
