Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?
Brian Logan
Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna review – flamenco clown takes us from cradle to grave
Tweedy’s Massive Circus review – a lovable lark from start to finish
Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows
May 2024
The play that changed my life
The play that changed my life: Complicité’s A Minute Too Late was a matter of life and death
Our series on transformative theatrical discoveries continues with the moving 1984 show exploring our buttoned-up approach to mortality
April 2024
Doctor Brown: Beturns review – the original clown prince in total control
Phil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a performer is undeniable
March 2024
Shock of the old
Shock of the old: nine disturbing, disruptive and demonic clowns
The rise of ‘theatre AND’: how sounds, smells and interaction are luring in audiences
February 2024
Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot?
No sets, less fuss, a cast of one: can standups save the UK’s cash-strapped theatres?
January 2024
Stamptown review – late-night comedy cabaret is a helter-skelter delight
‘I wanted to be serious – but people would laugh so hard’: Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece
December 2023
Viggo Venn: British Comedian review – BGT champ is a clown prince enjoying his moment
Hi-vis hijinks are here aplenty as the Britain’s Got Talent winner revisits his triumphant routines
November 2023
‘Out of tune and out of key’: Covent Garden’s buskers fight back against bid to silence them
Fears 400 years of Covent Garden street theatre at risk from council clampdown
August 2023
Apocalypse Clown review – gag-filled comedy in post-apocalyptic Ireland
This comedy sees a troupe of clowns, living statues and ravers roaming about a dystopia where electricity has been stopped by a solar flare
Fool’s Paradise review – roll up for the clown wedding
Britt Plummer is waiting to get married to fellow clown Otto in this playful and wistful comedy
Late-night clown-therapy act among nominees for Edinburgh comedy awards
Troll review – sweetly silly Nordic comedy is monstrous fun
Until Death review – brief encounters with mortality and Marilyn Merlot
