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June 2024

  • Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour at Soho theatre.

    Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour review – huge presence doesn’t hide thin material

    She’s a convivial host, but 70 minutes of shops chat, family home videos and the odd song about our comic’s love life may leave you eyeing the exit
  • He stretches out his arm to hit the keyboard while wailing into a microphone, nearly hitting his backing singer

    Jazz Emu: Knight Fever review – fun synthpop pastiche about a frontman striving for glory

    Half musical comedy, half party, Archie Henderson’s show ranges far and wide over the travails of his slinky singer vying for a knighthood
  • Crizards (Eddy Hare and Will Rowland) in This Means War.

    Crizards: This Means War review – a lovably larky send-up of old combat tales

    The daffy duo follow up their westerns parody Cowboys with a silly but still oddly respectful musical-comedy about their grandads’ generation

May 2024

  • Greta Titelman on stage with microphone

    Greta Titelman: Exquisite Lies review – mesmeric standup with plenty to shriek about

    The comic traces a path from Arizona to Manhattan with a musical set that never quite lands
  • Withnail & I W&I Production Pic 067 - Morgan Philpott (Wanker), Adonis Siddique (Marwood) and Robert Sheehan (Withnail). Credit Manuel Harlan

    The week in theatre: Withnail and I; Spirited Away; Mary Said What She Said; Boys on the Verge of Tears – review

    Bruce Robinson’s new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects than feeling; and all hail Isabelle Huppert’s many Marys in Robert Wilson’s magical production
  • Marie Faustin performs Sorry I'm Late by Marie Faustin.

    Marie Faustin: Sorry I’m Late review – an irresistible hour from a stellar standup

    A lesser act might have struggled to follow the brilliant Sydnee Washington, but Faustin’s swaggering, gossipy shtick is superb

April 2024

  • Boys on the Verge of Tears.

    Boys on the Verge of Tears review – a whistle-stop tour of bewildered masculinity

    Set entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut of male neuroses

March 2024

  • Monét X Change

    Monét X Change: Life Be Lifein’ review – Drag Race champ’s fabulous rise to fame

  • Comedian Leslie Liao performing at the Soho Theatre. Leslie Liao is a stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. Audiences around the world have been drawn to her relatable, introspective, and matter-of-fact style of humor which is often anchored around her experiences as a single Chinese-American woman living in Los Angeles. Leslie was recently selected to be a New Face of Comedy at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2023, and her debut set on Don’t Tell Comedy platforms, “Fixing Straight Men,” debuted boldly on YouTube with clips from her set going viral on Instagram and TikTok. She has toured with some of the biggest names in comedy, including Fortune Feimster, and can often be seen in Los Angeles gracing the stages of The

    Leslie Liao review – heard the one about the Netflix staffer turned standup?

  • Robby Hoffman at Soho theatre, London.

    Robby Hoffman review – New Yorker unleashes her nerd-jock shtick

  • Catherine Bohart in Again, With Feelings at Soho theatre.

    Catherine Bohart: Again, With Feelings review – firecracker of an hour is her best yet

February 2024

  • Sarah Keyworth

    Sarah Keyworth: My Eyes Are Up Here review – top surgery becomes a family affair

    With fine one-liners, the crowd-pleasing east Midlander traces their relationship with their parents in a touching show
  • Mary O'Connell.

    Comedy Q&A
    Mary O’Connell: ‘My whole shtick was complaining about money. Then I won £100,000’

    The standup on delusional confidence, her heroes and bugbears – and why she hasn’t bought a gold-plated toilet with her OnlyFans contest winnings
  • Paul Currie performing with a microphone

    Soho theatre apologises after comedian ‘abused Jewish audience member’

    Paul Currie allegedly swore at and hounded out Israeli man who refused to applaud Palestinian flag

January 2024

  • Disorientating … Celya AB.

    Celya AB: Second Rodeo review – secrets and lies from the French standup

    In a show revisiting her childhood and dissecting comedy tropes, the performer has captivating presence but her material meanders
  • Zach Zucker as seedy compere Jack Tucker in Stamptown.

    Stamptown review – late-night comedy cabaret is a helter-skelter delight

    Across 75 haywire minutes, Zach Zucker’s variety show features fire-breathing, copious nudity and superb performances from acts including Natalie Palamides

    • A funny thing happened on the way here: comedians get personal about their backstage dramas

    • Expats review – Chicago’s improv squad riff on the ridiculous

    • ‘I wanted to be serious – but people would laugh so hard’: Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece

December 2023

  • Rosie Sheehy in Machinal at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath.

    2023 in Culture
    Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2023

    This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four times
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