Preview: Leeds Comedy Festival 2015
This week, the first Leeds Comedy Festival will be bringing stand-up and sketch to the city centre.
Sunday For Sammy team launch sketch writing competition
North East charity The Sunday for Sammy Trust are offering up to ten comedy writers the chance to have their sketches professionally performed, in conjunction with the Laffalang team.
Review: Spamalot, Sunderland Empire
Just as an air of lassitude and obligation hung about the Python live shows, there’s a similar feeling to tonight’s revival production of Spamalot that perhaps they just shouldn’t have bothered.
Deer Shed Festival announce comedy line-up
Taking place in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, the festival will welcome a number of comedy acts to their Big Top stage, including last year’s Edinburgh Panel Prize winners Funz and Gamez.
Invisible Dot to programme Manchester Festival comedy
The festival’s Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square will host the programme, which includes the world premiére of The Crocodile adapted by Tom Basden, Adam Buxton’s latest work and The Invisible Dot Cabaret.
It’s Still Life comes to Manchester
Manchester’s Taurus Bar is to host a new comedy drama this week.
Review: The Producers, Sunderland Empire
“A wonderful, uplifting, outrageous bit of theatre, if you can sit through The Producers without a grin on your face, you’re probably a war criminal.”
