Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian 27/12/2016 … Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have taken a leaf out of the Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace playbook for the much-anticipated return of Inside No 9, give…
© BBC Last night's TV review by Steve Bennett
27/12/2016 … There’s a needlessly complicated set-up for this comedy-science extravaganza.
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
22/12/2016 … The Edinburgh Comedy Awards did their job this summer.
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Old Vic, London
21/12/2016 … What is Art? Well, it’s Yasmena Reza’s remarkably enduring tragi-comedy, now being revived at the Old Vic with Tim Key, Paul Ritter and Rufus Sewell playing…
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Old Fire Station, Oxford
20/12/2016 … All the seasonal stories these days are about the rich, argue Jonny Donahoe & Co, citing the likes of Love Actually and Home Alone.
Panto review by Steve Bennett at the New Diorama Theatre, London
15/12/2016 … Another week, another alternative comedy pantomime.
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
09/12/2016 … As calling cards go, Fleabag is attention-grabbing: an audacious, hilarious, candid, compelling and heartbreaking look at the life of a very modern ‘hot mess’.
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Battersea Arts Centre, London
09/12/2016 … There’s something about the ritualism of Christmas, both unwaveringly familiar yet a strange departure from normal life, that well suits John Kearns’s suburban…
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