The Edinburgh Fringe’s Assembly venues have put their first batch of tickets on sale.
Highlights include:
A run of Talking To Strangers, a live spin-off of the recent R4 series featuring Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan at the George Square Studios.
Daniel Kitson is to perform a new show later this year.
Mouse – The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought will have its world premiere at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool on May 17 and run until May 28.
Tickets go on sale on March 23 here. There is also more info about it at the same link.
Magician Paul Daniels has died aged 77. He had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour
His son Gary tweeted "It is with incredible sadness that I can confirm that Dad, Paul Daniels, passed away over night."
Dave Cohen has written funny lines for shows as diverse as Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out. But before that he was a successful stand-up comedian. And before that he was a rock critic. He is about to return to the live circuit with a show that also refers back to his earlier career. Music Was My First Love is a stand-up show with a difference – it consists of one long poem. And appropriately he is premiering it at the Poetry Cafe in London.
Nick Helm is releasing his "surprisingly easy" second album – Nick Helm Is Fucking Amazing. It will be available from April 14. And on the same date he is playing a one-off gig at the forum in Kentish Town, entitled Nick Helm: All Killer Some Filler.
Tickets for the London run of Groundhog Day, the new musical by Tim Minchin, will go on general sale on Tuesday 12 April at noon.
The show will run at the Old Vic for a strictly limited 10-week season from Monday 11 July – Saturday 17 September 2016 and will be directed by the Old Vic's artistic director, Matthew Warchus.
Rising star Joe Lycett is to record his debut stand-up DVD this May, to be released later this year.
The Birmingham comic has just added the filming date to his current That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett tour schedule. There will be two special performances at the Duchess Theatre in London on May 23 at 6.30pm & 9pm. Tickets here.
Comedian Alexis Dubus has made the news in Australia following a Facebook post in which he criticised the current Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Jenny Eclair was forced to postpone shows on her current How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane) tour at the weekend due to illness.
On Saturday she apologised to her fans via Twitter: "I'm on steroids for a chest infection. I was gasping for air on stage last night I'm so sorry everyone - I need to mend."
Performances at the Y in Leicester and the Stables in Milton Keynes were postponed. Tickets will be transferable to the new dates when they are announced.
Warning. This episode contains skipping. Sure enough, Lee suckered his TV viewers in last week with a relatively benign look at the nature of modern comedy and a few cheeky swipes at his fellow entertainers. This week he goes for the jugular, addressing the more tricky question of the rise of Islamophobia and the acceptability of jokes about religion.
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