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.
Update - Romesh Ranganathan has now joined the line-up below.
Following the all-star comedians' fight night fundraiser for Kian Musgrove a benefit stand-up gig has also been arranged. Caring for Kian takes place in Brighton on April 6.
Stewart Lee has said that nobody is competent to review him. It’s a sentiment he echoes early on in the first episode of his new six-part BBC2 series. So after thinking about doing something more useful with my time I decided to have a go. Does he mean it? It’s a remark like a lot of remarks in this episode. They can be taken as face value, they can be taken as a wry postmodern joke. Or maybe both. It's a very layered show, that's for sure. Not so much a comedy vehicle as a comedy Viennetta.
The world premiere of Cosmic Genome’s The Quest for Wonder, starring comedian Robin Ince and physicist Brian Cox alongside their puppet counterparts, will be held at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre as part of Science Museum Lates. The screening will take place at 7:30pm on 30th March 2016. After the screening, the cast and crew will be available for a Q&A.
Bridget Christie is releasing her first live DVD special. Bridget Christie: Stand-Up For Her will be out later this year. To prepare for the filming in May the acclaimed comic is doing a season of warm-up shows in small venues around London over the next few months.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner's shows and DVD will feature the best bits of her last three full-length Edinburgh Fringe and West End sell-out shows. Dates are below.
Comedian Darius Davies found himself interviewed by BBC News this week about witnessing a drunken in-flight incident. Except that he did not witness it.
A Ryanair flight heading for Bratislava had been re-routed to Berlin due to the rowdy behaviour of a British stag party. The BBC had asked if anyone was one the flight and would like to comment.
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