BBC sketch show stars Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller brought their latest brilliant comedy tour to the Fairfield Halls in Croydon last night. The show was painfully funny and featured plenty of favourite characters, including the delightfully preposterous vampires and …
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15 Nov
2010
2010
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind at Wyndham’s Theatre
Bill Bailey‘s latest one-man show Dandelion Mind is a near-perfect mix of stand-up and musical comedy. Rather than some of the stadium gigs Bailey’s done recently (often with full orchestra) the smaller Leicester Square venue of Wyndham’s Theatre lent an …
Read more...8 Jun
2010
2010
2010 FIFA World Cup theatre in London: Bend it Like Beauty
World Cup fever has hit London. Hostels, hotels and many of the capital’s 6,000 pubs, bars and restaurants are waving colourful flags from across the world in celebration of the world’s largest sporting event (click here for details of another …
Read more...8 Jun
2010
2010
Frisky and Mannish at the E4 Udderbelly in London
Last Thursday I went to see self-proclaimed pop educators Frisky and Mannish perform at the E4 Udderbelly – a giant, upside down, purple cow on the South Bank. The duo’s hilarious show provides a musical “education” in the form of …
Read more...2 Jun
2010
2010
Monty Python’s Spamalot in London at The New Wimbledon Theatre
Monty Python’s Spamalot is back in London at the New Wimbledon Theatre! The award-winning silly musical, adapted by Eric Idle from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has all your favourite Python jokes, performed just for you by …
Read more...28 May
2010
2010
Bank Holiday Weekend Roundup
Another bank holiday weekend is upon us. The weather is forecast to be warm but not too blistering hot (fingers crossed it won’t rain too much!). So it should be a lovely chance to get out and about in London. …
Read more...31 Mar
2010
2010
Comedy and Cabaret at The Brickhouse
The Brickhouse on Brick Lane in Shoreditch is a newish London venue (opened 2007) that hosts a range of comedy, cabaret and club nights. Inside, it’s a cool, three-tier space with dining tables and a cocktail bar on the ground …
Read more...17 Mar
2010
2010
Soap at Riverside Studios
I wasn’t sure quite what to expect from Soap, billed as an acrobatic extravaganza in bathtubs. Why bathtubs? But it worked so well. Soap is a well-crafted show featuring eight incredibly talented performers, which manages to be in turns breathtaking, …
Read more...9 Mar
2010
2010
Funny Women Stand Up: Comedy for International Women’s Day
Yesterday evening I went along to the Leicester Square Theatre for some giggles at a women’s stand-up comedy charity evening organised by Funny Women for International Women’s Day. Loads of funny female comics took to the stage and had the …
Read more...22 Jan
2010
2010
Aloha from the Met Bar!
For those of you who weren’t aware, this Monday was Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year. Now here at the Met Bar we don’t take ourselves too seriously (as you may have noticed by now!), but even …
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