But there are two aspects that perhaps drive Toxic Bastard further than his previous hours on his preoccupation. Firstly, on the allowances that others make for him, he's acquiring a darker, harder ...

Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times. But as she enters middle age and her 17-year relationship ...

Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering under the hood of a well-oiled ...

Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.

As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman – a demographic which patriarchal Indian ...

99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat is a heady mix of dumb wordplay and imaginative concepts - you’ll never look at the extra chair in a Travelodge room in quite the same way again. Yes, there are duds, ...

This year’s shortlist for the Act that Should Make A Million Quid features seven names: Alice Cockayne, Andrew O'Neill, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Molly McGuinness, Phil Ellis, Sam Nicoresti and ...

So You Think You’re Funny? is the third, and most high-profile, competition Madeleine Brettingham has won this year, and with such a distinctive and all-encompassing worldview, it’s easy to see why.

‘Series 7 is a full-throttle farewell packed with everything fans love: lederhosen-fuelled escapades, school reunions gone wildly off the rails, and gangsters more unhinged than ever. But amid the ...

James Corden has put up £10,000 prize money for this year’s ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. His contribution means that the best show and best newcomer winners will get £4,000 each with £3,000 for the ...

Alison Spittle won the best show accolade in The Comedians’ Choice Awards last night. Her show Big was selected by other comics performing at the Edinburgh Fringe as the best of the festival ...

Madeleine Brettingham has become the 38th winner of the So You Think You're Funny? comedy newcomer competition. Reb Day and Joel Walker came second and third place respectively, coming out top from ...