The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Timing may remain the key to comedy, but knowing your audience and connecting with it continues to rank right up there with it. To see Mike Birbiglia in his Broadway debut of The New One, I brought a comedian who not only has performed with Birbiglia, but also is a …
After a sold-out run in London, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning comedic play that inspired her hit Amazon comedy is coming to New York City for a five-week run in 2019. Fleabag will run from Feb. 28 through April 7, 2019, at the Soho Playhouse. But you don’t have to wait that …
Almost an hour into her performance of Nanette at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby pauses before she pivots. “You’re culturally unprepared for someone to be angry….and funny…in the same breath,” Gadsby informs us. Truth is, though, she can no longer tell her story without …
After workshopping his newest one-man show in San Francisco and elsewhere around America, John Leguizamo is ready to return to his native New York City with “Latin History for Morons,” opening Feb. 24, 2017, for at least a two-month run at The Public Theater. Here’s the official show description: Emmy …
Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and the prestigious Panel Prize. That was August 2013. Some three years later, the summer of 2016 finds Truscott doing “Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady …
Mike Birbiglia’s latest stand-up tour is headed Off-Broadway, back to the same theater at 45 Bleecker St. where Birbiglia developed Sleepwalk With Me. Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes will play Lynn Redgrave Theater, with previews beginning Feb. 2, 2016, and an official opening Feb. 11. “I’m so excited to be …
Jon Stewart glossed over the news in his otherwise highly amusing interview with Colin Quinn on Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show when Stewart asked if Jerry Seinfeld would be directing Quinn onstage again. Because it’s happening. This summer. Colin Quinn’s The New York Story will debut at The Cherry Lane …
That Frank Garcia-Hejl is showcasing his characters and impersonations to audiences of hundreds on weeknights in a basement, instead of to millions live on Saturday nights, really owes more to happenstance and turns of fate. For now. Watching Garcia-Hejl’s current one-man show, “OH NO!”, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre …
The 33rd edition of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival will continue to cement its position as the world’s biggest congregation and celebration of comedy this July, with awards and performances heralding Dave Chappelle, Mike Myers, Kevin Hart, Patton Oswalt, Ellie Kemper and Armando Iannucci. The festival announced today they’ll be …
And then there will be 11. Jim Gaffigan announced today that he’s added a date to the end of his 2015 tour schedule, and it’s a biggie — well, the biggest venue in size and prestige to stand-up comedians: New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Gaffigan will perform the MSG …
