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Chloe Petts at Soho Theatre review: effortlessly funny and thought-provoking show about tackling online trolls

4/5 Perplexingly overlooked by awards judges, football obsessive Petts is in comedy’s Premier League

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Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia

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Olga Koch Comes From Money at the Soho Theatre review: honesty, charm and punchy wit

4/5 It’s far from relatable, but her show about growing up in a world of yachts and private jets packs a punch

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Emma Sidi is Sue Gray at Soho Theatre review: Taskmaster star delivers absurdist portrait of Labour's ex-chief of staff

4/5 The comedian’s gossipy, hun culture Sue Gray sounds like she works behind the bar at the Queen Vic, dishing dirt on ‘goofball’ Rishi and ‘dripping in rizz’ Kier

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Sophie Duker: But Daddy I Love Her review – desperately seeking ‘delulu’

Inspired by joint therapy sessions with her father, the standup’s joyful show has vivid portraits of her ‘borderline-delusional’ parents

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Ginger Johnson Blows Off! review – this crude, fart-fuelled comedy runs out of gas

The Drag Race UK winner draws inspiration from a human cannonball in an unsubtle hour of daredevil feats and jokes about flatulence

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From Janie Dee to Sh!t Theatre: the best Edinburgh 2024 shows coming to London this year

See some of the best shows at the fringe without having to leave the capital

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Where to catch the best comics before they head up for the festival

Want to get ahead of the curve and see some of the best comedy talent before they head up to the biggest arts festival in the world? Here’s our pick of who’s playing in London over the next month

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Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour review – huge presence doesn’t hide thin material

She’s a convivial host, but 70 minutes of shops chat, family home videos and the odd song about our comic’s love life may leave you eyeing the exit

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End of construction work for new Walthamstow theatre in sight

The 1,000-seat venue is at the core of the council’s vision for Walthamstow to become a ‘cultural corner’

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Doctor Brown: Beturns review – the original clown prince in total control

Phil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a performer is undeniable

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Boys on the Verge of Tears review – a whistle-stop tour of bewildered masculinity

Set entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut of male neuroses

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Robby Hoffman review – New Yorker unleashes her nerd-jock shtick

Snarling at the audience and cracking cynical jokes, Hoffman’s intriguing faux-boorish persona wears thin, undermining her subversively funny riffs

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Lara Ricote review – endearingly offbeat comedy of self-exploration

The fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness

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Comedian Paul Currie breaks silence over 'antisemitism' claims after Soho Theatre gig

Comedian Paul Currie has asked fans who were at his controversial Soho Theatre gig to come forward after the venue barred him over accusations of antisemitism.

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Paul Currie banned from Soho Theatre after 'hounding out Jewish audience members'

He allegedly told an Israeli man to ‘get the f*** out’ and encouraged his crowd to chant ‘free Palestine’

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Soho Theatre: Met Police could investigate after Israeli audience member ‘hounded out’ of comedy show

Liahav Eitan was allegedly told to ‘get the f*** out’ by Paul Currie for not applauding the unfurling of a Palestinian flag

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Soho Theatre apologises after claims Paul Currie's stand-up show became 'antisemitic rally'

The theatre says it is taking the claims seriously

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‘I wanted to be serious – but people would laugh so hard’: Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece

Her midnight agony aunt clown show became the hot ticket of the fringe – despite the fact that the Estonian never regarded herself as a comic. In fact, she says, she much prefers making audiences cry

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Pandemonium at Soho Theatre review: does this weak show prove that Johnson, Sunak and co have killed satire?

Elegantly profane language can’t disguise undergraduate-level humour and an incoherent mess of a script

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No Direction Home at Soho Theatre review: Suella's sacking added zing to this memorable comedy night

The showcase mixing new comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds with established stand-ups underlined how vital comedy is

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Ahir Shah at the Soho Theatre review: poignant, powerful, extremely funny – this is truly outstanding stand-up

The show packs so much in: politics, class, race, grief, colonialism, marriage and the ubiquity of Ottolenghi cookbooks

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My London: The Witch of Hackney

East London’s resident witch Semra Haksever buys her textbooks from Treadwell’s, forages on Hackney Marshes and wants to transform the Edition into a hotel for cats

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Rosie Jones at Soho Theatre review: oozes cheeky charm and smutty wit in equal measure

Jones is so skilled she can take upsetting scenarios she has faced and flip them into sublime routines, claiming the last laugh

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