Theatre Royal Stratford East: The House That Answers Back
Theatre Royal Stratford East: The House That Answers Back | Littlewood’s playhouse still conducts comedy as assembly, adopting acts nightly under the gilt
Tag: London comedy venues
The Others Stoke Newington: The Room That Won’t Specialise
The Others Stoke Newington: The Room That Won’t Specialise | Church Street’s independent venue books what fits nowhere else, and Stokey turns up for exactly that
Southbank Centre: Comedy Among The Concert Halls
Southbank Centre: Comedy Among The Concert Halls | Europe’s largest arts centre extends stand-up the same institutional seriousness it gives symphonies
Rich Mix Shoreditch: Comedy’s Embassy In The Arts
Rich Mix Shoreditch: Comedy’s Embassy In The Arts | A converted garment factory circulates East London’s whole bloodstream through its adventurous bills
The Grace Battersea: A Building That Remembers Its Job
The Grace Battersea: A Building That Remembers Its Job | A converted church hall lends secular comedy a residual solemnity that quietly improves whatever’s performed
The Bridge Theatre: Comedy At Major Scale, By The River
The Bridge Theatre: Comedy At Major Scale, By The River | Tower Bridge’s major modern playhouse rarely redirects its considerable prestige toward comedy, briefly
Theatre503 Battersea: The Room That Spots Writers Early
Theatre503 Battersea: The Room That Spots Writers Early | A small new-writing theatre above a pub has an outsized record of launching comic voices before the industry notices
Bernie Grant Arts Centre: Honouring A Significant Legacy
Bernie Grant Arts Centre: Honouring A Significant Legacy | Tottenham’s named venue proves cultural provision and political memory belong in the same building
Charing Cross Theatre: Genuine Intimacy At The Centre
Charing Cross Theatre: Genuine Intimacy At The Centre | An arch-vaulted room beneath the station delivers close-range comedy at London’s most central address
The George Tavern Stepney: A Building Worth Fighting For
The George Tavern Stepney: A Building Worth Fighting For | Centuries-old East End pub survives redevelopment through sheer devotion, and comedy inherits the endangered thrill
Omnibus Theatre Clapham: A Former Library’s Grandeur
Omnibus Theatre Clapham: A Former Library’s Grandeur | Clapham Common’s converted Victorian library lends comedy a civic dignity the fringe circuit rarely offers
Cafe OTO Dalston: Comedy For The Avant-Garde Faithful
Cafe OTO Dalston: Comedy For The Avant-Garde Faithful | An internationally revered experimental music room rarely extends its fearless curation to formally daring comedy
The Vaults Waterloo: Comedy In The Painted Underworld
The Vaults Waterloo: Comedy In The Painted Underworld | Brick tunnels beneath the station stage the strange while trains supply the thunder, reports a collaborator
Camden People’s Theatre: Built For The Unfinished
Camden People’s Theatre: Built For The Unfinished | Hampstead Road’s tiny fringe house is where formally strange comedy gets its first honest audience
Artsdepot North Finchley: Suburban Comedy, Metropolitan Standard
Artsdepot North Finchley: Suburban Comedy, Metropolitan Standard | Barnet’s purpose-built arts centre proves outer London deserves proper comedy without the journey into town
Questors Theatre Ealing: Amateur Name, Ambitious Practice
Questors Theatre Ealing: Amateur Name, Ambitious Practice | Britain’s largest community theatre proves volunteer structure needn’t mean diminished comic ambition
Pentameters Theatre Hampstead: A Literary Tradition
Pentameters Theatre Hampstead: A Literary Tradition | A tiny fringe room above a pub has honoured Hampstead’s considerable artistic heritage in comedy form for decades
Broadway Theatre Catford: Deco Jewel, Big Nights Home
Broadway Theatre Catford: Deco Jewel, Big Nights Home | Lewisham’s 1932 municipal masterpiece keeps the borough’s comedy at home, in partnership with the cat
Riverside Studios: Comedy’s Television Church
Riverside Studios: Comedy’s Television Church | Hammersmith’s rebuilt studios stage live comedy in the kitchen where broadcast laughter’s recipes were invented
Turbine Theatre: Comedy Beneath The Chimneys
Turbine Theatre: Comedy Beneath The Chimneys | Battersea Power Station’s intimate new theatre proves industrial grandeur and comedy share the same striking address
Bloomsbury Theatre Review: Comedy Under Peer Review
Bloomsbury Theatre Review: Comedy Under Peer Review | The 500-seat academic playhouse where laughs are load-tested and one heckle famously contained a citation
The Slaughtered Lamb: Comedy In A Deliberately Named Cellar
The Slaughtered Lamb: Comedy In A Deliberately Named Cellar | Clerkenwell’s brick-vaulted basement lends every booking gothic theatricality before a word is spoken
Redbridge Drama Centre Ilford: A Genuinely Diverse Borough
Redbridge Drama Centre Ilford: A Genuinely Diverse Borough | East London’s outer community centre built comedy around who actually lives there, not who marketing imagined
Canal Cafe Theatre: The Longest Shift In Satire
Canal Cafe Theatre: The Longest Shift In Satire | NewsRevue has metabolised every government since 1979 above a Little Venice pub, and filed another Thursday
Hen And Chickens Theatre: The Fifty-Seat Forge
Hen And Chickens Theatre: The Fifty-Seat Forge | British comedy’s most decorated broom cupboard certifies debut hours above a Highbury pub, with precedent as fuel
Orange Tree Theatre: Comedy In The Round, Committed
Orange Tree Theatre: Comedy In The Round, Committed | Richmond’s in-the-round theatre demands all-directions discipline as a genuine daily practice, not a gimmick
Hammersmith Apollo: Where Stand-Up Records Its Scripture
Hammersmith Apollo: Where Stand-Up Records Its Scripture | Comedy’s art deco cathedral generates laughter with air pressure, reports a comedian rehearsing in his kitchen
Upstairs At The Gatehouse: Decades Of Dependable Comedy
Upstairs At The Gatehouse: Decades Of Dependable Comedy | Highgate’s small pub theatre earned devoted loyalty through simple, unglamorous decades of reliable programming
Clapham Grand Review: Comedy In The Variety Palace
Clapham Grand Review: Comedy In The Variety Palace | A Victorian survivor by the Junction teaches club acts about scale, reports a comedian versus the constellation
The O2 Arena: Stand-Up At The Summit
The O2 Arena: Stand-Up At The Summit | Twenty thousand laugh as one weather event on the peninsula, where comedy’s short list is maintained