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Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre
Big Mikey already played this venue twice on his {Macnificent} tour, which I personally think should be spelled {McNificent}, at the start of December. Now he’s back for five more dates here, which his website says are all sold out. He might consider playing, say, Cardiff City Stadium once instead and having the other six …
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Thoughts and prayers for the Swansea Amateur Operatic Society, who kick off May by putting on a Disney musical, albeit one obviously based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (featuring decently sized extracts from its text, in fact) in case rival operatic societies start getting fresh and casting aspersions.
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Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Al Murray The Pub Landlord
Bedford School’s very own Al Murray is back with his straight-talking publican character for a show titled {Guv Island}. Its premise is that the UK has “lost its way” and seeks someone or something to get it on its uppers again – “offend-o-trons” need not apply. That’s the Pub Landlord saying this of course. Not …
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Simon Evans
Simon Evans
Evans, a UK comedian from perhaps its more outwardly intellectual wing – take that as positively as you wish – returns with a show titled {Have Me Met?} which mulls ailing memory, including his own (pushing 60, he can feel his faculties fraying at the edges), and conceptions of memory in Greek mythology and culture …
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Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch
Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch
Think you know {The Little Mermaid}’s Ursula? Well, think again. {Unfortunate: The Untold Story Of Ursula The Sea Witch} is what really happened… from her point of view at least. In 2022, {Unfortunate} made a big splash (sorry) in Edinburgh – I couldn’t fit it in to my festival schedule, but the posters caught my …
4 events,
Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
What may well be the first Welsh performance of this 2012 play by American writer Christopher Durang, in which two sisters and a brother live a strange life in their country pile, further disrupted by one sister’s douchebag boyfriend. If you’re wondering why most of them have Russian names, they’re named after Chekhov characters. Tickets: …
Alasdair Beckett-King
Alasdair Beckett-King
This standup, originally from Durham, also displays intellectual airs and graces in his comedic style, though maybe a bit more of the ‘can quote entire {Monty Python} episodes verbatim’ type. This new show is titled {Nevermore} and Beckett-King will hope to capitalise on the popularity of his YouTube channel, the most regular place to see …
Welcome To My World Of Colour
Welcome To My World Of Colour
This is a Powys People First show performed by members of Theatr Wildcats, a theatre group for adults with learning disabilities. With a policy of bringing their own experiences into the plots of their shows, this latest one posits a colourless, song-free world with one inhabitant, Luna, who dreams in colour and wants her fellow …
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Hamlet
Hamlet
You might wonder what the threshold of potential interest is for a production of {Hamlet} to be included in this list of events – well, Vision Arts, who are putting this one on, call it “a {Hamlet} for the TikTok generation”. That’s the sort of line that gets me, a secondary school teacher who calls …
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Circus Extreme
Circus Extreme
Beware those of you thinking of running away to join the circus – the Cardiff stint of Circus Extreme’s tour alone has 43 shows in 24 days, with this tireless troupe serving up high wire stunts, freestyle motocross, clownery and aerial hoop tricks in a venue which has been allowed to host entertainment in the …
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
Once A Catholic
Once A Catholic
This play was a critical success on opening in 1977, when its topic – convent schools in 1950s London, as experienced by {Once A Catholic}’s writer Mary O’Malley – were very much in the memories of many watching. This number will have inevitably shrunk decade on decade, making revivals such as this one from The …
Six Chick Flicks
Six Chick Flicks
One of the people behind this show, Kerry Ipema, has previously been the one woman in {One Woman Sex And The City}, meaning this fast-moving spoof of the best known ‘chick flicks’ of the last few decades will be like water off a duck’s back to her. The other, KK Apple, has an amusing name.
Constellations
Constellations
This two-hander play, which first opened 12 years ago, meditates on “the infinite possibilities of love” with Roland the beekeeper and Marianne the physicist the two people representing those possibilities. They meet, become smitten, break up, reconnect, marry and then face their greatest challenge of all in what sounds like an emotional rollercoaster. Tickets: £10-£32. …
Boylesque
Boylesque
The WMC’s Cabaret space gives the fellas a shot of glamming themselves up and tantalising us with their ample charms etc. On the Boylesque bill tonight, then, are Joe Sutherland, Mimi The Most, Tyrone, Joshua Hubbard – who’s also chosen tonight’s bill – and headliner Virgin X, with their name like an unasked-for radio station …
7 events,
Jack!
Jack!
The Jack who stars in this family musical – performed by Little Seeds Music and promoted by the larger Theatr Clwyd down the road – is Jack of ‘& The Beanstalk’ fame, and here we’ll be finding out more about this critically acclaimed bean-barterer’s origin story, often in the medium of song. On at 11am …
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Circus Extreme
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Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
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Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr, HMRC’s bad boy of comedy, laughs funny. That’s not a personal remark (although he indeed does laugh like a goose with whooping cough), it’s the name of his brand new tour, hitting smaller theatres like Port Talbot’s Princess Royal for two shows a night – at 7.30 and 9pm respectively, in this case. …
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Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
Dating from the mid-1960s and set by playwright Frederick Knott in New York, Ucheldre Rep have used Notting Hill Gate as {Wait Until Dark}’s setting, staying true to a UK adaption from 2003. A series of blunders has led a woman to be in possession of a large amount of heroin, something known to its …
The Women Of Llanrumney
The Women Of Llanrumney
The Llanrumney of the title is not the suburb of Cardiff, rather the Llanrumney sugar plantation in the Saint Mary Parish, in Jamaica circa 1765, Accordingly, new play {The Women Of Llanrumney} confronts Wales’ colonial past. The women in question are Annie and daughter Cerys, two enslaved women ‘owned’ (even writing that word in a …
The Silly Cabaret: It’s Giving Pride
The Silly Cabaret: It’s Giving Pride
As recently as five years ago, if you’d called your event ‘It’s Giving Pride’ most people would have assumed you had a suboptimal grasp of English and took pity on you. These days, however, it serves (!) as in-group signalling for those who may wish to attend a “magical selection of queer, fabulous, and tantalising …
Amy Mason
Amy Mason
It’s another Dolly Chicken Comedy standup night upstairs at the Flute. Host and promoter Anita Shaw pieces together a four-strong bill of comics: Paul Hilleard, Jeff Japers and Ben Lycett warm up for Bristol’s Amy Mason, depicted on the event page for this drinking a can of Thatchers while standing in what looks like a …
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Daniel O’Reilly
Daniel O’Reilly
Readers still stuck in 2014 – how about that Ed Miliband huh? Also, you probably know this guy as unpleasant lad comedian Dapper Laughs, but since then O’Reilly has reverted to his government name, got into – and then out of – booze and drugs, and parlayed that into a podcast about men’s mental health …
Paul F Taylor
Paul F Taylor
UK standup regular who, save for some moonlighting on a Harry Hill show, has barely touched the TV circuit and prefers appearing in short films rather than TikTok videos. Refreshing to see! Noted for his surreal trains of thought onstage, latest show {Head In The Clouds} throws an ADHD diagnosis into the works as Taylor …
6 events,
Nye
Nye
Acting’s favourite Welshman playing politics’ favourite Welshman is not a huge leap for the theatrical imagination – especially as this particular actor has played a few real-life figures of history in his career – but that’s what we’re confronted with in Wales Millennium Centre and the National Theatre’s co-production of {Nye}, starring Michael Sheen. Port …
Anuvab Pal
Anuvab Pal
Indian standup comedian who has also made inroads in the US, mainland Europe and the UK – which is where this show, {The Department Of Britishness}, comes in. Pal is, he claims, employed by the UK government in said department to market British culture to his countrymen: food for thought, and hot-potato comedic material.
Patrick Monahan
Patrick Monahan
An Irish-Iranian comedian who grew up in Middlesbrough – three guaranteed wellsprings of material right there – Monahan “works the room with hilarious material making an effortless connection” (event page) and “is known within comedy circles to eat into other comics' time or cause overall delays to the program” (unsourced Wikipedia entry).
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The Gilded Merkin
The Gilded Merkin
These furry critters are basically the Glee Club’s in-house burlesque troupe, performing at three of their venues on a rotating basis, and this month’s it’s Cardiff’s turn. Self-described “drop dead redhead” Scarlett Daggers is your host, with Stage Door Johnny, Coco Deville, Chi Chi Revolver, Fancy Chance and Darryl Carrington her fellow performers.
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Circus Extreme
The Women Of Llanrumney
Nye
The Vivienne
The Vivienne
Didn’t realise – as a person who didn’t watch {Drag Race} season 1, {Drag Race All Stars} season 7 or {Dancing On Ice} series 15 among other things – that The Vivienne is from Colwyn Bay. Of course like so many before her she moved to Liverpool at the first opportunity, but still here is …
5 events,
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Y Ribidirew Olaf
Welsh language kids’ TV show {Deian A Loli} becomes a Welsh language theatre show and tours Wales. {Y Ribidirew Olaf} finds Deian and Loli searching for their parents’ missing car keys, as you do, in Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Thurs 9-Sat 11); Pavilion Theatre, Rhyl (Tue 14 + Wed 15), Lyric Theatre, Carmarthen (Tue 21-Fri 24) …
Party Games
Party Games
Written by former Thatcher/Major adviser and unsuccessful Tory candidate Michael McManus, this is a play set in a hypothetical political landscape of the very near future with an ‘exaggerated for comedic effect… unless?’ air. A centrist party, One Nation, has formed a government in a hung parliament and now preside over a country circling the …
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Penned by Ben Jonson over 400 years ago, {The Alchemist} has had its script and setting modernised in many eras in the last century or so. Not certain if the flower-power 1960s patina given to the play here is the brainchild of Abergavenny company Suitcase Theatre or if they’re doing someone else’s version of the …
Blodwen’s In Town
Blodwen’s In Town
This is a musical comedy with what sounds like something of a cabaret element from Emily Davis, whose character Blodwen leaves Wales for London and France in search of “adventure, love and friendship”. A review from 2022 notes the presence of a Tom Lehrer song in her repertoire, hopefully this is still the case.
Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
With the Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama strapped in for its NEW’24 season this week, they’re nipping over to the Sherman for a production of this late-60s musical, written by Neil Simon (albeit adapted from a decade-old Fellini movie) and set in New York. Sat 25 and Wed 29 May have shows at …
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NEW’24
NEW’24
The RWCMD’s annual festival of new theatre writing returns with seven productions, including four commissions from UK playwrights. Simon Longman’s Falling Falling Falling Falling lines up alongside Rhiannon Boyle’s reality TV-themed Couple Goals, Isley Lynn’s Airbnb-set The Glue and Paula B Stanic’s protest play Dissonance. Also featured are three short stories from RWCMD students: Liam …
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The Very Last Green Thing
The Very Last Green Thing
Wales Millennium Centre’s Youth Opera returns with a new show, building on the success of last year’s equivalent effort. Directed by Rhian Hutchings of Anthem and designed by Greta Baxter, the 70+ member ensemble will be performing a story set in the year 2423 – where schoolteachers are androids… On at 3pm and 7pm on …
Laura Smyth
Laura Smyth
East London comedian Laura Smyth is known for appearances on {Live At The Apollo} and {Frankie Boyle’s New World Order}. As well as being a writer on {Bad Education}, Smyth won the Funny Women award in 2019; new show {Living My Best Life} explores the madness of modern existence.
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The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Julian Clary
Julian Clary
This show is titled {A Fistful Of Clary}, thereby setting its target audience to people in their forties or older or who have read Julian Clary’s Wikipedia page, but it opens the door for the show to have a “Western theme” and the tour spiel to include jokes about chaps, {Rawhide} etc.
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Sarah Millican
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Comedy Club 4 Kids
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Mid-afternoon trio of comedians tailoring their sets for a youthful audience. Runi Talwar, from Sydney but London-based, headlines over musical funnywoman Katie Pritchard and South Shields’ Lee Kyle. They say that being able to adapt one’s repertoire to these sorts of shows is the real test of a comic’s chops. At least that sounds like …
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
The Misadventures Of Pinocchio
Described as “an imaginative retelling of the classic fairytale”, the synopsis of this production by the Bohemians Theatre Company seems to list more differences than similarities. This Pinocchio is, in the words of the play’s subtitle, a ‘radical robot girl’ living in postapocalyptic Wales and on a quest to save the planet, singing a few …
Romeo A Juliet
Romeo A Juliet
Here’s Shakespeare done not only in ballet form but also with Welsh dialogue, by Ballet Cymru. This production has already won a Wales Theatre Award and following these two dates is on tour. In the Torch Theatre, Milford Haven on Tue 4 June.
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