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‘Oh my God, what a brutal existence!’ Haley McGee on her global hit about growing old (and white pubic hair)

The Canadian performer visited hospices, mystics and cemeteries to research Age Is a Feeling. The show, which has now been performed in 10 languages, has reduced men in their 70s to tears

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Comedian Alex Edelman: ‘People think my show is about antisemitism. It’s about assimilation’

The US standup on why his show on white nationalists resonated so widely, being taught writing by Zadie Smith and working on a new spinoff of The Office

The Guardian - UK

Emmys: ‘The Bear’ Scores Multiple Wins, But Not Top Comedy

Big nights for ‘Shogun,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘Baby Reindeer’

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At the Edinburgh festival, an extraordinary show lays bare the enormity of grief

Or What’s Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound experience in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our own

The Guardian - UK

Janine Harouni: ‘When you’re pregnant you’re massive. It felt powerful to be big on stage’

The US standup’s career was in its ascendancy before miscarriage and then a friend’s death knocked her for six. So she took stock – and turned her feelings into a show contextualising loss and life, before finding a happy ending

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

‘I need to have a big party and show off!’ Edinburgh comedy award-winners reveal what’s next

For the first time ever, both the ‘Oscars of comedy’ have gone to standups with South Asian heritage. So what do the two performers who set the fringe alight have planned? Lots of boasting, finds our writer

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String V SPITTA at Soho Theatre review: this comedy duo is heads, shoulders, knees and toes above the rest

This bonkers show riffs on the world of children’s entertainers

Evening Standard

Adam Brace obituary

Writer, director and script-fixer who nurtured powerful new work at the Soho theatre in London

The Guardian - UK

Adam Brace had a magic touch for comedy and theatre – both worlds will mourn his death

Brace, who has died aged 43, was a hugely talented playwright, dramaturg and director who worked on a string of hits including One-Woman Show and Age Is a Feeling

The Guardian - UK

Award-winning playwright and director dies aged 43 as Soho Theatre pays tribute

Soho Theatre has paid tribute to writer and director Adam Brace, who has died aged 43. Adam directed Just For Us at the Menier Chocolate Factory, which will go to Broadway this summer

Daily Mirror

Adam Brace death: Theatre world mourns loss of ‘vital’ playwright and director, aged 43

‘He was a unique talent of our time,’ Soho Theatre and United Agents said in tribute

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