Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy have announced their December 2017 lineups. Scroll down for details!
MAIN HOUSE:
Stewart Lee: Content Provider
Until 3 February various times £26.50
Stick Man
Until 7 January 2018 various times £21.50 adult, £16.50 child, £65 family
Touching, funny and utterly original, Scamp Theatre's delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Stick Man is back at Leicester Square Theatre!
30 November & 5 December 9.30pm, 3 December 7pm £25
After the successful recent run of his one-man comedy show in Cape Town, and turning 40, Nik decided that the best location for his midlife crisis would be London. Please don't tell him that 40 is the new 30, it'll only confuse him further.
Jason Byrne: The Man with Three Brains
30 November 7pm, 1 & 2 December 9.30pm £22
Matt Forde's Political Party Podcast Christmas Special
6 & 7 December 9.30pm £24.50
6 December: outspoken Conservative MP Anna Soubry and former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
7 December: Ken Livingstone
Rahul Kohli: Live Recording
11 December 7pm £15, £20 with download
The Harry & Chris Show 2
13 & 29 December 7pm £15, £12.50 concs
Combines the taste profiles of a room full of theatregoers to create a brilliantly hilarious and completely improvised viewing experience - a full length comedy musical!?
Standard Issue In Conversation
With Suranne Jones, Stephanie Beacham, Deborah Frances-White and Jo Jo Moyes
14 December 7pm £15
Notflix
15 December 7pm £12.50
Combines the taste profiles of a room full of theatregoers to create a brilliantly hilarious and completely improvised viewing experience - a full length comedy musical!?
Jim Norton: Kneeling Room Only
14 & 15 December 9.30pm £25
American stand-up comedian, radio personality, bestselling author and actor Jim Norton is the co-host of UFC's Unfiltered Podcast with Jim Norton & Matt Serra, and since 2014 has been a contributor to Time Magazine.
Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future
16 & 17 December 7pm £18
Few predicted the events of 2016. And even fewer seem to know where we are going. Award winning storyteller, comedian and political satirist Mark Thomas sets out to discover what the future has in store for us by collecting and examining his own predictions and those of his audiences before gambling on their outcome.
Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Final 2018
Monday 18 December 7pm £15.50
From over 300 entries and 36 heats, the top acts, as voted for by the comedy press, industry, and you, the audience, compete to be Leicester Square Theatre's 9th New Comedian of the Year.
Previous finalists include Rob Beckett, Tim Shishodia, Jim Campbell, Ian Smith, Sofie Hagen and Funmbi Omo.
Slightly Fat Features: The Slightly Fat Show
20-23 December 7pm and 4pm 22 & 23 December) £15, £45 family
Comedy. Cabaret. Chaos. Variety for the 21st century. Thrill suppliers Slightly Fat Features are an award-winning comedy troupe- back in the West End this Christmas. Hard to describe until you witness it live. Suitable for kids but not a kids show. Cirque du Soleil meets Monty Python.
Caroline Reid: RAWR
21-23 December 10pm £25
Caroline Reid, the comedian behind the beloved, brash flight attendant Pam Ann, is stripping off her stewardess uniform this Christmas and performing in her brand new, bare-all, stand-up comedy show.
LOUNGE:
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton
2 & 3 December £15
Bridget Christie: A Preview for Her
4 December 8.30pm SOLD OUT
Robert White: InstruMENTAL
5 December 8.30pm £8
Will Franken's Two Armed Bandit
11 & 18 December 8.30pm £10
Ma, Am I Good In Bed? Maiden Speech Double Bill
15-17 December, £13, £11 8.30pm
Sid Singh presents: Comedy
29 December 8.30pm £10
MUSEUM OF COMEDY:
Lolbot Wars
1 December 7pm £8
Children's Magic Workshop
2, 9 & 16 Dec 1.30pm £15
West End Magic
2, 9 & 16 Dec 4pm £12.50, £7.50 (child), £35 (family)
The Players' Theatre: Old Time Music Hall
3 December SOLD OUT
CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation - Christmas Special
3 December 7pm £10, £8 concs
Positive 21 Variety Extravaganza
4 December 7.30pm £10
Tom Goodliffe's Coffee Run
5 December 7pm £7
Shirley & Shirley: Still Got It
5 - 9 December 8.45pm £12
Chortle Quiz
6 December 7.30pm £3 per person (max 5 per team)
Bridget Christie: A Preview For Her
11 December 8.45pm £10
Thinking Drinkers History of Alcohol
12 - 23 December 6.30pm £18
Enjoy five free drinks as these award-winning professional drink experts definitively prove that alcohol has influenced everything that has ever happened. Ever.
Michael McIntyre: work in progress
12 & 14 December 8.15pm SOLD OUT
Sid Singh and Daniel Audritt present: Comedy
16 December 8.15pm £10
Miss Hope Springs: Christmas A Go Go
19-23 Dec 8.30pm £18
Internationally acclaimed comedy-cabaret-chanteuse Miss Hope Springs rummages under the Christmas tree early this year to unwrap a glittering array of original festive songs from her personal repertoire of toe-tapping showstoppers and haunting ballads, all sprinkled with a fine frosting of vintage-Vegas glitz.
The Leicester Square Theatre is located at 6, Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX (Nearest tube: Leicester Square). Contact: www.leicestersquaretheatre.com | 020 7734 2222.
The Museum of Comedy is at The Undercroft, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SR (Nearest tube: Holborn or Tottenham Court Road). Visit www.museumofcomedy.com | 020 7534 1744.
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