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Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating:   At 64 years old Jethro has been on the comedy circuit for 40 years and his act has not stood the test of time very well. The half empty Quays Theatre at the Lowry seemed to enforce this fact. The beginning of the show saw vocalist Shaun Perry take [...]

Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: The entertainment industry has benefited from importing Norwegian thrillers and political dramas so a comedian seems the logical next step. Daniel Simonsen, although fluent in English, exploits his country of origin thickening his accent to achieve the maximum comic effect in his delivery. Simonsen’s routine is built around off-centre observational material [...]

Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Mother’s Ruin is a cabaret-cum-variety collective that bring together a wide-range of established alternative cabaret artists with new and emerging North West artistes to create performance spectaculars that are new, edgy, experimental and diverse but presented in a format designed to entertain and be inclusive. The underground pushed overground with a [...]

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: It’s a sad state of affairs, but magic shows aimed at the over-12s are few and far between. TV shows such as ‘The Magicians’ are trying to bring illusions back into the mainstream, but even they have to get D-list celebrities involved to scrape satisfactory viewing figures. However, one good thing [...]

Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: Comedy routines about religious pilgrimage are rare, and celebrations of multicultural Britain are not what audiences usually expect from a stand-up show. Imran Yusuf, though, is not your average comedian. After selling out two full-length shows at the Edinburgh Festival, and being nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer, Imran [...]

Reviewer: Tony Oliver The Public Reviews Rating: After storming the UK and International comedy circuit for years and much badgering from fellow professionals, Yorkshire man, and former (double award-winning) Time Out Comedian of the Year, Tonkinson takes to the road, with his eagerly anticipated debut tour. He’s recently appeared on BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, and is [...]

Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: With a meteoric rise to fame, Michael McIntyre has over the past five years become a household name, so much so that he now has a regular prime time comedy programme on BBC (Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow) and selling out arenas all over the UK. Playing to a packed out 10,000 [...]

Reviewer: Julie Burrow The Public Reviews Rating: Al Murray has an epic task ahead of him not only has he got to continue the great British traditions and now even more epic, to save the world. Murray’s usual deceptively well-crafted ‘drunken’ ramblings stretch from European economics to the current trend in ladies’, erm, fashions. And he attacks each [...]