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Brian Logan

Brian Logan is the Guardian's comedy critic and the artistic director of A Play, a Pie and a Pint

February 2025

  • What is he doing? … a promotional image for Rob Auton’s The Eyes Open and Shut Show.

    Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show review – eccentric observation and wonderment

    The Yorkshireman’s half-banal half-profound ruminations on the subject of sight won me over

January 2025

  • Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright.

    Inside No 9: Stage/Fright review – slick chills in Shearsmith and Pemberton’s creepy West End comedy

  • Demi Adejuyigbe

    Demi Adejuyigbe’s must-see comedy backflip: ‘It’s kind of Evel Knievel!’

  • Graham Fellows aka versatile singer/song writer John Shuttleworth. For g2 arts

    ‘I’ve finally realised I like John Shuttleworth!’ Graham Fellows on 40 years with his organ-plonking alter ego

  • Nina Conti.

    Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway? review – masterful ventriloquist’s sublime silliness

  • Chris McCausland: ‘Yonks!’ review – mischievous Strictly winner goes back to the day job

  • Kate Cheka: A Messiah Comes review – barbed jokes and trenchant anecdotes

  • Tony Slattery: the generous improv great whose successes masked his suffering

  • ‘King of the musicools!’ Inside the outrageous musical send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • 2025 culture preview
    Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

December 2024

  • Razzle-dazzle meets suppressed emotion … Adam Riches, left, and John Kearns as Ball & Boe.

    Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE Ball & Boe review – a deliciously silly sendup

  • Toby Osmond as Hands Grubby in Dead Hard

    Dead Hard review – yippee ki-why bother?

  • From left: Songs of the Bulbul, Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Catherine Bohart.

    2024 in Culture
    The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2024

  • Jamie Foxx plays the piano and sings into a microphone

    Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was ... review – a star is born again

  • Comfort and joy! Merry gentlemen Sheeps deliver the ultimate Christmas album

  • Séayoncé’s Perky Nativititties review – smut comes down Santa’s chimney

  • The Christmas Thing review – Krampus comes to town as cult comedy is retuned for yuletide

  • Dick Whittington and His Cat review – the rats have no chance in merry panto

  • ‘We’re not as good as them!’ Why are comics Adam Riches and John Kearns becoming crooners Ball & Boe?

November 2024

  • Godley

    Janey Godley: a remarkable comic who built a career on her own terms

    The Glaswegian comedian who grew up in poverty and married a gangster put her life experience at the heart of her work
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