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LIVE COMEDY PILOTS PROGRAMME, FOUR NEW SOHO THEATRE ON DEMAND SHOWS PLUS ADDITIONAL MASTERCLASSES ANNOUNCED

Aboriginal Comedy Allstars

Fri 2 – Sat 3 Sep 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Summer Comedy Lab: Skills (16-19)

A 10 week course covering a variety of comedy styles including sketch, improvisation, stand up and character comedy, helping you develop your craft at an early age.

Comedy Lab Plus (18+)

A course for people already performing comedy but want to develop their skills further and need industry advice and masterclasses.

Soho Theatre announce Comedy Producer job in Mumbai, in partnership with G5A

Comedy & Cabaret Lab FAQs

Find out all you need to know about our Labs programme.

Ross Noble Films Added to Soho Theatre On Demand and Comedy Masterclasses and Taster Workshops Announced

Comedy Lab: Stand-Up (18+)

If you’re considering stepping into the spotlight for the first time as a stand-up, you’ll need our Comedy Lab Stand Up course run by our stable of professional comedians.

FOUR NEW PLAYS AND AN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY PROGRAMME AT SOHO

Comedy Lab: Sketch (18+)

Our Sketch course helps you develop your sketch writing voice and performing skills and teaches you the best approaches to collaboration, writing and creating with others.

Soho Theatre announces Festive Comedy and Cabaret Season

Soho Theatre Announces Reopening Season with Theatre, Comedy and Cabaret Programme

Waltham Forest first Stand-up Comedy Lab 2021

Associate Comedy Producer

Trainee Comedy Promoters (Kickstart)

Comedy Associate

Assistant to Head of Comedy and Digital & Touring (Kickstart)

NEWS: Soho Theatre’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 programme

Elf Lyons, wearing dark long fingerless latex gloves, holds her hands up to her face, dark burgundy background

Elf Lyons: Raven

Thu 27 Oct – Sat 5 Nov 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £17

NEWS: SOHO THEATRE AND NEXTUP ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

New full length stand-up films released today

Waltham Forest FAQs

Waltham Forest Stand Up Lab

If you’re considering stepping into the spotlight for the first time as a stand-up, you’ll need our Comedy Lab Stand Up course run by our stable of professional comedians.

Josh Glanc, wearing speedos and with a jacket slung over his shoulder, straddes a green motorcycle

Josh Glanc: Vrooom Vrooom

Wed 21 – Sat 24 Sep 22

10.30pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Josh Jones in a patterned shirt, holding both his hands up, pointing upwards with both, blue background

Josh Jones: Waste of Space

Thu 20 – Sat 22 Oct 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Hannah Enbinder in a charcoal coloured jacket and shirt, grey background

Hannah Einbinder

Mon 26 Sep – Sat 8 Oct 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £21

Randy Feltface in a silver hooded top, black background

Randy Feltface: Alien of Extraordinary Ability

Tue 4 – Sat 8 Oct 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £24

Ray Bradshaw smiling, dressed in a black shirt, holding a hand up, dark blue background

Ray Bradshaw: Deaf Com 1

Thu 9 – Sat 11 Feb 23

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £16

Second series of Soho Theatre Live on Amazon Prime Video UK released

SOHO THEATRE SIGNS THREE-SERIES DEAL WITH AMAZON PRIME VIDEO IN THE UK

Stamptown

Fri 22 Jul – Fri 2 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Sikisa in a glittery jacket outfit holding up a red cup, dark lighting

Sikisa: Life of the Party

Thu 22 – Sat 24 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £16

Phil Burgers in a blue robe and a cap holding a cigar up to his mouth

Dr. Brown: Workdsff Intlsdjfj Progressdsdfdfn

Mon 8 – Sat 20 Aug 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £12

Edinburgh

Dr. Brown: Workdsff Intlsdjfj Progressdsdfdfn

Mon 22 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

THIRD SERIES OF SOHO THEATRE LIVE ANNOUNCED ON PRIME VIDEO IN THE UK & IRELAND

Actor Alessandro Babalola standing on a stage on Fellowship Square

Soho Theatre is at the Waltham Forest Fellowship Square throughout July & August.

Soho Theatre Freelance Task Force - Rosie Jones, Alessandro Babalola, Rachel Mars

Recruitment for the Freelance Task Force

Woman wearing pink ballerina outfit with cardboard box on her head with LadyFace written on it and a drawn on pair of lips

SOHO THEATRE MEETS… LUCY FARRETT

Diwali Festival 2017

In 2017 we were very proud to present the Comedy Stage for the first time at the Mayor of London’s Diwali Festival in Trafalgar Square.

Michell De Swarte in a patterned dark blue shirt and striped black trousers leans on the floor against a small suitcase

Michelle De Swarte: Work in Progress

Thu 25 – Sat 27 Aug 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Joz Norris in a black suit and holding an ace playing card, with closed eyes, open eyed painted on his eyelids, black background

Joz Norris: Blink

Mon 12 – Thu 15 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Leah MacRae smiling, in a pink tartan suit, hands on hips

Leah MacRae: Weighs In

Thu 13 – Sat 15 Oct 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £16

Tom Walker in a black t-shirt and shorts smiling, a sylised cartoonish javelin juts from his torso

Tom Walker: Javelin

Thu 1 – Sat 10 Sep 22

10.15pm, 10.30pm

Soho Upstairs

From £13

Laura Davis in an overcoat and white shirt, looking to the side and smiling

Laura Davis: If This is It

Wed 7 – Sat 10 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Leo Reich in a tight fitting sports t-shirt and leather trousers reclines on the bonnet of a smoking car sticking his tongue out, the driver of the car exasperatedly gesturing at him

Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!

Mon 10 – Sat 15 Oct 22

8.45pm

Soho Upstairs

From £12

Carlos Ballarta in blue denim and shades, urban landscape background

Carlos Ballarta: Rebelde Comodino

Tue 20 – Sat 24 Sep 22

9.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £14

Azeem Banatwalla: Minor Celebrity

Mon 15 – Sat 20 Aug 22

7.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £16

Harriet Kemsley wearing a flower garland, dark olive green background

Harriet Kemsley: Honeysuckle Island

Tue 13 – Sat 17 Sep 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £13

SOHO THEATRE MEETS… GABRIEL BISSET-SMITH

A naked man wearing a gimp mask swings on a wrecking ball

Late Night Gimp Fight

Edinburgh Lab (18+)

A course for people heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time.

Q&A on our plans

The List magazine interviews Soho Theatre about the future for the building.

Announcing David Luff as Creative Director and Lakesha Arie-Angelo as Associate Artist

DAME HEATHER RABBATTS DBE ANNOUNCED AS NEW CHAIR OF SOHO THEATRE

Artistic Director Steve Marmion to step down

Alumni Groups

If you’ve previously taken part in our Comedy Lab and don’t feel quite ready to leave the Soho family then our Alumni group sounds like just the thing for you.

New Act of The Year Auditions

The NATYS’ 40th anniversary search for breakthrough comedy and variety acts is back.

Thanyia Moore holds her hands up in a playfully unsure expression, purple background

Thanyia Moore: Just Being Funny

Thu 24 – Sat 26 Nov 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Edinburgh

Sami Abu Wardeh in a white t-shirt, faraway expression

Sami Abu Wardeh: Bedu

Thu 4 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Ian Smith in a check shirt holds a finger up to his mouth

Ian Smith: Talking & Shouting (WIP)

Fri 26 Aug 22

7.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £12

Felicity Ward in a black and white flower pattern shirt, smiling to camera

Felicity Ward: The Mother F***ing Trilogy (WIP)

Thu 25 Aug 22

7.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £13

Sarah Sherman

Mon 22 – Thu 25 Aug 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £19

Ania Magliano in a purple t-shirt and blue jeans sits on a stool, yellow background

Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not

Mon 3 – Sat 8 Oct 22

8.45pm

Soho Upstairs

From £13

Nikki Britton in a floral patterned black and white shirt, smiling, blue background

Nikki Britton: One Small Step

Thu 1 – Sat 3 Sep 22

7.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

composite image of Lara Ricote in multiple guises, all wearing a V nexk multicoloured tank top and white shirt, large image of an older Lara with bald hair and moustache in the background

Lara Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF

Thu 17 – Sat 19 Nov 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Emmy Blotnick in a beige suit jacket, holding out some shards of glass in her hands, one shard in her mouth, look of comic uncertainty

Emmy Blotnick: The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez - A Show About Death, Betrayal and Financial Ruin

Fri 9 – Sat 10 Sep 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Chloe Petts, in a blue shirt, looks to camera, orange background

Chloe Petts: Transience

Wed 4 – Sat 7 Jan 23

7.30pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney in shiny blue suits in front of an array of cocktails, red background

BriTANicK

Wed 31 Aug – Sat 3 Sep 22

8.45pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Edinburgh

Sarah Sherman

Mon 15 – Sun 21 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Maddy Bye puts Marina Bye in a headlock with a comically extended arm, yellow-orange background

Siblings: Siblage

Wed 14 – Sat 17 Sep 22

10.30pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Danny Bhoy reclines on a dark leather sofa smiling, red curtain background

Danny Bhoy: It’ll All Be Over by Christmas (Work In Progress)

Mon 5 – Sat 10 Sep 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £17

Edinburgh

Thanyia Moore holds her hands up in a playfully unsure expression

Thanyia Moore: Just Being Funny

Wed 3 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Olga Koch in a white bathing costume reclines on a towel on a beach

Olga Koch: Just Friends

Mon 14 – Sat 19 Nov 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £13

Edinburgh

Kai Samra in a black jacket and gold chain, looks upward, red background

Kai Samra: Native

Wed 3 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Sophie Duker dressed in red, holds a bunch of flowers, red background

Sophie Duker: Hag

Mon 7 – Sat 12 Nov 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £16

UK Tour

Vir Das in a light brown overcoat and checked shirt, smiles, looking to the side

Vir Das: Wanted UK Tour

Thu 1 – Tue 13 Sep 22

Soho Elsewhere

4 people pose in various outfits such as nun, and holding drinks etc, pattern curtain background

Catch of the Day

Mon 15 – Sat 20 Aug 22

7.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £16

Sarah Keyworth in a white t-shirt, light grey background

Sarah Keyworth: Lost Boy

Mon 19 – Sat 24 Sep 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £14

Helen Bauer, dressed in a pink shirt, raises her hands up to touch her hair, grey background

Helen Bauer: Madam Good Tit

Tue 1 – Sat 5 Nov 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Slim in a dark blue shirt, light blue background

Slim: Live at Soho Theatre

Mon 12 – Sat 17 Sep 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £16

Isy Suttie in a dark floral print dress, smiling, peach coloured background

Isy Suttie: Jackpot

Mon 22 – Sat 27 Aug 22

7.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £17

Soho Theatre Labs

Discover, create and develop your comedy, theatre making, cabaret and drag with us.

Edinburgh

Vir Das: Wanted

Wed 3 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

School Workshops and Talks

Want to involve contemporary theatre and comedy professionals in your work at school and college, or in your Arts Award project?

A neon sign spelling Soho in yellow, pink and blue

SOHO THEATRE STRENGTHENS ITS THEATRE TEAM

Jessie Cave holding a baby in front of Sunrise set

Soho Theatre Announces Jessie Cave’s Sunrise World Premiere

Soho Theatre Walthamstow

Our plans in the Waltham Forest borough and for the former Granada Cinema on Hoe Street.

Josie Lawrence is The Boss of It All in streamed Lars von Trier stage adaptation

Children dressed in blue and red holding placards on grass as part of a performance

Theatremakers

Mr. Swallow: Houdini heads to Soho Theatre On Demand

Soho Theatre On Demand: FAQs

Find out more about Soho Theatre on Demand or troubleshoot any problems you're having.

Soho Theatre On Demand

Get some of our favourite comedians on your laptop, phone or tablet and watch on the go or just at home in your pajamas.

Dark image of a man with a microphone with red light shining from top right hand corner

SOHO THEATRE MEETS… STUART GOLDSMITH

Soho Theatre Gifts

A young man in a white shirt with a red bag climbs the stairs next to directional signange explaining which theatre auditoirum is on which floor

Subscription Terms & Conditions

Man in coffin, surrounded by sympathy snacks on red background

JACK ROOKE GOOD GRIEF TOUR 2017

SOHO THEATRE’S TONY CRAZE AWARD 2019 + 2020 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Arts Award at Soho Theatre

We're an Arts Award Supporter and Centre, offering young people aged 11-25 a range of cultural activities to include in their Arts Award projects at any level.

FULL CASTING ANNOUNCEMENT – THE MINISTRY OF LESBIAN AFFAIRS

Writers’ Lab FAQs

SHEDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL AND FUNDRAISER RETURNS IN AUGUST

Image of Australian award-winning Comedian Lawrence Leung

LAWRENCE LEUNG: CONNECTED

SOHO THEATRE AND G5A FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE ASSOCIATE PARTNERSHIP AND NEW PLAYWRITING PROGRAMME SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL

two young women wearing high visibility vests, hard hats and masks, stand together inside a theatre

Meet the team – Our Creative Assistants

NEWS: Soho Theatre receives lifeline grant

publicity image for Desiree Burch in the comedy show Unf*ckable

Jordan Brookes and Desiree Burch shows coming to Soho Theatre On Demand

Dean Street

News: WHITEWASH from BAFTA nominated writer Gabriel Bisset-Smith

Current Offers

first person perspective of being on a stage with a microphone stand right in front of you, seats mostly empty

D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing patrons

NEWS: Special guest appearances in The Boss Of It All

Cabaret & Drag Lab (18+)

Special guests, lead our 10 week course in the fundamentals of cabaret & drag. Learn all about creating a character, improvising, using music, playing with gender and more.

Stewart Lee in a black jacket, patterned shirt and black tie holds a microphone, smiling

Stewart Lee: Basic Lee (WIP)

Tue 6 – Sat 17 Sep 22

9.15pm, 9.30pm

Soho Downstairs

From £17

Nobody Panic: Live!

Mon 12 Sep 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Michael McIntyre: Work in Progress

Mon 15 – Wed 17 Aug 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £20

Rose Johnson in a black blouse with white polka dots, smiling, fuchsia background

Rose Johnson: WIP

Mon 8 – Sat 27 Aug 22

7.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Mr Swallow dressed in a nightgown and Christmas hat holds a candle, sat in a chair, with a comically uncertain look on his face

A CHRISTMAS CAROL-ISH…

by Mr. Swallow

Wed 7 – Fri 23 Dec 22

3.00pm, 7.00pm, 9.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £14

The RH Experience

Mon 22 – Wed 24 Aug 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Ari Eldjarn in a blue suit adjusts his tie, multicoloured fragments on the screen and dark background

Ari Eldjarn: Saga Class

Wed 21 – Sat 24 Sep 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Reuben Kaye in a shiny red jacket, hands on hips

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back

Fri 2 – Sat 10 Sep 22

9.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £13

The Delightful Sausage duo pose next to each other, Amy in a red dress and Christopher in blue jeans and a navy blue coat

The Delightful Sausage: Nowt But Sea

Mon 21 – Wed 23 Nov 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £14

Josephine Lacey in a white shirt holds a long beige balloon aloft with a look of comical shock, brick wall background

Josephine Lacey: Autism Mama and Puberty

Wed 26 Oct 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £14

Paulina Lenoir on stage flanked by two other performers, all dressed in yellow satin and ruffled costumes, red curtain background, silhouetted audience members in the foreground

Fool’s Moon

Mon 5 Sep 22

9.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Sami Abu Wardeh dressed in white t-shirt and black trousers reclines against a blue backdrop, mini Samis fluttering around him

Sami Abu Wardeh: Bedu

Mon 28 Nov – Sat 3 Dec 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £13

Frankie Thompson in a black fur lined jacket leans back, poking out her tongue

Frankie Thompson: CAttS

Mon 21 – Sat 26 Nov 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £13

Liam Farrelly dressed in denim with a white halo and golden background set like a catholic icon

Liam Farrelly: God’s Brother-in-Law

Fri 16 – Sat 17 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Upstairs

From £16

Rich Hardisty sits in a field wearng pink bunny ears, with his knees up to his chest

Rich Hardisty: Silly Boy

Thu 29 Sep – Sat 1 Oct 22

8.45pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Edinburgh

Frankie Thompson: Catts

Wed 3 – Sun 28 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Rich Hall in a stetson and a blue denim jacket in an old western saloon

Rich Hall: Shot From Cannons

Mon 17 – Sat 22 Oct 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £14

Anna Mann in a lilac dress lying on a bed of flowers

Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann

Tue 11 – Sat 15 Oct 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £14

Paul Black reclines in a bathtub full of suds, pink / peach tiled background

Paul Black: Self Care Era

Fri 26 – Sat 27 Aug 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £26

Suzi Ruffell stands with her hands on her hips, blue tank top and white shirt, wry smile

Suzi Ruffell: Work in Progress

Mon 22 – Wed 24 Aug 22

7.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £12

Edinburgh

ALOK

Tue 9 – Sun 21 Aug 22

Soho Elsewhere

Sumukhi Suresh holds a microphone in one hand, high heel shoes in the other, smiling coyly, multicoloured background

Sumukhi Suresh: Hoemonal

Thu 27 – Sat 29 Oct 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £15

Tim Key, dressed in a dark pinstripe suit and fedora, holds a biscuit up to his mouth, intense expression to camera

Tim Key: Mulberry

Thu 29 Sep – Sat 15 Oct 22

9.45pm

Soho Theatre

From £20

Moore Laughter!

Sat 3 Sep 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £14

David Hoyle in a dress made of little teddy bears and bathed in green light, orange and green projected background

David Hoyle: Ten Commandments

Thu 25 – Sat 27 Aug 22

9.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £15

Kim Noble emerging from a street sewer manhole with a light strapped to his head

Kim Noble: Lullaby for Scavengers

Thu 15 – Sat 24 Sep 22

7.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £17

Jen Brister wearing leopardskin, wistful look, with someone applying makeup brush to her face,

Jen Brister: The Optimist (WIP)

Thu 18 – Sat 20 Aug 22

9.00pm

Soho Downstairs

From £17

Amrou Al-Kadhi, with light blue hair, a blue corset and a cobalt blue ruffled ballgown

Glamrou

Mon 5 – Sat 10 Sep 22

7.30pm

Soho Theatre

From £14

Suzi Ruffell in a white t-shirt, resting her hand on her chin

Out with Suzi Ruffell: Live

Mon 10 Oct 22

7.15pm

Soho Downstairs

From £20

Tarot: Cautionary Tales

Mon 7 – Sat 12 Nov 22

9.15pm

Soho Upstairs

From £15

Soho Theatre Update: 14 May 2020

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