‘Provocative, remorseless, and very, very funny’
Times
‘One of Britain’s funniest men’
Evening Standard
Following the announcement of his new Showbiz stand-up tour, Frank Skinner has added 14 extra dates to his London Leicester Square Theatre run, which will see him perform new material for the first time in four years. Since his last tour Frank Skinner’s only live comedy appearances have been with The Man With No Show, which saw him perform an hour of completely improvised stand-up comedy. The extra shows run from Friday 14th June until Thursday 4th July. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday at 10am.
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Friday 14th June
Time: 9.30pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Saturday 15th June
Time: 9.30pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Monday 17th June
Time: 7.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Tuesday 18th June
Time: 7.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Wednesday 19th June
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Monday 24th June
Time: 7.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Wednesday 26th June
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Thursday 27th June
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Venue: Leicester Square Theatre
Date: Friday 28th June
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Date: Saturday 29th June
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Date: Monday 1st July
Time: 7.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Date: Tuesday 2nd July
Time: 7.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Date: Wednesday 3rd July
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
Date: Thursday 4th July
Time: 9.00pm
Ticket Price: £20
Box Office: 0207 734 2222
Website: http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com
New live dates run 14th June – 4th July
For more information and interview requests, please contact: Lucy Plosker
0207 598 7222 / lplosker@avalonuk.com
NOTES TO EDITORS
Frank announced the Showbiz tour during a non-stop 10-hour radio show, which marked the 10-year anniversary of his hugely successful career at Absolute Radio. Frank’s award-winning show, The Frank Skinner Show, attracts over one million listeners per week, has achieved 10 million podcast downloads and saw him inducted into the Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
Frank Skinner’s live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and beat fellow nominees Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard to take home comedy’s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. Frank’s last live stand-up show, Man In a Suit, sold out its debut run at London’s Soho Theatre and a subsequent five week residency at the Leicester Square Theatre. Frank performed Man In a Suit for 24 consecutive nights at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014 and went on to release the show on DVD through Universal Studios UK.
Away from the stage, Frank’s TV credentials in 2018 included writing and starring as Johnny Cash in Johnny Cash & the Ostrich – a one-off special forming part of the successful Urban Myths series airing on Sky Arts, as well as hosting a seventh series of BBC1’s Room 101.
As England made their World Cup run last summer, the iconic football anthem Three Lions, written by Frank alongside David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds, topped the singles chart for a fourth separate time – the first time a single has ever reached number one on four separate occasions with the same artist line-up.
Alongside his regular show on Absolute Radio, Frank has carried out exclusive feature interviews for the station with a number of esteemed guests including Nobel Peace Prize-winning former Vice President Al Gore and Russell T Davies, former executive producer of Doctor Who. Frank has also written and starred in three series of the critically-acclaimed comedy drama series Don’t Start for BBC Radio 4 and has created and hosted two series of his comedy panel show The Rest is History for BBC Radio 4.
Frank created The Frank Skinner Show (ITV), which is widely credited as setting the tone for the modern comedic chat show and ran for nine years, attracting 11 million viewers at its peak. He hosted three series of Frank Skinner’s Opinionated for BBC Two, and recently presented a one-off documentary, Frank Skinner on Muhammad Ali, for BBC One. In 2014 Frank guest starred in an episode of Doctor Who. With David Baddiel, Frank created and presented Fantasy Football and Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned (ITV).
As an author, Frank Skinner has published Dispatches from the Sofa; a collection of columns he wrote for The Times over a two year period and has written two autobiographies, the first of which, Frank Skinner, was the top selling autobiography of 2002, spending 46 weeks in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. The second Frank Skinner On The Road, chronicled his 2007, sell-out return to stand-up.
