Criminal - improv comedy night

06/11/2025

We're going to Saudia Arabia, babia! Taken from the final Criminal in London, featuring Rosie Holt, Tom Skelton, Ed Scrivens, and, of course, Joel Austin Parrott Gatehouse. What a ride we went on, eh? Ten years of the best improvised murder mysteries around. A decade of death and giggles. People like Miles Jupp, Deborah Frances-White, John Finnemore, Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris stepped through our door. We never had the same cast once. Our opening night was featured in The Guardian. We performed for a while in a venue with a mirrored ceiling. An absolute joy.

This is not goodbye - we will continue at festivals like the Fringe - but in London at least, it's farewell.

The whole show is available online for anyone who missed it (which is about 8 billion people):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GKE70LybqQ

09/10/2025

Less than a week now, baby! Less than a week now.

★★★★★ "Improv doesn’t get better than this" – The Wee Review Hello. Someone's died. It's all right. It's an improv show. And it's not just any improv show. This is a momentous occasion indeed. After ten years of delighting audiences in the nation's capital, this will be the final perfo...

01/10/2025

Looks like we've added the one and only ROSIE HOLT to our lineup on October 15 - aka our last ever London show. Oh MAMA what a bunch of legends we have here, Come down and celebrate the fabulous end of our reign and the grisly end of a life!
https://wegottickets.com/event/676413

22/09/2025

Such a honkingly good lineup for our LAST EVER LONDON CRIMINAL. We're talking Ruth Bratt, Suki Webster, Tom Skelton, and Ed Scrivens. Who killed Phil Pribbins??? Come celebrate a glorious decade of shows with us.
https://wegottickets.com/event/676413

19/09/2025

All right, folks. Our big announcement is that after going for ten years, we are hosting our last ever London show on October 15. While we will aim to pop at fringes and festivals, this will be your last chance to see a murder ineptly solved in the nation's capital. We'd love to have a nice big crowd for this send-off, with at least one person shouting 'taxidermist' at one point.

Your lineup is Ruth Bratt, Suki Webster, Ed Scrivens, and, solving the murder of Phil Pribbins, it's Tom Skelton. Thanks to you guys, we've had the most incredible decade of shows on various London stages. Come down and make this last one extra-special.

★★★★★ "Improv doesn’t get better than this" – The Wee Review Hello. Someone's died. It's all right. It's an improv show. And it's not just any improv show. This is a momentous occasion indeed. After ten years of delighting audiences in the nation's capital, this will be the final perfo...

14/09/2025

Psssst. Big announcement from us very soon...

05/10/2023

A week today, a fabulous lineup tries to work out who killed Roland Stroff. Come on down to the party. Funeral, sorry. Come down to the funeral.

★★★★★ "Improv doesn’t get better than this" – The Wee Review Hello. Welcome to improv night Criminal, where fantastic comedians solve terrible murders. Want to watch fantastic comedians solve terrible murders? You've come to the right show. This time it's the untimely death of Roland S...

27/09/2023

And we are...on SALE! Who killed Roland Stroff??

★★★★★ "Improv doesn’t get better than this" – The Wee Review Hello. Welcome to improv night Criminal, where fantastic comedians solve terrible murders. Want to watch fantastic comedians solve terrible murders? You've come to the right show. This time it's the untimely death of Roland S...

26/09/2023

Holy HELL, what a lineup coming up on October 12...

05/09/2023

Hubba hubba HUBBA. This Thursday!
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/590410/

31/08/2023

All right, guys, we're back in exactly a week. Who killed Elspeth Pim???

★★★★★ "Improv doesn’t get better than this" – The Wee Review Hello. Welcome to improv night Criminal, where fantastic comedians solve terrible murders. Want to watch fantastic comedians solve terrible murders? You've come to the right show. This time it's the untimely death of Elspeth ...