Dylan Emery

How the cost of living crisis is impacting the Edinburgh Fringe

A view from Dylan Emery: actor, director, producer and... financial journalist?

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical review

Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be doing one or two shows per month on a Monday evening, except in August when the whole outfit transfers to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a month long run.

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical review

'What happens?' I hear you ask. Well, I don't know, and neither do the actors!

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical review

Showstopper! has the thrill of being different every time you see it but you can always rely on the cast for epic songs, big dance numbers and spontaneity of a magic kind.

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical review

The latest performance of hit improvised musical Showstopper!, from co-creators Dylan Emery and Adam Meggido, greatly impresses in its zany 1000th live routine.

Showstopper! The hit musical that's made up every night

It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell all.

#EdFringe17 Comedy Q&A: Dylan Emery from Showstopper!

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is an all-singing, all dancing, comedy musical, which just happens to be made up on the spot...

Showstopper! and Mark Gatiss win Olivier Awards

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has won the Best Entertainment and Family Show at the Olivier Awards tonight. Mark Gatiss won Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Review - Showstopper: The Improvised Musical, Salford

I urge everybody to race to the theatre to catch this show, it's a night unlike any you will ever experience in the theatre. Totally perfect in every way.

One always needs a dose of originality after a large helping of nostalgia and that was certainly provided by Showstopper, a new comedy show during which a cast improvises a musical using suggestions from the studio audience. Curtain up on the first offering, and Dylan Emery was asking the ensemble for an opening number for a musical called The God Sister set in mafia gangland. Not surprisingly, the plot was nonsensical at times, or as Emery put it, "contextually unlikely", but on the whole the performers - including Pippa Evans, Ruth Bratt, Lucy Trodd, Sean McCann and Oliver Senton - produced one of the most entertaining half hour's radio I've heard in a long time.