Angie McMahon plans to prove that women are funny, and she’s recruited 55 comics from across the United States to help the cause. McMahon is the founder and artistic director of the Funny is Female ...

Witches get a bad rap. Thanks largely to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, witches have been cast in history as evil or threatening figures. They’re often depicted in popular culture as old hags with ...

The Times recently spoke with six women who started stand-up comedy later in life. Their big takeaway: Stand-up comedy is a unique artform because anyone can do it as long as they’re funny. Performing ...

A reporter walks into a bar. Except, it’s not a bar; it’s a basement comedy club in Clifton. And there’s no bartender serving corny one-liners; it’s a group of women serving actually funny punchlines.

While “Regency Girls” isn’t a Jane Austen sequel, her famed novel of manners set in the early 1800s has inspired a world-premiere musical comedy at the Old Globe about a woman of that era who finds ...

Comedy has always been a tool for Black women—an instrument to tell uncomfortable truths, uplift cultural narratives, and connect generations through laughter. But behind every punchline is a legacy ...