Dan Tiernan: Quartz and All

Dan Tiernan brings Quartz and All to Norwich Theatre on Thursday 29 October, his first Norwich date since his last run of sold-out Edinburgh festivals. He's a stand-up comedian who's been picking up a fair bit of momentum lately: The Guardian called him 'one of comedy's most distinctive new voices', and he's coming off a hat trick of sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival. The awards nominations follow that, too — Best Newcomer in 2023, and Best Comedy Show in both 2025 and 2026, plus a Best Comedy Show nod at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026. He's also appeared on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and QI, and played the Manchester Comedy Store and the Just For Laughs festival.

The act draws on his own life — he's a gay, dyspraxic Mancunian who works in a care home for young asylum seekers. The show is staged with an amethyst, a bucketful of sage and a rose quartz the size of his head, so there's a bit of a visual side to it as well as the storytelling. The reviews have been mixed in a way that usually points to something worth seeing: the Mail on Sunday called him 'one of the most compelling voices to emerge in stand-up in recent years', while The List described him as 'unhinged'.

It's at the Playhouse, 42-58 St Georges Street, NR3 1AB. The show starts at 7:30pm, with doors opening about half an hour before, and tickets start from £19.