John Wayne Gacy was one of the worst serial killers in US history: responsible for the rape, torture and murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s.
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
A cowboy rock fantasy.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
If you’re not convinced by the title I have no idea what this is going to do.
Wayne Marshall joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra for an evening of rip-roaring tunes and joyful American classics, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
One of the world’s most famous musicians comes to St Mary’s to give the first organ recital on the magnificent and newly restored Father Willis organ.
One of the most ground-breaking arena tours of all time, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of ‘The War of the Worlds’ - Alive on Stage is to make its return to the UK …
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from the Company’s three associate choreographers, Wayne McGregor…
Be ready to be entertained in this hilarious hypnosis comedy show.
The visionary contemporary choreographer, Wayne McGregor has led his company onto ever more radical and challenging innovations.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2010 novel “Tree of Codes” was part book, part sculpture, created by extracting words from Bruno Schulz’s 1934 story collection, R…
Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti…
Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti…
Kendra Cunningham hosts these three impressive young talents from the Park Slope area for half-hour sets.
Award-winning comedy film-maker’s riotous experiences with procreation.
Knee Deep jumps into a pair of fisherman’s waders and wanders well out beyond the shallows of the physically possible.
What do you want from a show for children? Well, maybe good stories with catchy songs, told by witty and memorable characters.
Face, then fist, then thigh-first onto the stage tumbles Leo with a silent and excellently choreographed crash.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Aimed for children above the age of twelve, Javier Jarquin is a card dealing Ninja who quite literally aims at children.
Musical comedy is a genre where the mediocre can prosper with average comedians hiding behind averagely strummed guitars.
Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show.
Two self-confessed dirty rotten scoundrels did much more than waxen twist their moustaches when they lured the unsuspecting audience into their card den of delectable deception; li…
Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Broadway hit resurfaces here in Edinburgh to discuss the plight of a woman subjected to the pressures and expectations of a male dominated world.
This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts.
Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure.
This production simply explodes out the top of a teenage bottle of pent up pop, going everywhere and covering everyone - not just those in the front row - with raw, untutored energ…
A Mused Collective’s interpretative dance to live music attempts to ‘connect a disjointed world with pillows, neckties, a French horn, and groovy beats.
‘Life as we know it’ turns out to be about a very specific time in life: the teenage years.
If you subconsciously reach for a bag of salt and vinegar crisps when you notice a paper cut on your thumb, then this acerbically doused sketch show is the one for you.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls.
Word Power Books on West Nicholson St played host to Ciaran O’Driscoll, an Irish poet and prose writer of distinction, as part of their Edinburgh Book Fringe programme.
Two sisters are reunited under the dark cloud of prophecy and superstition in the wake of WWI.
Des Bishop bangs a lot more than just his drum in this visceral performance about.
Ants successfully colonised the world; Britain didn’t.
Sitting on the edge of the stage, this adept duo quite literally comes down to the level of the audience.
Dan Wright, with his highly controversial and misleading title, attempts to lure all the Whacko Jacko conspirators under one roof and, Guy Fawkes-like, burn them all down with a fi…
Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.
Step inside the auditorium of Sleepwalk Collective and let yourself be taken on a cognitive journey through the subconscious that stimulates from inside out.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.
Seven performers stand statue-like awaiting the start of the show.