Step into the haunting presence of Alexander Blackwood.
A fading political journalist is forced to interview a famous soap actress.
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…
Jim Carrey meets Ricky Gervais as Alexander steps up to the mic in his new biting and satirical hour of comedy.
I’m the emotional daredevil, and for my next feat, I need someone’s help.
Actors East are pleased to present an evening of two plays written by Alexander Gallimore.
Everyone knows it takes more than a pinch of ruthless egotism to make it to the top of the theatrical tree, but Diva: Live From Hell takes that demonic compulsion and ratchets it u…
A work-in-progress of a new show about the risk of trust.
Robbie Ross? A wild(e) divulgence of Victorian indulgence.
“Why should I stay silent? They’ve been trying to shut me up from day one.
Three members of Moishe’s Bagel come together in a new project exploring a shared love of world folk music.
The Freddie and Queen Experience is the UK’s premier Queen and Freddie Mercury tribute band.
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
Freddie Mercury was the consummate entertainer who always got the audience involved.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
A character comedy show in this world.
“I think when it comes down to it Daniel, we’re probably looking for the same thing.
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, …
Boléro was written in 1928 as ballet music and the work is one of Ravel’s last and most famous.
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…
This is the story of a humble spud Charlotte, who dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.
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 con el apoyo de la Oficina de Asuntos Culturales y Cintificos de la Embajada de Espaa en Londres presenta el Festival de Literatura Queer Espaola en Londres - FLQEL…
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…
AIDS MEMORY UK: Freddie Mercurys Unofficial 75th Birthday Party Fundraising and awareness event for The AIDS Memorial by AIDS Memory UK during AIDS 40th Ye…
People of Edinburgh, I have dearly missed you.
Hello audiences, I have dearly missed you.
A work-in-progress show from a rising cult comic on the state of the world.
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
In 2017 New Wave Associate Artist Alexander Whitley combined film and dance for 8 Minutes, a breath-taking journey to the sun.
Three nights only! After a sell-out run in 2018 and a BBC One series of the same name, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and star of Live at the Apollo, Luisa returns with her third smash-hi…
At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, there is a work by the artist Robert Montgomery, a large piece of signage that declares ‘THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE’.
Queen are in Edinburgh and they’re here to rock in a brand-new show guaranteed to blow your mind.
The rising cult comic presents a show for those without hope, looking for some.
Phosphorus Theatre works with refugees and asylum-seekers to create original collaborative autobiographical storytelling.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
The blank, sterile corridors of Surgeons Hall are not where you might expect to find folky fun late at night.
The Wild Unfeeling World is an ingenious bit of storytelling; not only is it an innovative and eccentric reimagining of Moby Dick, but a stunning example of a wonderfully modern ap…
Here Comes Your Man is a lovely hour of storytelling from a bright new talent Matt Hoss.
Being Frank is a truly very special show, performed by stand up veteran Imaan Hadchiti.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
It’s 1999, soon to be 2000, and two sisters are wandering the woods of the Bournemouth area after fleeing a party.
Brandi Alexander has reinvented herself; a self confessed D-list night-time personality back in the saddle after a five year hiatus.
Everything about Giants Are Fjörd, the Fringe favourite duo’s new show for 2019, is exciting.
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
‘Mrs Richardson, you’re trying to seduce me.
It’s a secret epidemic, one that affects every new generation of young people.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Tommy Fury once said “if life is a game, then love is the prize”.
Snare weaves Alexander’s grotesque persona of a Buddy Rich/J.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Celestial Motion transports you to an alternate universe where you are joined by a virtual cast of world-class dancers on a thrilling journey towards the sun.
In just under an hour, FK Alexander’s new performance art piece VIOLENCE delivers an immersive meditation on love’s potential savagery.
Gandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley have joined forces to create a new show.
The widely acclaimed ex-Young Pleasance physical theatre ensemble Spies Like Us returned to the Festival Fringe this year with not only one show but two brilliant shows in an adapt…
In a comic exploration of the disjoint between what we think and what we say, The Interview questions the meaning of living a life worth rewarding.
Best of BEASTS is a wild and brilliant explosion of a show packed with slightly smaller explosions throughout – and I’m not talking about pyrotechnics.
Jean-Guihen Queyras CelloAlexander Melnikov Piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op 102 No 2Chopin Cello SonataRachmaninov Cello Sonata Both respected international soloists in thei…
You do not often look around an audience during a show and see barely any unsmiling faces; scarcer still, there is unanimous overheard praise afterwards.
Bizarre is the word that has stalked my mind since watching Bullingdon Revisited.
Tragedy + time + a desperate need to fill a void in your heart = comedy.
Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Warhol: Bullet Karma invites you to meet everyone’s favourite eccentric pop artist.
After reviewing your application, Sam & Tom are pleased to offer you the opportunity to interview for the position of audience in their new cult comedy show.
Terry Johnson’s deeply personal Ken enjoyed a geographically personal run in as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where much of the play takes place.
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.
A raincoated man bursts into one of two bunkers in the lower section of the Pleasance Courtyard.
The Fringe is all about first impressions; the opening minutes of a free stand up show, the six word spiel spurted at you by flyerers with an outstretched hand, the carefully chose…
Watching Daniel Cook run wildly around Pleasance’s Bunker Two, three things are clear: 1.
If you were anywhere near the Pleasance Courtyard this year, you’ll of heard of Lab Rats Theatre’s In Loyal Company as it shook the Fringe with its sell out run and critical ac…
Tobacco Road is, more than anything, a lot of fun to watch and a strong example of the power of devised theatre and the ensemble.
Hunch, one of two productions from DugOut Theatre this festival (along with Songlines at the Pleasance Courtyard) continues the company’s new approach of single-person storytelli…
Gilded Balloon Futures presents an hour of stand-up from two of Scotland’s fastest rising talents.
As anyone who’s been to an Edinburgh Festival Fringe can attest, word of mouth is crucial to a show’s success.
After review of your recent application Sam & Tom would like to extend to you the opportunity to interview for the position of ‘Audience’ for their new c…
LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt Due to huge demand, and over-priced lawyers, Lee is extending his smash-h…
Securing his name in the R&B history books, Alexander O’Neal is one of the genres most iconic names.
Ever wondered what teachers really think about you, your kids and the education system? Ben Knight delivers a brutally honest musical/standup fusion of what teachers REALLY think …
An international gross of $1.
‘There should be no shame in us taking pleasure in our little lives.
Visit a spectacular building and discover how diseases and treatments fell in and out of favour in Edinburgh and beyond.
An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes.
In 1993, Alexander Bennett won a ‘most beautiful baby’s smile’ competition at Butlins in Skegness.
Following their sold out Glasgow Comedy Festival show, Donald and Stuart make their Edinburgh Fringe debut.
In 1993, Alexander Bennett won a ‘most beautiful baby’s smile’ competition at Butlins in Skegness.
Join Dana Alexander in her fifth Edinburgh Show, as she navigates through the matrix of the modern world of dating.
A show about the world’s most famous drummer.
Alexander O'Neal, who came to prominence in the late 80s thanks to a string of chart-topping singles including Criticize, If You Were Here Tonight and Never Knew Love Like This…
Following on from his innovative digital work Pattern Recognition, Sadler's Wells New Wave Associate Alexander Whitley takes on the breath-taking scale of space for his company…
Six hilarious young women.
‘Spiral down the stairs to the world of the inventor.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Six women.
Have our relationships become a product of a social media obsessed generation? Dating in the 21st century is constantly changing and not necessarily for the better.
Brother and sister duo Jack and Anna Harris bring us a stand-up comedy show using sketches inspired by their life as siblings.
There is more to life than happiness, right? A not-so-perfect guide to happiness is explored in this one-woman show, written and performed by Yvette May who, after finding hersel…
If you believe the stigma of mental health is slowly disappearing, then Fit for Work will question your perception of this topical subject and how it is perceived in the workplac…
Jack Evans’ debut hour.
The Paradise Palms is a difficult venue in which to perform.
This show started beautifully and retained its magic right until the very end.
Two excellent musicians, the cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and the pianist Alexander Lonquich, join forces for an alluring program in the Frick’s intimate music room.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, hero of the historic 2005 victorious Ashes England team, is hitting the road celebrate the 10 years anniversary and share his memories of that long h…
In Silver Darlings, celebrated writer Alexander McCall Smith has joined forces with innovative Scottish composer James Ross, to write a song cycle about Scotland and the sea.
Today is the day Mrs McMoon is having her tea party, featuring several fresh batches of her legendary biscuits, and we’re all invited.
This show is my interpretation of the Sonnets. Let us together rediscover the comic genius, beauty and tragedy of the greatest love poems ever written in the English language.
If you are a fan of comedy, film noir, or just free shows in general, you should probably check out Health Under Fire.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
Freddie should never leave the house, if he’s not caught eating chicken naked, he’s accidentally involved in gangland gunfights.
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
Joan, Babs & Shelagh too is a difficult play.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
Serving in many ways as an exploration of grief, mental illness and the intricacies of the bond between mothers and daughters - all wrapped up in a one-woman show - 65 Days of Trac…
Pussy is nothing if not provocative.
Black Magic: Songs Unchained is an important piece of theatre, unfortunately hampered by an uneven acting performance.
Following on from last year’s Drunk Lion, Chris Davis’ Bortle 8 is nothing if not strange.
Adapting Romeo and Juliet for a younger audience is by no means an easy feat.
Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang could perhaps be best described as the illegitimate love child of CBeebies and Michael Gondry, conceived in a fever dream.
The Rattlesnake’s Kiss, part of Jethro Compton’s Frontier Trilogy, is an all-round masterclass in what theatre at the Fringe can be.
Embracing all the great theatrical traditions of silent comedy and vaudeville, Funny Bones Trash is the best kind of children’s show.
Returning to this year’s festival, Enchanted Forest Adventure is nothing short of delightful.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
Kenny DeForest hosts long stand-ups sets from two of the city’s finest, Ben Kronberg and Brooke Van Poppelen, and featuring Greg Stone.
Space operas are so 1970s.
Now that Freddie is a family man he is trying his best to be responsible.
In a world with no heroes or leaders for a directionless youth, your beloved Alexander Bennett will prove he’s the man to lead the revolution.
A quick glance into the Fringe brochure may lead an innocent punter to think The Interview is an intriguing show.
A showcase show with some of the best performers at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe.
“From Baroque to Paganini” is the title of this concert by the accomplished violinist Alexander Markov, joined by the conductorless Shattered Glass Ensemble.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous novella, the story of a pilot who crash-lands his plane in the Saharan desert and befriends a boy, ‘the little prince’, with whom he embarks …
The Russian-born pianist Alexander Yakovlev has won more than 50 first prizes at international competitions, including the 2012 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
The hilarious story of a young girl’s tragic past and terrifying future. On in the morning, we don’t like the dark. ‘A funny and enjoyable show’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Join two of the hottest up-and-coming rising stars for an hour of Ain’t It Awkward stand-up and bants.
Multimedia can be a tricksy thing.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Advertised as a five star crowd-pleaser from Fringe’s past, this show might be expected to drum up a frenzy.
Every man in the audience stiffened as a pulsating phallus inflated on the screen in front of us at the start of the show.
The best thing that can probably be said of the Durham Revue is that it’s uninspired.
Sealand tells the tale of Ted and his son who leave mainland Britain to set up a principality on an abandoned oil rig out at sea.
Nish Kumar’s show Who Is Nish Kumar demonstrates why stereotypes can be used for both comedy and discrimination.
At the risk of sounding completely unprofessional, I would like to summate that Charlie Baker’s new stand up show Freshly Baked is ‘alright.
As with every other play about the experiences within the acting trade, In Your Dreams comes with a reference to RADA, a few mentions of Peter Brook, and suffers from a fetishisati…
It is not often on the Edinburgh comedy circuit that every single seat in the house is full.
It is not often at the Fringe when you are welcomed into the auditorium by the performer himself with the house lights fully up.
A comedy show based entirely on pictures.
‘I’m more British than you’ - undoubtedly a bold statement for a tagline.
To get to the point, this play is woefully average.
Dana Alexander arrives on this side of the Atlantic with a significant reputation, but the venue chosen for Alexander can only be described as ambitiously large for a comic at her …
The two plays can be seen as complete plays in their own right or as two parts of a whole.
Laziness and Stuff provides a space within which Carey Marx can comfortably cocoon himself and allow his mind to wander off on lethargic tandems.
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…
What a fantastic premise for a show; based on your suggestions the cast will serve up a brand new, fresh musical in front of your eyes.
Ellis James is a natural stand-up comedian.
This quirky little improv show offers a great deal at an odd time of night.
The transition from Chambers St into the depths of The Jazz Bar feels almost like crossing between continents.
Propaganda is a club night that regularly pulls in droves of happy-go-lucky youngsters all over the UK.
What are one’s chances of assuming a position at the top of the Turkish royal family? Pretty bleak for the average man, but not for Naz Ozmanglu.
If you’re someone who enjoys crass, puerile humour, then Bouncers will appeal to your tastes.
Shopping Centre is the second show by Matthew Osborn in as many years.
Rob Broderick, the titular Abandoman, comes out firing all cylinders in this flat out, hour long, improv-fest.
The kindest comparison one can probably make of Maff Brown’s show Pacman Is Actually Allergic to Ghosts (a show with references to pacman noticeably absent) is to that of a Saga …
Set over the course of a thunderous evening in Lord Byron’s Lake Geneva Villa, Fantasmagoriana follows Byron as he, two of his lovers, and Mary and Percy Shelley take part in a h…
Reverse Nikolai Gogol’s original Russian title for The Nose and you have the word ‘son’, the Russian for ‘dream’, or ‘sleep’.
Dana Alexander is the best known black female Canadian comedian but has moved to Tottenham in London.
Ben Target is the best advert for the Free Fringe.
Everyone’s favourite ‘virgin until the tender age of twenty one’ stand-up is back.
Having gone viral for her impersonation and parodies of Liz Truss, impressionist Nerine Skinner chats with Katerina Partolina about 'The Exorcism of Liz Truss', in the sense of bot...
Before bringing a show about gifts called 'My Gift To You' to the Edinburgh Fringe, award winner, host of Comedy Bandits and a Guardian recommended podcast, Alfie Packham talks to...
Considered to be one of Devon’s and Bristol’s finest comedians, the award-winning, Alex Kitson sits down with Katerina Partolina Schwartz to discuss his upcoming Edinburgh Frin...
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after a sold-out Scottish tour and an OFFFest win for Best Musical/Circus at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, writer and musical director of 'Godfath...
I spoke with Pharos (AKA Fraser Lawson), the artist behind Rave, to discover the intentions behind his mind-melting audio-visual set.
Isabella Thompson enjoyed meeting the cast of Bed: The Musical and chatting to them about their rehearsal process. Here are some extracts from the interview.
James Macfarlane chats with Phil Ellis about his new show Phil Ellis' Excellent Comedy Show, celebrating 10 years at Edinburgh and his biggest achievements outside of comedy
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with MC Hammersmith to discuss raps, rhymes and his new Edinburgh show Straight Outta Brompton.
James Macfarlane sits down with the one and only Danny Beard to discuss their debut Fringe show Danny Beard and Their Band, life since winning RuPaul's Drag Race UK and why the art...
In this Valentine's Special we talk to comedian Matt Hoss about what would be on his Valentine's playlist, how to book a tour after Edinburgh Fringe and what to get a vegan for Val...
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
Alternative and experimental performances have always been at the heart of Fringe, but is there still space for something a little more unpredictable? Enter Harry Clayton-Wright.
In 2011, Neil Hilborn’s poetry slam team placed first in the US College Poetry Slam.
Sarah Callaghan returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, with the show, 'The Pigeon Dying Under The Bush'.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
Bobby Winner Ten Storey Love Song (adapted by Luke Barnes from the Richard Milward novel) is a play cum techno gig about five wretched tower-block inhabitants who deserve better fr...
Dan Simpson is a former Canterbury Laureate, and has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, Roundhouse Camden, and the BBC Fringe Slam.
Handing out flyers on the street is one of the most famously unpleasant parts of putting on a show at the Fringe.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Fringe is the single most exciting date in the student-theatre calendar.
How do you tell a story using Shakespeare’s characters and make it original? How do you tell a story about Shakespeare himself for that matter? For Catriona Scott, playwright of ...
What do we need to nourish ourselves? Is love enough? Can we definitively say that Nandos are the kings of fast food? Such questions and more are explored in the invigorating new p...
Pete De-Graft Johnson, also known as The Repeat Beat Poet, is a poet and organiser of The PAD, a studio and events space in London.
Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world.
Andrew Blair and Ross McCleary are Edinburgh-local writers and collaborators.
Three AM in Edinburgh is something of a witching hour.
Joel Auterson is an otter admirer and a host of the Boomerang Club, a regular poetry night in London.
Shruti Chauhan is a poet and performer from Leicester.
Adele Hampton was a member of the Washington DC 2013 Beltway Poetry’s National Slam Team.
Sophia Walker is an internationally renowned poet.
Natasha Granger and Kerrie Thompson wrote, produced and star in 90s girl-band musical 2 Become 1, a story about romance, speed dating and the ideal post-night-out meal.
In 2012, Harry Baker became the youngest ever World Poetry Slam Champion.
In a world boiling over with police invasion of privacy, romance and rising sea levels, what could possibly go wrong? Part eco-political rally cry, part meditation on the collapse ...
Buddy Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken-word artist, featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National, and signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Re...
Iona Lee was born in Edinburgh and brought up in East Lothian.
Brighton Fringe award winners, Certain Dark Things, invite you to spiral down the stairs to the world of the inventor.
Brighton’s improvised comedy favourites present an impromptu detective drama, replete with colourful characters and lurid plots.
A smash hit at the 2015 Prague Fringe, this is the portrayal of a complex man who thought of himself as a genius and ended up being a clown in the eyes of the world as The Gra...
German theatre isn't well known outside Germany.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Exploring humanity’s eternal fascination with the skies through the eyes of this playful and dynamic young ensemble, The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon is a dark, Tim Burton...
Gentleman Juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Katy Matthews tells us about Un-titled, her play about art, told by art.
Ally Cologna tells up about Birthday in Suburbia, a rich mixture of clown, dark comedy and rich visual imagery.
Tom Veryzer talks to us about his pixie-fuelled comedy riot packed with adventure, mischief, stand-up comedy and storytelling and leaves us wondering exactly was a fun-splosio...
Elsie Diamond, international burlesque performer, compere and singer, presents her one woman show, and talks to us about vintage looks, a bygone era and her famous erotic sewing sc...
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Inspired by Elliot Rodger’s manifesto, Ballistic is a one-man tour-de-force about the life of a loner & the vulnerabilities & violent capabilities of a young man today.
Eva tells a comedic story of love, frankfurters, the other Eva and de-bunks the bunker story once and for all.
Neil has a story to tell.
West End performer, Sharon Sexton, stars as broadway legend Liza Minnelli recounting tales, secrets and blasting through her famous hits.
Award winning, comedic dance-theatre duo present their new show and we’ve been talking to them to find out a little bit more.
Shortlisted for the Brighton Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Jody Trehy talks about singing, 12 foot tall alien lizards and never leaving your wallet off-stage
A beautiful show incorporating theatre, live music and song.
Set in an airport, Blooming Surprise takes you on an unexpected journey into your heart, where hope blooms, ever fresh.
On his 400th anniversary, can Shakespeare help a father and child explore each other’s worlds? We talked to Rory and Simon Waterfield discussing how the bard inspired their ...
A comedy about German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his troubled relationship with women wowed audiences at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Ever needed a guide to be a man? Perhaps you've read books, looked on the internet and searched for answers.
A one man musical about a trans woman in 1970s NYC. This is Tanner Efinger's new play receives its world premiere at Brighton Fringe.
Nye Russell-Thompson invites you to take a look into the mind of a man who stammers in this dark comedy that was nominated for a Total Theatre award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers an insight into the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Lorraine Mullaney is an experienced writer and journalist whose last show was shortlisted for New Writing South's Best New Play award. She talks to us about her latest dark comedy.
Captivating close-up magic from this charming, comedic magician.
Matt Green once spent six hours in a car with Harvey Keitel.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
Paula Varjack is a writer, filmmaker and performance maker.
Hannah Chutzpah is a performance poet, writer and activist.
Wojtek: The Happy Warrior is a physical theatre ensemble retelling of the real-life story of a Syrian bear who joined the Polish army to fight in World War II.
Ross & Rachel is a story of what happens after a happily-ever-after ending.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Pipeline Theatre’s Spillikin is the moving story of an Alzheimer’s sufferer who is kept company by a robot made and programmed by her robotics-obsessed husband.
Ariella Eshad is the artistic director of Tik-Sho-Ret, an anglo-israeli theatre company that looks to share Jewish and Israeli culture between the two countries.
Brigitte Aphrodite describes herself as a punk pop poet showgirl who was on the 2009 shortlist for the Musical Comedy awards - but she’s almost impossible to categorise.
New York City's "rapid-fire raconteur of sex and death" returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, where it’s fair to say he’s decidedly Trigger Happy!
Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...
Sabrina Mahfouz is the author of Chef, a one-woman play about a prison cook.
Lou Stein is the director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, currently playing at the Pleasance Courtyard.
Director Alexandra Spencer-Jones of Action to the Word made her name with her all-male production A Clockwork Orange, currently touring with Glynis Henderson Productions.
Comedian Lucy Porter’s first foray into theatre, The Fair Intellectual Club, plays at the Assembly Rooms this August.
John Conway is a wacky comedian all the way from Australia.
Kiya Heartwood is an award-winning American singer-songwriter who writes smart, funny and poignant songs about the famous and not-so-famous legends of America.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was the first show to win a coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award this Fringe.
Miles Allen is the star of One Man Breaking Bad, a solo show which ambitiously retells all of Breaking Bad in sixty minutes - that's just under one minute per episode.
Sue Bevan presents her magical-realist show, An Audience with Shurl, at Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall.
Chris Dolan is a Fringe First-winning writer, whose Scottish Independence-themed play The Pitiless Storm runs at the Assembly Rooms until the end of August starring David Hayman.
Randy Ross, an erotica-writer, has come to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to put on his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, a tale of a never-married hypochondriac, who t...
Steven Dawson, from Australia’s Out Cast Theatre, is the writer and director behind The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens & a Duck, a production th...
Samuel Ward is the director of GRIMM, which tells the story of a woman in a dystopian psychiatric institute, whose memories are replaced with Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Oliver Lansley (artistic director) and James Seager (associate producer) are the masterminds behind Les Enfants Terribles, a theatre company now in its thirteenth year at the Fring...
Joao de Sousa is the director of The Curing Room, a show about seven Soviet soldiers who, stripped of clothes and trapped in an abandoned monastery’s cellar, are reduced to canni...
withWings Theatre Company's The Duck Pond, a music and physical theatre-heavy adaptation of Swan Lake, has enjoyed a sell-out run at the Bedlam Theatre so far this August.
Vinay Patel, writer of True Brits, is a young playwright from the Southeast of London who is ashamed to admit he has never lived north of the river Thames.
Alexis Rosinsky is the star of one-person Shakespeare show Where is She Now? She is also eleven years old.
Stephanie Dale is a playwright with work produced by BBC Radio 4 and Birmingham REP among others.
Sophia Walker is the reigning BBC Slam champion and winner of multiple awards for her spoken-word show Around the World in Eight Mistakes.
Casual Violence are a five-man comedy sketch troupe who have been performing sketch comedy at the Fringe since 2010, this year bringing the comedy play The Great Fire of Nostril to...
Dag Andersson and Tove Sahlin are a real-life couple and the artistic directors of Shake it Collaborations, a Swedish performance company examining body and identity politics.
Cathy SK Lam is a writer, actor and director from Hong Kong.
Anna Girvan is a director who loves the strange and the unique.
Steve Green is the artistic director of Fourth Monkey Theatre company, which this year brings five productions to the Fringe including Alice, a site-specific adaptation of the Lewi...
2013 Performance Poetry World Cup Champion Scott Wings, part of the Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company in Brisbane, is performing his one-man spoken word/physical theatre Icarus F...
Jo Clifford is a writer and actor whose body of work extends to over 70 produced plays, films and radio plays.
Alex Brockie is a midlands-based theatre maker whose play about a Mexican-wrestling star fallen on hard times, El Británico, is coming to theSpace this August.
Lewis Ironside is the director of Shit-faced Shakespeare, everyone's favourite inebriated classical theatre series, returning to the Fringe for the fifth year with a run at the Und...
Sam O’Rourke is co-writer and co-director of Much Ado About Zombies, a play coming to theSpace this August that.
Doctor Austin of the renowned Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, based in the University of Glasgow, has come to educate the Edinburgh Fringe about the inevitable Zombie Apo...
Andrew J Davies is the writer and producer of What A Gay Play, a shamelessly raunchy play about a group of gay friends playing at C venues this August.
Patrick Wilde is a writer and director who's been a formative influence in British gay theatre since his What’s Wrong With Angry? was first mounted in 90s London.
Best known for playing Albert in the National Theatre's War Horse, actor Jack Holden is about to star in Awkward Conversations With Animals I've F*cked, Rob Hayes's new play about ...
Martin Walker became Broadway Baby’s Stand-Up Comedy editor in March 2014.
Laura Witz founded the Edinburgh-based Charlotte Productions in 2009 and has since brought numerous plays about female history to the Fringe, including 2012’s Miss Marchbanks.
MargOH! Channing and MAN-ee Champagne are two delightful queens bringing fermented realness from New York to Edinburgh this August for a late-night run at The Laughing Horse.
Lucy Ayrton made her Fringe debut in 2012 when her first show, Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry, won her a Best Newcomer award at PBH's Free Fringe, along with a host of glowing...
A finalist at the Windsor Fringe Drama Festival, Julie Ford is preparing to premiere her new play, Totally Devoted, at theSpace this Fringe.
Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio...
Co-founder of Tasty Monster Productions, Heather Bagnall, made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year with SINGLEMARRIEDGIRL.
Musician, comedian and actor Ben Fairey, known for his acting roles in Channel 4’s Random Acts and M.
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
Broadway headliner Christina Bianco and West End showgirl Velma Celli (alter ego Ian Stroughair) are planning to cram in a lot of diva into their Edinburgh collaboration at Assembl...
Following sold out performances in Shanghai and New York, Apphia Campbell brings her Nina Simone inspired show to the Gilded Balloon.
Game-keeper turned poacher? Liam Rudden may be Entertainment Editor for the Edinburgh Evening News, but he also has decades’ experience as a writer and director for the stage–i...
Last year, Mzz Kimberley received five-star reviews for her show A Tranny Is Born.
Serial producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook have been a regular fixture at the Edinburgh Fringe for nearly a decade, but is this the last time we’ll see them at the Festiv...
Never work with children, they say, but comedian Mike Belgrave is back in Edinburgh with a show packed with the sort of mayhem kids adore.
Cameryn Moore's award-winning solo play Phone Whore comes back to the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Towering blonde ex-Vegas showgirl Miss Hope Springs is set to make her Edinburgh debut at the Playhouse this year.
Storyteller, Fiona Herbert tells Martin Walker she knows about everything from tee-total vegan dinner parties to dolphin assault; getting dumped at sea to getting dumped on Skype...
Alex Motswiri Director of African Tree Productions – producers of last year’s hit show The System, talks to Pete Shaw about their new Musical – Magadi – The Bride’s Pric...
Jessica Sherr is returning to Edinburgh with her show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies.
A regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe from North America, Ian Garrett not only has brought many shows across the pond but also created the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practi...
Irene Ros is writer and director of Marcel Vol 1, a surrealist show that attempts to turn the Berlusconi sex scandal into art.
Jeanette Bonner is an American heading to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with her show Love.
The latest reviewer to hit Edinburgh is FringeDog.
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...
Texan writer-actor-knitter Elaine Liner had a surprise five-star hit with her show Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe.
Valerie Hager is an American ex-crystal meth addict and one-time pole dancer taking a show called Naked In Alaska to the Edinburgh Festival.
Although they may not grab the attention lavished upon the 'big four' at the Edinburgh Festival, theSpaceUK is nonetheless now the largest venue at the Fringe and this year celebra...