ʞɔǝɥ ←flippin' heck! Witness a pun Goliath in person, as Darren Walsh brings his 8ft frame and award winning act to the theatre.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
World War II is at its height in this inventive new staging of Donizetti’s opera buffa, or romantic comedy, The Elixir of Love.
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
Recently described by Chortle as a mix between Jack Dee and Frank Skinner wrapped in a Mod’s fashion sense, Matt is taking his debut show on tour.
Recently described by Chortle as a mix between Jack Dee and Frank Skinner wrapped in a Mod’s fashion sense, Matt Bragg is taking his debut show on tour.
South African-New Zealander Comedian, Urzila Carlson returns to tour the UK with her new show 'Just Jokes'.
Described as ‘the funniest dad on Instagram’, stand-up comedian George Lewis has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches ab…
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
Following the huge success of her UK Concert Tour, ‘An Open Book’, actress, author, vlogger and award-winning West End sensation Carrie Hope Fletcher returns to The London Pall…
From award-winning Hambledon Productions (‘Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show’, ‘Steptoe and Son’) comes the Godfather of all sitcoms, Hancock…
Olivier nominated Rachel Tucker is famed for her powerhouse performance that “leaves no roof intact!” Her Irish charm will immediately put you at ease as she…
London prepares to host the highly awaited premiere of "Lazgi," a ballet performance like no other, on September 14.
This is a story about the rivalry between the two great northern cities of Liverpool and Manchester and, the fact that they have so much in common yet… it is ofte…
‘There are no commitments, only bargains.
Sir Isaac Newton is famous for claiming that his scientific discoveries were made possible ‘by standing on the shoulders of giants’.
Scotland’s queen of comedy, Fern Brady (Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg), is back on tour with a brand-new show.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
To live longer we should avoid smoking and fast food.
Full of heart, this powerful new play is both about and by young people.
Inspired by real life experiences in the bedroom, an all-women group of writers and performers brings you a series of monologues about sex: mohawks in Spain, coffee in Brooklyn, an…
Andrew White has been described by Joe Lycett as ‘very exciting and very funny’ and by teachers as ‘a pleasure to teach (gay)’.
John McLaughlin (hit singer/songwriter/producer of Johnny Mac & The Faithful) performs songs of his friend and genius Shane MacGowan (The Pogues and The Popes).
You Heard Me is for anyone who has been underestimated, or told to shut up.
Inspired by the style of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and that of traditional storytelling by a single narrator, this play weaves four humorous and moving narratives into one man…
August 1815.
You’re only as good as your worst day.
Being single in her mid-twenties… how hard can it be? Post-breakup, Tilly jets off on a girls’ trip to Barcelona and impulsively lands a job in London.
After being fired by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his back and the rum on his back.
If you enjoy exploring the ups, downs (and sideways!) of human relationships through musical comedy, this show is for you! Characters will be built based off audience suggestions, …
The funniest dad on Instagram has racked up hundreds of millions of views online.
Sir Love E Dove is a grand actor of legendary status.
Guy Montgomery (Taskmaster NZ, Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, born at Wellington Women's Hospital, 1988) hasn't been to the United Kingdom since 2019 but he is coming …
Patrick Moore is a total Mamas’ Boy.
Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the…
Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes…
‘They come over here.
‘Love Bridge’ fully shows the characteristics of the Shanghai opera ‘singing the news we talking about’.
Moscow 2001.
Comedian and doctor Ed Patrick rescues the NHS by re-opening the doors of his Comedians’ Surgery, where guest comedians have been lucky enough to book an appointment to talk all …
Join Scottish supermodel Eunice Olumide MBE as she discusses everything you want to know about the fashion industry – do’s and don’ts, sustainability, greenwashing, brands gone r…
Are intrusive thoughts funny? No… but also, yes.
Winner of the Neurodiverse Review Disability Champions Award 2023, Mark brings his debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
After last year’s successful Fringe debut, legendary accordionist and funnyman Sandy Brechin returns with another hilarious hour of music and comedy in his one-man show, featuring …
Mariah Girouard is not a Good Girl.
No one understands the complexity and plights of Catholicism like a teenage lesbian, especially one whose only friend happens to be a figment of the 13th-century saint Joan of Arc.
A three-panel painting depicting 122 texts from the last book in the Bible.
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2024, and we’ve got some incredible new recipes! We’ll be chopping, stirring, kneading and boiling to serve you some deli…
Following sold-out shows in Manchester, Helio Collective debuts at Fringe with a fresh take on how we talk about our planet’s future.
Malcolm Windsor is a scientist and jazz singer who explores love, loss and new thinking on the chemistry between couples through their life events, illustrated by story and song.
Love and Freindship (fear not, deliberate misspelling) is a Regency romp through the adventures of Laura, a young woman on the quest for love.
Sikisa brings her new work in progress show to the Fringe, exploring the things we do to escape.
Love Your Work is a bi-annual work-in-progress showcase dedicated to facilitating dance and mental health.
The infamous words added by King Edward VI to his last will and testament ‘/ and her’ unexpectedly thrust the 15-year-old Jane Grey onto the throne of England for a mere 9 days…
In a mouth-watering interplay between the mysteries of the feminine triune across the ages and the epic apple which sates our collective hunger, this dance and poetry work features…
It’s Tibby’s 25th birthday and she is throwing a big party: after years, her friends from uni are coming together — and they are all doing better than her.
A love story.
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy.
Rhiannon has always been a good girl: obliging, pretty, and eager to please.
Just Aretha is the story of a black disabled woman navigating an able-bodied world, striving to hold onto her African and disabled identity.
Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years.
From Hillsborough to Grenfell, the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the Miners’ Strike, hear the inspiring tales of 30 years of social justice campaigns.
How well can you know your own family? A grandson discovers the hidden secrets behind his grandparents’ ordinary yet curious marriage.
Is it so crazy to imagine that ‘all we need is love’? What would a world where people felt the power of love look and feel like? A world where people could act out of love for one …
Multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, performer and poet Martin Rowson will work his way through the day’s papers while he outlines his hilarious and often acrimonious relationsh…
Philip Contini is back with his acclaimed singing show celebrating Dean Martin: Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, recording artist, television star, King of Cool.
You can’t search Google for poetry: it’s true! Every word you search for on Google is auctioned to the highest bidder, but it’s the commercial rather than poetic value of the…
Legendary artist and composer Joni Mitchell turned 80 on 7 November 2023, and Brian marked her milestone birthday by recording his second love letter volume of his favourite songs …
Great songs of the 70s from James Taylor, Carole King, John Denver, Don McLean and many more from the singer/songwriter era.
One in five adults in the UK have hearing loss, which can result in difficulty following conversations and social withdrawal.
Experience Queen’s legendary hits in this electrifying jukebox musical comedy.
Unravel the curious case of Agnes Finnie, a mid-17th century shopkeeper in Edinburgh’s Potterrow accused of witchcraft.
On New Year’s Eve on Sydney Harbour the lives of Claire and Elisabeth collide.
16-year-old Brit School pianist, guitarist and singer.
We’ll take you on a one-of-a-kind, astronomer-led, immersive planetarium journey from our planet to the farthest reaches of the Solar System.
Grace is kicking back for the summer holidays when her step mother orders her to go to her aunty Baba Yaga.
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Outstanding Performance of a Solo Show (NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination).
Meet the most famous girl group of all time.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
Drew thinks she’s pregnant.
‘The brains and talent behind Half-Cocked Theatre have undoubtedly carved a niche in the world of sketch comedy with their latest offering’ **** (LiveLondonPost.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends – Walter Scott, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and others – with Allan Foster, author …
Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse.
The Grumpy Magicians present: Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
Join Alex as he makes his fourth consecutive appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and finally answers the question of how he became a magician.
A perfectly crafted hour of perfectly work-in-progress stand-up comedy from Patrick Spicer (as seen on Channel 4, BBC Two, 60k+ followers online).
You’re at risk of identity theft! Unless you come to this very informative, interactive, luxury seminar in which I, Bernadette (Agnes Carrington), invite you to experience the extr…
When a 30-something actress is suddenly aged-out of the industry, she undergoes a wildly unconventional spa treatment to get her old life back.
When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy.
Following last year’s debut Topical Comedian Show at the Fringe, Peter Merrett is back with more news, in fact new news; same venue, earlier time.
A funeral you can’t keep your inappropriate self from laughing through: this one-person show is a love letter to the humiliating experience of becoming a grown up, and the way gr…
Astrophysicist Dr Julian Mayers asks whether studying the Universe gives us any insight into earthly matters of life, death and love.
Dolly’s forlorn.
Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian with a secret.
A brand-new wild, fast, funny, and often filthy show from the award-winning comic that bursts with positivity, frantic stand-up and improv comedy energy.
The story of one of country music’s most iconic voices: June Carter Cash.
Dive deeper into popular melodies of murder and mayhem in our original musical.
A double-bill show.
Biblical characters David and Jonathan feature quite prominently in present discussions about the Bible and same-sex relationships.
Ben Kassoy brings poems from his spectacularly original book to life in this wildly entertaining solo show.
A story of empowerment through vulnerability.
Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe, 2019, 2021, 2023) hosts this show for history fans, its fourth year at the Fringe.
A miniature choreography of visual poetry, objects and body parts, Book of Dew weaves a spider web of fantastical fragments: water droplets, a river in the air, glistening stardust…
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
A hilarious and heartfelt musical that tackles modern love in all its forms.
A powerful, provocative and funny new play by Nancy Hamada about love, loss and America’s twisted obsession with guns.
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
Shy people, you there? This hilarious and tender tale follows Shy Girl’s ambitious attempt to open up (emotionally, spiritually, uh.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
Wanna feel loved? Honestly, I’m no magician.
Part stand-up, part actual pub quiz.
Material Girl is coming to the Fringe! Come and see Amanda Dwyer (‘Mentally unstable superstar in the making’ (Tom Stade)) and Susan Riddell (Billy Connelly Spirit of Glasgow nomin…
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Edinburgh show number five for the five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
Leicester Comedy Award nominee, Amused Moose Award shortlist-ee and double Pegasus Comedy Award win-ee, Adele has a year of new ideas to share.
Nominated for Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is a site-specific piece for one audience member about a woman’s retreat from everyd…
‘Highly original’ **** (StageRaw.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (scrub!) from the internet.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Being a woman! Being over 40! Sex! Kath has found the solution to these problems.
What’s better, sad songs or sh*tty poetry? Meet flatmates Mary and Liz, one a musician and the other a poet, as they battle over integrity, ownership, the spotlight and whose turn …
It’s the year 2024.
Lifelong goody-two-shoes Titi Lee is breaking all the rules, and you are invited.
Comedy panel show where top comics answer the daft questions you choose on our exclusive app, and take on stand-up challenges that test their comedy muscles.
After losing wife Mina to a sudden accident, Gyujin suffers from memories of his wife that remain throughout the house.
‘Choosing sperm is weird.
Ten years on from the play’s debut, a new production of the smash-hit comes to Roundabout, directed by Duncan Macmillan and performed by Jonny Donahoe.
And you can too.
Half-Brit comedian Jane Mumford was born and raised in Switzerland.
Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Toby was, until he discovered the ancient lost Gaelic secrets to love, life and the universe.
NHS anaesthetist, comedian and author Ed Patrick injects the Edinburgh Fringe with a gut-punch show about becoming a junior doctor, the NHS, the pitfalls of modern medicine and the…
Cheryl-Lee Fast invites you on a comedic journey of hypnotic love.
This production is a gripping story of a mother abandoned, a wife rejected, and the lengths a woman scorned will go to for justice.
The Alternative Book Club presents a stand-up comedy compilation show about books, where there is absolutely NO required reading.
‘This company truly are the best at storytelling’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
You are cordially invited.
Sparked by a conversation with a childhood friend that unearthed a long-forgotten obsession with football, Bryony wondered why all the girls she knew stopped playing football in th…
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Lauren Pattison is back with a brand-new show.
The Comedy Rooms New Act of the Year 2022 and without doubt one of best musical acts currently on the northern comedy circuit is bringing his solo show to Edinburgh for the first t…
Following a disastrous pub crawl, 40-something BFF’s Annie Sup and Angela Bra fall through a lipsync-hole into a parallel dimension of musical comedy tucked full of swords and sa…
Fairy Sprinkles isn’t your average fairy.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! The same spirited show hosted by Kyle Legacy but with all-new faces sharing their best drunken comedic tales! …
Michael sheds light on the everyday challenges of his condition, from the struggles of memory loss and impulse control to the comical mishaps that ensue when navigating social inte…
‘Incredibly powerful.
Sex and relationship education is on the timetable and award-winning drag queen Miss Angela Bra is your supply teacher for this very special lesson on how to handle yourself in any…
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have.
Three queer international comedians (Ann Vaida, Annick Adelle and Mari Volar) bring their WIP shows to Edinburgh and band together to make their solo debuts less harrowing.
The sexiest comic alive (please do not factcheck!) brings her delusional new show to the Fringe.
Kira loves reading.
In this new play from award-winning writer Yilong Liu, a California dad arrives in New York to visit his late son’s last boyfriend to propose an impossible mission: visit all 179 r…
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
Imagine a bar owned by Love itself.
Jake and Liv deserve the world.
‘This was the 3am phone call no mother wants to receive’One shattered promise.
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand-new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spontaneity.
Online comedy sensation Henry Rowley (1.
‘Being President of a footy club is pretty straightforward, right? Sign the best players, sell more beer, and try not to burn it all to the ground!’ A loud, obnoxious and darkly h…
Annie Lennox’s transcendent solo album DIVA stands at the centre of this sparkling story about strong, defiant women and the little gay boy who loves them.
Tupac never died.
55 years; a lonely speck, time off in lieu and a weekend in Tuscany.
A one-woman show about grief, self-discovery, a cow named Madonna and Delta Goodrem.
A poetic anthology.
Get your boogie shoes ready for the official KC and the Sunshine Band musical.
After two smash-hit, sell-out runs, Chloe Petts returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show… and this time she’s getting personal.
You learn it young.
Inspired by the work of Dr Gabor Maté, this is a play for women who do too much and the men who love them.
Following her sell-out run Growing Old Disgracefully, Jojo’s back older and more disgraceful, now ridiculing and rejoicing the role of motherhood.
What does it mean to remember the Holocaust in 2024? How do you bear the legacy of trauma while forging ahead in the 21st century? Jane Elias grapples with these questions through …
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the grand final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Social media sensation Christopher tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Irishman Andrew Ryan is finally living the life he always thought he would.
Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job.
Being of service can be a wonderful thing.
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
What happens six months after your five minutes of fame? Cyrus and Ben are the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality show.
A line-up show starring the top three acts from the 2023 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Samira Banks, Christopher Donovan and L…
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Confronted with her fear of being unlovable and forever misunderstood an overly self-aware comedian puts together the biggest show of her life.
Birdy is 19.
Mumbai-based global stand-up star Rahul Subramanian makes his Edinburgh debut.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
A second show has hit Paddy Young.
This is a tell-all, personal storytelling comedy show.
The “most dangerous man in comedy” is back at the Fringe with some games and more multimedia nonsense.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Sara Barron (Would I Lie to You?; Live at the Apollo) has a new show that’s fierce, savage and other adjectives from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Nazereth Love Jones the number one representative for Hip Hop an RnB performing live.
Two actors create a play to clarify “the events.
Direct from its critically acclaimed sold-out New York premiere, this sharp new comedy reminds us that with great obsession comes great heartache.
An autobiographical play about being a rockstar (‘s sister) which documents Lucie’s experience sharing a London flat with her brother Carl Barat during his rise to stardom with…
What if you could see music? Award-winning concert pianist and inventor Larkhall takes us on a virtuoso multi-sensory journey.
Music, Love, and the End of the World.
Using puppetry, shadow work, physical theatre, and a whole lot of joy, ‘I just thought I’d pop bye.
One King. One Kingdom. And literally no time to rule. Based on historical events, House of the Onion debuts the untold story of the world’s shortest reigning monarch.
London’s favourite sex-positive live comedy experience, as seen in Time Out, Metro and Londonist.
Inspired by the real-life experiences of Kyle Falconer (from Scottish indie-rock sensation The View) and Laura Wilde, this powerful story follows two new parents grappling with the…
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
Ada & Bron present the good, the bad, and the ugly of romance, in this fever dream of weird soulmates and tragic co-dependents.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Edinburgh.
The High Seas, 1705.
Join AFLO.
What do Shakespeare, thermodynamics and biochemistry have in common? The somewhat surprising answer is Love.
Described as a supernatural rom-com, Getting Over Hugh might better be expressed as a fabulous hot mess of a show.
Meet the intern.
Leicester Comedy Festival Award Nominee Jon Hipkiss returns to the Brighton Fringe for the first time in five years with the show that was among one of the best audience reviewed s…
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Star of sell-out Brighton and EdFringe shows ‘Drag Queens vs Zombies’ and Drag Queens vs Vampires Crudi Dench presents a brand-new, work-in-progress, comedy stand-up/solo show expl…
From Sussex With Lunch takes an extended tour of growing up in Australia in the 90s, being president of the Only Dans Fanclub, dreaming of interrailing across Europe, and featuring…
In 2024, trans-girl Alex feels the most alive she’s ever felt; now she wants to make you feel alive, or die trying.
Kira loves reading, visiting the library for a new book is her favourite thing.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he would very likely have a lot to say about the state of the world currently.
They say love is the glue that holds family together.
Naomi Wattis is a stand up comic from London.
The Screaming Over Dunluth is a new one-man folk-horror play, created by Gabriel Magill.
Based on three real Australian self-help books from the 1960s, Yoga for Women, Sex and Yoga and Yoga Over Forty by Nancy Phelan and Michael Volin.
An interactive solo performance about failure, feeling like an idiot and music, by Rachel Blackman and her creative team.
Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards Finalist and “without doubt one of best musical acts currently on the northern comedy circuit” Alex Camp is bringing his new solo show to …
Grace lives with her husband Vet, a patrol officer on the Texas-Mexico border.
Ali Jay brings a Work In Progress show to Brighton Fringe 2024.
After a total Brighton Fringe sellout in 2021, ‘Do the Thing’ are back with a whole new concept in improvised musicals.
Taking A Love Pill at the End of the World is a play about existing at the end.
See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”.
There’s no future for Igg and Tom.
We’re all a little haunted, aren’t we? Being a woman is complicated.
My name’s Bernadette, and let me start by saying you are under siege: it’s high time you started taking Identity Theft seriously.
International award-winning actor Benjamin Kelm brings his personal story of his time in New York to the stage.
Actor and writer Benjamin Kelm taps himself repeatedly about the face as he repeats the mantra, “You can do it, you can do it , you can do it.
Being a woman! Being over 40! Sex! Kath has found the solution to all three of these problems.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and host of the cult-hit podcast, They Like to Watch, Sara Barron has a new show that’s fierce, savage and other adjectives from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
You Can Call It Confirmation Bias is a performance about how fortune-telling miracle fish and trees that look like women’s legs helped us to predict the future.
You Belong Here With Me, My Darling is a show about belonging.
Discover Middle Earth as you’ve never seen it before as drag and cabaret superstars put their own unique take on some of the most beloved characters from Tolkein’s epic fantasy fra…
Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey.
Just turned 40, sober as a judge, with a new baby.
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Rainy? Cloudy? Sunny? You choose in Steph’s 45 minute stand-up comedy show where she wrestles with the elements (of her mind).
One Welshman and one Scouser, join Jake & Jake for (just under) an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy.
Duncan Poulton, Juliusz Grabianski and James Critchlow present a series of digital collages and sculptures that have been shaped by their experiences of scrolling and clicking.
Winner of the ND Review Disability Champions Award and the Amateo Award 2022 brings his debut show to LCF.
In a world where 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone FGM and where labiaplasty is the fastest growing form of cosmetic surgery in the UK, most people don’t rec…
As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl…
Giulia would like to leave the stage and cancel the show dates.
Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning.
If Emily Burns’ immaculately realised Love’s Labour's Lost is anything to go by, there is a fresh new breeze whispering through the corridors of the RSC.
Taste, smell, touch and sight are invoked in a sensory dance theatre show served in an intimate cabaret-style setting.
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spo…
WILD ABOUT YOU, a New Musical in Concert with music and lyrics by Broadway star, Chilina Kennedy (Paradise Square, Beautiful the Carole King Musical), is coming to the West End.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
Award winning comedian and Ireland's "queen of the offbeat" Áine Gallagher, is on a mission to prove that speaking Irish can be both …
Part one of Count Arthur Strong’s farewell tour.
Part one of Count Arthur Strong’s farewell tour.
Set to an eclectic, upbeat score, Kipling’s famous tales are woven with wit and imagination into a song-filled journey through the jungle
Safety In Sequins Exploring the power of drag Platonic Love Let's show platonic love more love Safety In Sequins - Rob Murphy Productions A piece of a…
A Real Life Dragatha Christie MysteryElectric Picnic 2023.
You Got It, Boss! Life at #2: A Henchman's Tale Stand up, Smack down! Where comedy and wrestling collide You Got It, Boss! - Charisma CheckWhat's a goon su…
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Just a Song at Twilight A contemporary James Joyce flashback mashup Jester’s Privilege Jester VS Eating Disorder.
The Lost Bride A journey through heartbreak and grief.
BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up.
The SpidersOld is the Web we WeaveCornucopia Jones Wants You to Succeed!Even You Could Have It All All The Spiders - Dermot Doyle The Spiders is a musical about large …
Three ghosts meet in a theatre.
HUMAN // ROBOTlaugh_if_you_are_humanJust One Law .
Men Eating Dinner Take, eat; this is my body.
Viral sensation and all round great guy Vittorio Angelone is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars.
Viral sensation and all round great guy Vittorio Angelone is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars.
It’s rare to see an original musical open in the West End.
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
You know you’re in for a wild night at the Arcola Theatre when one of the content warnings is ‘Mentions of necrophilia’.
Who’d have thought that putting on a dress and reading some stories would lead to war on the streets of South London?Meet That Girl.
‘We can be us, just for one day’ Relive the day music brought the world together.
Exploring the idea of what it means to grow up, let go, and discover your own identity, Now & Then: I Think of You follows two women as they sort through memories of what once was.
Being a woman! Being over 40! Sex! Kath has found the solution to all three of these problems.
Welcome to the musical journey of a woman with late diagnosis ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Love, Conditionally, an experiential podcast foregrounding Queer Arab and British stories, made in the UK and Palestine, is now available to downloadAvailable online for free from …
You Belong To Me is a savage new comedy by Rory Nolan about the rules we make, the laws we break and what falls between the cracks in an unflinching look at two people w…
It’s Christmas Eve 2009: seven years into the world-famous boy band’s indefinite “hiatus”, *NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick has until midnight to make a wish that could change his life f…
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ returning to The Hen & Chickens Theatre, playing from Thursday 30th November until Saturday 2nd December at 19:30.
GOLDA is the remarkable true story of Jewish Ukrainian musician, Golda Amirova, who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
Truth, Love and Madness asks each of us to take back responsibility of our emotions; and find acceptance in the fact that we are all, in our own way: mad… off-kilter… i…
Sam Tallent (“the absurd voice of a surreal generation”- The Denver Post) is a comedian, novelist and host of the Chubby Behemoth Podcast.
This hilarious new dance fuelled comedy follows burger bar employees, Natalie and Kyle, as they fall in love with Northern Soul.
Irina takes erotic photos of average looking men.
Being a woman.
The Collaborations Agency presents Ali Fox Ali Fox is obsessed with the past.
In English and in Spanish on the same performance, with two casts and two different stagings.
A brand new ghost story for Penge.
An experiential ghost story, unlike anything you have ever experienced before.
Do you find yourself scrolling though dating apps looking for the perfect trade yet keep falling for the same fuckbois? Have you ever been so dick-deprived you’ve settled for…
The cult classic Bat Boy: The Musical descends on the London Palladium for a Halloween concert with Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Heathers) appearing as fans have never seen …
Former double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, as seen on BBC1’s ‘Live at the Apollo’, Andrew Lawrence, now famed for his bitingly satirical YouTube cha…
This is the electric, funny and raw autobiographical debut by Declan Bennett.
A thought-provoking new play exploring the roles we play, for ourselves and for others.
Welcome to the musical journey of a woman with late diagnosis ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
Meet Jenna, a sparky, young dancer on the cusp of pirouetting into her greatest glory yet! — Until she isn't.
Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate.
“Your bird talks to me like I’ve got “c***” written on my forehead.
Strategic Love Play offers a tragic and often hilarious mirror to the fears and hopes of the vast majority of us who harbour a fear of dying alone.
It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out.
Wish You Were Here is an informal postcard addressed to friends, lovers and past selves.
Wish You Were Here is an informal postcard addressed to friends, lovers and past selves.
Direct from Broadway, a special one-off benefit performance of Alex Edelman’s award-winning show in honour of the show’s late director, Adam Brace.
The cult comedy TV-show show is back for two nights only with their best bits from five years at Fringe.
Krystal’s sizzling debut hour finds the humour in escaping a house-fire, death, tragedy and mental illness, and how all this has – somewhat ironically – made her life funnier.
Fresh from her smash-hit Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre sell-out debut, Chloe Petts returns with her follow-up hour.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Scotland’s dramatic history is illuminated by her music and traditional folksong.
Glory dreams of singing at the world’s most prestigious festival, the only thing standing her way is a mysterious pyramid.
Join Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn for a very special Edinburgh Fringe edition of You Dress Funny, the event where comedy meets fashion.
Four loudmouth lords vow to study for three years to win fame for denying their desires.
Legendary Scottish folk accordionist and wisecracker, Sandy Brechin, accompanied by his loyal stuffed dog on wheels, Roveroller, brings his successful weekly Facebook music and com…
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one.
Overweight and OVER IT is about the trials and tribulations of being plus size! Lawrence Chaney made history as the first plus-size winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
When our young hopefuls enter the villa looking for love, they are faced with a whirlwind journey of romance.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic Love Never Dies returns to London’s West End this August in a star-studded concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Pam Ford Stand-Up Comedian has worked in a care home before and after the pandemic and has met many amazing “oldies” with amazing life stories to tell.
Love and Other Occult Phenomenons is a witty bizarre stand-up comedy show by debut comic Lizzie Anne Rose (hailing from the Royal Central School Of Speech and Drama).
An Ice Thing to Say blends ice installation, music and physical theatre to explore our impact on nature.
Popular South African production, Baked Shakespeare, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! Baked Shakespeare – a group of professionally trained actors – performing Shakespeare ho…
Character comedy sketch duo Mudfish host their friends in this wild show featuring their favourite sketch, stand-up and short films.
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Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death, and less thematic stuff like football, shoplifting, and milk.
Cait Roddam Jones is a seventeen-year-old actor, playwright and songwriter.
One Girl.
Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death, and less thematic stuff like football, shoplifting, and milk.
One Girl.
A bit of a crazy, hazy time for Stu this year.
Cait Roddam Jones is a seventeen-year-old actor, playwright and songwriter.
Approaching her 30th birthday, after ten years of failed romances, Laura meets with the six ghosts who have broken her heart to exorcise them for good.
The Project, I Am Not Just Me in Me is the first theoretical-practical application procedure of the new research object of Grupo Cena 11 for 2023/2024.
Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito…
The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music by British Composer Girish Paul is a dramatic concert by the multi-instrumentalist and his virtual orchestra.
A song recital of music by British and French composers – Reynaldo Hahn and Roger Quilter.
Christine and Nancy invite you to a lunchtime recital of beautiful music including the joyous Beethoven Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Cesar Franck’s passionate Sonata for pian…
Celebrate love, transformation, and community this summer in Shakespeare’s joyous comedy, As You Like It, in the Globe Theatre this summer.
Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito…
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for! Fringe’s ultimate musical theatre party night has arrived.
Fimbo Butures (Maya Williams and Lizzy Tan) bring For you: wicked to the Fringe after a world premiere at VAULT Festival 2023.
Returning after two sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, global sensation Jazz Emu is back with his virtuoso musical spectacular.
Last year’s critically acclaimed show is back for a limited run.
Celebrating the rule and reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II, featuring songs from musicals that have played Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End – including Fiddler on th…
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
This is a story about love.
My Truth, that I self-harmed, considered suicide on many occasions, tried to beat the world back and faced a future of loneliness.
My Truth, that I self-harmed, considered suicide on many occasions, tried to beat the world back and faced a future of loneliness.
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
This is a story about love.
Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat…
‘What if we could just be happy figuring out who we were so we could grow up with that person, instead of growing up and then figuring it out?’Created by and starring S…
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
A little girl is sent to retrieve a needle and thread from the ferocious Baba Yaga and must outrun the witch to reach her father’s hut.
The 1990s, when house music exploded! This is a gripping and immersive stage adaptation of excerpts from the cult book Cola Boy.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
Part homage to Charlie Kaufman’s 2002 film, part testimony to Gabor Maté’s Myth of Normal, a corporate trainer reluctantly wakes up to the impossibility of society’s invisib…
‘What if we could just be happy figuring out who we were so we could grow up with that person, instead of growing up and then figuring it out?’ Created by and starring South A…
‘What if we could just be happy figuring out who we were so we could grow up with that person, instead of growing up and then figuring it out?’ Created by and starring South A…
If I went through your internet history, what would I find? Join Rhiannon on an immersive, interactive clown adventure as she plays with male fantasies, female sexuality, and how w…
If I went through your internet history, what would I find? Join Rhiannon on an immersive, interactive clown adventure as she plays with male fantasies, female sexuality, and how w…
An ‘imaginative and emotional’ storytelling and poetry show with ‘several laugh-out-loud routines’ by ‘fabulous performer of spoken word’ **** (NorthWestEnd.
Over Influenced is a dark comedy, which comments on today’s toxic social status of celebrity and influencer culture.
Thank you for the Music takes you on a comic and quizzical journey through tough times.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
Over Influenced is a dark comedy, which comments on today’s toxic social status of celebrity and influencer culture.
Two Plays for the price of one.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
A double bill, both 30 minutes long.
Two Plays for the price of one.
Behind every addict is someone traumatised by loving them.
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Ed Patrick starts his show Catch Your Breath with a simple, “I’m a doctor, so I’m running late,” a rather light-hearted, if telling, joke that puts us at ease with its self…
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
After his much younger girlfriend leaves him for a better-looking, richer, more successful friend, Searles dissolves into a gibbering, chain-smoking, suicidal insomniac! In despera…
“You can be adored, or you can be a monster.
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
“You can be adored, or you can be a monster.
Dusty epitomised the sound of the 60s whether singing swing, soul or ballads but life behind the scenes was not always as polished as the stage persona.
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
Philip Contini sings your favourite, unforgettable, classic songs of Cole Porter, one of the greatest composer-lyricists of the 20th century, accompanied by the sensational 6-piece…
Stephen Sondheim’s hilarious musical romp tells the bawdy story of a slave and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
MTO Zendeh Delan’s Journey of Love, inspired by the Sufi allegory of Leyla and Majnun, is an enchanting blend of modern Sufi music and the graceful motions of Sama.
‘The real deal.
Nigel Osborne OBE and Travis Alabanza come together for a discussion about the importance of community and connection.
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
Just Festival is Edinburgh’s human rights and social justice festival.
The room in the Brewdog Doghouse that Patrick Spicer occupies brings with it an air of informality that helps to set the tone for Spicer’s Yes Haha What.
‘The real deal.
A powerful new adaptation of Bertold Brecht’s classic anti-war play, interpreted by one of China’s leading directors of physical theatre and Edinburgh Fringe veteran Zhao Miao …
Over 10 years, Chris Cook has brought magical, thought-provoking comedy shows to the Fringe.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
At the age of 36 Si had a baby.
It is genuinely difficult to keep track of all the wellness tips that you’re supposed to follow to have a healthy body and mind.
‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic.
What happens when the young Viola finds herself shipwrecked and decides to disguise herself as her twin brother Sebastian? What doesn’t happen?! This contemporary version of Shakes…
At the age of 36 Si had a baby.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends; Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and …
An inspired performance that looks to the farthest reaches of the universe to see deeper into ourselves.
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the Grand Final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
RuPauls Drag Race UK and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World finalist, fan-favorite Baga Chipz has finally had time to put together her first ever one-woman show.
London bachelor Monty Button-Purse spies Gracie at his friend’s New Year Ball 1922, and is determined to woo her through the flourish of his penmanship.
On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story.
Oracle is a jaw-dropping, thought-reading experience that has audiences grinning ear to ear, scratching heads in bafflement, and wondering if they’ve just seen a glimpse of their p…
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic songs and music.
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead: expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance, and finally consumption.
Selkie (Laura Booth) is learning about the stars.
There’s mixed-bill shows awash in Edinburgh but how do you know if the comics are any good? These three are headline comics in all the major comedy clubs in the country, have toure…
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
Celebrate all things bitch and high-pitch! After winning Best Cabaret Weekly Awards in 2020 and 2021 at Adelaide Fringe, the queen of falsetto and stiletto is storming into Edinbur…
Everyone knows about the code-breaking genius of Alan Turing, but behind the mathematical genius lay a man of great passion.
God Done Opened the Sky is Jersten Ray Seraile’s tale of young boy realising that his inner world and outer world are painfully conflicted – the way he sees himself is not the wa…
Thank You for the Music, a new American musical revue, celebrates the greatest hits from radio, stage and screen.
Chicago duo, ‘true masters of improvised comedy’ (List), ‘work effortlessly in the straight man/funny woman comic pairing using their unrivaled familiarity to brilliant comedic eff…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe 2019, 2021 and 2022, Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up 2021, UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show …
Three hilarious comedians, three different nationalities (Israel, Ireland and Germany), three different types of humor.
‘Some children are misunderstood; Fran is MissRed.
A one act tragi-comedy about a man trying to come to terms with the loss of his brother.
James Allen and Annabelle Devey invite you to an hour of exhilarating and chucklesome stand-up; fresh from the North West comedy circuit.
Stone – Face – Book.
It’s a Boy? is from the wildly creative comic mind of Ben Hodge, Liverpool Echo’s Top 30 under 30 and winner of Into Film Documentary of the Year 2020.
Buy that Meno-Porsche, bungee-jump with your second family, or dare to try Marmite again! Whatever your age, it’s a great time for a midlife crisis! We’ll share how to ditch pa…
A call-center call girl struggling to make in-person connections, discovers intimacy and requited love with a mannequin man she rescues from drowning.
Written/directed by Amanda Bothma; musical direction/piano by Germaine Gamiet; starring Daniel Anderson.
One lucky audience member will see their dreams analysed onstage, thanks to October Brian’s patented Sleep-to-Sketch Technology.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Welcome to the world of Meat Boy, a tale of mayhem, mystery and meat.
Writer and solo performer, Zoë Kim, leads the play, oscillating between Mother and Daughter, unraveling a candid semi-autobiographical story about our love languages and how we of…
If you still chuckle at those Twilight memes making fun of Kristen Stewart’s awkward portrayal of Bella Stark, or harbour some nostalgia for the immortal (and problematic) YA ser…
A proper Bradford lass born 1959, Shelly is a firecracker.
‘The best job in life is to be the father of a daughter.
An hour too long a commitment for you? Come see the best international comics in Edinburgh fringe do 15 minutes of their best stuff and decide if you want more, think of it like fu…
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
Surviving the streets of Coventry in his NAF NAF jacket, discovering the gay scene in 90s Soho, exploring the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft, Declan Bennett’s electric, funny and raw …
Forty, single and ready to mingle; join lifelong friends Annie Sup and Angela Bra for a drag-powered musical comedy celebrating friendship and new beginnings on a virtual bar crawl…
Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history.
The Oxford Revue is turning 70 years old! From Monty Python to Mr Bean to Love Actually, the alumni of Oxford’s premier comedy troupe have been polluting the UK cultural landscape …
Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death and less thematic stuff like shoplifting, football and milk.
Wwyditwy? Is a comedy game show in which contestants are judged on their creativity and ability to improvise when presented with absurd, morally dubious situations.
Irish female sketch-comedy duo MEELAGOOLA bring you a fast-paced, high-energy, satirical spectacle! Have we actually progressed backwards? Is wellness really that well at all? We�…
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ **** (Guardian).
Sameer Katz brings his seventh show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Sameer’s gotten to the age where everyone who says they love him seem to want something in return.
Ian is the world’s only rational skeptic psychic comedian.
This absurdist trio brings you an hour of off-the-walls stand-up and sketch comedy through the Welsh, Irish, Malaysian and 30-something perspective.
Michael Porter is an incomparable comedy talent with an unmistakable Irish flair! ‘Fearless in ever sense of the word.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! Same spirited show but hosted by Kyle Legacy and with all new faces performing stand-up and sharing their best…
American Boy is a stand-up comedy show about immigrant guilt, gentrified Middle Eastern food, and Barbie.
Patrick has many dead friends, which is a huge bummer.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
A performance grounded in friendship and a desire for objects to predict the future.
Emily Walsh still doesn’t know if she wants kids, but if given the choice she’d like to be the dad.
Remember when you were allowed to say anything you liked and got no trouble for it? Me neither.
“The primary school teacher vibes don’t end here,” Sasha Ellen jokes lightheartedly at the start of When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.
The Fringe’s cult-hit stand-up comedy panel show that you influence in real time is back.
Ancestry takes an unexpected turn when a DNA test, a trip to Ellis Island, and some late-night googling leads American stand-up comedian Patrick Hastie to question the truth about …
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
Comedy’s best nepo baby (and there’s a lot) returns.
A new gig-theatre show featuring songs by Kyle Falconer of The View.
Gaslighting Is My Love Language by Fielding Edlow (Bojack Horseman) is about an intimacy-avoidant woman who just wanted a boyfriend but ended up in a 13-year marriage/light hostage…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with NYC comedian Katharyn Henson.
From the sweatshops of Wuhan to the stages of Berlin, Moni Zhang is bringing you a show that’s equal parts comedic and cathartic.
With the brash vocals of an Australian zookeeper addressing an unruly tour group, Davis commands the room, immediately taking charge with her distinct brand of offbeat comedy.
Uma Gahd, everyone’s favourite unofficial auntie, brings you her one-woman drag comedy.
Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise shi…
Blossoming (You Undo Me) is a straightforward one-person musical about a young Chinese man growing into his queerness and yet it weaves several narrative threads and theatrical for…
The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp is a mom-centred stand-up set that unpacks the trauma of being raised by a bi-polar parent with a balance of darkness and sharp humour.
This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical.
Money can’t buy love, but £19.
Man meets man.
50% Bristolian.
For his entire life, performer Mark Vigeant did everything he possibly could to make everyone around him happy.
A line-up show featuring the top three acts from the 2022 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Joshua Bethania, Pravanya Pillay and J…
Chloe Petts’ latest hour If You Can’t Say Anything Nice is teeming with insults and slander as she scrutinises rudeness, rage, and her own relationship with anger.
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
Jonny told the nation his biggest secret.
City trader, Olly, still recovering from the death of his boyfriend, Sam, has a chance encounter with homeless teenager Aaron.
William Thompson (BBC New Comedy Awards finalist 2021, as seen and heard on Dave, Channel 4 and BBC Scotland) is a rising star from Belfast.
Tired of explaining his nationality to a crowd, Pierre Novellie has filled his new hour Why Are You Laughing? with a discussion on topics as distinct and unconnected as British dri…
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
Dom Chambers’ unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage.
A Christmas Carol meets It’s A Wonderful Life meets.
The world’s favourite orphan is back, and just like you, she is, unfortunately, a grown-up.
Mr and Mrs Love is a jukebox-esque musical that would work a lot better if it relied more on the strength of its actors as singers rather than force a plot on them.
A few days ago I saw a little boy slapping a wall.
Goya Theatre’s new musical Actually, Love manages to find the sweet spot between being softly tender and incredibly rousing, as it pokes fun at and dismantles various rom-com tro…
Who amongst us hasn’t uttered the phrase, “I can’t believe you’ve done this!?” whilst laughing with a friend over a particularly embarrassing story.
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean skipping-church-because-you’re-too-hungover bad.
Monster vs Hero, TV Camera vs Reporter, Husband vs Husband: their battles and rituals.
Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies.
CHOO CHOO! (Or.
Adam Scott-Rowley, creator of the award-winning ***** (Independent) THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT presents, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
A fly-on-the-padded-wall account of the mental health world that also busts some myths (there are no padded walls).
Comedian Mamoun Elagab will not kiss your ass.
Monahan has performed in over 1,000 cities and towns, and dozens of countries around the world! Travelling more miles than the whole of NASA’s space flights! Come see him now befor…
Where does beauty go when the beholder has no eye? Comedian Richard Wheatley returns to the Fringe with his new show, as he ridicules the perplexing paradoxes of a blind man in the…
What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation.
So they’ve both swiped right.
‘I felt this pressure to be sexy from the second I got tits.
Trapped in the Peruvian rainforest, having survived a plane crash and a fall of 10,000 feet, Juliane is utterly alone and hopelessly lost.
PLEASURE CHAPTERS: I can’t just live on a salad! Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelm…
Avital Ash is one of the most genuine comedians on the Fringe scene.
Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelming and triggering our food and even life choices!…
‘This Girl’ tells the story of Cynthia Powell, a shy student from Hoylake, who fell in love with a young musician called John when they met at Liverpool Art College in 1957.
You’re Alright is a new comedy dance show from award-winning choreographer, Sam Burkett.
Approaching her 30th birthday, after ten years of failed romances, Laura meets with the six ghosts who have broken her heart to exorcise them for good.
‘This Girl’ tells the story of Cynthia Powell, a shy student from Hoylake, who fell in love with a young musician called John when they met at Liverpool Art College in 1957.
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
A bit of a crazy, hazy time for Stu this year.
Approaching her 30th birthday, after ten years of failed romances, Laura meets with the six ghosts who have broken her heart to exorcise them for good.
The guy is back in Vittorio Angelone’s Who Am I? I Am!; an in depth exploration of self-identity and perception, whilst being cautiously celebratory in its ownership.
A musical about the life of Cynthia Lennon, who married the Beatles’ John Lennon.
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
You’re Alright is a new comedy dance show from award-winning choreographer, Sam Burkett.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celebrat…
Loud eaters.
The Lavender Theatre opens its gates from 17 July 2023 for its inaugural summer season with Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun.
In the weeks before her 30th birthday, Kelly is facing an ultimatum.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
An interactive, immersive journey where you play a newly conscious octopus on a quest to find your missing mother.
About the show ‘The Ordinariness of Her’ is a coming-of-age play about 16-year-old Megan Moore who feels stuck between caring for her mother and navigating …
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on" When the sorcerer Prospero conjures up a storm to shipwreck his enemies, he sets the scene for an enchanting tale of spells, mon…
After 21 years and 224 days Hal's back being single.
This revival of Ken Ludwig’s celebration of George and Ira Gershwin’s music takes us on a full-throttle ride through American classics and culture, brightening up the stage …
Directed and choreographed by multi-Tony and Olivier award winner Susan Stroman, this spectacular production transfers from a sell-out season at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Direct from its sold-out smash-hit run at VAULT Festival 2023, where it won the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, I F*cked You in My Spaceship is a ‘wickedly funny’ and r…
When Leo leaves for university his relationship with his long-term girlfriend falls apart.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
21 years since it all began… the world’s favourite rock theatrical returns home! The worldwide smash-hit We Will Rock You by Queen and Ben Elton returns to London, nex…
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
If I went through your internet history, what would I find? Join Rhiannon on an immersive, interactive clown adventure as she plays with male fantasies, female sexuality, and how w…
If I went through your internet history, what would I find? Join Rhiannon on an immersive, interactive clown adventure as she plays with male fantasies, female sexuality, and how w…
A very special evening of music, poetry and dance performances reflecting the diverse creative talents of the late Irene Mensah.
A very special evening of music and poetry performances celebrating the life and creative talents of the late Irene Mensah.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
As You Like It by The Three Inch Fools, presented at The Actors' Church as part of their Theatre in the Garden Summer Season.
Step right up and witness the spectacle that is Madam Misfit’s Carnival of Chaos! Join comedic rap artist and rabble-rouser Madam Misfit as she lets loose her cavalcade of mesmer…
Step right up and witness the spectacle that is Madam Misfit’s Carnival of Chaos! Join comedic rap artist and rabble-rouser Madam Misfit as she lets loose her cavalcade of mesmer…
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
Who Let Him In? Paul Merryck re-emerges from the Essex Swamplands with a new show telling a lot of stupid jokes and daft short stories, tenuously held together by the narrative th…
Welcome to Drag Therapy Theater where drag artist Indie Nile plays therapist & patient in a lipsync theatre show that is part therapy session, part pop spectacle.
Who Let Him In? Paul Merryck re-emerges from the Essex Swamplands with a new show telling a lot of stupid jokes and daft short stories, tenuously held together by the narrative th…
Welcome to Drag Therapy Theater where drag artist Indie Nile plays therapist & patient in a lipsync theatre show that is part therapy session, part pop spectacle.
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke o…
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of…
International award-winning actor Benjamin Kelm brings his personal story of his time in New York to the stage.
Ben Hodge winner of INTO film best documentary 2020 debuts his first live one-man stage show exploring themes of gender expression and trans masculinity in relation to growing up i…
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
Ben Hodge winner of INTO film best documentary 2020 debuts his first live one-man stage show exploring themes of gender expression and trans masculinity in relation to growing up i…
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
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“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
In this year’s Eurovision, Europe didn’t give the UK much love, but do the Brits still love the EU? Apparently so, at least judging by the cheerful welcome Cabaret Continentale…
Want to know your future? ‘Cause we already do.
A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy.
A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy.
Want to know your future? ‘Cause we already do.
*TICKETS SELLING FAST* Moni Zhang is the WINNER of Berlin New Standup Award and founder of Berlin Mental Health Festival.
Moni grew up in a sweatshop in Wuhan.
Speakers’ Corner is like Twitter but hardcore.
Do you like scary movies? Well, if you like them so much, would you survive to the end of one? Join the award-winning Heather-Rose Andrews on an exploration of horror films, the wo…
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
Three of London’s fast rising, exciting new female comedy voices Marty Gleeson, Su Mi and Frances Keyton fuse together to bring you an hour of turbocharged off the wall standup a…
Ah, Birthdays.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
The author of the bestselling poetry series The Art of a Damaged Soul brings you the hard-hitting , powerful one woman show.
Ah, Birthdays.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
Jody Kamali: Things we do for love 50% Bristolian.
50% Bristolian.
‘Nothing in the world will ever be the same’ 34 years after having starred in the original West End production, Michael Ball returns to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s cele…
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
In Schalk Bezuidenhout’s I’ll Make Laugh To You, the fun and games start before the show does, introducing us to his subtley pointed sarcasm before launching in a self-deprecat…
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Lorry Boy is a live interactive installation performance piece.
Lorry Boy is a live interactive installation performance piece.
Perceived through a lens of fear and censorship.
After a total Brighton Fringe sellout in 2021, ‘Do the Thing’ are back with a whole new concept in improvised musicals.
Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Bet’s Back! Kathy Diamond plays Bet Lynch in this one woman performance of monologues and music.
Bet’s Back! Kathy Diamond plays Bet Lynch in this one woman performance of monologues and music.
Following her sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre in 2022, Chloe Petts returns with a work-in-progress of her new show.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Following her sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre in 2022, Chloe Petts returns with a work-in-progress of her new show.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
If I went through your internet history, what would I find? Join Rhiannon on an interactive comedy adventure as she plays with male fantasies, female sexuality, and how we navigate…
Smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun is to be celebrated with a special one-night only concert production at The London Palladium.
Premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2021, After Love is a powerful exploration of love and loss.
OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE.
A magical dance-theatre retelling of Kipling’s classic set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
What do Mother Teresa, Napoleon and Hitler have in common? Well, they all have what Hedda Gabler wants most of all.
Áine Gallagher is proud to be Ireland’s only guerilla Irish language teacher.
Black magic, tricks & treats from your worst nightmare - with gothic magician & hypnotist Dr JohnTicket price includes a reserved seat.
After a smash-hit, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre, and on tour across the UK, Olga Koch is bringing one of the best reviewed shows of …
JUST BE NORMAL is the moving true story of two sisters, Sophie and Emma, as they navigate Autism in a world that refuses to understand them.
Adam Scott-Rowley (creator of the award-winning ★★★★★ THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT) presents YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
Glenn Moore presents one of the best reviewed shows of the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, firmly establishing himself as one of the greatest joke-writers of his generation.
Glenn Moore presents one of the best reviewed shows of the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, firmly establishing himself as one of the greatest joke-writers of his generation.
"Surprise is as come from the H‘outside world” On a remote volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic, a community has lived undisturbed for centuries, defying …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
Tamina was from Pakistan but living in London’s Notting Hill area during the 1950s, in the times before the decriminalisation of homosexuality came in 1967.
Football, politics and the labour of love.
What does it mean to be ‘Not Safe For Work’? Drawing from experiences in camming, life modeling, stripping and formal dance training, ‘For you: wicked’ is a reflection of s…
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
To book Seated Tickets, please see here The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time.
Nudity, bodies, and how to feel more comfortable in our own skin in a society which conditions us to be very critical of ourselves? A panel discussion and life drawing class with b…
Written in response to the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, Violent Circumstances explores five young women’s stories of everyday events that quickly turn into exhausting…
A play inspired by Juliane Koepcke’s remarkable survival story.
In this riotous show, commanding and lightning-quick Drag King Brent takes a deep dive into the fascinating and often confusing world of human behaviour.
Is It Just Us?! It’s all a bit serious lads! HYPER Voice.
A thrilling new show inspired by the double survival story of Juliane Koepcke.
UPSTAIRS? “So can you still not see?” In Her Shoes A tale of hardship and survival.
A theatrical comedy meta horror multimedia experience - this show has all the adjectives and more! A desperate actor seeks a friend to be the ‘reader’ for their self tape.
blurb: Suitable for budding playwrights who want to meet dramaturgical story wizards Eoghan Carrick, Sarah Baxter, Michelle Read and Pamela McQueen to talk about their p…
Charlie is on the wrong end of 35 and her life is shrinking by the day.
What is love? It’s a mystery.
It's a doggie-dog world out there Up Up UpIt takes us longer to figure it out.
Come watch a working class motormouth, trapped in a hipster’s body.
Valentines? Palentines? Galentines? Whatever you’re celebrating on the 14th of February, join us for a feel-good evening packed with live music, songs and a whole lot of love! C…
The Greatest Story Ever CastThe Devil is in the detail You Who!Knock knock: who's really there? The Greatest Story Ever Cast - Frank Notions Mary is auditionin…
Musical comedian Orlando Gibbs (MCA Finals 2021, 2022, 2Northdown Semi-Finalist 2021) sings and chats about the little things in life.
Unless it has the sophistication of a Sondheim, or the renown and heritage of a Rodgers and Hammerstein, it’s rare to see a musical on a National Theatre stage.
if all the times i cared had names.
One of You Has to DieA post-apocalyptic interactive comedy showHR_final.
Get ready for some sparkly dance floor joy with Chrissy Bray’s brand new show, Just Act Normal.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (do not look that up).
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate the one you love at Love Songs by Candlelight in the heart of Covent Garden.
The Last Incel A woman has entered the chat Imagine If You Will.
The Testament According to Adam Old systems need to be changed Dopa-Mean GirlA musical comedy about ADHD brains The Testament According to Adam - Capitol Theatre Co…
This show is a work in progress for Hannah’s first solo show.
Join Faith, a young woman addicted to Love, on her quest into the dark heart of its enchantments - and if there’s any life worth living without them.
We all feel underappreciated at work, and Death is no exception.
Two couples launch an extraterrestrial game of shifting relationship dynamics threatened by invasion, alienation, and abduction, when they invite a stranger into their homes with h…
“If you don’t want it, I mean, it’s a bit fucking weird, isn’t it? You’re just a guy in an alien costume.
Finding love post pandemic isn’t easy.
Millie is not like other girls.
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Get ready for a refreshing and fantastical adventure! This award-winning show will defy your expectations and warm your heart.
Three of London’s fast rising, exciting new female comedy voices Marty Gleeson, Su Mi and Frances Keyton have fused together to bring you an hour of turbo charged off the wall st…
Comedian Harry Wright develops their hour Smalltown Boy, which was due to appear at VAULT Festival last year.
Patrick Spicer is the undisputed world champion of telling jokes that he has written, and this time he has exactly one hour of them.
Step into Love In and take your place amongst history’s revolutionary lovers: those who understood the transformative power of dedicating space and time to humanity’s simplest desi…
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
Writing a positive review is quite difficult without using hyperbole, and in the spirit of Pierre Novellie’s Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things, it is prudent to at least attempt to…
6 months after winning TV’s biggest reality dating show, Ben and Cyrus are fed up with fame.
In an Icy land of ruins, a human being and a polar bear are meeting in an encounter of surviving the Anthropocene Era.
Following sold-out runs at the Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and the Garrick Theatre, Rob Madge brings their triumphant celebration of the ups and downs of raising a queer chil…
Chloe Petts presents her follow up show to hit debut, Transience.
Discover Middle Earth as you’ve never seen it before as drag and cabaret superstars put their own unique take on some of the most beloved characters from Tolkein’s epic fantasy fra…
Join award-winning comedian and queen of breakups Rosie Wilby for the launch of the fabulous new paperback edition of her book The Breakup Monologues (Green Tree), which is based o…
A Chinese New Year charity party that transcends language and culture.
A Chinese New Year charity party that transcends language and culture.
You Can’t Understand is a cheeky coming-of-age story about a young woman named Keika, aka Keika Freika, aka genius, aka quirky babe.
A cheeky coming-of-age story about a young woman named Keika, aka Keika Freika, aka genius, aka quirky babe.
A dark comedy drama about a heavily populated society which has been pushed to take extreme measures.
A dark comedy drama about an overpopulated society pushed to take extreme measures.
Just For Us takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian brother AJ, an unconventional holiday season, and a gorilla that can …
“A tantalising look at the world of Rita Hayworth” The Times Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her day, Fred Astaire’s all-time favourite dance…
MYRA DUBOIS: WE WISH YOU A MYRA CHRISTMASMYRA DUBOIS presents her cracker of a seasonal spectacular for one tinsel-strewn night yule never forget!Myras now legendary Christmas show…
This winter journey into the Forest of Arden in William Shakespeare’s glorious romantic comedy, As You Like It.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
WE’RE BACK BABY! All You Can Eat Cabaret is back for the new year and we”re bringing you more fat joy, beauty and excellence.
Following Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Mark Farrelly returns with his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
AN EVENING OF TERRORTOME WITH GARTH MARENGHI Garth Marenghi, horror literature’s greatest living author, returns from the darkness (figurative darkness -he&rsqu…
Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in 2021, Amy Trigg‘s ‘enormously entertaining’ (The Guardian) Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me returns to Kiln…
Need a little help becoming the CEO of your life? Kick start a new ‘healthy’ relationship with yourself with this tool kit for confidence and success.
Thank You for The Music - The ultimate tribute to ABBA This international smash-hit tribute show brings all of ABBA’s number one hits to the stage in a production …
If you have a spare hour, thirty quid, and can travel to London’s West End, I urge you to get a ticket for My Son’s a Queer (but what can you do?).
Mirror, semen, manoeuvre… HAM THEATRE bring their award winning play to The Bridge House Theatre - a fast paced comedy with bits of physical theatre, music and singing, set …
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
This story follows the journey of two sisters – Peggy and Janet – in their search for happiness.
Meet Keika, an uncertified entrepreneur in bad gyal business.
In front of a live audience, James and guests will be exploring the spectrum of food and the stories that blossom from culinary experiences, from filthy-delicious takeaw…
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
What if life came with a rewind button? Jumping across time, Bright Half Life tells the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, start a family, and…
Join John Tothill – writer, comedian, former Footlight and London’s Last Libertine, actually – for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and assorted chat.
Join John Tothill – writer, comedian, former Footlight and London’s Last Libertine, actually – for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and assorted chat.
Join the ‘best wild night out at the Fringe’ (Scotland on Sunday), Spank!, as they celebrate 20 years at The Fringe, and bow out disgracefully with this show-stopping one-night-onl…
Enjoy a livestreamed concert from The Philadelphia Orchestra in the picturesque Princes Street Gardens, as we celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us…
Skin is strange and wonderful.
Lisa O’Hare’s debut show at the Greater Manchester Fringe in 2019 was described as ‘a perfect little package of fringe theatre.
Lisa O’Hare’s debut show at the Greater Manchester Fringe in 2019 was described as ‘a perfect little package of fringe theatre.
Join The Philadelphia Orchestra for a special free concert to celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us and our community.
Playwright Sergio Blanco explores his relationship with death in this moving, autobiographical work.
Breathtaking projections of animation by YeastCulture steal this show and a set which is largely conveyed by lighting.
Scottish singer/songwriter Gill Bowman shares a collection of songs, mostly self-penned, looking at the many aspects of love we encounter through life and set to her unique pared-b…
A cast of actors use music, dance and video to tell their stories in this uplifting exploration of living with Down syndrome.
Benny Bonanza: Blue Brisbane Boy is the debut Fringe show for Australia’s best poet you’ve never heard of! From the creator of the Fringe gem Doo Wop Art Flop – Pay what you want…
Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before journeying to London, Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an E…
One of The Guardian’s top five shows of 2021 returns for a limited run! Join The Duchess of Canvey on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart…
Self-described musical genius James Love and his sequin-clad showgirl wife Stephanie have been married for 12 years.
Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before journeying to London, Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an E…
Jade Allen is Over Eager (she’s not, at all).
Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding.
Jade Allen is Over Eager (she’s not, at all).
The morning after a drunken rendezvous with an old boyfriend, a woman and her friend discuss autonomy, identity and bad sex.
The quiz with just one question! Ollie Horn challenges a different comedian friend each show to a deceptively difficult game of putting things in order.
Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends.
Ubiquitous fitness, health and dating apps ask us some very personal questions.
This is a play about birthdays.
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe and they’ve officially given up.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
Come! Welcome to the inaugural Book Festival Fringe.
It’s 1947 and Catherine has just shot dead her husband, Philip, in their Regent’s Park flat.
A chance meeting changes Annika’s life forever.
‘Stand-out dance of the summer’ (Guardian on 201’s Skin).
Scotland’s music industry social night, Born To Be Wide, presents a celebration of Edinburgh’s scene, past and present.
Do you want to be desirable? Do pretty people have better friends? Let’s look at research on attraction and inspect the Carl Rogers’ famous quote, ‘What is most personal is most ge…
Des is back with the latest version of his one man Ghostbusters tribute show, STILL READY TO BELIEVE YOU.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of all-style two vs two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
Stand-up, sarcasm and uncomfortable confessions combine in this true story about life as a Jesus girl.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
Acclaimed choreographer Kyle Abraham’s newest full-length work tells stories of love, solidarity and friendship against a rich score of R&B and soul music by D’Angelo.
Creative people have always made incredible things that inspire, provoke and excite, so how do they create when data is one of their raw materials? Over the last four years creativ…
It’s the summer of 2017.
It’s the summer of 2017.
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother, when the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on, for the night out you have been waiting for, celebrate the songs of music roya…
Charlotte Palmer turned 50.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Shaun Patrick Flynn RN is a US-based comedian and critical care nurse.
Malcolm is a resident of Morningside, Edinburgh’s douce suburb.
‘100% my type on paper.
Join service persons from the Armed Forces as they discuss how the poetry of Robert Burns is a source of continuing inspiration to them and their colleagues.
Four terrible actors star in an obscure children’s theatre show that quickly intermingles with their failed careers and their profound hatred with one another, with fatal consequen…
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
Birds of Passage in the Half Light is a dark comedic excavation exposing the complicated relationship between Her faith and the generational impact that it has had on Her female li…
Korea’s TOB Group presents a double bill of contemporary dance shows exploring the bystander effect and mass consumerism.
Four terrible actors star in an obscure children’s theatre show that quickly intermingles with their failed careers and their profound hatred with one another, with fatal consequen…
France’s greatest love guru, Pierre, swam from Paris to Edinburgh in the hopes of finally finding.
‘100% my type on paper.
Algorithms are art.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
The Smell of Love is an autobiographical story about an anosmic’s search for love.
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
The Smell of Love is an autobiographical story about an anosmic’s search for love.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
‘Perspectives.
A collaborative, devised piece that celebrates clubbing and what it means to young people.
A one-woman show about Leda, an actor struggling to make it.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
The role of the weather girl is one of the most iconic in the TV landscape.
A musical coming-of-age journey.
In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people.
Scotland’s home-grown ensemble of musicians will perform their spectacular critically-acclaimed show that gives you a concert experience of pure Beatles nostalgia.
Appearing for the fifth time at the Fringe, nothing can stop this large, contemporary choir from Peebles.
The Changeling Girl explores experiences of neurodivergency through the captivating story of Agnes, an autistic girl living in medieval England accused of being a fairy changeling.
Debuting at the Fringe this year, Foot Notes is one of Durham University’s much loved a cappella groups.
When 18-year-old Eliza doesn’t come home one night, her family and friends are forced to confront their own issues and insecurities in an attempt to find out what has happened to…
A special school assembly harking back to the grand old days of the bawdy British boarding school, hosted by drag king and self-proclaimed “Head” Master Mr Brake Down.
Love and Piss is both a carnival of rebellion and a celebration of queer identity.
Almost everyone has lost someone, has loved someone.
Rwandan writer and activist Kiki Katese takes to the stage with her all-female drumming group to share the powerful stories of those affected by the Rwandan genocide, in a performa…
A work-in-progress for a brand new future-cult musical that is not called ‘Don’t Look Over Here, Andrew Lloyd Webber’ but for legal reasons is currently called ‘Don’t Loo…
A work-in-progress for a brand new future-cult musical that is not called ‘Don’t Look Over Here, Andrew Lloyd Webber’ but for legal reasons is currently called ‘Don’t Loo…
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Imagine having a passion, a calling, being so good and in love with something you wanted to do it forever – that was me as a child when it came to drumming but sadly it wasn’t th…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
A murder in an escape room? Inconvenient for the victim, perhaps, but very handy for inspectors who wish to keep their suspects in one place.
Originally published in 1915, The Rainbow was extraordinarily ahead of its time as Lawrence explores the experiences of three generations of Polish women living in Nottinghamshire …
A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast.
Broke Her, the debut production of northern productions company Steel Harbour Productions, a thriller set in the home of a promising young couple Joshua and Isobelle, during a calm…
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Davina is searching for a long-lost family member.
Clara tells the story of 19th century piano star Clara Schumann.
I never felt unwelcome at the Fringe until this performance.
H and B are a young couple struggling with the pressures of their relationship.
Have you ever felt isolated and confused about the world? Surrounded by judgement, pressure and horrifically high beauty standards, Jess confesses her innermost thoughts to you all…
Have you ever considered how much easier it would be to stop trying to be a nice person and just be a dick to everyone? You will after watching this show.
Affectionate musical comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch, a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model.
A poetic, subtle and witty dance performance on conventions, expectations and perception.
Ali Brice is embracing life after almost losing it.
See the UK’s longest running and best comedy newcomer competition back for its 35th year.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, What You Will is set on Long Island’s Gold Coast in the 1920s and follows the antics of Vi Candor as she circumvents a man’s world in …
As seen on BT Sport’s DIY Pundit, the Amused Moose Comedy Award winner Danny Ward returns to Edinburgh with his seventh solo show.
A perfect show to start your day! Card tricks, mind-reading, all the magic show stuff! Magician, on stage, doing magic in a magic show; what more do you want? Oh and it’s literally…
Once upon a time, there was a young girl – not a princess or a pretty girl waiting to be one.
It’s 1998.
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as: ‘the relationship.
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who does? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fin…
Paper.
On the sand of his seaside home town, Myles Wheeler monologues about home, hospitals and let’s say hope for the alliteration.
Come with us on a dramatic journey to the very edge of our solar system and back! In real time we’ll be seeing the boundaries of human exploration and following in the footsteps of…
All families have secrets.
Mark Glentworth returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique biographical musical about a successful musician and composer who suddenly and rapidly suffers a career-sto…
The world’s changed, Michaels confused and snowflake is a cold dessert? Is it just me? Let’s find out together.
Having written over 200 songs during lockdown exploring some of the more comical aspects of the pandemic, Siobhan Argyle is bringing her sold-out show from Glasgow to the Edinburgh…
Just one of the many questions the producer of QI, Blackadder, Spitting Image, The News Quiz, Not the Nine O’Clock News is hoping to answer over eleven harrowing teatimes.
A unique, genre-bending, two-man romp sees one panto dame’s life come crashing down around her.
A celebration of Queen songs performed by four of the UK’s most talented singers and dancers in a tribute to the musical We Will Rock You.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, Conan Doyle, JK Rowling, McCall Smith and others, wit…
Recalling Banksy’s famous graffiti, originally painted on the side of Waterloo Bridge in 2002, Amy Wakeman’s The Girl and Her Balloon is a similarly ubiquitous depiction of hop…
Inspired by the story of Hong Kong renowned novelist Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City, A Many-Splendoured Thing explores love between a man and a woman in a turbulent era thr…
New York comedians Wyatt Feegrado (Bettor Days on Hulu, Amazon Prime), Lukas Arnold (2 million+ followers on Tiktok) and Otter Lee (Fairview on Comedy Central) present an afternoon…
Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an Eye.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? MARK GLENTWORTH returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his uni…
Life, relationships, the world! Everything seems to be coming to an end.
A college student offers a scattered recollection of her childhood, her perceived trauma and the chaos leading up to her mother’s recent disappearance.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes, 2019 and 2021; Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up, 2021; UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show f…
‘Unsettling yet captivating’ (Alt A Review).
The Great British Detective tradition! Holmes and Watson meet Poirot and Miss Marple (alongside the usual suspects) in a spoof homage – who murdered Lady Fanshawe!? Why have the …
Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art.
Creme Egg included with ticket.
A jaw-dropping mind-reading show that will have you grinning from ear to ear, scratching your head in bafflement, and wondering if you might just have seen a glimpse of the future.
This solo performance with award-winning dancer Mikolaj Karczewski is based on personal material, made in collaboration with the obstruction master Palle Granhøj.
See You is must see.
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
Tuesday morning, 3am.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
Like all women, Jo has been called her fair share of things, many not so flattering.
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
Join the longest-running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News for his new show! Endorsed by Hollywood superstar Will Ferrell.
Join Faith, a young woman addicted to Love, on a quest into the dark heart of its enchantments – and if there’s any life worth living without them.
France 1789.
Bold.
Young, trendy Spencer leaves home and hits Soho like a whirlwind in a journey of love, laughter, heartbreak and happiness.
Gara spent most of their life being a “girl”.
A play about love transcending separation.
Volunteers needed for very important scientific research*.
Forty, single and ready to mingle; join lifelong friends, Annie Sup and Angela Bra, for a drag-infused comedy of musical mirth celebrating friendship and new beginnings on a bar cr…
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Mr Brightside hasn’t left the UK charts in 18 years.
Get ready for a fantastical show to warm the heart and bring joy to people young and old alike.
The cult hit stand-up panel show where the audience can join the fun without being picked on! Enjoy three top stand-ups answering the daft questions that have been picked using our…
Self-doubt? Low self-esteem? Well, this sounds cheery.
Sharlin Jahan (BBC 4’s The Now Show, BBC Essex Radio) is a Bangladeshi, British, Canadian Comedian.
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their grandma.
Forty, single and ready to mingle; join lifelong friends, Annie Sup and Angela Bra, for a drag-infused comedy of musical mirth celebrating friendship and new beginnings on a bar cr…
Moni grew up in a sweatshop in Wuhan.
Written by Max Dickins (The Man on the Moor, Kin, The Trunk) and directed by five times Fringe First award-winner Hannah Eidinow, Love Them To Death explores Fabricated and Induc…
Two teams of comedians – one team depressed, one team anxious.
It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage…
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 & East New Comedian 2019 finalist Phil Green.
A mother keeps pulling her ill son out of school.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
“Excuse me sir, would you mind if I gave this gentleman the free seat beside you?” says a keen and kind Aliya Kanani before the beginning of her sold-out show.
Maureen Langan doesn’t want to hate people; they make her hate them.
In a world of groups, hierarchies and class systems, everyone’s trying so hard to fit in.
Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey presents some very silly characters exploring a very serious topic.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
A prodigal story of true love and sacred transformation.
Jon Pearson – crowned Best MC in the Midlands, 2022 – presents his unscripted, unfiltered and unplanned award-winning Leicester Comedy Festival performance plus his brand-new S…
Split-bill WIP from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows.
NHS junior doctor, comedian and now author (oooooh, check him) Ed Patrick returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the makings of a new show.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! Same spirited show but with all new faces performing stand-up and sharing their best drunken comedic tales! If…
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r…
A twisted stand-up comedy quest to understand fatherhood.
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
From exes to golf coaches, Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge is an eloquent, biting and well-structured analysis of situations when Hannah Fairweather was right and when she wa…
In her first solo show, Swiss Comedy Talent Award finalist Michelle Kalt tackles the aftermath of an embarrassingly peaceful break-up, covering everything from bad dates (or whatev…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Rachel and Colin muse over their different realities of parenthood: the highs, lows, irritations and chaos.
Award-winning Polish performer Piotr Sikora has created a beautiful hour of family storytelling which uses clowning, mime, ukulele and audience participation to paint the journey o…
Award-winning comedian, NHS psychiatrist and author Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
Join Paul Mccaffrey and Seann Walsh for a live version of The UK’s Top 10 Comedy Podcast. Comedy’s two angriest friends just got angrier.
The Alternative Book Club presents an unconventional comedy show about books where there is absolutely no required reading.
A sample show of different acts from within Just the Tonic venues, and maybe some guests.
Alex Hylton is almost absolutely certain he’s in love.
Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.
A stand-up comedy compilation show hosted by Tom Mayhew, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
This popular show returns for its fifth run. Four circuit comedians from the UK and Berlin will make you laugh until you wet yourself, in this fast-paced club-style hour.
After two sell-out Fringes, Tessa Coates is beside herself with excitement to be back with a brand-new show.
In his intimate and highly anticipated debut hour, Rich Hardisty (Channel 4, Netflix, BBC) takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of his unusual life.
New show from Edinburgh-based piano virtuouso Will Pickvance (Anatomy of a Piano, Pianohood, First Piano On The Moon).
Debut hour from one of the most exciting acts on the UK comedy circuit and one of the most pathetic cringing worms (as seen on The Mash Report (BBC2), BBC3 and Channel 4 Online.
Sarah Keyworth’s Lost Boy is very difficult to fully describe.
After the highly successful Us/Them, Carly Wijs returns to Summerhall with Boy.
Brian Cox presents She/Her, a multimedia performance of a diverse group of women speaking their truth.
A worldwide sensation from Montreal to Beijing, Fills Monkey return with an exhilarating new show.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
‘This anarchic, multimedia show has cult in its genes’ **** (Chortle.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
Love, Loss and Chianti stages two of Christopher Reid’s poetic works A Scattering and The Song of Lunch, both, as the title suggests, explore the liminal space where love and los…
You can be ashamed of many things.
Award-winning actor and cabaret artist, Keith Ramsay, blends live music and and spoken word to deconstruct the concepts of camp and queer mythology for a post-Stonewall generation.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
A new show for 2022 bringing you the best of the winners and finalists from 2021’s So You Think You’re Funny? comedy newcomer competition.
The Paines Plough Roundabout has become a symbol of the Fringe, developing its own signature style in the process.
A robot, an alien and a human.
Son of a climate scientist, Australian theatre maker David Finnigan has always made work about climate change – then his country caught fire.
There’s not really any way to describe how much I enjoyed Glenn Moore’s show other than to say that by the halfway point, I had put my notepad away and was just enjoying the ri…
Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.
From the girl who brought you The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish (Edinburgh, 2011), comes Funny Girl, Sad Songs.
Join Mary Beth for her eagerly anticipated debut hour, as she shares her checkered journey as an aspiring young starlet through to the present day, covering a range of topics like …
During a bizarre childhood accident, Trevor was drenched head to toe in dragon’s blood.
In the last hours of 2019, David Finnigan’s best friend prepared to make a break for home with his family before fires cut off the highway.
What do you do when the end of the world finally comes and you realise it’s going to happen slowly and boringly? No sudden meteor strike.
Change is always hard and what better person to lead the men selflessly by the hand into the new world than TV’s Jayde Adams in her brand-new show.
Catriona has a history of making stuff up.
Mama Love is a one-woman show in which Lea Blair Whitcher plays with the absurdities of the idealised and toxic images of motherhood in which she finds herself enmeshed.
After 21 years and 224 days Hal’s back being single.
We all live under the same sky.
With three five star sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, over 60 million views online and a tendency to list things in threes, Just These Please are back with 25 brand new sketches and…
Thanyia Moore was going to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2020 with a heartfelt, emotional show, that was about to rock your socks off… but then 2020 happened.
Olga Koch is winning at life and she wants us to know it.
Chris Cantrill (half of 2019 Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominees, The Delightful Sausage) is The Defendant.
John Hastings has had to deal with the shit life has thrown at him since 2019… He got a divorce during Covid, his best friend got a terminal diagnosis, he got bed bugs, he nearly…
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s complications.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
They’re in Hackney; a vibrant, unheard of original setting.
They’re in Hackney; a vibrant, unheard of original setting.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
A unique musical and theatrical interpretation of one of the most ambitious literary debuts of recent years, the Iron Annie Cabaret is coming to the Boys School at Smock…
A unique musical and theatrical interpretation of one of the most ambitious literary debuts of recent years, the Iron Annie Cabaret is coming to the Boys School at Smock…
This powerful and experimental piece of theatre explores the challenge for the disabled community to be heard in the face of broad stroke Daily Mail prejudice and aggressive, insti…
LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! tells the story of 8 gay men, friends and lovers, who all gather at a country house in upstate New York over 3 long weekend.
The return of a play about memory, poetry, hypnosis, and redemption.
In this genre-defying performance we witness a spellbinding combination of theatre, music, hypnosis, dream, sound collage, film and text as we share the last night of a persecuted …
I Can’t Hear You by Natasha Brotherdale Smith is a queer, female led two hander.
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
Cynthia is 23.
Award winning comic drama by Ioana Goga. If Fleabag and Bridget Jones had a baby this would be it!
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Need some Euro cheer? Never fear ‘Cabaret Continentale!’ is here! Join us for three nights of sensational and sexy variety Spiegel acts from around Europe, to really make your Fri…
Split bill work in progress from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows.
Split bill work in progress from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
Divorced Sammie searches for love, laughter and divine purpose.
Divorced Sammie searches for love, laughter and divine purpose.
Self-doubt? Imposter Syndrome? Low self-esteem? Suffering from any of these? You’re in good company.
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Self-doubt? Imposter Syndrome? Low self-esteem? Suffering from any of these? You’re in good company.
Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly.
Clytemnestra’s world is torn apart when her husband, Agamemnon, sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
All You Can Beat Workshop.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championship Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 10…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championships Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 1…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championship Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 10…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championships Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 1…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of…
All You Can Beat Workshop.
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors.
Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors.
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey brings a bunch of very silly characters to explore a very serious topic.
Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey brings a bunch of very silly characters to explore a very serious topic.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Two clashing comedians.
Two clashing comedians.
After witnessing my son’s terrible squalid journey into a craven addiction, I wanted to work with addicts and those like me, who love them, to paint them and ask: what is happening…
After witnessing my son’s terrible squalid journey into a craven addiction, I wanted to work with addicts and those like me, who love them, to paint them and ask: what is happening…
Guava Palava Arts present an award-winning comedy theatre show.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
The sweet journey of an unlikely pear of lovers.
Getting To Know You (“an outward expression of internal sounds” - audience member 2021) is a highly physical solo dance work exploring the journey into self-inquiry.
One of the best things about theatre, and art in general, is the space it creates for difficult conversations and analysis.
Getting To Know You (“an outward expression of internal sounds” - audience member 2021) is a highly physical solo dance work exploring the journey into self-inquiry.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Just Relax is a new play that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health challenges.
A Life in Progress Show - Not Done Yet! After thirty years of listening to others, one day Stewart listened to himself and left his job - Now he wants you to listen to him.
Done to Death By Jove was a comedic celebration of the murder mystery novel.
‘The 39 Steps’ meets Agatha Christie via Holmes and Watson! A cast of six bring a comic flurry of suspects and sleuths together to discover whodunnit, and how.
Affectionate musical comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch, now sadly bereft of her consort of 73 years.
Affectionate musical comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch, now sadly bereft of her consort of 73 years.
A late-starter comes out about her first kiss, desires, and strawberries.
In our world of fast fashion, the buy-now-pay-later mentality fed to us by banks like Klarna and the rising cost of living, Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money will truly resonate with…
A late-starter comes out about her first kiss, desires, and strawberries.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
Dennis Kelly is one of the UK’s most extraordinary and original writers working today.
Join Love Ssega at the National Gallery for Love Ssega’s HOME-zero, a promenade performance exploring themes of sustainability and social housing, uplifting young voices through …
Bright Umbrella present the 60th Anniversary production of Sam Thompson's iconic Ulster play, 'Over the Bridge', a powerful portrayal of sectarianism and …
Kathleen loved to write.
WHO’S THAT GIRL?Who is she? Where did you find her?And why is her eye make-up so big?All of these questions and more will be ignored as superstar drag queen THAT GIRL goes on a s…
You Should Not Be Watching MeA musician overshares WARNING! Edgy MaterialYou'll be in stiches.
ConnemarvellousOne woman bilingual English Irish comedy! Stephen Mullan: Love is.
Thank you, next The life of an auditioning actor Three Queens Stuck in Dublin City We’re all born naked, but the rest is shade! Thank you, next - Megan O&ap…
You pull the strings.
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
Unrivalled in their ability to present exciting and new international choreography as well as some of the most memorable masterpieces from the past 100 years, Rambert Dance Compa…
This UK premiere, presented by The Dark Times Theatre Company, is genre-defying performance, witness a spellbinding combination of theatre, music, hypnosis, sound collage, dream, f…
Join author, campaigner and podcast host Ruairí McKiernan, Senator Lynn Ruane and special guests for what is guaranteed to be a lively and inspiring conversation …
Philip Pullman sets The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy.
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER A play, with songs.
Meet some of the shortlisted authors from the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 at this year’s Dublin Book Festival.
Boy out the City at Battersea’s Turbine Theatre is a solo piece performed by Declan Bennett.
BOO BITCHES! It’s spooky season, and we’ve lined up a horrible concoction of shocking live shows from some of the deadliest drag around! On October 30 we bring you a spooky,…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
A Map to You tells the vibrant life stories shared with playwrights by individuals and their families living with dementia .
Hay Babes! Who will be London’s Next BIG Thing?Join Miss Taylor Trash for the most East London drag pageant you have ever seen in your lives!!!12 contestants will battle it ou…
Anything For Love – The Meat Loaf Story: It’s all about the music! Following his sell out 2019 national tour, the highly acclaimed Steve Steinman brings you …
ANTHEM - OLD SKOOL REUNION - LOVE MUSCLE CLASSICS A SPECIAL EVENT PAYING TRIBUTE TO LOVE MUSCLE DJ LEGEND MARC ANDREWSWith DJsSTEVE BENNISONANDY ALMIGHTYPlus live PA from MOTI…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Doll and Ted are storytellers.
‘Just Relax’ is a new play inspired by the writer's own journey with anxiety, that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health …
A comedy about love, marriage and the family you choose.
Just May & Mark T Cox Do the NoughtiesLondon’s newest and least-known cabaret show is coming BACK, for more LIVE frolics in the simmering East End this summer.
THESE GROOVY WITCHES ARE BACK! The bewitching event from Coco Femme Fontaine & Daisy Puller returns to Fontaine’s Bar for a COVID considerate, magical lounge performance.
South East London’s favourite alternative drag show and queer cabaret revue returns after its sellout relaunch with a truly phenomenal smorgasbord of LGBTQ+ talent.
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…
“An Ice Thing to Say” blends Ice installation, music and movement to explore our impact on nature.
When it comes to what we deem sensual or erotic, we can be tempted to start with the performative.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
What follows is a window into how a couple find the strength to move forward, the will to stay together, and the determination to keep the memory of their child alive.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma…
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
"Hands up, who enjoys being white?" An amused Elisabeth Gunawan asks the audience in Unforgettable Girl - her one person show at Camberwell’s Golden Goose Theatre, dire…
NOBODYS BUSINESS? Is our discretion killing us?What is the cost to us of privacy about our sexuality?Have sex, sexual identity, and politics become so intertwined that i…
Josh Widdicombe has become one of the most in demand and highly regarded comedians in the UK for both his live stand-up and TV work since his debut gig in 2008.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
PSA is a small collective of visual artists, performers and musicians formed in the wake of the pandemic to bring people together after so long apart.
Annie Sup and Angela Bra are housemates in their forties celebrating a new lease of life on the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
A dark dramedy, both poignant and absurd, that reflects humanity.
Annie Sup and Angela Bra are housemates in their forties celebrating a new lease of life on the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Annie Sup and Angela Bra are housemates in their forties celebrating a new lease of life on the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Annie Sup and Angela Bra are housemates in their forties celebrating a new lease of life on the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
An outdoor, bicycle-powered, eco-musical for children and their families.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
After the year we’ve had, we all need a bit more love.
Come to hear hilarious stories from a Russian girl living abroad and be sure they will make you laugh! This witty show about love struggles and immigrant life by Olga Pavlova, a Ru…
HELLO IT’S HOT GIRL SUMMER HERE!ARE YOU READY FOR HOT , QUEER, NAUGHTY SUMMER? ARE YOU A PERSON OF COLOUR? We are ready for you! Come and join us to celebrate this …
The ‘absurd and excellent’ (RifeMagazine.
The kids have moved out and it’s the dawn of a new era! Tom’s embracing change with his usual spirit and vigour; he can draw lessons from the past but he’ll be damned if he …
One night in a dimly lit alley way Molly meets a sinister stranger with a terrifying secret called J.
A dark dramedy, both poignant and absurd, that reflects humanity.
Mixing gaming and 3D technology, this experimental production fuses original music, virtual performances and a new script exploring migrant experiences; from the poorest Chinese sa…
Naughty Boy is a thrillingly provocative exploration of mental health, politics and morality.
Come to hear hilarious stories from a Russian girl living abroad and be sure they will make you laugh! This witty show about love struggles and immigrant life by Olga Pavlova, a Ru…
Love Me is one of three plays bought to the Edinburgh Fringe 2021 by York DramaSoc.
Allison Miller is on trial pleading not guilty to all charges held against her.
**** (4-Stars) “Satisfying, enjoyable, emotive and intriguing” (Broadwaybaby.
Naughty Boy is a thrillingly provocative exploration of mental health, politics and morality.
After six years together, one of which was particularly crazy, an American says goodbye to Scotland with the help of a song and a puppet and tries to figure out why she’s leaving.
**** (4-Stars) “Satisfying, enjoyable, emotive and intriguing” (Broadwaybaby.
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot” - Charlie Chaplin.
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot” - Charlie Chaplin.
Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself.
Affectionate musical comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch.
Come to hear hilarious stories from a Russian girl living abroad and be sure they will make you laugh! This witty show about love struggles and immigrant life by Olga Pavlova, a Ru…
Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a 'modern classic' or are his publishers as deluded as h…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
LET US RAZE YOU - Artist ShowcaseA night of Queer Cabaret Debuts! New talent, New ideas & New perspectives.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse has got a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your mi…
‘Girl Code’ is a comedy panel show, hosted by Sikisa and featuring a group of outspoken females who are all going through varied life experiences, which include changing sexualitie…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
‘Girl Code’ is a comedy panel show, hosted by Sikisa and featuring a group of outspoken females who are all going through varied life experiences, which include changing sexualitie…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse has got a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your mi…
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
kiss her is a play that wants to re-write: the narratives the rules the rules of lesbian fiction.
What is love? Perhaps we can work it out together? LOVE YOU is a solo show that blends storytelling & dance written & performed by Samantha Morrish.
kiss her is a play that wants to re-write: the narratives the rules the rules of lesbian fiction.
What is love? Perhaps we can work it out together? LOVE YOU is a solo show that blends storytelling & dance written & performed by Samantha Morrish.
A work-in-progress stand-up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
So far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
From writer Ahlam and director Katie Posner, this film presents the award-winning You Bury Me as a poignant snapshot of post-Arab-Spring Cairo.
A live gig! Wow! I have great memories of audiences singing along.
Patricia has been concocting the perfect speech in her head over the last year, of what she would say if she were ever to face her ex-abusive boyfriend again.
In collaboration with circus platform at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, the international panel of circus experts will delve into the challenges and pleasures of creating …
The ‘absurd and excellent’ (RifeMagazine.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
From appearances Mock The Week and QI and others, Eshaan Akbar comes to Edinburgh for three nights only.
Tad is one of comedy’s most exciting new acts; already scoring a multitude of award including winning the London and Manchester King Gong, The Frog and Bucket’s Beat The Frog, The …
Tad is one of comedy’s most exciting new acts; already scoring a multitude of award including winning the London and Manchester King Gong, The Frog and Bucket’s Beat The Frog, The …
Come to hear hilarious stories from a Russian girl living abroad and be sure they will make you laugh! This witty show about love struggles and immigrant life by Olga Pavlova, a Ru…
Heather Duster presents Funny Girl: A one woman retelling of the iconic musical with a little more drag! Join Heather as she takes you on a musical journey with her one woman …
Writer Ahlam and director Katie Posner present the award-winning You Bury Me as a poignant snapshot of post-Arab-Spring Cairo.
Inspired by the music of Leonard Cohen, this piece examines the truth behind love songs.
This show was going to be titled “I Used to Eat Dog Food” but that would have meant leaving out all material about the sex dungeon, the legendary yeast infection, and everything el…
Inspired by the music of Leonard Cohen, this piece examines the truth behind love songs.
This show was going to be titled “I Used to Eat Dog Food” but that would have meant leaving out all material about the sex dungeon, the legendary yeast infection, and everything el…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show "I'll Tell You What", an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the …
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show “I’ll Tell You What”, an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the circuit.
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show “I’ll Tell You What”, an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the circuit.
Come to hear hilarious stories from a Russian girl living abroad and be sure they will make you laugh! This witty show about love struggles and immigrant life by Olga Pavlova, a Ru…
Love, work and the passage of time.
“What would happen if you answered the front door, and the person standing there was you?” Exploring what makes you, you, and not someone else? What would you do faced with you? Wo…
Love, work and the passage of time.
“What would happen if you answered the front door, and the person standing there was you?” Exploring what makes you, you, and not someone else? What would you do faced with you? Wo…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Smile.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a 'modern classic' or are his publishers as deluded as h…
An aspiring actress, Evie Edwards, clutches the sides of the Hollywood sign.
We all have struggles, problems, and fears - let me show you some of mine.
‘Sensational’ is how one viewer described this high-quality filmed version of Mark Wheeller’s moving play.
A theatrical film about the impact of the pandemic through the eyes of clowns.
Combining childlike wonder, adult cynicism, and Shakespearean gravitas in his impressively compelling story, master storyteller Dennis Elkins poses increasingly difficult questions…
Meet Davy.
If You Find This is about a young woman working as a carer, who finds herself on the brink of life and death.
An alternative stand up comedy show which earnestly takes an entirely literal approach to the common comedian advice of ‘find your audience’.
An immersive feel-good experience that comprises personal storytelling and comedy to tell a story about growing up and making a home in the world.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country.
Lockdown Love Story is a UK-based comedy created by Alice Fforde and Charlie Dryden, highlighting the ups and downs of online dating during a pandemic.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
An alternative stand up comedy show which earnestly takes an entirely literal approach to the common comedian advice of ‘find your audience’.
Corona Cutie is a student-written-and-produced virtual musical created completely remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
France 1789.
400 milliliters.
Just These Please are back with 25 sketches and songs in 55 minutes.
At the start of 2020 Patrick was blindly working on a fun new comedy show, when he was personally attacked by something that rhymes with hamdemic.
At the start of 2020 Patrick was blindly working on a fun new comedy show, when he was personally attacked by something that rhymes with hamdemic.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
A young woman working as a carer finds herself on the brink of life and death.
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
A young woman working as a carer finds herself on the brink of life and death.
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Join housemates Annie Sup and Angela Bra on a night out celebrating the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt, Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you a brand-new interactive musical sho…
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Join housemates Annie Sup and Angela Bra on a night out celebrating the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 & East New Comedian 2019 finalist Phil Green.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Join The Greenhouse Theatre - the UK’s first 100% zero-waste theatre - this summer for an all-singing, all-dancing, full-of-life reimagining of Shakespeare’s pastoral classic.
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Tom ‘The Haircut’ Ward is back.
Tom ‘The Haircut’ Ward is back.
Join poet Adam Kammerling as he launches his debut collection Seder, alongside a gang of hyper-talented poets and musicians.
Someone has seen a wolf.
Shakespeare’s As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of romance and poetry, satire and slapstick.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
Ever had an annoying friend that just won’t go away? Queenie has.
Divorced Sammie searches for love, laughter and divine purpose.
A stand-up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton is a riveting, witty, kinetic solo show vividly portraying the life of one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Now in her mid-forties, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the arrival of the man whom she gave up for adoption thirty years before.
Now in her mid-forties, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the arrival of the man whom she gave up for adoption thirty years before.
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard is 38 years old.
The Mighty Boosh meets The Wicker Man, with eels.
The Mighty Boosh meets The Wicker Man, with eels.
When Rob was 12, they attempted to stage a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma.
Need some Euro cheer? Never fear ‘Cabaret Continentale!’ is here! Join us for three nights of sensational and sexy variety Spiegel acts from around Europe, to really make your Fri…
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
A personal performance of a woman’s struggle growing up in a man-made world.
Eleanor suspects she may have intimacy issues.
How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences.
Eleanor suspects she may have intimacy issues.
How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences.
My last show was all about my family and almost nothing about me.
My last show was all about my family and almost nothing about me.
The dandy kings of cabaret Joe Morose, Dusty Limits & Des O’Connor invite you to Theatreland’s former lavatory & Oscar Wilde’s forgotten cottage for a royal flush of vaudev…
After witnessing my son’s terrible squalid journey into a craven addiction, I wanted to work with addicts and those like me, who love them, to paint them and ask: what is happening…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
Affectionate musical comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
A bicycle-powered eco-musical for children aged 6-10 and their families.
A bicycle-powered eco-musical for children aged 6-10 and their families.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make you…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make you…
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Char Brockes and Jack O'Neill (Ava Cardo) brought the Rialto Theatre to life with their unique styles of drag and slapstick comedy, in order to explore the theme of Romantic Co…
If you had a house fire what single item would you save? Treasure reveals the surprising and often touching stories that people have about the one thing they would hate to lose.
Artificial Intelligence is on the way, and it will be powerful.
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Ellie is a schoolgirl with a very bright future ahead of her.
After a sold-out debut season at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world’s first comedy show about sleep apnea is here.
Artificial Intelligence is on the way, and it will be powerful.
25 young people from Walmer Township tell of the blunt, harsh reality faced by women and young girls who lose hope and give in to the tragedy of abusive behaviour by their fathers …
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
I love Krishna is a compilation of videos of songs performed by Shashika Mooruth in which she sings about her love for Krishna, the flute player God of India.
I love Krishna is a compilation of videos of songs performed by Shashika Mooruth in which she sings about her love for Krishna, the flute player God of India.
Shakespeare’s 21st-century females.
Those who know of William Shakespeare will probably recognise several of his intricate plots.
A soundscaped binaural recording of Maria Ferguson’s debut poetry collection, ‘Alright, Girl?’ published by Burning Eye books.
A soundscaped binaural recording of Maria Ferguson’s debut poetry collection, ‘Alright, Girl?’ published by Burning Eye books.
Award-winning NYC comedian and cabaret bitch Sally Ann Hall will be performing an early version of her Edinburgh Fringe solo show ‘Baked Alaskan’, which will be fully cooked by thi…
Award-winning NYC comedian and cabaret bitch Sally Ann Hall will be performing an early version of her Edinburgh Fringe solo show ‘Baked Alaskan’, which will be fully cooked by thi…
25 young people from Walmer Township tell of the blunt, harsh reality faced by women and young girls who lose hope and give in to the tragedy of abusive behaviour by their fathers …
Our air-hostesses, Perl and Merlot are delighted to invite you onboard Flight 2012 to Ibiza.
‘Land If You Can!’ is a role-playing play.
If you had a house fire what single item would you save? Treasure reveals the surprising and often touching stories that people have about the one thing they would hate to lose.
After a sold-out debut season at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world’s first comedy show about sleep apnea is here.
Millie is not like other girls.
Meet Millie.
Lloyd Griffith: Not just a pretty faceLloyd is back on the road with his latest stand up tour.
This show has been rescheduled from Sat 18 April 2020.
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
All ticket bookers will have access to the performance ‘on demand’ for a period after the premiere.
We peek into the private lives of a couple, now in their later years yet still wrestling with the complexities of relationship and the desire to be seen and understood in a place w…
Are You OK? reflects on a world turned upside down and inside out by the pandemic in two different countries.
Out of the Wings and Inti Press present six new translations from Cuba, Spain, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Portugal.
NYC comedian and “cabaret bitch” Sally Ann Hall offers a hilarious look into her religious upbringing and the dangers and joys of being a female comedian in New York City, with jus…
Delve into the work of Matthew Bourne's award-winning company, New Adventures and get your bodies moving in our fun and creative online da…
Over on Grim Street, there lives a little old lady.
Love Letters first opened in New York in 1989 and was a finalist in the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Get ready for a Musical Theatre extravaganza that will have you dancing in your seats.
A newlywed couple find themselves in a caravan honeymoon in the West of Ireland.
THEY WERE THE DRIFTERS.
Three short plays exploring those moments that may alter the course of love and life.
Uncover the long-standing relationship between the Army and artists past and present in this live online discussion.
After 250 million downloads, multiple awards and tours across the globe, NSTAAF returns to the Fringe for three nights only! There will be facts, jokes, in-jokes, more facts and th…
Listen to the music of the greatest composers in jazz played by one of Scotland’s best Jazz Quintets.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
Set in the early 90s and spanning 10 years, this play explores relationships and the toll these relationships take on the six principle characters.
Come and enjoy our music.
In 2017, Watson – prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Embodied Theatre: explore theatre makers NMT Automatics and classicist Jon Heskers’ creation process questioning the role of ancient battle narratives in modern perceptions of wa…
Oliver Yellop, (Further Theatre) brings you a workshop on the process of making I Am Gavrilo Princip.
Scotland’s dramatic history is illuminated by her music and traditional folksong.
Just Two Guys have arrived to bring you an experience you won’t forget! Their unique blend of acoustic rock music, comedy, and food creates the most fulfilling musical performanc…
Known for their exciting ensemble and physical theatre work, students from North London Collegiate School are delighted to return to the Fringe to perform Caryl Churchill’s 2012 ka…
Linda’s music is often described with words like.
This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…
Front Window follows the quarantined investigations of a young woman turned armchair detective.
A romantic Greek comedy.
If you’ve been feasting on BBC iPlayer during lockdown and enjoying the delights of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, it’s worth taking six minutes out of your social isolation t…
A brief story with three songs, rejoicing in new-found love during lock-down after the pain of personal bereavement.
France 1789.
Told through a series of flashbacks interspersed with the “Last Supper”, The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband is a hilarious exploration of jealousy, humiliation, deceit and betrayal w…
Love, Loss and Cake premiered at the Fringe last year.
Inspired by the ballet Coppelia, with music adapted from Delibes.
Beowulf sets out to save the Danes, redefine heroism and crack some legendary jokes along the way.
A snapshot of the life of an eccentric woman living on the streets of South East London.
Double Fringe First winners bring Bronte evangelists who fight and bite at West Norwood’s first-ever Jane Eyre convention (Jeremy Kyle meets Comic Con).
A brand new hour of jokes from Alfie Brown; the country’s best non-famous comedian.
Join lifelong friends, Annie and Angela, as they celebrate approaching forty, single and ready to mingle in a drag-infused musical comedy where you’re on the very special guest l…
Things are getting way too tense out there, aren’t they? The powers that be are peddling anger to the masses and we’re all becoming rage junkies.
Unless you want it to be.
The perpetrators of 2019’s satirical smash hit Now That’s What I Call Brexit – ‘Searing satire’ **** (BritishTheatreGuide.
Cute! Sexy! Seriously unhinged! The baby queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has decided it’s time Edinburgh found out what it means to be a pussy boy.
Born in Iran and raised in a Teeside caravan, Patrick reflects on life today in his mixed-class relationship.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
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…
It’s worth noting first off that My Boy Danny was never originally intended to appear as an MP3 available for streaming on YouTube, with that compromise being a happy result of l…
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
Lloyd is back on the road for his third UK stand up tour.
A brand new musical celebrating the very best of Essex What happens when an unposted love letter meant to be sent between a passionate young couple dating, only gets delivered ten…
New British Musical1983.
Focusing on the work and lives of older women - both in front and behind the camera - this year’s line-up includes Japanese animation Mix, eco-comedy The Last Mermaid starring Jane…
Stephen Schwartz is the multi-award winning creator of an extraordinary catalogue of songs for stage and screen.
Jesse is paranoid and he's frightened and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his daughter and his life… In a bittersweet comedy fuelled by anti-Semitis…
Bringing to life Philip Osment’s final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.
Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti is that relatively rare thing for the Royal Lyceum Theatre—a star vehicle, rather than an ensemble production, that happens to have two audience fav…
Thirty/20 Theatre, Assembly Festival and Suzanna Rosenthal Ltd presents Love, Loss & Chianti Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Toast Of London, Downton Abbey) and …
Emilia does dating!Emilia does… not know what she’s doing.
Acclaimed actor Mark Farrelly presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Love is never easy.
To have or not to have children – but when?! That is the question and the choice is yours.
Since I last saw Simon David on stage in his 2018 Edinburgh Fringe debut, Virgin, much has happened in his personal life.
Dallas Koelling (Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival/ Second City) premieres her half-hour of standup comedy.
Dallas Koelling (Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival/ Second City) premieres her half-hour of standup comedy.
The Girl With Glitter in Her Eye tells the story of a female friendship complicated by the revelation of trauma and examines where the boundaries of consent lie.
Join the fun as we conjure up a magic show from thin air! Thrilling illusions, spooky mind reading, stunning sleight-of-hand, and death-defying escapes.
Nick Kroll has established himself as one of today’s most sought-after creators, writers, producers, and actors in film and television.
Joe Spud is twelve years old and the richest boy in the country! He has his own sports car, two crocodiles as pets and £100,000 a week pocket money! But what Joe doesn't …
A swift half? asks the question, how important is the pub and what place does it have in everyday life? Some hidden truths are threatened to be revealed when sisters Maria and Clar…
In 2039, a successful Black writer lives a perfect life in a future where racism has ceased to exist.
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company Presents Liz Lochhead’s 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'.
Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation.
At the Edinburgh Fringe this year, the Scotsman made this show pick of the musical comedies, declaring it a “must-see” - “beautifully crafted, cleverly…
Steve Steinman brings you his brand-new production featuring Meat Loaf’s greatest hits with special guest star Lorraine Crosby, the female lead vocalist on Meat Lo…
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable…
Everyone hates bastards right? We agree.
“It seems wrong that she experienced something so huge without me.
An intergenerational cast of performers explore the difference age brings and the constant things in life that bind us all together.
Tangled Feet have created a unique intergenerational company of ten year olds, 20 year olds and 80 year-olds to address life’s big questions: How does our perspective change as …
Theatre No More present their current theatrical challenge, Martin Crimp’s unconventional 1997 theatre piece “ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (17 Scenarios for the Theatre)” - a play that has…
See a scratch performance about the unique bond between real life grandfathers and grandsons that explores male family relationships and the legacy that is passed down through gene…
Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir…
Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus are back with Give Me Your Love, a funny and profound fable informed by groundbreaking research.
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in partnership with the National Theatre present A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Wo…
Co-leader of the Scottish Green Party and MSP for the Glasgow area since 2003.
Kenneth Wilson performs a solo show of dramatic poetry from his 2019 collection, The Definitions of Kitchen Verbs, abetted and illustrated with solo airs, ballads and Bach beautifu…
Wind down and immerse yourself in an intimate, candlelit performance in this evocative location.
The popular From Shanghai with Love fashion show and exhibition will come back this year for the third time, bringing silk garments from China’s famous Silk Road combined with cu…
Celebrating 32 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Affectionate comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch.
Our world is getting colder – emotionally.
In 2018, David Finnigan met with 30 scientists and asked each of them a question: ‘What’s the biggest change happening in the world today?’ What they told him was a fascinating mix…
Tanya is a woman with a lot on her mind.
Just Beatles have firmly established themselves on the tribute band scene in their native Scotland and have received invitations to play at Beatles festivals all over the UK and Eu…
An immersive, interactive experience that takes you on a journey full of whimsy and wonder, brought to you by critically-acclaimed veterans of the Los Angeles immersive theatre sce…
You’re getting ready to go out but your depression has other ideas.
100% my type on paper.
London, 1946.
David Harmer and Ray Globe recently turned 60.
Our show tells the story of two women.
Problems are like whirlpools; they suck you in.
He’s the man who put the foot into football.
Imagine Bandersnatch with less clothes, more STDs and an instagram filter over the screen.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Alex Hodgson’s Half Past Seven Show gives a muckle tip of his bunnet to some of Scotland’s best variety entertainers.
Come and hear a lunchtime recital with music written by strong women as well as arias about the power of women.
Brand-new show from the award-winning, five-star Glaswegian chanteuse.
Bicycle Boy: an interactive, bike-powered eco-musical for children aged five to ten and their families.
Love & Tigers is a one-man show exploring what it is to be a brother, a son, and a man.
The multi award-winning Welsh comedian is back with a brand-new live show.
Why does your shadow keep following you? Does it really have to? And what is it up to while you are asleep? Sina finds a way to get rid of her shadow.
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
Girl Code is a comedy panel show, hosted by Sikisa and featuring a group (three to four) of outspoken female women who are all going through varied life experiences, which include …
A well-loved family favourite.
BBC Radio 4’s magazine programme broadcasts about arts, literature, film, media and music from the festivals.
Why would a poet have LinkedIn? And why does Ross’s say he’s ‘an ideas man’? When asked this in an interview, he panics, but somehow he gets the job.
Watson presents a show that’s no more than 50% ready for public consumption and hopes for the festival’s legendary supportive vibe to carry him through.
The tenor/countertenor duo of Hugo Mallet and Fritz Spengler perform famous airs and arias of the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard), Alison Thea-Skot, returns to the Fringe for two nights with her five-star smash-hit show.
In this alternative history show four panellists each deliver an original stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some point in his…
After playing to packed houses at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a return to his greatest triumph Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Tony Slattery is back with a no-holds-barred reflecti…
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
Part I: fool me once.
Come and enjoy our music.
1983.
‘Can we just say we’re completely pro sex’ – Pig.
Who can be a mother? What makes them a mother? Do we actually need one? Cariad and Catrin confront the dysfunction of their relationship past and present and the division that an u…
Karl Theobald (Hang Ups, Plebs, GameFace, Green Wing) is back in his element, making his long-awaited return to the live comedy arena.
Samson and Mabel are the UKs youngest double act.
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
How do you read? Drowning in never-ending email? Rapidly devouring whodunnits, then immediately forgetting them? Perhaps you are seduced by clickbait or read the news and get depre…
Two girls take on the world of app store dating.
What happens when we bring era-defining characters back to life? A thought-provoking avant-garde history-play, exploring the self through the epic, Paradise Lost.
Robyn Stapleton, a BBC Traditional Singer of the Year, partners the historian David Purdie to trace the story of the Scots nation through its songs.
A spontaneous play in the style of Caryl Churchill.
Broccolini’s creation is a darkly raw absurdist comedy about Red Lady, a symbol and exploration of the female identity.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of all-style two vs two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
Sweden’s top female comedian Josefin Johansson, TV presenter and singer takes her sold-out show Girl Stuff abroad for the first time.
Transform paper into 3D forms.
Award-winning Ali, Scotland’s ‘queen of vintage jazz’ (OCWeekly.
This five-star show returns to the Fringe following last year’s success.
Staying sharp as you age is easy… just eat this super berry, do five simple things or play this game to beat dementia! But what if it’s not as simple as the hype suggests? If w…
The hit stage show starring dinosaur aficionado Dr Ben Garrod.
When Edinburgh’s pandas disappear suspicion falls on gangsters from Glasgow.
The Book of Thel is a new musical adaptation of William Blake’s prophetic poem, written in 1788.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
Grief is a tricky business and can make you do irrational things.
Edinburgh-born Italian crooner Philip Contini sings a selection of Cole Porter’s best-loved repertoire with anecdotes from the colourfully flamboyant life of one of the world’s gre…
Lost in a Book! Too much of a good thing is still too much! When Melissa keeps re-reading her favourite fairy tales at the expense of family and friends, she goes from turning page…
Come along to Just a Minute’s special recordings in Edinburgh.
It’s a new millennium.
A cabaret with songs and stories about love, and loss of love (and cake crops up too).
For the romantic, the cynic, and the sick of heart – Love/Sick is a play about the kind of love you won’t find in fairy tales.
The world’s population continues to grow at an alarming rate, putting an enormous strain on food systems and production.
In a double bill of solo works the two pieces will explore the demands on the female body and appearances in today’s modern world, as we continue to struggle to shape ourselves to …
Broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist Rebecca Wilcox, discuss careers and family ties.
Deadpan comic Annie McGrath returns with her third stand-up show.
On Sunday 4th August, a cast who have just met an hour beforehand will give a completely unrehearsed performance of As You Like It at a secret pop up location in south London!
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 32nd year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
An English lawyer, a German IT guy, and an Israeli TV writer throw away their life to entertain you.
This is part stand-up, part actual pub quiz.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Alex…
Brought to you by the folk orchestra of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School of Zhejiang.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight.
Research has got to the point that researchers like Stephen Lawrie (University of Edinburgh) can predict who will get some major mental illnesses years before they develop.
Undeniably nice young man stands around for 45 minutes, prompting a good time and the temporary approval of himself.
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Lubna explores her identity as a Scottish Pakistani muslim women living in a world dominated by fat, blonde, white men.
Award-winning spoken word artist Melanie Branton performs poetry and songs about her roots and plays the recorder (the ultimate punk instrument) badly.
World premiere.
As a boy, Josh Baulf aspired to be a lad.
In It’s Beautiful, Over There, Stephanie Greenwood relates the death of various members of her broad family tree with vignettes about grandparents, resistance fighters and Polish…
How do you find love if you’re too ugly for Love Island? According to Nicola’s mother you contact the Daily Mail.
Writer, theatre-maker and creator of cult Edinburgh hit John Peel’s Shed, John Osborne has a new storytelling show about music and dementia.
Bea’s vagina can narrate, DJ, and dance, but she can’t have sex.
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival – and this year, he’s been trying to escape.
The debut stand-up hour from Arnab Chanda (Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC’s Pls Like, 2018 Writers Guild nominee) who was born in Yorkshire, but grew up abroad, but lives in Londo…
Nana Schewitz, the fully circumcised yet not-so-kosher Jewish star, presents a celebration of her life followed by a highly anticipated sacrificial death ritual.
From 2018 audience reviews: ‘He milked me.
From ‘mercurially witty’ (Spectator) creator of YouTube smash 17 Million F*ck Offs – A Song About Brexit come comic songs, stories and stand-up for people who think the governmen…
PBH reads from his book, the story of the Free Fringe from 1996 to now: how we became the Fringe’s biggest show provider and the many catastrophes and odd triumphs along the way.
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret…
Five years ago, at his best friends Sarah and Emma’s engagement party, James met the love the love his life.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Michael Rice takes you on a hilariously raw and honest journey from a farm in rural Ireland to the big city lights of Chicago and back again.
Inspired in part by Andy Kaufman, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Tommy Cooper and Jaques Tati, Dino’s surrealist madcap experimental stand-up comedy is the catalyst to tell various …
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
A woman walks into a bar.
Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh don’t know what to do now their 20s are over.
Presented by Indigenous Contemporary Scene, Native Girl Syndrome is inspired by the experience of Lara Kramer’s own grandmother’s migration from a remote First Nations community …
Madame Komondor Will See You Now is a wildly interactive solo comedy show that probes everything from excessive male masturbation to enhancing a woman’s pleasure.
A young boy with an enormous gift. Follow Ma Liang as he discovers a very special skill that could help his whole village as long as it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands…
Six actors.
Match Girl is a musical re-imagination of the Hans Christian Andersen classic tale The Little Match Girl.
Ellie, Liz and Tig have worked in the factory for a very long time.
Free Love is the latest manifestation of the Scottish experimental pop duo formerly known as Happy Meals, known for their extraordinary sensual live ceremonies.
William Mastrosimone’s one-act play, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, is a powerful response to the wave of school killings that have erupted in recent times.
We’ve selected the funniest women we could find at the Fringe and brought them together for an evening of comedy you’ll never forget! ‘An amazing evening of the most hilariou…
Have you ever been into something before it was cool? An indie band or the latest fashion trend? The Next Next Big Thing is your chance to get in on the ground floor with two of th…
Annie Jr, the musical performed by the outstanding Edinburgh Youth Theatre. Musical fun for all the family to enjoy. Experience the joy that is Annie!
Stanley ‘Leonardo’ Sappovitz wants to become a comic book artist.
Psychologists claim answering 36 questions can make two strangers fall in love.
This funny show is for anyone who ever listens to dreadfully dull presentations, cringe-worthy wedding speeches or rambling nonsense from “experts” and thinks, ‘there must be a b…
Are you aware of the devastation that is possible by just one negative thought.
Eleanor Conway's vagina has a name (Jenny), and this is important to know.
This starts off as stand-up, then becomes a pub quiz.
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 32nd year! A great night of the funniest from the Fringe,…
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Love.
Darcie has been described as one of the most exciting new comedians on the circuit.
Pip Utton returns with last year’s smash hit.
Twice Over examines Thatcher and May’s leadership through the lives of two Northern women.
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.
From the West Side to the Wild Side, Leonard Bernstein to Lou Reed, join New York vocalist Jess Abrams as she sings A Love Letter to New York.
Six actors.
Two women sit at a wedding.
Multi award-winning comedian/activist, putting up her dukes and picking her battles! Trump, terrorists and everything in between.
A year ago, the world ended.
It is often a challenge to take a piece of original writing that has already achieved success at the Fringe and do something new with it.
Three comedians bring along the news story they “think” is the most important and persuade the audience why it’s the most important of week.
What is love? An unknown quantity, a mesmerising spiritual gift or a song by Haddaway? Love guru Dr Lara Love heals our loveless society in one enlightening hour.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016-18.
The Duchess of Canvey returns with a new show and new songs! Join her on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart of a divided Britain.
Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house…
A ‘master of craze ceremony’ **** (Guardian).
Irish-born Phyllis was one of only two New Zealand women ever to have been honoured with France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur, for extreme bravery in WWII.
Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful authors.
Last year Bruce spent an hour telling hilarious stories about how he looked into the abyss of middle age with the maturity of a teenager.
A half-hour from half a man (her father was a man).
John Hastings is back at the Fringe and has moved out of his regular haunt, the Pleasance Courtyard, to a more homely Monkey Barrel.
Amy loves it.
The stage adaptation of the iconic film by Bill Forsyth – all the original humour is retained as Gregory wrestles with his passion and Dorothy takes control.
‘One of the best roasters in Los Angeles’ (Jeff Ross).
Greg will give you £5 if you come to this show.
The show brings together a world record holder, an illustrator of the year and a published author: Via Fang (Taiwan) is an award-winning and internationally published illustrator.
Sunjai Arif can show you the world as he shares his memories of nostalgic pop culture all while attempting not to be sued by Disney.
Retired children’s TV pioneer Peter Fleming needs your help.
In 1961, Hannah’s mum, Angela, was in the Australian premiere production of The Sound of Music.
Gabe Mollica started doing stand-up in Edinburgh after he got dumped for his best friend.
One of the brains behind the AATTA Podcast returns with his brand-new show in which TT comes to terms with his place in the world, asking some tough questions.
Amanda donated her kidney for her sister.
Join the longest running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News as he runs through new material for his next tour.
If you have never smoked meth, worked in a sex dungeon, or eaten dog food, don’t worry, because Katharyn Henson did it so you didn’t have to! In her Fringe debut, New York City com…
Dear reader, you may know me from such tragedies as Dead Dad (Radio 4’s Good Grief) and Dead Friend (BBC Three’s Happy Man) but this year I’m dead chuffed to perform comedy about s…
Beach Comet return with a double bill of batshit, smash-hit B-musical comedy featuring never-before-seen material, a live band, nuns and the end of the world.
**** (Advertiser).
Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
A musical journey through the hilarious foibles and pain that come with having a heart in this modern world.
A fully improvised show created using your favourite TV programmes.
The year is 1969 and NASA has just put the first man on the moon.
After dropping 10 stone in weight Michael Livesley, the man described by Stephen Fry as an ‘outrageous talent’ is half the man he was but still just as funny.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Carl Donnelly (‘Observational genius’ (Guardian)) returns with a new show about how difficult it is to be a good person in the modern age.
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable and, at ti…
A cabaret with desserts could have been light, fluffy fare but Michelle Pearson isn’t afraid to get into the more bitter ingredients in life.
Thus far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
“Why do you think you’re a bitch?” Warning—the first question you’ll be asked upon arriving at Rock Rising’s Girl Bully might invoke a mini existential crisis.
It’s 1981 and ska music pulses.
In 2017, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Nath Valvo can really get a room worked up.
Walking up the stairs of the Assembly Roxy is akin to creeping up the creaking steps of Frankenstein’s tower.
We live in a divided world and we want to cross that divide.
‘His stand-up is some of the cleverest, funniest and most unassuming comedy I’ve encountered’ ***** (AYoungerTheatre.
After suffering another excruciating, yet hilarious, revelation about his weird little behaviours and ticks, Gareth has decided to come clean and share his innermost embarrassing s…
A tale of love, loss and exploration, this is an intrepid exploration of physical theatre and storytelling.
He was exhausted by life.
Drawing the line between the exaggerated and the tender is no easy feat.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Bees are immediately punished for their stings.
Two-time SA Comic’s Choice Award winner, South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout is back in the UK with his Edinburgh debut.
If there was an alien invasion of planet earth who would you want to represent the human race? Politicians, David Attenborough, The cast and crew of Stranger Things? What about a g…
This new-to-the-fringe five-star monologue show explores the conformities of gender and sexuality in modern day society, through the wickedly absurd lenses of The Foetus, The Camer…
The critically acclaimed cult comedy chat show thing is back! Welcome to the multimedia mayhem of Mr.
It’s hard to make a comedy about the murder of 45,000 women but Holly Morgan does just that, and then some.
Tucked away in a corner of Pleasance Courtyard, Glenn Moore delights a packed crowd with an hour of non-stop puns and twisted humour.
Best Girl is a story told by the nervous, but likable Annie.
Just These Please are back with their brand new show Suitable.
All new material from prolific Canadian superstar.
‘Woke, feminist, geezer’ (List).
This one-woman show, written and performed by Isabelle Kabban, is a tender, thoughtful and deeply moving account of a mother-daughter relationship affected by mental illness.
Ireland’s star of BBC’s Blame Game, Monumental, the General Banter Podcast and fluffer for Netflix show Flinch.
Life is short.
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
Celebrity impression shows have a Marmite-esque quality: whether they are a hit or a failure depends largely on their consumer and there is rarely an 'in between'.
Learn how to empower yourself by participating in capitalism in this fabulous keynote speech from Silicon Valley girlboss and founder of Pee-Pee Smarthomes, Shell Gasoline-Sandwich…
Smart and funny observations on a new-found, middle-class lifestyle with ski holidays, through the prism of poor, immigrant, living-in-a-caravan roots.
Existing is exhausting.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some poin…
Beach Comet return with a double bill of batshit, smash-hit B-Musical comedy featuring never-before-seen material, a live band, and the end of the world.
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert Ross In a preview of his Edinburgh Fringe appearance, a festival which also s…
Rachel Watson longs for a different life.
Six actors, six parts and the roll of a die.
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
just JOSH & WonderPhil are proud to present their debut double act.
Paul returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with a preview of his upcoming Edinburgh Festival show.
Direct from sold-out performances in Hollywood & New York and an extended run in San Francisco, Canal Café and Blue Panther Productions are proud to present American actor Steve B…
Award winning jazz vocalist and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal and her All Stars will traverse a rich landscape of timeless and sparkling material as they celebrate the Gr…
A mixture of best bits and new material for Paul's next touring show about the life-changing effect a couple of drinks can have.
How can women march in the name of feminism, but brazenly lambast the women they watch on the TV? In the era of #metoo, why is a woman’s fiercest critic likely to be another woma…
Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful au…
Emma Stroud (Psychologies Magazine Clown in Residence, Award winning performer and TEDx Speaker) returns with her new one woman show in preview before it tours in 2020.
Previewing his eagerly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy historian Robert Ross.
As an infant, Annie had been abandoned on the front steps of The New York City Municipal Orphanage with a note from her parents promising to return for her someday.
Above the Stag is – now that has two separate performance spaces – able to put on a dance production for the first time in its history.
Just These, Please are back with their brand new show ‘Suitable’.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
After sell-out shows in 2016 and 2017, Theatre InThe Garden return with an exciting and very funny new production of this well-loved play.
Have you ever thought “Wow, I could push that person in front of that train”.
Lubna Kerr is confused about her identity.
"Love (to) Bits" is a seriously comedic drama or kind of a dramatic comedy, however you choose to look at it, there will be laughter and some tears.
Set in the world of expressionist painter Otto Dix, as Julia Berber – Anita Berber’s fictional sister, Aletia Upstairs explores Weill, Brecht, and Weimar cab…
A dance/physical theatre solo, inspired by the life of poet and writer Maya Angelou, a woman who fought her whole life for black women, as an activist and feminist.
Politics is boring.
Caryl Churchill’s ‘Love and Information’ is a kaleidoscopic play of short scenes addressing contemporary issues about knowledge, technology and communication, and our capacity fo…
Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead Management present: Peaches Christ’s Drag Becomes Her A drag parody of the '90s legendary comedy "Death Becomes Her"…
We lucked out! On the day we saw The Jungle Book, the sun was high in the sky.
Soho Theatre & Tim Whitehead Management present: Peaches Christ’s Drag Becomes Her A drag parody of the '90s legendary comedy "Death Becomes Her"…
The self-declared siren of South Yorkshire presents a festive spectacular in what is undoubtably the best Christmas show you’ll see this summer.
Affectionate comedy on the world’s longest-serving monarch.
Award-winning performances of Adolf, Bacon, Chaplin, Maggie and Churchill have taken Pip around the world.
Charming sketch group seek friendly audience for their Brighton debut.
A comedy play about two backstage technicians who would rather see themselves in the limelight.
“Unmissable” ***** (Fringe Biscuit) “Genius” **** (Broadway Baby) “Pure Talent” **** (A Younger Theatre) Tilly and Inga exist in a surreal bubble called ‘Girl World’ where …
Patrick Spicer delivers a work in progress of his first solo show to Brighton fringe.
Mayor Goodman has been assassinated.
‘I’m not expecting anything.
#BeMoreMartyn trended on Twitter in the hours after the announcement of Martyn Hett's death at the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017 – but what does it mean?Hope asked eight …
Connected and heartfelt, revolutionary and irreverent, the Improvised Play is always of its time.
Welcome to the multimedia mayhem of Mr.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
The Greatest Love of All is a critically acclaimed live concert honouring the talent, music and memory of Whitney Houston.
Welcome inside the mind of endearing oddity Kallis Kyriacou.
In a society of screen dwellers, can we connect to more than just the wifi? Love Lab, a new dating show claims to have the answer.
There is no greater power than love to heal our own heart of hurt and resentment from the past, vastly improve all our relationships and to bring true happiness into our world.
What’s to be done with the Arts in Brighton? Or Where Are We Now where Are We Now? A discussion at the Spiegeltent on the state of the arts and culture in Brighton and Hove - and w…
Three, as the song goes, is a magic number.
Tilly and Inga exist in a surreal bubble called Girl World where the only rule is “No boys allowed!” Girl World is a pop-tastic, musical playground where best friends wrea…
Set in a dingy two-bed flat in London, ‘Have You Heard About Guy?’ is the story of Frank and George, two struggling actresses living in a pre-#MeToo world.
London viewers will meet with one of the most unusual and popular Russian literary and theatrical projects of recent years - “Unprincipled Readings”.
‘You’re Nicked You Slag!’ is an hour of comedy revelling in police corruption, celebrating dodginess, and basking in the simple joy of death and destruction.
Influencer.
The filthiest love story on the Fringe: Butt Boy and Tigger meet in a chatroom late one night.
Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh don’t know what to do now their 20s are over.
This isn’t a show about death, oh no.
Detective Miller needs your help! Set in 1950s Britain, in a world of shifting shadows and rising crime.
John Osborne is a writer known for his poetry and his popular Edinburgh show John Peel’s Shed.
On 14 August 2018, Robyn Perkins ★★★★ (Voice Magazine) participated in a dating show in front of a live audience.
Come into the forest; dare to change your state of mind.
When BBC Slam Champion, Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philharmonic pub.
Combining intimate stories, comic dialogues, and - when words feel like a cage – dance, Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself is a celebratory explora…
Kate is discovering what it really means to be a wife in her close-knit Christian community.
A live dating game! One woman tries out four versions of herself that battle for your love.
Monsteers Artistry Presents: Surviving A Millenial Jukebox (With West End Stars Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling) Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling perform …
‘Love vs Trauma’ combines colourful, experimental shadow theatre techniques with beautiful music, a tender flying hand puppet, and rod puppets in a moving and thought-provoking sho…
Set eight months after the Aberfan Disaster, The Revlon Girl tells the true story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and laugh witho…
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
Sweden’s female comedian of the year, Josefin Johansson, host of the local version of ‘Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?’, goes abroad with ‘Girl Stuff’, a show about everything…
A funny, poignant and uplifting account of what cosmology, and those who study it, have to say about the more earthly matters of life and love.
“So if Matt and I have officially had sex then why does it still hurt? I still don’t get what’s so amazing about it, how can women even come from it - when is that supposed to …
Bobby works on Woolies’ record counter.
In a galaxy far, far away.
A fun space to connect with music and dance! DJs playing vinyl only, hosted by Nin Warrior guesting local legends.
An afternoon of live swing music and dancing with the friendly and welcoming Brighton Lindyhoppers.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short set based around an event that happened on the same date as the show at some point in history.
Born in 1972, Bitty’s earliest memories were punctuated by the music he would hear courtesy of his father’s sound system, where at the tender age of ten h…
The audience are greeted with the glow of orange lights shining from various lamps around the room.
The team behind multiple award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish are hitting the road again in May this year with their brand new show, 'In No Particular Order'.
The 2018 critically-acclaimed Brighton Fringe sell-outs return! Join ‘Do the Thing’ for an unmissable high-risk, high-lunacy, highly (well, entirely) improvised musical.
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
A fresh adaptation of a classic text, ‘Ghosts’ deals with themes of transgressive relationships, corruption within the church, hypocrisy, and social responsibilities towards the po…
Not a tribute act, but an act of attribution.
Addressing the loss, development, and discovery of one’s identity through an ongoing and ever changing life-long relationship, ‘Like You Hate Me’ is a deeply honest reflectio…
We live in a divided world, and we want to cross that divide.
A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 40mins Hand-picked by Adele herself on Graham Norton’s BBC ADELE Special, the outstanding Katie Markham has the show-stopping voice and capti…
From the producers of the critically acclaimed tours of Round the Horne and The Goon Show comes another radio comedy classic live on stage.
From the producers of the critically acclaimed tours of Round the Horne and The Goon Show comes another radio comedy classic live on stage.
Director: Peter Farrelly Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali Dr.
A World Premiere from Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company, in association with Lyra.
What if you were black, gay and a woman in America right now? Jess and Meredith are a married, interracial, gay couple living in New York in 2017 – the era of Trump – weatheri…
Director: Marielle Heller Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E.
‘From a distance everything is beautiful, isn’t it? Until we magnify it.
Director: Marielle Heller Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E.
Guinness, Haggis, Cider + Rock! Tour 2019/Jizzy Pearl’s Birthday Bash. He's been on the road since the 1980's!
He is Britain’s first Black judge, a fine singer and keen cricket lover.
Politics is boring.
Imagine if women weren’t just stuck playing Juliet and Desdemona and Lady Macbeth over and over again.
Next Thing You Know is a musical about four New Yorkers waking up from their invincible twenties and confronting adulthood in the city that never sleeps.
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
A brand new show from 'The Outright King of Live Comedy’ - The Times.
Bold GirlDying Is No Excuse, Ma.
An Evaluation Of Brian What does it mean to be good? Smile C**t, You're Not Dead YetDeath, Cancer, Existential Dread and Laughs An Evaluation Of Brian - Giant'…
Learn about the creative possibilities of using a commercially available Electroencephalography (EEG) headset that detects signals coming directly from the human brain! …
MAKE, LEARN, PLAY and PERFORM on your own fully working ukulele, made from a spread tub! If you don't believe it, take a look at the YouTube extract below.
On the farthest edge of a wind-battered rock there sits a small fishing town.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
Jump, roll and slide at Watermans in this creative movement workshop for children and adults.
A hilarious, poignant play about falling out, making up, and the joy of true friendship.
The Love ElectricTwo friends.
Jump, roll and slide at Watermans in this creative movement workshop for children and adults.
Join Ralph and Vanellope in their newest buddy-comedy adventure, and explore the worldwide web in a whole new way.
In Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” an all new original musical and sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find t…
ManologueA one-woman show about masculinity Have You Seen This Girl?One Small Town.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy have both received Academy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations for their roles In Can You Ever Forgive Me?.
140 Characters#ItsAMatterOfPerspectiveDog BoyGrow up? Woof off 140 Characters - Firefly Theatre140 Characters is a One Man Show that delves into t…
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?Only a native in night-dreams Scream With UsWhen talking's not enough WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng"Where are you from?&q…
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman stars as the charismatic politician Gary Hart for Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman in the new thrilling drama The Front Run…
Unhook your mindbras.
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman stars as the charismatic politician Gary Hart for Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman in the new thrilling drama The Front Runner.
After six UK #1 singles, five UK #1 albums and 25 years together, the iconic Boyzone will release their final album ‘Thank You & Goodnight’ on November 16th.
Critically acclaimed companies Feral Foxy Ladies & Kaleido Film Collective (★★★★ ‘totally engaging’ - A Younger Theatre) return to VAULT after a sell-out run of Balancing A…
Our incredibly popular, long-running evening of easy listening music and comedy entertainment in the friendly atmosphere of the Cellar Bar.
A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WORDS FOR LOVE by James Rowland Three years ago, James met the love of his life.
Rosie sings about dating apps, turning 30 and marrying Batman.
One Love is a joyous exploration of friendship, what it’s like to be in love and have a learning disability.
The BBC Radio 4 Sketchtopia host, Celebrity Big Brother star and Question Time & This Week regular, takes the follow up to his acclaimed 2017 hit on the road mixing his trademark �…
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures are pleased to offer this series of inclusive workshops for over-55s this year.
On a hot clammy muggy day in October In a Chinese takeaway restaurant A decision was made: A woman was going to take another woman’s baby.
Death Becomes Her was born after Sam bounced off the bonnet of a poorly-driven Nissan Micra.
Join award winning storyteller Cathianne Hall as she brings alive the stories behind a lost ‘agony column’ of the 1890s.
With a face that shouts "Xmas" but a soul that screams "Hanukkah", Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Come on down to Tittitutar town, where things are not quite right.
Guy and Sam.
The ‘Outright King of Live Comedy’ (The Times) Jason Byrne is back at the Leicester Square Theatre for more comedy chaos.
A family on the verge of a momentous decision forms the focus of Don DeLillo’s Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet in a stark production by director Jack McNamara…
Patrick Gale is one of the UK's most popular writers and he is the author of sixteen novels including the bestsellers 'Rough Music', 'Notes From An E…
A disastrously ill-judged crush on the gentleman next door, an inheritance letter mistakenly sent to the wrong beneficiary; these are the ingenious premises of Lisa Jewe…
An interactive musical adventure that offers a calm, playful and creative first opera experience for babies and toddlers, weaving together gentle classical music with familiar nurs…
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has reconfigured it’s stage and auditorium to house writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s production of Love.
You Are Here! is an exciting new-type of family show that combines live performance with the immersive 360o full-dome planetarium experience.
The packed audience at The Old Market leant in expectantly towards an ordinary looking closed shipping container dominating the stage, oblivious to the surprises enclosed inside.
Ushering in the seasons of mists, Jason will be performing original horror stories from across the world: Dream Eaters from Japan, black necromantic magic from Iceland, and a reima…
A dark and mysterious story of a balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band are delighted to be debuting at this year’s Fringe! The band, renowned for its vast repertoire covering everything from jazz standards to c…
British jazz diva Jacqui Dankworth and American vocalist/pianist Charlie Wood get together for a husband and wife duet concert celebrating some of the great musical partnerships of…
Join us in the stunning Playfair Library for this combined exhibition and fashion show.
Celebrating 31 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Re-written rap lyrics that clap back.
Leigh Bowery was born in Sunshine, Australia (west of Melbourne) in March 1961.
A has-been singer-songwriter tries to summon the spirit of Marc Almond to resurrect his career.
Composer James Glasgow (Secondhand Dance Company, Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Choice winner) performs new music composed for the award-winning poems of Mario Moroni as Moroni recit…
Come and enjoy our music.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Nick and Mia: two young struggling writers trying to make ends meet who are at the end of their rope, seemingly without a shot in hell of making something for themselves.
Three lovers.
Join us for the second year of the new comedy competition celebrating all things sketch! The organiser’s behind the UK’s biggest comedy newcomer competition are on the hunt for the…
I’d had a conversation with Dan about ecstasy.
Nutty Noah, recently crowned UK Family Entertainer of the Year 2018, invites you to join him in poking his tongue out at death and stamping on the foot of St Peter.
Whoever you are, you’ll only know first love once.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
Do you remember when we used to go camping? And when you helped me make an ATM out of cardboard for my school project? Do you realise what a big impact you’ve had on who I am? Fr…
After receiving her sell-out garland in 2017, Bessy returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show.
Join St Andrew’s and St George’s West Choir as they perform a programme of contemporary choral music.
The acclaimed hit podcast Book Shambles, recorded in front of a live audience! Hosted by Robin Ince who‘ll be joined by a different amazing guest each show.
Our budding authors create a marriage of music and words to weave a story of burgeoning romance.
Anyone unfamiliar with Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book could have been conceivably raised by the same wolves that adopt man-cub Mowgli at the heart of this century-old collecti…
Winner of the UK Perrier Jazz Vocal Award, Scottish Style Award and Spirit Of Scotland Music Medal, Niki King has released five albums and performed in leading jazz venues includin…
Comedy legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy-historian Robert Ross.
Like a piano player in brothel or a chanteuse at an orgy, Sabrina Chap is the fallen woman of cabaret.
Janis Claxton Dance returns with this award-winning 2016 Fringe hit.
Prime Cut Productions: East Belfast Boy by Fintan Brady.
With original evocative songs, Avocet explore folk over blues.
Barbara Brownskirt, the prolific poet-in-residence at 197 bus stop, Penge, semi-welcomes you to her thought-provoking and unsettling knee-length poetry comedy show.
Meet Livia and Perry, two people looking for The One.
Based on the book by Claire Freedman & Ben Cort Adapted & directed by Adam Bampton-Smith Aliens love underpants Of every shape and size But there are no underpants in space…
Last year, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Gryll…
Girl meets boy.
Written and directed by Heather Alexander.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood. Humorous, full of fun and fabulous musical numbers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Comedian Michael Malone (Comedy Central, FOX, Hulu) breaks down the idiotic ways we deal with life, death, love and sex in his new unforgettable and moving show, I Love You.
Big Love – Charles Mee’s adaption of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality.
Join us in the depths of the Indian Jungle for an imaginative adventure, with a family-friendly adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic story The Jungle Book.
The Bluebelles are bringing midnight snacks and jazzy tracks to the Edinburgh Fringe with a fantastic a cappella night in! Returning to Edinburgh for their fourth year, following s…
‘The more I drink in real life, the more my babies are taken away by social services in my Sims life.
The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.
The UK’s number one Tommy Cooper tribute returns to the Fringe! Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
What is your idea of love? There’s a very blurred line between a protective, loving relationship and one that’s abusive.
Roses are red, violets are blue, The Bristol Suspensions have a show to do – but what happens when Cupid shoots his arrow into the rehearsal room? Fresh from their US tour, join …
St Marylebone Theatre Company explore the experiences of women in the 20th and 21st century, asking where have we come from and who do we want to be?
Geraldine is a lonely young secretary living with her invalid and overbearing mother.
Robert Schumann’s song cycle of a woman’s life, paired with music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Alma Mahler.
‘Zoe.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of hip hop and breakin’ two v two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
Welcome to the Comedians’ Surgery, take your seat, we’ll be with you shortly.
A new piece devised for this year’s festival sees Aletia Upstairs, cabaretist extraordinaire, follow-up her Mata Hari Fringe success with an exploration of Weill, Brecht, and Wei…
Love Chapter 2 by L-E-V, choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, is a twin-piece to OCD Love, both part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Are you having a bad month? Us too.
Described by his nan as the best comedian in Birmingham, and probably the world, the award nominee and gong show-winning comedian, Liam Jeavons, premieres his new solo show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel’s always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
A profoundly disturbing show, OCD Love (part one of Love Cycle) is produced by Israeli L-E-V dance company with original and technically difficult choreography by Sharon Eyal in c…
Over the years Brian has collaborated with fellow countryman Van Morrison who executively produced Brian’s iconic version of Crazy Love for the soundtrack of the Hollywood blockb…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Philip Contini sings Cole Porter’s most famous, best-loved songs with anecdotes from the colourfully flamboyant life of one of the world’s greatest songwriters and lyricists.
Is anyone truly monolingual anymore? Knowing dialects, learning languages at school, and hearing migrant speakers make everybody bilingual to some extent.
And So I Watch You from Afar released The Endless Shimmering on the 20 October 2017 on Los Angeles based record label Sargent House, home of fellow noiseniks Deafheaven, Chelsea Wo…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Defined by her relationship status, Libby knows little else.
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
Your supermarket knows when you’re pregnant; Google knows what medical conditions you have; Facebook could help your doctor diagnose you.
Theatre On The Edge requests the honour of your presence at the wedding reception of Robert and Issy.
It starts like this.
Little Shakespeare Company returns once again to the Fringe with a talented group of Scottish young actors.
ETA’s 25th anniversary production of The Front Page, an irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in a news room.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight.
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 31st year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
Bills, dating, raising children – life is challenging enough! Who wants to think about potential future health issues and care needs with more immediate matters to consider? Unfo…
In an alternate universe there lies a place where everything is juxtaposed, where cardboard is classy, where alternative facts become live entertainment while the show is a mere in…
Inspired by the true story of Dr Horror: a 2008 case against a man from Brampton, Canada guilty of organ theft.
If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs.
It’s a psychological striptease with tales of love, lust, men, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, mastitis, sexist bosses, teenage daughter wrangling, ageing, toy boys and Close Enco…
New Zealand’s foremost comedy singer-songwriter, when ranked alphabetically, presents original comedy songs.
Find out what life is really like as a local newspaper reporter in a rural town, covering hard-hitting stories such as parish council meetings, charity bike rides and dogs winning …
This is a show for the losers, the underdogs and the also-rans.
When Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philharmonic pub.
Rosie shares Facts About Love from her own life.
The debut solo show from ex-President of the Oxford Revue, Georgia Bruce.
Did you always sit at the back in class? Were you bored? Or maybe you were one of the lucky ones who was engaged and inspired by a teacher? Many people have memories and strong vie…
What do you do when you have a best mate who’s so sad he might die? Especially since your friendship is built around a mutual appreciation of 90s hip hop, borderline alcoholism and…
At first glance The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's two collaborative productions with the American Music Theatre Project may seem remarkably similar to last year's pair.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Following her five-star smash-hit It’s Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), Alison Thea-Skot brings you a sizzling explosion of chaotic character comedy.
All About Her — Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera creatively combines traditional Chinese Opera with contemporary ideas, exploring feminism in the traditional opera repertoir…
Dissecting the reality of love in the modern world.
Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm has long been an adult, but still feels like a problem child.
Rachel and Peter are 17; they’ve been together for six months.
Single Comedians trying to impress you. Part dating show, part cabaret. All acts are single and wanting to meet you! Remember – what happens in Edinburgh, stays in Edinburgh…
Frisky are transporting audiences to a fantasy land created by two pre-pubescent girls, Tilly and Inga (played by Camille Dawson and Serena Ramsey).
From the creator of Will He Bonk You in the Chocolate Factory and Fridged Moan’s Diary comes a new stand-up comedy spectacular! An evening of music and comedy about being young and…
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Alex…
Barry promised he would "share [his] soul with you" at the start of the show, and golly, he really does.
After last year’s Fringe success with sell-out audiences and great reviews, Captivate is bringing back this much-loved family favourite.
It’s Not Over Yet… choreographed and performed by Emma Jayne Park (aka Cultured Mongrel) is a heart-stopping autobiographical show about cancer.
Being in love is.
It’s 2005 and somehow Liverpool are back in the European Cup Final.
‘I used to think love was about not knowing where I end and you begin.
Sometimes life is just a toss of a coin.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
This is one woman’s tale of the many heartbreaks in her life and the lessons she learned from each that allowed her to be able to love herself instead of seeking it in others.
Sam Fraser has been a stand-by BBC local weather presenter since 2012.
Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes.
Four friends decide to ignore the warnings about their local woods and meddle with seemingly demonic forces in the hope to create a film about a local urban legend.
Punk and theatre aren't the strangest of bedfellows, but there is something that often feels false when collectives of art school graduates and professionally-trained actors at…
Six actors.
Highly interactive show that’s part stand-up, part actual pub quiz.
Come on then! (To my show.
November 22nd 1963.
Joanne Hartstone’s one-woman show is a brilliant send up to classic Golden Age Hollywood that keeps the glitz and glamour of the period whilst showing the grimy and exploitative …
What’s the one thing you’ve always wished you told somebody? What was the perfect phrase for that moment that just passed you by? Never seen before, never to be seen again.
Life is full of accidents, mishaps, frustrations and disappointments.
Bare Productions are a new, fresh Edinburgh-based company comprising of some of the best local talent who have all performed in multiple five-star sell-out shows at the Fringe.
An entirely un-erotic journey that begins in a public toilet, then takes strange diversions via a sexy tomato plant and a clap clinic.
Have you ever felt that life was more a grocery list than a box of chocolates? Social media feeds are filled with people ticking events off the list, yet you feel you that you’ve…
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
John Lennon spent his Scottish boyhood holidays in Durness, Sutherland: not fake news! This thoughtful, comic fable of modern Scotland, adapted from the novel by Scottish Governmen…
Since the end of the last Fringe, Andy Field has been keeping a diary full of his thoughts, feelings and silly ideas.
Enjoy al fresco Shakespeare in the C south gardens.
Fringe legend and ‘outright king of live comedy’ (Times), Jason Byrne, is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Poets spend their lives writing about it, everyone thinks about it, but when love is between two men some people turn a blind eye.
A desk, a pile of papers, a stack of records and a funny, thought-provoking and really quite moving tale exploring love, love songs, and how we all live lives with our own personal…
See this award-nominated (best comedy Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian (now lives in Bedfordshire…gutted) who played to full houses throughout Fringe 2017.
Join Lily and Patrick at the premiere of their brand new, live dating show that connects singles and tests couples.
Two lovers.
Hosted by Gráinne Maguire (as seen on Dave’s UnSpun with Matt Forde), every day three different comics bring along the story from the news they think is the most important and arg…
Stand-up comedians Neil O’Rourke (Irish Comedian of the Year 2017 finalist) and Patrick Spicer (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2018 nominee) are (p)residents of the coolest…
An anarchic, unprecedented and hilarious insight into the life of a stripper in London’s fast-changing cityscape.
Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women with only a postcode in common.
Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself.
It’s 2025 - a world of mystery, spies and secret missions.
There is something very reminiscent of Bill Murray in Matt Duwell: the optimistic sarcasm is the overlying note in his voice; he produces easy crowd-pleasing material, imbued with …
Following the first space war of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, a lone detective is contracted to find the love in this absurdist, avant-garde, funk opera.
Glenn Moore from Mock the Week and Absolute Radio presents a new show full of the distinctive jokes and offbeat gags we’ve come to accept.
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with ‘a sackful of promise’ (Chortle.
Adorably awkward with a twist of gay, Los Angeles-based comedian Justin Matson has been kicked off of three rollercoasters for being too fat.
In an affectionate tribute, leading impressionist Julian Dutton of BBC One’s The Big Impression brings to life one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
Something’s up with Lewis Schaffer.
Bringing his first solo show to the Fringe with a combination of storytelling, songs and surreal improvisations, Andrew Sim intends to liberate you from overthinking and explore th…
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
The women of England demand the vote! The remarkable true story of Muriel Matters: the South-Australian actress and elocutionist who became a leading figure of the UK’s suffragette…
Thanksgiving with your family in the most eye-popping of places.
This is a show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two.
Join Phil in a lighthearted romp through the the world of collective delusions.
A rump-shaking stand-up comedy hour of phat beats, funky rhythms, ukulele and fun.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016 and 2017.
Russell Hicks returns with another free-form explosion that he deems ‘necessary medicine’ for any artist who is trying too hard to make it.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
Margo Lion, celebrated Weimar Berlin cabaret star and lover of Marlene Dietrich, is gripped by the decadence and debauchery of 1930s Berlin.
The star of Mark Steel’s in Town (BBC Radio 4) brings back his 2017 sell-out show, guaranteed to make the world seem even more mental than it still is.
Based on the best-selling series of books by Laura Numeroff, this fast-paced, comedic adaptation embraces the joys of parenting – as told through the eyes of a child and a surpri…
She’s a myriad of paradoxes.
The invincible William Brown considers he is ‘jolly well equal’ to solving most of life’s trickier problems, although devising a plan to get the elder brothers of the Outlaws marri…
A beatboxing and storytelling comedy show.
Mixing get-on-the-dance-floor music, rap and spoken word, Love Songs explores the personal and political puzzles of our love lives through the autobiographical poems of a hopeless …
Which comic belongs in your bubble? Send your suggestions through our app: comedy gold or utter crap? Three top comedians compete to impress with tailor-made jokes based on the dem…
Both lovely and devastating in equal measure, City Love by Illuminate Theatre Company documents a romance that lives and dies in the bustle of London town.
The fight for feminism.
The live, chaotic, comedy chat show Thing.
As the lights go down, the audience are met with a film playing on a screen, with a voiceover asking various people of diverse identities what utopia means to them.
“Welcome to Blackpool!” Cockburn beams as her audience files into Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre.
Jacqueline Novak finds everything embarrassing.
Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination.
Sequel to 2017’s smash-hit sell-out debut about honesty, this one’s all about the law of the playground, traveling companions from hell and accidentally fulfilling your teenage buc…
It has often been said that Myra DuBois is an act way ahead of her time.
Told through spoken word and within timed boxing rounds, Until You Hear That Bell is a story about ten years of amateur boxing and a changing relationship between father and son.
Sex.
When George was 12 he fell for the most beautiful, orangest girl in Stockport.
As a character actor, Pip Utton is renowned for his depictions of world-famous figures, ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Charles Dickens and everything in between.
A brand-new play from Danielle Ward, writer of cult Fringe shows Take-A-Break Tales, Psister Psycho, Gutted and Dani Frankenstein.
Robert says he saw strange lights over Tesco car park.
Demi Lardner feels the need, at one point in their most recent show, to unveil a banner listing their previous accomplishments and awards they have won.
Multi award-winning comedian and Fringe favourite, returns with another brand new stand-up show, #Goals.
Does a story even exist if it’s not on Instagram? Tamsyn Kelly is a hilarious, fresh, new voice.
Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s best-selling memoir of her youth, adapted for the stage and performed by her granddaughter Ingrid.
We in the L.
What do I need to do to make you like me? Just tell me so we can all just relax.
Alex Edelman’s full name is David Yosef Shimon Ben Illouz Haleivi Alexander Edelman.
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
While Henry the 8th fights for his life, his daughter Mary Tudor has a battle of her own: she wants to claim his soon-to-be-empty throne.
Unhook your mindbras.
Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee, Chris Washington debuts his brand-new show about the best year of his life! Including receiving the prestigious 10 years service tie pin from Royal…
Make sure you arrive at Notorious Strumpet & Dangerous Girl a few minutes early; performer Jess Love is thrilled to offer you a coffee, a tea, or a biscuit in the queue.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert Ross.
Hotly tipped Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan brings his debut solo show down south where he regales his tales of living out of a backpack for 18 months trav…
“I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song.
Abigoliah was born in the mid-west and has a conservative southern family.
‘Write what you know!’ they say.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert RossAfter playing to packed Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 houses with a retu…
Prize-winning author Karen McLeod’s solo show returns to the RVT.
Jess and Meredith are a married, interracial, gay couple living in New York in 2017 – the era of Trump – weathering a new wave of intolerance, discrimination and oppression, wh…
Liz Fraser's long and varied acting career has seen her as everything from a murder suspect in Miss Marple to a murderous accomplice in Sweeney Todd, but it is as t…
Star of Israel's thriving dance scene, Sharon Eyal presents the London premiere of L-E-V Dance Company, whose name nods to the Hebrew word for heart: 'lev'.
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Alex Edelman returns to Edinburgh with his third solo show.
In the mythical Forest of Arden, a world of transformation where anything is possible and anything permissible, two young people discover what it really means to be in love.
Join storyteller Cathianne Hall and actor Jowanna Rose in a double bill as they journey from the opening titles of a 1960’s girl-about-town sitcom to the party from Hell, explori…
If proximity x tolerance over time = relationship then surely there’s a formula for true love? Join Rosa as she uses playground maths and poetry to explore her misadventures in m…
If ‘proximity x tolerance over time = relationship’ then surely there’s a formula for true love?Join Rosa as she uses to playground maths and poetry to explore her misadventures in…
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Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with a ‘sackful of promise’ (Chortle).
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only…
Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
In this comedy of manners, double-entendres and double-crossings, an Englishman, an Irishman, a Scotsman and a dandy, compete for the hand of a rich bachelorette – but is she all…
We are thrilled to open our new, larger home on 1 June with a 25th anniversary production of Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey.
The tale of Tilly vs Inga is a subversive coming-of-age musical comedy filled with love and violence; with a live band, singing, swearing, goddess-worship, octopus birth-rites and …
Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld bring their advice podcast "If I Were You" to the stage! Join our hosts as they dispense wisdom on areas of life they are qua…
Parkinson.
When no one else can help, there’s only one thing to do.
There is a bit of a buzz around BOY.
Half term family theatre fun with Jellyfish Theatre’s production of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book.
Ever find yourself singing along to music on the radio and then realising the lyrics are kind of messed up? Do you know the words to all of Eminem’s songs but some bits you rap j…
Sam Fraser has been a stand-by BBC local weather presenter since 2012.
Two little cripples sitting in a tree k-i-s-s—Wait! How did two cripples get up a tree? Come see Spring Day, voted Brooklyn’s Best Comedian, tell true tales of a spastic Sid and …
Chris Woodley’s autobiographical solo show ‘The Soft Subject (A Love Story)’ invites us back into the classroom to learn about love, loss and The Little Mermaid.
With Marc Almond as your spiritual guide, what could possibly go wrong? From the team that brought you ‘Get Fit With Bruce Willis’, ‘Painted Love’ follows a washed up singer-songw…
You could get squashed by an elephant that’s out of control, or you could come and see the latest ‘death’-defying show from Nutty Noah.
‘Mad About the Boy’ is a new play with musical interludes by local playwright Edwin Preece.
A solo alternative comedy show.
Set on an island best known for its adorable marsupial inhabitants, Bus Boy is a sweet play about two very different people becoming friends.
Now in its 10th triumphant year, ‘And The Devil May Drag You Under’ is the cult hit of Brighton Fringe.
A love story set in World War I follows the lives of three Irish air aces of the Royal Flying Corps against the background of great upheaval and change.
You are invited to the ultimate test of brains, brawn, and brilliance.
“Why is it men do that, I wonder? Hold you like you’re some baby bird that might break, or fly away, I suppose.
Back on the road by popular demand, Someone Like You (The Adele Songbook) is an immaculate celebration of one of our generation’s finest singer-songwriters, and is…
Going to the toilet: one of life’s mysteries.
Award-nominated comic Jim Campbell has been busy with a chart-topping podcast, an acclaimed book and his personal life exploding.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
A split bill musical/absurdist stand up comedy show.
If you’re familiar with Courtney Act you’ll know there are many strings to her bow; on RuPaul’s Drag Race we witnessed a formidable competitor, who sang, danced and modelled …
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend ‘David Hoyle’ returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
Frank Sanazi returns to Brighton with a chance to see his smash hit Edinburgh show ‘Stuck in ze bunker with You’.
With live, original music, this highly visual, sensitive production is a humorous and touching exploration of the dragons we all face. £7 / £24 family
This Brighton-based forum theatre company produce thought-provoking performances using storytelling, discussion and re-enactment.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, Lindy Hop beginners dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Join Zelem Saydullaev (Squawker Finalist 2015 , South Coast Comedian of the Year Semi Finalist 2016 ) and Johnny Wardlow (as heard on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio 2) for an hour of sens…
‘Space Girl’ written & performed by Helen Stanley Mary Moon is 9 years old.
An extremely funny yet entirely unerotic journey that begins in a public toilet.
Loves Songs is a little one-woman-show that explores the personal and political puzzles of our love lives through the autobiographical poems of a hopeless romantic - with some rap,…
Rarely do we get a chance to change someone else’s life, be it for a moment or forever.
"Make a fist with your hand and place it roughly where you think your heart should be," Cole Moreton instructs us at the start of his set, The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away…
‘My Apple Dumpling Girl’ is a powerful small-scale play featuring a beautiful set and puppets (evening).
Embarrassment is an inconvenience I imagine most people can relate to; we all have an experience we look back at through cringey glasses and would much rather forget about.
A king is forced to choose between love and political expediency.
All aboard! Full steam ahead on SS Freedonia for the craziest show at Brighton Fringe.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
'I’m frightened', my proudly-feminist husband says while reading a Google-searched summary of Just Don’t Do It as we sit waiting for the start of the show.
The new show from Barry Ferns: Spirit of the Fringe (2014, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Malcolm Hardee Award-winner.
From the minds behind Brighton improv titans Off the Cuff and Blanket Fort comes a full-throttle fully-improvised musical performed in full by only two men (plus one on guitar).
The bench seating in the Bosco theatre fills up very quickly around me; it’s obvious that word has got out about Alfie Ordinary and his award winning show.
An original musical about school bullying with only children in the cast might not seem a first choice for top Fringe viewing, but it absolutely is.
A new writing comedy exploring what happens when the ‘mad’ women of Shakespeare find themselves dead, together, and angry.
Matt Duwell is a Snowflake, and he is owning that label (despite thinking labels are pejorative).
Wired Theatre follow on from their show last year, And Love Walked In, with this new sequel, Always, With a Love That's True.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
Rising stand-up comedians Neil O’Rourke (Irish Comedian of the Year 2017 Finalist) and Patrick Spicer (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2018 Nominee) are the (p)residents of …
I have the greatest admiration for stand-up comedians.
Joe, Jack and Kelv look at life in the divorced lane from arranged to deranged and ending up at the Amethyst anniversary.
Inspired by The Fool, Now, (& Death?).
‘Super Happy Land’ is the reimagining of 70s children’s favourite ‘Tiswas’ relocated to The Round George’s’.
If you like cabaret which is sprinkled with a liberal dusting of political satire, the Bourgeois and Maurice Retro Speculative could be the show for you.
Following a highly successful run at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, A Gym Thing now transfers to London’s Pleasance Theatre.
Performed dramatic reading by Fenella Fielding & Stephen Greif.
You Can’t Take it With You is a 1930’s era screwball comedy enthusiastically embraced by Sedos (The Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society), an amateur company three deca…
Based on the book by Claire Freedman & Ben Cort Adapted & directed by Adam Bampton-Smith Aliens love underpants Of every shape and size But there are no un…
A difficult look at a physically and mentally abusive relationship, Is This Thing On? uses a mixture of physical theatre and words to take us on an uncomfortable journey through th…
Be careful who you wish for… Electric with suspense and with a shocking twist, this edge-of-your-seat, rarely seen thriller by the UK’s greatest crime writer is rediscovered i…
Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe.
Don’t miss this absolutely hilarious, ridiculous and joyful celebration of love and agony expressed through comedy, song, poetry, philosophy and interpretive dance.
As seen on The Project, CRAM & Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network TEN).
A decade since he left Berlin, armed with an accordion, some hotpants and a dream, Hans has decided it’s time to Advance Australia’s Flair! In homage to the country he now calls…
Come down to 55ml to celebrate the fun and frivolity of St.
Back by popular demand! Barry Priori - Adelaide’s Funniest Deaf guy, is showing off his oh so Naughty Hands once again for 2 more shows.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 & selling out all 23 shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 & 2017.
This is an ongoing womanifesto, call to arms, protest party and long hard kiss from surreal showgurl, obscene beauty queen and sex clown - Betty Grumble.
Red hair.
It’s me or the cordial! A story about break-ups and cordial: nine parts fact, one part fiction.
A major new revival of Terence Rattigan’s astonishingly involving classic family drama comes to Oxford Playhouse with Tessa Peake-Jones and Aden Gillett.
Do you want to see a show but can’t get a babysitter? Worry no more.
The Baldies with orchestra and guests celebrate the songs that marked the Eagles’ reunion in 1994, 14 years after saying it would take to Hell To Freeze Over before they played aga…
Introducing Adelaide’s newest young pop group ‘Girl Nation’.
The Adelaide Male Voice Choir was formed in 1884 as the Adelaide English Glee Society, and although it has changed its name it hasn’t changed its commitment to providing top qualit…
The music of Johnny Cash spanned almost 50 years from the start of his career in 1955 with the legendary Sun Records, through to the now equally famous American Recordings, until h…
Best Show nominee Melbourne Comedy Festival 2015, 2016 & 2017.
Making her Australian debut: Stephanie’s love life has been a rollercoaster, if rollercoasters involve a lot of awkward sex, self-sabotage and therapy.
Mark is the creator of the hit Radio 4 series Mark Steel’s In Town, a BAFTA-nominee for BBC2’s Mark Steel Lectures and a regular on BBC1’s Have I Got News For You and Radio 4…
“I was born a suffragette.
“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.
Star of The Weekly.
Jamal and Bibi have a dream: to lead Afghanistan to soccer glory in the next World Cup.
Lewis Garnham’s dad is very smart.
Ingrid Garner wrote and performs the internationally acclaimed, theatrical adaptation of her grandmother Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s award-winning memoir, detailing her youth as an Am…
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
A reflection on our obsession to ‘heal’ what cannot be cured; manage what is none of our business and ignore what makes us uncomfortable.
The Scottish “Globetrotting Comedian” (Broadway Baby) returns to Perth after previously living in the country on a working holiday visa for a year and a week.
Demi Lardner is the primary source of nutrition for infant mammals before they are able to digest other types of food.
You are invited to the ultimate test of brains, brawn, and brilliance.
Their award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish gets 1.
Winner of Voice’s Pick of the Fringe Award, Naomi Sheldon’s exceptional debut play comes to London’s West End following a critically acclaimed smash hit run at th…
This extraordinary show is for the shy who want to be bold, the different who’d like to belong, the humble who need a stage, the confident who want to yell, the fun-loving who just…
After sold-out seasons in the Adelaide Fringe, the sultry vocals of Mahalia Barr-Mashei returns to the stage bringing her latest solo show ‘Her Soul’ Groove to live reworked tu…
Tom Smith dresses as a woman to take us on a musical journey through stories of the marginalised and eccentric.
Having seen the light and with a new lease on life, Kathy Richfield is back and ready to combat the epidemic plaguing millennials, ‘The Quarter Life Crisis’.
As seen on ABC’s Comedy NextGen.
Join Nikko as he shares the harrowing details of the multiple times he survived capture from the hands of criminal organisations, won the title of world’s healthiest baby and stopp…
Do you find it hard to leave the Sixties behind? So do “The Marys”! After 5 sold out seasons at Adelaide Fringe, ‘Along Comes Mary’ are celebrating with a fabulously expan…
A Boy Named Cash: Johnny Cash Experience showcases the greatest hits of The Man In Black as performed by renowned impersonator Monty Cotton as seen on ‘The Voice’, as a one-man-ban…
In a fiery display of wit, comedy and anecdotes dressed up with glamour and style, Joanne Kam (Comedy Central Asia) will have you crying with laughter as she shares her views on li…
In a fast-moving world where no one stays in one place for long, Love Letters to the Public Transport System seeks to find and thank the people who transport us daily; to friends, …
An exciting new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s family classic, The Jungle Book, comes to life in this colourful new show brought to you by the team behind Goodnight Mister Tom a…
The Underground Lovers were the quintessential Melbourne indie cult band of the late 90s/early 2000s.
From the Red Right Hand and the Long Black Veil, to Delilah and Miss Otis Regrets, we have told tales of love and murder through song for centuries.
Winner – Best Comedy at 2016 Sydney Fringe Festival ★★★★ - Herald Sun ★★★★ Theatre People ★★★★ The Australia Times Rose Callaghan (ABC, triple j, Nova…
Love is in the air this February! Literally.
You’re invited to my super fun awesome party! Bring a plus-one; hell, bring a plus-five! Just don’t bring drugs, because my parents’ trust is super important to me.
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL ROSS Michael Ross’s biting satire delivers a piece very much for our times, reflecting on the dignity and many indignities of labour.
Many stand-up comedians like to be super punchy in their comedy.
Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre.
A hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age story that interweaves killer tunes, dance and rap with the autobiographical poems of a hopeless romantic.
Dominic Allen (Belt Up, A Common Man) & Simon Maeder (Licensed To ill, The Jurassic Parks) join forces for the first time to bring the life of HP Lovecraft to the VAULT Festival.
The Dreamweaver Quartet invite you to open up your third eye The Society is part-show and part self-help group Ten Thousand Million Love Stories is a two-person, multi-character sh…
Selladoor Family presents Guess How Much I Love You.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
A night of celebration – whether it’s cheering or your team or the whole of mankind! United is an improvisation show played with the energy of a sports match.
In a Brighton basement eight young women sit on stools, waiting, the audience in a semi-circle around them.
EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is given a safe and very competent revival at The Southwark Playhouse.
It’s rare when the title of a show manages to effectively review itself.
“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem…
A much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines.
The man in the end cell isn’t like the others.
Michael Grandage Company and Headlong present the world première of James Graham's new play LABOUR OF LOVE, starring Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig.
A night of stand-up comedy and improv featuring love stories unfolding in front of your eyes – every one new and made up on the spot!
Join us in the stunning Playfair Library for this combined exhibition and fashion show.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Gilded Balloon’s annual comedy competition, So You Think You’re Funny.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Jim Everett, AKA Jimmy Francis, is relatively new to comedy.
Australian drag superstar Courtney Act (RuPaul’s Drag Race, Australian Idol) takes you over the rainbow and down under in her new show.
I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change is earnestly performed by a youthful and small cast – the reason for scraping the second star – but the uninspired script and the overa…
Join Outstanding Canadian Comedy Award winner Rachelle Elie in her boisterous, bawdy romp through the multiple manifestations of love and relationships.
This playful, innovative and interactive play follows a young engineer trying to follow her heart and fall in love for the first time, against the ever-present pressure from her st…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Take two funny men and ask them to create a hilarious dash through Genesis and Exodus in just under 90 minutes.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
Perfect As You Are is an internationally touring production by Massive Vibe Live! with production and lyrics by Queen Be! It brings alive everyone’s power to benefit all.
Sex clown, wild woman and surreal showgirl, the award-winning, head-spinning Betty Grumble returns to Edinburgh with her flesh riot of laughing love and ecosex.
The worldwide smash-hit is back in Edinburgh for one week only.
Ever had to walk into that room where your boss, with fake concern in his eyes, tells you that he’s having to let you go? Ever wish you had the balls to say ‘f**k you’? Well, I did…
After five Fringe successes, celebrated vocalist James Lambeth returns with pianist Steve Hamilton.
Farce has a proud place in British theatre history.
Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall, Rob Beckett and Shappi Khorsandi on sold-out tours, Tom brings his hotly anticipated debut show to the fringe.
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
This Australian singer/harpist is bringing her successful Adelaide Fringe show to Edinburgh! Siobhán is what you get when you combine Celtic passion and Classical training! Throw …
A narcissistic Alien and a terrified Earthling have found the solution you’ve been waiting for.
Audience favourite Patrick Monahan brings his high energy comedy style with hilarious and engaging topical and observational material to his brand-new Game Show!
A brand-new string to the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! To celebrate 30 years of nurturing and developing new comic talent – we’re on…
‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic.
By day, this city’s streets are bright and orderly, but by night, it is the playground of shysters and crooks, smugglers and thieves.
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…
A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it.
When ex-lovers meet after a gap of many years, what can we believe about the stories they tell? ‘So You Say’ explores the divergence over time of the stories we tell about even…
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
Period production set in India in the 1940s, staging a spiritual journey two people take as they step foot into the theatre of life.
We’re in a karaoke bar somewhere in Asia.
Sally’s had a gut full of fabricated food allergies.
Home Front – Front Line tells the story of WWII through the lives of a young couple: Lizzie, a young woman serving on the home front with the Women’s Land Army, and Tom, serving …
The debut play from Haylo Theatre, comprising Hayley Riley and Louise Evans, Over the Garden Fence, follows Annabelle and her Gran, Dolly who is suffering from dementia.
A one-man band greatest hits tribute to the legend Johnny Cash featuring Monty Cotton, as seen on The Voice.
The History of Jazz Piano is now expanded into a journey over three nights taking in the greatest jazz pianists from Fats Waller to Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Annie is just a normal girl with normal problems.
Improvised comedy is always a high stakes game.
Traditional Japanese Rakugo comedic sit-down storytelling from a cat’s perspective.
Emerald Boy – three friends, a police officer and an alien walk into a bar.
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
From a shared sovereign and a shaky colonial past, to endless daytime reruns of Neighbours and Home and Away on channel 5, plus cricket, Kylie and Rupert Murdoch; Australian export…
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! A great night of the funniest from…
A reinterpretation of some of William Shakespeare’s best scenes woven together to create a new story about two young lovers.
The title of Hegley’s show refers to his latest book, Peace, Love and Potatoes, a perfect example of the juxtaposition between the common and the conceptual found throughout his …
The charming, funny and original musical It Shoulda Been You invites you to a wedding day you’ll never forget, where anything that can go wrong does and love pops up in mysterious …
Mark’s sell-out show Who Do I Think I Am, revealed his natural father was world backgammon champion.
A woman returns to a hometown she no longer recognises in this haunting new play from Dalia Taha.
Nick Elleray - ex-pat Aussie and Old Comedian of 2017 (seriously, google it) - performs a stand-up show about ageing, family and this grim carnival we call life.
A girl curled up inside a cupboard.
A spoken word show from storyteller Cathianne Hall, paying homage to vintage ‘Girl About Town’ sitcoms and exploring why sometimes you have to get stuck to get unstuck.
In this post-truth era, we desperately need more scientists to critically evaluate evidence for political and corporate claims; we can’t afford to keep losing many of our best wo…
FK Alexander returns with her Total Theatre Award-winning sell-out 2016 show.
Let’s spend an hour playing together.
This subtle and witty play tackles the breathtaking economic transformation of China, the dreams it enables and those it crushes.
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is an initiative set up to ‘take the academics out of their ivory towers and engage with the public’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Lucy and Jim are on their own.
Award-winning vocalist Ali presents a showcase of the most powerful songs ever written on love and loss, within blues and jazz.
Come along and celebrate the 50th year of Just a Minute with special recordings in Edinburgh.
Rudyard Kipling’s classic jungle tale is a blend of fear, wonderment, danger and discovery, brought to life by this talented youth group.
Set in the venue’s bar, immerse yourself in Berkoff’s biting parody of the world of theatre which pokes fun at the pretensions of thespians and the superficial nature of their life…
Returning from Australia after a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, A Case of You is a poignant, imaginative and dynamic homage to one of the greatest songwriters of the Wo…
A humorous journey through life encountering random characters.
Two halves of a long-dead acting duo meet again for a sarcastic and witty reunion.
‘And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness’.
A boy washed up on the tide.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Billed as a uniquely grotesque combination of satire, horror and comedy, Bat Boy: The Musical has a small but dedicated cult following.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Grieving is a universal human experience, and The Other Half Lives is a play which analyses grief in the years after someone’s passing.
Single comedians from around the Fringe will try to laugh their way into your… hearts in this unique and fun-filled compilation cabaret show.
Fitted out in an elegant tuxedo, in an echo of Marlene Dietrich’s revolutionary turn in 1930’s Morocco, Kate O’Donnell is every inch the smooth Old Hollywood dame.
Comedian and activist Coltrane returns with another hour of uplifting, Tory-smashing comedy.
Comedian and activist Coltrane returns with another hour of uplifting, Tory-smashing comedy.
It’s just like the famous ‘bad guy’ scene in Scarface, when Tony Montana rants that iconic phrase, ‘You need people like me.
Barry Loves You: an ambitious claim to make, even if he already knew you.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
City Love provides an honest and hard-hitting look at relationships, starting with a chance encounter between two young London professionals on a night bus.
Radio 4’s Abi Roberts returns with a WIP show, flicking a V-sign, the finger and showing her arse to the consensus.
Big Brother Hamlet takes the subjects of the all-powerful found in Shakespeare’s script – the King, the Ghost, the Church – and connects them with one of today’s most all-p…
Come and spend an hour with us if you like! Third place in the Musical Comedy Awards 2017, Matt Hutson sings intense anthems about love, loss, friendship and the extent to which he…
Unhinged physical comedy from Rob Cawsey on dating, sex and trying to find love.
Marcel Duchamp was an artist who is famed for creating work in the cubist style and had a huge impact on the conceptual art movement, particularly Dadaism – He’s the one who fa…
Miranda Kane’s show, 07800 834030: Thank You For Waiting returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for more secrets, confessions and answers – the dirtier the better.
Sondheim’s fast-paced lyrics are hard to perform well, even for an experienced Broadway star, and it is rare that I have seen an amateur production that manages to do him justice…
‘Engaging comic.
Just Like the Movies is a cheery musical exploring the world of show business as the characters battle to make a statement in a world where success is often decided by major realit…
The premise of Alex Love - How to win a Pub Quiz is that the audience become participants in a quiz, having been taught how to actually win it (you get the answers right!).
Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.
When a man and a woman… or a woman and a woman… or a man and a man… or any combination really, love each other very much, they come together – well, not always together.
Man And Boy is a perfectly poetic way to punctuate an otherwise hectic day at the Fringe.
Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey.
Over 20 years as a wishful thinking stand-up comedian left me fat, broke and on me own in a two bed flat above a beauty salon.
In Shit, I’m in Love with you Again, Canadian comic Rachelle Elie relates her life story through the mediums of story, stand-up and song.
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
Join the Comic Sans of Drag, Kate Butch, for an hour of comedy, songs and games.
‘Smile Like You Mean It’ looks at the life of someone with bipolar disorder.
Written by award winning playwright Elinor Cook, Out of Love is a stunning piece of new writing which conveys the absolute power of female friendship, something which is often over…
Bill Beteet, a Laugh Factory comedian from Chicago, will lead you through an existential comedic journey that will have you laugh about life, love, and your inevitable death.
In the latest text by Mudar Alhaggi, this play is about daily life in the midst of the Syrian war, the waiting and the disappointed illusion that the next day might bring about cha…
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Al…
It is often difficult to adapt such well-known, childhood tales into innovative experiences for an audience.
Inspired by a Kafka story, writer Josh Luxenberg and Brooklyn-based Sinking Ship have created a weird and wonderful piece of theatre in A Hunger Artist (Kafka Adaptation).
‘I collect bags of sugar from cafes and restaurants I’m in.
Frank Sinazi, the “Leader of the Iraq Pack”, is a smooth-talking American entertainer who will not only occasionally burst into song, but also into some loud episodes of a slig…
The premise of Caridad Svich’s Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave Fable), here performed by Clumsy Bodies Theatre, is truly exciting.
There is nothing more personal that the truth, and to present the truth of stage is an invariably brave act.
In Korea when somebody dies, people say they have gone ‘over the moon’ or ‘crossed the river’.
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows.
People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies.
Malcolm is from respectable Morningside.
The summer is coming.
Today’s class is about love, heartbreak and The Little Mermaid.
Mark Steel begins with a witty satire about the calamitous circus show that was the recent Tory election campaign, setting the tone for this solid left-wing stand-up show.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience.
‘My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style’ (Maya Angelou).
Nominated for Best Comedy 2016 by Fringe World, with 23 sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Meet Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face, not Tape Face.
Every day, Gráinne is joined by three top comics who try to persuade the audience why their favourite news story is the most import of the week’s news.
The desire to please is instilled into children from an early age, but the side-effects that this can have on their development is often not felt until it’s too late.
Fellacio, faecal ‘docking’ and physical abuse.
How does one describe Betty Grumble? No really, I’m at a loss.
Sir Michael Caine Award-winning writer and comedian’s new one-man theatre show – a perfect love story in a swimming pool.
After last year’s joke did so well (Dave’s Top Ten Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2016), Annie returns to Edinburgh with another one.
Turpy – star of Climaxed (BBC Three) and Pop Sludge (4Music) – returns with a stand-up show/hour of performance art/arse flapping gently in the wind, which rodgers the system q…
Captivate Theatre’s cast of fresh-faced talent do not disappoint in this adaptation of Annie.
Adapting well-loved source material can be a tricky art, but Shedload Theatre have managed to maintain the essence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories in this riotous hour…
Natasha Marshall’s Half Breed is a vibrant and moving monologue about what it is like to grow up mixed race in a parochial white community.
Tom Ward (Chortle Award Winner 2017, BBC Worldwide, Comedy Central) returns with a picnic of broken dreams to share! And the dome-haired, exuberant loner brings forth quite a banqu…
This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly …
Sally’s had a gut full of fabricated food allergies.
Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth.
Hollywood: home to the fools who dream.
Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.
A new satirical hour from award-winning stand-up comic and writer Keir McAllister.
‘Love is a battlefield’ (Pat Benatar).
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Critically acclaimed one-man show from award-nominated comedian & award-winning storyteller Marcus Ryan! Sold out Perth, Scarborough and Adelaide 2015, Melbourne 2014/15 and toured…
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Oyster Boy is a comic telling of the fictional relationship between two young lovers on Coney Island and their subsequent journey into marriage.
Ninety-four word limit? Well, better not waste any.
‘Hysterical… Terrifyingly brilliant commitment to everything’ (TheEdgeSUSU.
Come witness the astonishing resurrection of ‘the best comedian you haven’t heard of yet (Time Out).
Conran’s conversational stand-up tells the story of her biological clock.
Stand-up comedian Sam Gore has been taking down celebrities and politicians with his cutting, satirical, absurdist diatribes on Facebook since 2014 and garnered over fifty thousand…
Families need strong female role models, problem is there’s too many in Rachel’s clan.
The show tells the tale of a young girl named Rose who mysteriously goes missing in the tiny town of Grigglewood.
Tripadvisor meets Pokemon Go in this absurd, fantastical tour that proves how liable we are to being led.
‘Nick Cope is the indie-surrealist kids’ entertainer Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett, foolishly distracted by cult status, never were.
Incognito Theatre’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a solid, if predictable, production which ticks all of the necessary First World War boxes.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Patti Plinko returns with her dark and erotic songs inspired from Virginia Woolf, Joan of Arc to the whore houses of Paris.
When you’re genetically blessed with an unthreatening physique and the voice of Frank Spencer, comedy cannot go much more in your favour.
Being a millennial in the modern world is hard.
Recently I have become a bit disappointed after seeing a few household name comedians as I feel that some of them have become a little out of touch with their audiences in the mate…
‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
As seen on Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central and Live from the BBC.
An intimate one-woman show about race and gender.
The dance world can sometimes take itself a little too seriously, it often seems to be too caught up in technical comparisons to just enjoy itself, however, Chicos Mambo is the opp…
“I’m aware there isn’t much art made about love, so I thought I’d nip in and nail the definitive article before anyone else could.
Having recently won English Comedian of the Year, Josh Pugh has the air of a rising star.
The fantastically fun family quiz hosted by one of the UK’s favourite stand-ups is back after last year’s triumphant silliness and mayhem.
A one-man show about fish, forgetting and the fear of dying single.
When comedian Megan Gogerty is told that she hasn’t got the part of Lady Macbeth, a tragic figure of powerful darkness, because Megan is the human equivalent of a golden retrieve…
There are many indicators of class membership in British society, but if you have lost count of how many times you’ve been in the same room as the Queen, then it’s a safe bet t…
There’s certainly no shortage of solo shows about mental health at the Fringe so it takes a certain level of quality to stand out.
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
It’s time to paint the rainbow and unleash the world’s first one-man gay rom-com cabaret! Hilarious and heartfelt songs meet physical comedy and candid storytelling in one man’s fi…
What Goes on in Front of Closed Doors is an examination of homelessness and the situations which lead to it which matches the pace of how those problems develop.
Following her critically acclaimed 2016 sell-out international tour, The Kardashians Made Me Do It, Shazia’s new show is about lies, lies and more lies; the truth is so 1980s.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
Back after last year’s fantastic show, the Listies are just as wonderfully ridiculous as ever.
Scottish Comedian of the Year Rosco McClelland delves deeper to find out what makes him tick, using psychedelic storytelling to traverse through a life-changing event.
CBeebies’ favourites (Justin’s House, Spot Bots) swashbuckle their way through a hilarious, new adventure of chivalry, swordplay and slips.
If you love Donald Trump, you’ll hate this show! Get ready for a hilarious, thought-provoking, heartbreaking yet inspiring experience – in glorious four-part harmony and over-the…
A Gym Thing is narrated by Will, a person obsessed with his body, for whom staying in shape becomes a kind of unpaid profession.
This is beanpole lunatic stand-up.
Starving Artists are back with a compelling show about homosexuality in which Mark Pinkosh shares how being gay has affected his life.
Warning - contains scenes and text of a sexual nature (Over 18 only) Powerful play with an all female leading cast about bdsm and mind control set around a European household in A…
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
Sonder presents meaningful, playful improvised stories with humanity at their heart.
Sid, struggling to become Sue, proclaims, “The great barrier between myself and the outside world is my appearance”.
Clumsy Bodies presents the UK debut of: Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (A Rave Fable) A play by Caridad Svich Inspired by the Euripides text…
The Old Vic is proud to present the World Premiere of Girl From the North Country, an electrifying new work from esteemed playwright Conor McPherson along with classic songs from B…
“Some stories didn’t make it into the history books” In 1943, young Mid-Westerner Stu serves in the army as a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal ‘f…
Bumper Blyton presents a riotous improvised spoof of the nation’s most beloved author, Ten Thousand Million Love Stories brings us a two-person show all about love, and The Socie…
A dramedy narrated by a mid-twenties virgin who went around New York City interviewing people to figure out the social norms of losing one’s virginity.
Award-winning writer and comedian Nathan Cassidy’s new one-man theatre show for 2017.
Due to popular demand, the ‘Britpop Rocky Horror’ returns for a second year! Following an epic premiere at Brighton Fringe 2016, and a nationwide tour including a full show at …
‘Eve’s Dawning’ combines storytelling, live music and animation to tell the dystopian fairy tale of Eve, the last girl in the world, as she navigates a post-apocalyptic waste…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978.
A woman single-mindedly pursues her physical image at the expense of her inner self.
This semi-staged professional show is set in the same form as Christ’s Passion.
Stephanie talks about mental health problems and boys for an hour, but it’s totally funny, she promises, and won’t be as awkward as you think it will.
This show is about two things: home and the body.
‘Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt’ is a darkly funny, pathos-fuelled show inspired by the TV show of similar name by writer and performance artist Karen McLeod.
Courtney Act, takes you over the rainbow and down under in her new show: The Girl from OZ! Chock full of hits and high notes, you will leave this show realizing there’s no place li…
If you are only half of who you are, would there still be enough of you to be the same as you were? Mary suffers with demons in her life, day in, day out.
A stand-up show for children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
The island is sinking.
Lambert is an impossibly small man with an enormous love of writing, who one day decides to set his stories’ characters free in the hope they’ll find a home.
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
This Brighton-based forum theatre company produce thought-provoking performances about social and political matters, using storytelling, discussion, and re-enactment.
How funny is Non Violent Communication? Apparently, NVC is a way of talking which involves getting your needs met, as well as the needs of others.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
After making the journey from tracksuit-wearing chav to high-flying city exec, from shopping in Wilkinsons to buying brioche in Waitrose, Kelly Convey shares why she’s come to re…
A preview performance of a new jukebox musical is due to take place.
Nick Elleray is happy to be back at Brighton Fringe.
Miranda Hart makes her West End debut as the infamous Miss Hannigan in a new production of the beloved Broadway musical Annie.
“I collect bags of sugar from cafes and restaurants I’m in.
“Anyone else a massive fan of the divine Miss Vogue and her ukulele? Thought so.
A new work-in-progress show from this multi award-winning comedian.
Do you ever take, observe, choose, desire, curse, think, feel, plan what you are going to say at your sister’s funeral in absolute detail? I want to know if we have anything …
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Settling into a pew at Sweet St Andrew’s along with a small but eager crowd, I had no idea what to expect from I Will Carry You Over Hard Times.
Does the perfect man exist, and at age 83, does Lynn Ruth Miller need to find him? Her 70 minute show, autobiographical, takes us on a journey from 1943-2017 (11 years old - 83yea…
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” Evening Standard.
Old people, eh? A bunch of forgetful wasters who always have a hatchet to unbury or a cup of tea going cold.
‘Herman’s Half Hour’ is Herman’s hotly-anticipated Brighton Fringe debut show to take to other festivals in the UK and abroad.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
If you thought a night with the Rainbow Chorus couldn’t get any better, then get ready for a departure from our usual concerts as we roll out an evening of songs from the familiar,…
Join Dave Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
“It wasn’t a particularly spectacular night, as she sat stargazing in her room .
Lucy Green dreamt her life would turn out like the spangly title sequence of a ‘Girl About Town’ sitcom.
Following a sold out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Terence Rattigan’s brilliant comedy Love in Idleness transfers to the Apollo Theatre for 50 performances only.
Enjoy an evening of new poetry by Suzanne Smith as she muses on being a middle-aged mamma who’s addicted to rosé.
A brand-new musical by BBC Bursary winner Natalie Sexton.
Patti Plinko glances around the stage in search of the next musical instrument.
“There’s some pain you can’t grit your teeth through”, is something said by the sole performer in Scorched as he reflects on his time during WWII.
“Venter”-To speak.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.
It could not have been a better day to go on a stroll around Brighton.
After a sell-out two year run at the Edinburgh Festival, ‘Can You Put This In The Bin For Me?’ returns for the 2017 Brighton Fringe.
After Muofhe’s thriving musical career in her region in the northern province of Venda in south Africa, she has decided it’s time to introduce her African rhythms to the rest of …
‘Venter’-To speak.
My first venture to the Marlborough could not have been more welcoming.
From National Bulgarian TV to the London stage, we present a musical sketch comedy show taking a unique look at the lives of people who are either in or starting relationships, oft…
Inspired by Tim Burton’s poem, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Haste Theatre transport us to Coney Island where Mr Gelati (Valeria Compagnoni) and the future Mrs Gelati (Lexi…
Crazy, voyeuristic, unexpected and fast paced, SOHO is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre in a diverse trip around the streets where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders.
How many times can you fall in love? How many people can you love at the same time? These questions arise when certain uninvited guests call, disrupting the comfortable lives of an…
An exhibition of a collection of photographs from ‘Over the Hill: A Photographic Journey’ a project created by a man with Parkinson’s Disease who was photographed from 2007 to 2016…
Heal your wounds with another hour of stand-up from “The best comedian you haven’t heard of yet” (Time Out), “One brilliant punchline after another.
If you ever crave the feeling that all the weight has been taken off your shoulders, this show and its desire to unburden you is worth a shot.
‘Love a Positive Life’ is a multimedia exhibition telling the positive stories of young people living with HIV in Africa and Asia.
The multi-talented writer and director Sam Chittenden has done it again.
It is with a plethora of “well”s with which this show must be described: well written, well performed, well timed and very well done.
Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
Revivals always run the risk of not resonating with a contemporary audience, or relying wholly on nostalgia, but Michael Mayer’s touring production of the Fanny Brice story, m…
The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to.
Can you fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? Peter is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’.
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books? Join the Professor of Potter’s brand new assistant for a fun, interactive hour with spells, potio…
The hugely successful TV programme, Who Do You Think You Are? traces celebrities’ ancestry, discovering surprises from their families’ past along the way.
her house is gone her home is destroyed her world has changed …I am her A girl comes home to find her house has disappeared.
For 9 weeks only, Dirty Great Love Story makes its West End debut! Two hopeful hapless romantics get drunk, get it on and then get the hell away from each other.
In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation.
'We lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
Love's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
One day whilst Girl is in her garden she spots something on the other side of the fence.
Celebrated director and choreographer Arthur Pita returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio this Christmas with his magical dance theatre show, The Little Match Girl.
Following the critically acclaimed smash hit productions of The Dazzle, Bug and Unfaithful, Emily Dobbs Productions is excited to present Fool for Love, the thrilling final show at…
‘Hooray For Love’ is a musical celebration of our universal quest for love.
The award-winning romantic comedy follows the story of college senior Evie and her struggles when it comes to relationships, gaming and life in the real world.
Whilst this latest in a long line of Chichester transfers may be a new reworking of the classic Tommy Steele vehicle – with new songs, music and deeper characterisation added �…
One day whilst Girl is playing in her garden, she spots something peculiar on the other side of the fence.
“It’s quite comfortable being old,” 80 year old actor Tim Barlow tells us at the start of his latest one-man show, a work co-devised with the writer Sheila Hill.
Spanning one term at Oxford University, Modern Love follows the story of two sets of best friends - Olivia and Ella, Harry and Jonah - whose lives collide when they all fall for El…
Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s…
One day whilst Girl is playing in her garden, she spots something peculiar on the other side of the fence.
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Rock ‘n’ roll fun alert! Celebrated music writer/musician Zoë Howe sits down with Lach to read from and discuss her upcoming debut rock ’n’ roll novel Shine On, Marquee Moon (…
HarmonyChoir (and special guests) will bring you an evening of inspirational and empowering music! HarmonyChoir is a group of singers, some of whom have experience with mental heal…
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
Welcome to the final of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers’ competition.
Edinburgh Fringe veteran, Perrier nominee, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players, multiple BAFTA-winning Horrible Histories songwriter, inadvertent creator of the phrase ‘comedy i…
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s late plays, which celebrates love in the real world and views freedom in a vulnerable place, exposing the naked nature of desire and love a…
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these ques…
The competition to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the country has to offer.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
April and Ella’s entire world is changing and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
You’ll Never Get This Time Back is a zany, absurd and irreverent hour of fun that casts a comic eye over the darker regions of the human soul.
Comperes should never interrupt comedians: Jo Caulfield (Mock the Week) and Stuart Murphy (award-winning MC) disagree! What happens when the MC stops the comedian, starts a convers…
There aren’t many plays with a cast of teenagers that are this slick.
Ellen spent six months volunteering in Europe’s refugee camps.
Shortlisted for a Channel 4 Comedy Award: a theatre play about a doting husband and double-glazing salesman who discovers his wife is going to relationship counselling and insists …
It’s a troubling question and most of us probably don’t know the answer.
Theatre and physical theatre about the contemporary condition of women and farmed animals, created following Carol Adams’ lecture The sexual Politics of Meat.
Funnily enough, Ed Cook’s Comedy Thing is a sort of stand-up comedy thing.
Saudha, ‘one of the prominent Indian classical music promoters in the country’ (BBC Radio), offers a hypnotic and ‘breath-taking’ presentation (Rhapsody of Soul, Guardian) of India…
Romance, passion, joy, heartbreak – all are here in a programme of wonderful music by Liszt, Granados and Chopin, given by a ‘Master’ (EdinburghGuide.com).
As a piece of verbatim theatre, I Love You / It’s Over gives a much more clear headed, down-to-earth view of love than you’re likely to find in a more highly wrought play.
Eryn and Luke have a show.
From 2016/17, the Scottish Government can set income tax rates and thresholds for Scottish taxpayers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Ever been called into that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you’d fought back and told them exactly what you thought of the whole bollock-brained process? Well,…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change takes you through a series of hilarious vignettes that show the roller coaster ride that is relationships.
‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Corelli Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre presents Just, by Ali Smith and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson.
A fresh look at the love poems of Sam Shepard using dance, aerial, physical theatre and live video.
Sol Rogers, CEO/Founder of REWIND:VR will look at the developments in the past 20 years that have enabled VR to become a reality; from technology and platforms to smartphones and a…
Sam Mitchell and Cressida Wetton: two comedians for the price of none! A free show featuring two promising performers doing half an hour each: Sam Mitchell (2015 BBC New Comedy Awa…
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
To be fair to the Hummingbirds, I’m not really the right demographic for their show.
The smash hit, sell out production from Hartshorn - Hook Productions returns for one night only, reuniting the stellar cast of Simon Lipkin, Julie Atherton, Gina Beck and Samuel Ho…
Breezing in as part of the Made In Adelaide initiative after a sold out run there, I had high expectations of this presentation.
Join us for a gala night of comedy featuring a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We now have great weapons against cervical cancer, but it still kills women every year.
It’s two weeks before AniMazing Con and six high school theatre kids are gunning to win the anime convention’s group cosplay contest with a scene from Madsummer! – a modern-d…
A modern-day musical twist on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with music by Joshua Salzman and book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham.
Silky voiced James Lambeth returns, showcasing the genius of Johnny Mercer.
UCLU Musical Theatre Society’s Fringe production of the Joe Dipietro’s fast paced musical comedy is an incredibly entertaining and fast paced journey into the world of dating, …
WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire.
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Your Clubcard may say more about you than your DNA, so should it be considered more private? When it comes to understanding patterns in health and illness, examining our data may b…
The film invites the audience on a journey to the cold, bare Hungarian woods where you could meet a young girl searching the unknown and the non-existent, and fighting the invisibl…
Best Girl Athlete, AKA 17-year-old Aberdonian Katie Buchan, released her debut album Carve Every Word in March 2015 via Fitlike Records in the UK and through Minty Fresh Records in…
The comedian and regular on BBC One’s Question Time, This Week and Sunday Morning Live, and Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, gives his unique take on Brexit, Independence, and all…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Waldorf Wayfarers – Directed by Australian composer Judith Clingan, 20 students and teachers from Waldorf or Steiner schools in Australia and Taiwan will give an hour’s program…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Artist and lecturer Hilary Guise speaks about the significance and history of the colour red. Tea, coffee and pastries included afterwards.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
A captivating piece of storytelling that takes the audience back to 1939 and then through to 1945, telling the tale of two best friends in the army, a night club owner and three al…
Ambitious in its intentions, At War With Love uses a selection of thirty-two of William Shakespeare’s sonnets to form a narrative set against the backdrop of the First World War.
Elizabeth has Downs.
Did the world come about just so? Have forces of science and evolution been the only things at work? How did the world come to be filled with so many strange wonders? A new reworki…
Come let loose and forget about your worries with feasting, music, mayhem, bloody coxcombs and admirable fooling.
In this session, NVA Director and co-founder Iain Simons is going to explore these ideas, give examples of what the NVA is doing to help and generally get excited.
This group from China’s most famous experimental school blends Chinese and European wind instruments and repertoire.
Whether it’s first love or unrequited love, with accomplished Edinburgh jazz vocalist Pam Lawson and trio (Campbell Normand on piano, Ed Kelly on bass and Dave Swanson on drums) pe…
Welcome to the 29th year of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers competition! After months of regional showcases, these guys are the funniest of the hundreds of…
Harbouring secret feelings for Geoffrey Boycott? Fantasising about Edwina Currie? Join David as he deconstructs the cult of celebrity with a collection of love songs, poems and let…
Paul Wady’s unique and controversial mass autism conversion show returns for a second year.
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows.
Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers.
Two of Newcastle’s rising stars present two separate half hours of stand up.
Multi award-winning poet Dominic Berry (seen poeting on BBC and Channel 4) returns after touring Canada and USA with his unforgettable new show about love, loss, and his quest for …
A modern day analysis of the world of consumerism.
With hilarious anecdotes and a no holds barred Q&A, it’s a whole new angle on the world of sex work.
Jay Handley has set himself a task with this show title.
If variety is the spice of life, then Tom, Matthew and Susie are a full rack of flavour.
Hooray for Love follows the success of Nicky’s 2014 Edinburgh hit, Empty Nest.
Amused Moose Best Show nominee TT returns, with a devastatingly funny show.
After almost three decades, it’s time for Turps to curl back into the foetal, reconnect the umbilical, and tell himself that everything will be alright.
Words from the heart by award-winning poet, David Lee Morgan (London, UK, and BBC slam poetry champion).
English Comedian of the Year 2014 Jack Campbell brings you his second stand-up show.
What’s in your shopping basket? Probably not the same as what’s in Steve’s.
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
Claiming to be the gayest thing in a room full of LGBT people in a gay bar (although straights are welcome too) is quite the boast.
Byron is a bipolar writer.
Have you been mistaken for a pervert? Are you awkward in a sex shop? Do you try to disguise your farts with a cough? Have you ever wondered how scissoring works? Do you enjoy havin…
Often described as a ‘Polypill’ against a variety of illnesses and diseases, is exercise really the elixir for health? Can exercise prematurely wear out your joints? Does excessive…
Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair, two of Scotland’s more mature stand-up comedians return for the fifth year in a row with their successful Old Men show.
A short and sweet performance that makes use of popular romantic tracks to tackle the trials and troubles of online dating and the accompanying creeps who come with the app, Love M…
Ever wondered, or perhaps dreaded, what it would be like if your search history could talk? With a host of zany characters and one wonderfully surreal party, You Tweet My Face Spac…
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
‘Consistently boasting some of the most interesting line ups in the country’ (Times).
Lock up your children, goldfish and everything in between as The Scotney Rascals are in town! A pair of wannabe Rock stars with absolutely no following are forced to do comedy.
The premise of the show is deceptively simple, and the clue is in the title: what a woman would do or go through for a man who she wholeheartedly loves, even though he has already …
Allan Foster, a writer whose name is practically synonymous with Edinburgh literary tourism, is our guide on the Book Lovers’ Tour, which specialises in introducing tourists to t…
I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession.
Mission accepted.
Trust me, Fringe magic still happens.
Who has time to care about all the day’s news? Not when most of us have so many good box sets on the go.
Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Fiona Crow presents her collection of self-penned songs accompanied by a full band, visual art and dance for a one-off Fringe production.
We begin with a boy meeting a girl.
A daily showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe.
Anna stands pale and powerless before a jealous queen.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover definitely wins the title of most intriguing show title at the Fringe, and it’s definitely wor…
Double act Best Boy present an hour of sketch comedy.
Multi award-winning idiot Harriet Kemsley keeps making mistakes and she might be about to make the biggest one of her life.
Actor Mat Ewins will make you a star in Mat Ewins: Mat Ewins Will Make You a Star.
Liz Miele is a smart, sardonic firecracker from New Jersey who’s been on the comedy circuit since the tender age of 16.
Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice.
Will poor Viola ever find her twin brother Sebastian? Expect adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
Experience the shocking, beautiful true story of Tahirih, a Persian poetess and the first female suffrage martyr.
Early on, Schaffer decided that the show wasn’t going so well.
While acknowledging his immense talent, some reviewers have accused Steen Raskopoulos of going through the motions, trotting out the same tired routines he’s been spinning for…
Each of the short – but far from woeful – tales in this half-hour collection (from Bristol University and National Youth Theatre) have concepts that could be summed up in one l…
Jen has had a year of ups or downs: she was locked in a shop, reprimanded at 35,000 feet and thought having a life plan of trying all the biscuits was OK.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Creative reimagining of Kipling’s The Jungle Book using the expressive colour of circus.
Award winners Janis Claxton (choreographer) and Pippa Murphy (composer) join forces with world-class dancers for a series of site-specific performances.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Deliciously tragic character comedy from So You Think That’s Funny? winners Tom Burgess and Sam Nicoresti.
Simon Munnery performs for his 30th year at the Fringe.
William Shakespeare is back for his 400th anniversary, but he needs your help with his newest play.
This highly interactive show is part stand-up, part actual pub quiz.
Many appreciate conscientious objectors because they seem on the right side of history.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
A new stand-up and sketch show by Sarah Bennetto.
Lip Theatre Company’s offering at the Fringe this year presents an interesting take on the classic Greek myth of Medusa: one that is unfortunately plagued with tonal shifts and a…
Ed Patrick arrives with fresh comedy that, though tepid in parts, is generally pleasing as the Oxford comic delves into his past to reveal some highly amusing anecdotes relating to…
International theatre has always been a key component of Edinburgh Fringe.
Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Carlotta is a romance novelist except she’s never been in love.
Despite coming across as likeable and charming, Romina Puma’s stand-up set doesn’t provoke too many laughs.
It’s indefatigably Wilde.
Animal (Are you a proper person?) is a show about learning who you are and being proud of whatever that might be.
Martha ‘Pigeon Puncher’ McBrier, (‘a glorious hour’ ***** Scotsman), returns with more true stories.
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
Jack Barry has the potential to be an electric comic.
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
Major Oscar Hadley is flown to the Middle East front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled Bully Boy unit of the British army.
The title song, by Cole Porter, makes an appearance part way through the second half of this narrativised collection of numbers, and really speaks of the character’s ultimate sta…
The queen who ruled a kingdom (and an empire) as you’ve never dared think of her before.
Bristol Improv return to the Fringe with their new format Bristol Improv Take Over the World! Follow five dastardly scientists as they attempt to thwart opponents and overcome obst…
Some argue that the Fringe has become too corporate and professional, thus pushing amateur groups out of the scene.
Featuring the very best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomers’ competition.
Monty Cotton, a seasoned performer and musician woke up one day and realised he could imitate Johnny Cash.
The proper teaching of sex education remains a rather thorny topic, and this one-woman comedy-drama with songs positions itself to probe some of the more profound issues of this fi…
American comedian Patrick Melton (Comedy Central, VH1, Spike) debuts at the Fringe, feverishly deconstructing his ongoing frustrations with life, love and losing out.
Ten Storey Love Song may be the greatest Fringe show I’ve ever encountered.
Annie McGrath (one half of sketch duo, Twins) presents her highly anticipated debut stand-up show: The Seven Ages of An.
When Richard Burton appeared on the Dick Cavett show in 1980, the host would later describe the actor as “already a beautiful ruin.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
“You come in like a lion and you leave like a lamb”.
It’s a strange and unsettling thing being stood stock-still for a few minutes, gazing into a stranger’s eyes.
Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s…
Erin McGathy (This Feels Terrible, Drunk History, Community) presents a comedy show about love, guts, despair and wearing wedding dresses covered in candy for approval.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
Triple Entendre is directed, created and designed by Emily Cairns and is a comic musical cabaret about “Love, Life and Other Stuff”, consisting of a collection of original song…
This is a show that anyone who has ever been single – and that means everyone – needs to see.
On a hovercraft, no one can hear you bark.
A triumphant come-back for sell-out performer Rebecca Perry.
Following a sold-out run with the critically acclaimed Diary of a Dating Addict last year, Maddy Anholt is back with Rent Girl.
Be Prepared for a Disney-style musical like you’ve never seen before! We’ll take you to A Whole New World full of princesses, witches, and talking animals, starring in an improvise…
A Boy Named Sue written by Bertie Darrell provides an interesting insight into the experiences of members of the LGBT+ community, played with great energy by the cast of three.
I’m a lover of musical theatre but I’m prepared to be really honest here: the genre is crammed with suitable material for a hilarious and even brutal send-up.
Don’t miss Susie Youssef as she weaves stories, characters, sketches and occasional dance breaks into an hour of comedy about her big family, her medium-size anxiety problem and th…
This is a disappointing show, mainly because the Oxford Revue don’t have that many funny sketches to perform.
This is a pretty great show.
Lucky pup Elms is back chasing his tail again; he’s learning about sacrifice, guilt, and, as always, love.
Beach Comet have secured themselves as masters of a B-movie musical genre, inviting guests aboard a doomed cruise liner for a riotous hour of exaggerated figures and fantastically …
Life has many lessons and sometimes the teacher becomes the student.
Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers.
If you have kids, take them to this show.
Nish Kumar has provided a wily hour of satire as some people could sit for the entire show and not realise it’s really a show about politics.
In the centenary year of the Battle of the Somme, Incognito theatre revives Erich Maria Remarque’s classic tale that exposes the mental and physical strain of trench warfare, All Q…
She put her hopes and dreams on hold supporting him and helping him achieve his.
Patrick Monahan is the guy in the club that everyone becomes best friends with in one night.
Following the blowout success of WOMANz last year, I had high expectations for Tessa Waters’ new show Over Promises.
Naomi Petersen is a newcomer to the Fringe and in this whirlwind hour of musical and character comedy the laughs fail to keep pace with her sky-high enthusiasm.
If you’re hoping to see one performance completely stripped bare this festival, make it this one.
Raymond Mearns is one of the best and most consistent performers on the UK and international comedy circuit.
What is a map? The National Library of Scotland’s free exhibition You Are Here asks that question, taking you on a cartographic journey from Edinburgh to the ends of the earth.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A Boy Named Cash - Johnny Cash Tribute Show showcases the greatest hits of The Man In Black as performed by Monty Cotton as a one-man-band alongside a variety of pedals and instrum…
Fresh from updating our Instagram pages, popbox presents Love Letters to Asia.
The Andrews Sisters meets ‘Smack the Pony’ in this new musical comedy cabaret.
Bringing a host of exceptional exclusive artists from around the globe along with their authentic comedy carnival atmosphere! Russell Square will be transformed into the home of …
Following its successful run at Theatre Royal Haymarket, Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious comedy transfers to the Duke Of York's from 7 July! Three couples, two dinner parties…
What will happen when a devout woman and her sceptical brother decide to start their own religion? Will making the deaf hear and the bacon holy become part of the Messiah’s mantra?…
It’s not easy being a catholic; living in Ireland it’s difficult to escape a Catholic upbringing.
Become autistic.
The Brit-popera for Common People Like You.
The Brit-popera for Common People Like You.
Stars of CBeebies’ ‘SpotBots’, The Three Half Pints ***** (ThreeWeeks), present a slapstick misadventure for the whole family! “Your cheeks will hurt from smiling so much” **** (Br…
Darkly comic, ensemble theatre at its finest.
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
‘Now I’m a Big Boy!’ is written, produced and performed by young people, tackling issues of growing up and the problems surrounding sexual consent.
Ahmed, a poor orphan, escapes his war torn homeland and joins the circus.
Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity.
Rosie is living in the theatre due to a case of agoraphobia.
House of Blakewell want to make you happy.
A man with a stammer has an hour to tell his love how he feels.
“Rosie is living in the theatre due to a case of agoraphobia.
A man with a severe stammer teams up with a massive pile of cards that detail his thoughts, to tell his love how he feels.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” (Evening Standard) Doug Segal (Winner: Best Cabaret Act, Brighton Fringe) is back in Brighton to preview his new show which is designed to make…
Rob Deb and Patrick Casey bring you an hour of thrill-powered stand-up comedy.
A tender and ridiculous show that clambers up your drainpipe with a rose between its teeth.
Join award-winning Caribbean-British poet John Agard in this quirky re-visioning of the notorious New World Enterprise of Christopher Columbus, on a voyage in verse performed again…
It’s 1966.
Tommy Cooper, with his impeccable timing, love of slapstick and one-liners was a true comic genius.
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date? An engaging and amusing…
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date?
This character-driven play from Moving On Theatre had something for everyone.
It’s a dangerous move to end your fringe show with a cover of Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? as you run the risk of audiences leaving with that very question ringing in…
The big band sound of 1960s Latin America via the back streets of New Orleans, this irresistibly swinging street music will have the crowd baying for more.
Inspired by the arrest and tribunal of 24-year-old Joanne Hayes, ‘And The Rope Still Tugging Her Feet’, written/performed by Caroline Burns Cooke, explores the 1984 Kerry Babies Sc…
Inspired by the arrest and tribunal of 24-year-old Joanne Hayes, ‘And The Rope Still Tugging Her Feet’, written/performed by Caroline Burns Cooke, explores the 1984 Kerry Babie…
Argus Angel award winners with brightonirish.
Are the Chinese solely to blame for the housing crisis? “I’m Just Here to Buy Soy Sauce” follows a pair of cut-throat real estate agents as they attempt to sell their latest mi…
A childhood spent watching Fred and Ginger twirl Cheek to Cheek and Bing Crosby dream about a White Christmas gave me a lifelong appreciation for musical theatre.
The half life of love is forever - it remains toxic, poisoning life long after love is over.
If you have known Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and all their forest friends, David Benedictus, who wrote the only officially sanctioned sequel to A.
Once upon a time you were just a cell in your mother’s womb.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Double act Best Boy return to Brighton Fringe with an hour of side-splitting sketches.
Is it possible to fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? An unconventional love story in which Peter, a previously heterosexual young man, faces a challenge to h…
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
Is it possible to fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? An unconventional love story in which Peter, a previously heterosexual young man faces a challenge to hi…
Sy Thomas serves-up the best bits from his 2015 Edinburgh show ‘Jumper’ and some brand spanking new stuff for 2016.
Puppetry, poetry, dance and live music are interwoven in this splendid succession of stories from five zany friends.
With a name like Confessions Of A Red-Headed Coffeeshop Girl you might expect a raw, bittersweet expose of the disappointments of a young dreamer, crushed by the tsunami of Post-Re…
Rising star and general idiot stand-up Harriet Kemsley returns with her new show ‘Good Girl’.
SHE had HER hopes and dreams on hold supporting HIM and HIS.
Sindhu Vee is probably the tallest Indian woman you’ll ever meet.
One man takes on the concept of love in a raging battle to the death.
“Cook it how you like, it’s still a potato” is an Italian expression for the many words and ways we keep coming up with to describe something, without in fact changing its meaning.
Storytelling feast of foolish kings, tree-climbing princesses, and one revolting woman, woven together by chief mischief-maker Damian BB Wood.
Award-winning short films from the internationally acclaimed ‘Iris Prize Film Festival’: a collection of the winners and runners-up from the 2015 prize.
An intimate, audience-collaborative theatre show with projected imagery and text messaging, exploring love, desire and dating with your clothes on.
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl, and they live happily ever after.
With a sparkle of one-of-a-kind outlandish glamour, the Dilemma girls host this unique walk-about performance, inviting you to take part in the mobile game show ‘Would You Rather?’…
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Truscott undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.
In this show Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love story.
Fanny Brice’s prowess and fame were arguably due to her impeccable comic timing and clown-like performances, combined with a powerful singing voice that could both move you with …
For all we may use the platitude that “life is too short”, the harsh reality is that for most of us, it is anything but – and we fill the many minutes, hours and days bemoa…
(performances start on Wednesday) A girl may be a half-formed thing, but the Corn Exchange offers a fully realized theatrical adaptation of Eimear McBride’s prize-winning nov…
If you believe ‘youth is wasted on the young’, then just for a second imagine it was lived by the not-so-young.
Three couples, two dinner parties, and a catastrophy waiting to happen.
In one sense this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena Theatre Company is nothing more than a theatrical game in which writer Jack Elliot creates a succession of…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is the second-longest running off Broadway musical.
What happens to your sense of identity when the world in which that self was created dramatically changes? If you lived to fight, what if the outcome of that fight wasn’t what yo…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
A mixed troupe of lost souls find comfort in each other in the enjoyment of telling “silly little stories about silly little things” that are extensions and exaggerations of the…
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on March 10) Gender trouble abounds in Anna Ziegler’s fictionalized treatment of the famous John/Joan case, about a boy who was raised as a …
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Feb.
“yeah, i met this girl…” is Elsinore County’s latest romp, examining what it’s like to be a single man today on the busy streets of New York City.
Mr.
The tear-jerker story of these trailblazing African-American pilots (2:30).
CLOSE TO YOU, a new musical featuring Burt Bacharach’s songbook, makes its highly anticipated West End transfer to the Criterion Theatre from 3rd October.
WINNER OF 9 TONY AWARDS® INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL! From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, and Bobby Lopez, co-creator of Avenue Q, comes a new Broadway musica…
HARLEQUINADE By Terence Rattigan 24 October 2015 - 13 January 2016 In this rarely seen comic gem, a classical theatre company attempts to produce The Winter's Tale and Rom…
(previews start on Friday; opens on Jan.
Tonya Pinkins, an actress of confidence and originality, will hitch herself to Bertolt Brecht’s familiar wagon in this tale of a mother’s shifty struggles and sacrifice…
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
Die Doing What You Love is the first (and last) solo show from comedian Tom Holmes.
This musical satire by Fred Sauter and Paul Leschen (“Bedbugs!!!”) commandeers three real-life stories of obsession: the German cannibal who ate his willing victim, the…
Two of the city’s finest rising comics, Janelle James and Kerry Coddett, each perform a half-hour of stand-up.
If you grew up in the 1970s it was almost compulsory to know the music of Burt Bacharach and lyrics of Hal David - Alfie, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Look of Love and What the World N…
Some lives are touched by war.
(in previews; opens on Sunday) Twenty years ago Hannah and Zvi were a young married couple living in Jerusalem.
Many composers mix acoustic and electronic sounds, but few shape it with as much verve and elegance as this composer.
(closes on Saturday) Adrienne Truscott’s chirpy and blistering show is a semi-nude riff on rape jokes — who tells them and how and why.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Oct.
A recital by Karen West, Elizabeth Woollven and George Ross, accompanied by Helen Maddox and Alan Graham, to include Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben and John Maxwell Geddes’ …
Crime writer Mark Billingham and country band My Darling Clementine come together for The Other Half, a blend of storytelling and music about love, loneliness and broken promises.
Welcome to the final of the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
As part of Ars Nova’s ongoing Showgasm Spotlight, the comedians and real-life couple Aidy Bryant and Conner O’Malley present this “seminar” on love and sex.
Live recording of the hit podcast from the writers of the BBC show QI.
It’s 1941 and millions of women have their loved ones ripped away from them, unsure if they’ll ever meet again.
For one night only, Sing in The City’s premier choir The Aw’ Blacks will be performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Kathy Stewart, American singer and songwriter from White Plains, New York, brings her music to the Edinburgh Festival. Backed by her band of Frequent Flyers. Pure emotion.
For the Love of Chocolate oozes chocolate from its pores.
Join us for a gala night of comedy with a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.
Following her highly acclaimed one-woman show For the Love of Chocolate, renowned actress, writer and director Amanda Waring returns with a unique and inspirational comedy revue.
Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffered from severe clinical depression.
Television personality, Patrick Kielty, attempts to revive his stand up career in what is billed as a fresh hour of comedy.
Sarah Calver begins her spirited, witty show with a disclaimer: this show is ideally watched in Berlin at 10pm while a couple of pints down.
In 2009, a crack vocal quartet was put on a diet for a crime they didn’t commit.
Cam Spence and Phoebe Walsh share an hour rooting around their massive and fragile egos exploring entitlement, narcissism, inadequacy, connection and some ever-so-slightly sexy stu…
If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
Rowan is a hip hop and punk-inspired poet diagnosed with a specific learning difficulty and speech impediment, often disabled by other people’s perceptions.
Caroline Horton enters laden with suitcases against a pastel French tricolour.
Improv comedy is a British export, adopted by America and is now making its way back across the pond to impact the ever developing UK comedy scene.
An hour of pure delight.
American jazz and soul singer, Coco Rouzier, debuts her long-awaited original album at the Fringe! It’s soul music with jazzy phrasing and timing! ‘Coco is the Real Thing!’ (Je…
A new musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao.
‘The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!’ (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic.
After a sell-out run and a Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Fringe, Bowditch returns with her intimate and witty show that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo …
Get up if you want to get down! Creamy, full-fat, calorie-laden funk from Edinburgh’s premier groove machine, JBiA.
What would you do for love? What would you do for money? In our world of pay day loans and credit on tap how easy is it to become overwhelmed? Jess’ craving for more than she can…
Radio 4’s daily arts show with the hits, misses, debates and talking points of the festivals and Fringe so far, along with writers, artists and live performances.
Follow the fortunes of lovable bumpkins Billy and Eileen as they travel to Shmokey City to audition for the dastardly Pete Popalypse on his new TV talent show Xposure.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Mark Ravenhill’s play uses the metaphor of two brothers – twins – to represent the former partitioning of Germany into East and West during the time of the Berlin wall.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry.
Stories, studies and stupidity about finding happiness in strange and scientific places by poet Agnes Török, winner of 2014’s Best International Spoken Word Show Award (PBH).
Songs of Love and War will touch on poetry and stories from wars in Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Sri Lanka and the Boer War as well as WWI and WWII, interspersed with love songs from the …
Australian idiot attempts comedy in a bus.
Cirque du Soleil acrobat James Kingsford-Smith returns to the Fringe with his twisted and deeply hysterical new solo show.
The Giggle Dungeon has its sights set sights on the north! They are bringing every weapon in their arsenal.
A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
As we grow older and we become more aware of the world, the way we look at people, the way we attach emotions and feelings begins to change.
As part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe, for an hour on Sunday afternoon theatre director and performer Morna Burdon takes the audience through a series of real-life stories and songs…
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
The UK desperately needs more scientists and engineers, yet highly qualified, talented and ambitious women are still deserting science.
This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark.
Ever had the moment when you’ve shouted this out? Mark Ritchie’s effortlessly funny storytelling will make you laugh, cry and even make you think about God in this original and…
Rise Kagona is a guitar hero to many on two continents! In Zimbabwe, Rise transferred traditional jiti rhythms to guitar, and his band The Bhundu Boys toured the world extensively.
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
Ever made a joke on Twitter that came out wrong and as a consequence been torn apart by a crazy mob? Or been part of crazy mob tearing someone apart for telling a joke on Twitter? …
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and the obsessive passion of Janacek’s Intimate letters: a lethal late night musical potion with Stephen de Pledge …
Surreal clown, singer and Phil Kay collaborator Cammy Sinclair (38yrs) accidentally took his son Robin (3yrs) to a gig.
Cervical cancer only affects women but is caused by a virus (HPV) very common in both sexes.
In his last summer before graduation, James (of Utter! Spoken Word) had a Snufkin tattooed on his arm – 20 years on, and things have got steadily more Moomin ever since.
Flash, bang, wallop – what a show! Kipps and Ann were childhood friends.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
Welcome to the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
Love, life, and the Lord.
This show has a bad title.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
Every day we see the news, images bombard us.
A poetically powerful, awkwardly hilarious unravelling of what it is to be single for the first time since being a teenager.
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
From the star of Audible.
Imagine a one-night stand you had resulted in a pregnancy and four months later you started a relationship off the back of it.
Forget karaoke! Join the Massaoke revolution.
Stand up poet Stan Skinny brings up his 2nd show after ‘Tesco chainstore massacre’, Love cynic Stan, tries to grapple with what love is through poems and stories.
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
A young mother with an incurable disease fought for the right to die, but when fate threw her a lifeline she stopped chasing death and began chasing dreams.
Phantom Owls present the Skylight Theatre production of New York Times best-selling author, acclaimed American humorist, Annabelle Gurwitch’s I See You Made an Effort.
Tamar may look like a life-size Polly Pocket.
Innovative and playful, the brand new two-part sketch group Beard weave joyful, bizarre and enthralling comedy.
In her funny and articulate show, Hannah Chutzpah presents her considered and inspiring take on the complexities of power and permission.
It’s 11 am – for some, the time for a late, leisurely breakfast.
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer.
This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.
This is a lewd, ridiculous and over the top show that will leave you stunned and cackling.
We’ve all had our penises sat on and this lady gonna talk about it.
Renny Krupinski’s script is an ambitious one: chronicling the lives of one family across three generations, The Alphabet Girl aims to show the destruction of family values and the …
This production portrays the tempestuous love affair of two teenagers.
Many people will of course know Christian O’Connell from presenting the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show of which he has been doing now for over 10 years and in his time on the stat…
A traumatised zookeeper tells the tale of her misadventures with her co-workers and an escaped Tiger who is now their captor… and director.
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
A dark comedy about music, partying and political protest - a group of friends face the turbulent highs and lows of life during the 1990’s.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
Don’t wear make up to this show.
Love, life, and the Lord.
See the very best of previous contestants and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
This is a show with an ambitious script, which shows real emotional intelligence.
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
In theory, Eejit of Love is a fun concept: two Irish country bumpkins find themselves swept up in the allure of reality TV, testing their relationship and their own willpower.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
‘At the end of a long day’s Fringe-going, this club is Just the Tonic’ (Scotsman).
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
Is love a many-splendored thing? History, philosophy, science, literature and popular culture all attempt to explain it: but how close do they really get? Steadfast and headstrong …
Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanish.
Beautiful, Terrifying, Love written and performed by award-winning actress, director and playwright Debra De Liso.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
Tamar may look like a life-size Polly Pocket.
It is difficult to know where to start with Violet Fox’s autobiographical show about her fraught relationship with her mother – I’ll take a note from her and start at the beg…
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
Our pick of the best new shows opening at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015. Line-up TBC.
Book Lovers’ Tour.
Nine school students navigate the pressures they face as girls: pressures from society and pressures from each other.
‘A good way to be happy’, Alice Keedwell tells us, is ‘you’ve got to silence the critic inside your head for a moment or two’.
He likes Bad Manners and football and dislikes bad manners and liver.
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
Sometimes love comes to you and sometimes you have to make it happen.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
Winner of Best Cabaret at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe, Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox now makes its Edinburgh debut.
How is life for Fred since leaving BBC Radio Scotland after all these years? And why did he leave? Did someone forget to get him a hot latte? Were any punches thrown? If you miss h…
It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th…
After their successful debut last year, Dyer and Whitney are back with more of their unique, original and hilarious character comedy sketches and songs! This new duo sold out at Le…
This stifling performance by young talent Greg Fossard will make you uneasy as the traumas of a troubled Belfast man’s life unravel.
This is a haunting and powerful solo show that lingers with you long after leaving the theatre, sticking closely to Oscar Wilde’s signature style: simultaneously intellectual and…
When Tom Stade walks on stage you can tell he’s at home.
Ian Macpherson is perhaps best known for a joke he came up with years ago: ‘They say you play at _____ twice in your career.
It’s your classic love story, really: inflatable crocodile meets mannequin head, they fall for each other but soon enough cracks show and they fall apart.
Stand-up comedians Carmen Ali and Jake Pickford have decided to put their relationship to the ultimate test by doing a show together.
Fringe favourite returns with limited run presenting reworked classics alongside newly crafted tales that always challenge, enlighten and leave you laughing.
Bryony Kimmings is a theatre maker, performer and actor.
Book of Love is without a doubt a special show: Lindsay Benner is sexy, silly and completely charming.
Come to the Globe Playhouse and meet William Shakespeare himself! An enchanting journey through Shakespeare’s most famous characters will start a love for his work that will last a…
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
‘A raconteur extraordinaire! One of a kind! Sunshine is star!’ (Japan Times).
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Seventy years of film, music, art and literature come to life in this interactive exhibition of popular culture, exploring our love/hate relationship with the deadliest weapons on …
Die-hard fans of classic BBC Sitcom Dad’s Army will particularly enjoy this panel discussion, Q&A and selection of nostalgic clips from Ian Lavender, aka Private Pike, and fellow…
Winner of Best Comedy Show Brighton Fringe awards 2014.
Stompy’s back by popular demand and he’s gonna be on (and all around) a bus.
If you love somebody, let them go.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing is definitely not an easy watch, though ‘listen’ might be a better description, as Aoife Duffin delivers a highly unsettling stream-of-consciousne…
Shakespeare’s body of work is well-traveled by theatrical patrons – some might say imposingly so.
One of Matt Price’s ambitions is to be one of the nicest people in comedy, and man, he’s succeeding.
Storytelling as you’ve never seen it! Join in with Meg Harper’s unique stories! Maybe you’ll be a princess, maybe you’ll be a frog, maybe you’ll even be a giant head louse! Fresh s…
Attempts on Her Life has a notoriety surrounding it that most shows would kill for.
Have you ever been surprised to receive a phonecall from a friend that you were just thinking about? How many times have you felt so in tune with a person that you knew what they w…
Is this a damn early time to start a show? Yes! Is it the only way to start your Fringe? Yes! With an interactive musical improv ending, this show you want to set your alarm for.
It is not often that Howard Barker’s plays are produced in Britain (he is far more popular in Europe and America) in spite of his prodigious output and well-known name.
Ben Target is in no way an average stand-up.
Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…
In 1885 Sarah Henley throws herself off a bridge.
Just So Stories is a fun, interactive storytelling of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales.
Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre – the Front of House staff – and portraying t…
Alex Edelman, New York-based upstart and winner of 2014’s Foster’s Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, returns with another gosh-darned show comprised of jokes and stories about hi…
A troupe of hopeful Fringe performers get lost in the woods, forced to deliver their starry-eyed show to the “nonexistent” audience.
David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.
An hour of uncompromisingly hilarious stand-up from ‘one of the best upcoming Scottish Comedians’ (List).
Joanie Little is an honest, open and kookily sexy waitress working in Gabe’s Coffee Shop in Toronto.
A cabaret full of birds falling in love with each other? Embrace the madness if you will, and your heart will certainly be warmed by Robert J.
Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees).
In a small, bare room in Pleasance Courtyard, armed with a projector screen and a pack of makeup wipes, Angela Barnes is ready to change your view on beauty standards - and make yo…
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Filtered through the consciousness of the bright eyed and burnt out Jeannie, Victoria Rigby’s new play explores all that was best and worst about the sixties.
Delivered as an interactive art workshop, with a narrative line slowly emerging, Some Thing New is a great idea with an unsatisfying execution.
Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre – the Front of House staff – and portraying t…
Patrick Monahan likes to boogie.
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’.
Patrick Morris walks on stage.
I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank…
To do justice to any of Sarah Kane’s work, you need to not be taken in by the maniacal, despairing nature of her scripts.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Aug 24) The final show of A.
With the blessing of the Cooper Estate, John Hewer takes to the stage in the guise of one of Britain’s most loved comedians.
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.
Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the fortunes of King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends, who have made a vow that they will eschew women (among other things) for three years…
McQueen Adams brings his dynamic, high-tech blend of music, impressions and stand-up to Brooklyn with this brand new show.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
An exploration of the history and relevance of the devil.
An emotionally charged coming-of-age story, blending wry comedy and the music of a beloved cult band, sung live.
Joni has just met someone special.
Love, Life, and the Lord.
Best Boy are on a mission: their greatest sketch made the BBC’s airwaves, but wasn’t done justice.
From 10am - Exhibition of photographs by Palestinian children.
Visceral solo show on Sussex-born writer Patrick Hamilton, author of classic plays ‘Rope’ & ‘Gaslight’ and iconic novels including ‘Hangover Square’ and ‘The West Pier’.
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Can you stay true to yourself when everything suggests you change? After sell-out performances in London and New York, 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in a story of two m…
For everyone who wants to find out anything about end of life, death and bereavement.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Brand new, energetically witty and charming family show! Expect plenty of playful audience interaction from this loveable Irish/Iranian Teessider! “Monahan possesses the rare abil…
An award-winning solo character piece that uses heart-breaking comedy storytelling to evoke the life of librarian Ms Samantha Mann, giving an intricately crafted English twist to a…
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
Ernie is a doting grandfather admitted into care.
This carnivalesque exploration of the tale of Snow White was admirably committed in its aesthetic, with costumes, face paint inventive use of props and live music all pa…
Join Laura and Jason for an inspirational evening of their live song and music, meditation and chant.
Award nominated actress Amanda Waring is back for one night only with her UNIQUE, INSPIRATIONAL COMEDY REVUE ‘A Glass Half Full’, the follow up to the sell out triumph, ‘Fo…
After the sell-out triumph of her one woman show ‘For the Love of Chocolate’, West End star and renowned speaker Amanda Waring returns with her unique and inspirational comedy revu…
The day after Britain goes to the polls, “Scotland’s top satirical stand-up” (Morning Star) presents his comedy response to the 2015 General Election.
You get more right-wing as you get older, right? Last Wednesday, Patrick Lappin began to get older.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman… Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family.
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Not just an evening of song, but rather the story of a not particularly famous man whose words have been sung everywhere from Hong Kong to Geneva, from the National Theatre to the …
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ explores what life with an alcoholic parent can be like through the eyes of Kath’s daughter, Sam.
The Vikings have a reputation of having been awful people.
Joyelle Johnson hosts this stand-up showcase at the Knitting Factory’s front bar; the excellent lineup includes Seaton Smith, Aparna Nancherla, Yassir Lester, Will Winner, Bl…
“I know it’s harsh but I can’t imagine her ever being cool or sexy or anything”.
A Star Wars themed family-friendly disco party.
Are you cool enough? Do you get out of the house? Have you cried today? Shut up.
Stuck with You is two romantic play.
This play is billed as an adaptation of Edwards Lear’s classic poem The Owl and the Pussycat.
Following their success in 2014, it’s time for more laugh-out-loud stand-up, new silliness, and fresh magic from London trio Mark Diamond “strong jokes delivered with cool conf…
A series of six month exposure photos of iconic Brighton & Hove landmarks by local artist Nick Sayers.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on May 21) Second Stage Uptown has never seemed like a particularly haunted theater, but expect dramatic apparitions as Lucie Tiberghien directs E…
After storming Brighton 2014, award-winning House of Blakewell return to take on the happiness industry.
The responsibilities of being an audience rarely weigh as heavily as they do in this series of short monologues, performed by one actor for one theatergoer in a mobile space the si…
‘Every Way Up Has its Way Down’ looks back to a time when Brick Lane meant beigels and traces the footsteps of Jewish immigrants who made their mark here long before we arrived.
Unfortunately, I had slightly misled myself in preparation for this show.
(previews start on May 7; opens on May 28) In Melissa Ross’s play, set in 1984, a woman in her late 30s tries to change her life, assisted by a new friend, an old classmate a…
Ms. Truscott’s bold, award-winning show is an hourlong examination of rape jokes in the modern stand-up scene, which she performs naked from the waist down.
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on April 20) Renée Fleming and her luscious, lyric soprano will make their Broadway debuts in Joe DiPietro’s update of Garson Kanin…
(previews start on March 11; opens on March 22) Expect lots of cakes and ale, though very few actors, when Bedlam offers two versions of Shakespeare’s comedy in repertory, bo…
(previews start on March 17; opens on April 14) Something old, something new, something borrowed and something Broadway: The veteran showman David Hyde Pierce directs this new musi…
Some of New York’s funniest performers gather to reinterpret classic award show speeches, including Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Julie Klausner, Erin Markey, Michael Musto, Be…
Best Boy are on a mission: their best sketch made the BBC’s airwaves but wasn’t done justice.
The musical improvisers Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love sto…
John Cariani’s follow-up to his immensely popular “Almost, Maine” delivers nine fairly funny short plays that focus on couples meeting, breaking up or learning to…
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The first ever show to explore objectum-sexuality, an orientation where people are attracted to objects.
As the cast of Bat Boy: The Musical bowed and smiled at the audience, I tried to ask myself what I had just seen.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
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The composer David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning choral work, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story of a poor young girl’s struggle with neglect and poverty on a h…
(previews start on Dec.
Written by first time playwright, Daniel Ward Garber, The Love Shack is a dramatically dark and tense thriller; a Tequila slammer with a slice of Tarantino, a line of the London Fr…
This two-hander by Kate Robin, who works on the Showtime series “The Affair,” is about a man and woman, married to others, who fall into an unexpected intimacy after me…
US composer and lyricist Georgia Stitt makes a welcome return to London following her sell-out concerts at St Paul’s Church in 2007 and The Hippodrome in 2012.
The Fabulous Miss Rosie Bitts mixes jazz and burlesque with raw seduction in these heart-breaking, hilarious and taboo tales of sex work, unplanned pregnancy, loss of virginity and…
8 women, three acts, two hours.
This mild comedy isn’t all that well acted, but at least it defies expectations.
(previews start on Oct.
(previews start on Oct.
Hannibal Buress hosts this popular stand-up show in the Knitting Factory’s front room. Seats fill up hours ahead of showtime, with patrons hoping to catch a big-name star.
Filiz Ozcan directs a bitter-sweet love story in which two lonely strangers find themselves drawn to each other, leading them to question whether love does truly hold the key to ha…
Jen Kirkman, a performer based in Los Angeles, brings a show of brand new stories and jokes to Brooklyn.
Kara Klenk welcomes a raft of comics to this reliable weekly show: Byron Bowers, Adrienne Iapalucci, Kevin McCaffrey, Alex Koll, Josh Gondelman, Tony Deyo and Rob Cantrell.
Would you eat bacon from a lab designed pig? Is GM meat really a solution to future food shortages? Debates about genetically modifying our food raise many concerns.
Bringing together the many strands of the festival in words, music, and dance.
The point of a thought-experiment is to provide a way of exploring the consequences of an idea, not through a metaphorical prism, but through a literal imagining of what might happ…
Welcome to the 27th Final of the UK’s best stand-up comedy newcomers competition! After the Gilded Balloon has scoured the nation in search of the best new comic talent, we are dow…
Come and play?The invitation to play is timeless, but could you, would you play with God? Godly Play does just that.
Inspired by the public performances of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the less decorated but more alive writer and actor B.
Majk (pronounced Mike, for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) presents a witty collection of finely crafted comedy folk songs on topics ranging from sc…
As seen poeting on Channel 4 and BBC, Dominic Berry (winner of New York’s Nuyorican Poets Café Slam and Manchester Literature Festival’s Superheroes of Slam) brings video game-ins…
Blending performance, comedy and film, Kim Noble tries to get close to other people on this planet.
From Bach, Debussy and traditional songs to famous tunes from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Casablanca the critically acclaimed harpist explores the theme of love.
Two children under three and what has life become? To the sleep-deprived, the human milk machine, the reluctant disciplinarian, the walking incubator: come shed tears of recognitio…
Jenna Monroe, singer/pianist, makes her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with excerpts from her cabaret show, Love Laid Bare and Minor Obsessions.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a Broadway musical based on the Peanuts comic strip, featuring familiar characters like Lucy, Snoopy and Schroeder.
This special tribute to Tommy Cooper is a compilation of rarely seen material from his cabaret days and the very best of Cooper’s classic gags and tricks.
A witty piece of throwback theatre, Games of Love and Chance is quite the delight.
Moving On Theatre Piaf: Love Conquers All by Roger Peace is an inspiring roller coaster of a show around Piaf’s life, music, breakdowns and addictions.
Inspired by the extraordinary tenth century Aberdeenshire gospel book, Richard Ingham leads an evening of plainsong, reels and electronic soundscapes.
A discussion with the writer, director and actors of Such a Nice Girl, a play about grief and prejudice. Free tickets at: http://goo.gl/E8zZft
Two comedians with quite different styles split an hour to give you a quick shot of what they are all about.
Theodore is meek and quiet.
In Love With Death is a new book written by Indian philanthropist Satish Modi.
Originally from the US, now based in Singapore, Vernon Lewis has quickly become one of the rising stars in the comedy scene and has opened and performed with comedians such as Tom …
Heard it before? Not like this, you haven’t.
Two unique rising stars present their vastly differing stand-up styles to unsuspecting audiences.
Aloha! The award-winning Castle Performing Arts Center is tap dancing its way back to the American High School Theatre Festival from their home in Hawaii with the high energy comed…
Eilidh has a problem.
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
Radio 4’s daily arts show with the hits, misses, debates and talking points of the Festivals and Fringe so far, along with writers, artists and live performances.
Why are women deserting sciences in droves? Is it unconscious bias, a lack of aspiration, lack of confidence - or just lack of ability? Are we failing our daughters, or is this jus…
Give yourself a treat.
A girl is trapped in a dark room.
One-woman poetry show about the power dynamics of permission and politeness with rhymes and reasons.
Internationally celebrated, singer, songwriter, coach on The Voice of Ireland and lead performer with Riverdance on Broadway for nine months in an especially tailored role at the r…
The ordinary, daily drama of being in a relationship is the subject of short Canadian production, Post-its (Notes on a Marriage).
It was a shock just sitting down in the Stroke Association Scotland’s venue - on every seat was a leaflet telling us that one in six people in Scotland will suffer a stroke in thei…
Her daughter has been taken, she sends in three dodgy nurses who enlist the disaffected youth and his somewhat feather obsessed friend.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Caroline Bowditch, Welly O’Brien and Nicole Guarino provide a wonderful evening in a cosy little room at Dance Base: it’s not very often a full house can consist of twelve peop…
Kafka meets Alice in Wonderland in award-winning Scottish writer Ali Smith’s absurd take on the English concept of justice.
Bringing a show to the Fringe is a daunting prospect even for established theatre companies.
Funny Girl is based on incidents in the life of Fanny Brice before and after World War One.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in a British mental hospital with a strict, unbending routine.
This musical adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s short story Destiny and a Blue Coat is a sweet little tale, focusing on miller’s daughter Abbie Pollin (Lauren Potter) and her snari…
Bridge Over Troubled Lager (Volume 2) from Rory McGrath and Philip Pope is an evening of easy listening funny tunes and mild jokes.
Gunslingers, lawmen and hellfire preachers draw iron on the burning metal deserts around Camelot.
Bill Cosby said: ‘I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody’.
Internationally acclaimed New York singer returns to the Fringe with her new retro show, celebrating all-girl groups from Connie Francis and Lesley Gore to Brenda Lee and the Supre…
Rise Kagona is a guitar hero to many on two continents! In Zimbabwe, Rise transferred traditional Jiti rhythms to guitar, and his band The Bhundu Boys toured the world extensively …
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Word Power Books hosts free daily events with writers and activists from around the world in Edinburgh’s only independent and radical bookshop.
From the gospel parlors of black Florida to the racist salons of white NYC, Sevan learns that it takes more than an NKOTB t-shirt to become a white American.
The wobbly comedian performs five dates of her award-winning show to tie in with her new book, also called What the **** is Normal?! Each show will be followed by a Q&A about the b…
The Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show will carry on to reflect on the well-being of everyday life.
Need more media coverage? Can’t afford a publicist? (Not happy with the one you have?) Learn to generate positive publicity in print, online - everywhere! - with easy steps from me…
Eight shows only! Winner Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013.
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
Fun for all ages.
You’ll have to excuse me for saying this, but Every Brilliant Thing is, quite simply, brilliant.
From the critically acclaimed SU Drama company comes a double play performance that combines Brien Friel’s Afterplay and an original piece named The White Peacock.
And The Horse You Rode In On begins with the easy unfolding of soldiers’ badinage.
PDS Theater returns to the Fringe with a raucous take on Shakespeare’s comedy.
There is a war on and for Glasgow that means air raids, blackouts, food rationing, barrage balloons, and the pain of parting as husbands and fathers go off to fight.
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
Gary Little isn’t.
The Conditions of Love is a fanciful look at love and relationships through the lens of songs by Steven Sondheim and commentary by William Shakespeare.
Join the conversation as we explore a different subject each day surrounding equality, religion and ethics.
Charles Adrian Gillott as Samantha Mann presents an hour of stories about the life and loves of a well-meaning spinster librarian whose best friend has left her holding the rabbit.
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
The poptacular London band started thirty minutes late for their three and half hour set, most likely due to technical difficulties or the arrangement of the room.
Patrick Turpin cuts a vulnerable figure on stage, baring his soul (and, without giving too much away, his nipples) to the world in his debut hour that delves into childhood memorie…
“You don’t know what heckling is!” screams Michael Legge at a woman in the first row, cutting down her contention that the Northern-Irish comedian is lovely.
‘And you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead’.
Warm-hearted mime taking ordinary objects to an illusionary level, coupled with mask movement that captures your emotions, with a finale of a love story from Japan that demands a l…
Join us in celebrating the kicking off just 2014.
Ghostbusters turns 30 this year.
Welcome to a new topical show, where three top comedians try to persuade Gráinne and the audience why the news story that has most impacted their life that week is the story they …
Katie Davison and Jay Bennett, weary and elated respectively, open their show with an awkward blend of high-fives and handshakes and an argument over why they’re called The Nex…
Out of work, out of money and utterly useless, Caped Concern and Captain Cliche struggle through their new lives in the everyday society they once protected, finding themselves at …
Medical student music group One Dissection from St George’s, University of London escape the dissecting room and break into a different kind of theatre to present a medical a cappe…
Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour.
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(previews start on Aug.
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From the off the Edinburgh Revue never really got kicking.
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
A domestic drama in a literal sense, 30 Bird’s abstract piece circles themes of cultural identity, sex, politics… and who does the washing up.
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
Taking the Fringe at its word, a different line-up every night with some of the country’s best comics, who perform an hour of un-club friendly, thought-provoking comedy.
Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator .
Hark! The errant, off-beat voices of Amused Moose Award winner Richard Todd, ‘a smart surrealist’ (Independent), and NATY finalist Thomas Ward, ‘fine writing, evoking silly images …
Flying High Theatre Company’s adaptation of The Jungle Book is a charming lunchtime production, faithfully recreating its source material and providing entertaining moments of ph…
The punslinger returns with new jokes, silly songs and twitchy dancing.
Thankfully, there was no combination of singing and acupuncture.
Brydie Lee Kennedy is not short on life experience.
Refresh: Stories of Love, Sex, and the Internet is a hilarious chronicle that spares no painful detail of actor Matthew Schott’s adolescence, colliding the pain of puberty and sexu…
Seeking to explore the idea that you are your experiences, this positive and inspiring show details how these two up-and-coming comics are not Over It.
Knitting and comedy intertwine for Texan writer/actor Elaine Liner’s smart five-star hit about unravelled romances, unrivalled literature and life’s knottiest dilemmas.
Once Pathos: Can You Kill for Love? hits its stride, it is an enjoyable and moving performance.
Margaret Thatcher is on a diet.
“It’s the game show of all game shows!” our host tells us as we begin.
Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts’ musical comedy, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has become a staple of the fringe in recent years, probably because it requires a small, …
Arcos describe themselves as a ‘multimedia dance company’ and they certainly deliver.
This is a sketch comedy show, suitable for all those that enjoy great jokes and a storyline to go with it.
This one man show follows Friar Lawrence (Richard Kurnow) a year on from the deaths of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, now living in bitter exile and earning his keep in an apo…
The Tulip Tree is a very intelligent piece of theatre that crams a lot of subtlety into a short period of time.
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is celebrating ten years of musical theatre at the Fringe and in traditional style, alongside a main full scale production (this year the Addams…
Do You Remember Rock’n’Roll Radio? Would you give up a high flying sales job to manage England’s worst radio station? Roland Gent did just that.
Discover the grandeur of Georgian Edinburgh through buildings and gardens designed to impress.
This one-woman show begins with a deluge of diagnoses handed out to the audience members by the performer.
A totes amazeballs show! An endearingly unaware Essex girl, looking to find her place in the world.
You know that scene in every crime show ever, when the police finally show up at the serial killer’s lair to find a treasure trove of strange, coded messages pinned to the wall…
Australian born Frances-White was adopted into a loving family as a baby.
Our pick of the best new shows and breakthrough performances from the Edinburgh Festivals 2014.
He mostly talks.
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
Oh, boy.
We Love Comedy is back at the Fringe for a full run.
Mark Farrelly’s The Silence of Snow is a charming and funny, if not particularly deep, depiction of the life of Soho author Patrick Hamilton, best known for penning Rope and Hang…
The Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny is a comedy omnibus and competition, offering little showcase slots for Fringe veterans and newcomers.
Sometimes a show just leaves you in despair and unfortunately These Is Your Lifes is one of them.
With the surreal scalpel of sketch and stand-up, sketchup will cut out the non-funny stuff, leaving only funny bones.
Spindly 22-year old comedian Patrick Morris discusses some topics humorously in an attempt to gain your approval.
After twenty five years of semi-retirement, playing the nursing homes of Great Britain, Sol Bernstein is back where he belongs, performing in nightclubs to drunks.
Natasia Demetriou is new to solo shows.
The sell-out show returns, updated and up to the minute.
Some Fringe clichés exist for a reason.
Rising stars Pete Otway and Brennan Reece present a nightly showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe, featuring award-winning comedians from the circuit, TV and the best of th…
Jenny moved from the Welsh mountains to the Big Smoke in 2010 and has since embarked upon a career in stand-up comedy.
The idea of a comedy play that’s centred around something we are all really familiar with at the moment - ‘listicles’ - is quite intriguing.
There is no doubt that an audience of a certain age will fondly remember the two famous actors starring in You’re Never Too Old, although audiences of any age could not fail to e…
Ben Hart is the kind of magician that makes sceptics become believers.
MommAutism is one-woman show about raising a son with autism.
For half an hour in a room somewhere in the back of the Free Sisters, Adam Belbin is doing a comedy show about leaving the comedy world.
This year, Jason Byrne has decided to do away with racking his brain on what to name his show.
Written by Andrew Norris and Clare Samuels.
Northern Stage’s production of I Promise You Sex and Violence is a critique of modern attitudes to homophobia, racism and sexuality.
“Warning.
A wannabe playwright has had his play accepted by a play festival, but he has not written one yet.
The cult comedian from the cult venue of last year’s Fringe returns with more mayhem.
We can all remember the name of our first crush, can’t we? That’s the question Love.
Craig Hill: Give Him an Inch is one man’s all guns blazing, Gaga backed attempt to make sure everyone is completely aware that he is gay and Scottish.
Patrice Gerideau takes us on an autobiographical journey exploring the appearance altering disorder, Vitiligo.
Helen Orton used to be an overweight woman with confidence issues stemming from her body.
One man is all it takes.
The intimate feel of the basement studio at the Caves adds to the atmosphere of the performance of Planet Earth and All Who Sailed in Her.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
Hotly anticipated debut hour from BBC New Comedy Award winner and star of Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week.
Alex Williamson is energetic.
Full disclosure: I came very close to tears during Hardeep is Your Love.
In this brand-new show from Tall Stories (creators of the Gruffalo stage show), Emily Brown and her old grey rabbit Stanley hear a Thing crying outside their window.
John Robins has written a show about love.
Needless to say, the selling point of Nathan Roberts’ show is its title which promises an hour of ruthless satire.
Five years of IVF and love going down the tubes and a sex life reduced to cold rooms with plastic cups.
Felicity Fitz Frisky and Hansel Amadeus Mannish are the quintessential Fringe success story.
After much consideration and persuasion, Tom Craine became a columnist for Cosmopolitan where he writes about love and dating.
Before the show had even began, I overheard a young man in the front row say ‘I can’t sit here, he’ll pick me!’ Fans of Patrick Monahan know what’s coming- and to be sure…
Sitting in the Comedy section of the Fringe guide, this is a quirky piece of storytelling theatre by new company Five Wits and starring last year’s So You Think You Write Funny …
During this peculiar hour, David Elms takes a different approach to the usual bravado of musical comedy in a consciously quiet, ungainly performance.
Byron Vincent enters the venue in pinstriped pyjamas and a pair of tatty trainers, wiping his long fringe out of his eyes.
Through the 60’s and 70’s BBC television went through a golden period for producing some of the best situation comedy, amongst which was the great Dad’s Army.
Ross Leslie and Chris Griffin are joined by Gareth Mutch for an hour of solid observational stand-up as part of the Free Fringe at the Beehive Inn.
Condemned as a racist, revered as a prophet, Enoch Powell is the most divisive figure in British politics.
Brendan Fitzgibbons and Lance Weiss host this free bar show, which features respected local comics, occasional drop-ins from big names and free pizza.
Nathan Fielder and Michael Koman, creators of Comedy Central’s cult hit “Nathan for You,” present a preview of the new season.
This blitz through dates, relationships, marriages, kids, divorces and funerals is a joyous and occasionally moving romp.
If we were to use one word to describe Brendon Burns’ career it’d be “interesting”.
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
Leicester Square Theatre: 30th Jun 7pm.
The comedians Carl Arnheiter and Dave Hill lead a museum tour-turned-comedy show around the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Award-winning entertainer Doug Segal’s comedy mind reading show turns the audience into mind reading mentalists.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ by Teresa Husher & Emma Wingrove is a play about the words that are left unsaid.
Daring to be more honest and giving it some attitude, Juliet finally discusses what she really cares about.
Literary Cocktail salon at the Sussex County Cricket Ground exploring a classic Brighton crime novel and the life and times of its author.
Josh Smith embarks on yet another show that includes the unfortunate events that happen daily and yet he shares them.
“Very, very funny.
Dave, a straight male, takes a satirical look into his anorexic past.
Ever wonder how the elephant got his trunk? Or the leopard got his spots? Then don’t miss ‘Just So!’; a brand new play based on the famous stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Megan Gray, Magnet Theater’s artistic director, hosts this night of all-lady improv comedy.
A touching one woman show about Piaf’s life, loves & loss.
Metro Chamber Orchestra presents the American premiere of Nancy Van de Vate’s 1 “All Quiet on the Western Front,” based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel.
Brighton to Palestine with ♥ Love Brighton and Palestinian Artists Together فناني برايتون و فلسطين معا A sparkling evening of music and performance art b…
Brand new female comedy double act.
Lucy Teather is missing, last seen on Brighton beach.
Brydie has made mistakes.
Tina C is a comedy country singer from the good ole U.
WITH LOVE is a one-act play that tells the story of Jack, a young man who finds himself forced to confront his personal issues with religion, sexuality, bullying, and suicide while…
These two alien ambassadors have travelled millions of miles to find out if love is the drug they need to save their dying planet… but what on Earth is love? “Behind all of the…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
‘Close To You’ follows the story of Jennifer and her turbulent relationship with anorexia, an affliction that is intertwined with her love and idolisation of 70s pop sensation Kare…
Comic Book Babylon is the candid and amusing odyssey of one comic fan’s quest to get his dream job and becoming the first British member of the DC editorial staff.
Peer into the secret thoughts of another or take a chance to reflect on your own love’s labour’s lost and found.
After a sell-out run at the 2013 Fringe, Le Flop are back with their unique brand of stupidity.
‘As You Like It’ is Shakespeare’s brilliant comedy of banishment, disguise, mischief and romance set in the depths of the forest of Arden.
‘As You Like It’ is one of those Shakespeare plays that has eluded me and Sedos Theatre’s production was perhaps the best way to be introduced to this play.
This loveable Teessider likes hugging and eating cake (not simultaneously!) and is renowned for his superb anecdotes, his unique charm and his unmistakeable brand of humour.
As I left the Warren after viewing The Girl and the Goat, all that was running through my head was ‘who on Earth thought that was a good idea?’ The awkward hitting together of …
Clutching a handful of books, Robin Ince takes to the stage to welcome the audience into his world of lurid literature from across the ages.
Lauren Fox, a New York native, makes her London debut at the Crazy Coqs of Brasserie Zedel.
Just three months after moving to Berlin, Frank found himself opening a Stasi-themed backpackers hostel.
Visit our little house on the edge of the woods and escape the bustle of city life.
Paul Duncan McGarrity and Chris Betts want to have a great time at Brighton Fringe and the best way they can think of to do that is to make people laugh and drink whisky and stout.
Produced and presented casually with a simple setting, this agitprop community play about fishing laws is one of the first times I’ve heard a coherent argument against EU legisla…
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
If all great truths begin as blasphemies then George Bernard Shaw was undoubtedly the most blasphemous man of his age.
(in previews; opens on June 3) The Tony Award-winning actor Jim Dale is such a song-and-dance man that when he wants to warn audiences to switch off their cellphones, he does it vi…
Paintings and prints of the most colourful and eccentric parts of Brighton (including illustrations for a pub series in Viva Brighton) by the 2012 Brighton Fringe Visual Arts Prize…
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
Fancy a cheeky cocktail of comedy & trickery just after lunch? Then come & enjoy some stand-up, silliness & magic from this fabulous London trio.
As the house lights dim and the small projector set up on stage starts flashing the words, ‘Turps is here!’, you know you are in for something a little bit different than your …
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on June 10) It’s unlikely that even Mary Poppins could sort out a home as unhappy as the one at the center of Nancy Harris’s drama.
Stand-up continues its push deeper into Brooklyn with this new entry to the bar show scene.
Is it a performance? Or just life? It might be hard to tell with “Topologie,” a 10-day experiment in which five performers wander the streets of Long Island City, each …
This shrill, frantic musical drag parody of “The Golden Girls” — one of the best-written and -acted sitcoms of the 1980s and ’90s — is so raunchy, ove…
Two independent improv teams join the established troupe Thank You, Robot for a night of long-form performances.
Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
Eden Court Theatre: 18th Apr 5pm.
This show, hosted by Keith Malley and Chemda Khalili, is one of the longest-running and most beloved podcasts.
Less Than Rent’s current production Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re The Very Man! is billed as ‘an adventure-capitalist rodeo.
Annie Gosfield completes her residency at the Stone this weekend, with two concerts each evening featuring notated and improvised music.
With 24 of Queen’s biggest hits delivered in a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the bands’ legendary live performances, this will be one of the…
This program of six short plays is both unsatisfying and perplexing in its disregard for its audience (1:15).
This invigorating poperetta, conceived by David Byrne and returning to the Public Theater for an open-ended run, sets a new standard for audience participation.
“No one dreams of becoming an Usher!” Cry the desperate stars of Ushers: The Front Of House Musical, as they face up to yet another night of flogging ice creams and programmes …
(in previews; opens on April 10) Fresh from steering Cate Blanchett to an Oscar win in “Blue Jasmine,” Woody Allen has written the book for this musical adaptation of h…
The Book of Mormon comes from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez.
For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria.
This thought-churning, deeply poignant new work by Caryl Churchill is made up of 57 — count ′em, 57 — short plays about our multifarious ways of trying to …
Playing eight different victims of a sweet-faced killer (Bryce Pinkham) in Edwardian England, Jefferson Mays sings, dances, prances and generally makes infectious merriment in this…
Nighttime.
An eighteenth century romantic parlor comedy in an eighteenth century parlor.
This play has a great plot.
Whatever Gets You Through The Night is a wide-spanning arts project: an album, a film, a stage show and a book have all come together under the umbrella heading of ‘somewhere in …
If you are easily swayed into buying a ticket based on a show’s title, though you may be enticed into seeing the All-Nude College Girl Revue, you may be rather disappointed.
Gretchen Frage is on a quest: to unravel the conundrum that is love in the time of capitalism.
Join the banter with some of the most outspoken writers in independent Scottish publishing.
Chaseplay Theatre Company brings us an innovative reworking of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot almost to put a time on something timeless.
For those unaware of Do the Right Thing, it’s a multi-award nominated panel show podcast recorded in front of a live audience.
A 45 minute performance which focuses on the aspects of Alfred Russel Wallaces’ inspirational character that led him to the theory of evolution by natural selection - he then tol…
Hit panel game podcast (2012 Sony Award winner), hosted by Danielle Ward, Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
There is an anecdote that says that Mark Twain knew he was funny when he stood up in front of an audience, silent, and they all began to laugh.
This show returns after a sell-out 2012 Fringe.
Charlie hopes to lift his miserable and lonely life by buying a furry companion.
Society has crumbled, zombies are on the loose - what do you do next? A) Search for food, B) try to find other people or C) go see some bad comedians late at night with an underwri…
Mark Lawson presents BBC Radio 4’s daily arts show with the hits, misses, debates and talking points of the Festivals and Fringe so far, along with interviews with writers and perf…
BBC Radio 4’s daily arts show with the hits, misses, debates and talking points of the Festivals and Fringe so far, along with interviews with writers and performers, and live perf…
Nick discusses plans for his funeral with a majestic PowerPoint presentation. Will also talk about sport, hobbies etc. Bring a sandwich. #lunchtime. www.freefestival.co.uk
Love Struck focuses on the story of an ordinary young girl, Claire, and how her life is turned upside down due to human trafficking.
Extraordinary fusion of traditional and modern music from across the genres.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
Following his 2011 sell-out run, the Fringe’s favourite funnyman returns to reflect on romance in middle age. One man, one mic, five nights, 44 years. Book early! **** (Times).
For many people, a date in August had been looming.
Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories are fanciful tales that will delight.
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.
Chances are you know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ already but you’ve probably never been told those stories quite like this before.
That simple word opens up many possibilities throughout your solo journey through You Once Said Yes.
As one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, As You Like It is a typical example of a pastoral story, concerning three parties of exile who individually flee to the sanctuary o…
The funniest piece in this collection of performed poems isn’t about the human body.
‘At the third stroke…’ Join Frank on his search for long-lost wife Gladys, who is stuck inside the talking clock. A frank, farcical look at a world governed by the clock.
It’s hard putting on a show.
Fringe First-winning one on one experience unfolds with you at the heart of it.
Scotland’s version of Peter and the Wolf is an enchanting tale with a lot of heart.
Last year I regretted not taking my junior reviewers to see the Three Half Pints.
Z Theatre Company consists of a bunch of likeable first year drama students from Hull University.
Big Sky productions have returned to the festival with this distinctively Scottish storytelling performance for families.
Are You Sitting Comfortably? takes as its premise the intriguing idea of setting a run of the mill office romcom inside a radio.
What do you do when your husband decides to take another wife? Well, if you live in Saudi Arabia, where men are legally permitted up to four wives, there’s not much you can do.
The Jazz Bar is not what first comes to mind as a Fringe hotspot but this small, classy venue continues to offer the eclectic, high quality gigs it programmes throughout the year.
A rare chance to see this legendary Zimbabwean guitarist perform songs from his forthcoming album.
World Power Books is Scotland’s most famous radical independent bookshop, situated in the heart of Edinburgh, and host of the Edinburgh Book Fringe.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Join writers, comedians and activists from around the world in Word Power Books, Edinburgh’s independent radical bookshop.
It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun …
Big Wooden Horse Theatre has made a successful adaptation of the popular children’s book by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort.
Local company EMT have turned to the Songbook of the Disney Company for this year’s Fringe concert.
Generally speaking, stand-up showcases are the sorts of show that offer the worst of both worlds, since audiences have to either sit through some desperately unfunny jokes from sta…
New York musical theatre entertainer/comedian Jonathan Prager brings his golden voice, heartfelt interpretation and comedic sensibility to a glorious and hilarious mix of little kn…
Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
In hall at the top of a church on a blank proscenium arch stage, a group of Canadian high-schoolers gave me more than I bargained for: two plays for the price of one.
It is now 43 years since Love Story hit our movie screens and caused a generation to weep as one with its emotional storyline.
Everyone loves shoes.
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
The Love Story attempts to expose the nature of the individual in our relations with one another and our ability to cope of our own accord.
Twenty-five years of the best stand-up comedy competition in the UK, we have whittled it down to the best from hundreds of entries.
Welcome to the 26th year of the best stand-up comedy newcomers competition in the UK! Previous winners include Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Peter Kay and David O’Doherty! Who will be cro…
Time Out’s One to Watch 2013; Chortle Best Newcomer nominee; second place in Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, Mark is ‘an exhilarating new voice on the comedy circuit’ (Spoo…
Love- that enigmatic phenomenon that we’re all searching for.
Jonny Lennard and Pierre Novellie are two talented stand-ups united to bring you an hour of the freshest, funniest stand-up at the Fringe - if you’re a true comedy fan, you’ll laug…
First things first: this show is not for the faint of heart.
Forget the movie, Monkey Poet tells us that Love Hurts, Actually.
Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets.
What are you doing here? Although he says it’s a show which may answer some of the big questions of being, I expect James Christopher doesn’t really mean this in an existential…
I’m fine, you? A response regularly given by a small, kooky East London Jew, and a tall, awkward, musical Dane.
It’s raining outside and our host – Stuart Laws – is on a mission to entertain us.
A heart-wrenching performance by the wonderful Wotlarx Enterprises, Can You Hear Seagulls? is an hour of subtle humour and warmth.
Back by popular demand.
Jessica (whose name isn’t actually Jessica but people at work have been calling her that too long to be corrected) has a theory about love.
Although Italy’s economy and political system have of late appeared to be on the verge of total collapse, at least her sixty-odd million citizens can take solace in the fact that t…
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
Ren is performing before the show begins, making up a silly version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with the audience’s help.
Hired by Aladdin’s genie, trainer Alice Lashman teaches you how to wish successfully.
Split between two comedians, Over It aims to lift the curtain on the taboo subjects of death and anorexia through the medium of laughter - and it kind of works.
Fringe debutant Patrick Turpin takes his audience on a trip down memory lane, as he bids for their approval.
Tired of the voice in your head? Tired of trying to contact your inner-self? Tired of rhetorical questions? This is a show about your brain.
A dramatic and poignant insight into life in Cambridge during the Second World War.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
‘There’s a time and a place for that’, says Bridget Christie of serious political talk about feminism, ‘and eleven in the morning in a comedy show is not it’.
Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two.
Amongst the general hubbub as the audience left the show, the snippets I overheard were ‘That was hilarious’, ‘I can’t believe he said that’, and simply ‘WtTF’.
The cast of short musical ‘It’s not what you know’ are talented.
‘A tour de force on the Fringe’, ***** (RemoteGoat.
An entertaining yet highly prurient act, Martin Mor’s How Do You Like Your Blue-eyed Boy Mister Death? offers a reinvigorated, revitalised and thoroughly welcome attitude towards…
Idle Motion is a theatre group that specialises in physical theatre.
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
This event presents up to twenty of Scotland’s finest designers and makers that focus on traditional skills and produce high quality professional products for the international a…
Vicky Arlidge is a charming and talented musician whose songs about motherhood and marriage are pleasant and fun.
Four desks, each littered with character appropriate props: on the first, colourful craft ribbons, tea and biscuits; the second, a simple but elegant glass and bottle of white wine…
Stories of hilarious, heart-warming and often bizarre moments in a unique career. Even if it’s not your first time with a prostitute, it’ll be the funniest!
Discover the grandeur of Georgian Edinburgh through buildings and gardens designed to impress.
Part of Just Festival, discussions are being held in St John’s Church throughout the course of the month, targeting important, interesting and sometimes controversial matters under…
Close to You is a one-woman show with music.
This powerful and intense one man show tells the story of Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald just days after Oswald himself as…
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
I was so ready to tear this show down.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland return to the Fringe with an outstanding 50 minute musical from the absorbing pens of Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie.
Gregory Akerman introduces us to Nellie Garcia, a 19th-century lady who has been forgotten.
Free stand-up show from 21-year-old rising star, Patrick Morris.
A small show in a small space for a small group.
Two comedians attempt to fuse their contrasting styles into a fully complementary comedy peanut butter and jam sandwich.
Like a Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence for the modern era, Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell breathe new life into the musical comedy genre.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
A bomb explodes in the British Embassy in Mumbai.
To spend one’s afternoon in the company of Raymond Considine is a relaxed and amusing affair.
The strains of, ‘Ali Bali, Ali Bali Bee’, belt out from the PA as the cast tap their feet along with the rhythm.
Ricky Tin lives in a bin in the year 1920.
As we took our seats, furnished with appropriately rose-patterned cushions, and gazed on at the living room set before us, it was as if we were in someone else’s house, listening…
Nobody’s Boy is a tapestry of songs by well-known songwriters woven together to narrate an emotional tale of childhood, identity and belonging.
The debut stand-up show from Irish comedian Daniel McLaughlin.
If you love a good story, then you’ll love this.
When you get more laughs from riffing off your audience in the first five minutes then you do for the whole rest of your show, you know something’s wrong.
All new for 2013.
In death, we find mirth.
Ever wondered why animals find it easier to maintain relationships? Why a male orangutan has more success than Patrick from Newcastle? Pat Monahan and Luisa Omielan bring you tips …
I’m going to start simply: Liam Mullone is funny – much more so than his association with Russell Howard’s Good News would suggest.
It’s a stand-up comedy show. At half 11 in the morning. In a tent. Two comedians. We’re not seeing anything else at that time. It’s a yurt tent apparently. Let’s definitely go.
Thought I ought to nail down the other half of next year’s show before next year comes around. An all new half-hour of comedy from the once-promising Adam Belbin.
Will You Hold My Hand? is brought to you by two self-confessed ‘educators’ We are Goose; their style might be described as somewhere between Terry Deary and Rolf Harris.
The Boy Who Lost Christmas, by The Young Actors Company/Engineerium, is an absolutely lovely piece of children’s theatre.
Imagine, for a moment, always having to tell the truth.
Falmouth and Exeter Cornwall Campus Light Entertainment Society cover aspects of the most universal of topics, love.
A contemporary reinventon of Shakespeare’s sonnets was always going to be a risk.
Audiences love Patrick Monaghan.
After their hit dad-rock album Dark Side of the Moob, the boys are back with another collection of witty, elegant, sophisticated and, at times, rather unpleasant songs.
‘New writing? New wronging!’ proudly exclaims production company Kill The Beast’s website.
With only four simply dressed actresses and a range of household objects, Red Table Theatre act out four of Kipling’s tales from The Just So Stories, sticking very closely to his…
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
A public-school Ed Byrne in appearance with the patter of a middle-aged Jack Whitehall, Mark Dolan’s You’re Awesome is a gentle, beguiling hour.
Jamie McDermott (The Irrepressibles) reinterprets Britten and Auden’s famous songs, paired with new numbers from Fringe First winners Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell - a queerly …
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Multi award-winning Doug returns with a brand new show that’ll turn you into mind reading mentalists.
The image of Shakespeare’s Juliet, awakening from her sleeping draught to gaze upon her dead lover, is unforgettable.
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
‘How’re yez?’ Eilish O’Carroll greets her audience as she steps out to affectionate applause, dressed all in black under her blue sequinned jacket: part theatre luvvie, part salt o…
After my initial panic at being stuck in a room where the mean age of the audience was about four, I began to relax to the dulcet tones of the performing quartet.
Pattie Brewster is a normal girl desperately in need of three things: friends, cat food and a crash course in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
With thousands of shows out there, Rhys Mathewson’s show title is a clever one.
Miles Jupp chairs It’s Not What You Know, the panel show which sets out to see how well panellists know those closest to them.
The Kings Head Theatre is once again offering multiple seasonal shows for their audiences to enjoy.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Firstly, don’t be fooled by the title like I naively was – this is not a lecture on the downfalls of Buddhism nor is it someone trying to sell their faith.
Flamenco dancing is perhaps not the first thing I would associate with the legend of the Minotaur and indeed neither is the idea that the conflict between the monster and Theseus h…
This bewilderingly unpleasant piece of new writing aims to explore our relationships with food, and with each other.
The Girl with the Iron Claws is a wonderful retelling of the Nordic myth of the White Bear King.
The setting is Paris, 1900.
Based on a true story, Sophie Pelhams one-woman show about coping with bipolar disorder is sensitively disturbing and, surprisingly, also fantastically funny.
(previews start on Thursday; opens on July 11) The Forest of Arden has a new look.
The Caves on the Cowgate certainly can’t be accused of over-selling itself as a venue - you get exactly what it says on the ticket as you’re ushered into their dingy cellar, alread…
Jessica Almasy is compulsive viewing, much like the material she delivers in her solo performance, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope).
A charming young cast from Bristol University brings their original quirky comedy to the Edinburgh stage.
If you were to somehow strap Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas on the front of an Express Train going in one direction, and Sondheim’s Into The Woods on a similar train headi…
Tom (Howard Thompson) and Lucy (Amy Newman) live a Desperate Housewives kind of life.
An aspect of the Fringe that is sometimes passed over is the indigenous shows for the local population, which, heaven knows, puts up with enough to deserve something good of its ow…
During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses.
We are warned at the beginning of this show that audience interaction is imminent.
In my opinion medical professionals should stop making musical one-woman shows at the Fringe.
Pop band related shows seem to be something of a trend nowadays.
The 1960s hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a fast-paced, rollicking farce.
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
‘What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods…
Doug Segal delivers a perplexing array of mind-blowing, mind-reading tricks modulating gradually to a standing ovation climax.
Four pupils await a class that will never start, in this new writing from Daniel Rayner, performed by Bleak Heart.
When the matchmakers of Austens time are no more, fear not: I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change negotiates, with excruciatingly spot-on humour, the difficulties of the mo…
Quirky and engaging, this one-woman show tells the painful tale of coming of age.
Love in The Key of Britpop is spoken word artist Emily Andersen’s performance of her self-professed ‘ode to Britpop, nightclub romance, visa marriages and anglophilic love’.
The audience is introduced to the story behind Her Right Mind via a dynamically-staged sequence showing us the mundanity of protagonist Jack’s life.
On April 16 2007 a young student at Virginia Polytechnic carried out two separate shootings approximately two hours apart.
Shrewsbury School here lives up to its gleaming reputation with a technically flawless production.
In his program notes writer Adam J A Cass remarks this one-person show is based on a boy who is out there somewhere, the out there being cyber space.
Annie’s Room purports to be a biographical show about jazz singer Annie Ross, but there is very little biography in this apart from a bald statement of a few facts which could ha…
This two hander begins with both actresses acting out a dumb show to a music track.
Off-Broadway’s longest running musical comes to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Waiting to go into this production of Howard Brentons short, searing exploration of the nature of justice and retribution I witnessed the front of house staff refuse entry to a f…
Jamie and Matt are two young men indulging in the exchange of sexual fantasies over the internet.
This is one of Shakespeares toughest plays to pull off.
This is one of the most evocative and deeply moving shows I have ever seen.
Lewis Schaffer’s schtick is that he is an ex New York Jew making his way in this strange foreign land and hating every minute of it.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
As a recent ex-Catholic, I know there’s a lot of material to be got from the Catholic Church, whether you’re a member or not.
Moving dexterously between paranoid nightmare sequences and kitsch music numbers, You Obviously Know What I’m Talking About tells the story of nervous recluse Winfield Scott Bori…
This is as good a play as Ive ever seen about the absurdity of prejudice.
Bob Slayer treats his audience like a classroom full of unruly students - he is the erratic alcoholic headmaster to lord over them all.
‘Well Done You’ calls itself a character sketch show, but Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt are in character even when not doing sketches.
Just follows Victoria, a regular passerby in a not so regular English town.
The theme of this years offering is love, which Lucy equates to a mental illness.
This was an intriguing and innovative portrayal of one of the bard’s best known comedies performed by an all male cast of eleven.
Learning to Pray opens by breaking the fourth wall of an American priest-to-be’s bedroom on the day of his ordination.
As I entered this new space at ten thirty last night after a full days reviewing my heart sank.
With so much free fringe it’s can be a daunting prospect wading through the guide to find what’s worthwhile.
The problem with starting a play with a man dressed in a moose costume explaining his life story to the audience is that, other than being a little odd, a high level of weird has a…
Just so you’re perfectly clear, You Will Be Rare is hugely engaging and memorable; but it’s not a piece of theatre.
This autobiographical account tells the story of the Irish playwright and poet Brendan Behans true-life arrest at the age of sixteen when he was caught in Liverpool carrying expl…
In the late 1980s Brian Keenan, John McCarthy and Terry Waite were taken hostage in Beirut.
God is Scottish.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
This pair of independent comedians is sure to evoke a titter from even the stoniest of critics.
Markus Birdman’s comedy dwells on serious themes, a fact that is perhaps unsurprising considering the 40-something stand-up suffered a stroke a few years ago which caused him to …
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
I went to watch this show at the end of a long day of an even longer week.
This stage adaption of the book and film was experimental, wacky and creative – a cocktail which at times proved highly successful and at other times fell completely flat.
David Mulholland is a former Wall Street Journal hack and this is a show driven by the passion of a good journalist for getting the story right and a hatred of bad journalism and t…
The witty and charming pair Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna give us a beat poetry rom-com ballad that, while not groundbreaking, at least treads old ground with the comfort and warmt…
As you were takes a deep look into the effects of war.
When one of the acts announced that this shouldn’t be called The Best of So You Think You’re Funny, but instead, Which Comedian is Free on a Week Night at 11.
This piece by director/writer Ryan J-W Smith garnered fantastic reviews and awards at last years Festival.
The story revolves around two couples living in the same block, both of which are struggling with their relationship.
Depression and other mental illnesses are often unfairly ignored in our society.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
They stand huddled together in the corner of the dimly lit stage, faces blank, bodies motionless.
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
Sketch You Up! is a brand new sketch show written by Dan Robinson.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Completely bizarre, the Dog-Eared Collective held nothing back in their unrelenting comedy set which had everything from detective lives of Beethoven and Bach to Glasgow’s 2022 O…
Im sitting there, innocently enjoying the show, when John-Luke Roberts points at me and declares that no-one really likes having conversations with me, they only do it so they ca…
Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure.
For all the excellent performances and wonderfully controlled aesthetic, this production amounts to nothing more than average; because it’s Belt Up, that’s disappointing.
neTTheatre are an experimental Polish physical theatre company, who here produce what they describe as ‘the Clinic of Dreams’.
Bang Bang Youre Dead is largely based on a shooting in Oregon in 1998, in which a fifteen-year old boy killed his parents and then two of his fellow high school pupils, injuring …
There is such an abundance of improvised shows around the fringe this year it’s a near impossible task to sift through them all to find the gems.
The BBC has a lot to answer for, not least the wiping out of great swathes of our cultural heritage from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The girl on the platform is the story of Brenda Norfield’s journey to Wales as an evacuee during the second world war.
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
When a show is going badly, repeatedly telling the audience that they’re a tough crowd only ever exacerbates matters.
The excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.
Yes! This is everything you, I, everyone wants in a musical.
It is a brave company which puts on the first Fringe production of the Gershwins’ ‘Crazy for You’ so soon after the Regents Park Open Air production, which transferred succes…
Jessica Pidsley has given herself a challenge, one that she hopes will help her audience to change their attitudes towards their body.
Cute, playful and often spellbinding The Girl With the Iron Claws is the debut production from The Wrong Crowd.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
La JohnJospeh is the Boy in a Dress in this flamboyant autobiographical performance.
Dear Noel and Cole,Put down that celestial martini and stop fondling those cherubs.
Tin Girl Story is an interesting production but I am unsure as to whether 29 Shoes Theatre Company chose the appropriate setting, or listing for their creation.
There are some novels so enduring, that their stories can be told again and again in any medium, whether that be written word, stage or film.
This production is a set of four or five unconnected stories about love, enjoyed, gained, lost and destroyed.
Playwrights do seem to love Albert Eistein.
The Wrong Crowd have readily demonstrated that you can’t go wrong with a good fairy story.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
The question of how a person really measures the value of their lives and those lives that they effect has always been the heart and soul of the Broadway smash-hit rock opera Rent.
Made in China’s We Hope You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a 50 minute snapshot of two lifelong friends, Jess and Chris, sharing a night in, while everyone else is out getting…
It’s an intriguing concept, though not a new one: if you could write a letter to your future self what would you want to tell them? Henry Raby, poet and performer, uses the idea …
If you could tell Love what you honestly thought of it what would you say? In this fusion of poetic monologue, dance and sign language, Vintage Star Productions approaches love wit…
With its modest and pretty title, Some Small Love Story sets the tone for its performance.
A Professor tries to find his daughter, Sophie, after the first failed attempt of making a double of her left haunting consequences.
Andrew Lawrence is a young, talented stand-up comedian who has already had two successive if.
Love Child is the story of two women - a mother and daughter - who have never met; the former gave the latter away at her birth, the daughter returns to seek out her lost parent.
I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change is a comedy musical from the pen of Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts.
he headline of this review was the most prolific tweet of the night at Unravel’s ‘Only Gig You Can Control With Your Phone’ and frankly, it’s a good question.
This play tells the story of the life of its central character, Peggy, as she looks back over the unfolding events of her youth.
The title of this particular show may lead you to expect certain things that the final product fails to deliver in every way.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
This performance was never going to be a side-splitter.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
Just Up The Stairs at The Caves is packed to the rafters for this mid-afternoon hour of sketch comedy.
A strong old Broadyway warhorse,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum originally opened with Zero Mostel in the lead followed by Frankie Howerd in the UK.
It promised to be a fun show.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
The title of the play sets up an immediate opposition between love and understanding, and once seated, we are soon presented us with characters full of love and totally lacking in …
You can’t knock the ambition of Pulse’s devised production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Ash Girl, a bizarre but occasionally touching re-incarnation of the Cinderella stor…
The Better Half just wants to say it how it is.
Anybody who thinks that you can perform Love’s Labour’s Lost without doing something serious to the script probably hasn’t read the play.
The play is set entirely in the middle of the night in the caretakers storeroom of a school in the North of England.
The Just So Stories, written in 1902, are Kipling’s accounts of how various natural phenomena came about.
In his first solo show up in Edinburgh Stefan Golaszewski has provided us with a witty and sophisticated look at his 18 year old self in the throws of his first love.
This was a very entertaining start to a Sunday from a very experienced and polished performer.
Who really was Marilyn Monroe? Sadly after seeing I Wanna Be Loved By You Im still as clueless as when I went in.
Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls.
This play, written and directed by Kevin Holladay, makes broad fun of politicians, reporters, TV presenters and others.
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
Dim, dingy lighting barely illuminates this musty Edinburgh bar, its vague seafaring theme embodied by scale wooden models of old sailing boats, naval pencil sketches suspended fro…
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
First, a warning: This event has been slightly mis-advertised.
The problem with one-person shows from an audience point of view is that, if you don’t like what’s going on, you know that no one else is going to come along and perk things up…
Double Edge provides excellent entertainment here in the damp, sweaty attic of Underbelly, the ideal venue for their immersive piece set in a 1930’s Princeton speakeasy.
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
In a performance which uses music and expressive movement as well as dialogue, This Isn’t Over Till Everybody Gets High is an intriguing look at the darker side of modern society…
If you want to see one of the best and most entertaining shows at the Fringe, look no further than Up & Over It, a fantastic subversive reinvention of Irish step dancing to electro…
In a story that’s somewhere between Mrs Henderson Presents and The Full Monty, Boys In The Buff tells the story of Diane Diamante (Faith Brown), the owner of a failing seaside thea…
We All Love Llamas is a great free poetry event to take your kids to while in Edinburgh.
Couple Francisco and Anna share their flat with Fergus.
It will come as no surprise that this is a controversial play.
Riding on the success of last year’s excellent production of A Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare Napa Valley launched themselves into the deep end with an incredibly daring adaptatio…
Written by (and starring) Jenn Robbins, The Smoking Boy is the story of an upper middle class family from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1917 amidst America’s entry into the Great Wa…
What starts out with Shoko Ito charmingly asking the audience if they love someone with Japanese pop songs gently wafting into their ears quickly devolves into a series of dreamsca…
When extremely enthusiastic New York comic Abigoliah Schamaunn bounded in “from the back of the room to the front of the room!”, her iPod stopped dead as she arrived onstage.
It is a great honour for any composer to have their work cherry-picked by fans and turned into a revue.
Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov…
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
Sprinkling a little Cinderella magic into the plot, Castoffs Youth Theatre have chosen a worthy subject for their musical The IT Boy, which tells the tale of Chris, a sixteen y…
What a lovely, original and unpredictable show this is.
Having just won ITV’s Show Me the Funny the previous night, Patrick Monahan’s mood was one of pure ecstasy as he was pushed past a queuing audience into the venue two minutes b…
When Naomi Grossmans second self-penned show, Carnival Knowledge, premiered in LA, it enjoyed a sell-out, twice-extended run, and the actress was nominated for best solo performa…
Sporting Leo Sayer hair, tinted round-lens specs and a Cheshire Cat smile, Carl Donnelly is an eminently likeable 28-year-old blessed with the natural off-beat London wit of Noel F…
Fiona Paul wants to take us to ‘Pleasure Level 10’; starting with handing out Jaffa Cakes on the door, she very nearly succeeds.
The A-level drama students of St Marylebone CE School in London give this frothy oldie a new lease of life.
The action is set in the Emerald Shitty nightclub somewhere in Australia, hosted by drag queen Patty OFurniture.
I can’t help thinking that somebody, somewhere must have watched Oliver Maltman’s show, Little Black Book, before he brought it up to Edinburgh; but clearly didn’t have the balls t…
While call centres are certainly no stranger to the routines of stand-ups, it is a rarity to find someone from the other side of the fence.
What a joy and a rarity it is to see a cross-generational cast of performers, ranging in age from 28-78, share the stage in dance theatre of this calibre.
Titus Groan, heir to the great crumbling kingdom of Gormenghast is fourteen.
Take a dead Monday night bar, add a couple of lost souls, short skirts and a good doseof Bronx-side rage.
Disembodied voices are not what you need to hear in a venue that’s already as spooky as the Old Town’s Underbelly, but that what you get at the start of Ed Aczel’s comedy set as he…
This is a proper throw back.
The poster tagline to Pinch in Love is ‘However appetising the baby may look, the answer is no to cooking it!’ It’s a sinister slogan that promises a darkly comic play full …
Andy Zaltzman will be best know to most audiences for his political comedy, podcast and radio appearances.
The show begins in a Greek restaurant.
What happened in this hour long show is still not quite clear; there was singing, nudity, drag, and a large cupboard to be sure.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Many will argue that the beauty of Performance Art is that the possibilities are endless.
Ah, I always enjoy watching the English parody the French.
Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects.
Patrick Monahans show is a great piece of interactive storytelling that has children standing on chairs waving their arms wildly to be picked to help Monahan tell the story of a …
From the entrance where he’s carried on stage á la Lady Gaga, to the grand finale involving the most unusual boy-band line-up you’ve ever seen, Patrick Monahan is a non-stop bundl…
No one could accuse St Andrews Mermaids for lack of ambition.
‘Him’ is a bitter, old, eccentric writer, living alone in a dirty flat writing tampon advertisements while the poetry that made him a best seller gathers dust on the shelves.
A historic and unimaginably terrible disaster, ethereally beautiful puppetry and a fable of childhood innocence in a world of war.
Knot Theory presents a new piece of writing about the decline of a suburban family in a piece of new writing by Niki Orfanou.
Traversing the line between the silly and the outrageous whilst keeping a comic dignity is a difficult skill to master.
Lick and Chew are a boy/girl duo taking you through a whirlwind series of sketches held together nicely by an underlying travel theme.
Star of the 1960s TV series The Likely Lads, Rodney Bewes shares some of Dylan Thomas’ short stories about his childhood.
Calling this show a Cabaret was the first mistake.
Scott Agnew is a really nice guy who has a strong stage presence and has some very good lines.
Prince Philip supposedly coined the word ‘dontopedology’ in describing his talent for ‘opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it’, and in this free show at Espio…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a director’s dream.
This red, rude and raunchy show faced a difficult task transforming a university lecture theatre into the cabaret version of hell on earth, but thanks to some inspired acting from …
A two man show by charismatic performers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey promises fast paced farce within the context of an 1870’s period setting, interestingly established at the …
Zoi Dimitriou and Andrew Graham begin their “interdisciplinary duet” counting and slowly crumpling to the ground.
Glee and High School Musical meet Dr Seuss.
It is good to be reminded of the fact that history is full of eccentrics, radicals, and pioneers who never appear in the history books - especially when they turn out to be women, …
Mod Girl tells the story of a young prostitute’s evening with an older and, as it turns out, psychopathic man.
Watching Guy Masterson perform reminds me of watching an acrobat during a highly sophisticated balancing act where everything must be done at the right place, the right time, and i…
From the moment the audience is met at the entrance by the overenthusiastic Mr Alesbottom, it becomes clear that the duo are desperate for us to like them.
Twisting one leg around the other in a show of girlish innocence, Pascoes stage presence is that of the coquettish schoolgirl, rambling aimlessly whilst making puppy dog eyes at …
I am not the first and certainly won’t be the last reviewer to write about Six Women Standing Against A White Wall at this year’s Fringe.
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…
When your lineup is three unheard-of comedians, and your venue is the Gilded Balloon’s tiny “Wee Room”, calling your show ‘The Big Comedy Showcase’ is actually a pretty s…
Three characters from The Seagull are in a CND meeting.
And the Devil May Drag You Under is a modern, sexy circus show adapted to fit the stage at Fletch @ St Andrews.
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
Mad About the Boy, the new play from Gbolahan Obisesan, could not have come along at a better time.
A man in the front row at Bec Hill’s show accuses her of being the worst comedian he’s ever seen.
Durham University Light Opera Group’s (DULOG) show is an unexpectedly touching coming of age story juxtaposed with moments of raucous insanity.
To Have Done With The Judgement Of Artaud.
Jonathan Harvey is more widely known for scripting the BBC comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme, but before Tom and Linda were a glint in his eye he wrote the play Beautiful Thing.
A richly textured atmosphere enlivens this bittersweet tale of a young boy who has a very unusual means of keeping his heart ticking.
The six-strong cast of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance vividly captures the extremes of excitement and loneliness associated with mobile communication and online social media in…
Christian Reilly has walked upon and calmed the boiling seas of the Royal Mile and resurrected the flogged and lifeless corpse of comedy music.
‘I Wish You Love’ traces the intense friendship between Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich through dialogue and their own songs.
This two person show is set in a surreal, but unnervingly, probable world of a massive corporation - where encouraging chirpy American voices in the lift congratulate people on ‘te…
So, another year another thousand student companies bringing I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change to the Fringe.
What would happen if the beloved characters of Neverland - Wendy, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan - had grown-up and confronted the horrors of World War I? This is the ques…
“D’you hear about Todd?” An innocuous question shouted over a bar inspires the better part of an hour’s worth of reflection on death in the modern age in this curious and c…
Since Belle de Jour, the mysterious world of escorts has been coming into clearer definition but still remains for most an area outside of day-to-day experience.
Some Small Love Story, as the title may suggest, is a short, self-contained and in the end inconsequential story about love and loss, with some songs thrown in for good measure.
Last year on my final weekend at the Fringe, a friend of mine met a local man at the Silent Disco, started snogging him, and then eventually started to date him.
Nicely addressing the growing Fringe problem of how to keep an audience entertained during entry to a several-hundred seat mega-venue, Brendon Burns has adopted Dave Eastgate as a …
Starting with a song, Felix Dexter quickly moved onto gags, explaining the slightly racially dramatic title, and covering issues of black stereotypes.
Ed O’Meara has some of the scariest flyers on the Fringe, with a teasing tag, ‘Follow Your Nightmares’.
Yo Girl is a solo performance born from the musings of the New York actress Natalie Kim.
David ODoherty has been going from strength to strength since winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2008, and this show is a total delight.
This show is certainly value for money.
Up there with The Deer Hunter and The Champ, Love Story came from a decade of schmaltzy tearjerkers that kept tissue manufacturers in healthy profits.
An adaptation of Hamlet.
Cheepiyak Theatre Company present their adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s well loved classic ‘The Jungle Book.
The Truth, the Half-Truth and Nothing Like the Truth promises an hour of solid stand-up.
Alec Garton Ash brings his new play about an egotistical director who is on a mission to put on the greatest production of Hamlet that ever was.
If I were an anthropologist or a linguist I could write a thesis on non-verbal communication through shared laughter.
Atmospheric is the word for this production.
I love Lili.
Patrick Monahan is an energetic bundle of fun.
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
The costumes may be naff, the props may break, but the belly laughs come thick and fast in this fun-filled hour of winningly surreal sketch comedy.
The entrance of Patrick Monahan is an explosive one; the comedian subverts self-introduction by making sure everyone is comfortable with his touchy-feely comedy.
This droll play follows the life of an elderly gay man and the relationship he develops with a male prostitute.
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are sitting in a room, but this is no joke.
Kings Hall has been taken over by Summer Hall and transformed into the Canada Hub over the festival, showcasing a series of Canadian acts exploring the issues surrounding Canada’…
Achtung! Achtung! Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland are bringing their highly acclaimed World War II podcast to the Edinburgh Festival.
A light broadcasts from Mars. At first it falters, is interfered with, then it becomes clear. It is The Boy with Green Hair, anti-war. A short film.
“PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD JOIN HANDS, START A LOVE TRAIN” Put on your platforms, dust off the flares and experience the fabulous hits of 60s and 70s in an all singing, all d…
Honeymoon and Butterfly are two highly trained operatives on a mission to save the planet from boredom—one show at a time.
Musician Alison Cotton talks to our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck about her multimedia production, Engelchen (Little Angels)
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...
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Simon Ximenez "feelz the noise" as he talks with punk legend Ed Banger about bringing the glam to the Edinburgh Festival this year.
Georgie Carroll talks to us about her debut show, Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Quebec clowns Rémi Jacques and Jean-Félix Bélanger talk about their art ahead of their show, Brotipo, opeining at the Edinburgh Fringe
Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes’ Her Me Out will be premiering at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August - you may have seen Sikisa on the BBC or Live at The Apollo, or even received legal...
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
The Old Market are excited to announce that they have managed to raise £1,057 for Brighton Women’s Centre throughout their Reigning Women season.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Despite the costs many performers experience putting on a production there are plenty who use the platform provided to them to fundraise or raise awareness for a cause close to the...
Serena Flynn might only reveal her darkest secrets after lots of gin, but her on-stage alter ego Prune is grotesque, fragile and ready to bear all.
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
Caitlin is a one-woman play by Mike Kenny about Dylan Thomas and his wife's tempestuous life together, written entirely from her point of view.
Olivier award-winning Kinky Boots celebrates its 1000th performance and has now welcomed over 1,000,000 customers in the West End.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
In nineteenth-century Holland, a leading neuroscientist tries to ‘civilise’ a wild girl who was raised by lions in the heart of Borneo.
Behind every tyrannical leader is a complicit partner rolling their eyes, and in this new show from comedian Catriona Knox they get a voice.
In 2005 it was revealed that author JT LeRoy was in fact a hoax – written by Laura Albert but played in person by her sister in law Savannah Knoop.
Holly Smale is the author of Geek Girl, a teen book series that follows the comic adventures of a high-school girl turned high-fashion model.
When it was first staged in 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s prison-set Julius Caesar was called “gimmicky, humourless and slow” by the Telegraph and “witty, liberating and inventive...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Renowned for its comedy, Brighton Fringe is the perfect time to discover brand new talents. Here’s our guide to stand-ups you’d be totally crazy to miss.
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
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...
The world’s favourite family musical Annie makes its long-awaited return to London this May, starring comedy superstar Miranda Hart – and it's on sale now.
Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
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...
Alice Munro’s short-story collection The View from Castle Rock fictionalises the real-life history of her ancestors’ economic migration from Scotland to Canada.
Love for Sale a theatrical cabaret celebration of the music of Kurt Weill set in 1930s Paris.
Based on it’s performers’ real-life stand-up material, Jailmates is a love story about an unlikely couple who meet on a pen-pal website jailmates.
When safe spaces for LGBT people are shut down, what does that mean for the communities left behind? Bertie Darrell talks to Adrian Bradley about his new play A Boy Named Sue, and ...
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 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 ...
Iona Lee was born in Edinburgh and brought up in East Lothian.
Comic Russell Hicks has seen them all, and provides some advice for audience members tempted to join in with the show how not to be 'that guy'.
Thinking of getting some leg-over whilst in the Scottish capital? Funny man Patrick Turpin is here with a four-step programme to ensure you get the right release.
Rachel McCrum, inaugural BBC Scotland Poet In Residence in 2015, has just wrapped up the last shows of Rally & Broad, a spoken word, music and live lit events series she ran with J...
Kids in Love made its world premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds.
Let Megan guide you through the dos and dont's of online dating for Fringe 2016. Broadway Baby has a chat about her show Love Me Tinder..
Today we're chatting to A Case of You: The Musical of Joni Mitchell, a contemporary interpretation of the hits that made Joni an icon of the 70's.
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...
Broadway Baby chews the fat with It Just Takes One - something that ought to appeal to any fans of The IT Crowd or The Office.
A beautiful show incorporating theatre, live music and song.
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.
Need something to keep the kids occupied this half-term? Looking for shows that suit parents and kids alike? We’ve trawled Brighton Fringe and discovered some perfect shows for 4...
The cast of Thriller Live celebrated in style last night as the show marked its 3,000th performance in the West End with a spectacular cake and an American-themed party at Planet H...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Congratulations to Tap Tap Theatre's Captain Morgan series, which has bagged our second Bobby Award of 2015.
Matt Tedford’s drag incarnation as Margaret Thatcher started life as a simple Halloween joke but has since taken on a bit of a life of her own, winning him Best Male Performer at...
Agnes Török is a Swedish spoken-word performer, poetry events organizer and part of Loud Poets.
Jemima Foxtrot is an award-shortlisted performance poet who fuses spoken word and song in her Fringe show, Melody.
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
Round two from our stand-up columnist Steffan Alun.
Annie Ryan is the founder and Artistic Director of The Corn Exchange.
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...
Actor William McGeough was terrified to perform a sexually explicit extract from his one-man play Mistaken to the august Edinburgh establishment that is the Scottish Arts Club.
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.
Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more.
HAPPY GIRL takes a look at sexism and inequality amongst teen girls. Broadway Baby investigates.
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.