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.
The hits of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons performed by UK tribute act The False Seasons.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
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…
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie.
Frankie Mack – The Vegas Showman electrifies Edinburgh Fringe with a riveting blend of Dean Martin’s suave, Elvis’ allure, Bublé’s depth, and Robbie Williams’ energy.
Njambi McGrath returns to Edinburgh Fringe with a hilarious hour.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
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…
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.
From the makers of Britain’s Got Bhangra comes a new musical about Bollywood’s lure.
A one-woman show about grief, self-discovery, a cow named Madonna and Delta Goodrem.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
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 …
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard.
Lisa Richards Presents Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame Frankie Boyle’s on tour.
A Real Life Dragatha Christie MysteryElectric Picnic 2023.
Lisa Richards Presents Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame Frankie Boyle’s on tour.
Lisa Richards Presents Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame Frankie Boyle’s on tour.
Man down! Celebrated Scottish comedy legend Raymond Mearns has only gone and had a stroke and had to cancel his Fringe run….
Based in Tenerife, Frankie Mack is a born showman who performs the swing and Rat-Pack genre, such as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé and Robbie Williams.
All the hits from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons performed by the UK tribute act The False Seasons.
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…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Njambi McGrath is an OutKast.
As part of a continuing physical and mental tailspin, Frankie Boyle suppresses his overarching sense of futility and horror to tell jokes for an hour in the final days of organised…
The world’s favourite orphan is back, and just like you, she is, unfortunately, a grown-up.
Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello’s Body show is a dystopian cacophony of farce, comedy and tragedy.
The Lavender Theatre opens its gates from 17 July 2023 for its inaugural summer season with Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun is to be celebrated with a special one-night only concert production at The London Palladium.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
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…
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…
As part of a continuing physical and mental tailspin, Frankie Boyle suppresses his overarching sense of futility and horror to tell jokes for an hour in the final days of organised…
‘Go for the cat-worship, stay for the side-splitting silliness, and rave about it to all your friends.
Comedian grannies, mud-floor comedy clubs, white-face audiences, broke aristocrat orgies with angry Afrikaans, soldiers in search of stiffies, African matriarchs objectifying thems…
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…
Frankie is doing some shows to try out some brand new jokes ahead of this year Edinburgh Festival With support the Running Time will be approximately 60-70 minutes.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Enter Frankie Foxstone: whip-smart, diva property tiger and financial guru.
Enter Frankie Foxstone: whip-smart, diva property tiger and financial guru.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
Frankie say VAUXHALL!Frankie Goes To Vauxhall is a night of eighties synthpop, new wave & trash from Mike Menace & special guests PLUS some hot live go-go action from our dancers W…
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Feelings don’t care about your facts…Titania McGrath is a world-renowned millennial icon and radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peac…
Frankie say VAUXHALL!Frankie Goes To Vauxhall is a night of eighties synthpop, new wave & trash from Mike Menace DJ and some special guestsWe’ll be luring disco dollies to a ni…
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.
Annie Sup and Angela Bra are housemates in their forties celebrating a new lease of life on the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Frankie is doing some brand new jokes.
Brexit seems inescapable as the British stand at the crossroads of self-identity and nostalgia of a bygone era of an empire.
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.
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 Dream Train weaves together a quartet of characters with JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a play that has the clarity and strangeness of a particularly convincing dream.
Join housemates Annie Sup and Angela Bra on a night out celebrating the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Join housemates Annie Sup and Angela Bra on a night out celebrating the first anniversary of Angela’s divorce.
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows to try out some brand new jokes.
“Just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way” – Boris Johnson.
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows at the to try out some brand new jokes.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
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.
EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND Phil McIntyre Live LTD in association with Headway Talent proudly presents TITANIA McGRATH - MXNIFESTO Feelings don’t care a…
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows to try out some brand new jokes.
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…
Phil McIntyre Live LTD in association with Headway Talent proudly presents TITANIA McGRATH - MXNIFESTO Feelings don’t care about your facts… Titania McGrath…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Their iconic songs and swing instrumentals are performed by Roy Mac (Spatz Showband), Dick Lee (Dick Lee’s Sextet), Malcolm MacFarlane (Scottish Guitar Quintet) and Ed Kelly (bass)…
Deadpan comic Annie McGrath returns with her third stand-up show.
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!
‘A total highlight’ (Audience review, HighTide Festival 2018).
Brexit seems inescapable as the British stand at the crossroads of self-identity and nostalgia of a bygone era of an empire.
Titania McGrath may just be a young Kensington girl with a modest Trust Fund and a thirst for social justice, but she’s in Edinburgh to make a difference, and inspire us common peo…
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.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Not a tribute act, but an act of attribution.
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.
A true music icon; Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is bringing ‘The Farewell Tour’, to The O2 on 2 December 2018.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
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…
Written and directed by Heather Alexander.
Frankie Boyle, Jen Brister and Craig Campbell hosted by Daphna Baram, join in with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition UK for a buy-a-brick fundraiser for a community c…
The Lads with special guest Murray McGrath and Some Criminals.
Combining disciplines of theatre and stand-up comedy, Stalagmite is a surreal, raw and soggy performance exploring the resilience it takes to love again.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
After last year’s Fringe success with sell-out audiences and great reviews, Captivate is bringing back this much-loved family favourite.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Njambi McGrath, star of the BBC World Service’s International New Year Comedy Celebration and author, will be showcasing the best comedy talent.
When the naive straight-out-of-Africa student Njambi McGrath was invited to a Thanksgiving meal by her new college friend, she could hardly have known that some areas in America ar…
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Relive the magic of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in this remarkable tribute to the most successful band in music history.
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.
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 …
Performed in front of a live audience, with live foley (sound effects), this new radio play by Chris Buxey is a dark comedy about principles, money and the importance of family.
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.
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…
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.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie and Sal are two best friends with very different outlooks on life.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Annie is just a normal girl with normal problems.
Relive the magic of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons in this remarkable tribute to the most successful band in music history.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Withstanding the daily increase in the threat of nuclear annihilation, there really hasn’t been a better time to be a political stand-up.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
What is life like in a hostile post-Brexit Britain for a British/African woman? She is either completely ignored or too often portrayed as the victim in need of saving.
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.
Captivate Theatre’s cast of fresh-faced talent do not disappoint in this adaptation of Annie.
Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics.
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…
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.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Miranda Hart makes her West End debut as the infamous Miss Hannigan in a new production of the beloved Broadway musical Annie.
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 …
“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.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
It could not have been a better day to go on a stroll around Brighton.
My first venture to the Marlborough could not have been more welcoming.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Meet Frankie.
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…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
After more than 40 years, mummy’s boy Frankie Abbott’s memory is fading while in a care home, still fantasising about guns, girls and gangsters.
Annie McGrath (one half of sketch duo, Twins) presents her highly anticipated debut stand-up show: The Seven Ages of An.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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.
In one delightful scene of In Our Hands, miniature boats on sticks floating on a sea of netting are used to show us the ship-to-ship gossip of trawlermen, Cornish vowels lilting ov…
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…
By turns sparkly and scatalogical, Jo Burke brings a jack-of-all-trades approach to her show.
Many composers mix acoustic and electronic sounds, but few shape it with as much verve and elegance as this composer.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
From the Royal Botanic Gardens you can see (when it isn’t raining) almost all of central Edinburgh, the Athens of the north.
Get up if you want to get down! Creamy, full-fat, calorie-laden funk from Edinburgh’s premier groove machine, JBiA.
Four people with a few more mutual friends than they might expect trip round one another in Strawberries in January, a play that mixes and matches the tropes of romantic comedies w…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
Annie has the face of an angel and the mouth of a gutter.
Winner of Best Cabaret at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe, Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox now makes its Edinburgh debut.
Tim Dingle is an extraordinarily clever man.
Scott Bennett’s patter feels designed for a larger audience.
Award-nominated comedian Njambi McGrath is joined by the rising stars of comedy each doing 10 minute sets.
James Veitch appears, at first, a bit like a protagonist in a young adult novel (probably one by John Green), in the way he combines a bildungsroman with popular culture, or sees m…
Rhys James does not make it easy for his audience to get a handle on him.
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…
Barnie Duncan’s alter-ego Juan Vesuvius has returned to Edinburgh with a DJing set unlike any other.
zazU, a town (or possibly country) with fairly odd inhabitants, is gearing up to hold its fête.
There’s an enlightening moment in Jonzi D’s dance-based piece where a disembodied voice interrogates him as he ponders whether or not to accept a New Year’s honour.
(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…
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
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…
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…
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…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
The promotional blurb for Dead Fresh warns you that missing the secret of this dark comedy (or perhaps missing the comedy itself – there’s some pronoun confusion in there) ‘c…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
The Room is the worst film ever made.
This taster session of theatre portrays a trio of dark, comic plays presented with malevolent glee by actors Lexy Howe, Ffion Jones and May Phillips.
Last year Vampire Hospital Waiting Room became a stealth hit of the Fringe, a caped cult classic that captured hearts and minds.
Katie Mulgrew’s show about Disney Princesses is exceedingly well suited to her venue, The Turret at Gilded Balloon.
A sign for the Walton Street Working Men’s Club hangs on one wall, on the other a set of gold and pink lametta streamers.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that starting a review of Austentatious with ‘it is a truth universally acknowledged’ is so cliché that the author should be beaten.
The Morgana of legend: sometimes kind, sometimes violent, always bewitching.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
This Land of our Fathers was built on coal, its rivers of mingled blood and sweat have forever darkened it, relieved only by death.
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
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.
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 …
Annie Gosfield completes her residency at the Stone this weekend, with two concerts each evening featuring notated and improvised music.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
This production of The Seven Deadly Sins, a collaboration between A Compay Chordelia and Scottish Opera, adds further levels of distancing meta-theatricality to Kurt Weill’s sati…
Forever, a new play by Clare Sheppard and Kenny Boyle who also star in the piece, is clearly a labour of love.
In a village in Central America, Miguel’s big mouth only gets him into trouble with his parents and aunt Cecilia but when soldiers come to enforce the regime and take his parents…
Adam Hills jogged onto stage and brought an immediate, exuberant atmosphere to Assembly Hall.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
This new comedy represents the first step on Pinkanoe Theatre’s mission to bring more ladies into comedy and they’ve certainly gone for that with gusto in bringing the story of…
The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final, as one might expect, was a one-off chance to see some of the comedians of tomorrow battle it out for the prestigious prize of £1500 and a moose s…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
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.
Spank! is a show that fully deserves its exclamation point.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have put together a production of Titus Andronicus that rather beautifully captures the double-edged nature of George Peele and William Shakespeare’s play …
Ian Fox has come up with a fairly novel twist on observational comedy: his show centres on a series of photographs shown on television screens around the room so that the audience …
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.
In Fanfiction Comedy, a group of Kiwis have taken it upon themselves to take the biggest guilty pleasure of geekdom, fanfiction, and offer it up onstage for your delight.
The style conventions of Broadway Baby specify that we are a family publication and that profanity should be used in reviews only where strictly necessary.
The conceit of Lights! Camera! Improvise! is deceptively simple: Oscar, owner of the only infinite film collection in the world, invites the audience to choose a movie to watch wit…
Luke Kempner’s one man mockery of Downton Abbey, TOWIE and a host of other Friday night telly fare sees him adopt 32 different characters in pursuit of the ultimate Downton paro…
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.
A muffragette is, according to Mary Bourke, a feminist, just without the toxic baggage of that word.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Nadia Kamil’s show Wide Open Beavers is unashamedly and unapologetically feminist and deserves a feminist review.
Croft and Pearce call themselves two very similar friends who also ‘look very similar’, but you could have fooled me after I watched their show.
NewsRevue always set themselves a difficult task- that is, summing up a year’s worth of news and satire without re-treading the well-plowed mulch of Mock the Week, Have I Got New…
‘He has my fullest support’ is the death knell that echoes around BBC Broadcasting House in the wake of the departure of the Acting Head of News.
It is perhaps a mistake for Faye Draper to have a clock mounted on the wall during her one woman show Tea is an Evening Meal.
Platero y Yo is an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramon Jimenez’s book of the same name, performed entirely in Spanish by students from the University of Puerto Rico…
Phill Jupitus in association with Free Fringe is a coup.
‘Funny’s funny, except when it’s not’ seems to be the general message of this compilation show.
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…
The ladies behind Dirty Thirties are called Lady Melville and Roxie Rebel, though unfortunately the evening I attended the latter had absconded.
Live at The Electric promised some of the best sketch comedy of the Fringe hosted by the extremely likable and endearing Russell Kane.
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.
The story of toys coming to life and conducting their own lives in the absence of children may sound familiar but The Hand-Me-Down People takes a far bleaker look at these discarde…
The set of Strong Arm clearly demonstrates that the production has been thought through, all flabby excess stripped away to leave a lean, hard show.
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…
A young girl marries the richest man in France, despite not loving him, but soon finds that the extent of his cruelty is far greater than her wildest expectations.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Paul Wilson presents possibly the most low-key magic show at the Fringe this year, but his successes on BBC3’s The Real Hustle practically guarantee him an audience of fans.
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.
There are no tickets for The Good, The Bad and The Extra-terrestrials but every audience member is presented with a cowboy hat and a toy revolver to get into the spirit of things.
Phil Nichol seems unsure what he wants from his audience.
The Fastest Train to Anywhere by Alexander Wright demonstrates perfectly why great fantasy writing has captured the childhood imagination of the nation, and why those novels are fe…
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
To get through the third night of BBC Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret you needed a strong stomach or a repressed gag reflex as the show went truly dirty in pursuit of the utterly…
Basic Training is a one man show, but you’d be forgiven if when it comes to the curtain call you expect bows from a cast of the full 23 different personalities.
Helen Keen is an endearing comic; her relationship with her audience is something like that between a kooky favourite teacher and an indulged sixth form group.
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…
Normal begins as it means to go on by alienating everyone sitting beyond the first two rows.
Despite announcing that she wanted to kill a journalist who referred to her as a ‘mumedian’ in a pre-Fringe interview, Lucy Porter puts on a decidedly maternal show.
The inspiration Darkness Rising owes to Hot Fuzz is clear from the first scene, as policemen of varying levels of incompetency gather round a corpse found in a pentagram.
Laurence Clark is keen to point out that neither he, nor his show, are inspiring.
In Ancient China the Emperor places his hand upon death’s door.
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
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.
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
With the second and most exhausting weekend of the Fringe nearly in the rearview mirror, it’s time to have a rest day.
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.
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.
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Annie Ryan is the founder and Artistic Director of The Corn Exchange.
On Friday, Frankie Boyle took to the stage at the Féile an Phobail festival in West Belfast.