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Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
DirtBirds: Girls World Tour
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Nov 2024
Ireland's Queens of Comedy are back with their brand new show, Girls World Tour.
Girls Don't Play Guitars
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 27th Sep - 26th Oct 2024
The five star musical that shook 2019 is back! “One of the strongest shows the Royal Court has produced” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Liverpool Echo &…
Girls Don't Play Guitars
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 27th Sep - 26th Oct 2024
The five star musical that shook 2019 is back! “One of the strongest shows the Royal Court has produced” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Liverpool Echo &…
Our Country’s Good
- Listing
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 6th Sep - 5th Oct 2024
“Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge of the earth…”Thomas Barrett, aged 17.
Our Country's Good
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 5th Sep - 5th Oct 2024
“Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge of the earth…”Thomas Barrett, aged 17.
Pitch It Good – Live
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 24th - 26th Aug 2024
Step into the uproarious world of Pitch It Good, where laughter meets lunacy in a show unlike any other.
Sue Perkins: A Piece of Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th - 26th Aug 2024
Sue is a mess; but manages to hide it with long words and a disorientating quiff.
Joanne McNally: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 19th - 25th Aug 2024
Variety Magazine’s Comic To Watch for 2024.
Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 19th - 25th Aug 2024
Everyone’s favourite climate academic and comedian Dr Matt Winning tests new ideas about climate change.
10 Things They Hate About Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey
- 18th - 25th Aug 2024
When it comes to relationships, Shinanne is all about the D.
David McIver: Wild Horses (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 18th - 25th Aug 2024
When I am on stage performing stand-up comedy I feel like a wild horse galloping through the plains of Ohio, the wind running through my mane, the hot sun shining down on my sturdy…
Sophie McCartney: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 15th - 18th Aug 2024
Following on from the phenomenal success of her debut stand up tour, award-winning comedian Sophie McCartney is back.
Bi Hot Welsh Girls Very Cute! (Also Funny)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 15th - 26th Aug 2024
June Tuesday and Maria Pollard are the best unstable, hot, bi stand-up comedians to come out of Wales and possibly the world.
Baby Belle: DTF (Work in Progress)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 14th - 21st Aug 2024
In this work-in-progress show, Baby Belle’s slightly less glamorous sibling Jax Braithwaite will unwrap the experience of Dealing with Tricky Feelings.
Come To Mommy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Whistlebinkies
- 14th - 25th Aug 2024
At Come to Mommy nothing is off the table! Having a problem at work? A tiff with your spouse? Did you commit arson? No matter the problem, you can always Come to Mommy, hosted by G…
A Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 14th - 25th Aug 2024
Mariah Girouard is not a Good Girl.
Seán Burke: Burke in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 13th - 24th Aug 2024
One of Ireland’s favourite internet comedians, Seán Burke, makes his Edinburgh debut with Burke In Progress.
Daniel Powell: Breathless (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 13th - 17th Aug 2024
Stand-Up comedian Daniel Powell tells the story of how a cat tried to kill him with its arse, destroying his health (and life) in the process.
The Good Iranian
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 13th - 25th Aug 2024
Salam, y’all! Arsalan Akhavan’s funny and uplifting one-man show interweaves myths from the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) with true-life stories about growing up Iranian in the…
Dara Ó Briain: My Entire Life is a Work In Progress (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 12th - 25th Aug 2024
You know the guy.
Is There Work on Mars?
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
Can an Asian with ADHD and dyscalculia pass Elon Musk’s Mars immigration test? Set in a dystopian future of space colonisation, Is There Work on Mars? rants about many things: bein…
Love Your Work
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
Love Your Work is a bi-annual work-in-progress showcase dedicated to facilitating dance and mental health.
All Things Considered
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 12th - 24th Aug 2024
Reeling in the midst of a family tragedy, Cleo Harris sits in a hospital waiting room recounting the key events and core relationships in her life that led to such a lonely and aim…
Piss Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
A compelling, humorous and poignant play that explores the intimate and often complex relationship between girls and their shared experiences in the bathroom.
Ian Smith: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2023 Ian Smith returns with a limited work in progress run.
Pretty Good, Not Bad
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
The long walk home.
Things We Will Miss
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 12th - 25th Aug 2024
A collage style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, this personal meditation on the climate crisis explores the beauty and inevitability of imperma…
Helen Bauer: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Helen Bauer has some very messy ideas of her thoughts and feelings on pretty much everything! And boy does she have feelings! Most feelings are surrounding the rules of adult femal…
Stephen Buchanan: Cold Meat (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Award winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award & Scottish Comedian of the Year) works out his new show about advertising, mental health and potentially cold meat…
4 girls the first letter e
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 12th - 24th Aug 2024
In 2012, two girls stabbed their friend 19 times at Slenderman’s instruction.
Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes. (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
Michelle Ahern: We've Had A Good Run
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Eastside
- 12th - 25th Aug 2024
Her husband’s affair changed everything.
Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 12th - 25th Aug 2024
Rhiannon has always been a good girl: obliging, pretty, and eager to please.
Bachelor Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
War! What’s it good for? Lesbians, apparently… This tragi-comedy follows the relationships between four queer women anticipating the end of the war in a bomb shelter turned bac…
Feelin’ Good with Endeavour Chorus
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greyfriars Kirk
- 10th - 10th Aug 2024
Endeavour Chorus plus Go Forth.
Radium Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 5th - 10th Aug 2024
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure and luminous watches the latest rage – until the girls that painted them began to fall desperately ill with a mysterious disease.
Max Fosh: Loophole (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Come join Max as he works on a brand-new show that he’ll be touring around (some of the) world at the end of this year!
Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
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…
The Grumpy Magicians Present: Now You See It, Now You Don't!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 17th Aug 2024
The Grumpy Magicians present: Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
Will Rowland: Masterpiece in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 3rd - 10th Aug 2024
The New Comedian of the Year finalist and co-creator of Crizards (**** (Guardian)) uncurls from his sleeping spot in the airing cupboard to ponder life’s most pressing issues: the …
The Things I Did While Waiting For You To Fall Back In Love With Me
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2024
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…
Werewolves of London (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ Potterrow
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2024
From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show 2023, Leicester Comedy Festival; sell-out five-star show, Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work-in-progress clown an…
Nish Kumar: Nish, Don't Kill My Vibe (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Work-in-progress show for a new tour.
Bad Clowns and Good Friends
- Listing Cabaret and Variety / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Eve
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
The award-winning comedy trio Bad Clowns are putting on a night of the best comedy acts from this year’s festival every Friday and Saturday of the Fringe, and you’re invited!
Anna Clifford: Got Jokes? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hoots @ Home Street
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2024
After the successful debut of her comedy hour, I See Deadly People (available on YouTube), Anna is back with new jokes, a nearly there show, and you decide what stays and what goes…
Trouble Come Find Me
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 2nd - 3rd Aug 2024
Herstory, ancestry and f*ckupery - it’s all in the making of show.
M R James: Whistle and I'll Come to You
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
‘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.
Auld Cheeky
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
The best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the Scottish comedy circuit, plus guests.
Stuart Mitchell – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
Following his critically acclaimed Radio 4 series Cost of Living, join the longest-running panellist from BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News and star of the Glesga Da Podcast as he r…
Drop Dead Gorgeous: A New Musical (Work-in-Progress Concert Series)
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
Get a sneak peek of the upcoming new musical based on the cult-classic film, featuring an original score written by Riki Lindhome (Netflix’s Wednesday).
Kieran Hodgson: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 8th Aug 2024
After running out of life story, the four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee is after a new comedic muse.
As Good as It Gets
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
What do you do when you hate the guy you’re dating, but he only has one eye? What do you stare at when sitting across from an old person whose eyes are constantly dripping in a way…
A Dram Good Whisky Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- A Dram Good Festival at 96 George Street
- 2nd - 3rd Aug 2024
After the success of last year’s inaugural event, we return, bigger and better.
6 Impossible Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 1st - 11th Aug 2024
An Alice in Wonderland parody magic show! Come be part of the magic! Las Vegas magician Jordan Rooks combines magic, comedy and storytelling into an unforgettable time! Jordan’s un…
001– Laughing Matters (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
I left Israel to live in Berlin, because it is ironically safer.
Dragon Shows for Babies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- LifeCare Centre
- 1st - 20th Aug 2024
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Elaine Fellows: Sugar and Lies (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 1st - 13th Aug 2024
Work-in-progress stand-up comedy show from Elaine Fellows.
Titi Lee: Good Girl Gone Baddie
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at Cabaret Voltaire
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Lifelong goody-two-shoes Titi Lee is breaking all the rules, and you are invited.
The Good, The Bad and The Irish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The Good the Bad and the Irish has been performing at the Fringe for the last 14 years! We’re the original Irish comedy show with regular weekly clubs in Edinburgh and many sellout…
Catherine Cohen: Come For Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Catherine Cohen is back.
Mark Watson: Work-In-Progress Is Not a Cop-Out, It Demonstrates Respect For The Paying Audience
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 1st - 22nd Aug 2024
Two years is how long it takes me to write a proper show.
Really Good Exposure
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Skins actress Megan Prescott – aka Katie F*cking Fitch – writes and stars in her debut solo show.
Nathan Cassidy: The Spine That Shagged Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Fringe legend on the worst day of his life and on drugs! First he did his back in, now he’s tripping on Diazepam watching Life of Pi.
Absolute Nickhead (Kirk In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Eastside
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Nick Kirk (West End New Act Finalist 2023) presents his first solo show featuring one man, no hair and a cast of supporting characters unpicking what life is like when you’re hitti…
Alcohol is Good for You
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
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! …
Nathan Cassidy: International Man of Mestory
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Multi award-winning comedian and star of three Amazon Prime specials on finding fun in a chaotic world.
Luke Nixon and Jim Midge: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Eastside
- 1st - 12th Aug 2024
Luke Nixon and his character Jim Midge present a work in progress.
Is the WiFi Good in Hell?
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Chapman’s debut play isn’t just genuine; it is brutally real.
Girls Really Listen To Me
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Madeleine is pretty much the worst sixteen year old you can meet.
100 Things You are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Downstairs at Betty’s
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have.
Benji Waterstones: Maddening (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
NHS psychiatrist, comedian and Sunday Times best-selling author of You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here road-tests more ‘humane, hilarious and eye-opening’ (Guardian) tales from t…
Shiny Things – Comedy Extravaganza
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Shiny Things is a comedy variety show hosted by a delightful and mischievous duo, presenting guest acts performing improv, character and stand-up, as well as audience prizes, and a…
John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
John-Luke Roberts does every solo comedy show he’s ever done in a row, and then goes back to the first one and does them again until the Fringe runs out.
All These Pretty Things
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
An emotionally raw blend of memoir and song, Tracey Yarad’s All These Pretty Things is a phoenix rising from the ashes story, taking the audience from Australia and the fallout o…
Trygve Wakenshaw: Silly Little Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show.
Sophie Garrad and Leigh Douglas: Daddy's Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 22nd Aug 2024
Sophie and Leigh are Daddy’s Girls on the loose.
A.L.Ex and The ImpRobots Present: An AI Show for Kids!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2024
Sixty minutes of hilarious fast-paced interactive science theatre for the whole family featuring real robots, AI, and laughs.
Phil Ellis: Come On and Take The Rest of Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
The 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee and winner of the Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality returns with a brand new show! After the huge success of his 2023 Phil…
Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Bronwyn Kuss: Sounds Good
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Armed with a dry charm, Bronwyn brings her solo debut to Edinburgh.
Good Luck, Cathrine Frost!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Smash-hit, one-woman show from the award-winning Det Andre Teatret is coming to Edinburgh! Nominated for Best Theatre Play by the prestigious Hedda award.
All the Fraudulent Horse Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
This feral equine fantasia follows 11-year-old Audrey who is telepathically linked to all the other horse-girls in the world.
Come Dine With Me: The Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Take a bunch of tuneful strangers.
Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
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 …
Glenn Moore: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 30th Jul - 13th Aug 2024
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee and one of the greatest joke writers of his generation, Glenn Moore (Live At The Apollo, Cats Does Countdown, Mock The Week, Glenn Moore’s …
Tom Ballard: Good Point Well Made
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 29th Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Best Show Nominee, Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Fan Girls
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 13th Jul - 24th Aug 2024
Get ready for an unmissable show that pulses with the soaring adrenaline of a first crush and feels like the best pop concert you’ve never been to…Meet Edna: she’s 14, she’…
The Wild Woman (in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Arches St Mary’s Church
- 18th - 19th Jun 2024
This show is a love letter to her own struggles of coming to terms with being autistic, trying to make sense and cope with the world around her.
Songs for Slutty Girls
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- The Other Palace
- 8th - 8th Jun 2024
Songs for Slutty Girls explores the ecstasy, pain, and hilarity of sex through a year in the life of one woman, represented by four aspects of her personality: Heart, Gut, Head and…
Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th Jun 2024
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th Jun 2024
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
Mean Girls
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Savoy Theatre
- 6th Jun 2024 - 16th Feb 2025
It’s gonna be a little bit dramatic… Get in, loser, Mean Girls is going to London.
The Good Women
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Cockpit
- 5th - 15th Jun 2024
After a sold-out UK and Ireland tour, “The Good Women” returns to London for Pridemonth.
Juliette Burton: Hopepunk (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
- 1st Jun 2024
Juliette has performed six solo shows, When I Grow Up, Look At Me, Decision Time, Butterfly Effect and Defined, at the Edinburgh Fringe, selling out 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2023.
Seldom Differ: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 1st Jun 2024
Northern sketch lads Seldom Differ try out new ideas in this hour of multimedia character sketch comedy.
Joshua Robertson: Enable Me (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 1st Jun 2024
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Vladimir McTavish: 30 Years Still Standing Up (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2024
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Edinburgh.
Josh Baulf: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th May 2023 - 2nd Jun 2024
Josh Baulf has recently appeared on Britains Got Talent, the BBC and his online sketches have amassed millions of views worldwide.
Katie Norris: Farm Fatale (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 31st May 2024
Katie Norris (Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023, BBC New Comedy Award Semi-Finalist 2023) is returning to Brighton with her hotly anticipated debut hour.
Ashley Haden Political and Correct (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2024
Ashley is back with his satirical eye, angry words and with caustic wit.
Grace Mulvey: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 30th May 2024
Grace Mulvey (BBC Galton & Simpson Comedy Winner) fresh from a sold out run at the Dublin Fringe is bringing her hotly anticipated new WIP show to Brighton.
I Wanna Change the World, Do You Wanna Come With Me?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- BN1 Arts Centre
- 30th May - 2nd Jun 2024
Join AFLO.
Louise Atkinson: She's Got The Look (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May 2024
Winner of the Amused Moose Best Debut Show, nominee for NextUp! biggest Award in Comedy and nominee for Comedians Choice Award, Louise Atkinson brings you a show about how we false…
PACE+ Lab ‘Networking & Pitching Your Work’
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 29th May 2024
BUILDING YOUR NETWORK & PRESENTING YOURSELF BEYOND A LOCAL CONTEXT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE)…
Daddy's Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 29th - 30th May 2024
Sophie (So You Think You’re Funny 2023 - Finalist Funny Women 2023 - Semi-Finalist) and Leigh (BBC New Comedy Regional Showcase & Live at the Queer Comedy Club for FrootTV) are Dad…
Cameron Sinclair Harris: Planets! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 28th - 30th May 2024
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
VICTIM (PACE+ Lab: Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios (Studio C)
- 27th May 2024
A Work-In-Progress theatre production, ‘VICTIM’ is a compelling and emotionally charged one-man show that invites the audience into the world of Jason, a young man whose life takes…
Ants and Other Strong Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Roger Kay
- Prague Fringe
- A Studio Rubín
- 29th May, 2024
Staying true to yourself and your beliefs in a complex world can be tricky.
Kemah Bob: Miss Fortunate (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 29th May 2024
Acclaimed comedian Kemah Bob comes to the Fringe with their unmissable debut stand-up show.
Joe Sutherland: Miss World (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 26th May - 2nd Jun 2024
As seen on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Hypothetical and a number of apps on your phone.
Crudi Dench: Someone Help Her! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
- 26th May 2024
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…
Nerine Skinner: In Two Minds (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th May 2024
Welcome to the world of BGT semi-finalist Nerine Skinner.
Alex Franklin: Girl Code (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 25th - 26th May 2024
In 2024, trans-girl Alex feels the most alive she’s ever felt; now she wants to make you feel alive, or die trying.
Selena Mersey: Bisexuelle (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 25th - 27th May 2024
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* Johnny is a hard-boiled detective from New York City, California, and he’s got just one more case to crack before he retires from th…
Daniel Powell: Breathless (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
- 25th - 26th May 2024
Exploring what it’s like to be a constantly aggrieved hypochondriac with more medical conditions than the BMJ, comedian Daniel Powell recounts the events that saw him run away from…
Dirty Work (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 25th - 26th May 2024
She’s loveable.
Platonic Sex (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 24th May - 1st Jun 2024
Platonic Sex is the debut comedy split bill from Sadbh Peters (Semi-finalist for Funny Women Stage Awards 2023) and Scott Oswald (Semi-finalist for So You Think You’re Funny, and…
Jerry's Girls
- Listing
- West End
- Menier Chocolate Factory
- 23rd May - 29th Jun 2024
JERRY’S GIRLS celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman.
Dawn Williams: Whole Package (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 23rd - 25th May 2024
Dawn is known for her hilariously imaginative and whimsical musings on modern dating, but this show is definitely not a show about dating.
Alex Kealy: The Fear (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 23rd - 26th May 2024
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (★★★★ - Daily Telegraph) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear, after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Christian Jegard: Mr Showbusiness (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds) / Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd - 26th May 2024
All round entertainer Christian ‘Mr Showbusiness’ Jegard is working on his debut show.
Two Come Home
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 21st - 26th May 2024
Ten years after a horrible crime tore them apart, two lovers reunite at the worst time.
Girls Really Listen To Me
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Pleasance Theatre Trust
- 20th - 21st May 2024
Madeleine is pretty much the worst sixteen year old you can meet.
Wattis Love (Baby Don’t Hurt Me) (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
- 20th - 23rd May 2024
Naomi Wattis is a stand up comic from London.
Robin Morgan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 19th May 2024
Robin Morgan (as seen/heard on Mock The Week and The News Quiz) works up a brand new hour ahead of a nationwide tour.
Ali Woods: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 18th May 2024
Following an Edinburgh fringe sell-out season, award-winning stand-up and viral sensation Ali Woods returns with loads of new material! Nominated for Best Show at Leicester Fringe …
Dan Fardell: Don't Look Back (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 26th May 2024
Join Brighton comedy stalwart and regular host of On The Edge comedy, Dan Fardell, in his new hour of stand-up, in which he tries a new direction and brings a more personal story t…
Lou Taylor: Jeans and a Nice Top (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
- 17th May 2024
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Philipp Kostelecky: A Work-in-Progress (Aren't We All?)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 16th - 19th May 2024
After a critically acclaimed and award-nominated debut hour Daddy’s Home, Philipp returns to Brighton to work out jokes for his new show.
Things that go Eeek
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 16th - 16th May 2024
EEEEEEeeek! Experimental Performance Cabaret ‘Things That Go Eeek in The Night’ is coming from London to Brighton Fringe !!!!!!! A night of risky silly stupid sexy performance by…
Kevin Bridges: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 14th - 15th May 2024
Catch Kevin Bridges as he tries out new material! Plus support
Alice-India: See You In Hell (A Work in Progress Show)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 20th May 2024
See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”.
People Places and Things
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Trafalgar Theatre
- 13th May - 10th Aug 2024
Emma was having the time of her life.
Lily Phillips: Stitches (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 13th May 2024
Fresh from hatching a baby girl and a sold out Edinburgh run, Lily is back with a new hour of comedy and she’s FINE.
Benny Shakes: Respect (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 12th May 2024
A highly anticipated debut from the creator of Blue Badge Bunch and joint winner of the Disabled Champion Award 2023.
Tej Dhutia: TMI (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th May 2024
Funny Women Semi-Finalist 2023, BBC3 veteran and former Commonwealth Games guest host Tej Dhutia brings her riotous debut solo show to Brighton.
Richard Cobb: Running Joke (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 11th - 19th May 2024
Hot on the heels of last year’s debut Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand new hour filled with more guilt-tripped anecdote…
Glass of Sketch - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 11th - 12th May 2024
Join Daniel for a Glass Of Sketch, where he will be delivering an informative talk on the ‘serious’ art form that is sketch comedy.
Big Zeus Energy Present: Werewolves of London (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 11th - 12th May 2024
From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, sellout Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work in progress show that may or may not b…
Sam Dodgshon's Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 11th - 28th May 2024
Sam Dodgshon has been collecting photos.
Darran Griffiths: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 11th May 2024
Following his 2023 Edinburgh debut show, the three times shortlisted British Comedian of the Year is back with his work in progress show about.
Low Effort Sketches: The First Effort (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 11th - 12th May 2024
Join multi award-winning double act Low Effort Sketches for an hour of silly sketch comedy! Andy and Alice desperately want to be respected, adored (and ideally paid) for their wit…
Jaz Mattu Returns (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 10th - 17th May 2024
The lovable Kentish comedian returns with more absurdist, chaotic, theatrical stand-up.
Shinpads (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 10th - 31st May 2024
Shinpads is the debut work-in-progress split bill from Abbi Cole and Ancika Mester.
Brad Jon Kane: Please Slow Down (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 10th May - 1st Jun 2024
Local Brighton alternative comedian Brad Jon Kane presents a character comedy show, where all the characters have been politely asked to ‘Please Slow Down’.
Triple Threat (Formerly Known as Two Girls One Mic)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 10th - 13th May 2024
Triple Threat is a split bill divided by 3 with Monica, Aisha and Anais making jokes about their experiences living in London as hot immigrant girlies.
Helen Prior: The Pussy from the USSR (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 10th - 11th May 2024
Watch out Brighton! The Pussy from the USSR is coming to make you laugh hysterically, bask in hysteria, and make you question everything you thought you knew to be true and real, b…
Clinton Baptiste: Roller Ghoster!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th - 12th May 2024
Solo again, Britain’s most celebrated clairvoyant medium psychic from Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix Nights’ returns with his brand new hilarious one-man s…
Clinton Baptiste: Roller Ghoster!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th - 12th May 2024
Solo again, Britain’s most celebrated clairvoyant medium psychic from Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix Nights’ returns with his brand new hilarious…
Bee Babylon: Once Upon a Time in Iceland (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th - 12th May 2024
In 1810 a brave Scottish man named Sir George Steuart Mackenzie ventured all the way to Iceland with some pals.
Mustafa Algiyadi: Almost Legal Alien (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 9th - 18th May 2024
Libyan Arab stand-up Mustafa Algiyadi longs to be part of the European way of life but is confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing, chaotic and sometimes hi…
Nathan Cassidy: The Spine That Shagged Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th May - 1st Jun 2024
Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23 (The Brighton Seagull) with the second of his two new stand-up shows for 2024.
David Anthony: Utopia (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 8th May 2024
David has undergone changes and is happier than he looks, promise.
Chloe Petts: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th - 12th May 2024
Following another smash-hit, sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, join “rising star” (Evening Standard) Chloe Petts as she starts working up new material in antici…
Leanne Shorley: Queef Encounter (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 8th - 9th May 2024
Leanne’s on an all-inclusive and she’s having a lovely time.
You Belong Here With Me, My Darling (Work in Progress)
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 8th - 9th May 2024
You Belong Here With Me, My Darling is a show about belonging.
Benji Waterstones: Maddening (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 28th May 2024
“Rising star comedian” (Evening Standard), Penguin-published author and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones unlocks the doors to the psych ward for more “humorous and colourful stor…
Work-in-Progress: Vladislav (Baby Don't Hurt Me)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 6th - 30th May 2024
In the summer of ’99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
Suse Steed: Parallelodox (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 1st Jun 2024
Join Suse Steed (NATYS Finalist, CAN comedy finalist, Max Turner Finalist, Funny Women Regional Finalist) for her debut show about economics, magic, and pies.
Fierce potato (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 5th - 28th May 2024
Dan Harding present Fierce Potato: Being Irish, spending his childhood in Spain, and now living on the south coast of England, Harding offers a unique perspective – one which he…
Pete Strong: Change Is Good, But It's Not the Only Thing (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2024
Just turned 40, sober as a judge, with a new baby.
Ben Pope: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 26th May 2024
Ben Pope (“a total delight” - Fest) performs the ancient, hallowed, mystic art of stand-up comedy with a notebook full of stories and a brain full of junk.
Farah Sharp: Who am I, and Who Is To Blame? Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2024
Stand-up comedian Farah Sharp is a mixed-race, middle child of divorce on the brink of turning thirty.
Steph Aritone: Weather Girl (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 5th May 2024
Rainy? Cloudy? Sunny? You choose in Steph’s 45 minute stand-up comedy show where she wrestles with the elements (of her mind).
Absolute Nickhead (Kirk In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 4th - 5th May 2024
One man, no hair and some supporting characters unpick what life is like when you’re hitting those awkward middle (age) years. West End New Act Finalist 2023
Sasha Ellen: Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 11th May 2024
Comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen.
Jason Happy Random Comedy (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bar Broadway (Off Broadway) / Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds) / Presuming Ed’s
- 4th - 23rd May 2024
Jason Happy the most randominist comedian in this solar system.
Alexandra Haddow: Third Party (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 4th - 12th May 2024
The news has been on fire for so long now we’re probably out of petrol.
Too Late, Baby (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room) / Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 4th - 20th May 2024
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
Too Late, Baby (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 4th - 20th May 2024
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
Son of a Bitch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 4th - 5th May 2024
The debut play from award winning comedian Anna Morris.
Nathan Cassidy: International Man of Mestory
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 25th May 2024
Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23 (The Brighton Seagull) with the first of his two new stand-up shows for 2024.
Elaine Fellows: Sugar & Lies (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 22nd May 2023 - 5th May 2024
Work in progress stand-up comedy show from Elaine Fellows.
Kate Cheka: A Messiah Comes (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 6th May 2024
Funny Women award-winner of 2023 Kate Cheka brings her first hour work in progress to Brighton Fringe.
Dave Fensome: ADHDad (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 25th May 2024
Acclaimed Brightonian comedian Dave Fensome has ADHD (as documented in his previous sell out show ADHDave), he’s now also a dad.
Alex Mason: Delicate Flower (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 3rd May - 1st Jun 2024
Alex Mason brings a work-in-progress version of his debut solo show, Delicate Flower, to Brighton Fringe 2024.
Mark Nicholas: This is Not The Autistic You Are Looking For (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 3rd May 2024
Winner of the ND Review Disability Champions Award and the Amateo Award 2022 brings his debut show to LCF.
People, Places & Things
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Trafalgar Theatre
- 15th May, 2024
You don’t get many second chances in life.
Scott McPherson: A Fine Line (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 3rd - 5th May 2024
Scott is a teetotal comedian from Glasgow, whose comedy and life is shaped by his porridge, smoothie and exercise addictions.
The Good Women
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 3rd - 4th May 2024
It’s the 1960s, the world is changing.
The Girls of Slender Means
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh
- Lyceum Theatre
- 25th Apr, 2024
The delightful wit with its dark undertow of Murial Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is caught brilliantly in this adaptation by Gabriel Quigley, directed by Roxana Silbert.
The Electric Head Present: Improvised Head
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Mar - 6th Jun 2024
Galton & Simpson ‘Godfathers of Comedy’ Award Winners 2023 tear-up the script as they return to Londons West end in their anarchic, two man long-form Impro Show!
Come Together
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Mar - 6th Apr 2024
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Come Together
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Mar - 6th Apr 2024
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Micky Flanagan’s Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd - 23rd Mar 2024
Micky Flanagan is back at Leicester Square Theatre doing work in progress, you get the chance to see him riff in an intimate venue, try out new material and possibly thr…
An Introduction to Astrophysics for Very Good Dogs | Earthman Bob + the Daisie chain
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 24th - 25th Feb 2024
An Introduction to Astrophysics for Very Good Dogs Dogs in space! Earthman Bob + the Daisie chain A positive post-apocalyptic one man show.
Francis Darcy The Fartsy Darcy Ballerina
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 24th Feb 2024
Francis is no ordinary ballerinaA storied dance show about discovering that sometimes the most embarrassing moments are the ones that make us shine if we just try, try a…
Strictly Come Dancing - London
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
The Good Father
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 6th - 10th Feb 2024
It’s New Year’s Eve and most of the party guests are in the kitchen admiring photos of their babies.
Strictly Come Dancing - Nottingham
- Listing
- West End
- Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
- 6th - 8th Feb 2024
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
The Good Father
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 6th - 10th Feb 2024
It’s New Year’s Eve and most of the party guests are in the kitchen admiring photos of their babies.
Till the Stars Come Down
- Review
- ★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Dorfman Theatre
- 9th Feb, 2024
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
Strictly Come Dancing - Manchester
- Listing
- West End
- Manchester Arena
- 3rd - 4th Feb 2024
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Strictly Come Dancing - Leeds
- Listing
- West End
- Leeds Arena
- 1st - 2nd Feb 2024
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Strictly Come Dancing - Glasgow
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Strictly Come Dancing - Newcastle
- Listing
- West End
- Metro Radio Arena
- 24th - 25th Jan 2024
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Strictly Come Dancing - Sheffield
- Listing
- West End
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 23rd - 23rd Jan 2024
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
My Favorite Things – The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert
- Listing
- West End
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- 12th Dec 2023
For one day only on 12 December 2023, Theatre Royal Drury Lane plays host to My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, featuring a 40-piece orchestra …
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Phoenix Theatre
- 22nd Mar 2024 - 16th Feb 2025
BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN… Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries.
The Drowning Girls
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 14th - 18th Nov 2023
"I was amazed at the effect a wedding ring had upon my entire existence" Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith an…
Libby Come Lately
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Barons Court Theatre / Etcetera Theatre / The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 10th - 18th Nov 2023
The show is a candid look into what life is like as a young woman in the world today consisting of silly stories and anecdotes covering topics such as growing up with a priest for …
16 Postcodes - work in progress
- Listing Spoken Word
- London Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 28th - 29th Oct 2023
Previewing extracts from her one-woman show coming in 2024, Jessica Regan will share some of her real-life London horror stories and lessons learned in trying to tame and finally s…
Josh Wolf: Bring Your Kid To Work Tour
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 27th Oct 2023
Josh Wolf is a comedian, actor and NY Times Bestselling author best known for his work as a round table guest and writer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and &…
Inua Ellams and Fuel Present: An Evening With An Immigrant
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Senate House Library
- 20th Oct 2023
Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, award-winning poet Inua Ellams tells his ridiculous, fantastic immigrant-story of looking for a country to belong to and a place to call…
The Working Girls of Soho, Saucy Tales of Notorious Women
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- The Century Club
- 20th Oct 2023
The Working Girls of Soho, takes you on a captivating journey of discovery, meeting the women who made Soho happen.
Tea & Toast Present: The Museum of Relationships
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- The Actors
- 10th Sep, 2023
Improvising a whole rom com style comedy show around audience suggestions is not for the faint hearted, and this group’s approach is relaxed and confident.
The Little Big Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Soho Place
- 4th Nov, 2023
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
Calendar Girls the Musical 2023 Tour
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- UK Regional & Tours
- Theatre Royal Windsor
- 30th Aug - 16th Sep 2023
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents a brand-new production of the award-winning Calendar Girls the Musical, written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, featuring a re-imagined book and new music…
Three Things That Are Never Seen
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 29th Aug - 2nd Sep 2023
One of the magpie people is here. Though there’s no point in searching for him. He’s going to tell you stories. But he won’t tell you if they’re true.
Summerhall's Closing Party: Maranta Present... Microsteria
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2023
Welcome to Microsteria.
Tarot: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 26th Aug 2023
The best show of 2019 according to Chortle.
Susan Harrison (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights / The Bill Murray
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
Susan Harrison tries out some new characters in this fun filled, work in progress character comedy show.
Susan Harrison (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights / The Bill Murray
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
Susan Harrison tries out some new characters in this fun filled, work in progress character comedy show.
A Lack of Faith (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 25th - 26th Aug 2023
A work in progress character & stand up comedy show by cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey.
A Lack of Faith (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 25th - 26th Aug 2023
A work in progress character & stand up comedy show by cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey.
LS2 F'n Good Music
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 25th - 27th Aug 2023
An Americana-soul acoustic group from California, Linda Stonestreet – a honeyed voice full of grace and fire – lends beautiful melodies with intelligent heartfelt lyrics and is…
Liam Tulley: APPY - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Aug 2023
APPY - is a work in progress stand up comedy show from Liam Tulley about the current digital age where everyone seems to be attractive, happy and popular.
Katie Norris - Farm Fatale -Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th - 25th Aug 2023
Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023 Katie is a stand up comedian, actor and singer who is best known for her work as one-half of the critically-acclaimed double act Norris &…
I Fed My Dad to a Pelican (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 24th Aug 2023
BBC New Comedy Award-nominated Kayleigh Jones wants to tell you why she fed her dad to a pelican.
Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 24th Aug 2023
Sarah Keyworth (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, House of Games) delivers a brand-new hour of comedy every day as they work up a new show.
Liam Tulley: APPY - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Aug 2023
APPY - is a work in progress stand up comedy show from Liam Tulley about the current digital age where everyone seems to be attractive, happy and popular.
Katie Norris: Farm Fatale (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th - 25th Aug 2023
Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023 Katie is a stand up comedian, actor and singer who is best known for her work as one-half of the critically-acclaimed double act Norris &…
Katie Norris: Farm Fatale (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th - 25th Aug 2023
Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023 Katie is a stand up comedian, actor and singer who is best known for her work as one-half of the critically-acclaimed double act Norris &…
Endea Owens: New Work at The Hub
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Hub
- 23rd Aug 2023
Don’t miss the world premiere of a new work from composer and bassist Endea Owens, performing with her acclaimed sextet.
Iraqnophobia (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 23rd Aug 2023
It’s 20 years since the Iraq War and Jenan wants to talk about it.
Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2023
Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show.
Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2023
Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show.
Live (Nude) Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
Catherine McCafferty (Crush on Hulu) and Ellory Smith (3x Emmy Nominated) will perform at Edinburgh’s Free Fringe crafting two separate, equally bizarre, half hours of comedy.
Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
He has been away having cancer; now he’s back with a work-in-progress show.
Alex and Roger Work It Out
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
Roger O’Sullivan (BBC New Comedy Awards Regional finalist) has had work featured on BBC One, BBC Three, RTÉ and BBC Radio 4.
BriTANicK: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
Sold-out run: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2022).
Silly Little Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
Impeccably written theatre with a biting comedic edge; SLT is an intimate hour of storytelling from your most charming, albeit dysfunctional, friend.
Parsons and Emslie: Always a pleasure, never a chore, be good to yourself, alright?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 21st - 27th Aug 2023
Two of the comedy circuit’s loveliest boys, Joseph Parsons (‘one to watch’ (Times), shortlisted for BBC New Comedy Award) and Joseph Emslie (Runner Up Leicester Mercury Comedian 20…
Maybe Things Are Okay
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
Hannah Platt – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 21st - 28th Aug 2023
A work in progress from BBC New Comedy Awards finalist Hannah Platt.
Good and Gaslit
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
Good and Gaslit.
Lee Hudson - Smiley Faces (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 20th Aug 2023
A show about family, relationships and happiness. Join Lee Hudson as he takes you through his experiences with his affable brand of storytelling bringing them to life.
Steve McNeil: Side Hustler (work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 20th Aug 2023
What if I told you I had discovered a legal system for tax-free, risk-free gambling, with guaranteed profits?.
Danny Bhoy – Now Is Not a Good Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 20th - 27th Aug 2023
2023 finally sees the return of Danny Bhoy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the world premiere of his brand-new show.
Troy Hawke: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 20th - 27th Aug 2023
WIP show from multi award-winning comedian and CEO of the Greeters Guild, Troy Hawke.
Lee Hudson - Smiley Faces (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 20th Aug 2023
A show about family, relationships and happiness. Join Lee Hudson as he takes you through his experiences with his affable brand of storytelling bringing them to life.
Steve McNeil: Side Hustler (work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 20th Aug 2023
What if I told you I had discovered a legal system for tax-free, risk-free gambling, with guaranteed profits?.
Sarah Roberts: Worm in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 20th - 27th Aug 2023
An adorable work-in-progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Burrito ‘n’ Shake
- 19th - 27th Aug 2023
Every show starts by asking the audience: Why can’t we have nice things? What are the little everyday niggles that irritate you? Does your flatmate squeeze the toothpaste from th…
Ashley Manning – Candyfloss (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 19th - 21st Aug 2023
Ashley Manning – ‘Playfully bleak’ (Scotsman) – is an independent, sexually empowered, modern woman.
The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th Aug 2022 - 18th Aug 2023
Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou…
The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Aug 2023
“Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit (so far this trademark has failed to hold water in court).
Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 17th - 27th Aug 2023
Sarah Keyworth (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, House of Games) delivers a brand-new hour of comedy every day as they work up a new show.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 17th Aug 2023
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to do a work in progress of her 2024 tour show – yep, she’…
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 17th - 23rd Aug 2023
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Lara Ricote comes back to Edinburgh to work out her next show.
NEHH and Lost Map Present... Pictish Trail and Friends
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 16th Aug 2023
Eigg-based independent label Lost Map celebrates its 10th year with full band performances from Pictish Trail, L T Leif.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 16th - 20th Aug 2023
New show from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics, featuring jokes about politics and jokes not about politics.
Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 16th Aug 2023
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Not Like Other Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 16th - 19th Aug 2023
Molly Martian has always been different.
Dinesh Nathan: Nathan Knows Nothing (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 16th - 27th Aug 2023
Having negotiated quite the challenging childhood – from being a spoilt kid in a private school, to his parents losing it all – Nathan knows nothing about stability.
Not Like Other Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 16th - 19th Aug 2023
Molly Martian has always been different.
Rose Matafeo: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 16th - 27th Aug 2023
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and creator of hit sitcom Starstruck (BBC/HBO) Rose Matafeo returns with an hour of work-in-progress stand-up.
Asian Girls in Therapy
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 13th - 16th Aug 2023
Asian Girls In Therapy is a K-pop and Bollywood fusion of joy, heartbreak, humour and depression.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to do a work in progress of her 2024 tour show – yep, she’…
Come Die with Me: The Murder Mystery Musical Parody
- Review
- ★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 23rd Aug, 2023
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
Laurie Stevens: Sticky Floors (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
It’s 2006, and David is preparing for the gig of a lifetime: headlining Sticky Floors, the coolest under-16s band night in the Bay Area.
Comedy for corporates: work-life balance is for losers
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 15th - 20th Aug 2023
The brave corporate professionals of the world just have to accept it.
Abishek & Nirmal: The Reel to Real – Crowd Work Tour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
Abishek Kumar and Nirmal Pillai are back on the road with their hugely fun and interactive show that’s guaranteed to leave you cackling.
Al Porter: A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
2016 Edinburgh Best Show nominee.
Kate-Lois Elliott: Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominee Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the Fringe) unexpectedly profound.
Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 15th - 16th Aug 2023
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Lara Ricote comes back to Edinburgh to work out her next show.
The Good, the Bad and the Irish!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
The Good, the Bad and the Irish! has been performing all over the UK, Ireland and Europe for the last 14 years, showcasing only the best in Irish comedy! We’re all about the craic!…
Horizon Showcase: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
Following double Fringe First winners (The Believers Are But Brothers; Rich Kids – A History of Shopping Malls In Tehran), the final piece of Javaad Alipoor’s trilogy is an inves…
Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 14th - 16th Aug 2023
Star of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle, Hypothetical and the surveillance camera when she forgot to pay for petrol, Harriet’s at the Fringe for…
Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 14th - 16th Aug 2023
Stand-up Eleanor Morton presents new ideas as she works towards her next show.
Basil Bottler: Wank In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 14th Aug 2023
Intergalactic Man of Mystery, Basil Bottler makes his Edinburgh debut in this one-off hour of jokes, songs, poems and dicking about.
Catherine Cohen: Come For Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th - 27th Aug 2023
After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.
Here You Come Again
- Review
- ★★
- Ben Ludlow
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 18th Aug, 2023
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.
1 Tent, 4 Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 14th - 26th Aug 2023
This firecracker of a comedy explores the relationships between four young women embarking on a disastrous camping trip.
Wild Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 14th - 19th Aug 2023
Conservation and comedy collide in this hour-long improvised play about endangered species.
Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2023
BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian.
Sweet Nothings Present: Murder on the Stage Floor
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th - 19th Aug 2023
Exeter’s award-winning all-female a cappella group take to the stage with sensational singing, dancing and an enticing murder mystery.
Come to Our Show (Please)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 14th - 20th Aug 2023
Two clowns, Anna and Felix, set out on a quest for home.
Asian Girls In Therapy
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 13th - 16th Aug 2023
The hilariously depressing tug-of-war with yourself and.
Asian Girls In Therapy
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 13th - 16th Aug 2023
The hilariously depressing tug-of-war with yourself and.
I Start Things But Don’t Fin
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 26th Aug 2023
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
Nick Elleray: Sassy Unit (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 12th - 20th Aug 2023
A work-in-progress show from Nick Elleray (finalist, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2022).
Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 13th Aug 2023
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…
Nick Elleray: Sassy Unit (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 12th - 20th Aug 2023
A work-in-progress show from Nick Elleray (finalist, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2022).
Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 13th Aug 2023
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…
I Start Things But Don’t Fin
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 26th Aug 2023
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
Reginald D. Hunter: The Man Who Could See Through Shit – A Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 11th - 20th Aug 2023
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
Lou Taylor - Jeans and a Nice Top (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy / The Bill Murray
- 11th - 26th Aug 2023
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Joshua Robertson: Enable Me (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 11th - 14th Aug 2023
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Simon Amstell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 11th - 12th Aug 2023
In a thrilling, last-minute addition, Simon Amstell will return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in six years to perform a late-night show of new stand-up material for a …
Joshua Robertson: Enable Me (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 11th - 14th Aug 2023
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Addicts and Those Who Love Them
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whitespace 76
- 11th - 17th Aug 2023
Behind every addict is someone traumatised by loving them.
Lou Taylor: Jeans and a Nice Top (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy / The Bill Murray
- 11th - 26th Aug 2023
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Nish Kumar: Them Changes (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 10th - 14th Aug 2023
‘I catch a paper boy, but things don’t really change’ (David Bowie).
Rachel Parris: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th - 13th Aug 2023
The BAFTA-nominated comedian, The Mash Report (BBC2) star, Live at the Apollo (BBC1) star and viral sensation, presents a work-in-progress hour of her signature blend of stand-up a…
The Rise and Fall of Nerine Skinner (A Liz Truss Parody) Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 9th - 11th Aug 2023
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
Sam Fletcher: Pillock of the Community (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 9th - 11th Aug 2023
Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee Sam Fletcher is back at his spiritual comedy home, Aces & Eights, to try out all new jokes, tricks and games.
The Electric Head present: Improvised Head
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 9th Aug 2023
Acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) are taking London by storm and reality by surprise with their brand new, critically acclaimed long-form improv show.
Seldom Differ: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 9th - 10th Aug 2023
Northern sketch lads Seldom Differ try out brand new ideas in this hour of multimedia character sketch comedy.
Sam Fletcher: Pillock of the Community (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 9th - 11th Aug 2023
Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee Sam Fletcher is back at his spiritual comedy home, Aces & Eights, to try out all new jokes, tricks and games.
Nerine Skinner: In Two Minds (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 9th - 11th Aug 2023
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
The Electric Head present: Improvised Head
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 9th Aug 2023
Acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) are taking London by storm and reality by surprise with their brand new, critically acclaimed long-form improv show.
The Rise and Fall of Nerine Skinner (A Liz Truss Parody) Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 9th - 11th Aug 2023
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
Seldom Differ: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 9th - 10th Aug 2023
Northern sketch lads Seldom Differ try out brand new ideas in this hour of multimedia character sketch comedy.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights / Camden Comedy Club
- 8th - 26th Aug 2023
Work in Progress from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics.
Hot Concrete: Too Hot (and too concretey) For TV (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 8th - 9th Aug 2023
Hot Concrete are set for the big time and they aren’t afraid to admit it.
Hot Concrete: Too Hot (and too concretey) For TV (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 8th - 9th Aug 2023
Hot Concrete are set for the big time and they aren’t afraid to admit it.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights / Camden Comedy Club
- 8th - 26th Aug 2023
Work in Progress from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics.
Frank Sinatra Tribute: Come Fly With Me
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 7th - 26th Aug 2023
Returning to Edinburgh following his successful tribute show, Frank & Dean, at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pete Sinclair returns with a full-hour show celebrating the hi…
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 7th - 17th Aug 2023
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes.
NYCOS National Girls Choir
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Giles’ Cathedral
- 7th Aug 2023
Howard Blake’s delightful settings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem The Land of Counterpane form the centrepiece of this concert by the critically acclaimed NYCOS National Girls Ch…
Josh Pugh: Existin' La Vida Loca (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 7th Aug 2023
Brand-new stand-up show from Edinburgh Award-nominated viral sensation Josh Pugh.
Auld Lang Sing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 7th - 10th Aug 2023
A new take on old words, Auld Lang Sing is a new show written by Siobhan Argyle and performed by students of Glasgow Acting Academy.
Excelf-esteem (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 6th - 7th Aug 2023
Steph is a really chill girl.
Alex Kealy: 2023 Work-in-progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 6th - 27th Aug 2023
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Toby Williams: Gubbins (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 26th Aug 2023
From the injustice of a ‘70s parenting smack-down to the one good reason for having children (not to mention dogging with Steve McFadden along the way) this show leaves no stone …
'78 Things I Don’t Want to Tell You About the Love of My Life
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 6th - 20th Aug 2023
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
Leith Makes Good
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Leith Community Pottery
- 6th - 27th Aug 2023
Leith Makes Good.
Joseph Parsons: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 6th Aug 2023
Following his sell out debut, BBC Newcomer Award nominated Joseph Parsons begins work on his second hour of stand up.
Things To Do in Mull
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 6th - 14th Aug 2023
Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions.
Sarah Roberts: Do You Know Who I Am? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 6th - 15th Aug 2023
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
Excelf-esteem (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 6th - 7th Aug 2023
Steph is a really chill girl.
Alistair Barrie: Woke in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 6th - 19th Aug 2023
‘The brilliantly topical Alistair Barrie, one of the UK’s sharpest comedians’ (Herald) returns to the Fringe with ‘an absolutely stunning hour of political comedy’ (Entertainment-N…
Sarah Roberts: Do You Know Who I Am? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 6th - 15th Aug 2023
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
Alex Kealy: The Fear (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 6th - 27th Aug 2023
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Toby Williams: Gubbins (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 26th Aug 2023
From the injustice of a ‘70s parenting smack-down to the one good reason for having children (not to mention dogging with Steve McFadden along the way) this show leaves no stone …
Joseph Parsons: Overhaul (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 6th Aug 2023
Following his sell out debut, BBC Newcomer Award nominated Joseph Parsons begins work on his second hour of stand up.
The Grumpy Magicians Present: If All Else Fails, Read the Instructions
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse
- 5th - 19th Aug 2023
The Grumpy Magicians present: If All Else Fails, Read the Instructions.
The Bag of Cats present: Nine Lives
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
How do you act at work? How do you act at home? How do you act when everything goes wrong? Nine Lives is a long-form improvised comedy show exploring the different masks we all wea…
The Good, the Bad and the Irish!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Leith Depot
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
The Good, the Bad and the Irish! has been performing all over the UK, Ireland and Europe for the last 14 years, showcasing only the best in Irish comedy! We’re all about the craic!…
0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Stand-up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
A crowd-work and stand-up comedy show with zero plans.
A Midsummer Dream in Auld Reekie
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre
- 5th - 19th Aug 2023
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
Body: A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 5th - 9th Aug 2023
She’s had it all her life and finally comedian Pauline Eyre is ready to celebrate her body.
Ted Milligan: The Finished Product (A Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Irreverent stand-up and sketch from an award-winning character comedian whose writing has been praised as ‘hilarious.
David Ephgrave: Good Grief
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th - 9th Aug 2023
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to.
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 4th - 13th Aug 2023
Jamali Maddix is working up a brand-new hour.
Mike Rice: An Irish Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Eastside
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Sultry Irish comedian Mike Rice is working through some brand-new stories and jokes about cows, the Dali Lama, insomnia and the power of the human mind.
What Girls Are Made Of
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
The smash-hit, gig-theatre show returns, charting the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey from 90s indie-kid to wised-up woman.
Good Grief: Five Deserts in Search of My Father. A One-Man Show by Writer Jon Lawrence
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity.
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy / Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2023
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes.
Ray Bradshaw – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
Multi international award-winning comedian Ray Bradshaw is back at the Fringe with a brand-new show after his hit UK 2023 tour, Deaf Com 1.
Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn't Fear The Dark)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
The Dram Good Whisky Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 4th - 5th Aug 2023
The Merchants Hall will be open for the complete whisky experience with open tastings and talks about this wonderful industry.
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 4th - 16th Aug 2023
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes.
Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St / theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye…
Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye…
The Good Dad (A Love Story)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Kathleen Hughes: One of the Girls (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar
- 4th - 18th Aug 2023
Queer feminist and bloody lefty Kathleen has fallen into a settled life with a nice boy who can do maths.
Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
WPB are six rising comedy stars who’ve been performing in prisons across Scotland since November 2022.
Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 3rd - 6th Aug 2023
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
Glenn Moore: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 3rd - 15th Aug 2023
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ (Guardian).
Jessie Cave: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
Jessie Cave works up a new show about the complexities of motherhood, social anxiety and heartbreak.
Spring Day: Exvangelical (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2023
As seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo, American transplant Spring Day provides dark comedy for nice people.
Wham Bam Thank You Mam (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
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.
Those Who Can't Do
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Ty juggles a double life between being a respectable teacher during the week, and a fun-loving party animal on the weekend.
Alcohol Is Good For You
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
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…
Tom Houghton – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The Honourable Tom Houghton is back at the fringe hot off his starring role in The Circle (Netflix) to work through a bunch of new ideas for his upcoming tour of the UK, Europe and…
24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Nathan Cassidy: Amnesia
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Cassidy has been told he must make his stand-up ‘TikTok ready’.
Chelsea Birkby and Jamie D'Souza: Good Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
Jamie – ‘Constantly amusing’ **** (One4Review.
Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Did Cerys cause their parents’ divorce? Did they just make that interaction really awkward? Is a new year’s resolution ever going to be enough to fix their personality? In this sur…
Nathan Cassidy: Fifty
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his stand-up “Instagrammable.
Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 3rd - 6th Aug 2023
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
Kate-Lois Elliott: Gentrif*cked (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy / The Bill Murray
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominated comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the fringe) unexpectedly profound.
Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club / Museum of Comedy / The Bill Murray
- 5th Aug 2022 - 13th Aug 2023
British Writers’ Guild nominee Kate-Lois Elliott brings you her long-awaited debut show about finding your purpose in a world that’s a little bit on fire.
Amelia Bayler: I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macfarlane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 15th Aug, 2023
The Blundabus is absolutely packed for Amelia Bayler’s I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star.
Viggo Venn: Clown (Clown in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 3rd - 7th Aug 2023
Hello.
Alvin Liu: First World Eyebrows (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Home Bar
- 3rd - 16th Aug 2023
London-based Chinese comedian Alvin Liu’s debut show delivers distinctive cultural humour with his playful views on China and the UK.
Shiny Things – Improv Party
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
An uproarious and uplifting improv party, with prizes, songs, a clown and plenty of chaotic hilarity, not to mention the UK’s top improv talent making it up as they go along.
Abi Clarke: Try Hard (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Stand-up comedian, social media star and ultimate try-hard Abi Clarke performs new material in an intimate venue, developing her highly anticipated debut show.
John Robins: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Notes on stage? Tick! Breath-taking riff-scenarios? Tick! Bits that don’t work? Tick! Progress not perfection, people! Witness some progress from Edinburgh Comedy Award winner / fa…
James Rowland: Piece of Work
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
James has been touring his storytelling theatre shows for half his adult life.
Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 11th Aug, 2023
The premise of Gillian Cosgriff's show Actually, Good is both simple and elegant, revolving around celebrating life's small pleasures.
Jody Kamali: Things We Do for Love
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
50% Bristolian.
Seann Walsh: I'm Just Trying To Get Through The Day (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
Garrett Millerick: Never Had It So Good
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
I’m sick of everyone moaning all the time, so I’ve written a show about how bloody great everything is.
Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We'll Be Millionaires! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 2nd Aug 2023
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
Ed Gamble: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
Co-host of Off Menu, Taskmaster champion and as seen on his stand-up special Blood Sugar (Amazon Prime), join the ‘consistently eye-wateringly hilarious’ (i Newspaper) Ed Gamble fo…
First Thing (Work in Progress by Daniel Kitson)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
A few days ago I saw a little boy slapping a wall.
Tarot: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2023
The best show of 2019 according to Chortle.
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: Present/Tense
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Nathan wants to live in the moment but the past has a way of finding him.
Beautiful Evil Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Multi award-winning Ad Infinitum (Odyssey, Translunar Paradise, Ballad of the Burning Star) returns with a breathtaking retelling of the Trojan War.
The Four Worst Things I've Ever Done
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean skipping-church-because-you’re-too-hungover bad.
Shabbat and Shalom Present: Gaga Mitzvah
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Theatro Technis
- 2nd Aug 2023
PAY THE JEWS BACK with love, laughter and fresh blood.
Tom Mayhew: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 2nd Aug 2023
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
Good Morning, Faggi
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Good Morning, Faggi is a vulnerable and hilarious autobiographical musical where a gay actor in his prime tries to understand why he suffered a sudden nervous breakdown.
Jordan Brookes: Snakes for Cats to Watch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
A while back, I found a video online of an animated snake crawling, made for entertaining cats.
The (Hong) Kong Girls
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
It is a triple-bill of three Hong Kong female choreographer-dancers: PK Wong, Alice Ma and Justyne Li.
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
A fly-on-the-padded-wall account of the mental health world that also busts some myths (there are no padded walls).
A Good Panto Die Hard
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jasmine Arden-Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 16th Aug, 2023
This is a wickedly fun idea for a production, a retelling of 80s favourite, Die Hard, as a pantomime/musical parody.
Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We'll Be Millionaires! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 2nd Aug 2023
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2023
The giddy inner workings of a comedy show in its beginnings.
Shabbat and Shalom Present: Gaga Mitzvah
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Theatro Technis
- 2nd Aug 2023
PAY THE JEWS BACK with love, laughter and fresh blood.
In/Outside: Visible Things
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
There are things that are visible and invisible in this world.
Josh Pugh: Existin' La Vida Loca (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 1st - 8th Aug 2023
Brand-new stand-up show from Edinburgh Award-nominated viral sensation Josh Pugh.
Two Far Gone Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 31st Jul - 1st Aug 2023
This split-bill of comedy will showcase the best and brightest material Maddie and Serena have to offer.
Two Far Gone Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 31st Jul - 1st Aug 2023
This split-bill of comedy will showcase the best and brightest material Maddie and Serena have to offer.
Adele Cliff Does Her Best and Tries New Things Out (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 28th - 30th Jul 2023
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
Adele Cliff Does Her Best and Tries New Things Out (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 28th - 30th Jul 2023
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
Xennial: Warrior Princess (Work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 27th Jul 2023
Xennial: Warrior Princess (Work in progress) So I’m 40 now; when does life begin? Old enough to know the link between pencils and cassette tapes, and remember having to roll do…
The Good Dad (A Love Story)
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- The City Theatre
- 27th - 28th Jul 2023
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Mister Shakespeare - An Incomplete Work
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 27th Jul 2023
A lot is known of The Bards plays but what of the man ? Mister Shakespeare explores the different facets of his personality:The lover, The Husband, The Son, The Entrepreneur throug…
Mister Shakespeare - An Incomplete Work
- Listing Theatre
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 26th - 27th Jul 2023
A lot is known of The Bards plays but what of the man ? Mister Shakespeare explores the different facets of his personality:The lover, The Husband, The Son, The Entrepreneur throug…
Hannah Platt: Work in Progress - Penge Comedy Festival
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Jul 2023
Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt.
MAP PROJECT UK - WEL,COME
- Listing Theatre
- FUSE International
- Arthur Cotterell Theatre
- 1st Jul 2023
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th Jun 2023
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Vernons Girls
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 9th Jun - 8th Jul 2023
In Liverpool in the 1950s more than 6,000 women are working in Vernons, checking the pools coupons and enjoying singing in the choir.
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 9th Jun - 22nd Jul 2023
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play 1986.
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: PRESENT/TENSE (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2023
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (Horrible Histories, The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, winner of BBC’s prestigious Felix Dexter bursary) takes an analytic…
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: PRESENT/TENSE (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2023
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (Horrible Histories, The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, winner of BBC’s prestigious Felix Dexter bursary) takes an analytic…
Notes from the Noughties: A Work-In-Progress
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
- 1st Jun 2023
Sam is very pleased with this title as it works on TWO levels: This show features notes from the Noughties, both handwritten and enthusiastically sung.
Notes from the Noughties: A Work-In-Progress
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
- 1st Jun 2023
Sam is very pleased with this title as it works on TWO levels: This show features notes from the Noughties, both handwritten and enthusiastically sung.
Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 1st - 4th Jun 2023
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…
Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 1st - 4th Jun 2023
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…
Charlotte Fox: Flamebird (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 1st Jun 2023
Expect a genre blending and dazzling performance by Comedian, Actor, Clown, Charlotte Fox who brings sassy, psychedelic and surreal comedy antics to the stage.
Big Zeus Energy (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 30th - 31st May 2023
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL Masculinity is in crisis.
Rahul Somia: Tuesday Date (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May 2023
Rahul met a girl at the Edinburgh Fringe - classic! But why is she still on his mind? Why is Rahul so unlucky in love? It’s probably because he is a Tuesday date.
Rahul Somia: Tuesday Date (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May 2023
Rahul met a girl at the Edinburgh Fringe - classic! But why is she still on his mind? Why is Rahul so unlucky in love? It’s probably because he is a Tuesday date.
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in progress in her “second languag…
Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 29th May 2023
Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 29th - 29th May 2023
Work in Progress from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics.
Kevin Precious: The Reluctant Teacher (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 29th May - 1st Jun 2023
Kevin Precious used to be a teacher.
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in progress in her “second languag…
So-fa, So Good
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
- 29th - 30th May 2023
Tomfoolery Dance Theatre present So-fa, So Good.
Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 29th May 2023
Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show.
Matt Green: That Guy (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 29th - 29th May 2023
Work in Progress from that guy (@mattgreencomedy) you’ve seen on Twitter being funny about politics.
PACE Masterclass: Networking & Pitching Your Work
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 29th May 2023
Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
PACE Masterclass: Networking & Pitching Your Work
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 29th May 2023
Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
Kevin Precious: The Reluctant Teacher (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 29th May - 1st Jun 2023
Kevin Precious used to be a teacher.
So-fa, So Good
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
- 29th - 30th May 2023
Tomfoolery Dance Theatre present So-fa, So Good.
Warrior Women: Past, Present and Future
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 28th May 2023
Project Female Dance Company presents: ‘WARRIOR WOMEN: Past, Present and Future’ an exploration of how female protest shapes our world.
Warrior Women: Past, Present and Future
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 28th May 2023
Project Female Dance Company presents: ‘WARRIOR WOMEN: Past, Present and Future’ an exploration of how female protest shapes our world.
Ella The Great: An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 28th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Ella The Great: An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 28th May 2023
An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work In Progress) For the first time, internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great (‘lights up the stage’ -The Scotsman) br…
Studio Exhibition: Work Produced by our Students
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sew Fabulous
- 27th May 2023
Sew Fabulous - Sustainable Community Education Join us to celebrate our work and find out more about what we do at Sew Fabulous.
Maddie Campion of the World (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 29th May 2023
“Don’t live your life girl, unless it’s just like a movie.
Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 27th - 29th May 2023
A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw.
Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 27th - 29th May 2023
“Don’t touch that dial, it’s time to tune into Talk Radio!” Inspired by a vast library of tunes that have never existed before (and will never be heard again), DJs Bird and …
Tim Reeves: Ear Trumpet (Progress-In-Work)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 27th May - 4th Jun 2023
★★★★★ “eccentric.
Chin Wang & Alvin Liu: Bring Out the Fine China (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 27th - 29th May 2023
Alvin and Chin are good friends but very different.
Studio Exhibition: Work Produced by our Students
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sew Fabulous
- 27th May 2023
Sew Fabulous - Sustainable Community Education Join us to celebrate our work and find out more about what we do at Sew Fabulous.
Maddie Campion of the World (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 29th May 2023
“Don’t live your life girl, unless it’s just like a movie.
Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (plus support) (funny ha, ha)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 27th May - 3rd Jun 2023
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 27th - 29th May 2023
“Don’t touch that dial, it’s time to tune into Talk Radio!” Inspired by a vast library of tunes that have never existed before (and will never be heard again), DJs Bird and …
Chin Wang & Alvin Liu: Bring Out the Fine China (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 27th - 29th May 2023
Alvin and Chin are good friends but very different.
Kuan-wen: Ilha Formosa (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 29th May 2023
Kuan-wen is one of the few Taiwanese comedians who performs English stand-up comedy in the UK (if not the only one as of 2023).
Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus Stop (work-in-progress) (45 minutes) (funny ha, ha)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 27th May - 3rd Jun 2023
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 27th - 29th May 2023
A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw.
Skeletons: Work-In-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 26th - 28th May 2023
Kirsty has a secret, and this is a confession.
David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 25th - 28th May 2023
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…
Mary O'Connell: Money Princess (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th May 2023
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
Liam Withnail: (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May 2023
Over 10 million views on TikTok and Instagram! A new show from the award-winning smash hit comic.
Liam Withnail: (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May 2023
Over 10 million views on TikTok and Instagram! A new show from the award-winning smash hit comic.
David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 25th - 28th May 2023
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…
Mary O'Connell: Money Princess (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th May 2023
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 25th - 26th May 2023
As seen on Live at The Apollo and star of ITV2, BBC Three, Dave, Comedy Central and Radio 4, Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty…
Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 25th - 26th May 2023
As seen on Live at The Apollo and star of ITV2, BBC Three, Dave, Comedy Central and Radio 4, Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty…
The Shape of Things
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre / Park Theatre London
- 24th May - 1st Jul 2023
How far would you go for love? What would you be willing to change?A fast-moving and thrilling piece of theatre set on a college campus in small-town America.
Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 24th - 26th May 2023
The Genocial Liberal is back.
Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 31st May 2022 - 26th May 2023
Kate-Lois Elliott has been rising fast on the UK comedy scene with her self-deprecating millennial meltdowns.
Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 24th - 26th May 2023
The Genocial Liberal is back.
Kate-Lois Elliott: Gentrif*cked (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 24th - 26th May 2023
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominee and Brighton-bred comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the fringe) unexpectedly …
Mediocre Gay (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 23rd May 2023
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
Mediocre Gay (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 23rd May 2023
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
Kate Dale: Up to Scratch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 23rd May 2023
Bisexual comedian Kate Dale fingers her way through middle life as she navigates the challenges and finds the joy in being a beginner once more, while discovering, after a lifetime…
Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Soho Theatre
- 24th May - 10th Jun 2023
Fierce, funny, and wonderfully frank, Poppy and Rubina have sex and they aren’t ashamed to talk about it.
The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 22nd May 2023
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Elaine Fellows: Sugar & Lies (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd - 23rd May 2023
Work in progress stand-up comedy show from Elaine Fellows.
The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 22nd May 2023
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Elaine Fellows: Sugar & Lies (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd - 23rd May 2023
Work in progress stand-up comedy show from Elaine Fellows.
Educated Idiot (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 20th - 23rd May 2023
This work in progress comedy show explores what life after education looks like.
Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 20th - 21st May 2023
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
Educated Idiot (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 20th - 23rd May 2023
This work in progress comedy show explores what life after education looks like.
Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 20th - 21st May 2023
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
Stay Sick present SICKSVILLE CARAVANSERAI!
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 20th May 2023
Welcome to the world of STAY SICK! Welcome to the world of SICKSVILLE CARAVANSERAI! ⚡️ For one night only and to celebrate 15 years of ‘staying sick’, Brighton’s infamou…
Stay Sick present SICKSVILLE CARAVANSERAI!
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 20th May 2023
Welcome to the world of STAY SICK! Welcome to the world of SICKSVILLE CARAVANSERAI! ⚡️ For one night only and to celebrate 15 years of ‘staying sick’, Brighton’s infamou…
Abbie Murphy: Empath (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 20th May - 3rd Jun 2023
My name is Abbie and I’m an Empath.
Jaz Mattu (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 19th - 26th May 2023
The one question Jaz Mattu, a professional software engineer, ( who looks much more serious than he actually is), constantly gets asked when he explains he wants to change careers …
Jaz Mattu (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 19th - 26th May 2023
The one question Jaz Mattu, a professional software engineer, ( who looks much more serious than he actually is), constantly gets asked when he explains he wants to change careers …
Pitch Night: Stand-Ups Present Your Startup Ideas
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th May - 1st Jun 2023
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 18th May 2023
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.
Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 18th May 2023
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.
Pitch Night: Stand-Ups Present Your Startup Ideas
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th May - 1st Jun 2023
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Nathan Cassidy: Fifty
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 17th - 27th May 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Nathan Cassidy: Fifty
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 17th - 27th May 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
The Final Girl (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 15th - 20th May 2023
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…
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 15th - 16th May 2023
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary is a funny deep dive into culture, relationships and why food is more than just fuel.
Last Man Standing (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 15th - 16th May 2023
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, …
Last Man Standing (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 15th - 16th May 2023
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, …
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 15th - 16th May 2023
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary is a funny deep dive into culture, relationships and why food is more than just fuel.
Ian Smith: Talking and Shouting (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 21st May 2023
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 14th May 2023
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…
Darren Walsh: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 21st May 2023
Please don’t come if you don’t like puns.
Annabel Edmonds: Gremlin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 14th - 17th May 2023
Gremlin is the first work-in-progress show of rising stand-up star Annabel Edmonds.
Ian Smith: Talking and Shouting (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 21st May 2023
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Darren Walsh: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 21st May 2023
Please don’t come if you don’t like puns.
Annabel Edmonds: Gremlin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 14th - 17th May 2023
Gremlin is the first work-in-progress show of rising stand-up star Annabel Edmonds.
Ali Brice: I'm More Interested In What You Have to Say (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 13th May - 3rd Jun 2023
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.
Spin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 13th - 27th May 2023
Welcome to spin class, everyone! An endorphin-fuelled character comedy hour – complete with one stationary bike and the throbbing lights, saccharine sounds and relentless positiv…
Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th - 14th May 2023
Irish Stand-up comedian Ruth Hunter makes her debut at Brighton Fringe with her new Work in Progress: The Ruth is on Fire.
Spring Day: Exvangelical (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 13th May 2023
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Spring Day provides dark comedy for nice people.
Ali Brice: I'm More Interested In What You Have to Say (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 13th May - 3rd Jun 2023
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.
Spin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 13th - 27th May 2023
Welcome to spin class, everyone! An endorphin-fuelled character comedy hour – complete with one stationary bike and the throbbing lights, saccharine sounds and relentless positiv…
Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th - 14th May 2023
Irish Stand-up comedian Ruth Hunter makes her debut at Brighton Fringe with her new Work in Progress: The Ruth is on Fire.
Spring Day: Exvangelical (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 13th May 2023
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Spring Day provides dark comedy for nice people.
Jody Kamali: Things we do for Love
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 12th - 20th May 2023
Jody Kamali: Things we do for love 50% Bristolian.
Lulu Popplewell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 12th - 14th May 2023
A fun little stand-up show about being drunk, high and a pretty cool guy (insert sunglasses emoji).
Luca Cupani (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th May - 2nd Jun 2023
The most British Italian comedian brings back to the Brighton Fringe his unique, clever and dark humour, delivered with a gentle and endearing style.
Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 12th - 13th May 2023
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
Joe Jacobs: Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th - 20th May 2023
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Joe Jacobs: Work-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th - 20th May 2023
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Jody Kamali: Things we do for Love
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 12th - 20th May 2023
50% Bristolian.
Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 12th - 13th May 2023
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
Lulu Popplewell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 12th - 14th May 2023
A fun little stand-up show about being drunk, high and a pretty cool guy (insert sunglasses emoji).
Luca Cupani (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th May - 2nd Jun 2023
The most British Italian comedian brings back to the Brighton Fringe his unique, clever and dark humour, delivered with a gentle and endearing style.
Sarah Roberts: Do You Know Who I Am? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 11th - 12th May 2023
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
Viggo Venn: CLOWN (Work in Progress)
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 11th - 19th May 2023
Viggo Venn is an award-winning clown from Norway.
Viggo Venn: CLOWN (Work in Progress)
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 11th - 19th May 2023
Viggo Venn is an award-winning clown from Norway.
Sarah Roberts: Do You Know Who I Am? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 11th - 12th May 2023
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
Chelsea Birkby: Silly Sausage (Pain) Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th - 11th May 2023
Chelsea Birkby follows up on her award-winning debut (best debut show Amused Moose, nominated for best show comedians choice awards) with this work-in-progress.
James Danielewski: Rainbow Trout (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 10th - 27th May 2023
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
James Danielewski: Rainbow Trout (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 10th - 27th May 2023
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
Chelsea Birkby: Silly Sausage (Pain) Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th - 11th May 2023
Chelsea Birkby follows up on her award-winning debut (best debut show Amused Moose, nominated for best show comedians choice awards) with this work-in-progress.
Sugar Baby - Good advice for bad girls and terrified men!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 30th May 2023
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Tom Mayhew: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th - 11th May 2023
Comedian Tom Mayhew (as heard on BBC Radio 4) brings a work in progress show to the Brighton Festival! There will be stuff about being working-class, being skint, how annoying the …
Adele Cliff Does Her Best and Tries New Things Out (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 9th - 23rd May 2023
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Sugar Baby - Good advice for bad girls and terrified men!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 30th May 2023
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We'll Be Millionaires! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th - 11th May 2023
Comedian Tom Mayhew (as heard on BBC Radio 4) brings a work in progress show to the Brighton Festival! There will be stuff about being working-class, being skint, how annoying the …
Adele Cliff Does Her Best and Tries New Things Out (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 9th - 23rd May 2023
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Mudfish (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th May - 4th Jun 2023
This new Mudfish Work In Progress will showcase the ‘brilliant chemistry’ (Fringebiscuit) and ‘buoyant charisma’ (EdFringe Review) of Molly and Dan.
Flirt (Work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 8th - 9th May 2023
Tragedy.
Mark Bittlestone (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th May 2022 - 27th May 2023
Mark is convinced that he’s the only gay man doing comedy in the world so please be respectful and don’t tell him otherwise! Rapidly making a name for himself both online and o…
Flirt (Work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 8th - 9th May 2023
Tragedy.
Mudfish (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th May - 4th Jun 2023
This new Mudfish Work In Progress will showcase the ‘brilliant chemistry’ (Fringebiscuit) and ‘buoyant charisma’ (EdFringe Review) of Molly and Dan.
Mark Bittlestone (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th - 27th May 2023
Stand-up comedian and social media sensation (in his own words, not in any objective description of the term) Mark Bittlestone brings a load of new and a few (or, hopefully for you…
Farah Sharp & Sharon Wanjohi: Can (And Will) Complain (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 12th May 2023
Two comedians attempt to navigate the hell that is “existing” by performing an hour of fabulous stand-up.
Sam Savage Dan Fardell (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2023
Brighton comedy stalwarts Sam Savage (creator of viral hit comedy character Linda Larkin) and Dan Fardell have teamed up to bring you a double dose of their formative brand new wor…
Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 14th May 2023
A work-in-progress comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist and Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.
Farah Sharp & Sharon Wanjohi: Can (And Will) Complain (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 12th May 2023
Two comedians attempt to navigate the hell that is “existing” by performing an hour of fabulous stand-up.
Sam Savage Dan Fardell (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2023
Brighton comedy stalwarts Sam Savage (creator of viral hit comedy character Linda Larkin) and Dan Fardell have teamed up to bring you a double dose of their formative brand new wor…
The Dream Come True Revue
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 7th - 8th May 2023
Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 14th May 2023
A work-in-progress comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist and Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.
EBae: Ruby Carr (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 7th May 2023
My name is Ruby Carr and I am a sucker for a bargain.
Nathan Cassidy: Amnesia
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 21st May 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy has been told he must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Michael Welch - Ethnic Reveal Party (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 6th - 11th May 2023
Michael Welch is an ethnically ambiguous comedian of unknown origin, a.
Sasha Ellen (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen.
EBae: Ruby Carr (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 7th May 2023
My name is Ruby Carr and I am a sucker for a bargain.
Chloe Petts: If You Can't Say Anything Nice (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th - 8th May 2023
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.
Sasha Ellen (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen.
MOJO (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2023
MOJO is a split bill of stand-up comedy featuring Mohaimen and Jomi Cruz.
Nathan Cassidy: Amnesia
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 21st May 2023
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy has been told he must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Chloe Petts: If You Can't Say Anything Nice (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th - 8th May 2023
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.
Alex Kitson: Fired Up! Ready to Go! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian.
Josh Baulf (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 7th May 2023
Josh Baulf has recently appeared on Britains Got Talent, the BBC and his online sketches have amassed millions of views worldwide.
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
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 …
CHEAT: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th - 12th May 2023
A gutsy work-in-progress from an NYC-based rising star in standup.
Jake Baker: Caring Is Creepy (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
A brand new show of ideas, jokes and stories.
Anthony Gilét - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 5th - 11th May 2023
Max Turner Prize finalist (2023), rising TikToker and undefeated roaster Anthony Gilét premiers his new Work In Progress where he takes a brutally honest look at getting older, an…
Alex Kitson: Fired Up! Ready to Go! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian.
Josh Baulf (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 7th May 2023
Josh Baulf has recently appeared on Britains Got Talent, the BBC and his online sketches have amassed millions of views worldwide.
Anthony Gilét - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 5th - 11th May 2023
Max Turner Prize finalist (2023), rising TikToker and undefeated roaster Anthony Gilét premiers his new Work In Progress where he takes a brutally honest look at getting older, an…
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
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 …
Jake Baker: Caring Is Creepy (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
A brand new show of ideas, jokes and stories.
CHEAT: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 5th - 12th May 2023
A gutsy work-in-progress from an NYC-based rising star in standup.
Bill Elms and Frame This! Present - Twice Nightly
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 27th - 29th Apr 2023
It’s 1931 and variety is the spice of life.
Vernons Girls
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 21st Apr - 20th May 2023
In Liverpool in the 1950s more than 6,000 women are working in Vernons, checking the pools coupons and enjoying singing in the choir.
The Good Person of Szechwan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 28th Apr, 2023
It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they …
The Good Person of Szechwan
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 15th Apr - 13th May 2023
“What is the cost of being good?”Three gods search for just one honest person on earth to justify humanity’s existence.
Good Girl
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 9th - 10th Apr 2023
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…
Work in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 7th - 8th Apr 2023
Capitol Theatre Company is back with the extended version of ”Work in Progress”, adding a second act to the 20 minute one-act-play performed at Scene and Hea…
Henning Wehn – It’ll All Come Out In The Wash
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Apr 2023
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Henning Wehn – It’ll All Come Out In The Wash
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Apr 2023
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Come Mek We Larf
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 26th Mar 2023
Masters Of Comedy Come Mek We Larf promises a night of funtastic entertainment, featuring the Best in Stand-Up Comedy.
Shane Todd: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 21st Mar 2023
In the last year Shane has sold out shows across America & Canada, been tour support for Kevin Hart and enjoyed continued success with his hugely popular Tea With Me…
Shane Todd: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 21st Mar 2023
In the last year Shane has sold out shows across America & Canada, been tour support for Kevin Hart and enjoyed continued success with his hugely popular Tea With Me…
All of the things I should’ve said, (but didn’t).
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 18th - 19th Mar 2023
The dilemma of settling for Mr Average in order to fulfill the dream of being a mother is something that so many women face.
EGG (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 15th - 16th Mar 2023
Funny, funny, funny sketches we haven’t written yet.
Sara Barron (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 15th - 16th Mar 2023
“Star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Sara Barron returns to throw some new ideas at the wall.
Jordan Brookes: Snakes For Cats to Watch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 14th - 18th Mar 2023
A while back I found a video online of a snake crawling, made for the purpose of entertaining cats.
Good Grief
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Studio
- 14th - 19th Mar 2023
A dying man’s last wish: for his friends to create a show about death.
Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 14th Mar 2023
“Recently handpicked by Fred Armisen to be his opener, Josh Weller is a failed musician turned comedian.
Adam Riches (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 12th Mar 2023
Hi.
Stevie Martin: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 12th Mar 2023
Award-winning comedian Stevie Martin (8 out of 10 Cats, Late Night Mash, a Thorntons advert) is making a comedy show.
Nitwit At Hanging Rock (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 11th - 12th Mar 2023
One mysterious day in 1900, a group of innocent school girls went missing in the Australian Bush.
Dan Kelly: How I Went to Every Supermarket in the World (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 10th - 12th Mar 2023
Dan has been a data collector for 10 years.
Ed Gaughan: Words and Music (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 9th - 10th Mar 2023
Come and discover UK comedy’s best kept secret! Over many years Ed has written, directed and performed work for and with many of the UK’s most loved acts- including Milton Jones…
Ira Sylvester: Someone Save the King (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 9th Mar 2023
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 8th Mar 2023
An hour of new material from Host of The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast, Stuart Goldsmith.
Jack Barry: (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 8th Mar 2023
Hey you, reading this.
Good Day
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Network Theatre
- 7th - 12th Mar 2023
Zara lives in a perfect world.
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th - 16th Mar 2023
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
Charlie George: Grace (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th Mar 2023
Charlie George Swindon’s finest queer, mixed-race, neurodiverse, working class, ex-Jehovah’s Witness comedian longs for Grace.
Daniel Foxx (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 7th Mar 2023
Heroes are boring.
James Alexander: Quantum (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 4th Mar 2023
A character comedy show in this world.
Hannah Platt (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 4th - 5th Mar 2023
Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt.
JOBSWORTH (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 4th - 5th Mar 2023
“I’m a full time employee three times over.
Alice Frick: The Anti Self-Help Show (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 2nd Mar 2023
Good things will happen.
Reply Guys, The Musical (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 2nd Mar 2023
In 2022, Olga Koch wrote a master’s thesis about reply guys. This is a work-in-progress of a musical based on that thesis. ★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Telegraph
Martha Pailing: Chat Shit, Get Hit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 1st - 2nd Mar 2023
Ever been so angry you couldn’t breathe? Poignant, funny and uncompromising, Chat Shit, Get Hit, is a brand-new show about female rage, the pain of betrayal, and getting better …
Sikisa: Words (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 1st - 2nd Mar 2023
Just back from doing her acclaimed debut hour, Sikisa is here with a new show and she is worried about words! She always thinks she’s gonna say the wrong thing at the wrong time …
Lucy Farrett: Saint Cowpat (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 28th Feb - 1st Mar 2023
Stand-up from a holy cowpat masquerading as a woman.
How to Catch a Bear (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Studio
- 28th Feb - 3rd Mar 2023
Five years ago, Carys nearly disappeared.
Asian Girls In Therapy
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 28th Feb 2023
‘Asian Girls in Therapy’ is a dark comedy that follows the therapy journey of Kiran and Cheon making them face their deepest demons, desires and depressive episodes in the form of …
Tamar Broadbent: Objectified, Electrified (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 28th Feb - 1st Mar 2023
Tamar first met feminism in high school but was scared to be its friend because it wasn’t very popular.
Jaz Mattu (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 26th Feb - 1st Mar 2023
The one question Jaz Mattu, a professional software engineer, ( who looks much more serious than he actually is), constantly gets asked when he explains he wants to change careers …
Priya Hall: Sertraline Dreams (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 25th Feb 2023
TV’s Priya Hall brings you her new WIP all about her 2021 breakdown. Expect cats, breakdowns and BIG REALISATIONS.
Faobhar, Gaoth agus Grá (Three Things That Are Never Seen)
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 25th Feb 2023
Myths, mystical music and a magpie.
Garbo! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 25th - 26th Feb 2023
An absurd character comedy featuring the life story of the most famous woman in the world, the man who has the house we all want and GARBO! Inspired (very loosely) by Vitto Russo�…
The Really Useless Cabaret (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 25th - 26th Feb 2023
Come sing along, for the first time ever The Really Useless Group is introducing their brand spanking new set of bangers such as The Pink Tax Tango, White Van Driven By A White Man…
The Buzztones present 'Now That's What Someone Might Call Music!'
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 24th Feb - 4th Mar 2023
The Buzztones are back! Following smash-hit shows in 2019 and 2020, the pop-comedy maestros return to VAULT with a brand new, feel-good set of tracks and nonsense.
Instructions on How to Cry (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 24th - 25th Feb 2023
Instructions on How to Cry is a new devised play exploring the science and mystery of emotional tears which appear to be solely present in Homo Sapiens.
Posey Mehta: Babycakes (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 22nd Feb 2023
Lifetime Achievement Awards come but once in a lifetime, which means Mitzi has just one shot to deliver an acceptance speech that will land her in Hollywood’s Halls of Fame.
Kit Sullivan: Overcommmmmits (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 21st Feb 2023
The happiest day of your life includes robots, time travel and a decent spread on the buffet table.
Suchandrika Chakrabarti: Reunion/Afterparty (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 21st - 22nd Feb 2023
After taking her debut comedy hour I Miss Amy Winehouse (“vulnerable, poignant and hilarious” - Boom Chicago Comedy Festival) to Edinburgh Fringe for a full run, Suchandrika (“warm…
Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 21st Feb 2023
The planet is melting and life is spinning out of control but maybe Charlie can save it all with a nice picnic.
Owen Roberts: The Boy With The Backwards Heart (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 19th Feb 2023
What is love? It’s a mystery.
in Good Spirits
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 18th - 19th Feb 2023
Ghost stories are shorthand for questions of memory, inheritance, and generations.
Propitiation - Come. Join. Follow
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 18th Feb 2023
You're accepted.
Joey Page: Thank You For Coming (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 17th Feb - 15th Mar 2023
Come watch a working class motormouth, trapped in a hipster’s body.
Gentrif*cked (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 17th - 18th Feb 2023
WGGB-nominated comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at Brighton Fringe) unexpectedly profound.
Five Dresses I Never Wear (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 17th - 19th Feb 2023
This is a solo show about femininity and trauma.
Isabelle Farah: irreplaceabelle (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 16th Feb 2023
A WIP hour of stand up from Isabelle Farah Isabelle’s first show, Ellipsis, and second show, irresponsabelle, both had excellent runs at Edinburgh fringe and she returns with ano…
Alex MacKeith Progresses His Work
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 15th Feb 2023
Alex MacKeith goes electric for his second musical comedy show.
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 15th Feb 2023
Natasha Anderson: Food Diary is a funny exploration of culture, relationships and why food is more than just fuel.
Alfie Brown: Red Flags Galore! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers / The Spacement at The Glitch
- 15th Feb - 19th Mar 2023
In his new show, award winning comedian Alfie Brown is showing signs that he probably can’t have a healthy relationship and proceeding down the road with him would be emotionally d…
Restless Bitch Face (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 14th Feb 2023
They’re here, one’s queer, and they never get over anything.
Crizards (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 14th - 23rd Feb 2023
The UK’s lowest energy double act (Crizards) present a new work in progress show.
Orlando Gibbs: Finch Boy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 14th Feb 2023
Musical comedian Orlando Gibbs (MCA Finals 2021, 2022, 2Northdown Semi-Finalist 2021) sings and chats about the little things in life.
Isobel Rogers (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 14th Feb 2023
Witty and inventive, with a sharp eye for satire and poetic lyrics to match, Isobel Rogers unmasks our shadier selves as we all navigate, or fail to navigate, relationships and our…
Micky Flanagan Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 13th Feb 2023
Micky Flanagan’s Warm Up Show at Leicester Square Theatre.
Alexandra Haddow: Not My Finest Hour (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 11th Feb 2023
Alexandra Haddow isn’t quite sure what she wants yet, but that’s ok, because she’s only 18.
Sarah Roberts: Do You Know Who I Am? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 10th - 11th Feb 2023
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (do not look that up).
Yuriko Kotani: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 10th Feb 2023
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in progress in her “second language”…
Raj Poojara (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 10th Feb - 10th Mar 2023
As seen on BBC’s New Comedy Awards, Raj’s work in progress explores what it’s like being a fair skinned Indian boy growing up in Britain.
Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa: French Kiss Tunnel (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 9th Feb 2023
As seen on ITV2 and BBC, French Kiss Tunnel (WIP) will be the first outing of the beginnings of Vidura B.R.’s new hour. It’s about love. He does songs now.
Jessie Nixon: Damsel (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 9th - 10th Feb 2023
Jessie Nixon seeks to make her mark with her debut hour of stand-up in new show ‘Damsel’.
Chelsea Birkby: Silly Sausage (Pain) (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 9th Feb 2023
Chelsea Birkby follows up on her award-winning debut (best debut show Amused Moose, nominated for best show comedians choice awards) with this work-in-progress.
Kat Bond: Pleaser (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Network Theatre
- 9th - 10th Feb 2023
‘Do you like me? Suppose it is too early to say’.
Angie's Easy | Work in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 9th - 10th Feb 2023
Angie's Easy Pals, gals, pints, cans, Hozier Work in Progress Reality is overrated Angie's Easy - Biaina Ryan "Pub, gaff, good…
What's Good Cabaret
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 9th - 10th Feb 2023
What’s Good Cabaret is coming to VAULT Festival to bring you the Loud, Live & Luscious cabaret mixtape for the booty-shakin’ generation! What’s Good Cabaret is here, and we are pr…
Ahir Shah (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 9th Feb 2023
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ nominee Ahir Shah is one of the fastest-rising comedians of his generation and is known for his sharp, intellectual brand of stand-up …
Sasha Ellen (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 8th - 9th Feb 2023
Brand-new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down-right adorable Sasha Ellen.
Ben Target (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 8th Feb - 14th Mar 2023
A bedazzling show from “a true original and a legend in the making” (The Guardian).
Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 8th Feb - 7th Mar 2023
As seen on Live at The Apollo and star of ITV2, BBC Three, Dave, Comedy Central and Radio 4 Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty …
Lou Taylor (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 8th - 9th Feb 2023
With a mixture of standup & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Louise Atkinson: Mates (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th Feb 2023
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Amused Moose Finalist & Harrogate New Comedian of the Year finalist, Louise Atkinson.
Rose Johnson (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th Feb 2023
Rose Johnson is 37 and all she’s got to show for it is nine chin hairs, a Love Island addiction, and a world-class talent for over-thinking (plus jokes re: all the above).
Micky Overman: The Stuff (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th - 21st Feb 2023
Comedian Micky Overman is back and she’s got some opinions! After spending most of her life thinking of her opinions as ‘inside thoughts’ she is now getting ready to share them w…
Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 7th Feb 2023
A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw.
CRACKED (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 7th - 10th Feb 2023
Welcome to Topps Tiles! Your budget friendly solution to all your tiling needs! Can’t decide between Vinyl or laminate? Confused about grouting? Or perhaps you’re stuck in a re…
Lulu Popplewell (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 5th Feb - 11th Mar 2023
Brilliant confessional comedy from ‘such a funny and warm performer’ with ‘quick lines and sharp gags’ (Plays To See).
Sarah Keyworth (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 4th Feb 2023
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt / The Flair Ground
- 3rd Feb - 18th Mar 2023
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…
LILIT (Work in Progress)
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Cavern
- 3rd - 4th Feb 2023
‘LILIT’ is a wickedly funny, razor-sharp, joyous queer cabaret in the voice of Lilith, an ancient Jewish demon.
Thick n Fast (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 3rd Feb 2023
Award-nominated duo Thick ‘n’ Fast embark on a pioneering journey to conquer the Final (we mean it this time) Frontier: the Metaverse.
Nabil Abdulrashid (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 3rd Feb 2023
An hour of developing new material from Britain’s Got Talent finalist Nabil Abdulrashid.
Smalltown Boy: The Remix (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 2nd - 24th Feb 2023
Comedian Harry Wright develops their hour Smalltown Boy, which was due to appear at VAULT Festival last year.
Eddy Hare (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 2nd Feb - 2nd Mar 2023
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee 2021) presents a new work-in-progress show.
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: PRESENT/TENSE (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 1st Feb 2023
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award, writer for Horrible Histories & The Emily Atack Show) takes an analytic look at his…
I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Golden Goose Theatre
- 2nd - 3rd Feb 2023
According to google Eva’s boobs weigh the same as an average newborn baby and that’s quite a weight to have on your back, metaphorically, and physically.
Patrick Spicer (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 1st - 2nd Feb 2023
Patrick Spicer is the undisputed world champion of telling jokes that he has written, and this time he has exactly one hour of them.
Leila Navabi: Composition (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 31st Jan - 1st Feb 2023
Welsh, Brown, Gay, Gen-Z comedian Leila Navabi, (BBC New Comedy Awards) is bringing you a show about how unethical it is to artistically exploit marginalised identities for social …
Ania Magliano (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 31st Jan - 2nd Feb 2023
Ania’s sharp, wry writing combined with her affable performance style make her a ‘glittering new talent’ (The i Paper) of the UK comedy scene.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- West End
- Soho Theatre
- 4th Feb, 2023
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…
Darran Griffiths: Inconceivable (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 29th Jan 2023
Darran Griffiths is a comedian, host and podcaster who has a blend of Caribbean confidence and Essex irreverence.
Piece of Work
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 29th Jan - 19th Mar 2023
A story about the unfolding of the infinite, about the tangled mess of the UK, about two brothers and one remarkable chicken burger.
Luisa Omielan (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 28th - 29th Jan 2023
Join ‘genre defining’ comedian Luisa on her latest masterpiece in action, by the time we finish together, it will be.
The Good Women
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Network Theatre
- 28th - 29th Jan 2023
It’s the 1960s, the world is changing.
Janine Harouni (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 27th Jan - 7th Mar 2023
Janine thought she knew her family.
Tadiwa Mahlunge: 25 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 27th Jan - 1st Mar 2023
Billed as “one of the country’s top new comedy acts” by The York Press, Tadiwa Mahlunge has performed at, among others, the Latitude, Greenman, and Greenwich Comedy Festivals -…
Ian Smith: Talking and Shouting (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 26th Jan 2023
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith presents a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Ali Woods (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers / The Spacement at The Glitch
- 26th Jan - 21st Feb 2023
Award-winning comedian Ali Woods returns with his latest jokes! Half-English, half-Scottish Londoner, Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hac…
Georgina Thomas (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 26th Jan 2023
This is an experimental work-in-progress by Georgina Thomas, a polite young lady from Hertfordshire.
Freya Parker: It Ain't Easy Being Cheeky (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 26th Jan - 28th Feb 2023
An hour of critical thinking on what it means to be a little cheeky guy in a world on fire.
Jessica Aszkenasy: Bus stop (work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 25th Jan - 16th Mar 2023
Why does one become obsessed with Taylor Swift at 30 when one loved Sting at 8? (years old, not AM) Can one shit on a bus and also maintain a healthy romantic relationship? WHY ARE…
Chloe Petts: If You Can't Say Anything Nice (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 25th Jan - 9th Mar 2023
Chloe Petts presents her follow up show to hit debut, Transience.
Mark Bittlestone (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 25th - 26th Jan 2023
Join Mark for 50 minutes of stuff, some new, most old, hopefully mostly funny.
Tamsyn Kelly: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 24th - 25th Jan 2023
Tamsyn Kelly looks at how the men in her life have shaped who she is.
All in Good Time
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Studio
- 24th - 27th Jan 2023
You know that we are celebrating because there is a countdown.
Degenerate (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 24th Jan - 19th Feb 2023
Maria isn’t dead yet; she’s just forty.
Ashish Suri: Hipster on the Loose (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 24th Jan - 9th Mar 2023
The show comprises of Ashish Suri sharing his weird tales and giving a view of the world through different perspectives.
We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Riverside Studios
- 17th Jan - 14th Feb 2023
Featuring South African artist and theatre maker Jemma Kahn and directed by Lindiwe Matshikiza, We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants is a unique solo performance of seven st…
John Bishop: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 4th - 26th Jan 2023
Star of Saturday night's The John Bishop Show (ITV1) and Doctor Who (BBC1), multi-award winning stand-up comedian John Bishop is road testing some new material for …
John Bishop: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 4th - 26th Jan 2023
Star of Saturday nights the John Bishop Show (ITV1) and Doctor Who (BBC1), multi award-winning stand-up comedian John Bishop is road testing some new material for 4 nigh…
Woolwich Works in Progress: Ed Night + Tadiwa Mahlunge
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Woolwich Works
- 26th Oct 2022
Ed Night - who you might have seen seen on BBC Three, ITV2 and Comedy Central - will be bringing an hour of brand-new jokes along with ‘one of the country’s top new comedy acts’, T…
Woolwich Works in Progress: Esther Manito + David Mills
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Woolwich Works
- 20th Oct 2022
If you missed Esther Manito on Live at the Apollo, this is fantastic chance to see the Lebanese-British stand up in person.
Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christopher James
- West End
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- 13th Oct, 2022
Dominic Cooke’s new production of Good was due to arrive in October 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
All the Fraudulent Horse Girls
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 2nd Oct 2022 - 13th Jan 2023
All The Fraudulent Horse Girls is a premiere one-act play with surreal monologues, music, and drag for anyone who has ever been a Horse Girl, Train Boy, or weird kid defined by the…
Helen Bauer: Madam Good Tit
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- Edinburgh
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th Oct, 2022
Helen Bauer’s Madam Good Tit is a not-so-wholesome coming-of-age set that provides a deep dive into everything from Bauer’s various high school personalities to deeply problema…
Ricky Gervais: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th Sep 2022
Ricky Gervais returns to Leicester Square with a night of new material.
Discovery (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 28th Aug 2022
Discovery is an Interactive Character Clown show with elements of Theatre and Stand-Up, following one Caveman’s journey discovering all that life has to offer; the beauties, the …
Discovery (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 28th Aug 2022
Discovery is an Interactive Character Clown show with elements of Theatre and Stand-Up, following one Caveman’s journey discovering all that life has to offer; the beauties, the …
Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar
- 28th Aug 2022
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 27th Aug 2022
It’s time to hang on to what we got and celebrate the iconic sounds of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Optimistic (Work in Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 26th Aug 2022
Elizabeth Holmes claims her biotechnology will revolutionize medicine – and people believe her.
The Working Girls of Soho
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2022
In her fabulous new show The Working Girls of Soho, Josephine Pembroke, creator of Pussies Galore, the infamous club act of the 1990s and darling of the iconic Café de Paris, Heav…
Omar&Lee are EVERYMAN (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd - 28th Aug 2022
Countercultural goons Omar&Lee workshop their way to mature masculinity.
Cheeky Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
Edinburgh-based dark comedy collective The Counterminers are back for their third Fringe, putting on a new-writing piece by Florence Carr-Jones – Cheeky Girls.
Pat Cahill: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (Carnivore)
- 22nd - 28th Aug 2022
My WIP will likely include songs about buying a Pritt Stick, sleepy eyes and absolutely loads of double entendres if I have my way.
NASTY: "big" girls being gross, mean and sexy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
Remember that time you pooed yourself in public? Or when you swore at your mum for asking you to tidy your pigsty of a room? Maybe you’re still blushing over the time someone poi…
Degenerate (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 22nd - 23rd Aug 2022
Degenerate is a show about what happens when a 40 year old mother of two finds herself in the last chance saloon of midlife.
Looking Bad Is Good for You!
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 21st Aug 2022
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…
Fisherman Jon: What's on the end of my rod? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th - 19th Aug 2022
Absurdist comedy character clown Coral Bevan presents Fisherman Jon: Whats on the end of my Rod? (Work in Progress).
Fisherman Jon: What's on the end of my rod? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th - 19th Aug 2022
Absurdist comedy character clown Coral Bevan presents Fisherman Jon: Whats on the end of my Rod? (Work in Progress).
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: PRESENT/TENSE (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 17th - 28th Aug 2022
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (written for The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) takes an analytic look at h…
Nathan D'Arcy Roberts: PRESENT/TENSE (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 17th - 28th Aug 2022
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (written for The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) takes an analytic look at h…
The Good Days Are Over
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Little Angel Theatre
- 16th - 21st Aug 2022
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…
The Good Days Are Over
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Little Angel Theatre
- 16th - 21st Aug 2022
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…
Sindhu Vee: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th - 17th Aug 2022
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Sindhu Vee returns with a new hour.
Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
- 16th - 23rd Aug 2022
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
John Bell: A Few of My Favourite Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- House of Oz
- 16th - 18th Aug 2022
Spend a relaxed hour with Australian living legend John Bell, as he rummages through his swag of favourite things, fishing out poems, stories, backstage gossip: things he finds ins…
Mediocre Gay (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 16th - 27th Aug 2022
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
Robin Morgan: Snip Snip, Bitch (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 16th - 28th Aug 2022
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
Mark Watson: More Banging on About Time and Similar Issues (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 15th - 19th Aug 2022
The rapidly ageing minor national treasure from Taskmaster and so on, begins building on the success of current show, This Can’t Be It by taking the first steps towards a new one.
Sweet Nothings Present: A Night at the Movies
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 15th - 20th Aug 2022
Cinema’s greatest hits performed by an award-winning a cappella group! From international competitions to sell-out shows, singing powerhouses Sweet Nothings have done it all.
Like Other Girls
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
Have you ever noticed how all female leads in historical fiction are.
For Example Theatre present: Boat!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 14th - 18th Aug 2022
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Kevin Shepherd: Exploding Biscuits (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 13th - 28th Aug 2022
Circuit stand-up Kevin is creating a new show and he’s bringing it to the Fringe so you can watch it for free! ‘Shepherd is an open and honest performer.
Good Morning Heartache
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 13th - 14th Aug 2022
Edinburgh vocalist Victoria Bennett spins delicate, moving tales of love and heartbreak, accompanied by a jazz quartet of top instrumentalists.
Darren Walsh: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 12th - 19th Aug 2022
Join award-winning punslinger Darren Walsh for some new jokes.
The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 19th Aug 2022
Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou…
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th - 20th Aug 2022
Following three culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs, this bafflingly entertaining late-night comedy extravaganza returns to the Fringe for a fourth hammer blow.
Bright. Young. Things. and Heavy Weather
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 12th - 13th Aug 2022
Wing It Musical Theatre, by arrangement with Nick Hern Books, presents the following amateur performances: Georgia Christou’s Bright.
Auld Toon Shuffle
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 12th Aug 2022
Traditional Scottish song with guitar, harmonicas, harmony and heart.
Tout Doucement: Pitchblenders Present Blossom Dearie
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 10th - 24th Aug 2022
Pitchblenders celebrate the slyly humorous, girlish-sounding jazz singer and pianist.
Good Enough
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 10th - 27th Aug 2022
The hilarious and profound emotional roller-coaster true story of renowned storyteller, Ted McGrath.
Mr.B: Twerp in Progress
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 9th - 11th Aug 2022
The Chap Himself returns to the Fringe armed with his beats, rhymes, manners and some small instruments for a strictly limited run of Chap-Hop recitals.
Flamingo City Comedy: We're All Equally Good Looking
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 9th - 13th Aug 2022
Winners of Cleveland’s Best Sketch Comedy Group in 2020 (Cleveland Comedy Awards), Flamingo City is hot off their 2022 US Midwest tour! Joe and Greg are willing to do anything sh…
Catherine Cohen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th - 21st Aug 2022
Following her Netflix special The Twist.
Calendar Girls the Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 8th - 13th Aug 2022
Based on the hit film, this award-winning musical by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth tells the story of an ordinary group of women in a Yorkshire Women’s Institute who create an artist…
Funbox Present... Funky Farm!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 8th - 11th Aug 2022
Stop horsing around, grab your wellies and get moo-vin’ and groovin’ as Funbox welcome you to their Funky Farm! Join Anya and Kevin as they escape to the countryside for songs, sil…
A Bit Fat (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 7th - 10th Aug 2022
Grace Mulvey is a bit fat.
A Bit Fat (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 7th - 10th Aug 2022
Grace Mulvey is a bit fat.
Big Zeus Energy (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 7th Aug 2022
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
The Grumpy Magicians Present: Trust Us, We're Magicians
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
- 6th - 20th Aug 2022
The Grumpy Magicians have been successfully entertaining Edinburgh Fringe audiences for over eight years and this year are presenting their new show titled Trust Us, We’re Magician…
Geriatric Millennial (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Liz Guterbock (2022 Union Jack Radio Ones to Watch, 2021 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee, 2020 British Comedy Guide Pro Performance Award nominee, 2019 Funny Women A…
Adventures of an Old C*** or Living My Dream (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club / Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 6th - 14th Aug 2022
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Tom Little Has Good Reviews So Prepare to Be Impressed
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
Mamoun Elagab: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
Rising star Mamoun wants to share with you his unfiltered, idiosyncratic and unorthodox world view – the things you think about and never say out loud.
Alex Kitson and Julia Stenton: Good Influences
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Full-time comedians, part-time teachers Alex Kitson and Julia Stenton talk the good, the bad and the ugliness of shaping minds.
David Alnwick: Good Afternoon, Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
Marriage in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 6th - 13th Aug 2022
Marriage in Progress playfully sends up lifelong commitment while celebrating it, and critiques the vanity of performance while revelling in it.
Neil O'Rourke: Midwit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
As I’m writing this, I think the show will be about my best friend.
Things We (Never) Learned in Sex Ed
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
Let’s talk about sex, maybe? Or, maybe not? After having radically different experiences with Sex Ed, Lindsay and Lea try to figure out exactly what they were supposed to learn, …
A Time Traveler's Guide to the Present
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
A mysterious broadcast from the future causes 85% of the world to abandon their friends and family forever.
The Good, the Bad and the Irish!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
After a fully sold-out run at last year’s festival we’re back for the show’s 10th year at the Fringe! Recommended as the best late-night Irish show by the Edinburgh Evening News in…
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Mean Girls and Creative Currency
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 5th Aug 2022
Top academics, dangerous ideas and your host comedian Susan Morrison.
Gentrif*cked (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 5th Aug 2022
British Writers’ Guild nominee Kate-Lois Elliott brings you her long-awaited debut show about finding your purpose in a world that’s a little bit on fire.
BANANA BEARD (Work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 5th - 6th Aug 2022
Think it’s a Stand up solo show? Think again.
Danny O'Brien: The God of All Things Bad
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
The award-winning Irish comic has stayed busier than ever over the last two years! From making one of the highest-viewed stand-up specials in Irish television history to somehow sp…
Gareth Mutch: Mutch in Progress (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 25th Aug 2022
Mutch returns to the Fringe for a special Work in Progress show.
Su Mi: Banana Beard (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 5th - 6th Aug 2022
Think it’s a Stand up solo show? Think again.
Between Good and Evil
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 5th - 10th Aug 2022
Between Good and Evil is a play that uses superheroes and aliens to comedically tell us the truth about ourselves.
Kiran Saggu and Sarah Roberts: Cake
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A split bill stand-up hour with a cherry on top.
Henning Wehn: It’ll All Come Out In The Wash
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
Watch the German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Matt Hutchinson: Hostile (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 4th - 26th Aug 2022
Matt is the son of Jamaican and English parents and is an NHS doctor.
Omid Djalili: The Good Times
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 4th - 20th Aug 2022
After experimental Zoom gigs where he got muted by 639 people and a drive-in gig where Omid witnessed an audience member get out his car, attach a hose pipe to his exhaust and feed…
Horrible History for Adults (Or Those That Think They Are!)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 4th - 15th Aug 2022
We all love a good story.
Come See – Evan Desmarais
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Come See.
Nathan Cassidy: Hot Tub God
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Who can save us now? God/Nathan Cassidy might be our only hope.
Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 21st Aug 2022
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s Lee and Dean, BBC’s Outnumbered, The First Team, Count Arthur Strong) brings her BBC Radio 4 special to life in this debut…
Good Kids: Appetite
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
The new award-nominated show from the lively double act – Kieran and Tom bring you the most unimportant hour of your life.
Runi Talwar/Toussaint Douglass: Jokes In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 14th Aug 2022
Highly rated newcomers, Runi (Hypothetical, HIGNFY) and Toussaint (Dave’s Outsiders, John Bishop tour support), have written for TV and supported some of the biggest names in comed…
Leanne Shorley: Nice Things
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 4th Aug 2022
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
Daniel Sloss: New Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Scotland’s international comedy star is doing a run of shows to work up some new material for his next tour.
Come Sit on the Couch With Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Come Sit on the Couch With Me: is this a therapy couch or a casting couch, and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical – but true – look at communication in …
Good Grief
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award 2022.
Samantha Pressdee: Clown Pray Love (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A prodigal story of true love and sacred transformation.
Leanne Shorley: Nice Things
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 4th Aug 2022
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
David Ephgrave: Good Grief
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 25th Aug 2022
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to (NB you’ll still have to).
Strictly Come Barking
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 4th - 29th Aug 2022
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
John Robins: Work In Progress/Progress In Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A heady mixture of ropey material and competent crowd work from one of the greats. Extra show added: as part of Just the Tonic’s Hot Ticket Lucky Dip. Tuesday 23rd at 5.45pm.
Ed Patrick: Catch Your Breath (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
NHS junior doctor, comedian and now author (oooooh, check him) Ed Patrick returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the makings of a new show.
Alcohol Is Good For You
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
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…
Charlie Hopkinson: Deep (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Ever wondered if what you are seeing and hearing is real? Feel like your trust in the audio-visual spectrum has been shaken? Charlie explores the increasing dangers – and benefit…
Nathan Cassidy: Observational
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Award-winning stand-up Cassidy with the uplifting, multi-award nominated ‘extraordinary story richly accessorised with laughter’ (Scotsman).
Good for Them
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 13th Aug 2022
Shared hour of comedy examining the people we pretend to be when we’re trying to convince the world we’re doing just fine, thank you very much! Luke Healy is an author and come…
Anthony Schuman: I Just Want to Be a Good Dad
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A twisted stand-up comedy quest to understand fatherhood.
Last Wednesday's Work Shirt
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
Last Wednesday's Work Shirt
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Award-winning comedian, NHS psychiatrist and author Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
Aidan Jones – Looking for Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
I’ve been fired from 14 jobs in my life – I’m starting to think that I might be the problem? I’ll tell you some of the stories and you can tell me what you think.
The Cambridge Impronauts Present: Keeping Up with the Kimprov
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Tired of all the scripted “reality” TV? Keeping Up With the Kimprov is your daily dose of reality TV, but actually unscripted! What minor inconvenience could lead to drama for this…
Robin Morgan: Snip Snip, Bitch (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 3rd - 10th Aug 2022
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
Sad Girls Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Welcome to Sad Girls Club, where girls are allowed to be.
Robin Morgan: Snip Snip, Bitch (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 3rd - 10th Aug 2022
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2022
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden in our data that made Google $1.
Nathan Mosher is Injured
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
A compilation of jokes, poems, and songs about a breakup, breakdown, breakthrough, and everything in-between.
The Tragic-Comedy of Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
A one-man performance spoken directly to the audience.
Work.txt
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Hate your job? Come work for us.
Move Fast and Break Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2022
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1.
Stewart Lee: Basic Lee (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
In this work-in-progress show, Lee enters the post-pandemic era in streamlined stand-up mode.
MADAM GOOD TIT
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 3rd Aug - 5th Nov 2022
Helen Bauer is basic, well, basic-plus, because she is aware of it.
The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Catriona has a history of making stuff up.
Helen Bauer: Madam Good Tit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
2019’s Best Newcomer nominee and your favourite self-aware stand-up returns with an hour about self-confidence, self-esteem and self-care.
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Nebula (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 2nd - 3rd Aug 2022
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse knows what she’s doing.
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Nebula (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 2nd - 3rd Aug 2022
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse knows what she’s doing.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2022
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
John-Luke Roberts: A World Just Like Our Own, But...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 1st - 28th Aug 2022
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
Nathan Mosher is Injured
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 1st - 5th Aug 2022
A compilation of jokes, poems, and songs about a breakup, breakdown, breakthrough, and everything in-between.
Ali Woods: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 31st Jul 2022
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Ali Woods: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 31st Jul 2022
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Jake Baker: Unity (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 30th - 31st Jul 2022
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like: what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and …
Jake Baker: Unity (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 30th - 31st Jul 2022
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like: what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and …
Sascha LO and Sarah Roberts: Sorry About This
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- The City Theatre
- 29th - 31st Jul 2022
A split bill stand-up comedy show featuring two of the country’s most attention seeking stand up comedians.
Apocalypse Live with Professor Jack Darcy
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- The Assembly Rooms Theatre
- 27th Jul 2022
‘An x-rated musical-comedy TED talk about the end of human civilisation’.
Sun Boy (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 26th - 28th Jul 2022
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
Sun Boy (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 26th - 28th Jul 2022
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
Kate Barron: Work In Progress
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 7th Jul 2022
In her Fringe debut, one of the rising stars of the UK stand-up scene shares a raw, honest and hilarious hour of tales… with just the right amount of filth.
Heidi Regan: Work In Progress
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 5th Jul 2022
This brand-new hour is Heidi’s most personal yet.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd - 7th Jul 2022
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.
People Do Stupid Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 4th - 5th Jun 2022
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
The Present
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 4th - 4th Jun 2022
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift.
The Present
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 4th - 4th Jun 2022
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift.
People Do Stupid Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 4th - 5th Jun 2022
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
Esyllt Sears: Absolutely Not (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2022
It is possible to spend *too much* time in the bath and end up managing the media relations around your own eventual death, actually? Esyllt has provided tour support to Elis Jame…
Esyllt Sears: Absolutely Not (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2022
It is possible to spend *too much* time in the bath and end up managing the media relations around your own eventual death, actually? Esyllt has provided tour support to Elis Jame…
Eco Maniac (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2022
Aruhan wants to assure you that this is NOT a TED Talk.
Eco Maniac (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2022
Aruhan wants to assure you that this is NOT a TED Talk.
Liam Withnail: Hot Sauce! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2022
Over two million views on TikTok and Instagram! A new show from the award-winning smash-hit comic, Liam Withnail.
Liam Withnail: Hot Sauce! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2022
Over two million views on TikTok and Instagram! A new show from the award-winning smash-hit comic, Liam Withnail.
Heidi Regan: No Worries (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2022
After doing her first live performance of her show ‘No Worries’ on Radio 4 in 2021, Heidi is now rewriting and updating it for the beautiful world of 2022, bringing her silly, surr…
Heidi Regan: No Worries (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2022
After doing her first live performance of her show ‘No Worries’ on Radio 4 in 2021, Heidi is now rewriting and updating it for the beautiful world of 2022, bringing her silly, surr…
Samantha Pressdee: Clown Pray Love (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 26th Jun 2021 - 5th Jun 2022
Divorced Sammie searches for love, laughter and divine purpose.
Alex Franklin: Dinosaurusesuses (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 1st Jun 2022
Triceratopses are revived from the dead, the monster under the bed is back, and we’re going back in time while also in space.
Alex Franklin: Dinosaurusesuses (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 1st Jun 2022
Triceratopses are revived from the dead, the monster under the bed is back, and we’re going back in time while also in space.
Gentrif*cked (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2022
Kate-Lois Elliott is a comedian, performer and writer, whose sketches were recently nominated for the Writers’ Guild Awards 2022 for best online comedy and the Funny Women Content …
Jenny Collier: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May - 5th Jun 2022
As seen on ‘The Lateish Show’ with Mo Gilligan (Channel 4), Jenny Collier is a multi-award-winning Welsh comedian who has played landmark venues across the UK and internationally, …
Kevin Precious: Teachers and Schools (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 30th May - 1st Jun 2022
Former Religious Studies teacher turned stand-up comedian Kevin Precious turns his hand to examining his former profession, and takes a sideways look at the teaching and schools mo…
Kevin Precious: Teachers and Schools (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 30th May - 1st Jun 2022
Former Religious Studies teacher turned stand-up comedian Kevin Precious turns his hand to examining his former profession, and takes a sideways look at the teaching and schools mo…
Jenny Collier: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May - 5th Jun 2022
As seen on ‘The Lateish Show’ with Mo Gilligan (Channel 4), Jenny Collier is a multi-award-winning Welsh comedian who has played landmark venues across the UK and internationally, …
Jim Daly: Football And Fatherhood (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 29th May 2022
Award-winning (and he will prove it) internet comedy sensation Jim Daly (50+ million views online.
Jim Daly: Football And Fatherhood (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 29th May 2022
Award-winning (and he will prove it) internet comedy sensation Jim Daly (50+ million views online.
Strictly Come Barking
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 28th - 29th May 2022
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Strictly Come Barking
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 28th - 29th May 2022
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Adele Cliff: In The Dark (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 30th May 2021 - 3rd Jun 2022
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Neil O'Rourke: Midwit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 29th May 2022
After performing at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2018 and 2019, Neil has had 2 years to come up with something new for 2022.
Helen Bauer: Good Tit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 29th May 2022
Nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, sweet angel stand-up comedian Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty much eve…
Helen Bauer: Good Tit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 29th May 2022
Nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, sweet angel stand-up comedian Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty much eve…
Neil O'Rourke: Midwit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 29th May 2022
After performing at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2018 and 2019, Neil has had 2 years to come up with something new for 2022.
Adele Cliff: In The Dark (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 26th May - 3rd Jun 2022
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Sugarcoated Sisters: Work in Progress
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 25th May 2022
Two sisters move back to their home town to discover unfinished business lurking around every corner.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd Jun 2021 - 25th May 2022
‘SMUT’ is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be about her dog.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 25th May 2022
‘Smut’ is the LONGGGGG anticipated show from rising star Lily Phillips, the show that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be about her dog.
Sugarcoated Sisters: Work in Progress
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 25th May 2022
Two sisters move back to their home town to discover unfinished business lurking around every corner.
Posey Mehta: Babycakes (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 24th - 25th May 2022
Gloria is not a gorilla, but she is stuck in the zoo’s gorilla enclosure.
Good Luck Out There, Human
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 23rd - 31st May 2022
“Legendary cock lobster.
Good Luck Out There, Human
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 23rd - 31st May 2022
“Legendary cock lobster.
Broken Record (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 22nd May 2022
Daniel, a failing writer, attends his final session with his “digital therapist”, which are now all the range in a cash-strapped, tech-focused NHS.
Broken Record (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 22nd May 2022
Daniel Willis attempts to show his audience and his digital therapist that his life is absolutely, definitely fine, with a solo hour of quick, quirky comedy sketches.
Jack Barry: Sexy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandem to heal your soul.
Yuriko Kotani: Overwork in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 21st May - 5th Jun 2022
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in pro…
Jack Barry: Sexy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandem to heal your soul.
Yuriko Kotani: Overwork in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 21st May - 5th Jun 2022
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in pro…
Lee Campbell: SEE ME (work in progress)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st May 2022
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
Shelf: HAIR (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 3rd Jul 2021 - 21st May 2022
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
Fear (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 21st May - 4th Jun 2022
Growing up, Faye was an anxious bedwetter but a fighter at heart.
Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 25th May 2022
What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a…
Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 25th May 2022
What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a…
Where's Your Head At? (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 21st May - 4th Jun 2022
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Shelf: HAIR (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 21st May 2022
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
Where's Your Head At? (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 21st May - 4th Jun 2022
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Girls Who Wear Glasses
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- New Steine Hotel, Bar and Bistro
- 20th - 29th May 2022
Quirky, dark, and delightfully saucy.
Girls Who Wear Glasses
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- New Steine Hotel, Bar and Bistro
- 20th - 29th May 2022
Quirky, dark, and delightfully saucy.
Ollie Horn: GOOOOOD MOURNING! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 20th - 28th May 2022
Ollie Horn (“A natural” Broadway Baby) returns after all this with a brand new hour of jokes.
Ollie Horn: GOOOOOD MOURNING! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 20th - 28th May 2022
Ollie Horn (“A natural” Broadway Baby) returns after all this with a brand new hour of jokes.
Michael Odewale: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 19th May - 1st Jun 2022
As seen on ‘Mock The Week’ (BBC Two), ‘The Stand-Up Sketch Show’ (ITV), ‘Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club’ (ITV) and more, Michael Odewale is taking the comedy world by storm.
Michael Odewale: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 19th May - 1st Jun 2022
As seen on ‘Mock The Week’ (BBC Two), ‘The Stand-Up Sketch Show’ (ITV), ‘Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club’ (ITV) and more, Michael Odewale is taking the comedy world by storm.
Lulu Popplewell: Goblin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 21st May 2022
Join Lulu as she explores what it means to be a goblin, lobster and inept female specimen all at once.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Lulu Popplewell: Goblin (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 21st May 2022
Join Lulu as she explores what it means to be a goblin, lobster and inept female specimen all at once.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- The Ledward Centre
- 18th May 2022
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…
Good Grief
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 18th May 2022
We’d like to invite you to come along to our ‘Good Grief’ event on Wednesday 18 May 2022, 11:00 –17:00.
Good Grief
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 18th May 2022
We’d like to invite you to come along to our ‘Good Grief’ event on Wednesday 18 May 2022, 11:00 –17:00.
Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- The Ledward Centre
- 18th May 2022
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…
Rich Spalding: LWLM (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 17th - 18th May 2022
Sometimes, it’s hard to be loved.
Kuan-Wen: Ilha Formosa (Work In Progress) INCOMPLETE
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 16th - 18th May 2022
“Taiwanese force of nature” as per Chortle review, Kuan-wen was seen and heard on BBC Three, BBC Radio 4 and Comedy Central.
Hysteria (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 16th - 19th May 2022
Hysteria is a dark, twisted absurd show, featuring elements of clown, circus and bouffon.
Hysteria (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 16th - 19th May 2022
Hysteria is a dark, twisted absurd show, featuring elements of clown, circus and bouffon.
Kuan-Wen: Ilha Formosa (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 16th - 18th May 2022
“Taiwanese force of nature” as per Chortle review, Kuan-wen was seen and heard on BBC Three, BBC Radio 4 and Comedy Central.
Kuan-Wen: Ilha Formosa (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 16th - 18th May 2022
“Taiwanese force of nature” as per Chortle review, Kuan-wen was seen and heard on BBC Three, BBC Radio 4 and Comedy Central.
David Ephgrave's a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 22nd May 2022
New material from the blogging comic.
Leanne Shorley: Nice Things (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 15th - 16th May 2022
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
Leanne Shorley: Nice Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 15th - 16th May 2022
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
Tom Houghton (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 15th - 29th May 2022
Tom Houghton brings his new Work In Progress show to the Brighton Fringe.
Tom Houghton (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 15th - 29th May 2022
Tom Houghton brings his new Work In Progress show to the Brighton Fringe.
HOT TICKET (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 15th - 20th May 2022
Outrageous American comedian and Gaulier-graduate Darius Emadi debuts his solo clown work-in-progress HOT TICKET! An energetic 50 minutes of clown aimed to make you die laughing wi…
Riggs (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 15th - 22nd May 2022
Debut work in progress show from BBC New Comedy Award nominated comedian Riggs.
Riggs (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 15th - 22nd May 2022
Debut work in progress show from BBC New Comedy Award nominated comedian Riggs.
David Ephgrave's a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 22nd May 2022
New material from the blogging comic.
Jane Postlethwaite & Joe McCarthy: Terrible People (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 22nd May 2022
Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a …
Jenanistan (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 15th May 2022
BBC New Voices winner, 291 club talent contest runner up, Amused Moose New Act finalist 2020 and 99 Comedy Club award nominee, Jenan brings you a work-in-progress show of what it m…
Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 29th May 2022
Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini…
Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 29th May 2022
Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini…
Darren Walsh: Work in Progress 2022
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 28th May 2022
Join award-winning punslinger Darren Walsh for some new jokes and video sketches.
Darren Walsh: Work in Progress 2022
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 28th May 2022
Join award-winning punslinger Darren Walsh for some new jokes and video sketches.
Jenanistan (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 15th May 2022
BBC New Voices winner, 291 club talent contest runner up, Amused Moose New Act finalist 2020 and 99 Comedy Club award nominee, Jenan brings you a work-in-progress show of what it m…
Addicts and Those Who Love Them
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Fishing Museum Gallery, Brighton Seafront / Fishing Quarter Gallery
- 7th Jun 2021 - 26th May 2022
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…
Addicts and Those Who Love Them
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Fishing Museum Gallery, Brighton Seafront
- 13th - 26th May 2022
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…
Ricky Balshaw: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th May 2022
BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist Ricky Balshaw is a former Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist, and sports pundit, with a penchant for dar…
Ali Woods: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 11th - 26th May 2022
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Gutter Dandy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 10th - 26th May 2022
Quirky, Irish comedian Kevin O Connell brings his silly little comedy show to Brighton.
Gutter Dandy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 10th - 26th May 2022
Quirky, Irish comedian Kevin O Connell brings his silly little comedy show to Brighton.
Maisie Adam: Buzzed (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th May - 5th Jun 2022
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam comes to the Caroline of Brunswick with a Work in Progress of her brand new show f…
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th May - 5th Jun 2022
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 …
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th May - 1st Jun 2022
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 …
Maisie Adam: Buzzed (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th May - 5th Jun 2022
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam comes to the Caroline of Brunswick with a Work in Progress of her brand new show f…
Thanyia Moore: Bully (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 9th May 2022
Join Award Winning Comedian, Thanyia Moore, as she takes you on a journey to explore why she was a bully as a child, where it came from and how it impacts her life today! A raw, …
Thanyia Moore: Bully (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 9th May 2022
Join Award Winning Comedian, Thanyia Moore, as she takes you on a journey to explore why she was a bully as a child, where it came from and how it impacts her life today! A raw, …
Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 8th - 29th May 2022
Teacher by trade Jack Harris brings his guide on how to deal with everything the classroom throws at you.
Alex Franklin and Andy Watts present: Andy Watts and Alex Franklin
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 9th May 2022
Alex Franklin (Brighton Comedy Award Finalist/ BBC New Comedy Award Nominee) and Andy Watts (Max Turner Prize Winner/ So You Think You’re Funny Runner-Up) have landed, and are re…
Alex Franklin and Andy Watts present: Andy Watts and Alex Franklin
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 9th May 2022
Alex Franklin (Brighton Comedy Award Finalist/ BBC New Comedy Award Nominee) and Andy Watts (Max Turner Prize Winner/ So You Think You’re Funny Runner-Up) have landed, and are re…
Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 8th - 29th May 2022
Teacher by trade Jack Harris brings his guide on how to deal with everything the classroom throws at you.
Sara Barron (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 8th - 18th May 2022
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominee and star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Sara Barron returns with a blistering hour of standup.
Sara Barron (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 8th - 18th May 2022
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominee and star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Sara Barron returns with a blistering hour of standup.
Troy Hawke! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
PERTH FRINGE BEST COMEDY NOMINEE, 2019, 2020 LEICESTER FESTIVAL BEST SHOW NOMINEE 2020 TOTAL SELLOUT RUN EDINBURGH 2019 TOP 40 BEST REVIEWED SHOWS EDINBURGH 2019 Join Troy Hawke a…
Troy Hawke! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
PERTH FRINGE BEST COMEDY NOMINEE, 2019, 2020 LEICESTER FESTIVAL BEST SHOW NOMINEE 2020 TOTAL SELLOUT RUN EDINBURGH 2019 TOP 40 BEST REVIEWED SHOWS EDINBURGH 2019 Join Troy Hawke a…
Come Sit on the Couch with Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 8th - 18th May 2022
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Come Sit on the Couch with Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 8th - 18th May 2022
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th Jun 2021 - 14th May 2022
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Sarah Southern: Scandalous! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 7th - 8th May 2022
Sarah Southern presents her work in progress show, ‘Scandalous!’ Political scandal never stops but what happens when you’re the centre of it? Sarah’s gripping storytelling takes yo…
Sarah Southern: Scandalous! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 7th - 8th May 2022
Sarah Southern presents her work in progress show, ‘Scandalous!’ Political scandal never stops but what happens when you’re the centre of it? Sarah’s gripping storytelling takes yo…
Godden & Barnes present #LiveShow1.5
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 7th - 9th May 2022
Is it original, or has it been done before? Who knows! The live show by Godden & Barnes.
Not Done Yet ! - A Life In Progress Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 8th May 2022
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.
Godden & Barnes present #LiveShow1.5
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 7th - 9th May 2022
Is it original, or has it been done before? Who knows! The live show by Godden & Barnes.
Selena Mersey: Madonna/Whore (Work in Progress)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 15th May, 2022
If Victoria Wood was alive today, she would have been charmed by Selina Mersey: Madonna/Whore, a work in progress show that explored, via the form of comedy and burlesque, the idea…
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 14th May 2022
You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Nathan Cassidy: Observational
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th - 13th May 2022
Award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy with the multi-award nominated and critically acclaimed show about a magical, life-changing year.
Nathan Cassidy: Hot Tub God
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 29th May 2022
The world is fu*ked.
Selena Mersey: Madonna/Whore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble / The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
Madonna or whore.
Nathan Cassidy: Observational
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th - 13th May 2022
Award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy with the multi-award nominated and critically acclaimed show about a magical, life-changing year.
Nathan Cassidy: Hot Tub God
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 29th May 2022
The world is fu*ked.
Jamie DSouza: Stop Drawing Willies On My Poster (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 29th May 2022
Join rising star Jamie D’Souza as he performs his highly anticipated debut stand-up show about his first school crush.
Jamie DSouza: Stop Drawing Willies On My Poster (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 29th May 2022
Join rising star Jamie D’Souza as he performs his highly anticipated debut stand-up show about his first school crush.
Ali Woods: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 7th - 26th May 2022
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Eddy Hare (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2022
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee 2021) presents a new work in progress show.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2022
Viggo Venn was the winner of The Brighton Fringe “Best Comedy Award” for his mad and free-flowing clowning in 2016 with ‘Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop’.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2022
Viggo Venn was the winner of The Brighton Fringe “Best Comedy Award” for his mad and free-flowing clowning in 2016 with ‘Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop’.
Dan Wakeling: Social Chameleon (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Paradox Place
- 6th - 7th May 2022
The first rule of character comedy is as follows: Be yourself! Unfortunately, young Daniel Wakeling hasn’t really figured out who he is yet.
Dan Wakeling: Social Chameleon (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Paradox Place
- 6th - 7th May 2022
The first rule of character comedy is as follows: Be yourself! Unfortunately, young Daniel Wakeling hasn’t really figured out who he is yet.
NDT2: The Big Crying, Simple Things, Impasse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre
- 8th May, 2022
The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…
Dave Fensome: Dog Eat Dog (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2022
After his sell-out run here last year with his debut show ‘ADHDave’, local comedian Dave Fensome returns to Caroline of Brunswick with his latest work ‘Dog Eat Dog’.
Dave Fensome: Dog Eat Dog (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2022
After his sell-out run here last year with his debut show ‘ADHDave’, local comedian Dave Fensome returns to Caroline of Brunswick with his latest work ‘Dog Eat Dog’.
Kate Expectations (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 6th - 8th May 2022
Who dictates where you should be and what you should be doing by your mid-thirties? Thirty-five has crept up on Kate and what has she got to show for it? A hilarious trip down memo…
Kate Expectations (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 6th - 8th May 2022
Who dictates where you should be and what you should be doing by your mid-thirties? Thirty-five has crept up on Kate and what has she got to show for it? A hilarious trip down memo…
Jake Baker: Unity (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and w…
Jake Baker: Unity (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and w…
An Evening with the Good Enough Mums Club
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Pleasance Theatre
- 30th Apr 2022
he Good Enough Mums Club is a new musical, produced, written, directed and performed by mums, featuring songs such as “Only My Nose Is The Same”, “The Price To Be Paid” and…
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Apr 2022
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Apr 2022
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Aidan Sadler: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Courtyard Theatre
- 23rd Apr 2022
If your life were a song, what would the Melody be? Join award-winning cabaret icon Aidan Sadler as they figure out the answers to questions like this along with “who polices the…
An Evening with the Good Enough Mums Club
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Lowry
- 22nd Apr 2022
NOT PERFECT? SEE THE SHOW! The Good Enough Mums Club is a poignant and hilarious musical toddle through the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of mummyhood.
Kevin Bridges Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th Apr - 11th May 2022
Catch Kevin Bridges as he warms up ahead of his future UK and World Tour.
A Good Time Was Had By All
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 5th - 23rd Apr 2022
A group of university friends reunites over dinner with lots to catch up on.
Things Fell Apart – Jon Ronson Live
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th - 31st Mar 2022
Things Fell Apart Strange Tales from the Culture Wars Jon Ronson LIVE Things Fell Apart is the live version of Jon’s hit BBC Radio 4 podcast.
Peak Trans (Work In Progress)
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Karaoke Hole
- 17th Mar 2022
As the discourse on trans people becomes more toxic in the UK comedian, trans-woman & nuisance Jen Ives is here to sort it all out, hun.
Shane Clifford: Aw Class (Work in Progress)
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 24th Feb 2022
Work In Progress Stand Up ComedyShane Clifford performs a Work In Progress show that asks the important questions: what is class in Ireland? Why do modern dogs wear jump…
Fun Things for Mad Times
- Listing Music
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 20th Feb 2022
An absurdity of love and laughterEmbracing the natural comedic elements of our friendship, we have curated an evening of music and magic.
PLEASE COME TALK TO ME | Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 20th Feb 2022
PLEASE COME TALK TO ME Let us not remain strangers Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)A Stuttering Comedy Show in Development PLEASE COME TALK TO ME -&nbs…
Connemarvellous | Stephen Mullan: Love is...? (Work in Progress)
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 19th - 20th Feb 2022
ConnemarvellousOne woman bilingual English Irish comedy! Stephen Mullan: Love is.
Space Girls | stop BUS STOP bus
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 18th - 19th Feb 2022
Space Girls You.
Juanita's Talk | Nice Girls Don't
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 15th Feb 2022
Juanita's Talk Time to clean up our act Nice Girls Don’t.
Omid Djalili: The Good Times Tour
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 17th Dec 2021
After experimenting with a Zoom gig where he got muted by 639 people and a Drive-in gig where Omid witnessed an audience member get out his car, attach a hose pipe to hi…
Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th Nov 2021
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how…
The Big Girls Aloud Songbook
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 3rd Nov 2021
Can you believe it’s been 18 years since we first saw the Girls on Popstars The Rivals!? To celebrate their birthday and of course mourn the loss of our favourite wild child o…
Golden Girls: A Musical - Manchester!
- Listing Film
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Cockatoo Cklub
- 1st - 2nd Nov 2021
PICTURE IT!MANCHESTER 2021!After 5 years of award-winning, sell-out shows in London, Golden Girls: A Musical is finally on TOUR!We’ll thank you for being a friend for two nights on…
Bitter Sour Present.... Horror GAYmes
- Listing Film
- Brighton
- Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th Oct 2021
BITTER SOUR IS BACK!!!!!After a much longer then anticipated hiatus through the pandemic, Bitter Sour is back with a BANG!!!!!We will be hosting some of the best in alternative dra…
SILVERTOWN - A WORK IN PROGRESS READING
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- The Factory Project
- 28th - 29th Oct 2021
SILVERTOWN - A new play by Jonny Wooster.
The Museum Of Marvellous Things
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 28th - 28th Oct 2021
Welcome to the Museum of Marvellous Things, where the impossible can happen! Make stars in jars, catch moons like balloons, dance with Doo-Dahs in cages, sing with Noo-Nahs on sta…
Mike Bubbins: Throwback (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th - 14th Oct 2021
Mike Bubbins, star of hit podcast The Socially Distant Sports Bar, and of BBC television comedies Mammoth, Tourist Trap and The Unexplainers, unleashes THROWBACK, his fi…
What's Good Cabaret: Second Verse.
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 10th Oct 2021
Huns, we are coming back for another one, presenting to you THE loud, live & brand new cabaret mixtape for the booty-shakin’ generation!What’s Good is BACK, pressing play…
Robyn & Margaret Present: LAUNDRY DAY
- Listing
- London Fringe
- Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
- 30th Sep 2021
The day has finally arrived for us to produce our dirty undies and have a ruddy good scrub! The sixth part of Robyn & Margarets spin-cycle pulls on the rubber gloves and contem…
JOHN AGGASILD: WELCOME BACK (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Kings Arms R Quigley Room
- 30th Sep 2021
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
JOHN AGGASILD: WELCOME BACK (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Kings Arms R Quigley Room
- 30th Sep 2021
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
JOHN AGGASILD: WELCOME BACK (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Kings Arms R Quigley Room
- 30th Sep 2021
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
JOHN AGGASILD: WELCOME BACK (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Kings Arms R Quigley Room
- 30th Sep 2021
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Salford Arts Theatre
- 25th Sep 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Salford Arts Theatre
- 25th Sep 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Salford Arts Theatre
- 25th Sep 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- Salford Arts Theatre
- 25th Sep 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Henning Wehn - It'll All Come Out In The Wash
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 23rd Sep - 9th Oct 2021
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Henning Wehn - It'll All Come Out In The Wash
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 23rd Sep 2021
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Sex Work, Censorship and Social Media: Panel
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- VFD
- 23rd Sep 2021
In May this year, under the guise of making the UK the safest place in the world to go online the government passed the Online Safety Bill which removes any content deemed as havin…
Eryn Tett Finds Her Audience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Peer Hat
- 22nd - 30th Sep 2021
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
Eryn Tett Finds Her Audience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Peer Hat
- 22nd - 30th Sep 2021
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
Eryn Tett Finds Her Audience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Peer Hat
- 22nd - 30th Sep 2021
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR VERY IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Any age, gender, height, music taste, shoe size please apply Research will take place in Manchester.
Golden Girls: A Musical - Brighton!
- Listing Film
- Brighton
- The Curzon
- 20th - 24th Sep 2021
PICTURE IT! BRIGHTON 2021!After 5 years of award-winning, sell-out shows in London, Golden Girls: A Musical is finally off on it’s long anticipated tour to Brighton!This September …
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Sep 2021
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoug…
Simon Evans: Work of the Devil
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th - 19th Sep 2021
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Golden Girls: A Musical - London Preview
- Listing Film
- London Fringe
- Two Brewers
- 7th Sep 2021
PICTURE IT! LONDON 2021!Following the announcement of our Brighton shows, due to popular demand we have decided to add a one night only London Preview, exclusively at The Two Brewe…
The Good Dad (A Love Story)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 31st Aug - 11th Sep 2021
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Josie Long: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 29th Aug 2021
Oh, you like Josie Long? Political and personal in one sentence, angry but tender, did a brilliant and much-lauded Fringe show when we last had civilization.
Fred MacAulay: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
One of Scotland’s best-loved stand-ups, Fred MacAulay tries out some new jokes. ‘One of the best comedians Britain has produced’ (Richard Osman).
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in progr…
Jenanistan (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
BBC New Voices winner, Amused Moose New Act and 99 Comedy Club Award Finalist, Star of BBC Radio JENAN’S COMEDY HOUR, Jenan brings you a work-in-progress show of what it means to b…
Jenanistan (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
BBC New Voices winner, Amused Moose New Act and 99 Comedy Club Award Finalist, Star of BBC Radio JENAN’S COMEDY HOUR, Jenan brings you a work-in-progress show of what it means to b…
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 27th - 29th Aug 2021
At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…
Jack Dee: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 27th - 29th Aug 2021
Join Jack Dee as he takes to the road to warm up ahead of continuing his UK tour.
Alex Kealy: Monopoly (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 27th Aug 2021
‘Rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (List).
Morgan & West Present: The Three Musketeers
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Earls Court
- 27th - 31st Aug 2021
Sharpen your swords, lace up your boots, and stick a great big feather in your hat! Morgan & West present a fun for all the family retelling of Alexadre Dumas’ The Three …
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 27th - 29th Aug 2021
At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…
I Feel Petty / As Yet Unlisted – A Work-in-Progress Double Bill
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 26th Aug 2021
Vix Leyton, Welsh stand up and host of the Comedy Arcade podcast lives her life as a self-styled princess of petty.
Tom Lucy: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th - 27th Aug 2021
Join Tom Lucy as he tests brand-new material for an upcoming show.
Alex Kealy: Monopoly (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 13th - 26th Aug 2021
‘Rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (List).
Alex Kealy: Monopoly (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 24th - 27th Aug 2021
‘Rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (List).
Norris & Parker / Fever Dream Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 23rd - 26th Aug 2021
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Hannah Platt and Erika Ehler: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2021
Hannah and Erika are two of the most exciting rising stars on the comedy scene.
Sam and Tim Present: Behind the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2021
A series of quick-fire sketches riffing on ten years’ worth of observations on the bizarre quirks that make the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the collection of misfits and mishaps that…
White Chicks 2 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 23rd - 29th Aug 2021
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes (So You Think You’re Funny? and 2Northdown New Act semi-finalist) and Sharlin Jahan (Bath New Act runner-up and Rising Star finalist) present White Chicks 2…
Norris & Parker / Fever Dream Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 23rd - 26th Aug 2021
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Mark Simmons – One-Linerer: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 23rd - 25th Aug 2021
Mark Simmons (Mock The Week, Dave’s Top Jokes of the Fringe 2017, 2019) has been busy with his podcast Jokes With Mark over the last 18 months, interviewing the likes of Milton Jon…
Lou Sanders New Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2021
A new show from Lou Sanders (as seen on QI, Travel Man, Taskmaster and your Daddy’s ding dong).
Josh Jones and Louise Young: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2021
An hour of stand-up from two rising-stars in the world of comedy.
Lou Sanders New Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2021
A new show from Lou Sanders (as seen on QI, Travel Man, Taskmaster and your Daddy’s ding dong).
Sara Barron: Suffer, fools! (work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 21st - 29th Aug 2021
Sara Barron: Suffer, Fools (work-in-progress) Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominee and star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order returns wi…
Sara Barron: Suffer, fools! (work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 4th - 29th Aug 2021
Sara Barron: Suffer, Fools (work-in-progress) Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominee and star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order returns wi…
Jake Lambert: Shimmy Shake (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th - 22nd Aug 2021
Jake Lambert (tour support for Romesh Ranganathan and Michael McIntyre) returns with another ‘highly entertaining hour’ (One4Review.
George Fox and Chris Thorburn: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 20th - 26th Aug 2021
For one week only, George Fox and Chris Thorburn are bringing their award-winning comedy off the internet and back to the Monkey Barrel stage for their work-in-progress stand-up sh…
Tamsyn Kelly: Cornwall's No1 Tourist Attraction (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 20th Aug - 11th Sep 2021
Brand new work in progress show from working class Cornish actor and comedian Tamsyn Kelly.
EHFM and NEHH Present... EHFM's 3rd Birthday Featuring...
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug 2021
Edinburgh’s community radio station EHFM celebrates three years on the airwaves with a special live show from local legend Other Lands.
You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th - 20th Aug 2021
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…
Tom Ward: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 19th - 21st Aug 2021
Oh thank God Tom Ward is back.
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 7th - 20th Aug 2021
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…
Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 19th - 22nd Aug 2021
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
Rich Hardisty SILLY BOY (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 19th Aug 2021
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
Tom Ward: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 19th - 21st Aug 2021
Oh thank God Tom Ward is back.
Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 19th - 22nd Aug 2021
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
Lily Phillips and Anna Clifford: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 19th - 21st Aug 2021
Lily Phillips has been seen on BBC Three, ITV2 and All4, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year runner-up, Funny Women finalist and Pleasance Reserve comedian Lily Phillips …
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th - 20th Aug 2021
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…
Rich Hardisty SILLY BOY (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 19th Aug 2021
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
Haus Of Bam Bam Present Wham Bam Bam
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 18th Aug 2021
Are Your Ready for Round three.
Ben Pope (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 18th Aug 2021
Ben Pope is ‘a total delight’ (Fest).
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 18th - 20th Aug 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed and a burglar flees.
Ben Pope (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 18th Aug 2021
Ben Pope is ‘a total delight’ (Fest).
Ian Smith: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 16th - 19th Aug 2021
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) presents some new ideas (and some old ones) through a mixture of theatrical techniques, such…
Good Grief
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Aug 2021
A female driven two hander tragi-comedy, the play presents itself as a series of interactions between a grieving mother and the girlfriend of the son she lost to a hered…
Helen Bauer: Good Tit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 15th - 22nd Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, sweet angel stand-up comedian Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty much eve…
Helen Bauer: Good Tit (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 15th - 22nd Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, sweet angel stand-up comedian Helen Bauer presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts and feelings on pretty much eve…
Simon Evans: The Work of the Devil
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 14th - 22nd Aug 2021
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Hatty Ashdown: Dig Deep (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 14th - 15th Aug 2021
“Wonderfully inventive, consistently funny”- Time out.
Jamesy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 13th Aug 2021
Essex boy and rising social media star Josh James brings his work-in-progress show to the Camden Fringe! Come and watch one of the circuits best up and coming Comedians in an intim…
Jamesy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 13th Aug 2021
Essex boy and rising social media star Josh James brings his work-in-progress show to the Camden Fringe! Come and watch one of the circuits best up and coming Comedians in an intim…
Not Ready For This: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 13th Aug 2021
Michael Akadiri is a London born & bred, award-winning, fast-rising stand up comedian who has been seen/ heard on LadBible, Times Radio and recently recorded for ITV2s Stand Up Ske…
Michael Akadiri: Not Ready For This (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 13th Aug 2021
Michael Akadiri is a London born & bred, award-winning, fast-rising stand up comedian who has been seen/ heard on LadBible, Times Radio and recently recorded for ITV2s Stand Up Ske…
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Oh No (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 13th - 29th Aug 2021
A new hour of stand-up from the biggest wee fanny in Scottish comedy.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown / Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 12th - 24th Aug 2021
SMUT is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be about her dog.
Luke McQueen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 12th - 13th Aug 2021
Work in progress.
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 12th - 14th Aug 2021
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Larry Dean is here to try out some brand-new jokes.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 12th - 21st Aug 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed and a burglar flees.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown / Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 12th - 24th Aug 2021
SMUT is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be about her dog.
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 12th - 14th Aug 2021
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Larry Dean is here to try out some brand-new jokes.
Neu! Reekie! with Edwyn Collins, Darren McGarvey & more
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Edinburgh Park
- 12th Aug 2021
Neu! Reekie! presents a one-off happening in their distinct avant-garde style.
Luke McQueen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 12th - 13th Aug 2021
Work in progress.
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 12th - 16th Aug 2021
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 …
Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 11th - 14th Aug 2021
Ania is trying out some new material.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Aug 2021
Multi-award winning comedian Nathan Cassidy's hilarious and thrilling true crime stand-up show.
Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 11th - 14th Aug 2021
Ania is trying out some new material.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Aug 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Aug 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Sikisa: Bad Guy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 10th Aug 2021
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Sikisa: Bad Guy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 10th Aug 2021
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Elf Lyons: Raven (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 9th - 10th Aug 2021
Comedy IT-girl Elf Lyons floats to Camden Fringe with a horrifying comedy show inspired by Stephen King.
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- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall Online
- 9th - 11th Aug 2021
You’ll clock in at the beginning.
Chaps - Work in progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 8th - 29th Aug 2021
CHAPS are comedy power houses Naz Osmanoglu (Horrible Histories, formerly of Wittank) and Tom Houghton (Comedy Central Roast Battle, formally of The Noise Next Door).
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Aug 2021
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work-in-Progress) As seen on Dave's Hypothetical and heard on Radio 5 Live, join Petts, one of the most exciting prospects in comedy,…
Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Martin Willis: Jazz (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin / Museum of Comedy
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2021
Jazz is a story of improvisation and collaboration, race and privilege, high art and laughing stock.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Chloe Petts: Alpha (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Aug 2021
Chloe Petts: Alpha (Work-in-Progress) As seen on Dave's Hypothetical and heard on Radio 5 Live, join Petts, one of the most exciting prospects in comedy, in her de…
Martin Willis: Jazz (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin / Museum of Comedy
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2021
Jazz is a story of improvisation and collaboration, race and privilege, high art and laughing stock.
Raul Kohli: Works It Out As He Goes Along (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 7th - 22nd Aug 2021
Raul Kohli was going to do a show about how blind faith is rational in 2020.
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th - 16th Aug 2021
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 …
Glenn Moore: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 7th - 15th Aug 2021
Perrier award nominee Glenn Moore works up a new hour of ‘brilliantly original’ (Chortle), ‘blissfully silly’ (The Guardian) jokes.
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 7th - 20th Aug 2021
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…
Glenn Moore: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 7th - 15th Aug 2021
Perrier award nominee Glenn Moore works up a new hour of ‘brilliantly original’ (Chortle), ‘blissfully silly’ (The Guardian) jokes.
Thanyia Moore: Bully (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 6th - 12th Aug 2021
Funny Women Award winner Thanyia Moore has been a bully, and she’s been bullied.
The Good, The Bad and The Irish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
We’ve been entertaining audiences all over Europe and Ireland since 2012, with sell-out shows in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moscow and many mo…
DICKPRESSION (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Fringe Digital programme
- 6th - 12th Aug 2021
Are you depressed due to the lack of d**k in your life? Katerina will take you on a journey exploring the new decade of no d**k! Please expect naughty chat up lines, lessons on how…
Eryn Tett Finds Her Audience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 6th - 8th Aug 2021
An alternative stand up comedy show which earnestly takes an entirely literal approach to the common comedian advice of ‘find your audience’.
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 18th Aug 2021
Join Chloe Petts (as seen on Dave’s Hypothetical and Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club) as she presents an hour of new jokes on all manner of pertinent issues including the darts and loud…
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 6th - 16th Aug 2021
Trapped in a manor house, two hapless Glaswegian detectives must investigate the deaths of each family member, but try not to become victims themselves… A time-warp murder myster…
Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside The Conan Doyle Pub
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
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.
DICKPRESSION (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Fringe Digital programme
- 6th - 12th Aug 2021
Are you depressed due to the lack of d**k in your life? Katerina will take you on a journey exploring the new decade of no d**k! Please expect naughty chat up lines, lessons on how…
Those People: A Play About QAnon
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 6th Aug 2021
Those People: A Play About QAnon is based on interviews with young people from the UK, conducted online and from accounts written on the subreddit: r/QAnoncasualties.
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 18th Aug 2021
Join Chloe Petts (as seen on Dave’s Hypothetical and Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club) as she presents an hour of new jokes on all manner of pertinent issues including the darts and loud…
The Girls of St. Trinian's
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Online@theSpaceUK
- 6th - 9th Aug 2021
With Sistas Before Mistas as their rally cry, the girls of St.
John Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 6th - 13th Aug 2021
Following two culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs in 2018 and 2019, this mind-bogglingly awful (and disquietingly successful) idea for a comedy extravaganza retur…
Jim Daly - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 5th Aug 2021
Award winning (and he will prove it) internet sensation Jim Daly (50+million views online, seen on JOE.
Patrick Spicer: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 5th - 25th Aug 2021
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.
Jim Daly - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 5th Aug 2021
Award winning (and he will prove it) internet sensation Jim Daly (50+million views online, seen on JOE.
Patrick Spicer: Who's This All of a Sudden (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 5th - 25th Aug 2021
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.
Henning Wehn: It'll All Come Out in the Wash
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Corn Exchange
- 5th - 29th Aug 2021
Watch German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 3rd - 7th Aug 2021
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 3rd - 7th Aug 2021
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Alice-India and Ruby Carr Present Friend Ship: Welcome to the Murder Boat
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 2nd Aug 2021
Ruby Carr (Amused Moose New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) and Alice-India (Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) are looking for a person or persons to join …
Sarah Roberts & Jess Durand: Do You Know Who I Am?
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 2nd - 22nd Aug 2021
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
Alice-India and Ruby Carr Present Friend Ship: Welcome to the Murder Boat
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 2nd Aug 2021
Ruby Carr (Amused Moose New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) and Alice-India (Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) are looking for a person or persons to join …
Sarah Roberts & Jess Durand: Do You Know Who I Am?
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 2nd - 22nd Aug 2021
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
OMID DJALILI: THE GOOD TIMES TOUR. 2021
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 17th Jul 2021
Saturday 17th July 2021, 8pmTickets: £26.
Medical Students at your Cervix, Urine Good Hands!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 17th Jul 2021
The MDs are a group of UCL medical students, whose sketch comedy and stand-up routines reveal a side of medicine that the public has never seen before.
The Thinking Drinkers – Pub Quiz (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th - 14th Jul 2021
The Thinking Drinkers hilarious, brand new show gets the drinks in, in more ways than one, with every audience member getting 5 free drinks while competing for amazing p…
Frankie Boyle: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th - 14th Jul 2021
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows to try out some brand new jokes.
Raccoons Are Hard to Come By
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 7th - 8th Jul 2021
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
Raccoons Are Hard to Come By
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 7th - 8th Jul 2021
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
Anna Marie Simonsen: Naughty (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 5th - 6th Jul 2021
Little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things NAUGHTY.
Shelf: One Man Band (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 3rd - 4th Jul 2021
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
Gerard Harris: Wank In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 2nd - 5th Jul 2021
All the best jokes I’ve ever written and also some others.
Gerard Harris: Wank In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 2nd - 5th Jul 2021
All the best jokes I’ve ever written and also some others.
Sikisa: Bad Guy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 27th Jun 2021
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Will Hall and Sharlin Jahan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 26th - 27th Jun 2021
Will Hall (as seen on BBC Three and Channel 4) and Sharlin Jahan (BBC Asian Network) present a brand new work in progress split bill.
Will Hall and Sharlin Jahan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 26th - 27th Jun 2021
Will Hall (as seen on BBC Three and Channel 4) and Sharlin Jahan (as heard on Union Jack Radio) present a brand new work in progress split bill.
Sikisa: Bad Guy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges
- 26th - 27th Jun 2021
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Samantha Pressdee: Clown Pray Love (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 26th - 27th Jun 2021
Divorced Sammie searches for love, laughter and divine purpose.
Frankie Thompson (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 25th - 27th Jun 2021
“Just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way” – Boris Johnson.
Jamesy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th Jun 2021
Essex boy and rising social media star Josh James brings his work-in-progress show to Brighton! Come and watch one of the circuits best up and coming Comedians in an intimate space…
The Sex Party (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 25th - 27th Jun 2021
“Just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way” – Boris Johnson.
Tom Lucy: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th - 27th Jun 2021
Catch Tom as he tries out new material.
End of an Error: Stories from the Distant Present
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- 25th - 27th Jun 2021
What would Alan Sugar do if he were the last man alive? What if people stopped reproducing as a form of mass protest? And when are those killer African wasps that the tabloids keep…
Jamesy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th Jun 2021
Essex boy and rising social media star Josh James brings his work-in-progress show to Brighton! Come and watch one of the circuits best up and coming Comedians in an intimate space…
End of an Error: Stories from the Distant Present
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- 25th - 27th Jun 2021
What would Alan Sugar do if he were the last man alive? What if people stopped reproducing as a form of mass protest? And when are those killer African wasps that the tabloids keep…
Frankie Boyle: Work In Progress at The Museum of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Jun - 4th Jul 2021
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows at the to try out some brand new jokes.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd - 23rd Jun 2021
‘SMUT’ is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be about her dog.
Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 24th Jun 2021
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 24th Jun 2021
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
Robin Morgan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’.
Matty Hutson: Relax (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
Sleeping tigers, Matty Hutson and Heidi Regan tread the boards once more after a year of laying dormant due to the ‘big pandemic’.
Robin Morgan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’.
Omar Ibrahim: Decolonise This (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Electric Arcade
- 17th - 19th Jun 2021
A dismantling of hilarious topics, including race, identity and of course, Asian dads.
Good Grief & This is My Tooth
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 16th - 20th Jun 2021
Good Grief - Due to unforeseen personal circumstances Good Grief has to be cancelled for Sunday 20th of June and will be replaced by Pocket-Sized Revolution.
Good Grief & This is My Tooth
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 16th - 20th Jun 2021
There are 7 stages of grief: Shock, denial, guilt, anger, depression, reconstruction, & really bad haircuts.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Miller
- 15th Jun 2021
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Barron: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 16th Jun 2021
Sara Barron returns to Brighton Fringe with new jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings back together.
Sara Barron: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 14th - 16th Jun 2021
Sara Barron returns to Brighton Fringe with new jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings back together.
Luca Cupani: Words in Progress (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th - 26th Jun 2021
Storytelling meets observational humour.
Not Ready For This (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 12th Jun 2021
Michael Akadiri is a London born & bred, award-winning, fast-rising stand up comedian who has been previously heard on Times Radio, BBC Radio Kent, and Union Jack.
Not Ready For This (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 12th Jun 2021
Michael Akadiri is a London born & bred, award-winning, fast-rising stand up comedian who has been previously heard on Times Radio, BBC Radio Kent, and Union Jack.
Luca Cupani: Words in Progress (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 12th - 26th Jun 2021
Storytelling meets observational humour.
The Psychedelic Fox (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Electric Arcade
- 11th - 13th Jun 2021
Mercury is in retrograde, a full moon in Scorpio and enough wonk to see you through the night! Journey down the rabbit hole of delicious chaos with viciously funny comic Charlotte …
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Nebula (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 9th - 27th Jun 2021
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse knows what she’s doing.
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Nebula (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 9th - 27th Jun 2021
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse knows what she’s doing.
Addicts and Those Who Love Them
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Fishing Quarter Gallery
- 7th - 12th Jun 2021
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…
Ben Pope: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th - 21st Jun 2021
Ben Pope is ‘a total delight’ (Fest).
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Ben Pope: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th - 21st Jun 2021
Ben Pope is ‘a total delight’ (Fest).
Stoph Demetriou: Bad Faith (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th - 12th Jun 2021
We all lie to ourselves.
Nathan Cassidy: Bumblebee
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th - 20th Jun 2021
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Stoph Demetriou: Bad Faith (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th - 12th Jun 2021
We all lie to ourselves.
Happified (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 4th - 27th Jun 2021
The show the world needs right now.
Sasha Ellen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 18th Jun 2021
A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen.
Happified (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 4th - 27th Jun 2021
The show the world needs right now.
Sasha Ellen (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 18th Jun 2021
A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen.
Vix Leyton: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 3rd Jun 2021
Host of Leicester Comedy award finalist podcast ‘The Comedy Arcade’, Welsh stand up comedian Vix Leyton lives a life of French farce and chaos that she justifies as research for he…
David Ephgrave: COVID-19, DAVID-40 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 24th Jun 2021
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
Nick Elleray: Passionate About Compromise (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 3rd - 24th Jun 2021
After a successful run at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, Nick Elleray (Old Comedian of the Year, 2017) brings a new work in progress show to Brighton.
Vix Leyton / Rich Wilson: An hour of work in progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 3rd Jun 2021
Host of Leicester Comedy award finalist podcast ‘The Comedy Arcade’, Welsh stand up comedian Vix Leyton lives a life of French farce and chaos that she justifies as research for he…
David Ephgrave: COVID-19, DAVID-40 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 24th Jun 2021
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
Nick Elleray: Passionate About Compromise (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 3rd - 24th Jun 2021
After a successful run at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe, Nick Elleray (Old Comedian of the Year, 2017) brings a new work in progress show to Brighton.
Tom Houghton: Red Flag (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 2nd - 9th Jun 2021
New work-in-progress show from a master at making the seemingly unreliable, relatable.
Tom Houghton: Red Flag (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 2nd - 9th Jun 2021
New work-in-progress show from a master at making the seemingly unreliable, relatable.
Teachers and Schools (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 1st - 3rd Jun 2021
Former Religious Studies teacher turned stand-up comedian Kevin Precious turns his hand to examining his former profession, and takes a sideways look at teaching and schools more g…
Teachers and Schools (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 1st - 3rd Jun 2021
Former Religious Studies teacher turned stand-up comedian Kevin Precious turns his hand to examining his former profession, and takes a sideways look at teaching and schools more g…
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 1st - 18th Jun 2021
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in pro…
Yuriko Kotani: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 1st - 18th Jun 2021
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences and thoughts as a work in pro…
Benji Waterstones: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 31st May - 22nd Jun 2021
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…
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 31st May - 22nd Jun 2021
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…
Rajiv Karia: Paint (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 30th May - 20th Jun 2021
Acerbic comedian and professional slacker Rajiv Karia assesses his millennial existence in this work in progress show.
Troy Hawke: ''Sigmund Troy'd!' (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May - 27th Jun 2021
2020 Leicester Comedy Festival best show nominee.
Rajiv Karia: Paint (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 30th May - 20th Jun 2021
Acerbic comedian and professional slacker Rajiv Karia assesses his millennial existence in this work in progress show.
Adele Cliff: In The Dark (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 30th May - 27th Jun 2021
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Back For Good
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
In this mockumentary, we follow the trials and tribulations of 00s boyband 3hree as they attempt a reunion and a comeback gig.
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Back For Good
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
In this mockumentary, we follow the trials and tribulations of 00s boyband 3hree as they attempt a reunion and a comeback gig.
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 28th May - 12th Jun 2021
Join Chloe Petts (as seen on Dave’s Hypothetical and Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club) as she presents an hour of new jokes on all manner of pertinent issues including the darts and loud…
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Jake Lambert: Shimmy Shake (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 28th May - 25th Jun 2021
Jake Lambert (Tour support for Romesh Ranganathan and Michael McIntyre) brings his WIP show to Brighton fringe.
Tom Mayhew: Get Rich or Die (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Live Streaming
- 28th May - 12th Jun 2021
Critically-acclaimed comedian Tom Mayhew brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe online! He is working class, political and very funny.
Jake Lambert: Shimmy Shake (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 28th May - 25th Jun 2021
Jake Lambert (Tour support for Romesh Ranganathan and Michael McIntyre) brings his WIP show to Brighton fringe.
Chloe Petts: Transience (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 28th May - 12th Jun 2021
Join Chloe Petts (as seen on Dave’s Hypothetical and Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club) as she presents an hour of new jokes on all manner of pertinent issues including the darts and loud…
Quiet Little Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Quiet Little Things OddHouse are an emerging feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Quiet Little Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Quiet Little Things Will You Be A Quiet Little Thing? OddHouse are an emerging radical feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Tom Mayhew: Get Rich or Die (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Live Streaming
- 28th May - 12th Jun 2021
Critically-acclaimed comedian Tom Mayhew brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe online! He is working class, political and very funny.
Here Come The Boys
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- London Palladium
- 25th May - 9th Jun 2021
Here Come The Boys features four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’ in a dazzling new production that includes special guest star, Strictly’s stunning Nadiya Bychkova.
Bringing Back The Good Times
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 19th May 2021
Coming to you in 2021 Neil Sands and his wonderful cast will be back with a brand new show which will be spreading enough happiness and joy to lift the sp…
Maddie Campion: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Apr 2021
Maddie Campion: WIPA fun show to be enjoyed by everyone or you'll be reported to the fun police.
Maddie Campion: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Apr 2021
Maddie Campion: WIPA fun show to be enjoyed by everyone or you'll be reported to the fun police.
Good Grief
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Online & Broadcast
- 12th Feb, 2021
Kicking off at the end of a particularly boozy and pizza-fuelled wake, then time-skipping over the months of post-funeral aftermath, Good Grief charts the stuttering relationship o…
Here Come The Boys
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Garrick Theatre
- 27th Jan - 15th May 2021
Following a sold-out UK national tour, Here Come The Boys, featuring the four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’, is set to transfer to the West End in a dazzling new productio…
Good
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Playhouse Theatre / The Harold Pinter Theatre
- 6th Oct 2020 - 17th Jul 2021
John Halder is a good man.
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 27th Sep 2020
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 27th Sep 2020
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Make A Good Impression
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 29th Aug 2020
Make a good impression is a stand up and impression show with Clare Harrison McCartney and Daniel Benisty.
Jason Manford: Like Me (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 26th - 29th Aug 2020
He’s back! It’s been a busy few years for Jason since his last smash-hit stand-up show, but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn’t chan…
Lest We Forget – The Process Of Creating Your Own Work
- Listing Events
- Online & Broadcast
- A Company 6 Scots
- 19th - 30th Aug 2020
Charlotte will take you through the timeline of creating your own work, along with a practical element to get you started on your own play.
Love, War, Myth And Reality: Combining Academic Research With Mask, Movement, Text and Music To Create New Work With NMT Automatics
- Listing Events
- Online & Broadcast
- A Company 6 Scots
- 19th - 30th Aug 2020
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…
Frankie Boyle: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th - 31st Aug 2020
Lisa Richards Agency Presents Frankie Boyle - Work In Progress Frankie is doing some shows to try out some brand new jokes.
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys Who Hate Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 17th - 22nd Aug 2020
Sugar and spice / partners in crime / he-said-she-said / not talking / can’t believe / only joking / why did I / hate you / forgive you / miss you.
Girls Like That
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 17th - 21st Aug 2020
PTC Productions are proud to present Girls Like That by Evan Placey; a hard-hitting, explosive play targeting gender inequality and the challenges that people now face growing up i…
Those Radio Times
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 13th Aug 2020
Philomusica of Edinburgh presents a programme of classic theme music and signature tunes from the golden age of radio.
Simon Amstell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 25th Aug 2020
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous’ (New York Times).
Justin Moorhouse: Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 11th - 30th Aug 2020
Brand-new show from star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 cats, Celebrity Mastermind and regular on The News Quiz and Fighting Talk.
Those Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 10th - 15th Aug 2020
Tristan’s grandfather is dead, Molly and Katie are hiding something, Laura is off the rails.
Ivy Paige: Bitch, I’m a Work of Art
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 7th - 30th Aug 2020
Edinburgh’s favourite showgirl invites you to a private viewing of her personal collection.
A Time Traveler's Guide to the Present
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
One traveler is catapulted on a journey through space-time, only to find himself on a desperate hunt to reconnect with those he left back home.
Frank Sanazi – The Wurst Is Yet To Come
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 7th - 30th Aug 2020
The legendary dark prince of comedy-cabaret has brought his new show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Reginald D Hunter: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 30th Aug 2020
Reginald returns to the Fringe with his off-year, set-building, work-in-progress show with working titles: The Things That I Was Wrong About, The Death of Uncle Fluffy, and The Man…
Simon Evans: The Work of The Devil
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Last year’s show, Dressing for Dinner, earned Evans some of the most ecstatic reviews of his career including an unbeaten 4.
Luke Rollason: Bowerbird (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed / The Warren: Theatre Box
- 26th May 2020 - 26th Jun 2021
A big-eyed, big-haired thing in a turtleneck exposes the infidelities of your cutlery drawer.
Seven Things I've Learned: An Evening With Ira Glass
- Listing Spoken Word
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Festival Hall / The Bridgewater Hall
- 16th - 17th May 2020
Award-winning journalist and radio presenter Ira Glass, storyteller extraordinaire, has announced two UK dates for 2020.
Simon Evans: Work of the Devil
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th May 2020
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Simon Evans: Work of the Devil
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th May 2020
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 21st Apr 2020
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how …
Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 14th Apr - 6th Oct 2020
Mark uses his trademark style of storytelling, stand-up, subversion and really, really well-researched material to try and find out how the hell we ended up in the middle of this s…
Support the Girls
- Listing Film
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 29th Mar 2020
An outstanding, quietly feminist comedy set in a Hooters-style US bar, which screened to acclaim as one of the hidden cinematic gems of 2019.
Colin Hoult / Anna Mann Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th Mar 2020
Colin Hoult’s critically acclaimed alter-ego Anna Mann, Actress, Singer, Welder (got to have a back up) returns in the workings of a brand new show,…
Andrea Hubert: One of The Good Ones
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Mar 2020
A comedy show by Andrea Hubert, in which she’ll mostly bitch about the people in her group therapy, while attempting to make a point about ageing and being Jewish …
Chloe Petts: Alpha (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Mar 2020
As seen on Dave's Hypothetical and heard on Radio 5 Live, join Petts, one of the most exciting prospects in comedy, in her debut hour of stand-up, Alpha.
Lily Phillips: Smut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Mar 2020
The show that was going to be about feminism, but is now going to be about her dog.
Gad Elmaleh: Work In Progress (French Language Show)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd - 7th Mar 2020
Metropolis Music Presents: Gad Elmaleh J’ai choisi le Leicester Square Theatre pour improviser autour des thèmes de mon prochain spectacle#workinprogress Pl…
Maddy Anholt: How to Train Your Psychopath (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 7th Feb 2020
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
Arron Crascall: The Socially Awkward Tour (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Feb 2020
Join Instagram Star Arron as he steps out from behind the camera and onto the stage, testing new material for his 2020 UK tour along with his partner in crime, ‘Th…
Arron Crascall: The Socially Awkward Tour (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Feb 2020
Join Instagram Star Arron as he steps out from behind the camera and onto the stage, testing new material for his 2020 UK tour along with his partner in crime, ‘Th…
The Girls From Oz Australia Day Show!
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- PizzaExpress
- 26th Jan 2020
Get yourselves down to The Girls From Oz - the most dinky-di singing Sheila’s this side of the black stump - for a bonza night of entertainment that’ll take you on a journey 16…
Alexei Sayle: Work in Progress
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd - 30th Jan 2020
A WIP stand-up performance.
Alexei Sayle: Work in Progress
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd - 30th Jan 2020
A WIP stand-up performance.
Kerry Godliman: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd - 31st Jan 2020
Join Kerry Godliman as she road-tests brand-new material ahead of her 2020 tour.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Aberdeen
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- TECA Aberdeen
- 21st - 22nd Jan 2020
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because the Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for…
Remainiacs present APODCALYPSE NOW!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Dec 2019
The post-Election post-mortem.
Andy Zaltzman – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd - 10th Dec 2019
Andy Zaltzman, host of the long-running worldwide hit satirical podcast The Bugle, comes to the Museum of Comedy.
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Soho Theatre
- 2nd - 14th Dec 2019
Edinburgh Comedy Award and double BAFTA-nominated professional idiot Spencer Jones is back with his brand-new show.
Maddy Anholt: How to Train Your Psychopath (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Nov 2019
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
Kerry Godliman: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 20th - 22nd Nov 2019
Join Kerry Godliman as she road-tests brand-new material ahead of her 2020 tour.
come to one
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 15th Nov - 15th Dec 2019
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
Darcy Oake
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 31st Oct 2019
It began with an innocent card trick.
All Work No Play
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Stockwell Playhouse
- 14th - 17th Oct 2019
In a country on the verge of doom and murderous clowns on the loose on our cinema screens, Join Awk this October and allow it to show you there’s more to life than work.
Stewart Lee: SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO Work in Progress & DVD Launch
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Sep - 5th Oct 2019
David Johnson & John Mackay in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO Work-in-Progress and DVD LAUNCH A run of work-in-progress gigs to …
Old Boy (work in progress)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre
- 22nd Sep 2019
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…
AUDITION (a work in progress)
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 15th Sep 2019
AUDITION combines contemporary circus, dance-theatre, fierce acrobatics and stunning visuals.
Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Viceland’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix has just come back from his first world tour.
Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Rhys Nicholson is a nice man who is doing his best.
Josh Widdicombe: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios / Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th - 21st Aug 2019
Ahead of his nationwide tour, Josh returns to Edinburgh for a strictly limited run of work-in-progress shows.
Luisa Omielan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 20th - 25th Aug 2019
Join Luisa Omielan (What Would Beyonce Do?!, Am I Right Ladies?! and Politics For Bitches) as she tries out some stuff for an upcoming project.
One Good Beating
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 20th - 24th Aug 2019
A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
Come Dine with Mr Shakespeare
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 20th - 24th Aug 2019
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
How Can Venues and Producers Work Better Together
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 19th Aug 2019
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Joel Dommett: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
- 18th - 24th Aug 2019
Joel (credits, credits, credits) is returning to Edinburgh with some new sweet ideas for you to potentially enjoy. ‘Hilarious…delightful tales’ (Scotsman).
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 17th Aug 2019
Celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Questions for Quiz Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2019
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Westdal and Hayward Need Work
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 20th Aug, 2019
Freyja Westdal and Beth Heyward join the ranks of such excellent Fringe female musical comedy acts as Fascinating Aida, Flo & Joan, and EastEnd Cabaret with a smart, funny, che…
Nathan Cassidy: Observational (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 17th - 25th Aug 2019
Award-winning comedian Cassidy has had a crazy year.
Cave Women: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd
- 15th - 25th Aug 2019
Jessie and Bebe Cave. Sisters. Working out a new show.
Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let's Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club / The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 13th - 25th Aug 2019
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.
Dan Clark: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 13th - 14th Aug 2019
Dan Clark, star of BBC Three’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life and host of the popular podcast Screen Talk, is dusting off his comedy cape* to perform stand-up for the fi…
Rock'n'Roll Girls
- Review
- ★★
- Elanor Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 18th Aug, 2019
When so many songs written by men are condescending (Wake Up Little Susie), dangerously demeaning (Blurred Lines) or darn right creepy (Every Breath You Take) towards women, it is …
Ed Gamble: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 12th - 16th Aug 2019
Hi guys, Ed here.
10 Things I Hate About A Cappella
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
The Songsmiths are pitching you the honest truth of what it’s really like to be in an a cappella group.
Geoff Norcott: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 12th - 25th Aug 2019
The star of BBC2’s The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and his own BBC Radio 4 special returns to the Fringe.
Shane Todd: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 12th - 13th Aug 2019
When you lose a bet with a mate and have to get ‘The Toddfather’ tattooed on your leg you can either have it removed with a laser, or become.
Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua.
Love and Sex and All Things In-Between
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
it will come later
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 11th - 25th Aug 2019
A stripped back, thrilling and edgy contemporary dance work.
Jonny's Panel Show (Really Good)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 11th - 18th Aug 2019
After directing ungrateful clown duo Zach & Viggo, starring in an award-winning funk opera with Thumpasaurus, and touring the world three times over, Jonny Woolley (AKA Mr X) rolls…
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 9th - 23rd Aug 2019
Following a surprising (and culturally deeply unsettling) smash-hit, sell-out run at last year’s Fringe, this mind-bogglingly awful, disquietingly successful idea for a late-night …
Stewart Lee: Wok In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 9th - 15th Aug 2019
Notes towards a new show from ‘the world’s greatest living stand-up’ (Times).
Bad Girls Upset by the Truth
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 9th - 19th Aug 2019
A honky-tonk opera by Jo Carol Pierce, ‘the greatest Texas songwriter you’ve never heard of’ (Texas Monthly).
Rory Motion - All Manner of Things Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 8th Aug 2019
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.
Rory Motion - All Manner of Thing Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 8th Aug 2019
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.
Mawaan Rizwan: Werk in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt
- 8th - 12th Aug 2019
After a sell-out Fringe, Mawaan (BBC Three, Netflix) is back to shape a new bonkers show.
Music from the Heart, Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 7th Aug 2019
Music from the Heart with Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts is a concert for lovers of acoustic music featuring compositions by Andrew Leslie played on acoustic guitars and double …
Nathan and Ida’s Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 6th - 17th Aug 2019
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: With nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce, they disco…
Iain Stirling: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
- 5th - 17th Aug 2019
BAFTA Award-winning comedian Iain Stirling returns to the Fringe following a sell-out tour, with a load of new jokes, read off notes.
BHF Scotland Presents Work of Heart
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- British Heart Foundation Scotland
- 5th - 9th Aug 2019
Discover how we are beating heart and circulatory diseases with a different interactive workshop every day where science meets art.
Present/Absent
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
Social media, tech addiction, online gaming and its impact on mental health is the focus of this new, visceral and provocative piece.
Drinking and Unemployment: A New Play About Work
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
Sociologist-turned-detective Caleb Rutherford steps into a hall of mirrors exposing real people through their professions while thinking he has nothing to reveal about himself.
Russell Howard: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios / Assembly Hall
- 1st - 13th Aug 2019
Russell performs his work-in-progress show testing new material.
#Dave Alnwick: Good Morning, Magic.
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
If you’re looking for a fun & overall solid start to your day, this is your show.
Adam Larter: Good Morning Croissant
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Please help. I am trapped in a cardboard supermarket.
Working-Class Progress with Backenders
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 3rd - 9th Aug 2019
Backenders is a live comedy sketch parody of the BBC soap opera Eastenders.
A List of 100 Things That Unreasonably Annoy Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
People who walk too slow.
In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
In this 45-minute work-in-progress show Joseph attempts to separate the wheat from the chaff.
10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Number eight will have you totally whelmed! 10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our …
Griffin and Jones: Surprisingly Good Magicians
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
The pioneers of slapdash magic are back with another mishmash of magical mayhem! Join them in a world where the jokes come thick and fast, anything is possible and nothing is quite…
Omid Djalili: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 3rd - 10th Aug 2019
Legendary festival favourite, stand-up comedian, film and television star Omid Djalili returns for eight shows only.
Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 3rd - 7th Aug 2019
When a package bound for Good Good Island is mistakenly delivered to Bad Bad Island, the Bad Bads find something frighteningly horrible inside: a little girl named Rosa! Unable to …
Peter Brush: Present. Tense.
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Awkward jokesmith Peter Brush returns to the Fringe with his hot takes on meditation, sexist babies, robot wives and why he’ll be donating his eyeballs to criminals after he dies…
Golden Delicious: Good Job!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
‘Settle in girls, it’s story time!’ Golden Delicious is no ordinary queen, and this far-from-ordinary one-woman show joins the Fringe hot off a streak of sold-out performance…
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Fresh from touring the UK and Australia, the feel-good comedy maestro.
Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Louise recently received two reviews.
Where Do Fairies Come From?
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
From early Celtic tradition, through Shakespearean superstition to modern high fantasy, everyone has heard of fairies.
Progress
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alex Bailey Dillon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 23rd Aug, 2019
There is something deeply human and inherently charming about imperfect dance.
Lovely Girls
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
Chess and Cristina are multi award-winning duo, The Hiccup Project, often introduced as ‘the lovely hiccup girls’.
The Good, The Bad and The Brexit
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2019
Brexit, eh? Depending on your point of view and when you are reading this, Brexit is a triumph/success/step forward/minor improvement/non-event/problem/mess/shambles/disaster.
The Things I Never Told You
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind is a show not to miss.
The Good Boyfriend
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2019
A murder mystery exploring relationships where anyone could be the perpetrator! Will Inspector LeFevre, through his love of music, apprehend the villain? Are you the next Miss Marp…
Come Out from Among Them
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Written/performed by John McCann and directed by Erasmus Mackenna, who brought you last year’s Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning play DUPed.
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown!
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 2nd - 6th Aug 2019
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.
The Good Scout
- Review
- ★★★★
- Miles Hurley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2019
The Good Scout treads an extraordinarily fine line as a play.
Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Do you sometimes think about your actions? Do your actions make you feel like a sociopath? Does feeling like a sociopath hurt your self-esteem? Well this show was specifically writ…
Alcohol is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016-18.
What Girls Are Made Of
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jane Prinsley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 18th Aug, 2019
Scruffy indie kids have inherited the world and Cora Bissett rules supreme.
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Stop right now! Thank you very much.
Pottervision 2 (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Lock Up
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
The Harry Potter parody show returns with a brand-new work-in-progress hour! Join us, four full-grown men, as we celebrate and recreate the absurd scenes of those magical movies.
Lew Fitz: Chucky Egg (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 11th Aug 2019
With his first solo show, stand-up comedian Lew Fitz (BBC New Comedy Award nominee 2018) covers a hilarious and often uncommon journey from his northern, working-class background a…
The Grand Scheme of Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Flora and Nic have been friends for years, for pretty much the whole of history.
Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Following a sell-out 2018 Fringe and debut UK tour, the ‘utterly hilarious’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Good Morning Nation
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Welcome to Good Morning Nation – the semi-improvised (late) breakfast show that brings you the day’s news by the purveyors of the day’s views.
All Work, No Play
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Novotel
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
We all have to work.
Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Glowed Up is an anecdotal anti-romcom from stand-up comedian Nathan Roberts.
When the Birds Come
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 9th Aug, 2019
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
Stuart Mitchell – Is It Just Me? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
Join the longest running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News as he runs through new material for his next tour.
Love is a Work in Progress with Tara Rankine
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
**** (Advertiser).
Jake Donaldson Fights the Sea (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 10th Aug 2019
Join Jake for a work in progress of his new stand-up show.
Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
Horror in all its forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People) brings you a supersized cup of comedy with TV names, the very best new comedians and brilliant guest MCs.
A Wake in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘I’m sorry.
Russell Howard: Work in Progress (Afternoon)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 1st - 13th Aug 2019
Come join Russell for his early afternoon bonus hour.
Good Evening Edinburgh
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Sam (Australia), nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016.
Zahra Barri's Special (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire / Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘Edgy and very funny’ (Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club).
Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person.
The Noise Next Door's Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
John-Luke Roberts: After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jonathan Mayo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 5th Aug, 2019
Hopefully, you know the kind of show you’re in for, with a deliciously meaningless title like this, and crafted surrealism is exactly what is in store.
Nina Conti: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2019
British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is boldly experimenting and discovering fresh ideas as she develops her next new show.
White Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Two girls go on a journey.
Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran’s tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show packed full of jokes…
4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sophia Charalambous
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
- 6th Aug, 2019
This is the first year that 4 Brown Girls Who Write have showcased at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and they better keep coming back.
Kiri Pritchard-Mclean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 31st Jul - 22nd Aug 2019
Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News For You, The Russell Howard Hour) is working up a new show.
Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
The Good, the Bad and the Irish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
We’ve been entertaining audiences all over Europe and Ireland since 2012, with sell-out shows in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and many more.
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2019
Spencer Jones took last year’s Edinburgh Fringe off, but did he waste his time idling? Not a chance.
Mustard Doesn't Go with Girls
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 23rd Aug 2019
When the children of Bow-on-Tie start mysteriously disappearing, Abigail decides to investigate further.
Jonny Donahoe: Forgiveness (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Forgiveness is a work-in-progress about the cycles of abuse that form and affect who we are; if and how we can escape them and move on.
Carl Donnelly: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 28th Jul 2019
Join this 'observational genius' (Guardian) for his 10th solo show! In 10 years he’s been married, divorced, happy, depressed and twice nominated for the…
The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show: Through Time!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 27th Jul 2019
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
The Good Scout
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Christopher James
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 29th Oct, 2019
Friends are often made under unusual circumstances.
Garrett Millerick: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 26th Jul 2019
Garrett Millerick is an acclaimed stand up comedian, writer and director.
Tom Taylor is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 25th Jul 2019
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran's tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show pack…
Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 24th Jul 2019
Do you sometimes think about your actions? Do your actions make you feel like a sociopath? Does feeling like a sociopath hurt your self-esteem? Well this show was specif…
Eshaan Akbar: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 22nd Jul 2019
What does it take to be a man these days? After #MeToo, incel attacks and man buns, Eshaan Akbar explores masculinity and his relationship with men, women, and himself.
Eleanor Tiernan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 21st Jul 2019
Eleanor Tiernan is a stand up comedian, writer and actress known for her uniquely oblique world view.
Susan Riddell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 20th Jul 2019
After winning a place in BBC Writer’s Room Fast and Funny, Susan Riddell went on to write, create and star in several online comedy sketches for BBC Short Stuff wh…
Kaminari UK Taiko present Shiki – Four Seasons of Japan
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 20th Jul 2019
Kaminari UK taiko drummers present their new show Shiki – four seasons.
Pierre Novellie: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 20th Jul 2019
Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie comes to Great Yorkshire Fringe to try some new stuff out.
Darren Harriott: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 19th Jul 2019
Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person.
Lucy Beaumont: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 19th Jul 2019
Lucy is a hugely talented comedy actress and writer.
Paul Sinha: Hazy Little Thing Called Love (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 19th Jul 2019
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.
Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 18th Jul 2019
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen Buchanan brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe…
Simon Munnery: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Jul 2019
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Grace Campbell & Tamsyn Kelly - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 9th Jul 2019
Grace Campbell is a comedian rapidly making a name for herself in the UK stand up scene.
Tamsyn Kelly and Isa Bonachera - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 8th Jul 2019
Tamsyn Kelly grew up on an estate near Lands End, with a dangerous father, a disabled mother and a dream of one day moving to London to become a total bad-ass with enough money to …
Giants: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 20th Jul 2019
Fjord- The Greatest Hit Fjord, the multi-platinum Norwegian pop duo, are back after a two year sabbatical.
Andy Parsons: Work in Progress
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th Jul 2019
Join Andy Parsons (Mock The Week) one of Britain’s finest political comedians as he tries out material ahead of his new tour ‘Healing Th…
10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Kings Arms
- 28th - 30th Jun 2019
Gillian English (creator of SHEWOLF) returns to Edinburgh.
Present Laughter
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Old Vic Theatre
- 22nd Jun - 10th Aug 2019
I knew how deep your longing must be to have someone really to love you, to be with you, when I saw that dreadful prostitute come out of the spare room.
Bridget Christie: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Jun - 11th Jul 2019
New material shows from the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Rose D'Or and South Bank Arts award winner Bridget Christie.
Josh Widdicombe & Romesh Ranganathan – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 19th Jun 2019
Join Josh Widdicombe and Romesh Ranganathan as they road test their new material ahead of their tours.
A Good Service On All Other Lines
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Rosemary Branch
- 11th Jun 2019
Writer/comedian David Head and singer/songwriter Matt Glover of Sincere Deceivers are proud to present their critically acclaimed story and song show “A Good Service on All Other…
Radu Isac: Good Excuses for Sociopaths
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 9th Jun - 21st Jul 2019
Do you sometimes think about your actions? Do your actions make you feel like a sociopath? Does feeling like a sociopath hurt your self-esteem? Well this show was specif…
Steve Bugeja – Single Mum – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Jun 2019
Steve helped his single mum find her Prince Charming all while learning his times tables.
Tom Jones: All Girls Love A Bastard
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Nomad Festival Greenwich
- 7th - 9th Jun 2019
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Top Girls
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Lyttelton Theatre
- 7th - 24th Jun 2019
Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestige positions.
Ian Smith: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2019
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, Dave’s ‘The Magic Sponge’) returns to Brighton with a work in progress of his sixth solo show.
Sophie Duker: Venus (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2019
Sophie Duker is not a goddess.
Brighton Rockers Roller Derby
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Dolphin Leisure Centre
- 1st Jun 2019
Roller derby is a fast-paced, hard-hitting sport where two teams of badass women compete for points by being the strongest, fastest, and most agile as they race around the track on…
Becky Brunning: Action Antihero (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2019
Becky Brunning: Funny Women Finalist, daredevil, Broadchurch actor, helmet owner, brings her new nigh-octane show to Brighton after her debut hour ‘Beaming’ stormed* Edinburgh Frin…
Steve McNeil: Video Games (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2019
The creator of (and team captain on) ‘Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit’ bangs on about video games for an hour.
Mustard Doesn't go with Girls
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2019
When the children of Bow-on-Tie start mysteriously disappearing, Abigail decides to investigate further.
Daniel Nils Roberts: The History of the World in 1 Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2019
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
How Does This Politics Thing Work?
- Listing Events
- West End
- Udderbelly
- 30th - 31st May 2019
Politics is boring.
Lulu Popplewell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 29th May - 1st Jun 2019
Join Lulu in a (short) hour of stand up as she tries out ideas about spooning, Christmas films and how all human beings are fundamentally repulsive (yes, even you, sorry).
William Stone: Gathering Moss (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 29th May - 1st Jun 2019
William Stone (BBC New Comedy Award Finalist 2018) is gathering moss, stuck somewhere between reality and dreams in the nineties.
Bananas (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th - 30th May 2019
Anna Banana can put words together that, if sung, would be so elegant, and, if rapped, would be lit! School has ruined poetry, so can she call herself a word-worker or a rhyming ri…
Teachers and Schools (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th - 30th May 2019
Former Religious Studies teacher turned stand-up comedian Kevin Precious turns his hand to examining his former profession, and takes a sideways look at the teaching and schools mo…
Griffin and Jones: Surprisingly Good Magicians
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 27th May - 2nd Jun 2019
The pioneers of slapdash magic are back with another mishmash of magical mayhem! Join them in a world where the jokes come thick and fast, anything is possible, and nothing is quit…
Sara Barron: The Coconut (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 26th May - 2nd Jun 2019
The “reigning queen of New York’s live storytelling scene” (Jon Ronson) and host of US live show The Moth, Sara’s debut stand up hour garnered 5* reviews and earned her a nomin…
The Desk by Frank Foucault (Work In Progress)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 25th - 27th May 2019
Thump.
Electric Cabaret: Come Fly with Me
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront
- 25th May 2019
Brighton favourites The Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand! Join the jet set when you book with Electric Cabaret Airlines.
Robin Morgan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 24th - 25th May 2019
The third hour show from Robin Morgan (writer for BBC Two’s ‘The Mash Report’, BBC Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’, television warm-up for the Graham Norton Show and tour support for Ell…
The Good Russian
- Review
- ★★★★
- Chelsey Pippin
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Nest
- 27th May, 2019
Actor Andrew Byron devised his one-man show, The Good Russian, in response to the many bad Russians he’s played across his career.
Patrick Spicer: Now I've Seen Anything (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 22nd - 25th May 2019
Patrick Spicer delivers a work in progress of his first solo show to Brighton fringe.
Jake Baker: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 22nd - 25th May 2019
After the success of his debut last year at the Brighton Fringe, Jake presents his highly-anticipated second show.
Good Grief... Living with Loss
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 22nd May 2019
The Good Grief event is for anyone who has ever experienced loss or for those who would simply like to understand more about grief.
Neil Delamere: End of Watch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd May 2019
Star of BBC’s the Blame Game, Fighting Talk and The News Quiz, Neil Delamere presents this work-in-progress show.
Andy Stedman - Confessions Of A Failed Rock Star (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 21st - 24th May 2019
“Stedman’s voice is sure to melt hearts.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 23rd May 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (Peep Show, Toast of London, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 20th - 21st May 2019
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
All Work, No Play
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 20th - 26th May 2019
We all have to work.
Good Grief
- Review
- ★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 29th May, 2019
Good Grief tells the story of a family who are moving through the motions of grief and bereavement after the loss of their youngest son in an accident at Saltdean Lido.
One Flew Over the Kyriacou's Nest (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 19th May - 2nd Jun 2019
Welcome inside the mind of endearing oddity Kallis Kyriacou.
Fiona Sagar and Vanessa Hammick Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2019
Join Fiona Sagar and Vanessa Hammick for this double bill of new comedy: Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show nominee 2016 and 2017, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre, LA) returns to …
Daniel Audritt: Trying to be Good (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th - 19th May 2019
Award-winning comedian, writer and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Modern Horror Stories, Daniel Audritt brings a work in progress of his debut hour, to the Brighton Fringe.
Motherhood (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th - 19th May 2019
Brand new comedy ‘Motherhood’ is a hilarious exploration of life as a new parent.
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 25th May 2019
Leslie Ewing-Burgesse did a show last year about being imaginary, and realised along the way that it was a massive manifestation of all her insecurities!! Hooray!! Now she’s trying…
Kate & Ilyssa Present: The Best Ritual
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Nest
- 17th - 19th May 2019
A raucous, two-woman comedy of idiots! Following sold-out shows in New York, this Gaulier-trained clown duo will guide you through their version of a sacred ritual for spiritual en…
Nathan Roberts: Saboteur
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Black Dove
- 17th May - 1st Jun 2019
‘Saboteur’ is an anecdotal, multimedia stand-up show from movie obsessive Nathan Roberts.
Neil O'Rourke: Thump (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 17th May - 1st Jun 2019
A work in progress show from Neil O’Rourke, Finalist of Irish Comedian of the Year, New Comedian of the Year, and So You Think You’re Funny.
The Good Russian
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 16th May - 19th Jun 2019
A comedy about an honest Siberian, navigating his way through modern Britain on the hunt for acting fame.
Circus'Cision: Those That Made the Cut!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 16th - 19th May 2019
Limited run! A Head First inside-out, up-and-down-under, mish-mash variety of circus stars, Spiegel legends and the hottest Fringe acts.
Huge Davies: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 15th - 18th May 2019
Fresh from his appearance on ‘Comedy Central at the Comedy Store’, Huge Davies is preparing for his first hour.
Helen Bauer: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 15th - 18th May 2019
Ultimate babe and hotly-tipped new stand-up comedian, Helen Bauer, presents a work in progress show of her new thoughts, feelings and emotions on pretty much everything.
Yuriko Kotani: Overwork in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 15th - 19th May 2019
Born and raised in Japan, Yuriko Kotani now lives in the UK.
Romesh Ranganathan – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th - 28th May 2019
Join Romesh Ranganathan as he road tests his new material ahead of his tour.
I, Tom Mayhew (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 13th - 17th May 2019
Tom was unemployed for three years from the age of 18.
Sezar Alkassab: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Richmond
- 13th - 17th May 2019
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, Scottish stand-up comedian Sezar Alkassab brings his new work in progress show to Brighton Fringe.
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 12th May - 2nd Jun 2019
Nick Elleray, “quality downbeat comedy” (Chortle), is known for his dry, bleak musings on the dark and squalid aspects of life.
Keith Farnan: Things Fall Apart
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 12th - 19th May 2019
Irish comedian Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Showtime’s Live from Amsterdam) brings us a stand-up show that celebrates failure and loss and incompetence and…
Those Magnificent Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 20th May, 2019
An intriguing tale made more interesting by the telling, Those Magnificent Men is both delightful and funny from beginning to end.
Cressida Wetton: Crewless, a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th - 29th May 2019
Cress wouldn’t wish her rented bedsit on anyone, narrowboats always looked so romantic and she’s ready for an off-grid adventure! Join her as she develops a stand-up comedy s…
Owen Roberts: Anglerfish
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 11th - 12th May 2019
What is love? It’s a mystery.
Two Violin Recitals at St. Michael's: Ellie Blackshaw then Andrew Roberts
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Michael and All Angels Church
- 11th - 18th May 2019
Much-loved local violinist Ellie Blackshaw pairs up with London based pianist David Elwin to perform the rarely heard 1932 violin and piano sonata by Frank Bridge.
Jessica Fostekew: Power Bungalow (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 14th May 2019
Power Bungalow is a new show all about strength.
Robyn Perkins: Just In Case (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 19th May 2019
On 14 August 2018, Robyn Perkins ★★★★ (Voice Magazine) participated in a dating show in front of a live audience.
Maria Shehata: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 10th - 12th May 2019
The follow-up to her debut Edinburgh show ‘Wisdomless’, multi award-winning comedian Maria Shehata expands on her transatlantic move for love and life after it fell apart.
Jazz in the Afternoon: Julie Roberts and Michael Hinton
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 10th May 2019
Unique and personal interpretations of songs from the jazz/blues years - plus a touch of Latin! Julie’s expressive voice is complemented by Michael’s superb piano playing in an exc…
Liam Withnail: Homecoming (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th - 25th May 2019
Brand new hour of thoughtful and hilarious stand up from the celebrated comic.
Bad Clowns: Cult Classic (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th - 11th May 2019
An interactive (work in progress) experience in which the audience find themselves in the hands of three friendly faces of a horrific, demonic cult.
Heidi Regan: On Time (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 9th - 13th May 2019
Heidi Regan, winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2017 and So You Think You’re Funny 2016, presents a work in progress of her new show.
Andrew Nolan: Homewrecker (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 9th - 10th May 2019
At 15, Andrew and some friends had a race to see who could down their pint fastest.
Oleg Olenchenko Packs Up His Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Bunker
- 9th - 13th May 2019
In 2014, Eastern Ukraine sits on a knife edge.
Brodi Snook: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 30th May 2019
Fast-rising Australian comedian and general smart-arse Brodi Snook takes a break from her career as a foot model (selling photos of her toes to foot perverts for cash) and having p…
I'm A 7: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 9th - 25th May 2019
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 8th - 22nd May 2019
Amused Moose National New Comic finalist and So You Think You’re Funny? semi-finalist 2018 comes to Brighton.
a Bit Weird (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 8th - 11th May 2019
‘a Bit Weird’ is the brand new show by Sallyann Fellowes.
George Egg: Movable Feast (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 8th - 25th May 2019
More invention.
Maisie Adam: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 8th - 11th May 2019
Winner of So You Think You’re Funny? 2017 and Amused Moose National New Comic 2018, Maisie Adam presents a work in progress of her second Edinburgh show.
10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Beth Watson
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 23rd May, 2019
Gillian English hates The Taming Of The Shrew.
Adele Cliff: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 27th May 2019
A brand new hour of comedy from hilarious stand-up Adele Cliff.
Oleg Denisov: Russian Troll (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th - 9th May 2019
Days of myths and fairy tales are gone.
All Things Brighton Beautiful
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Alex McCord
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Nest
- 2nd Jun, 2019
Styling itself as a 'heartfelt and hilarious musical tribute' to the city of Brighton, All Things Brighton Beautiful utterly triumphs as a celebration of everything we love…
Work Makes You Free by Michael Ross
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 6th - 10th May 2019
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
Pete Strong: Greenfinch (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2019
Pete Strong just wants to be happy.
Cool Story Bro (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 5th May - 1st Jun 2019
Have you ever witnessed a couple’s divorce? When these people are your parents, your life turns upside down, especially if you’re 8-years-old.
Chloe Petts: Alpha (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 4th May - 1st Jun 2019
Chloe Petts brings her “inexhaustibly funny mind” (Diva Magazine) and “compelling presence” (Steve Bennett, Chortle) to her work in progress show ‘Alpha’.
Nathan Cassidy: Observational
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 6th May 2019
Award-winning comedian Cassidy with a new show about his crazy year.
Faye Treacy is a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 19th May 2019
As seen on BBC Three and heard on Radio Four, Faye Treacy is back with a new work in progress show.
Awokening: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 4th - 8th May 2019
A presentation of visionary (ridiculous) ideas from an apocalyptic clown man.
Lucy Pearman: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 25th May 2019
Complete idiot Lucy Pearman will be trying out some new ideas.
SUCH GOOD BOYS!!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 3rd May - 1st Jun 2019
Come and see James McDonnell; “A breath of fresh air” (We Love Brighton) and Ben Carter; “A force of Nature” (Chortle).
Olga Koch: If/Then, A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 3rd May 2019
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-proclaimed Taylor Swift of the London comedy scene, Olga Koch is back! This time she’s getting more intimate, more experimental and more…
Revan and Fennell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 3rd - 4th May 2019
The acclaimed and award-winning comedy duo returns to Brighton with new material for their highly anticipated second show.
Jim Campbell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Nest
- 3rd - 10th May 2019
Award-nominated stand-up Jim Campbell descends from a murderous Scottish clan and has inherited their rage.
Crusade (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 3rd - 4th May 2019
This Anglo-Arab mum (‘So You Think You’re Funny’ finalist and published author; ‘Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic’) is raging at the endless feedback on what her identity should really…
Micky Overman: Presenting Miss Micky Overman (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 3rd - 30th May 2019
A brand spanking new hour from 2018 Chortle Best Newcomer nominee, Micky Overman.
Luke Rollason's Infinite Content (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 3rd - 6th May 2019
Switch on your phones and switch off your brains as Luke Rollason puts his mind on a spin cycle for your instant gratification.
Gethin Alderman is: SUBLIME (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Bunker
- 3rd - 6th May 2019
Gethin Alderman loves Limes.
Thanyia Moore: Bully (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Pipeline
- 3rd - 15th May 2019
Was Thanyia Moore bullied? Or was she the bully? Join the Funny Women Award Winner 2018 as she seeks to find the answer in this hilarious account of her childhood.
Jamesy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 3rd - 4th May 2019
A work in progress show from one of the UK comedy circuits most promising up-and-coming comedians.
Flo and Joan: Work in Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Apr 2019
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, and off the back of a countrywide tour, musical comedy duo and sisters Flo & Joan are here to try an…
Flo & Joan Work in Progress plus Rosie Jones
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Apr 2019
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, and off the back of a countrywide tour, musical comedy duo and sisters Flo & Joan are here to try an…
Paul Chowdhry – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th Apr 2019
Come and see the comedy powerhouse Paul Chowdhry - star of Taskmaster, Live at The Apollo and Wembley Arena Sell Out.
Paul Chowdhry: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th - 20th Apr 2019
Come and see the stand-up comedy powerhouse & star of Taskmaster and Live at The Apollo.
The Hiccup Project: Lovely Girls
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 29th Mar 2019
After diving into the world of romance and heartbreak in critically acclaimed multi-award winning May-We-Go-Round?, Cristina and Chess explore what it means to be a young woman in …
Lovely Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 29th Mar 2019
Chess and Cristina are The Hiccup Project, a comedic dance-theatre company.
The Hiccup Project: Lovely Girls
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 28th Mar 2019
Using their powerful blend of comedy, energetic dance and theatre, they imagine a world where women can be, and do, whatever they want, breaking free of the boxes and letting go of…
Flo & Joan - Work in Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Mar 2019
Flo & Joan Musical comedy sisters Flo & Joan present a brand new half hour of dark, witty songs.
Mark Thomas Presents: The Museum of Stolen Things
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th Mar 2019
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop museum of the nicked.
Seann Walsh: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Mar 2019
Join Seann Walsh at the Museum of Comedy as he runs through material.
Good Old Days of Variety
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 13th Mar 2019
A brand new nostalgia show, taking you back to the good old days of variety entertainment.
Kerry Godliman & Jen Brister: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th - 13th Mar 2019
Kerry Godliman & Jen Brister: Work In Progress Join Kerry Godliman and Jen Brister as they try out new material
How Does This Politics Thing Work Then? (6+yrs)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 10th Mar 2019
Politics is boring.
MORGAN & WEST : Non-Séance : A work in progress*
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 7th - 8th Mar 2019
Thursday 7th March, 8pmFriday 8th March, 8pmTickets: £10Duration: 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: ages 11+Other: This show takes place …
Flo & Joan / Rob Auton - Work in Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 2nd Mar 2019
Rob Auton Award winning stand-up comedian and poet Rob Auton (Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe award winner, Glastonbury’s ‘Poet In Residence’)…
Flo & Joan: Work In Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 2nd Mar 2019
Musical comedy sisters Flo & Joan present a brand new half hour of dark, witty songs.
Jason Byrne – You Can Come In But don’t Start Anything
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Dublin
- Civic Theatre
- 28th Feb 2019
A brand new show from 'The Outright King of Live Comedy’ - The Times.
The Good Person of Szechwan
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Dublin
- Civic Theatre
- 26th Feb - 2nd Mar 2019
The play follows a young prostitute, Shen Teh, as she struggles to lead a life that is "good" according to the terms of the morality taught by the gods and to …
tense systems | Súóg– The Irish in Rwanda
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 23rd - 24th Feb 2019
tense systems strings on the verge of collapse Súóg- The Irish in Rwanda1994 – letters from a forgotten mission tense systems - Kirkos Any stringed i…
Made | BIG GIRLS BLOUSE
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 22nd - 23rd Feb 2019
MadeMusic takes him out of dullness BIG GIRLS BLOUSEWhen you assume.
All Good Guys | GirlPlay
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 19th - 20th Feb 2019
All Good GuysIrish Men.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress With Support
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Feb - 31st Mar 2019
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Phil Wang: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th - 21st Feb 2019
Phil Wang has a new stand-up show to write.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress With Support
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th - 28th Feb 2019
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Phil Wang: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th Feb 2019
Phil Wang has a new stand-up show to write.
The Lost Things
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 18th - 20th Feb 2019
Performed in a unique dome structure, The Lost Things is about losing things and finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for.
The Lost Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Old Market
- 18th - 20th Feb 2019
A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world.
Jo Burke: Peculiar - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Feb 2019
Jo Burke is feeling a little peculiar.
Revan and Fennell: The Do (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Etcetera Theatre
- 12th Feb 2019
The award-winning comedy duo return to Etcetera Theatre with some brand spanking new material.
Good Women
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- The Pit, The Vaults Theatre
- 6th - 7th Feb 2019
Three wayward women are on a hunt for liturgical dance stardom.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Sheffield
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 30th Jan 2019 - 2nd Feb 2022
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Come From Away
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Phoenix Theatre
- 30th Jan 2019 - 15th Oct 2022
Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Liverpool
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Echo Arena Liverpool
- 29th Jan 2019 - 4th Feb 2022
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Jekyll & Hyde: Work In Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Jan 2019
A musical romp through Victorian London, starring repressed stiff Dr Jekyll (Laurence Owen) and fun-loving good-time psycho Mr Hyde (Lindsay Sharman).
Jekyll & Hyde: Work In Progress
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Jan 2019
A musical romp through Victorian London, starring repressed stiff Dr Jekyll (Laurence Owen) and fun-loving good-time psycho Mr Hyde (Lindsay Sharman).
Revan and Fennell: The Do (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Jan 2019
Critically acclaimed, award-winning and unbelievably humble comedy double-act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Museum of Comedy with an hour of brand spanking new mater…
Simon Brodkin – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Jan - 16th Apr 2019
From the man who pranked Theresa May, Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter, Kanye West and many more of the world’s biggest knobs; acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin…
The Wedding Present
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- O2 Academy Islington / O2 Forum Kentish Town
- 14th Dec 2018 - 7th Dec 2019
In the late 1980s The Wedding Present were one of the most famous British indie bands.
Scratch it Good!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Drapers' Hall
- 13th Dec 2018
Join us for an evening of live music, improvisation around new theatrical texts, redirecting in front of the audience's eyes, delicious uncertainties, nibbles, drinks and good com…
Peculiar: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Dec 2018
Jo Burke is feeling a little peculiar.
Jo Burke: Peculiar - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Dec 2018
Jo Burke is feeling a little peculiar.
Glenn Moore and Pierre Novellie: Work in progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 7th Dec 2018
Glenn Moore is a critically-acclaimed and prolific stand-up, writer, and sketch comedian.
Alan Carr: Work In Progress (plus support)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Nov - 1st Dec 2018
Alan Carr: Work In Progress (plus support)
Revan and Fennell: The Do (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Nov 2018 - 24th Jan 2019
Critically acclaimed, award-winning and unbelievably humble comedy double-act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Museum of Comedy with an hour of brand spanking new mater…
Rob Beckett: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 20th Nov - 13th Dec 2018
Rob Beckett: Work In Progress
Jason Byrne: You Can Come In, But Don’t Start Anything
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th - 17th Nov 2018
The ‘Outright King of Live Comedy’ (The Times) Jason Byrne is back at the Leicester Square Theatre for more comedy chaos.
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 27th Oct - 20th Nov 2018
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
Our Country's Good
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Bridewell Centre
- 23rd - 27th Oct 2018
Thirty years on from its premiere at the Royal Court, Our Country’s Good is a modern classic, exploring themes of crime, punishment and the unifying and civilising power of theatre…
Things We Chose To Save
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 12th - 13th Oct 2018
In ten years’ time, we discover a way to record, store and replay memories at will.
Frank Skinner: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th - 13th Oct 2018
Frank Skinner presents an hour of work in progress material for one week only!
BOST Present: Sweeney Todd
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 4th - 6th Oct 2018
Following on from their sell-out production of Oliver last year, BOST Musicals return to present Sweeney Todd this October.
Michael McIntyre Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 2nd Oct 2018
Michael McIntyre WIP
David Cross: Oh, Come On
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 26th - 28th Sep 2018
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Ricky Gervais & Guests: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th - 16th Sep 2018
Ricky Gervais WIP
Ricky Gervais: Ricky Gervais & Guests Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd - 10th Sep 2018
Ricky Gervais WIP Please be aware, the show starts at 6.30pm and latecomers will not be admitted.
Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas (Work-in-Progress / Open Rehearsal)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 25th - 26th Aug 2018
Following the success of the Total Theatre Award-winning Palmyra and Eurohouse, Bert and Nasi present an exclusive work-in-progress showing of their latest piece.
How to Work with BSL Interpreters
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 24th Aug 2018
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
When Is Lying Good?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 23rd Aug 2018
Would you lie to the government about who you are? How about to your doctor? Maybe to big companies? Whilst online shopping? How about on your Facebook profile? Do they need your r…
Access All Areas: Creative Work Backstage
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2018
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
LRC Youth Theatre Present Empra's New Threads
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 23rd - 25th Aug 2018
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Big Girls Don’t Cry – Celebrating the Music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 23rd Aug 2018
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Uncanny Things
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 22nd - 26th Aug 2018
Beira – Alison Bell and Heather Yule – weave songs and harp music into a rich fabric combined with traditional stories of the land, the sea and the people of Scotland.
Working Together: How Can Freelancers and Venues Work Effectively Together?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Good Things Come to Those Who
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 21st - 25th Aug 2018
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
Pushing Boundaries in Work for Young Audiences
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 21st Aug 2018
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Good Grief
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile / Tolbooth Market
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Good grief is full of sarcasm, laughter and the occasional tear as we try to show that there is no “correct” thing to say to someone who is grieving.
A Show About Shows About Show Biz
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
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…
Academy and Pitch Fight Present: Buy One, Get One Free
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene.
All the Dumb Things
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Join a couple of Aussies on this off-beat excursion of naughty and ridiculous tales and oddly familiar tunes.
Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
East meets West in this wild mash-up of comedy, electric violin, characters, spoken word and songs from legendary AmerAsian duo Slanty Eyed Mama.
Dragtime Presents: Things Live!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Things Live! A variety cabaret of Dragtime’s most unusual and magical drag performances yet.
Those Worrisome Sleeps
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 20th - 26th Aug 2018
‘Wizards, as you know, may not love.
Come to the Cabaret!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 19th Aug 2018
Join us for a postmodern take on popular songs from the past decade as well as standards by the likes of Gershwin, Berlin, and Ellington.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Host Roller Derby Double Header
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dalkeith Community Campus
- 18th Aug 2018
Auld Reekie Roller Girls are back once again for 2018! Watch full-contact rollerskating in an incredible showcase of one of the world’s fastest-growing sports.
The Nick Ross Orchestra present Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 18th Aug 2018
Recapture the sounds of a bygone era with this unmissable evening of classic big band of the 1940s and 1950s, including: In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, New York, New York.
Becky Brunning - Action AntiHero (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 18th - 20th Aug 2018
Becky Brunning: Actor, comedian, daredevil, helmet owner, stunt-doer, brings her new nigh-octane show to boldly tackle the big issues: should she have children? Is equality the re…
Neu! Reekie! #2
- Listing Music / Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 17th Aug 2018
The second of two specially curated lineups see much loved local arts collective Neu! Reekie! assemble some mighty cult icons for one glorious evening.
Auld Hat – New Heids
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 17th - 22nd Aug 2018
Sell-out AMC2017! Bringing back the wonderfully singable songs of yesteryear and rekindling the atmosphere of those folksong clubs.
Birthday Girls: Late-Night Comedy Party
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th - 19th Aug 2018
Ever wanted a lock-in with the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit in a cool cabaret bar late at night at the Edinburgh Fringe? Hell yeah! Well your dreams have just come true.
COMMON: GROUND – Barriers to Staging Work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Working-Class Artist
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 16th Aug 2018
COMMON: GROUND is an initiative developed by COMMON, an arts organisation who exist to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, delivered with…
NEHH, Made in Scotland and Meursault Present... Crow Hill
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th - 16th Aug 2018
Meursault presents Crow Hill, a series of urban horror story vignettes, set in the titular, fictional, Scottish town.
The German Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Lion And Unicorn
- 15th - 18th Aug 2018
An unconventional love story set in Denmark during WWII.
All These Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 15th Aug 2018
For one day only! Live Art Bistro take on ZOO Southside, doing what they do best: presenting 12 hours of transgressive and experimental performance by world-renowned artists.
Hidden Door present The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Listing Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 14th Aug 2018
Edinburgh multi-arts festival Hidden Door was instrumental in getting the long out-of-action Leith Theatre open to the public again, after years of being used as a council storage …
Mark Watson: How You Can Almost Win (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2018
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…
The Spice Girls Lied to Us
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 13th - 16th Aug 2018
The Spice Girls lied right to our faces.
Jamie, Come Try Me
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 13th - 16th Aug 2018
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, ‘voice.
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
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.
Diva Regina: Work Permit in Progress
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Camden Fringe
- The Albany
- 13th - 14th Aug 2018
Phoenix Arts Club Cabaret Award Finalist Diva Regina presents her first solo cabaret show at Camden Fringe.
The Girls from Oz - Because, Because, Because, Because, Because...
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
Pining for the Southern Cross? Spend a five-star night with The Girls From Oz! Full of sass and armed with killer harmonies, these Sheilas can sing, joke and put on one helluva sho…
Bluebelles Present: Girl Put Your Records On
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall / theSpaceTriplex
- 8th - 18th Aug 2018
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…
100 Things – Nick Harper
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 13th - 21st Aug 2018
Fringe Herald Angel Award winner for music returns with a cherry-picked selection from his extensive repertoire of over 100 songs.
World in Progress
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 13th - 25th Aug 2018
World in Progress is a brand-new musical song-cycle that explores our ever-changing relationship with the earth.
The Bristol Suspensions present: Love Aca-tually
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 13th - 25th Aug 2018
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 …
Neu! Reekie! #1
- Listing Music / Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 12th Aug 2018
Avant-garde collective Neu! Reekie! have been busy feeding and nurturing an exciting grassroots scene in Edinburgh since 2011, and they’re bringing a typically delicious, eclecti…
John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations
- Review
- ★★
- Jim Ralley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 27th Aug, 2018
As a reviewer I'm fortunate enough to get free tickets to many shows.
Nathan & Ida's Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Hen & Chicken Theatre
- 10th Aug 2018
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker left the old country to build a better life for themselves in the new world.
Kerry Godliman: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th - 11th Aug 2018
Kerry Godliman is back in Edinburgh to try out material she’s never said out loud before.
Daniel Kitson: Good for Glue
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 6th - 27th Aug 2018
Because he’s an idiot, in thrall to his own imagined past, Daniel Kitson (41) has decided to perform an unfinished show that starts at midnight in a room that gets debilitatingly h…
The Oxford Revue: Group Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Three Broomsticks
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Three of the Oxford Revue’s best and brightest present a free hour of stand-up and musical comedy.
A Cockroach and Furry Blurry Fluffy Things
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
A sad and lonely cockroach climbs out from a cardboard box; she doesn’t know where she is and there in front of her is a group of furry blurry fluffy things.
Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Tolbooth Market
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
The Bristol Revunions return to the free Fringe with their show Hoops.
The Good Life
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bar Bados Complex
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Welcome to the Good Life! A split-bill stand-up comedy show from two fun-loving, good-time-having, honest to goodness proper cute comedy lads.
The Lost Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 12th Aug, 2018
Visual theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell aim to inspire the imagination of their audiences with their creations.
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
bad things happen here
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 4th - 18th Aug 2018
The nation has never been healthier.
Elsa Jean McTaggart: Sing, Strings and New Things
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
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.
What Girls Are Made Of
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2018
The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo…
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Fresh from touring UK and Australia, the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Music to Watch Girls By
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2018
After last year’s sell-out show, Pete Sinclair returns with his cool crooners and a new mix of hits from The Great American Songbook: numbers like Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, S…
Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Come to Daddy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
‘The children grabbed him (the father) and put him on the table.
Good Vibes Only
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
There’s no such thing as vanilla, boring or prudish.
Blueswater Presents: Good Morning, Billie!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘There’s two kinds of blues, happy blues and then sad blues.
Mr McClelland's Damn Good Dance
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 4th - 13th Aug 2018
‘My favourite DJ on the planet.
Present & Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Present and Correct, the University of York’s very own homegrown sketch troupe, are heading back up to the Fringe once again.
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Present and Correct, the University of York’s superb sketch troupe are heading back to the Fringe with an all new smash show.
I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2018
Returning for its fifth year, the smash-hit, sell-out show returns to Edinburgh! Written and directed by award-winning playwright Liam Rudden and featuring the hit Bay City Rollers…
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
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.
Girls Like That
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall / theSpace on the Mile
- 3rd - 8th Aug 2018
A naked photo goes viral.
The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s…
Jason Byrne: You Can Come in, But Don't Start Anything
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Fringe legend and ‘outright king of live comedy’ (Times), Jason Byrne, is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Tetchy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
The whole world is on edge.
Stranger Things Have Happened
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2018
Some people plan their murders meticulously.
Good Evening Edinburgh, It's Sam Kissajukian
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Sam (Australia) was nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016.
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People) brings you a selection of the best comedians at the Fringe.
Nish Kumar: It's in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and host of The Mash Report trials new material for a national tour.
A Good Enough Girl?
- Listing Theatre / Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
It’s 2025 - a world of mystery, spies and secret missions.
James Veitch's Work in Progress Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
To make James Veitch better for you, he brings regular updates to improve speed and reliability.
Jenny Collier: A Few Good Jen
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Multi award-winning Welsh comedian, Jenny Collier, is back and gooder than ever.
Trying to Be Good
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Award-winning comedian, TV and radio writer and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Modern Horror Stories, Daniel Audritt asks – ‘what really makes us good?’, in his new punchli…
Daniel Simonsen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Currently residing in New York City, the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer returns to the Fringe to build material.
Simon Caine: Sex, Drugs and Other Things I Never Do
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Novotel
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
In 1988 the treasurer of the Bristol Revunions emptied the comedy troupe’s bank account and fled to Paraguay, leaving the society bankrupt and forcing the group to disband.
Jack Evans: Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Workers of the world: please stop! Jack Evans, lizard prince of Manchester’s alternative circuit, presents a punchy, out-there hour about work: its history, its present and a futur…
Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne
- Review
- ★★★
- Alex Bailey Dillon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 12th Aug, 2018
If you’re wandering around Edinburgh this August looking for a glimpse into year-round Scottish culture, it might be worth popping into the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Ro…
Good Women
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 19th Aug 2018
Three wayward women on a hunt for international liturgical dance stardom.
The Good, The Bad and The Irish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brig Below
- 2nd - 31st Aug 2018
In association with Bar Brig, and after four sold out tours in Europe, The Good The Bad and The Irish return to the festival for our eighth year! Join host Michael Porter as we sho…
Come Die With Us
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
What if you didn’t know you were dead? A dark new comedy.
Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Nigel Ng is from Malaysia.
Alcohol Is Good for You – Sam Kissajukian
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016 and 2017.
Nathan Lang: The Stuntman
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
The Stuntman returns after last year's sell-out run with his surreal off-the-wall tale of triumph.
A Good Service on All Other Lines
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 2nd - 18th Aug 2018
Writer/comedian David Head and singer/songwriter Matt Glover of Sincere Deceivers present a performance of silly love stories and melancholy folk pop.
Johannes Dullin: Come Along and Bring a Friend!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jim Ralley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Dragonfly
- 23rd Aug, 2018
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
I Can Make You Feel Good. By Comparison.
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
A beatboxing and storytelling comedy show.
Tracy's Leaving Party: Hot Young Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Christy Coysh (as seen on BBC Three) and Kat Sadler (selected for BBC New Comedy Award 2017) debut their first work-in-progress show.
Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
The 10-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an epic new show for just about everyone.
Beard: Baby Come Back
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
Good Manners Gone Bad
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Ever wondered what happens when nice manners go head to head with a Russian gangster? In a fusion between theatre, comedy and cabaret, James McLean is a one-man theatre company and…
A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
A Work in Progress is just that, a work in progress.
One-Man Stranger Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 1st - 11th Aug 2018
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
Extinguished Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
‘My neighbours leave their flat one morning but don’t return.
John-Luke Roberts: All I Wanna Do Is [FX: GUNSHOTS] With a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and Perform Some Comedy!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Charlie Ralph
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th Aug, 2018
John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Russell Howard – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 1st - 12th Aug 2018
Russell Howard returns to Edinburgh for two weeks only. New ideas, New routines, Anything could happen! It’s gonna be great, and it’s only a fiver. Who’s in?
ISMO: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 30th Jul 2018
Fresh from his appearance on Conan, Ismo returns to the Leicester Square Theatre to try out material ahead of his Edinburgh Fringe Show.
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 28th Jul 2018
Present & Correct, the University of York Comedy Societies hit Sketch Troupe, is back and ready to go with an all new show written & performed by students at the…
Rob Deering: Earworm (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 26th Jul 2018
Rob Deering is back with his most tenacious tunes yet.
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 20th Jul 2018
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 19th Jul 2018
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC, now see Nottingham-born rising star Sarah Keyworth’s debut hour.
Owen Roberts: I Let A Six Year Old Write My Show
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Jul 2018
After a severe case of writer's block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
Ian Smith – Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th Jul 2018
Ian Smith (BBC3's Sweat the Small Stuff) is a multi-award winning comedian, fuelled by 35p energy drinks.
The Furies present a Super Awesome Power Party
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 14th - 21st Jul 2018
Multi-award winning comedians the Fringe Wives Club are here to bring lols, power and feminist-flavoured fun to the kids of London! Come join the dance floor as we sing songs, play…
The Good Father
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 10th - 16th Jul 2018
New Year’s Eve.
The Big Things
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Kings Arms
- 9th - 11th Jul 2018
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
Yuriko Kotani: Overwork in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Jun - 14th Jul 2018
Born and raised in Japan, Yuriko Kotani now lives in the UK.
Jason Byrne - You Can Come In, But Dont Start Anything
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Udderbelly
- 15th Jun 2018 - 11th May 2019
Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Nick Dixon: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Jun 2018
Nick Dixon arrives fresh from working with Will Smith on his new movie, performing his standup on Comedy Central, and supporting Europe’s biggest comedian at the S…
Simon Munnery: The Wreath (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 9th Jun - 14th Jul 2018
“I went to a funeral the other day.
Women: Work And Power Improv Night!
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 8th Jun 2018
The Nursery Presents a night of improvised theatre in conjunction with The City of London’s Women: Work And Power programme!We’re excited to present The Maydays Laydays (AKA th…
Henry Paker: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd Jun - 4th Jul 2018
The Leicester Mercury award-winning comedian is building a brand new hour of stand up.
Nathan Cassidy: If I Caused the Financial Crash of 2008 (Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2018
Award-winning comedian and ex-banker, Nathan Cassidy, exposes the truth behind the financial crisis of 2008.
A Good Man
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2018
Dennis, 32, is perfect according to his best friend and Nan, Elsie.
Jess Robinson: Here Come the Girls
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre / Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 5th Apr - 5th Jul 2018
Join multi award-winner and Britain's Got Talent 2017 semi-finalist Jess Robinson for an evening of spot-on celebrity impressions, musical comedy and stunning vocal gymnastics.
Tom Ward: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2018
Chortle Best Newcomer Winner 2017, Tom Ward, returns with his difficult third album.
The Maydays present: Happily Never After
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 31st May - 3rd Jun 2018
Award-winning improvisers, The Maydays, present ‘Happily Never After’; a twisted musical tale inspired by Tim Burton and The Brothers Grimm.
Kevin Precious Unholier Than Thou: The Non-Believing Religious Studies Teacher (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 30th May - 1st Jun 2018
Kevin Precious is a former Religious Studies teacher.
Tony Roberts: I'm a Magician Get Me Out of Here
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 29th - 30th May 2018
Mind-blowing escapology and magical mayhem are unleashed by Covent Garden’s cheekiest and funniest street performer! For humans 8-80+ Having escaped from chains at festivals in …
Josh Widdicombe and Henry Paker: Work in progress
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 29th May - 9th Jul 2018
Josh Widdicombe and Henry Paker try out new material for their upcoming stand up shows.
Ian Smith: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 28th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Ian Smith is a multi-award-winning comedian; this is a work in progress of his fifth solo show.
Nathan Willcock: Holland, 1980
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 28th - 30th May 2018
Great comedy guy Nathan Willcock presents what promises to be a work-in-progress show.
Good Kids: Blank Canvas
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 28th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Cult sketch-comedy cowboys ‘Good Kids’ descend on Brighton Fringe for another hour of wicked-ass mayhem.
White Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jane Beeston
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 29th May, 2018
If you’re looking for a thought-provoking Fringe Show, White Girls, by Madeleine Accalia, could fit the bill.
Paul Wade: Mortal (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 26th - 28th May 2018
Do you struggle to fit in in an ever-changing world? Does the speed of change make you feel old before your time? Then you know how Paul feels.
Max & Ivan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 26th - 27th May 2018
Black-belt grandmasters of narrative-sketch comedy take to the live stage in a whirlwind hour of new ideas and never-before-seen characters.
Ruby Wax: How To be Human. (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th May - 3rd Jul 2018
We can’t stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we’re on.
Golden Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 25th - 26th May 2018
Catch-up with Beatrice, Betty, Rue and Estelle as you’ve never seen them before, in the highlights of the iconic 80s sitcom The Golden Girls.
Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 24th - 26th May 2018
Nigel Ng is from Malaysia.
AJ Roberts: The Council Flat Baby and the Rise of the Village Kid
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 22nd - 26th May 2018
‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ and ‘Amused Moose Laugh Off’ finalist AJ Roberts debuts his solo show.
Katharine Ferns: Between One Ferns (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 24th May 2018
Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
Larry Dean: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 28th May 2018
An hour of new material by award-winning comedian and ‘Live at the Apollo’ star, Larry Dean.
Fiona Sagar: Working Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 20th - 27th May 2018
Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show Nominee 2016, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre, LA) returns to Brighton Fringe with her new character comedy show.
It's All My Mother's Fault! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- 20th - 27th May 2018
Romina Puma comes back and is darker than ever! It’s a show about love, or the lack of it, a show about a child longing to be cared for by her mother while having to care for her…
Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 20th May 2018
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Mawaan Rizwan: Twerk in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 19th - 20th May 2018
Fresh off a UK tour supporting Simon Amstell, Mawaan Rizwan is back with a work-in-progress show.
Owen Roberts: I let a six year old write my show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 19th - 20th May 2018
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a six year old child write his show for him.
Sweeter Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 19th - 20th May 2018
After a successful run of ‘Sweet Things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Helen Bauer (BBC3 and Comedy Central) and Micky Overman (Funny Women and Leicester Square Finalist 2016) are …
Jazz for Lunch: Julie Roberts and Michael Hinton
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 18th May 2018
Relax and enjoy Julie’s warm, expressive voice with Michael’s superb piano interpretations.
Come Rhyme With Me
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 18th May 2018
Enjoy a night of rhyming, rice and peas with Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger alongside a menu of performers chosen for their wit, wisdom and ability to move you.
A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018
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.
Nathan & Ida's Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 17th - 20th May 2018
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: taking with them nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce…
Let Them Eat Jake: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 16th - 19th May 2018
Creating your own kingdom is what life’s all about – one where you can live by your own rules, make your own choices, and be the person you truly are.
Dan Evans: In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 16th - 30th May 2018
Come and watch as award-winning, stand-up comedian, and much credited writer Dan Evans releases 53 minutes of his latest entertainment into the wild.
Good Grief ...... Living with Loss
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 16th May 2018
‘Good Grief.
Yuriko Kotani: Overwork in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 14th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2015 and Time Out’s One to Watch, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani brings you wonderfully offbeat stories with her rug-pulling punchlines…
Maria Shehata - Pretty Little (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 14th - 18th May 2018
Egyptian-American comedian Maria Shehata follows up her debut show ‘Wisdomless’ with stand up and storytelling about her life in London and what happened after she whimsically move…
All Work, No Play
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 14th - 20th May 2018
A new piece of devised work making its debut at this year’s Brighton Fringe.
Evelyn Mok: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 13th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Featured on Channel 4, Comedy Central and BBC’s New Talent Hotlist, the award-winning Swedish comedian presents a work in progress that promises to be “uncensored, unapologetic and…
Life In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 13th - 15th May 2018
When life fell apart, Rob moved into a caravan.
Lolly Jones: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th - 19th May 2018
Join Lolly and special guest(s) in an hour of stand up & character comedy.
Kelsey de Almeida: I'm Very Different People (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 12th - 27th May 2018
Winner of South End Comedy Festival’s ‘Best Newcomer’ competition 2017, Kelsey is one of the youngest working comedians in the UK.
Nathan Lang: The Stuntman
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 12th - 26th May 2018
Nathan Lang (Pinhead from Neighbours) tells the high-energy, surreal tale of ‘The Stuntman’ through clowning, characters, physical comedy and real onstage stunts.
Olga Koch: Fight, a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 12th - 13th May 2018
In 2014, Olga Koch’s father was stopped by authorities on the Russian border, which resulted in the most surreal year in her family’s life.
Esther Manito: But I've Got One (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 11th - 13th May 2018
Esther Manito, a finalist on ‘So You Think You’re Funny? 2017’ and heard on BBC radio 4 Extra, is working on her first solo show.
Rosco McClelland: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 11th - 12th May 2018
It’s been a hell of a year for Rosco McClelland, travelling the world, getting engaged and making new friends in interesting places.
Nik Coppin: Shark (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 9th May - 3rd Jun 2018
He told a silly joke one night at a show in Australia and the events thereafter were rather confusing.
Adele Cliff: Sheep (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 30th May 2018
Adele Cliff, Dave’s Top 15 Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2017 and 2016, brings her brand-new show ‘Sheep’ to Brighton! Packed with gags, anecdotes and fun, this work-in-progress sho…
Anna Morris: Under the Sea (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 9th - 14th May 2018
A brand new show from the creator of award-winning wedding comedy ‘It’s Got to be Perfect’.
Adam Vincent: Semi-detached (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 8th - 29th May 2018
See this award-nominated (Best Comedy, Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian stand-up, now living in Bedford, who played to full houses throughout his Edinburgh Fringe run (2017).
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 9th May, 2018
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…
Jake Baker: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 8th - 23rd May 2018
Up-and-coming comedian Jake Baker (twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) brings his first solo hour to Brighton.
Bisha K Ali's Life is A Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 8th - 21st May 2018
Bisha K Ali brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe.
Steve Bugeja: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 8th May 2018
Steve Bugeja, as seen on ‘Love Island Aftersun’, Russell Howard’s ‘Stand Up Central’, Radio 4’s ‘Fresh From The Fringe’ and BBC 3’s ‘Top 10’, presents a work-in-progress show.
What's it all about, eh? The Musical (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th May 2018
This is a jam-packed musical comedy performance of fun storytelling rhymes set to an original soundtrack.
Revan and Fennell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 6th - 8th May 2018
Award-winning double-act, Revan and Fennell, return to Brighton Fringe with their brand of observational and character-driven sketch comedy.
Heidi vs Sharks: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Heidi Regan, winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2017 and So You Think You’re Funny? 2016, explores our increasingly confusing world via the medium of shark films.
Jay Cowle: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Jay Cowle is a stand-up comedian and day dreamer which is all very nice until he wants to get something done, but things are changing.
Luke Kempner: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner brings his 2018 work in progress show to Brighton Fringe for the first time.
VAGUE (Work-In-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 6th May 2018
18 months ago, Maisie Adam decided to try stand-up comedy.
Dave: A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Despite his best intentions, Dave Fensome is getting older.
Live Action Roller Derby!
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Dolphin Leisure Centre
- 5th May 2018
Discover roller derby: a fast-paced, full-contact sport played on roller skates.
Nick Elleray: It's Been Emotional (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 4th - 19th May 2018
The ‘Mellow Thunder From Down Under’ returns to Brighton with a stand-up comedy show that’ll be thoughtful, silly, and thoughtfully silly.
The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 4th May - 1st Jun 2018
The Maydays invite you to tear up the Fringe in the name of comedy! You choose performances or events from the Fringe Guide and then delight as these award-winning improvisers give…
Circus'sission: Those That Made the Cut!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Himmi Kari
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 21st May, 2018
Featuring a Game of Thrones themed homoerotic adagio, a gyrating hula hooper and even a flash of full-frontal nudity, Circus’sission is the definition of a circus stripped.
Luke Rollason's Planet Earth (Is a Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 4th - 7th May 2018
A low-budget, one-man nature documentary set in a future where our worst predictions came true.
Eddie Izzard: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Apr 2018
Eddie Izzard: Work In Progress.
Nina Conti - Work In Progress
- Review
- ★
- Millie Bayswater
- London Fringe
- Udderbelly
- 1st May, 2018
Nina Conti, now a household name from multiple television appearances, has done great trade tonight packing out London’s premier temporary fringe venue – The Underbelly at Sout…
Ivy Paige, A Work In Progress
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Apr 2018
International Showgirl, Ivy Paige, star of ‘London Cabaret’, hostess of An Evening of a Burlesque, real life Jessica Rabbit and now the infamous singing sire…
Frank Lavender: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 20th Apr 2018
Northern club comic Frank Lavender returns to London’s Leicester Square Theatre for a run of Work In Progress Shows.
Bridget Christie: What Now? (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th - 18th Apr 2018
Brexit.
Frankie Boyle - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Apr - 29th May 2018
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre to try out some brand new jokes.
LNT Present 'La Petite Mort'
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chicken Theatre
- 24th Mar 2018
LNT is made up of Luke (one half of The Marvellous Dorians) and Tim (lead from Real Life Charm).
DANNY BHOY – A WORK IN PROGRESS
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Howling Owl
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Just announced! – Danny Bhoy will return to the Adelaide Fringe for a run of special gigs to work up material for his next tour.
Pauly Fenech: The Bible of all things Bogan
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Arkaba Hotel
- 16th Mar 2018
Mullets, single Mums, Holdens, home done tatts.
Alcohol is Good for You Too - Sam Kissajukian
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 & selling out all 23 shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 & 2017.
Evolution Festival: Lyric Ensemble: Work in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 16th Mar 2018
The Lyric Ensemble is a group of 15 actors led by international director Anne Louise Sarks.
RCC & Carla Lippis present 'Midnight Marauders'
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 10th - 17th Mar 2018
Join Cabaret’s riot girl Carla Lippis at her pop-up club for a series of raucous late night after-parties.
Three Little Sisters Come to Unley - An Andrews Sisters Tribute
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Fullarton Park Community Centre
- 15th Mar 2018
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
Mr Goodbars Guide to Good Drinking
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Mr Goodbar
- 14th - 15th Mar 2018
Hands-on Cocktail Masterclass Series! Shake, muddle and stir your way through time, mastering the techniques and discovering the science that is mixology.
Naked Girls Reading
- Review
- ★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 13th Mar, 2018
I’m not entirely sure of the point of Naked Girls Reading.
Good Morning Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Mercury Cinema
- 13th Mar 2018
Start your Tuesday mornings with laughter in the comfort of your favourite cinema.
Diamond Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Live From Tandanya / National Wine Centre
- 4th - 12th Mar 2018
Join actress Amanda Trapp as she portrays — in addition to 18 other characters! — three Saskatchewan gals who played in Philip K.
POWER LINES: WORDS AT WORK
- Listing Spoken Word
- Adelaide Fringe
- THE GC at The German Club
- 11th Mar 2018
Join OLD JACK, the Aussie Gleeman, for your renewable energy – high voltage, low emissions, clean and efficient, ample storage, no blackouts (we all hope).
Amelia Ryan: The Breast Is Yet To Come
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 11th Mar 2018
It’s been a big year for Amelia Ryan (Storm In A D Cup, Lady Liberty, Livvy & Pete).
Wild Things by artists from the Tutti Art Studios
- Listing Exhibition
- Adelaide Fringe
- Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation Gallery A
- 10th - 25th Mar 2018
Tutti Arts in collaboration with the WCH Foundation presents Wild Things.
Murder City Roller Girls presents Summer Shovin'
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- The ARC Campbelltown
- 10th Mar 2018
Get your old-school 50s gear on and make like Greased Lightning to the ARC Campbelltown for some hard-hitting roller derby action! The T Birds will be taking on the Pink Ladies i…
Alex Ward: Good, great.
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 10th Mar 2018
Alex is a Melbourne based stand-up comedian currently achieving her life long dream of being brave enough to live outside her home state of QLD.
Shirley Gnome: Come Again?
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- RAJOPOLIS at Raj House / Stirling Fringe
- 9th - 17th Mar 2018
Canada’s reigning “Queen troubadour of intelligent black-comic sex balladry” (Edmonton Journal) returns to Adelaide for four nights only with a collection of songs and covers from …
Good Girl
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Trafalgar Studio 2
- 5th - 31st Mar 2018
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…
Good
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 4th Mar 2018
Sydney’s Tom Cashman is debuting his show Good at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival.
The Institute of Invisible Things
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gallery Next Door
- 3rd Mar 2018
A tiny ‘pop-up’ institute which invites you into a playful and poetic reflection on reality.
The Good, The Bad and The Sunburnt
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 2nd Mar 2018
Sean and Darren went to the same primary school in Ireland and now they’re both tellin’ jokes in Australia.
Good Wills Huntley
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 2nd Mar 2018
The King and Queen of Adelaide Comedy reunite to bring you one of the hottest stand-up comedy shows at this year’s festival.
LEIGH QURBAN - GOOD EFFORT
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 2nd Mar 2018
There’s good effort, bad effort and times when you just need to say “eff’ it”.
Kel Balnaves - Yeah, Good On Ya
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 2nd Mar 2018
No one likes to be judged.
Pretending Things Are A Cock
- Listing Exhibition
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 25th Feb 2018
Pretending Things are a Cock is the product of Bennett’s three years of global wandering, and combines the artistic, phallic-filled photographic display with hilarious and surpr…
Heaps Good Oi Show
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Benjamin on Franklin Hotel
- 24th Feb 2018
Born beneath the storm clouds of Sydney’s recently introduced “lockout laws” (currently draining the magic from a once-vibrant nightlife), this continually shifting mobile street a…
Elvis & The Beatles Come Together
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Norwood Concert Hall
- 23rd Feb 2018
The show that’s Rocking Aus comes to Adelaide Fringe.
Work Makes You Free
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Network Theatre
- 21st - 25th Feb 2018
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.
Faith I Branko present "Gypsy Lover"
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- HAT’s Courthouse Cultural Centre Auburn
- 16th Feb 2018
Faith I Branko Serbias No1 Roma viollinist and UK accordionist perform high energy original Roma/jazz influenced music with an International quartet.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - The O2 Arena
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in January …
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Wembley
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Wembley Arena
- 9th Feb 2018 - 8th Feb 2019
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Nottingham
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
- 6th Feb 2018 - 10th Feb 2022
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
Katie Pritchard: Tsunamiramirami (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Caxton Arms / The Soundhouse Leicester / VAULT Festival
- 3rd Feb - 31st May 2018
West End Actress, Musician and snazzy idiot, Katie Pritchard, is off on an adventure in this tidal wave of Sketchy, Charactery, Musical Comedy fun.
Those Worrisome Sleeps
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 7th Feb 2018
“When you send me away, where do I go?” Grief takes people in different ways.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Glasgow
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Birmingham
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- NIA Birmingham
- 19th Jan 2018 - 23rd Jan 2022
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you…
Things I Know to be True
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 15th Jan - 3rd Feb 2018
Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia present, Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell.
Side Shows
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- 25th - 26th Nov 2017
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Revan and Fennell: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 20th Nov 2017
Award-winning double act, Revan and Fennell, bring their unique brand of silly and observational sketch comedy to the Etcetera Theatre in Camden for one night only.
Scouting For Girls
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 18th Nov 2017
2017 officially marks a decade since the release of Scouting For Girls’ unstoppable million-selling self-titled debut album and to celebrate the 10th anniversary, SFG returns…
The Maydays Present Happily Never After plus BIG NOW!
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 18th Nov 2017
Happily Never After - Created from a single audience suggestion, The Maydays weave a playful tale, full of black comedy and haunting songs.
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Off Off Broadway
- Flea Theatre
- 16th - 19th Nov 2017
EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.
The Maydays Present Happily Never After plus Phil Lunn Is...
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 14th Oct 2017
Award-winning improvisers The Maydays present this skin-prickling tale full of black comedy and haunting music, inspired by Tim Burton.
Dylan Moran – Work in Progress (Grumbling)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 25th - 27th Aug 2017
A brand new Work in Progress show from Dylan Moran.
Job's A Good'Un
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 25th - 26th Aug 2017
10 years.
Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
NEHH and Braw Gigs Present: Blanck Mass
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 22nd Aug 2017
Electronic artist from the UK and one half of F*ck Buttons.
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 22nd Aug 2017
Anglichanka is an exhilarating comedy show about living in the USSR in the 90s and going back as the first UK comic to perform comedy in English and Russian.
Girls
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Megan Atkins
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 23rd Aug, 2017
Deeply political, magnificently performed and filled with tense action and witty dialogue, Girls manages to grip and amaze the audience with its characters and powerful message fro…
Bunker Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Katie Daniel
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 24th Aug, 2017
Bunker Girls shows us two women who worked as secretaries documenting the German perspective on WWII.
Sad Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 21st - 26th Aug 2017
Sad Girls is a play about three girls: Miley, Lottie and Flo.
2 Girls 1 Capo – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 21st - 27th Aug 2017
If you like profanity, women and very catchy tunes then Meat Market is for you.
The Accidentals Present: Dangerous Women
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh
- 19 Hill Pl
- 21st - 26th Aug 2017
Chicago meets all-female A Cappella! An original work by The Accidentals, this contemporary A Cappella show brings together the Cell Block Tango and The Barden Bellas in an extrava…
The Strange and the Eerie: Ballads and Stories of Auld Scotland
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 21st - 23rd Aug 2017
Scotland’s dark and mysterious past is hidden deep in its songs and legends.
The Mechanisms Present: The Bifrost Incident
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bourbon Bar
- 20th - 27th Aug 2017
The notorious space-pirate troubadours are back in orbit, bringing you a heady mix of story and song, leaving a trail of destruction and madness in their wake.
A Compendium of Lost Things
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 20th - 27th Aug 2017
A man collects stories of lost keys and dreams gone astray, wayward wallets and absent loved ones, abandoned playthings and misplaced memories.
David Earl Is Brian Gittins: Don't Feed the Monkey Man (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 20th - 29th Aug 2017
David Earl’s alter ego, Brian Gittins is an utter prat and according to the Sussex Argus, ‘The World’s Worst Comedian’.
Come Rain Or Come Shine
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 20th Aug 2017
Musical gems from the Great American and British Songbooks.
NEHH & MiS Present: Withered Hand, Iklan, Savage Mansion
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug 2017
A live eclectic ballad of works from pioneers of the contemporary Scottish music scene.
A Wake (For Those Dying for an Honest Job That Always Makes a Killing)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brewhemia
- 18th - 19th Aug 2017
Raise a glass with us at a brand-new Fringe venue and celebrate the life of Ronald, who died slowly, painfully and fully aware.
Simon Amstell: Tour Previews (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th - 19th Aug 2017
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
Trolley Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 17th - 27th Aug 2017
Attention all shoppers! Make your way down to the Pear Tree to see best friends in the whole wide world ever in this show stopping coming of age story.
Writing and Producing Your Own Work: Top Tips and Study Options
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 16th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Iain Connell: Some Buzz (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 15th - 27th Aug 2017
After years in the sketch show game, Iain Connell, star and co-creator of BBC hit show Burnistoun (a sell-out at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe) is throwing caution to the wind…
Jordan Brookes: Body of Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th - 28th Aug 2017
In August 2015 Jordan’s Nanna, Gwendoline Martha Brookes, passed away.
Jason Manford: Muddle Class Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 14th - 20th Aug 2017
Jason Manford is back and better than ever! With this work in progress show you’ll be one of the first to get a sneak peak of his brand new tour, Muddle Class.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 14th - 28th Aug 2017
The girls are back in town.
Nick Helm: Masterworks in Progress '17
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th - 27th Aug 2017
After spending two years in the wilderness, international treasure Nick Helm (Dave’s Best Joke 2011) crawls his way back from the depths of hell to find the world he once loved has…
One Good Soul
- Review
- ★★★★
- Miles Hurley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 18th Aug, 2017
Musical adaptations of other works often struggle to either make themselves distinct or justify their existence.
Northern Lights Present: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
‘The vocals are fantastic’ (Palatinate.
Lunch Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
Bee, Dee, Jay and Vee – will they ever do lunch? Dee’s a bitch, Jay’s in love (but who with?), Dee’s got Harry’s mother’s dodgy wheelchair to deal with, and Bee worries about eve…
Girls Will Be Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 14th - 26th Aug 2017
‘A new label on an old tin of beans won’t change the flavour.
Tim Key: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th - 27th Aug 2017
Late at night.
Come & Sing International
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 13th Aug 2017
Do you love singing? Would you like the chance to sing some of classical music’s most iconic choral pieces, led by a wonderfully expressive conductor? If so, come along and sing …
Stiff & Kitsch: By All Accounts Two Normal Girls*
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 13th - 28th Aug 2017
(*A real-life quote from a real-life reviewer.
Coates and Cooper Present: Kidnap
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
- 13th - 26th Aug 2017
Coates and Cooper have 60 minutes fully clothed to find the comedy in a “kidnap”.
The Girls From Oz
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 12th - 16th Aug 2017
Spend a five-star evening with the most dinky-die singing sheilas this side of the black stump.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Host Roller Derby British Champs Triple Header
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 12th Aug 2017
Auld Reekie Roller Girls are back once again for 2017! Showcasing a Triple Header for the Roller Derby British Championships Tier 3 North.
US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 10th - 21st Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Live Shows in an Internet Media Age
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 9th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Quilarious Come and Play
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Waverley Bar
- 8th - 28th Aug 2017
Quilarious: A new exciting comedy format.
The Good Person of Sichuan
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 7th - 12th Aug 2017
Exploring themes of life and death, wealth and poverty and what it means to be ‘good’, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sichuan is innovatively and creatively brought to lif…
Nathan Willcock: State of the Nathan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 7th - 27th Aug 2017
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedy Award runner-up, presents his debut show about success, our current political situation and a 19th-century textile designer.
Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
- Review
- ★★★★
- Caitlin Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 10th Aug, 2017
Where there is Fringe, there is Shakespeare, and Rolling In The Aisle Productions have returned to Edinburgh with a fresh faced, family friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelf…
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 52 Canoes (Grassmarket)
- 6th - 26th Aug 2017
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Come Down the Mile
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside Scottish Poetry Library
- 5th - 28th Aug 2017
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn.
Barry Loves You (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 5th - 27th Aug 2017
Barry Loves You: an ambitious claim to make, even if he already knew you.
Abi Roberts: Fat Girl Dancing (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 5th - 27th Aug 2017
Radio 4’s Abi Roberts returns with a WIP show, flicking a V-sign, the finger and showing her arse to the consensus.
Porn
- Review
- ★
- Nathan Grifiths
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 29th Aug, 2017
Porn is a musical that aims to show the emotional side of those working in the adult film industry.
Clitorosity, Cocktastrophes and Other Things You Can't Get Your Mouth Around
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 12th Aug 2017
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.
Was it good for you?
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Fulton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 9th Aug, 2017
Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey.
Smug Roberts: Just Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
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.
NEHH and Mediterraneo Present: Mediterraneo Opening Party
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 4th Aug 2017
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, southern Italy and Scotland crashing into Summerhall for a huge festival opening party.
Girls Like That
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 4th - 10th Aug 2017
A tight-knit group of school friends are learning about the struggles of the Suffragette movement, but none of them are really listening.
Things We Find in the Dark
- Review
- ★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 8th Aug, 2017
Sam is scared of the dark.
I Ran With The Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 4th - 18th Aug 2017
Direct from a sold-out appearance in Toronto, the 2014/15/16 smash-hit sell-out show returns.
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Bells Present: Gospel
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 4th - 12th Aug 2017
Bells gained national prominence in its first year as a fully mixed ensemble after winning the 2016 Scottish A Cappella Championships.
Sweet Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
An hour of comedy from two up-and-comers, Micky Overman – ‘a keen comic mind’ (Chortle.
Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Rodney's Really #Good Family Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family!
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Present and Correct are back once again for another hilarious run at the Edinburgh Fringe! We return with an all-new show packed full of this year’s latest and greatest sketches …
Alcohol is Good for You Too
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Nominated for Best Comedy 2016 by Fringe World, with 23 sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
A Struggle: Work in Progress / Free Festival
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
What happens when we struggle to do anything? A series of in-development clown and theatre pieces. Themes will include difficulty, struggle, Ludwig Wittgenstein and snakes.
Good Girl
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 13th Aug, 2017
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.
Franks and Skinner Present: MindfulMess
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 3rd - 19th Aug 2017
Grab a morning coffee and start your (Fringe) day with a life-changing symposium (terms and conditions apply).
Rodney's Really #Good Family Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Vic St Coffee Co
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family!
Raymond Mearns is Present and Incorrect
- Listing Comedy / Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
Hello there! I’m back at the Fringe and back in The Beehive.
Nathan Cassidy: Watch This. Love Me. It’s Deep.
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C cubed
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Sir Michael Caine Award-winning writer and comedian’s new one-man theatre show – a perfect love story in a swimming pool.
Dan & Jamie Work On Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
Daniel Audritt (BBC Radio 4 and Channel 5) and Jamie Oliphant (ITV2’s TVOD and BBC New Comedian) bring an hour of stand-up to the Free Fringe’s most popular venue – the Free Sist…
Keith Farnan: Work and Words in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2017
Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow) has tried to answer some of the big questions in life in previous shows, but now seems like a good time to just be funny.
Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bella Roux
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 18th Aug, 2017
Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis does an excellent job of pushing the boundaries of the relationship between the audience and performer.
Michael Clarke: A Felt in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Michael Clarke has felt something.
Hurt and Anderson: Come What May
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Hurt and Anderson are on the edge.
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bella Roux
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 28th Aug, 2017
Abi Roberts adorns her ushanka hat and jovially welcomes her audience into Anglichanka her cavernous theatre space at Underbelly Colgate with a thick Russian accent.
Tony Roberts: Late Nite Ace High
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Tony Roberts is back, he’s loose and ready to blow your mind with cheeky, salacious stand-up, songs, stories and crafty card manipulation.
Jordan Brookes: Body of Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
In August 2015 Jordan’s Nanna, Gwendoline Martha Brookes, passed away.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
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…
Good Vibes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 16th Aug 2017
Heather Shaw and Olga Koch present a high-octane hour of one-liners, personal anecdotes and, most importantly, good vibes! Many people like to party but only the chosen few really …
John-Luke Roberts: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! (All in Caps)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Monkey Barrel
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
The cult-favourite alternative comic humbly invites you to his brand-new, absolutely brilliant hour of extraordinary-absurdist-character-comedy-nonsense-sort-of-stand-up and hubris…
Nathan Cassidy: The Man in the Arena
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Buxton Fringe Best Show winner (and triple nominee) explores bravery in a volatile world.
George McGoldrick: The Good Herb
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Hello, I’m doing a solo show where I play a synth for a while and read some comedic short stories that I’ve written.
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Vic St Coffee Co
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Present and Correct are back once again for another hilarious run at the Edinburgh Fringe! We return with an all-new show packed full of this year’s latest and greatest sketches …
Boys & Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Men are from Earth.
Good With Maps
- Review
- ★★★
- Katie Daniel
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C primo
- 23rd Aug, 2017
Siren Theatre Co’s Good With Maps is a multi-faceted story masterfully guided by Jane Phegan who takes us through this one woman show.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Lindon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 20th Aug, 2017
The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show is what it says on the ticket.
Next Best Thing: How to Be Good at Everything
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
Being a millennial in the modern world is hard.
Daniel Nils Roberts: The Causeway
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
The year is 991 and the Vikings are coming.
Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2017
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
Three Half Pints Present The Three Musketeers
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2017
CBeebies’ favourites (Justin’s House, Spot Bots) swashbuckle their way through a hilarious, new adventure of chivalry, swordplay and slips.
Kinsey Sicks: Things You Shouldn't Say
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2017
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…
Roberts and Holt: The Horse Show
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 31st Jul - 12th Aug 2017
The Horse Show comes galloping down to the Camden Fringe festival, fresh from the lush green pastures of Manchester.
Girls' Night OOT!
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 28th Jul 2017
The smash hit comedy musical comes to the Edinburgh Playhouse for the very first time! Join the girls on a hen night you wont forget, with fantastic songs from 1960s - today! Gua…
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Prior
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 25th Jul, 2017
‘Anglichanka’ translates to ‘Englishwoman’ in most Eastern European countries.
Nathan Cassidy: Watch this. Love me. It's deep.
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th Jun 2017
Award-winning writer and comedian Nathan Cassidy’s new one-man theatre show for 2017.
Ambrose Page & friends present The Mendelssohn's, their lives & music with Marcia Bellamy Mezzo
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Michael and All Angels Church
- 3rd Jun 2017
A concert of words and music focusing on the relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny.
Big Wows for Small Wonders: Apples and Snakes and NWS present...
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 3rd Jun 2017
Children’s poet and spoken word theatre maker Justin Coe (‘Big Wow’, ‘Small Wonder’, ‘The Dictionary of Dads’, ‘The Jumble Book’) leads a workshop for adult writers/performers inte…
Nathan Cassidy: The Man in the Arena
- Review
- ★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th Jun, 2017
Nathan Cassidy is pretty angry about a three star review he once received.
Darren Harriott: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 1st Jun 2017
Darren Harriott is one of the most exciting up-and-coming comedians on the circuit.
Eshaan Akbar: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 1st Jun 2017
2016 Piccadilly Comedian of the Year, Eshaan Akbar, brings his work-in-progress show ‘Eshaan Who? Akbar!’ to Brighton Fringe.
Tony Roberts: Card Magic & More For Kids!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 31st May 2017
Join Covent Garden’s cheekiest street performer, award-winning magician Tony Roberts for mind-blowing card magic and more! There’ll be laughs, mayhem and classic conjuring for …
Amy Howerska. Progress (Work Inn)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May - 3rd Jun 2017
A work-in-progress show from your very own Welsh-wonder, Amy Howerska.
Eleanor Conway: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May - 3rd Jun 2017
Follow up to Eleanor’s critically acclaimed debut show.
Carly Smallman: A Work in Progress and Other Terrible Stories About Why I Keep Ruining it for Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 29th - 30th May 2017
Star of ITV and BBC, Carly Smallman makes her Brighton Fringe debut with a work-in-progress hour of comedy.
Kevin Precious: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 29th - 31st May 2017
Work-in-progress. Former RE teacher; teaching RE; philosophy of religion; God-shaped hole; being a humanist… that sort of thing.
David Sheeran - I Am Donut: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 29th May - 2nd Jun 2017
Skyfall, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Ghost, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Beauty and the Beast, Notting Hill, 50 Shades Darker and Beetleju…
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 29th May 2017
With a coffin full of sympathy snacks, Jack Rooke and his 85-year-old Nan, Sicely, invite you to the happiest town in Britain, where Dad’s dead and the only thing to eat is lasag…
Nathan Carter
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- London Palladium
- 28th May 2017 - 17th Mar 2019
Nathan Carter is one of the biggest names on the Irish music scene and is fast becoming a big name all over the UK with his fine performances that include the mega hit song ‘…
Jazz for Lunch: Julie Roberts and Michael Hinton
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 26th May 2017
A new relaxing lunchtime concert.
Tony Roberts: Card Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 26th May 2017
Exceptionally clean tricks with wickedly naughty jokes from this award-winning magician.
Ross And Doug Present Scenes From The Life And Death Of Lord Haw Haw, Britain's Most Patriotic Traitor
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 25th - 28th May 2017
Funny. Political. Ends with a hanging.
Samantha Pressdee: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 24th - 25th May 2017
A bitter-sweet tale of political awakening.
Snakes and Ladders: A Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd - 24th May 2017
Phil Jerrod’s third debut show isn’t written yet, but so far seems to be about how it’s still worth trying to be happy, even though everything’s blatantly terrible.
Naked Girls Reading featuring Burlexe
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 21st May 2017
Join burlesque artist and naked stand-up, Miss Glory Pearl, for an intimate, innovative show combining powerful stories, beautiful women and beautiful words.
Helen and Micky's Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 21st - 28th May 2017
An hour of comedy from two up-and-comers, Micky Overman, “a keen comic mind” (Chortle), and Helen Bauer, “Bauer is so funny” (NPR Berlin), about life and all their feelings, which …
How to be Good at Everything
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 20th - 21st May 2017
Do you lack basic skills? Do you want to be good at everything? Then you should watch ‘How to be Good at Everything’.
The Elephant Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Julia French
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 25th May, 2017
Forget lovable rogues and artful dodgers, this uncomfortable monologue tells the true story of a London awash with criminal gangs in the interwar years.
James Loveridge: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 23rd May 2017
Voted ‘One To Watch’ at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 and nominated for Amused Moose Best Show 2016 at the Edinburgh Fringe, James is back with another hour of hilarious st…
The Maydays present: Happily Never After
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Oliver Lugg
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 23rd May, 2017
Being inspired by fairy tales, Gothic themes and the warped imagination of Tim Burton was all-too-clear in the wide and undeniably impressive range of sketches, theatre troupe The …
Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017
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 …
Ellie Taylor: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 18th - 19th May 2017
Star of ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Mock the Week’ and Radio 4’s ‘The Now Show’, tries out some new jokes for an hour or so.
Gould & McCarthy: Death, Goths, Kittens & Other Cute Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb @ Nowhere Man
- 18th - 20th May 2017
Brighton comics Vicky Gould and Joe McCarthy join forces to bring you an hour of quirky off-beat humour.
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 17th - 27th May 2017
Anglichanka (Englishwoman in Russian) is an exhilarating comedy show about living in the Soviet Union in the 90s and returning after 18 years as the first UK comic to perform comed…
Good Grief... Living with Loss
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 17th May 2017
A day offering people the opportunity to step into our experiences of living with loss and bereavement.
Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Gem Electric
- 15th May 2017
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” Evening Standard.
Perfection In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 13th - 14th May 2017
You don’t have to be perfect.
Owen Roberts: The man who ate too many raisins
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 13th - 14th May 2017
What is the meaning of life? Do aliens exist? And how many is too many raisins? This show will answer a maximum of one of these questions.
David Ephgrave: All Work, No Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 18th May 2017
At thirty-six, David is still unable to function in society.
For all the fires not yet lit: Work in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Royal Circle Bar
- 10th - 22nd May 2017
“Stories can conquer fear, you know.
Adam Scott Vincent: The Scared and Lonely Tour (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 9th - 17th May 2017
Adam Scott Vincent is a core writer of Channel 4’s award-winning satirical show ‘The Last Leg’.
Open Sky present Scorched
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Annie North
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 11th May, 2017
“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.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 8th - 9th May 2017
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Steve Bugeja: Summer Camp - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th May - 1st Jun 2017
Steve Bugeja, as seen on ‘Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central’, Radio 4’s ‘Fresh From The Fringe’ and BBC 3’s ‘Top 10’, is working on a new show and you can come watch him create it.
Good Grief: Stories at 207 West 88th
- Review
- ★★★★
- Aidan Stark
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 31st May, 2017
Terriane Falcome offers a tour de force of writing and comedy, playing at the Theatre Box this Brighton Fringe.
Good People, Bad Day
- Review
- ★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 17th May, 2017
Everyone has experienced the dreaded ‘bad day’ where nothing seems to work out.
Yuriko Kotani: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 7th - 14th May 2017
Winner of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015 and Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Award 2015, Yuriko Kotani (Time Out’s One to Watch) brings you a work-in-progress show.
Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 7th - 28th May 2017
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Andrea Hubert: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 31st May 2017
Join Andrea Hubert (BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy winner 2013, What’s On London Best Debut Show 2016) for just under an hour of new/terrible/amazing/unacceptable comedy ideas and half-fini…
Ian Smith: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 6th - 7th May 2017
Ian Smith (BBC3’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, BBC1’s ‘The Ark’) is an award-winning comedian.
Present Tense
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Phoenix Brighton
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2017
An exhibition of works that explore disrupted space: cultural, political, emotional and physical, selected from Phoenix Brighton studio artists and curated by Lucy Day.
I Hope I Die Before I Start Voting Conservative (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May 2017
Apparently we all get more right-wing as we grow older.
BEASTS Present Mr Brighton 2017
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 6th May 2017
Fresh from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, Beasts bring their critically acclaimed comedy extravaganza to Brighton.
Nathan Willcock: State of the Nathan
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th - 6th May 2017
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, brings a stand-up show to Brighton Fringe.
Tom Ward: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 5th - 19th May 2017
Tom Ward (Comedy Central / BBC Worldwide / Radio 4 Extra) is back! After a hugely successful debut hour at Edinburgh 2016 he returns to Brighton for a work-in-progress of his follo…
Circus'sission: Those That Made The Cut!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 5th May - 4th Jun 2017
A variety mash-up of circus superstars, Spiegeltent legends and the hottest acts of this year's Brighton Fringe.
The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2017
Turn up, tear out and laugh lots as we give other fringe shows a unique makeover! Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show …
Dirty Market present The Hearing Trumpet
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Old Library (Theatre Delicatessen)
- 4th - 29th Apr 2017
Based on the novel by Leonora Carrington.
The Guide to Good Orgasm Management
- Review
- ★★
- Charlie Pilbeam
- Brighton
- Sweet Dukebox
- 30th Mar, 2017
Whilst it never quite delivers the climax you expect from a show with such a title, The Guide To Good Orgasms offers a certain charm that makes it impossible not to smile throughou…
Fit for Work
- Review
- ★★★
- Lucy Alexander
- Brighton
- The Iron Duke Pub Guesthouse Kitchen & Theatre
- 27th Mar, 2017
If you believe the stigma of mental health is slowly disappearing, then Fit for Work will question your perception of this topical subject and how it is perceived in the workplac…
Girls Like That
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Mar, 2017
Evan Placey’s Girls Like That (first performed at London’s Unicorn Theatre three years ago) came to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—courtesy of the neighbouring Lyceum Thea…
The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 19th Feb 2017
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…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - London O2 Arena
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 12th Feb 2017 - 13th Feb 2022
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Liverpool
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Echo Arena Liverpool
- 7th - 8th Feb 2017
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Manchester
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Manchester Arena
- 4th Feb 2017 - 30th Jan 2022
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Leeds
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Leeds Arena
- 2nd Feb 2017 - 26th Jan 2022
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Nottingham
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
- 31st Jan - 1st Feb 2017
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
The Girls
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Phoenix Theatre
- 30th Jan - 21st Sep 2017
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's musical adaptation of Calendar Girls is transferring to the West End's Phoenix Theatre from February 2017.
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Glasgow
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Sheffield
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 25th - 26th Jan 2017
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour - Newcastle
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- UK Regional & Tours
- Metro Radio Arena
- 24th Jan 2017 - 28th Jan 2022
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
O Come All Ye Divas
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 20th Dec 2016 - 7th Jan 2017
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Christina Bianco's O Come, All Ye Divas!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 20th Dec 2016 - 7th Jan 2017
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
The Shape of Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 17th Oct, 2016
Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” …
Auld Hat New Heids
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 24th Aug 2016
Four of Scotland’s most experienced folk performers singing and playing Scottish folk songs which were popular in the early days of the folk revival of the 1960s and 70s, but are…
Whose Work Is It Anyway? (The Space Between Us and the Things We Do Together)
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 24th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Trolley Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 24th - 28th Aug 2016
Attention all shoppers! Make your way down to Southside Social to see best friends in the whole wide world (ever) in this show stopping coming of age story.
Massive Lazy Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Iona Gaskell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 27th Aug, 2016
Up-and-coming sketch troupes Massive Dad, Lazy Susan and Birthday Girls join forces for a hilarious hour of high-energy comedy.
Elsa Jean McTaggart: Sings, Strings and Other Things
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2016
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.
All Might Seem Good
- Review
- ★★★
- Ellie Coote
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 21st Aug, 2016
Drawing from the likes of renowned theatre company DV8, All Might Seem Good mixes verbatim accounts of fate with physical theatre: mixing the highly natural with the highly stylise…
Good Morning Heartache
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 19th - 26th Aug 2016
Edinburgh’s Little Jazz Bird, vocalist Victoria Bennett, sings beautiful ballads as she spins delicate, moving tales of love and heartbreak.
Josie Long: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 16th - 28th Aug 2016
The triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, BBC Radio 4 star and cult optimist Josie Long returns to The Stand with an hour of new material and knockabout fun, as she works towards …
Brenda Feuerle: A Firefighter Woman at Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 15th - 27th Aug 2016
Firefighter Woman Brenda Feuerle is on duty.
Simon Lukacs Shows His Range
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 15th - 23rd Aug 2016
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Katherine Ryan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 14th Aug 2016
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
The Life to Come
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 13th - 16th Aug 2016
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Nathan Priestley
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 13th Aug 2016
Appearing for the fourth year at the Acoustic Music Centre, Nathan Priestley (Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts) play a unique and diverse blend of acoustic music styles on guitar,…
Noah & Jordan Present - INSERT TITLE HERE at Camden Fringe 2016
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 13th - 14th Aug 2016
Award-winning comedy duo Noah & Jordan will debut their sketch show, ‘INSERT TITLE HERE’. A series of fast paced and energised sketches, each with their own caption or title.
Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 12th - 27th Aug 2016
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Dr David Silkenat Presents The Long Life of the Lost Cause: Why it Took 150 Years for the Confederate Flag to Come Down
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 12th Aug 2016
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
Katherine Ryan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 12th - 13th Aug 2016
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
Making Work With Young Performers
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 10th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Katherine Ryan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 10th Aug 2016
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
So Good a Thing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 10th - 12th Aug 2016
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…
Dive and Summerhall Present... C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug, 2016
Sometime in between Jak Soroka cracking eggs on her naked body and Sam Reynolds dry humping someone in the audience, you realise nights at Dive’s C U Next Tuesday cabaret can get…
Joining the Digital Dots: How Celtic Games Collaboration Can Work Across Sectors and Locations
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 9th Aug 2016
How do we roll out digital content across new platforms? How can games and gaming work in other sectors? How do we join the digital dots? Should we be looking at new ways of utilis…
Strictly Come Trancing
- Listing Cabaret and Variety / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Belle Angèle
- 8th - 23rd Aug 2016
Strictly Come Trancing, the only hypnosis cabaret show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 returns bigger and better than ever.
All of the Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 7th - 11th Aug 2016
Join Gaulier graduates Georgia Murphy and Evie Fehilly for an hour of surreal comic madness.
2 Girls, 1 Cup of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 7th - 28th Aug 2016
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People, Call the Midwife, Radio 4) brings you a selection of the best comedians at the Fringe.
Strictly Come Trancing
- Review
- ★★★
- Ellie Coote
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Liquid Room Annexe
- 16th Aug, 2016
Ben Dali’s Strictly Come Trancing has a flashy presentation as he enters to Eye Of The Tiger in a glittering jacket and pop-star headset.
Abi Roberts: Anglichanka
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Anglichanka (Englishwoman in Russian) is an exhilarating new comedy show about Abi living in the former Soviet Union in the 90s and her return after 18 years as the first UK comic …
Good Grief
- Review
- ★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ciao Roma
- 17th Aug, 2016
A Free Fringe double bill of stand-up with no particular theme, Irish comedians Keith Fox and Ger Staunton underwhelm with their unassuming stage presence and only mildly amusing h…
John-Luke Roberts Builds a Monster
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
A thoughtful idiot builds a monstrous show for your entertainment.
10 Things I Hate About UKIP
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- T-Bar
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and respect, but does that include UKIP voters? Follow up to the critically acclaimed **** (Chortle.
Live Roller Derby Double Header
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 6th Aug 2016
Auld Reekie Roller Girls are back once again for 2016! Expect hard-hitting body slams whilst you watch full contact roller skating in an incredible showcase of the world’s fastest …
Piffin' Ain't Easy – A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 6th - 14th Aug 2016
A work in progress by a work in progress aka John Van Der Put.
Poo Shame, Vagina Curiosity and Other Things That Won't Kill You
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 6th - 13th Aug 2016
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…
Come Down the Mile
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside Scottish Poetry Library
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn, weaving through narrow closes, open squares and secret gardens to discover how this city has been inspiring writer…
I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller
- Review
- ★★★★
- John Murray
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 8th Aug, 2016
Now in its third year at the Fringe, I Ran With The Gang written by Liam Rudden for his company LR Stageworks returns this year to the cosy yet lavish surroundings of Le Monde in u…
The Good, the Bad and the Weegie
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Morningside Malcolm’s daughter has married into a family of Glasgow gangsters.
Blueswater Presents: Cat Loud's Wayward Girls
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Seemingly wholesome island lass Cat Loud is still on the prowl for her next big adventure.
The Auld Alliance
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Mayfield Salisbury Church
- 12th Aug, 2016
To make The Auld Alliance, start with a nice big helping of Jane Austen.
Sage Francis and B Dolan Present: Strange Speech, Famous Development
- Review
- ★★★
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 10th Aug, 2016
You can tell a lot about a show from its audience.
Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 9th Aug, 2016
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.
Elsa Jean McTaggart: Sings, Strings and Other Things
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 20th Aug 2016
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.
Pun-Man Two: Girls Just Wanna Hear Puns
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 13th Aug, 2016
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.
Girls Night Out
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? This girl will tell you! Written and performed by Eme Essien, this hilarious new one-woman show invites viewers…
All the Things I Lied About
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 24th Aug, 2016
Lying seems to be getting more and more fashionable.
Music to Watch Girls By
- Review
- ★★★
- John Murray
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 22nd Aug, 2016
Pete Sinclair returns with a brand new show titled after an Andy Williams hit.
NEHH and Braw Gigs Present... Cosmic Disco Nights
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 5th Aug 2016
Step into an interstellar kosmische zone the likes the capital has never seen to launch Summerhall’s amazing musical programme this August.
Jiggle & Hyde Present: Sketchy Mother Pluckers
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
In a desperate attempt to get some Edinburgh nookie, Jiggle & Hyde present a sketch show to woo, amaze and amuse.
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 25th Aug 2016
Present and Correct returns for their fourth year at the Fringe, following a five-star show in 2015! Have you ever wondered what life is like for the stripper inside a cake? Ever w…
Come Look at the Baby
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
An actual baby, just.
Mulhollandland (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Alternative comedy lovers of the world, unite! Mulhollandland is failing.
The Listies 6D (Twice as Good as 3D)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 11th Aug, 2016
There are many children’s shows at the Fringe that seem to follow the formula of throwing a couple of popular franchises together with whatever kids currently like, before adding…
Evan Desmarais: Bad Things, Right Reasons – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
Katharine Ferns is Faking It (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Dark stand-up comedy on learning to laugh about the visible and invisible scars from surviving abuse and mental illness plus some feminism for comic relief.
Fat Girls Don't Dance
- Review
- ★★★
- Millie Bayswater
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 13th Aug, 2016
Moving and funny, Maria Ferguson’s one-woman show, Fat Girls Don’t Dance, deals with issues relevant to today’s young women.
Crack in Progress by Lucy Pearman
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
There’s an egg here to find other eggs and see if they’re OK? 30 minutes of relaxing nonsense.
Pete Johansson: Good People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Good People is a light-hearted exploration of what should be a natural journey towards being a better person.
Joe DeRosa: Zero Forward Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
US writer, actor and stand-up Joe DeRosa makes his highly anticipated UK debut.
Omar & Lee Present: We Are All Idiots
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Witness the inner workings of the idiot as Omar & Lee invite you on an anarchic voyage through their minds, pushing their sanity and friendship to the limits.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Review
- ★★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2016
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…
Alcohol is Good for You
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016.
Faye Treacy: Special (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 27th Aug 2016
Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2015, Faye Treacy went to the Brit School with Adele and Jessie J and then studied the trombone at The Royal Academy of Music with no one intere…
Evelyn Mok and Katharine Ferns Present Katharine Ferns and Evelyn Mok!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Join multiple award-winning comedians Swedish-Chinese Evelyn Mok and Canadian-Brummie Katharine Ferns for an hour of stand-up from two of the most promising new talents on the UK s…
Andrew Doyle: Future Tense
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 8th Aug, 2016
Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne…
Pigeons and Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
Two Girls One... Mug!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Three top-line comics bring their fast-paced comedy showcase to the world’s most famous comedy festival.
Nathan Cassidy: 42
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Mossman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 7th Aug, 2016
Nathan Cassidy offers comedy fare that fits right in at the Fringe, a mixture of social observation, wordplay, ranting and anecdotal amusement.
The Elephant Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Miss Ashleigh More
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2016
This is the forgotten story of a controversial gang that robbed the streets of London for over a hundred years.
Robyn Perkins (is a) Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Robyn Perkins, **** (ThreeWeeks), is the only American to become an English Comedian of the Year finalist.
Mae Martin: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Mae Martin (BBC Radio 4, Live from the BBC, Russell Howard’s Good News) improvises a brand new hour every night as she develops her new show.
Pigeons and Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Ian Fox – Pictures of Things That Make Me Laugh – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 27th Aug 2016
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
The Really Good Show Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Ed Caruana and Tamar Broadbent can’t pronounce their own names (so don’t feel bad).
Gillian Cosgriff: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louise Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 16th Aug, 2016
Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute sweetheart with the pipes of a jazz singer and a wicked sense of humour to match.
Katherine Ryan: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 4th - 13th Aug 2016
Star of Live at the Apollo, QI and The Jonathan Ross Show, the razor sharp and hilariously funny Canadian returns to the festival.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
A magical showcase of the funniest, fiercest female comics at the Fringe, curated by Funny Women 2015 finalist Sophie Duker and hotshot Texan improviser Erin Bimmons.
Chef: Come Dine With Us!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 20th Aug, 2016
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
Al Murray – The Pub Landlord: Let's Go Backwards Together (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 4th - 14th Aug 2016
Publican.
A Good Clean Heart
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carla van der Sluijs
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2016
It may be difficult to believe that something as uncommon as bilingual theatre could work.
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 4th - 27th Aug 2016
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Daniel Nils Roberts: Honey
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug, 2016
Life from a bear’s point of view is as strange and wonderful as you would expect it to be.
Jamali Maddix: Chickens Come Home to Roost
- Review
- ★★★
- Louise Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2016
Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.
Birthday Girls: Sh!t Hot Party Legends
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lanikai KT
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th Aug, 2016
Birthday Girls blast party anthems as the crowd files in.
Good Kids: On Tap
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Good Kids are back, and this time they’ve had a few.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Helen Duff: Come With Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 23rd Aug, 2016
Helen Duff has gone from strength to strength, after her hilarious yet heart-breaking Vanity Bites Back show last year.
Alex Kealy is an Idea Whose Time Has Come
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 15th Aug, 2016
Joining the ranks of slightly nerdy comedians who primarily joke about their non-existent sex lives, So You Think You’re Funny finalist Alex Kealy is a safe bet for some well-tho…
Russell Howard and Steve Williams Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 3rd - 21st Aug 2016
Russell Howard and Steve Williams return to Edinburgh to tit about for half an hour each.
Tony Roberts – Card Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
What happens when a corporate city worker takes to the streets of the world with a deck of cards, some jokes and an escape act? Find out in Tony Roberts’ 2015 Brighton Fringe Cabar…
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Lauren Pattison: Reet Petite – A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
One of the brightest young talents on the Northern comedy scene who is beginning to make her presence known across the country.
Nick Cody: Come Get Some!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 6th Aug, 2016
Come Get Some! is a rather energetic title, as titles go, but its excitement about Nick Cody is absolutely justified.
BEASTS Present Mr Edinburgh 2016
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 25th Aug, 2016
Sketch troupe BEASTS are not here to perform sketches.
Ali Hassan: Man Interrupted (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
As a father of four, Ali is well versed in dodging difficult questions or just making up the answers.
Miles Jupp: Work-In-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 30th Jun 2016
Miles Jupp, star of Rev.
Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Samantha’s a radical feminist, political activist and very funny (maybe not always for the ‘right’ reasons)! Join her for an hour of topless comedy in support of the Free the N…
Tez Ilyas: Progress in Work
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Edinburgh Fringe’s Funniest Newcomers 2015 (The Guardian).
The Science of Living Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Village
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Delighting London audiences since 2013, The Science of Living Things bring their trademark show to Brighton.
Joe, Graeme & Dave: Mummy, I Don't Like Those Men
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb @ Craft Beer Co.
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2016
An insight into the weird worlds of three up-and-coming local comics, with three very distinct voices: Joe Foster, Graeme Collard and Dave Fensome.
Onwards to Progress / Orpheus
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2016
Two pieces of new British writing that have been produced by Bred in the Bone Theatre.
Faye Treacy 'Special' (Work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 30th May - 5th Jun 2016
Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2015 Faye Treacy.
Nathan Carter
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 29th May 2016
Nathan Carter is one of the biggest names on the Irish music scene and is fast becoming a big name all over the UK with his fine performances that include the mega hit song ‘…
Brighton Beach Boys Present Pet Sounds vs Sgt Pepper
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Haunt
- 28th May 2016
Brighton Beach Boys with the Psychedelic Love Orchestra present Pet Sounds vs Sgt Pepper.
Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good (Preview)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2016
“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…
John Hastings: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 28th May 2016
John Hastings, your great friend, is back to work on new jokes about his moral compass and probably masturbation.
Eggs Collective present Late Night Love
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2016
A tender and ridiculous show that clambers up your drainpipe with a rose between its teeth.
Alcopop Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 23rd - 26th May 2016
Paul unveils his story of having no home, no job and two children, but these being the least of his problems, in what will become his Edinburgh Fringe debut hour.
Human-In-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 23rd - 25th May 2016
My mind and body aren’t in sync. The less in sync they are, the unhappier I become. If you feel the same way, this is the show for you.
Ellie Taylor: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 23rd - 26th May 2016
Join Ellie Taylor (‘Mock the Week’, ‘Snog Marry Avoid’, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’) as she prepares a brand new show.
Come Fly With Me...
- Review
- ★★★★
- Julia French
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 26th May, 2016
Playful pink lighting, red velvet drapes, glittery fixtures and wooden circus seats - entering the Brighton Spiegeltent screams ‘Showtime!’ Come Fly With Me is a charming, c…
Live Action Roller Derby!
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Dolphin Leisure Centre
- 22nd May 2016
A fast-paced, high-octane sport played on roller skates.
Pete Strong: Self-Sabotage, a Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 26th May 2016
2015 Brighton Squawker award finalist Pete Strong - “walking a fine emotional line.
10 Things I Hate About UKIP
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st May 2016
Joe Wells believes that you should treat everyone with kindness, but that’s not easy when some of them vote UKIP.
Larry Dean: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 20th May - 5th Jun 2016
Fosters Comedy Awards 2015, Best Newcomer: Nominee, and Scottish Comedian Of The Year award-winner brings his new show to Brighton Fringe.
'Plan SuzyB': A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 18th - 31st May 2016
Brand new show from the former Funny Women award winner.
Paul McCaffrey: Work in progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th May - 2nd Jun 2016
A work-in-progress show from the star of BBC3’s ‘Impractical Jokers’ and ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’.
Katharine Ferns: Faking It (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 16th - 22nd May 2016
We learn to lie at 3-years-old.
Jenny Collier: Jen at Work
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 16th - 18th May 2016
This is a work in progress from Winner of Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2014, Winner of the Hobgoblin Comedy Award 2015 and Second Place New Act of The Year Show 2015.
Oli Bettesworth: Someone Stop Me (Work-in-progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 15th - 24th May 2016
“Mate, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out you’d snapped one day and gone on a killing spree.
Jazz for Lunch: Julie Roberts and Michael Hinton
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 13th May 2016
Enjoy the mellow voice of Julie Roberts, and the superb accompaniment of Michael Hinton on grand piano, in a relaxed programme of jazz and Latin standards.
Tony Roberts Magic Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 13th - 14th May 2016
Exceptionally clean tricks with wickedly naughty jokes from this award-winning magician.
101 Things to Do Before You Die
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 13th - 20th May 2016
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
Robyn Perkins [is a] Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 12th - 28th May 2016
Robyn Perkins **** (ThreeWeeks), the only American to become an English Comedian of the Year finalist, explores her father, fatherland and what happens when you don’t think before …
We Come in Peace
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet St Andrew’s
- 11th May 2016
Your quick wits and sharp tongue are all that stand between Earth and total destruction.
Good Grief... Living with Loss
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 11th May 2016
A day offering people the opportunity to consider living with loss and bereavement.
Rob Dumbrell: Life in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 11th - 27th May 2016
Rob’s life fell apart five years ago.
Harriet Kemsley: Good Girl
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th - 17th May 2016
Rising star and general idiot stand-up Harriet Kemsley returns with her new show ‘Good Girl’.
Steve Bugeja: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 31st May 2016
Steve Bugeja, winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, presents his second solo show (in progress).
Andrea Hubert: Some work. Some progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 15th May 2016
When you see the joy on a small child’s face as he’s about to press the button to call the lift, you realise that your adult life will never offer you that same level of joy ever a…
Adam Vincent: Judgemental (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 9th - 30th May 2016
Fresh from his sell-out run in Edinburgh, comedy writer for Channel Four’s ‘The Last Leg’, Adam judges himself and the world with wanton cynicism but now wonders if this is just …
All The Nice Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2016
Fascinating, touching and truly enlightening, this lesbian musical romance tells the story of forgotten Variety stars Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney.
Jessica Fostekew: Monster in a Cardigan (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 8th - 15th May 2016
The early rumblings of a wonderful new show about fear, love and being frazzocked.
The Sissy's Progress
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 7th May 2016
Nando Messias was beaten up on the street in an act of homophobic hatred.
James Veitch: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 7th - 15th May 2016
Thematically loose, structurally tenuous.
Things We Do for Love
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2016
Storytelling feast of foolish kings, tree-climbing princesses, and one revolting woman, woven together by chief mischief-maker Damian BB Wood.
Naked Girls Reading
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 7th May 2016
Join burlesque performer and naked stand-up, Miss Glory Pearl, for an intimate show where beautiful women read naked.
Nathan Cassidy: 42 (Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2016
Award-winning comedian with a random set-list in a quest to find the meaning of life.
Nathan Willcock: State of the Nathan
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 7th May 2016
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, brings you a stand-up show.
The Maydays present: Pitch That Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2016
Award-winning comedy troupe, The Maydays, pitch ideas for a new improvised show every night, inspired by the audience.
Robin Morgan: Free Man (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2016
A work-in-progress of the debut hour from Robin Morgan, star of ‘The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of’ (BBC Radio), writer for ‘The News Quiz’ and Laughing Horse New Act of …
A Good Jew
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Exeter Street Hall
- 6th - 28th May 2016
Frankfurt 1938: Jewish pianist Sol and Aryan violinist Hilda are lovers.
Leanna and Angela Present: The Sandy & Danni Improv Show
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 25th Apr 2016
A completely improvised date night with amazing comedy guests, games and buckets of silliness.
Oh, Such a Good Show, Oh!
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Union Hall
- 2nd Apr 2016
Ethan Beach hosts this stacked variety show, with comedy from Michelle Wolf, Brett Davis, Seaton Smith, Mary Houlihan, Mike Kelton and Harry Gensemer, as well as a musical performa…
People, Places and Things
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Wyndhams Theatre
- 25th Mar, 2016
Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination.
Attraction Present THE BOX
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 10th Mar 2016
Britain’s Got Talent winners, Attraction, bring their production of The Box to the London Palladium, for one night only on 10 March 2016.
Nathan the Wise
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Classic Stage Company
- 2nd Mar 2016
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on April 13) Classic Stage Company’s last work was set in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Good King Richard
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Drayton Arms
- 1st - 12th Mar 2016
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
Strictly Come Dancing Live at the O2 with Dinner at the Pearson Room
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 13th - 14th Feb 2016
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour! 2015 is finally here Actress Georgia May Foote, Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and TV presenter Anita Rani are the next celebrity contestan…
Valentines Shows
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield / Magnet Theater / The Stand
- 9th - 14th Feb 2016
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…
Good Morning, Zitounia!
- Listing Comedy
- Off Off Broadway
- The People’s Improv Theater
- 4th - 6th Feb 2016
As Arab-spring style revolution rages in Zitounia, the puppet news crew of a heavily censored morning news show scrambles to air the usual spate of propaganda, fluff pieces and pae…
Good Boys and True
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The Gene Frankel Theatre
- 28th Nov - 12th Dec 2015
It’s 1988 and Brandon is embarking on his Senior year at St.
Slightly Fat Features in A Fat lot of Good
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Roundhouse
- 25th - 28th Nov 2015
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
The Good Adoptee
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- Theatre Row Theatres
- 14th Nov 2015
The Good Adoptee, written by Award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner, is the true story of her lifelong search for the truth of her origins.
Will Hutton: How Good We Can Be
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 28th Aug 2015
Will Hutton examines how Britain could create an economy, society and democracy in which the mass of citizens flourish – reinventing and repurposing core institutions like the co…
Big Girls Don't Cry
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 28th Aug 2015
The iconic sound of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons recreated in this feel-good concert.
Mill Girls On Tour
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilrig Studio
- 28th - 29th Aug 2015
Comic and tragic.
Abi Roberts' Musical CID
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 27th - 30th Aug 2015
Abi Roberts’ Musical CID is the cult comedy confessional show delving into what big names in comedy have on their iPods! Funny, raucous and revealing, for four nights only! Which f…
Good Morning Heartache
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 27th - 28th Aug 2015
Edinburgh’s Little Jazz Bird, vocalist Victoria Bennett, sings beautiful ballads as she spins delicate, moving tales of love and heartbreak.
Tessa Dunlop: An Audience with The Bletchley Girls
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 25th Aug 2015
Author Tessa Dunlop hosts a one-off, revelatory session with three of the extraordinary women who were involved in Britain’s most secret wartime operation and feature in her book…
Birthday Girls: Party Vibes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th - 31st Aug 2015
Acclaimed sketch troupe Birthday Girls return to the Fringe for one week only with their smash-hit sold out 2014 show! A comedy party of odd characters, offbeat sketches and try-ha…
Birthday Girls: Party Vibes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 24th - 30th Aug 2015
Acclaimed sketch troupe Birthday Girls return to the Fringe for one week only with their smash-hit sold out 2014 show! A comedy party of odd characters, offbeat sketches and try-ha…
Artificial Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hannah Lucy Baker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 28th Aug, 2015
This is the first year of the ‘iF Platform’ – a new showcase featuring the UK’s top disabled artists and integrated arts companies.
Mo Gilligan and Kae Kurd Present: Ticking All the Boxes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 23rd - 31st Aug 2015
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalist, Mo Gilligan and BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Kae Kurd join forces for their highly anticipated Edinburgh debut.
You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sam Forbes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th Aug, 2015
Caroline Horton enters laden with suitcases against a pastel French tricolour.
Mo Gilligan and Kae Kurd Present: Ticking All the Boxes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
- 22nd - 29th Aug 2015
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalist, Mo Gilligan and BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Kae Kurd join forces for their highly anticipated Edinburgh debut.
Mark Watson: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 21st - 30th Aug 2015
His show Flaws was probably the most acclaimed show of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Come Together, Barb Jungr and John McDaniel Perform The Beatles
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 19th - 21st Aug 2015
In this exciting collaboration, award-winning vocalist and performer, Jungr, and Grammy and Emmy Award winner McDaniel investigate The Beatles; celebrating Paul, John, George and R…
Hooray for All Kinds of Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Andrew Forbes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 25th Aug, 2015
Sandy Nelson’s comic play examines the intriguing events of the 2010 Reykjavik Municipal elections, in which comedian and actor, Jon Gnarr, became the Mayor of Iceland’s capital, d…
The Pilgrim's Progress
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Elim
- 25th Aug, 2015
John Bunyan’s 1678 text The Pilgrim’s Progress is regarded as one of the most significant works of literature in the English Language.
Kids With Beards present... ¡Niños Con Barbas TV!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 17th - 29th Aug 2015
It’s been a big year for Kids With Beards.
Nathan Cassidy: Back to the Future III
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 16th Aug 2015
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee with the final part of this year’s solo show trilogy.
Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Church Hill Theatre
- 16th - 20th Aug 2015
Teen sex, lies and gossip.
Tim Key: Work-in-Slutgress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th - 31st Aug 2015
Comedic lump Key (38) plonks himself in a room for a couple of weeks and tries out some new specks of poetry.
Live Roller Derby Presented by Auld Reekie Roller Girls
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 15th Aug 2015
The best skaters in Scotland will pit their wits and hits against each other as Edinburgh showcases full-contact, all-female roller derby.
Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 14th - 29th Aug 2015
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The Good Doctor
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens
- 12th - 30th Aug 2015
Stunning open-air theatre in beautiful gardens by one of Scotland’s oldest professional theatre companies.
Nathan Priestley
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 12th Aug 2015
Appearing for the third year at the Acoustic Music Centre, Nathan Priestley (Andy Leslie and Steve Roberts) play a unique and diverse blend of acoustic music styles on guitar, mand…
Be a Media Darling: How to Make the Press Love You and Come Back for More
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 12th - 18th Aug 2015
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
Girls and Dolls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 11th - 16th Aug 2015
‘As long as it looks okay, it doesn’t matter if it’s broken.
Dive and Summerhall Present… C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2015
This show is wondrously delightful.
The Lost Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 10th - 15th Aug 2015
Brashly comic and acutely emotional, bravely exploring a woman’s intrinsic role in life’s creation.
Geoff Norcott: The Look of Moron
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 24th Aug, 2015
At the start of his show Geoff Norcott claims he’s a moron.
Alan Davies: Work in Progress 2
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 9th - 15th Aug 2015
For one week only Alan will try to sift through the frazzled hollow mass of his head for new stories and jokes.
Aoidh: Japanese Girls Folk Trio
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 10th Aug 2015
Imagine Karen Matheson singing Japanese-Ainu traditional songs at Royal Opera House in a Scottish soundscape, backed by Pink Floyd and Martha Argerich.
Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2015
Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from…
Becky Brunning and Bethan Roberts Are Not Men
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Double bill from these award-winning (non boy) comedians.
Strictly Come Trancing Hypnosis Show with Ben Dali
- Review
- ★★
- Ali Schultz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Liquid Room Annexe
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults.
Tina Sederholm: The Good Delusion
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
A tragicomic spoken word show that dives into the paradoxical nature of goodness.
John-Luke Roberts: Stdad-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
An idiotic comedy show about having and then not having a father, and how stupid you need to make yourself look to get away with speaking ill of the dead.
Chris Coltrane: Left-Wing Propaganda Machine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 25th Aug, 2015
It’s amazing at times how little Chris Coltrane has to do to make his audience laugh.
Cassie Atkinson and Oh Standfast: Comedy in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Southsider
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
Word shouter Oh Standfast and Cassie Atkinson (E4’s Drifters) offer the absurd observed.
Abi Roberts: Downtown Abi
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Pull up to the bumper and go downtown with Abi and her Labrador* Al Qaeda.
Howard Read: Man (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2015
Modern man needs a positive role model, and Howard has the external genitals, a moustache and a suit.
The Warwick Revue Present: Sketch Education
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Liquid Room Annexe
- 8th - 20th Aug 2015
A probably funny show featuring more than one sketch.
Anna Morris: It's Got To Be Perfect
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 20th Aug, 2015
I’ve always somewhat despised weddings.
Nudity, Free Beer, Good for Kids
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
A daily challenge to realise the best marketing scheme on the Fringe.
Aidan Goatley's 10 Films With My Dad
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 26th Aug, 2015
It’s hard to find a better word to describe Aiden Goatley’s comedy than sweet-natured.
Bold Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 8th - 28th Aug 2015
Bold Girls is a dark comedy about the friendship of four women living in the midst of war-torn Belfast.
Pippa Evans: There Are No Guilty Pleasures
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bannermans
- 26th Aug, 2015
Pippa Evans is probably the most infectious person you’ll meet at this year’s Fringe.
Derek Ryan: The Slaughterhouse Rules - Uncut! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Waverley Arches
- 8th - 14th Aug 2015
Dying is easy.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Presents: Live Roller Derby
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 8th Aug 2015
Fans of big hits and speedy whips can get their fill of roller derby at Auld Reekie Roller Girls’ first festival game.
Aesop, Come Back!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 7th - 15th Aug 2015
In an attempt to prove that Aesop was history’s greatest fabulist, a group of storytellers crack the spine of a massive edition of Aesop’s Fables, releasing the old man’s most memo…
Damian Clark - It's a Good Day to Damo
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sin
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Damo had his phone stolen.
And I Ran With the Gang: The Story of Alan Longmuir, the Original Bay City Roller
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
The 2014 smash-hit sell-out show returns, starring Alan Longmuir.
Becky Brunning and Bethan Roberts Are Not Men
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Double bill from these award-winning (non boy) comedians.
The Maydays Present: Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanish.
Oh Lady Be Good
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
A feast of classic jazz and blues flavoured with iconic jazz-femme legends including Ella, Billie, Sarah, Bessie, Peggy, Eartha, highlighted by acclaimed, internationally touring B…
Present and Correct: Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Dead Duck Productions brings you another hilarious and original sketch show from the Present and Correct series! We need one more member for our cast to be complete and we’re wai…
Love in the Time of Gilmore Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Marni Appleton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 19th Aug, 2015
Sometimes love comes to you and sometimes you have to make it happen.
Things Can Only Get Bitter
- Review
- ★★★
- Andrew Forbes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 10th Aug, 2015
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
Shazia Mirza: A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
I will be trying out new material, never done material, some good material, and maybe some outstanding material.
B-Boys, B-Girls and B-Bots
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 6th - 10th Aug 2015
The breakdancing robots (B-bots) have landed in Edinburgh and they’re being chased all over town! Can the B-boys and B-girls of Edinburgh use their breakdancing skills to help the …
Paul Duncan McGarrity – Today is the Good Old Times of Tomorrow
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences.
Cosmonaut by Ryan Good
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
I wanted to write you a heart-breaking song so epic it would get her back.
Immigrant Diaries: Sajeela Kershi and Guests
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 28th Aug, 2015
Looking over my time at this year’s Fringe, there have been several topics that have come up time and time again.
Tom Stade: You’re Welcome!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 26th Aug, 2015
When Tom Stade walks on stage you can tell he’s at home.
Joy is the Enemy of Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 6th - 26th Aug 2015
Are you happy? No, of course not.
All the Nice Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 6th - 29th Aug 2015
In 1920s London, Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney have an on and off stage partnership, singing popular love songs of the day to each other in West End revues and living together openl…
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 6th - 29th Aug 2015
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
501 Things I Do in My Bedroom
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 23rd Aug, 2015
Nicola Wren’s one-woman show describes the hundreds of modern-day anxieties we all face in the dating world due to social media and technology.
Jim Smallman: My Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 25th Aug, 2015
There’s something refreshing about seeing a stand-up show with a title that accurately reflects the content of the act.
Twisted Loaf Present Stale Mate
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kate Wilkinson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 24th Aug, 2015
Libby Northedge begins Twisted Loaf: Stale Mate on her hands and knees, crawling onto the darkened stage, starkers but for her underwear, smudged make-up, and a pair of glittery hi…
Good Music Cave Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
A dirty afternoon party hosted by the king of alternative cabaret, Tomás Ford.
Franks and Skinner Present: Myself and Myself
- Review
- ★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 26th Aug, 2015
If life gives you lemons you stuff them in a German’s face and make a joke about sauerkraut.
A Life in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 6th - 14th Aug 2015
Join Ryan Cull (2013 BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Award winner) as he describes his personal life in progress, from his boyhood adventures in leg braces to becoming a man combating h…
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lettie Mckie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 13th Aug, 2015
Jack Rooke: Good Grief could probably win a prize for ‘comedy show with the least likely to be funny subject matter ever that actually turns out to be absolutely hilarious�…
Good Kids
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 6th - 23rd Aug 2015
Tom Dowling and Kieran Ahern are current members of the Oxford Revue, but they’re also bloody good kids.
Mickey D: Good Bloke
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Mick is a good bloke.
Sajeela Kershi: Shallow Halal
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 28th Aug, 2015
Sajeela Kershi is firmly sat on the fence.
Kelly Kingham: Inside Out
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
- 26th Aug, 2015
Upon first meeting Kelly Kingham, you’d hardly believe he was a newcomer.
Joy is the Enemy of Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead / Just the Tonic at the Caves (Salvation Rooms)
- 6th - 26th Aug 2015
Are you happy? No, of course not.
Jokes About Things (Redinburgh Fringe)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Scott Redmond had a fun 2014; kidnapped, arrested, threatened at gun and knife point, disowned, broken up and dealing with bereavement.
Nathan Cassidy: Back to the Future
- Review
- ★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 8th Aug, 2015
For me, beginning any show with Huey Lewis And The News is a good omen, particularly when their hit single The Power of Love featured prominently in the eponymous sci-fi trilogy so…
2 Girls, 1 Cup of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 6th - 29th Aug 2015
Funny Women Finalists 2014: Sam Baines and Helen Sorren bring you a selection of the best comedians at the Fringe.
Honest to Godley!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 21st Aug, 2015
As I walk into Honest to Godley, Janey Godley is already onstage, hand on hip and chatting to her audience.
Kate Lucas – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
Some people know exactly what to say, exactly what to think and exactly how to behave.
Sad Faces Present The Dawn Chorus
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Sad Faces challenge themselves and you with their adaptation of JR Chapterhouse’s devastatingly heartbreaking novel.
Mark Thomas: Trespass – Work in Progress
- Review
- ★★★★
- J W Close
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2015
It’s hard these days to find comics, amongst the slick and edgy big leagues, with a genuine sense of mischief.
Ally Houston: Shandy
- Review
- ★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 27th Aug, 2015
It’s hard to find an adjective that fully describes Ally Houston’s Shandy.
Leggoland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet
- 25th Aug, 2015
Opinions on his show aside, one simply can’t fault Colin Leggo for his sense of humour.
Susie McCabe: The Drugs Don’t Work
- Review
- ★★★
- Max Falkenberg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 13th Aug, 2015
Like a pissed nutter at a bar chatting you up, Susie McCabe could rant for Scotland.
Nick Revell: Feminist Porno Jihadi
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 24th Aug, 2015
No one rants quite like Nick Revell.
The Dead Secrets Present... The Curiositorium
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
‘Scripted comedy of the highest quality’ (Buxton Fringe).
Sarah Kendall: A Day in October
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 20th Aug, 2015
A Day in October centres around Kendall’s teenage years at a rough high-school in Newcastle, Australia.
Nathan Cassidy: Back to the Future II
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 5th - 29th Aug 2015
If your life had a sequel, would it be better, or would you waste that second chance on a story with no soul? Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show winner Buxton Fringe 2014 p…
The Noise Next Door: The Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
The seven-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Will Seaward Has a Really Good Go at Alchemy
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Moore
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 13th Aug, 2015
Will Seaward Has a Really Good Go at Alchemy is probably unlike anything you will have ever seen.
Aisling Bea: Plan Bea
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 25th Aug, 2015
As you walk into Aisling Bea: Plan Bea you’ll see a morph suit, dancing frantically in what can only be described as unbearable heat.
Chris Dugdale: Sleightly Dishonest
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 28th Aug, 2015
Being a show in the weird and wacky world that is the Fringe, I must admit, I had certain expectations of magician Chris Dugdale.
Chris Betts: Social Animal
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th Aug, 2015
Who knew that bartending could be so interesting? In his debut show at the Fringe, Chris Betts, a Canadian comic with what can only be described as a beard to die for (which you ca…
Angela Barnes: Come As You Are
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2015
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…
The Underbelly Radio Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 28th Aug 2015
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…
Nathan Caton: Straight Outta Middlesex
- Review
- ★★★
- Dawn Kofie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Once he gets going, Nathan Caton’s anecdotes and stories are funny, clever and a pleasure to listen to.
The Pin: Ten Seconds with The Pin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 24th Aug, 2015
It’s almost impossible to see a sketch show that doesn’t have its misses; hit and miss is so much of an audience expectation it has almost become the received format.
Bec Hill: Caught On Tape
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 24th Aug, 2015
Creating a show focusing on the idea of regret is frankly an extremely brave one: regret be an extremely sad and prickly topic, something which Hill alludes to in the first five mi…
The Soaking of Vera Shrimp
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 22nd Aug, 2015
The Soaking of Vera Shrimp may seem at first like a fairly quirky premise.
Garrett Millerick: A Selection of Things I've Said to Taxi Drivers
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
Millerick returns with his most acerbic and painfully funny hour yet.
Patrick Morris: Fairly Premature Bucket List
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 25th Aug, 2015
Patrick Morris walks on stage.
Bebe+Luna Present...The Cabaret Farce!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Momentum Venues @ St Stephens
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
Bebe van der Belt (a glamorous American) and Miss Luna Peach (a cheeky Brit) conspire to host the most divinely decadent evening Edinburgh has ever seen.
Idiots
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 22nd Aug, 2015
The act of judging is at the centre of The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 19th century masterpiece about a naïve and simple minded prince in St Petersburg.
Mitch Benn: That Was the Future
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 24th Aug, 2015
‘I find something that I’m passionate about and then write the comedy around that’.
Tom Allen: Both Worlds
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 25th Aug, 2015
Tom Allen is afraid of death.
Butcher Holler Here We Come
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- the Tank
- 2nd Jul 2015
Five men are trapped in a West Virginia mine in this visceral play, whose lighting comes only from the actors’ headlamps.
Shows for Days
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
- 31st May 2015
(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…
Of Good Stock
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- City Center Stage I
- 31st May 2015
(previews start on Thursday; opens on June 30) A family weekend at the shore might be relaxing to some people, but rarely to the sort of people you find onstage.
10 Things I Hate About UKIP
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 30th May 2015
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and compassion, but that’s not easy when a quarter of them voted for UKIP.
Steve Bugeja: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 29th - 30th May 2015
Fresh from supporting Russell Kane on his national tour this is the highly anticipated debut show from Steve Bugeja, the winner of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2013.
Alexis Dubus: Cars and Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Claire Smith
- Brighton Fringe
- Otherplace at the Basement: The Pit
- 30th May, 2015
What title could be more succinct? Cars and Girls is the story of a young man’s freewheeling adventures in life – looking for excitement, for love and for meaning.
Cake & Other Things
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 28th - 31st May 2015
An observational, tragi-comic and absurd stand-up comedy show.
Tony Roberts: Card Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 28th - 29th May 2015
Wickedly naughty jokes and exceptionally clean tricks from this award-winning magician.
Jonny Awsum: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 24th May 2015
Join Jonny for his brand new 2015 show.
Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 24th - 26th May 2015
Kevin Precious is a former RE teacher.
Come to the Music Hall
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 23rd May 2015
The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
Live Roller Derby: Brighton Rockers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lucy Skinner
- Brighton Fringe
- Dolphin Leisure Centre
- 5th Jun, 2015
I didn’t know what to expect upon my arrival at the Dolphin Leisure Centre.
Nathan Willcock's Cross in a Box
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 21st May 2015
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedy Award Runner Up 2013, works out his debut show.
Omar Hamdi: Work in Progress 2015
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 18th - 27th May 2015
BBC3 and Radio 2 star, Welsh-Egyptian motormouth Omar Hamdi is “Just what the comedy scene has been crying out for” (Daily Telegraph).
The Improverts - Exam Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
- 14th - 15th May 2015
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…
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 7th - 25th May 2015
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…
Matt Winning: Work in Progress in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 6th - 13th May 2015
Ongoing idiosyncratic nonsense from Winning.
All Things Must Pass
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 6th - 7th May 2015
Alex Eberhard presents a sublime 10-piece electric orchestra.
Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 9th May 2015
Award-winning new comic Harriet Kemsley unveils her deepest, darkest fears.
Dan Fardell At Least 100 Jokes: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 4th - 31st May 2015
Join “winningly self-deprecating” (Chortle.
All The Nice Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Dukebox Theatre
- 3rd - 31st May 2015
A tribute to pioneering performers in Music Hall, Variety and Revue.
Come and Enjoy Art in Jay's Studio
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- 8 Eastern Terrace Mews
- 2nd - 31st May 2015
An exhibition of work that depicts what visitors enjoy in Brighton - the eccentric, comic, delightful or strange.
Come unto these Yellow Sands
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- 1 Shakespeare Street
- 2nd - 31st May 2015
They met at Greenham.
The Maydays Present The Fringe Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 2nd - 23rd May 2015
Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show every night.
Nathan Cassidy: Back to the Future
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 2nd - 10th May 2015
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show Winner at the Buxton Fringe 2014.
The Rakes Progress
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
- 1st - 9th May 2015
James Levine conducts one of his favorite 20th-century operas, Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress,” in this revival of the director Jonathan Miller’s c…
Best Boy - Not As Imagined (work in progress)
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 15th Feb 2015
Best Boy are on a mission: their best sketch made the BBC’s airwaves but wasn’t done justice.
Hooray for All Kinds of Things
- Review
- ★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 25th Feb, 2015
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
The Improverts - London Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 9th - 10th Jan 2015
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…
Mike OBrien: 45 Minutes of Things
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
- 2nd Jan 2015
This writer for “Saturday Night Live” performs a show of stand-up, sketch, short stories and silly experimentation.
Horse Girls
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The Cell
- 31st Dec 2014
If gore and gratuitous, giggle-laced meanness is your thing, Jenny Rachel Weiner’s mad, dark comedy about girls gone wild (for horses) isn’t a bad way to spend an hour.
Come to Papa
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Village Underground
- 16th Sep 2014
Tom Papa records an episode of his old-timey radio show, which features sketches, stand-up and music.
Come and Play - Godly Play Session for children
- Listing Workshop
- Edinburgh
- St John’s Episcopal Church
- 19th Aug 2014
Come and play.
Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2014
A quartet of fifty-something women hit the gym to tone up - but when they look in the mirror they each see what they want to see - their twenty-year-old selves.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Review
- ★★
- Cara Ballingall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 20th Aug, 2014
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.
Tom Rosenthal: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th - 17th Aug 2014
Star of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner and ITV2’s Plebs, Tom Rosenthal throws shit at a wall figuratively and possibly literally.
Replaceable Things
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emily Dunford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug, 2014
Replaceable Things features John De Simone’s Panic Diary and Thomas Butler’s Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You, performed by Scottish contemporary music company Ensem…
Good Timin'
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenny Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 16th Aug, 2014
Good Timin’ is Ian Mclaughlin’s personal story about his search to find a connection with his long-lost father.
Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Iron Work Demonstration
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acheson House
- 12th Aug 2014
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Nathan Penlington: Choose Your Own Documentary
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 15th Aug, 2014
This is a surprisingly intimate glimpse into the inner world of multimedia artist Nathan Penlington, with plenty of exciting decisions along the way.
The Oxford Imps Present: The Curious Case of the Improvised Musical
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 10th - 24th Aug 2014
Agatha Christie has been working with critically-acclaimed improvised comedy ‘living legends’ (ThreeWeeks, 2013) in order to adapt her latest detective novel into an interactiv…
Kava Girls
- Review
- ★★
- Lauren Moreau
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 12th Aug, 2014
You really, really want to like this little musical.
A Work of Art
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 10th - 16th Aug 2014
In his Fringe debut, Richard Carnaby invites you to share a glimpse inside the lives and minds of three curious specimens, who have more in common than may first appear – or than…
Oh, Lady Be Good
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 20th Aug, 2014
Dressed for the part, Melissa Western welcomes you in a friendly and feisty manner as she takes you through a journey into the realms of jazz and the great female vocalists of a no…
Nathan Priestley – Acoustic Songs and Instrumentals
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 9th Aug 2014
Following 2013’s successful performances, Nathan Priestley (Andy Leslie and Steve Roberts) return to the Fringe with more original songs and instrumentals and interpretations of cl…
Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 8th - 23rd Aug 2014
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Club Spiegel Present The Loveboat Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th - 25th Aug 2014
Sumptuously celebrating the golden age of shipboard romance, while forging full steam into the future, Scotland’s premier swing sensation The Loveboat Big Band invite you aboard …
One Or Two Things About Us
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 8th Aug, 2014
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
Be a Media Darling: How to Make the Press Love You and Come Back for More
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 6th Aug 2014
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…
Matthew Highton's Good Luck Sleeping Jerks
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 4th - 24th Aug 2014
A strange uplifting new comedy from a master storyteller about sleep problems, past, family and featuring a haunted doll.
The St Andrews Revue Present: Prom
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Charlotte Ivers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 9th Aug, 2014
The St Andrews Revue’s offering to this year’s Fringeis everything student comedy should be.
I'm Not Like Other Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenny Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 6th Aug, 2014
Susie Sillett has always disliked women, she explains.
Sweet Nothings Present: Go Sweet or Go Home
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 4th - 9th Aug 2014
University of Exeter’s all-girl a cappella group proudly presents our first show at the Fringe.
B-Boys, B-Girls and B-Bots
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2014
The break-dancing robots (B-bots) have arrived in Edinburgh and they’re being chased all over town! Can the B-boys and B-girls of Edinburgh use their break-dancing skills to help t…
Kids Do the Funniest Things! - Free
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hispaniola
- 3rd - 23rd Aug 2014
This comedy workshop will get your kids writing their own jokes and performing them onstage - all within an hour! Course leader Paul B Edwards is a hugely experienced professional …
A Few Good Men
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 3rd - 9th Aug 2014
A pushy broad, a smart Jew and a Harvard mouth team up to form a defence for two Marines who are on trial for murdering a fellow Marine.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Present: Good Things Come to Those Who Skate
- Review
- ★★★★
- Natalia Equihua
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 4th Aug, 2014
It’s four minutes in and I find myself clapping harder than ever while singing “Auld Reeke you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind.
Good Morning, Campers
- Review
- ★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 12th Aug, 2014
‘I do say, give us another!’ is the tragic cry of mediocrity from an improv show that is several decades too late for salvation.
Things from Before Pt. 4
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 9th Aug, 2014
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
John-Luke Roberts: Stnad-Up
- Review
- ★★★★
- Robert McGowan Stuart
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 15th Aug, 2014
John-Luke Roberts delivered his usual off-the-wall comic offerings in this enjoyable hour at the Voodoo Rooms.
Present and Correct: Now Recruiting - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Christopher Spring
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sportsters
- 15th Aug, 2014
This young and energetic company have tried to create a sketch show with a storyline.
The Good Delusion
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Oak
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
Tina’s always wanted to be top of the class.
Stewart Lee: A Room With a Stew (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2014
‘Remains one of the best stand-ups in the country’ **** (Metro).
Birthday Girls: Party Vibes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Bowman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 5th Aug, 2014
Birthday Girls, made up of members of the now disbanded sketch group Lady Garden, is a three-woman group delivering excellently pitched long and short scenes.
Abi Roberts: Twerk in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Hotly-tipped comedy starlet Abi Roberts comes in like a wrecking ball with her debut stand-up show.
Over It - Death, Anorexia and Other Funny Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 1st - 30th Aug 2014
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.
Here Come the Uglies!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cafe Camino
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2014
With hilarious outfits, original music and a few custard pies thrown in, this two-hander follows the further adventures of Cinderella’s naughty Ugly Sisters as they travel in sea…
Nathan Cassidy: Date of Death
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee Nathan pays you £5 to watch his show.
Marcel Vol. I – Italian Politics as a Work of Art
- Review
- ★★
- Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 12th Aug, 2014
Marcel Vol I explores the topic of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandals, portrayed in the form of an absurdist nightmare.
Mean Things I Did to My Sister (and Other Lessons I've Learned)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 16th Aug 2014
A high energy romp through Amanda’s psyche will produce songs such as Childhood: What a Load of Shit, Too Tall Blues and the VPL Blues.
A History of Falling Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 7th Aug, 2014
All quirky and endearing romcoms would do well to learn a thing or two from A History of Falling Things.
The Good, the Bad and the Irish!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
An Irish showcase, bringing you the best in Irish comedy!
Al Donegan: The Five Worst Things I Ever Did
- Review
- ★★★★
- Faith-Ashleigh Wong
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th Aug, 2014
Al Donegan is a terrible human being who should be alone forever.
Come Heckle Christ
- Review
- ★★★
- Christopher Spring
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2014
A festival goers guide to this show: Have a few drinks; prepare some funny questions - keep it light and fluffy; attend the show; ask Jesus a question.
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club III & IV
- 31st Jul - 23rd Aug 2014
Work in progress from the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Chris Henry: Only the Good Die Young
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 23rd Aug 2014
Henry is a verbal magician, creating an atmosphere of bold sincerity on stage that will force you out of your comfort zone and into his hilarious domain.
21 Things You Should Know About Toronto's Crack-Smoking Mayor
- Review
- ★
- Hannah Lucy Baker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 12th Aug, 2014
The idea of a comedy play that’s centred around something we are all really familiar with at the moment - ‘listicles’ - is quite intriguing.
Will Mars: As Good As My Audience
- Review
- ★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 9th Aug, 2014
The premise of the show is simple; Mars has abandoned self-doubt and concluded he is a good comedian; he’s decided that this one is on us; the audience, to enjoy the show or not.
Jeffery & Cole Present: Postcards From the Edge 2: Edith Heads Revenge
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Duplex
- 31st Jul 2014 - 31st Jul 2015
The beloved Internet comedy duo Jeffery Self and Cole Escola return with a sketch show inspired by the intertwined lives of Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and the costume designer …
Baby Wants Candy present The Improv All Star Explosion!
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 19th Aug, 2014
Even though this isn’t Baby Wants Candy’s headline show at the Fringe, you would still expect much more from such a highly regarded group.
Pretending Things Are a C*ck
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
After critically acclaimed performances to sell-out audiences in festivals around the world, and a legion of Facebook fans, Australian Jon Bennett brings his cult-hit show of 2012 …
Alexis Dubus: Cars and Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Henry St Leger
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club V
- 20th Aug, 2014
As the title may suggest, Cars and Girls concerns Dubus’ geographical and emotional journeys through life, from nude bike rides to broken down cars, in England, Madagascar and th…
Phill Jupitus: Shirking Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club V
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
This Edinburgh Fringe, Phill Jupitus truth bombs his way through an hour of laughs, daily.
Stuart Mitchell - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Stuart Mitchell was a finalist in the NATYS competition in 2012 and is one of the most exciting new stand-up comedians performing across the UK.
David Jesudason: Things My Dad Says
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
The Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner explains why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games…
Cook and Davies Present: Planet Earth and All Who Sailed in Her
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Dunford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th Aug, 2014
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.
Nathan Caton: Teenage Mutant Nathan Caton
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 30th Jul - 24th Aug 2014
The award-winning Nathan Caton (BBC2’s Mock the Week, BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, News Quiz and Can’t Tell Nathan Caton Nothing) brings his wonderfully entertaining new show to the…
Abi Roberts' Musical CID
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 30th Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Abi Roberts’ Musical CID is a new comedy confessional show that delves into what the biggest names in comedy have in their record collections and on their iPods.
Nina Conti - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 30th Jul - 17th Aug 2014
Award-winning comedian, groundbreaking ventriloquist and Bafta nominated filmmaker Nina Conti is trying out material for her new show.
Alex Williamson: Dumb Things I've Done
- Review
- ★★
- Charlotte Ivers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 8th Aug, 2014
Alex Williamson is energetic.
Tony Roberts: Card Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 30th Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Wickedly naughty jokes, exceptionally clean tricks, from this award-winning magician.
Midlife Crises Come in Many Forms
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 30th Jul - 25th Aug 2014
Following a sell-out 2013 Annuale, Deirdre Robertson’s debut Fringe show is a playful collaboration with Inflatablemonster (sculptor Andrew MacVicar).
Julian McCullough: Dream Girls
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica Innes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2014
Dream Girls is a masterful collection of comedy mixed with surprisingly (even for McCullough) emotional moments that had the audience in awe.
Simon Feilder: All The Things I'm Not
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 10th Aug, 2014
One of a stampede of comedians making the London-Edinburgh journey for the festival, Feilder knows his Fringe conventions well and isn’t afraid to use them to meta-comic effect.
Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”.
Chris Griffin and Ross Leslie Present Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 31st Aug, 2014
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.
One Of Those
- Review
- ★★★★
- Greg Smith
- Henley Fringe
- The Three Tuns
- 22nd Jul, 2014
Creator Tom Ward-Thomas has written a two-act comedy that peers into the lives of passengers commuting to Cornwall.
Simon Feilder: All the Things I’m Not
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Greg Smith
- Henley Fringe
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Henley-on-Thames
- 23rd Jul, 2014
Like many men of his generation, Simon Feilder talks about his insecurities about being a single man, but unlike a lot of them he spices his show up with multi-media presentation…
City Academy Musical Theatre Company Present Cabaret
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Shaw Theatre
- 19th - 20th Jul 2014
Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin.
Nathan for You Sneak Peak and Q.&A.
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Bell House
- 14th Jul 2014
Nathan Fielder and Michael Koman, creators of Comedy Central’s cult hit “Nathan for You,” present a preview of the new season.
The Good and the True
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- DR2 Theater
- 2nd Jul 2014
(previews start on July 24; opens on Aug.
In Good Spirits With Matteo Lane
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Carolines
- 11th Jun 2014
One of the brightest young comics in New York, Mr. Lane welcomes three other comedians for a stand-up show and a sit-down of “gossip, drinking and laughs.”
Children's Shows and Workshops
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Academy of Creative Training / The Old Market
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2014
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Where Do Apples Come From?
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighthelm Church & Community Centre
- 31st May 2014
Come and watch The Origin of Apples, a documentary which explores the extraordinary political, personal and scientific challenges which lay in the path of visionary biologists in K…
Electric Cabaret Present Moulin Rouge
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Grosvenor G Casino Brighton
- 30th May 2014
Featuring re-enactments of your favourite scenes from Moulin Rouge.
LetLuce in Progress: Pair of Tits
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 26th May - 1st Jun 2014
Join ‘LetLuce’ for more surreal, anarchic joy.
Birthday Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Lucy Skinner
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 28th May, 2014
Birthday Girls are a sketch group that leave you laughing and at times utterly confused.
Alexis Dubus: Cars and Girls
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 23rd May 2014
Winner: Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe Award 2013, Edinburgh Fringe.
Blerk-in-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 22nd - 24th May 2014
Geordie Giant Luke Benson brings his best stuff about making himself better to Brighton Fringe.
These Precious Hidden Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Pitts
- Brighton Fringe
- Old Police Cells Museum
- 26th May, 2014
Taking place in the dark and historic Old Police Cells Museum, These Precious Hidden Things is a cleverly written and produced piece by The Barefoot Players.
Ellie Taylor - A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 22nd May 2014
Join Ellie Taylor (host of ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’ BBC3, team captain ‘Fake Reaction’ ITV2, ‘8 out of 10 Cats’ Channel 4) as she cobbles together an hour of stuff into an actual stand…
Simon Feilder: All the Things I’m Not
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 20th - 30th May 2014
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Simon Feilder: All The Things I'm Not
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 20th - 30th May 2014
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
The Old Spice Girls
- Review
- ★★
- Corinne O’Sullivan
- Brighton Fringe
- The Blue Man
- 26th May, 2014
Unfortunately, the likeability of these two ladies wasn’t enough to reject the notion that they should have, to quote an age old cliché, ‘stuck to the day job.
The Greatest Shows on Earth
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 17th May 2014
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
The Hee Ha’s Present iProv Shuffle 5S
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Dukebox Theatre
- 16th - 30th May 2014
‘Upgraded’ since last year, this improvised comedy show from Brighton favourites The Hee Ha’s uses audience members’ iPods to create hilarious, fun and quirky scenes, “I si…
Come Rhyme with Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amber Gregory
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 17th May, 2014
Come Rhyme With Me provided a warm atmosphere, shared food and most importantly, some truly talented poets.
Pretty Good Friends
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Brooklyn Masonic Temple
- 16th - 22nd May 2014
The Brooklyn favorite Eugene Mirman revives his long-running variety show for a mini-tour with the adored British comedy genius Daniel Kitson.
John Hastings: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 18th May 2014
In the past two years John moved to the United Kingdom which led him to sleeping with a married woman, making his parents proud, deciding to buy a falcon and dealing with the death…
Jim Holland: Shoegazing/Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Dukebox Theatre
- 14th - 28th May 2014
To really know a man, you must walk a mile in his shoes.
Will Mars: As Good as my Audience
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 14th - 31st May 2014
“Flawed but Fearless dissection of the absurd” (The List) from a comedian who is unapologetically flawed and fearless.
Omar Hamdi: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 12th - 21st May 2014
Russell Kane’s national support act, Welsh-Egyptian Omar Hamdi is preparing for his Edinburgh debut with a mix of fresh ideas and routines that have wowed audiences at some of the …
Live Roller Derby: Brighton Rockers
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Dolphin Leisure Centre
- 10th May 2014
Discover roller derby: a fast-paced, full-contact sport played on roller skates.
Nathan Cassidy: Date of Death (Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 9th - 11th May 2014
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee Nathan has a date of death – now you get yours - and £5 at the end of the show (if you don’t die).
Mike Sheer: Jerk in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 7th - 10th May 2014
Mike Sheer has taken his provocative and silly stand-up comedy show from Toronto to Australia, UK, US, and all over continental Europe.
Two Dutch Girls & An Aussie
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 6th - 21st May 2014
Two Dutch Girls and an Aussie decided to dream and become London-based stand-up comedians.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Burrow at The Warren
- 5th - 25th May 2014
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.
The Food Fighters Present: Chive Aid
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
- 4th May 2014
‘Sweet Dreams are made of Cheese’, ‘7 Nation Salami’ these are but 2 hits of the mighty pun slinging Food Fighters.
Auld Acquaintance
- Review
- ★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- The Dukebox Theatre
- 12th May, 2014
Auld Acquaintance follows two couples through an extremely rocky Christmas – a dying mother, a newborn child and a kindling romance between two wives – a recipe for rising tens…
Bitchelors (Work in Progress)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Pitts
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th May, 2014
Anna Morris’s new show might be a work in progress but it’s already pretty brilliant.
Things Have Been a Little Bit Tricky
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sam Gardom
- Brighton Fringe
- Jilted Dog Art
- 6th May, 2014
Paul Grifiths is an artist, not because he spent a lifetime studying the grand masters or painting portraits and landscapes from a young age, but because of something primal that d…
Eccentronic Present Neurovision
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 3rd May - 1st Jun 2014
Electro-comedy minor internet stars, Eccentronic reprise their hit 2013 Brighton & Edinburgh Fringe show and fight for the right to party in Copenhagen by writing a sure fire hit f…
Eccentronic Present: Techno Prisoners
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 3rd May - 1st Jun 2014
Serve time with electro comedy duo Eccentronic, imprisoned for musical crimes they (probably) didn’t commit: mashing up incompatible music (like Kraftwerk, Pulp, Nine Inch Nails an…
11 Things to do Before you Die
- Review
- ★★★★
- Felicity Harris
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 6th May, 2014
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
Family Play (1979 to Present)'
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- New Ohio Theater
- 30th Apr 2014
This smart, heartfelt and emotionally exhausting work by the devised-theater company CollaborationTown heaves you into the most intimate moments of family life.
Things Unsaid
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The Players
- 28th - 30th Apr 2014
Things Unsaid is an evening of three one-act plays revolving around the theme of words that have been left unspoken.
Good People
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Cress
- West End
- Noel Coward Theatre
- 16th Apr, 2014
South Boston, the place of ‘cahs’ instead of ‘cars’, is the all-encompassing setting for Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire’s fascinating story of pride, poverty and the p…
Four Last Things
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- American Globe Theater
- 2nd Apr 2014
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s sensitive, static drama set on an Irish farm comprises three intertwined monologues.
The Good, The Bad & The Unexpected
- Listing Comedy
- Glasgow Comedy Festival
- The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow
- 31st Mar 2014
The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected is a comedy panel game where the audience helps decide who’s good, who’s bad and who’s unexpected.
The Shape Of Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Colm Byrne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2009
Women were created so that men would take showers.
For Their Own Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Steven Fraser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
Death is the topic that the performance of For Their Own Good tackles head on.
The Shape of Things
- Review
- ★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play has big themes: the morality of art; the morality of love.
Good Mourning! VOstBil
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th - 18th Aug 2013
Nervous performer Florence Minder introduces an American version of herself to talk about those moments when shit happens.
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Review
- ★★★★
- Faith-Ashleigh Wong
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.
Auld Edinburgh Tales
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 26th Aug 2013
Join LIP Theatre Company for a journey through times past, present and future in the streets of Auld Reekie as they return for their 17th year with another exciting original play.
Skills Work Out
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 14th Aug 2013
Care for and refresh your voice, body and imagination - led by full time East 15 staff.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Present: Die ARRG!
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th - 24th Aug 2013
Come and see some live, full-contact roller derby action! Watch the all-star team, the Twisted Thistles, battle it out against Stockholm, and the Cannon Belles taking on Helsinki�…
Why Let Death Get in the Way of a Good Conversation?
- Listing Events / Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th - 10th Aug 2013
Richard Wiseman hosts an evening of ectoplasm and uncanny spectacle as we cross to the other side and communicate with the deceased. Tickets include one delightful cocktail.
The Songs of Nathan Priestley
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th - 24th Aug 2013
A rare chance to hear original songs and instrumentals written over 40 plus years, including some never played in public before.
Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th - 24th Aug 2013
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Come Blow Your Horn
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th - 17th Aug 2013
Buddy Baker, an obedient and hardworking son, moves in with his playboy bachelor brother Alan, in 1960s New York City, turning both their lives upside down in this classic Neil Sim…
Daniel Rigby: Berk in Progress
- Review
- ★★★★
- Melissa Lawford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Daniel Rigby returns to the Fringe this year with a sketch show that certainly lives up to its name.
BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 24th Aug 2013
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Good Things by Liz Lochhead
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 17th Aug 2013
Tackling real contemporary issues, this poignant, hilarious play says a lot about finding love the second (or third or fourth) time.
John-Luke Roberts: Broken Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★★
- Melinda Hughes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I was absolutely delighted by this truly ingenious comedian.
Present and Correct
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 23rd Aug 2013
Get ready for a plethora of original and hilarious sketches, in a universe populated by futile superheroes, Loki, and some guy with hams for fists - who just doesn’t get the joke.
Good Breeding
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Can you be just as happy without kids? Child-free Radio 4 Saturday Live regular, Kate Fox takes a hilarious and thought-provoking look at one of society’s last taboos.
Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
I first saw Alexis Dubus perform in 2008, when his ‘A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing’ provided an interesting spine on which to hang some very funny material – and a justificati…
The Good, the Bad and the Morally Ambiguous
- Review
- ★★
- Carys Evans
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
There were many moments in this show where I really wanted to enjoy it.
Over It - Death, Anorexia, and Other Funny Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Jules Sanderson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
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.
The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Sugar, Spice ... All Things Nice?
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 3rd Aug 2013
Comedy debut of a small town little Welsh lady … who isn’t everything she seems.
Patrick Morris: Standing Up and Saying Things
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Free stand-up show from 21-year-old rising star, Patrick Morris.
Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2013
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.
The Real MacGuffins Come Again
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Edwards
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
The Real MacGuffins are a hilariously funny sketch group that had the audience roaring with laughter.
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 24th Aug 2013
The maestro of feel-good comedy.
Tommy Holgate: Good Spirits
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 26th Aug 2013
After 35 stitches, two brain scans and returning from the dead, Tommy stopped drinking and started living.
Stephen K Amos - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 24th Aug 2013
From the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Susan Calman: Always (A Work in Progress)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sam Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
Arguably one of Scotland’s finest comics, Susan Calman returns to the Stand with the air of a returning champion.
Nathan Cassidy: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 24th Aug 2013
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee 2012, this year Nathan goes all in for comedy’s biggest prize.
Who's Afraid of Rachel Roberts?
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 26th Aug 2013
From shy Welsh Minister’s daughter to Oscar-nominated, booze soaked, headline grabbing, fading Hollywood star.
Choose Your Own Documentary By Nathan Penlington
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hannah Mirsky
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books, where you got to pick what happens at the end of each page? Nathan Penlington does.
Birthday Girls: 2053
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Obank
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Meet the birthday girls Rose Johnson, Camille Ucan and Beattie Edmondson.
Human and Other Things
- Review
- ★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2013
Fresh from the Namat Theatre in Cairo, Human and Other Things offers a select glimpse of Egypt, albeit in a rather frustrating manner.
The Collision of Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lene Korseberg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
What do you do when you realise that the life you have lived up until now isn’t the life you wanted to live? Who are you now and where are you going? How far will you go in searc…
John-Luke Roberts and Nadia Kamil: The Behemoth
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
Racist belly buttons.
Hinge Presents: Ordinary Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Alexis Macnab
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Hill Street venue has a great find in their ‘Master’s Room’ space and Hinge Theatre has installed itself there to present Ordinary Things: a two-actor, four character pla…
Auld Alliance
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
At the beginning of the The Consort of Voices, the Edinburgh-based choir providing the music for this concert, strode in dramatically from the back of the church led by their bashf…
The History Girls Present: A Summary of Things So Far
- Review
- ★★
- Thom Louis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
The title of this show is a rather misleading one.
Damian Kingsley: Work in Progress - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Tiffany Shepherd
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Openly admitting his show was a ‘work in progress’ and should not be judged on the quality of all of the material, there seemed no need for excuses as Damian Kingsley ushered u…
FunBags present Unusual Suspects
- Review
- ★★★★
- Allana Isaacs
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Fun Bags are four very funny women.
James and the Giant Peach
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale about a boy finding friendship and adventure with a bunch of idiosyncratic insects astride a giant peach is translated faithfully to the stage …
David Longley: My Favourite Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Ali Quaile
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Brighton Fringe
- 3rd May, 2009
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
A Good Catholic Boy
- Review
- ★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
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.
Luke Milford Things I Like
- Review
- ★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show.
Hairy Maclary and Friends
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
Lynley Dodd’s tales of Hairy Maclary, the scampish terrier who gets up to all manner of mischief with his animal pals, never really did much for me as a little’un.
Magic To Get Girls By
- Review
- ★★
- Luke Sharp
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2008
The two performers Kevin McMahon and Alan Hudson take as their starting point their discovery of a book Tricks 4 Chicks: How to Pull Girls with Magic.
Good Death: Created in Collaboration with Tectonic Theater Project
- Review
- ★★★
- Martin Gimenez
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
Assisted suicide, euthanasia, murder.
Rory & Tim: Good for Nothing
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
It’s usually a good sign when a sketch group can make you smile before you even enter the venue.
Four Last Things
- Review
- ★★
- Colm Byrne
- Ireland Regional & Tours
- 14th Sep, 2009
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s Four Last Things is an evocative, but turbid, journey through the Irish country landscape and all unspoken things.
Fool's Gold
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2011
Fool’s Gold is a production that smacks heavily of the dreaded GCSE devised drama piece.
Nathan Cassidy: The Frog That Says Sausages
- Review
- ★★
- Adam Harwood
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
It is, naturally, a much harder world that comedians may find themselves in at the Fringe compared to those more atoned to the theatre world.
Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
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…
Nathan Caton - Breakfast at Stephanie's
- Review
- ★★★
- Gordon Johnston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2010
Tall, skinny and full of nervous energy, West Londoner Nathan Caton is here to entertain us with an hour of laughs.
Time for the Good Looking Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
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.
James Acaster: Amongst Other Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2011
James Acaster claims to be very excitable, but this claim is not borne out by his laid back delivery and mundane choice of topics.
Life Is Too Good To Be True
- Review
- ★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
An exploration of modern society and our responses to it, Life Is Too Good To Be True is a one-man show presented by the Netherlands’ Het Geluid (The Noise).
Lucy Porter - The Good Life
- Review
- ★★★
- Bruce Kent
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2006
This is Lucy Porter’s 5th visit to the Fringe and at last she’s managing to fake sincerity.
Our Country's Good
- Review
- ★★★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2009
This award-winning play by Timberlake Wertenbaker was first performed at Londons Royal Court in 1988 and has lost none of its power.
Letters, Boxes and Other Things That Shouldn't Be Opened
- Review
- ★★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
It’s hard to know how to judge Rare Notions Theatre Company’s first contribution to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Bob Graham Work Ethic
- Review
- ★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Some comedy shows can be slow burners – they introduce a few seemingly unrelated jokes before linking everything together towards the climax of the show, ending on the ultimate p…
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
- Review
- ★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts.
Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Hannah Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
Last Night Things Happened ...
- Review
- ★★★★
- Colm Byrne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Sep, 2009
The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims…
John-Luke Roberts Distracts You From A Murder
- Review
- ★★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2010
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…
The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Traverse has presented the most elegant of double bills for the Fringe by showcasing two of Scotland’s prized playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower.
Gareth Morinan Explains Why David Cameron Should Be Fired for Crimes Against Short People (Among Other Things)
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Reid
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
Those Magnificent Men
- Review
- ★★★
- Thom Louis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
It may not surprise you to learn that Those Magnificent Men shares a framing device with the film that shares half of its name.
Sam Fletcher - Good on Paper
- Review
- ★★★
- Ali Quaile
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
It’s impossible not to like Sam Fletcher.
Tom Goodliffe: All in Good Time
- Review
- ★★★
- Alexandra Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd.
Forgotten Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2009
There’s much to commend in Red Ladder Theatre’s ‘Forgotten Things’, written by Emma Adams.
Alun Cochrane: Moments of Alun
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Alun Cochrane is about halfway through his set when he spots my notepad poking out from under the pedestal table in front of me.
Hamlet for Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2010
Abi wants a baby.
Croft and Pearce - Funnier Than It Sounds
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Croft and Pearce exhibit matching outfits, and to a degree, matching faces, accents and physicality.
Am I Good Friend?
- Review
- ★★★
- Charlotte Kelly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Deep in the cellars of the Café Voltaire a science experiment is taking place.
The Good Person of Szechwan
- Review
- ★★★
- Helene Cloete
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Brecht’s famous parable about living a good life in a world ruled by money is here performed admirably by students from the Chinese International School of Hong Kong.
Mace & Burton Present... Rom Com Con
- Review
- ★★
- Jessica Osborne Lax
- Brighton Fringe
- 13th May, 2013
So we all know the premise for a rom com: girl meets boy, some sort of complication, girl and boy fall in love.
And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Two women, one food queue and one unlikely friendship.
Oh, The Humanity and Other Good Intentions
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alistair Grant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
A series of five very short plays penned by American playwright Will Eno, Oh, the Humanity and Other Good Intentions is a collection of character-driven glimpses into the human con…
An Indie Boy's Guide to Sex and Girls
- Review
- ★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls.
Our Country's Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2007
This play is set in a penal colony in eighteenth century Australia.
Nathan Caton: Get Rich or Die Cryin'
- Review
- ★★★
- David Levesley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Aug, 2011
Nathan Caton is possibly the most amiable comedian you will ever witness on a stage.
Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2009
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.
The Good, the Bad and the Extraterrestrials
- Review
- ★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
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.
Nathan Caton: Can't Tell Me Nothin'
- Review
- ★★★★
- Damian Sandys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2009
Despite being Nathan Caton’s first solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, he talks with such authority and ease that you could easily mistake him for a Fringe veteran.
Continuity Scares Me: a work in progress
- Review
- ★★
- Steven Ellis
- Camden Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Alarm bells sounded early with Richard Wright’s show.
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
- Review
- ★★★★
- Charlotte Kelly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
It will come as no surprise that this is a controversial play.
Luke Toulson: There Are So Many Things I Can't Do
- Review
- ★★★
- Gordon Johnston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2008
Bouncing on stage with a declaration that he’s always wanted to play the smallest gig at the Festival, Luke Toulson is quick to establish a rapport with his small but perfectly for…
The Girls Of Slender Means
- Review
- ★★★
- Colm Byrne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2009
The key to the ‘The Girls of Slender Means’ is a poem.
The Two Most Perfect Things
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Gordon Noele
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward have both been celebrated countless times in musical biopics, but this could be the first time that their respective careers and lives have been combin…
Patrick Monahan: Hug Me I Feel Good
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Kingston-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Sep, 2011
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…
Nathan Cassidy: Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner (preview)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Peter Oakley
- Camden Fringe
- 23rd Dec, 2013
Nathan Cassidy opens this show with great energy, telling us with a jig that it’s “all about positivity”.
Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Aug, 2011
Luke Wright’s unique brand of performance poetry is like nothing I have ever seen before.
Bourgeois & Maurice - Social Work
- Review
- ★★★★
- Damian Sandys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2009
This is no ordinary cabaret.
The Red Bus Puppet Shows
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Apocalypse Later?
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
This ensemble sketch show promises in its promotional material to be as funny as the ‘first Neolithic wedgie’: a good indication of the level of comic maturity this young troupe ha…
Mike Sheer: Jerk In Progress
- Review
- ★★
- Carrie Rian Johnson
- Camden Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
From the moment Mike Sheer appeared it was clear we were in for an energetic show.
Jason Byrnes Telly Idea, Which May Also Work On The Radio Show!!
- Review
- ★★★
- Gordon Johnston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2007
In an increasing trend amongst the big-name comics, this is Jason Byrne’s ‘other show’, and this year involves grabbing four guest celebrities as panellists for the top table, a co…
Tom Lauri: Good With His Fingers
- Review
- ★★
- Stuart Saint
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Hailing from Switzerland, Tom Lauri (and his fingers) is attending to all our magic needs at the Sweet Grassmarket with his deadpan offering of comedy/cabaret magic.
Work Songs
- Review
- ★★★
- Lynne Marie Martens
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Work Songs is a dance exploration of office-place machismo power struggles by The Dangerologists.
Radha is Looking Good / The Clock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Vanessa Murray
- Brighton Fringe
- 10th May, 2012
Hide and Seek Theatre certainly didn’t shy away from difficult subject matter in Radha is Looking Good, which expresses the interior thoughts of a severely autistic woman – Rad…
Is It Really Good to Talk?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Juliet Colbert
- Camden Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2012
A fear of the unknown is at the heart of ‘Is It Really Good to Talk?’ and it’s a fear that most of us know well, one way or another.
Hairy Pretty Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tiffany Shepherd
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
So sexy that 70% of the room would leave pregnant with very hairy babies (and that’s not just the women) was the warning we received, as we sat ourselves down and prepared for th…
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
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…
Good Grief
- Review
- ★★★
- Michael Wilkinson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
A funeral sees the coming together of three siblings for their estranged father’s send-off, but this new musical is not really about death - it is about life and the suppressed t…
Sh!t Theatre Present: Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous)
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Reid
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
The Dick and the Rose
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
I had an inkling that The Dick and The Rose was going to be something special when I was handed a silver poker chip in lieu of a ticket at the box office.
Heaven Bound - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Roberts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Mike ‘Dr Blue’ McKeon is a real Blues caricature.
Four Screws Loose Present 'Latecomers-Will-Be-Shot'
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Damian Sandys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Sep, 2010
Four Screws Loose blow preconceptions of the Free Fringe wide apart with their dazzling debut show, Latecomers Will Be Shot.
Nathan Cassidy: Fantastica!
- Review
- ★★
- Thom Louis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Nathan Cassidy’s Fantasica had an interesting premise.
The Gentlemen of Leisure Present: The Death of the Novel
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
With their smart suits and elaborate PowerPoint presentation, the Gentlemen of Leisure have the air of two eager-to-please, newly qualified teachers trying to pep up an A-level Eng…
The Shape of Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- London Fringe
- 12th Dec, 2013
It occurred to me watching Neil LaBute’s 90-minute four-hander, that he is the nearest thing America has to George Bernard Shaw.
Pretending Things Are a C*ck
- Review
- ★★
- Stewart McLaren
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Looking at people’s holiday pictures can be a downright dull experience.
scratch (work in progress)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Leon Conrad
- London Fringe
- 9th Nov, 2009
Sometimes raw, rough shows, performed on a knife-edge are the most gripping.
Alexis Dubus: Cars & Girls
- Review
- ★★★
- Heather Doughty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Alexis Dubus opened his show by telling us that what we were going to watch was a stand up comedy act that is built around a storytelling structure.
Swann & Company Present: The Sad, Miserable Tale of Albert Belacqua and His Family of Doomed Neurotics
- Review
- ★★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2010
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
Patrick Monahan - Hug Me I Feel Good
- Review
- ★★★
- Thom Louis
- London Fringe
- 16th Apr, 2012
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.
Simon Talbot: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 13th - 17th Aug 2019
One of the biggest comedy stars in Denmark, Simon Talbot comes to the Fringe with some work-in-progress shows.
ZOLA Creatives Present: EVOKE
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
An immersive experience by emerging Adelaide artists and musicians, focusing on retrospection through personal memory and experience.
Win the rights to present the full-length version of Disney’s FROZEN the Musical
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- UK Regional & Tours
- 12th Mar, 2024
Music Theatre International (MTI) has announced a fantastic competition for secondary schools and sixth form colleges throughout the UK.
Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2023
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Why Robin Tran wants to make us laugh at terrible things
- Feature
- James Macfarlane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Jul, 2023
James Macfarlane chats with comedian Robin Tran about her Fringe debut, how she deals with praise from big comedy names and her favourite way to control her audiences.
4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 16th Feb, 2019
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.
5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 11th Dec, 2018
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.
5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 17th Oct, 2018
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.
The Five Most Surprising Things About Brighton By Brighton Newbie & Bus Boy Writer Izzy McDonald
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton Fringe
- 25th May, 2018
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
Black Friday Deals on West End Shows
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 23rd Nov, 2017
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Nathan Hinze
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2017
Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene.
Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Brighton Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2017
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...
Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 11th Apr, 2017
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.
Ed Balls, Ore Oduba & Lesley Joseph join Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour 2017
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- UK Regional & Tours
- 29th Nov, 2016
Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, sports presenter Ore Oduba and actress Lesley Joseph are the latest celebrities announced to appear on the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour, wh...
Staging the Unstageable with Kill The Beast’s Zoe Roberts & Natasha Hodgson
- Feature
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2016
Macabre comedy company Kill The Beast (Peter Brook and Manchester Theatre Award winners) return to the Fringe with their 70s werewolf spectacular He Had Hairy Hands and a new 80s f...
Andrew Roberts & Josh Mathieson are Dealing with Death in Children's Theatre
- Feature
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2016
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Throwback’s Thomas Ball: In Defence of Feel-good Circus
- Feature
- Thomas Ball
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2016
Silver Lining’s Throwback is an aerial and acrobatic circus caper about the power of nostalgia and collective memory.
Interview: Tony Roberts - Card Magic
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 5th May, 2016
Captivating close-up magic from this charming, comedic magician.
SpaceDating: Blueswater Presents: Cat Loud’s Wayward Girls
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2016
Broadway Baby has a little chat with sultry songstress Cat Loud, who is bringing Cat Loud's Wayward Girls to Edinburgh '16 alongside The Bluewater.
Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th Mar, 2016
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- London Fringe
- 20th Dec, 2015
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
‘Did you All Come in the One Car?’ - Worbey and Farrell Interview
- Feature
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2015
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...
Pie Of The Day: Auld Jock
- Feature
- Luke Tudball
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2015
So here it is, Tasty Monster's inaugural EdFringe Pie of the Day! And where better to start than Auld Jock's Pie Shoppe, named for the master of Greyfriar's Bobby, a gem hidden in ...
Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Glasgow
- 1st Oct, 2014
Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October.
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