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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.
Rhys Nicholson: Huge Big Party Congratulations!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 23rd Oct 2024
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
Variety Film Club: The Commitments (1991)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 5th Sep 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Inverkeithing Community Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh New Town Church
- 25th Aug 2024
Sassy swing and jumpin’ jazz from Scotland’s hugely popular and biggest amateur big band.
Big Band Bublé – Scotland's Number One Tribute Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh New Town Church
- 24th Aug 2024
Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
No Strings Attached Community Wind Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church
- 22nd Aug 2024
A range of music from musical theatre, movie themes, popular music and swing.
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.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 18th Aug 2024
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band return for 2024 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music and dance from the Middle Ages to …
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…
Kieran Hodgson: Big in Scotland
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th - 21st Aug 2024
For three performances only, the four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and star of BBC’s Two Doors Down is back with 2023’s critically-acclaimed, sell-out show.
Big Feelings
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 16th - 25th Aug 2024
From 2024 Sondheim/Jonathan Larson Grant Rooftop Writer and 10th-ranked woman poet in the world Gigi Bella, Big Feelings explores mental health, feminism and the gospel of Taco Bel…
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.
White Heather Ceilidh Club
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
- 15th Aug 2024
One of Edinburgh’s best nights out, join our legendary Fringe ceilidh for an evening of traditional Scottish music and Highland dancing at Bonnie & Wild.
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.
Dom Hutchins – The Big Issues
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull
- 14th - 25th Aug 2024
Dom Hutchins – The Big Issues.
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.
Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 13th Aug 2024
Join a massive line-up of comedy stars for a stupendous evening to fight against brain tumours.
Cobin Millage: Big F*cking Cobin F*cking Millage F*cking H*ll Yeah It's Cobin (The Show)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ Potterrow
- 13th - 14th Aug 2024
Cobin Millage is f*cking sick and tired of this f*cking sh*t.
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.
A Taste of Taskmaster Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Old College
- 12th - 13th Aug 2024
Fancy trying your hand at some fun tasks and competing against other children to see if you have what it takes to be a Taskmaster Champion? If so, then pop along to one of our Tast…
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.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band Goes Further Afield
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Going further afield, we have added some real treasures from Eastern Europe and Central America.
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.
The Suicide Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
The Suicide Club.
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…
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.
The Gardening Club: A New Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
The Gardening Club is a new musical that takes place in 1960, Georgia, USA.
Le Wine Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 12th - 26th Aug 2024
Anna Lou is back in her wine bar to talk wine and let you in on her darkest secrets.
The Rising – The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 10th - 23rd Aug 2024
Once again, this nine-piece ensemble will deliver the music of Springsteen with precision and energy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Seckou Keita – Homeland Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 9th Aug 2024
Nicknamed ‘the Hendrix of the Kora’, Seckou is celebrated for his ingenious tunings and virtuosity.
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 @ 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 @ Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 17th Aug 2024
The Grumpy Magicians present: Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
Mark Grist's Big Box Bonanza
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Little Plaza
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2024
26 boxes full of joy and fun.
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 …
Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big Band Music
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh New Town Church
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2024
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big band era.
Big Gay Afterparty
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Queer, chic and outrageous – you’re invited to the biggest, gayest party at the Fringe (fun straights allowed).
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.
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr…
Best of Kids Comedy: The Big Show!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
Anna Clifford: Got Jokes? (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootanannies @ 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…
Killer Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
Join us for an unforgettable afternoon at one of the North West’s premier comedy clubs featuring Harry Stachini, Ben Hart and Lewis Coleman.
Meaty Sue's Big Farma
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
Meaty Sue’s parents have gone to the big barbecue in the sky and her impending wedding day is missing her elusive estranged Big Brother Big Farma Phil.
Big Scary Cat
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
A group of stereotypically attractive and slightly dim young people trapped in a fun fair haunted house.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Club Life
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2024
The 2023 Fringe First-winning club/theatre immersive experience returns for eight performances only! Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin hosts an interactive joy-ride through his 80s/90s clu…
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…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Since 2005, Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged…
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).
Becky Umbers: Big Bad Beck and the Three Little Pigs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Big Bad Beck is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down in this WIP show.
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.
Craic Den Comedy Club – Best of Irish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Fresh from the hugely popular TV show The Craic Den Comedy Club, two of Ireland’s top comedy MCs, Eddie Mullarkey and Brian Gallagher, present the best line-ups of Irish stand-up c…
Sian Davies: Band of Gold
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
A brand new show from award-winning, working-class queer comedian Sian Davies.
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.
Soness: Big in Japan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
25 years ago, Soness swapped Florida for Tokyo to become the voice of many well-known animations.
Simon Hall: 4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
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.
11pm Live at the Big Cave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
End your day at the Festival in style at our iconic Edinburgh venue with the very best in stand-up talent.
Ada Campe: Big Duck Energy
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Ever felt down? Like you’re swimming upstream? Like life isn’t all its quacked up to be? You’re not alone! Join award-winning cabaret star Ada Campe for a few flights of fanc…
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.
Big Value Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Big Value Comedy Show is an established showcase of the best new comedic talent.
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.
The Alternative Book Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The Alternative Book Club presents a stand-up comedy compilation show about books, where there is absolutely NO required reading.
Lauren Pattison: Big Girl Pants
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Lauren Pattison is back with a brand-new show.
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…
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.
Main Character Energy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 1st - 26th Aug 2024
This is Temi’s show.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘Funny.
Benji Waterstones: Maddening (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Rising-star comedian (Evening Standard), NHS psychiatrist and author Benji Waterstones returns from a sold-out Edinburgh run with more tales from the psych ward.
Rosie and Hugh's Great Big Adventure
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2024
Rosie and Hugh the Hedgehog are best friends.
Stephanie Bradshaw: Big Fish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Big Fish is Stephanie Bradshaw’s debut stand-up show, inspired by her life as an attention-seeking (anxious, delicate, shy) mega diva, based in the small rural town of Keswick, Cum…
Mime Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 15th Aug 2024
Sexy dads, vacuum cleaners, the German State Theatre.
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.
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.
The Eazy Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C alto
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
In the digital world there’s no greater joy than talking face to face.
John Meagher: Big Year
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
After a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe, host of Radio 4’s The Divil’s Own John Meagher makes his debut at The Gilded Balloon with his debut show Big Year.
Rhys Nicholson: Huge Big Party Congratulations!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Good morning Edinburgh! We’re back bringing you brand-new, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15 minute comedies, eccentricities and mini-dramas - all served up with complimentary t…
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 …
Bluey's Big Play - Aberdeen
- Listing
- West End
- TECA Aberdeen
- 18th - 20th Jul 2024
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Bluey's Big Play - Liverpool
- Listing
- West End
- Echo Arena Liverpool
- 12th - 14th Jul 2024
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Bluey's Big Play - Brighton
- Listing
- West End
- The Brighton Centre
- 5th - 7th Jul 2024
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
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.
Variety Film Club: The Beverley Hillbillies (1994)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Jun 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
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.
Wedding Band
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 1st - 29th Jun 2024
Set in the deep south of USA in 1918 when interracial marriage was illegal, Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, are defying all odds with their secret love.
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.
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)…
4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s / The Caxton Arms
- 31st May 2023 - 1st Jun 2024
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
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…
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.
The Big Game
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 26th May 2024
It is our great pleasure to invite you all to The Big Game on Sunday 26th May (bank holiday!!), a collaboration celebration, a psych-circus spectacle, and the biggest gig we’ve b…
Slug in a Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 26th - 27th May 2024
Follow a brown bi woman on a night out to the club - but she has head of a slug.
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.
PG Hits! Family-friendly comedy club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 6th May 2023 - 2nd Jun 2024
The best way to discover your new favourite comedian! We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
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.
Rueda With London Gaita Social Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- St Augustine’s Arts & Events Centre - Alter Room
- 25th May 2024
London Gaita Social Club is an urban collective that plays and celebrates the afro-indigenous musical traditions of Colombia.
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…
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.
Martin J Dixon: Big Fat Gay
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 23rd - 26th May 2024
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show BIG FAT GAY (he’s used the title before, it’s a good title).
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.
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 …
Hanover Psychedelic Club presents Technicolour Hours of Emergent Happenings
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Annunciation, Brighton
- 18th - 18th May 2024
A Summer of Love-style Dada Happening blurring the boundary between audience and performers featuring live music, art, dance, performance poetry and an improvised album driven by c…
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.
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?”.
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…
Big Lez is Back
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 11th - 12th May 2024
Prepare yourself for a night of laughter with Lily Starr otherwise known affectionately as Big Lez.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 11th May 2024
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
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.
Big Beach Bollywood Bonanza
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Big Beach Cafe
- 11th May - 1st Jun 2024
A dance workshop full of sparkle and fun to make you smile, while learning easy-to-follow groovy moves to an eclectic mix of Bollywood beats and reimagined dance classics, interspe…
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…
The Other Side Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 10th - 12th May 2024
The Other Side Comedy Brighton Fringe Showcase @ The Snug, 3 Jolly Butchers.
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’.
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…
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…
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.
Neon Moon Paradise Circus CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Vault @ Fool’s Paradise
- 5th - 26th May 2024
Headlining the opening weekend of BRIGHTON FRINGE in the brand new venue THE VAULT at FOOLS PARADISE, Neon Moon’s CABARET & CLUB shows, on May Bank Holiday weekends SUNDAY 5th MA…
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.
Big Shoes to Fill
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 5th - 12th May 2024
Big shoes to fill.
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.
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.
Club Cream
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Vault @ Fool’s Paradise
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2024
The shows are over and its time to dance.
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.
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.
Artista presents: 'Best of the Fest' @ The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 5th May 2023 - 1st Jun 2024
Welcome to The Secret Comedy Club’s “Best of the Fest” shows throughout Brighton Fringe Festival 2023! Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt as we bring you a hilarious lineup o…
Variety Film Club: Yesterday (2019)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 28th Mar 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
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!
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…
Variety Film Club: Ghost (1990)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 29th Feb 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
The Big Life
- Listing
- West End
- Theatre Royal Stratford East
- 16th Feb - 30th Mar 2024
It’s 1948 and on board the Windrush Empire, journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie are full of expectations and aspirations.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 17th Jan - 5th Jun 2024
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Bluey's Big Play
- Listing
- West End
- Leeds Arena / Royal Festival Hall
- 20th Dec 2023 - 30th Jun 2024
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Variety Film Club: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 14th Dec 2023
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Seven Dials Playhouse
- 1st - 30th Dec 2023
It’s Christmas Eve 2009: seven years into the world-famous boy band’s indefinite “hiatus”, *NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick has until midnight to make a wish that could change his life f…
Nutcracker - The Tuff Nutt Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Tuff Nutt Club, Royal Festival Hall
- 28th Oct 2023 - 6th Jan 2024
Diving into the glittering winter wonderland head on, McOnie Company dancers perform to Tchaikovsky’s world famous score, reimagined for an onstage Jazz band by multi-award w…
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 Billy Joel Albums Show: Elio Pace Band with Rhys Clark & Don Evans
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Oct 2023
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK.
Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Boulevard
- 17th Oct 2023 - 6th Jan 2024
The darkest, funniest and most debauched Kabarett Klub west of Berlin.
Shoot From The Hip – West End Big Boys
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Oct 2023
Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improv comedy to the West End! Fresh from the Fringe, their show features chaotic games, epic scenes, an…
Shoot From The Hip: West End Big Boys
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Oct 2023
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improvised comedy to the West End! Featuring chaotic g…
Hidden Jazz Club
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hoxton Hall
- 30th Sep - 4th Nov 2023
Experience exhilarating live jazz in the incredibly atmospheric setting of a Grade II Listed Music Hall from the 1800s!! Discover one of London’s best kept secrets and join us a…
Kieran Hodgson - Big In Scotland
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 29th Sep 2023
In 2020, the world changed forever, as three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
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.
Summerhall's Closing Party: Maranta Present... Microsteria
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2023
Welcome to Microsteria.
An Evening with Bellshill Salvation Army Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
- 27th Aug 2023
The Bellshill Salvation Army Band was formed in 1921, its primary function being to support the worship and ministry of their church.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
Tarot: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 26th Aug 2023
The best show of 2019 according to Chortle.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug 2023
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
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.
Big Noise Raploch Rinconada Chamber Orchestra
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 25th Aug 2023
Join the talented young musicians of Big Noise Raploch’s Rinconada Chamber Orchestra as they showcase their skills at this extraordinary concert.
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.
The Prov Johnstone Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 25th Aug 2023
The Prov Johnstone Band is an eclectic mix of musicians and music.
Lemma (The Band)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kafe Kweer
- 25th - 26th Aug 2023
Imagine boarding a spaceship travelling at the speed of light with nothing but a guitar.
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.
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.
No Strings Attached Wind Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church
- 24th Aug 2023
Variety of music including musical theatre, movie themes, swing, and popular songs for all the family.
The Last Thursday Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 24th Aug 2023
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
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.
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 22nd Aug 2023
‘Oh my God.
Ciaran Ryan Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rose Theatre
- 21st Aug 2023
Already a veteran performer, having toured the world’s stages for a decade, predominantly as a founding member of world-folk band Dallahan and as a highly sought-after session mu…
Does My Fanny Look Big in This?
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
Have you ever been riding a homosapien and asked (internally): ‘OMG am I squashing this person like a double decker bus’? Or stumbled mentally upon ‘Please lord, let me have shaved…
Danny Beard and Their Band
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 21st - 25th Aug 2023
The winner of Drag Race hits the Fringe as part of their debut solo tour! Join Danny as they take to the stage with their live band in a show which promises to be bigger, better an…
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 21st - 22nd Aug 2023
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years for another trip down memory lane.
The Leading Lady Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
You’re invited to a private meeting of The Leading Lady Club! At this meeting, the women are sharing their experiences with dating apps, heartbreak, self-defense, workplace interac…
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).
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.
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?.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 20th Aug 2023
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band is back for 2023 with a fresh programme of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, the much-loved programme of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages…
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.
Inverkeithing Community Big Band Showcase
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 19th Aug 2023
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Nestico and Fitzgerald to Earth, Wind and Fire.
The Rising: The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 19th Aug 2023
This dynamic seven-piece band return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the 12th year to play the back catalogue and the latest album! With the precision and energy of the E Stre…
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).
Variety Film Club: Paddington
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 17th Aug 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever p…
Beautiful Magicians Club presents Battle Magic Cabaret
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 17th - 28th Aug 2023
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
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.
The White Heather Club's Fringe Ceilidh
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
- 17th Aug 2023
Book your spot at the The White Heather Club for a night of traditional Scottish dancing at Bonnie & Wild’s legendary Food Hall in the St James Quarter.
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.
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.
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 7: Big O Asks – What is Sexy?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar Soba
- 16th - 20th Aug 2023
Olivia aka Big O is delighted to present her second hour of comedy.
Big Cuck, Little Cuck
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th - 20th Aug 2023
Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl…
Adult Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 15th - 16th Aug 2023
Adult Film Club is a raucous showcase of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up MP4s.
4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
Simon Hall started performing comedy in 2020, yeah, that 2020! Since then, performing has not got any easier and life has continually tried to block his progress.
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’…
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.
Big Smoke Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey
- 15th - 27th Aug 2023
Big Smoke Comedy is stand-up comedy with a fully improvised finale and the only show of its kind.
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.
Underbelly's Big Brain-Tumour Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 15th Aug 2023
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a stupendous evening of comedy to help fight against brain tumours.
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.
Bumble's Big Adventure
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 14th - 17th Aug 2023
This one-act educational outreach play for 5-10 year olds and their families follows Bumble, a honeybee, on an adventure to find a bee balm flower.
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.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 14th - 16th Aug 2023
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers.
The Breakfast Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 14th - 27th Aug 2023
The Breakfast Club is a free stand-up comedy compilation show featuring three fantastic comedians.
Free – Concert Band Performance
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 13th Aug 2023
A wonderful and varied selection of concert band music from 40 musicians featuring music from stage and screen! A free concert with donations to support Edinburgh Direct Aid.
Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 13th - 17th Aug 2023
‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you.
Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 19th Aug 2023
In 2020, the world changed forever, as Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
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).
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).
Glee Club UK Adult Community Choir
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Vincent’s
- 12th Aug 2023
Glee Club UK are taking you on a musical journey all the way from the swinging 60s, right up to the present day.
Big Foot
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 11th - 12th Aug 2023
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
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.
Big Foot
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 11th - 12th Aug 2023
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
The Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Musselburgh Grammar School
- 11th Aug 2023
The music that filled the dance halls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
BIG FAT GAY
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 11th - 26th Aug 2023
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
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.
Sinead Walsh: Big Foot
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 11th - 12th Aug 2023
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
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 …
BIG FAT GAY
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Queer Comedy Club
- 11th - 26th Aug 2023
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
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.
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.
The Sensational David Bowie Tribute Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 10th - 26th Aug 2023
Witness first-hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
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).
Holly Stars' Cabaret Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Phoenix Arts Club
- 9th Aug 2023
Join Holly Stars as she hosts a glorious night of camp comedy and cabaret at this all-drag extravaganza.
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.
Holly Stars' Cabaret Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Phoenix Arts Club
- 9th Aug 2023
Join Holly Stars as she hosts a glorious night of camp comedy and cabaret at this all-drag extravaganza.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big-Band Music
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 6th - 26th Aug 2023
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big-band era.
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.
Dick Denham: Big Dick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 6th - 8th Aug 2023
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething 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.
Dick Denham: Big Dick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 6th - 8th Aug 2023
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething comedian.
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…
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.
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.
Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2023
The Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club is not a tribute act.
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy / Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
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.
Too Big For Her Britches
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
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.
White Bear Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 4th - 28th Aug 2023
Bristol’s biggest comedy night is coming to Edinburgh! Harry Allmark shall present the best comedy acts the Edinburgh Fringe has to offer! White Bear Comedy Club is THE space for…
The Canonized Club: The Curious Lives and Deaths of the Saints
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 8th Aug 2023
It’s 1969 and Pope Paul VI, much to the chagrin of many holy spirits, has made an announcement that puts into question the existing canon of Catholic saints.
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.
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
‘Oh my God.
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.
Big Fish
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Edward Bloom’s larger-than-life stories delight everyone – much to the dismay of his pragmatic son, Will.
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.
Aaron Wood's Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 4th - 20th Aug 2023
Join Aaron Wood – one of the North West’s fastest-rising stars as he hosts this hour-long compilation show featuring some of the best acts at the Fringe this year! Each night up …
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Circa's Peepshow (Club Remix)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elinor Arden
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 16th Aug, 2023
Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, CIRCA Contemporary Circus is pushing the boundaries of circus excellence, blending incredibly skilled circus performances with contemporary dance …
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…
Gus Lymburn and Jay Lafferty: Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
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…
Sauchiehall Comedy Club Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 4th - 28th Aug 2023
The Sauchiehall Comedy Club is proud to present their first full run at the Fringe, with a series of compilation shows, featuring the finest up-and-coming comedians, plus guest app…
Sounds of St Cecilia's: Shackleton Memorial Concert, The Vauxhall Band Basset-Horn Trio
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 4th Aug 2023
Come and revel in the earthy tones of this low member of the clarinet family.
101 Comedy – Club Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
‘Funny.
An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
Big Zeus Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
Nominated Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023.
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.
The Eazy Club
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
In the digital world there’s no greater joy than talking face to face.
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.
PG Hits! Family-Friendly Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
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…
Stay Big and Go Get 'Em
- Review
- ★★★
- Laura Tucker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 15th Aug, 2023
At times hard to follow and at others uniquely resonant, Maggie Widdoes’ one-woman show Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em is the perfect example of how the Fringe brings what you least e…
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Back for our 18th Fringe, we remain adamant that just because you’re six, you shouldn’t miss out on the festival’s best stand-ups and sketch acts! And just because you’re an adult …
Big Value Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe.
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.
Aaaaaand now! Teknicolour Smoof Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Shropshire’s crazy-named grassroots comedy club comes to the Edinburgh Fringe with a daily line-up of five different comedians.
RVG's International Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Hello, asalaam alaikum, bienvenido and welcome to RVG’s International Comedy Club! Resident MC of Malaysia’s first comedy cub Rizal Van Geyzel (as seen on Comedy Central) introduce…
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.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
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…
The Queer Comedy Club Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The UK’s first permanent LGBTQ+ comedy club comes to Edinburgh Fringe and we’ve got a bunch of queer comedians who we know you’re going to love! Every night join us for an hour sho…
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.
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.
Club Life
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Mel Evans
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 16th Aug, 2023
Club Life is club promoter Fred Deakin's personal autobiography.
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…
Chriskirkpatrickmas: A Boy Band Christmas Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
A Christmas Carol meets It’s A Wonderful Life meets.
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.
Le Wine Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Join chanteuse and sommelier Anna Lou in her wine bar as she invites you to discover the world of wine and solve the mystery of her lover’s death.
Welcome to The Big Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
This show is a love letter to unique families, queer self-discovery and devoted fathers.
Tarot: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2023
The best show of 2019 according to Chortle.
Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joy Watters
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2023
He enters resplendent in his tartan jacket, setting in motion sixty minutes of stunningly acute comic observation laced with some telling introspection all delivered with totally e…
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.
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 Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
What’s the worst lie you’ve told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth.
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.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu…
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.
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).
Big Kid Kindergarten
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
You played, you cried.
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.
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.
4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 31st Jul - 2nd Aug 2023
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 31st Jul - 2nd Aug 2023
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent / The Town Hall
- 31st Jul 2022 - 30th Jul 2023
Do you love all things 1940s & 1950s? Do you love swing dance and Lindy Hop music? Then you don’t want to miss Miss Jean & The Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band! Taking you on a jo…
Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Palace Green Stretch Tent
- 29th - 30th Jul 2023
Established in 2016, Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band perform vintage music all over the country.
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…
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…
BAB'S BIG SHOW
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th - 28th Jul 2023
Hailing from the midlands, Bab is a female sketch duo comprised of Amy Spinks and Lauren Soley.
Milne Glendinning Band
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
Milne Glendinning Band (MGB) is a cross genre trio featuring vocalist Debra Milne, with guitar maestro Stephen Glendinning, and Michael Clark on bass.
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…
Milne Glendinning Band
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 26th - 29th Jul 2023
A cross genre trio featuring vocalist Debra Milne, guitar maestro Stephen Glendinning, and Michael Clark on bass.
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.
Variety Film Club: The Sting
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 29th Jun 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
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.
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.
4 Big Cs
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 31st May - 3rd Jun 2023
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
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.
Big Zeus Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 30th - 31st May 2023
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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…
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.
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.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 28th May 2023
The celebration of Black performers and our kin of colour! Decolonising & Moisturising these dry and dusty streets Hosted by HottGirl Founder and Curator, Sadie Sinner The Songbi…
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.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 28th May 2023
The celebration of Black performers and our kin of colour! Decolonising & Moisturising these dry and dusty streets Hosted by HottGirl Founder and Curator, Sadie Sinner The Songbi…
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…
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.
Jonny Woo's Big Summer Songbook
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 24th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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.
Jonny Woo's Big Summer Songbook
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 24th May 2023
Jonny Woo (London drag legend and co-owner gay pub The Glory) returns to Brighton Fringe following hit appearances with Night at The Musicals (with Le Gateau Chocolat) and Transfor…
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…
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.
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.
Komedia Presents: Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 20th May 2023
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st May 2022 - 20th May 2023
Take a romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect sing-alongs, madcap stage show, hula hooping, confetti cannons plus the finest pop, rock, disco a…
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…
Komedia Presents: Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 20th May 2023
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
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.
The Big O
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre
- 16th May - 3rd Jun 2023
In a world full of distractions, survival mode and the crushing weight of “being a good feminist”, is the female orgasm ever going to be a priority? Join Lucy on her personal v…
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.
Big Cuck, Little Cuck
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 15th - 19th May 2023
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
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.
Big Cuck, Little Cuck
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 15th - 19th May 2023
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 14th May - 4th Jun 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the smoot…
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.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 14th May - 4th Jun 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the smoot…
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.
Eurovision Big Screen Party
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th May 2023
The biggest show on the continent is coming to Liverpool this May and we’re throwing a party! Come and watch the show on a big screen with food, fizz and frie…
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.
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.
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.
Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 10th May 2022 - 11th May 2023
Special charity showcase for Clowns Without Borders, your support spreads laughter and joy to children and families living in crisis throughout the world.
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.
Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 11th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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.
Variety Film Club: Mamma Mia! (2008) – Eurovision Special!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 11th May 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
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…
Blue Camel Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 10th May 2023
Carousel is excited to bring Blue Camel Club to Brighton Fringe for this very special event, hosted in the Caravanserai pop-up festival.
Variety Lunch Club: Eurovision Special!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 10th May 2023
In May we are celebrating all things Eurovison so our Variety Lunch Club is getting a Eurovision Special!Sam Avery will be brining Eurovision themed acts to the stage to…
Blue Camel Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 10th May 2023
Carousel is excited to bring Blue Camel Club to Brighton Fringe for this very special event, hosted in the Caravanserai pop-up festival.
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.
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.
Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 9th May 2023
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Inclusive, radical and hella creative, it’s Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant! The hottest ticket of last year’s Fringe returns for the 2023 ed…
Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 9th May 2022 - 9th May 2023
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
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.
Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st May 2022 - 13th May 2023
The big band is back at the Spiegeltent for their 6th season at the Fringe.
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…
Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 8th - 13th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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…
BIG FAT GAY
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 7th - 15th May 2023
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
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.
BIG FAT GAY
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 7th - 15th May 2023
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
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.
Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The award winning Forge Comedy Club (Best Comedy Club - South 2023 Chortle Awards) is the hottest comedy ticket in Brighton all year round (#1 Comedy Club in Brighton - Trip Adviso…
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.
Neon Moon Carnival Royale CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 6th May 2023
Neon Moon’s infamous CLUB night with a right royal twist! Come and revel in joy, glitter and wonder at Carnival Royale! Be amazed by thrilling headline acts on stage and in the a…
Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The award winning Forge Comedy Club (Best Comedy Club - South 2023 Chortle Awards) is the hottest comedy ticket in Brighton all year round (#1 Comedy Club in Brighton - Trip Adviso…
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.
Neon Moon Carnival Royale CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 6th May 2023
Neon Moon’s infamous CLUB night with a right royal twist! Come and revel in joy, glitter and wonder at Carnival Royale! Be amazed by thrilling headline acts on stage and in the a…
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.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2023
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British Comedian.
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.
PG Hits! Family-friendly comedy club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2023
We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2023
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British Comedian.
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.
Club Silencio presents Return, Again, to OZ
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Arcobaleno
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
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.
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 5th May 2023
It’s time to go on a journey that punches you straight in the feels while filling your heart with love and warmth.
Komedia Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Johanna Makelainen
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 15th May, 2023
I was intrigued to see who would choose a regular Saturday night comedy club over the spectacle of the Eurovision final being shown all around Brighton.
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.
The Verdict Jazz Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Verdict
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The Verdict 11th Anniversary Celebration Nominated Jazz Venue of the Year 2022 The Verdict has been named as one of the 10 top jazz clubs in Europe by The Guardian.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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…
Big Quiffy Bingo
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 6th May 2022 - 7th May 2023
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
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.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May 2022 - 3rd Jun 2023
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
Big Quiffy Bingo
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 5th - 7th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Club Silencio presents Return, Again, to OZ
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Arcobaleno
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
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…
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 5th May 2023
It’s time to go on a journey that punches you straight in the feels while filling your heart with love and warmth.
The Verdict Jazz Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Verdict
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The Verdict 11th Anniversary Celebration Nominated Jazz Venue of the Year 2022 The Verdict has been named as one of the 10 top jazz clubs in Europe by The Guardian.
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.
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…
Variety Film Club: Encanto
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 6th Apr 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever p…
Variety Film Club: Some Like It Hot!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 30th Mar 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
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…
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.
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.
Film Club - An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 11th - 12th Mar 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating your favourite high-stakes movie scenes, but with hilarious twists.
The Big O
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Network Theatre
- 11th - 12th Mar 2023
The Big O is fast paced, intimate, hilarious and heartfelt exploration of 21st Century attitudes and experiences of female pleasure, orgasm and consent through the eyes of one woma…
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.
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.
David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven)
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 28th Feb - 1st Mar 2023
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
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.
Fist Club - Beyond Vaulterdome
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 26th Feb 2023
Making their Vaults debut, Fist Club is a queer cabaret & pro wrestling night - aka your new favourite pastime.
Naked Chats: Drawing and Conversation with Body Love Sketch Club & Friends
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 26th Feb 2023
Nudity, bodies, and how to feel more comfortable in our own skin in a society which conditions us to be very critical of ourselves? A panel discussion and life drawing class with b…
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.
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.
Big Top | Stars
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 23rd - 24th Feb 2023
Big TopJoin the circus! Or don't.
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.
The Awkward Silence's Big Break
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 21st - 22nd Feb 2023
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
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.
Club Culture
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 18th Feb - 11th Mar 2023
A disruptive, black-owned and black-curated platform demonstrating the viability of every artistic voice, and normalising inclusivity for all artists.
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.
Bewitch Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 11th Feb 2023
Stand up comedy showcasing top comedians from minority backgrounds.
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…
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…
The Great Big Cabaret F*ckabout
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
- 1st Feb 2023
Stars of the international cabaret scene as you’ve never seen them before, performing lesser-known routines, trialling ridiculous concepts they’ve never dared perform before or eve…
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.
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.
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.
The Pudding Club
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 24th - 27th Jan 2023
Are you ready to have a baby? How much effort will it take to bring your baby to term safely and successfully? What if the process of pregnancy was treated like a game, traversing …
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.
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.
Variety Lunch Club 2022/23
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 18th Jan - 22nd Mar 2023
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 18th Jan - 22nd Mar 2023
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
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…
VARIETY FILM CLUB: ELF
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 22nd Dec 2022
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
Club Sexquisite
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton / ZODIAC - Bar & Club
- 17th Jun - 17th Dec 2022
Club Sexquisite is back! Welcome to slut heaven baby An all inclusive queer party with pop up performances Come & celebrate with us for INTERNATIONAL END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX …
VARIETY FILM CLUB: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Dec 2022
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
VARIETY FILM CLUB: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 1st Dec 2022
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Off Broadway Comedy Club Night
- Listing Events
- Brighton
- Bar Broadway
- 13th Nov 2022 - 31st Dec 2023
Off Broadway Comedy Club by Giggle GaggleThe Off Broadway Comedy Club is Brightons newest comedy night.
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.
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 …
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.
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 27th Aug 2022
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
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.
Big Band Bublé
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 26th Aug 2022
Scotland’s number-one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, and record-breaking Scottish Big Band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation invite you to a night full of seductive songs…
Last Thursday Club
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 25th Aug 2022
Stories! One magical night with the best solo theatre makers and storytellers in the Fringe, nay, Britain! Nay, the world! The Last Thursday Club is a London institution so Fringe …
Kitti + Support From Hope City House Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hope City
- 25th Aug 2022
Glaswegian singer/songwriter with soaring vocals and unique lyrics.
The White Heather Ceilidh Club at Bonnie & Wild
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
- 25th Aug 2022
Join us for a bonnie (and wild!) evening of Scottish Ceilidh Dancing in the heart of Edinburgh.
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.
Big Boys and Friends
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2022
Big Boys and Friends is a silly lil’ mixed-bill comedy-cabaret from Channel 4’s critically acclaimed Big Boys, comedian Jack Rooke and character comic Jon Pointing.
Miss Kiddy's Big Cover Up
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 22nd - 26th Aug 2022
Rediscover your favourite songs as Miss Kiddy and the Cads steal the biggest contemporary hits and give them a musical makeover of style and sass.
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.
Mr Big and Shady
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Revolution - Edinburgh
- 21st - 25th Aug 2022
‘Milkman Amongst Tulips’, possibly the most famous painting of the Baroque period, is the only surviving work by Dutch master Schmurt Veeglik.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 21st Aug 2022
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns in 2022 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of instrumental music from the Middle Ages …
The Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 20th Aug 2022
The music which filled dance halls during the big band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
The Rising: The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 20th Aug 2022
Once more The Rising look forward to delivering the music of the Boss with passion and precision to Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Following previous festival sell-out shows, this seve…
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).
Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th - 21st Aug 2022
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE BIG TOP BIRTHDAY! Join Sarah and her best friend Duck as they plan the ultimate circus soiree to help Scarf Lady celebrate her birthday.
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…
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.
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.
Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 16th Aug 2022
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
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.
Simon Evans and His Big Ideas
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 15th - 28th Aug 2022
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
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.
The Fannies Big Night Out
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 15th Aug 2022
The gals are back for one night only! Join The Fannies laughing at life from PMT to HRT, fuelled on G’n’T and B&H.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band Returns to St Mark's
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 15th - 17th Aug 2022
Join us on a tour through medieval and renaissance Europe, playing period instruments of every kind: cornetts, sackbuts, serpents, viols, rebecs, fiddle, violins, shawms, curtals, …
Inverkeithing Community Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 15th Aug 2022
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Miller and Nestico to Fitzgerald and Earth, Wind and Fire.
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.
Wacky Racists Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 14th - 21st Aug 2022
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Taskmaster star Sophie Duker is bringing Wacky back for two unmissable festival specials, joined by psychotically talented one-man white-man hous…
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.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 12th Aug 2022
Stephane Grappelli-style violinist Alex Yellowlees, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and wonderful double bassist Kenny Ellis.
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…
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.
Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 9th - 13th Aug 2022
Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others…
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.
The Laughienda Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 9th - 16th Aug 2022
Manchester’s award-winning free comedy club comes to Edinburgh for the first time! From the scene that produced the likes of Peter Kay and Johnny Vegas comes four rising stars, e…
Tenement Jazz Band: Red Hot Roots of Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 24th Aug 2022
Returning after a sell-out 2018 show, Tenement Jazz Band continue their exploration of the roots of jazz, ragtime and blues.
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOOTV
- 9th - 26th Aug 2022
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club: a night-and-action radio.
Catherine Cohen: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th - 21st Aug 2022
Following her Netflix special The Twist.
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…
Film Club – An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar
- 7th - 26th Aug 2022
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from all your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to t…
Big Zeus Energy (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 7th Aug 2022
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Big Zeus Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 7th Aug 2022
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
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
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 7th Aug 2022
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
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…
The Murder Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 6th - 26th Aug 2022
Based on true stories, Steve Hennessy’s play follows two inmates at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Richard Prince and Ronald True.
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…
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British comedian! ‘Viggo is Norwegian’ (EdFestMag.
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.
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.
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.
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Live Stream
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Paul Richards: My Function Band Hell
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Paul Richards literally can’t stop drumming; he’s performed all over the world, from huge gigs in China to grotty working men’s clubs, posh corporate gigs to the whole of the UK to…
The Laughienda Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait
- 6th - 16th Aug 2022
Manchester’s award-winning free comedy club comes to Edinburgh for the first time! From the scene that produced the likes of Peter Kay and Johnny Vegas comes four rising stars, e…
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
The Richard Osman Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 8th Aug, 2022
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
The Big Fat C
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Jack Campbell did his first stand-up gig in 2010, aged 19.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Briefs: Bite Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Australia’s award-winning cult-cabaret mischief-makers, circus stars and heart-stopping hooligans Briefs Factory, join forces with much celebrated songbird Sahara Beck.
The Disgraceful Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 26th Aug 2022
On tour from London’s Bush Hall, The Disgraceful Club is a wild Friday night of comedy hosted by the audacious queen of no shame, critically acclaimed, ‘one of the funniest women i…
Big Mick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Bunker
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
Mick McNeill’s rapid climb up the Scottish comedy ladder has seen him become a weekend favourite at every weekend comedy club in the country.
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 Big Love Exhibition (Contemporary Street Art By Sleek)
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Watson Gallery
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art.
The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
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.
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 5th Aug 2022
Expect sticky lips, foil dinosaurs and a whirligig of love in Audrey’s Art Club.
Big Band Does... Broadway
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rose Theatre
- 5th - 14th Aug 2022
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway after their five-star sell-out run in 2019.
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 5th - 10th Aug 2022
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
The Sensational David Bowie Tribute Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
Witness first–hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
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.
School's Out Comedy Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 18th Aug 2022
Let Philip Simon keep your little ones giggling more than that time they saw their teacher’s dirty washing on Google Classroom! Created during lockdown to entertain the children bo…
Jay Lafferty: Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
Raymond Mearns' Big Red Bus Tour Around Edinburgh!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Red Bus Bistro at Bristo Square Bus Stop
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Award-winning Red Bus Bistro and acclaimed comedian Raymond Mearns have teamed up for the duration of the Fringe to offer a unique comedy tour experience travelling round the wonde…
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.
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.
Lucy Frederick's Big Fat Wedding
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Here comes the bride, forty-foot wide! It’s the wedding of the century and you’re invited as Lucy Frederick – ‘Eye wateringly honest’ (Scotsman) – walks down the aisle.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
‘Funny.
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…
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…
Big Value Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
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.
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.
Will Tell and the Big Bad Baron
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 4th - 21st Aug 2022
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
Big Value Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Four of the best newer acts.
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.
Jarred and Hobbit: The Big Beatbox Comedy Mess Around Gameshow Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
A delightful mess of a show combining the electrifying skills of award-winning comedian Jarred Christmas and the vocal genius of world-champion beatboxer Hobbit.
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.
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…
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.
The Alternative Book Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
The Alternative Book Club presents an unconventional comedy show about books where there is absolutely no required reading.
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.
An Afternoon With the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield 1995
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
‘A festival mainstay, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
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.
The Big Free Festival Launch Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 3rd Aug 2022
Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,…
Eme Essien: Flat Shoes In The Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? It’s Saturday night, the big girls’ night out and this girl is trying to get ready on time.
Work.txt
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Hate your job? Come work for us.
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.
Your Dad's Mum: Tonight at the Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Explosive, gag-packed comedy from Leicester Comedy Festival Award nominees returning to the Fringe following their acclaimed 2021 run.
The Awkward Silence's Big Break
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
The Club Valentine Comedy Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
This wacky, vaudevillian comedy extravaganza takes you on a journey led by the two Irish mayors of Laughtown, USA, where you’ll find absurd characters, silly skits, dynamite music …
Kylie Brakeman Presents: Linda Hollywood's Big Hollywood Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020).
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.
Club Chemo
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2022
A tale of one man’s fight against testicular cancer.
Club Chemo
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2022
A tale of one man’s fight against testicular cancer.
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.
Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band
- Listing Music
- Durham Fringe Festival
- The Town Hall
- 31st Jul 2022
Do you love all things 1940s & 1950s? Do you love swing dance and Lindy Hop music? Then you don’t want to miss Miss Jean & The Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band! Taking you on a jo…
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 …
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.
Briefs: Bite Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Christopher James
- West End
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- 23rd Jul, 2022
In 2017 I last saw Briefs in a Spiegeltent on the Southbank.
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.
Will Tell and the Big Bad Baron
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 3rd - 21st Jul 2022
Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
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.
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.
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.
CLIMATE GUILT CLUB
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 28th - 30th May 2022
How green are you? Could you be more eco-friendly? What about everyone else? Is there any point recycling when multinationals do nothing? Uncorked presents an immersive, interacti…
The Awkward Silence's Big Break
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 28th May 2022
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
The Awkward Silence's Big Break
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 28th May 2022
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
CLIMATE GUILT CLUB
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 28th - 30th May 2022
How green are you? Could you be more eco-friendly? What about everyone else, like Mrs Smith from down the road? You know you saw her putting a whole load of cardboard in her bin, r…
Big Band Burlesque
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 27th - 29th May 2022
LET’S KEEP DANCING!Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
Big Band Burlesque
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 27th - 29th May 2022
LET’S KEEP DANCING! Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
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.
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.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 10th Jul 2021 - 21st May 2022
Returning once more to Brighton Fringe, after consecutive sell-out shows, it’s time again to romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect huge anth…
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…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 5th Jun 2021 - 21st May 2022
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
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.
Big Band: Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st May 2022
The big band is back at the Spiegeltent for their 6th season at the Fringe.
Big Band: Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 11th Jul 2021 - 21st May 2022
Brighton Jazz Mafia big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Bright Lights, Big City Impro!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
Bright Lights, Big City Impro!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 21st May 2022
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
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.
MR BONGO RECORD CLUB LAUNCH PARTY
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2022
Mr Bongo is a British, Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house/world cinema.
MR BONGO RECORD CLUB LAUNCH PARTY
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2022
Mr Bongo is a British, Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house/world cinema.
Club Queer Presented by Devine Tension
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 20th May - 3rd Jun 2022
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
Club Queer Presented by Devine Tension
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 20th May - 3rd Jun 2022
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
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’).
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.
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…
Barbara Brownskirt's Big Night Out
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 13th May 2022
BARBARA BROWNSKIRT’S BIG NIGHT OUT.
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.
Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 4th Jul 2021 - 10th May 2022
Special charity showcase for Clowns Without Borders - your support spreads laughter and joy to children and families living in crisis throughout the world.
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.
Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2022
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 9th May 2022
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2022
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 9th May 2022
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
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…
Jazz Supper Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wagner Hall & Fig Tree Garden
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
Experience Cool and West Coast jazz music in an NYC-styled ‘Supper Club’ setting.
Jazz Supper Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wagner Hall & Fig Tree Garden
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
Experience Cool and West Coast jazz music in an NYC-styled ‘Supper Club’ setting.
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.
Neon Moon CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th May 2022
An electrifying night from Neon Moon featuring DJ’s From Swingamajig plus spellbinding world-class circus, cabaret, and burlesque! Scream if you want to go faster! Neon Moon’s expl…
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.
WRAP UP – A Kid’s Cabaret Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wrap Play Cafe
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
Spun Glass Theatre will once again transform WRAP into a theatrical family playground launching Brighton’s first kid’s cabaret club for the 2022 Fringe! Our Kid’s Cabaret C…
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…
The Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2022
The Forge Comedy Club is Brighton’s Flagship Stand Up Comedy night.
Neon Moon CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th May 2022
An electrifying night from Neon Moon featuring DJ’s From Swingamajig! Featuring Internationally acclaimed DJ and Producer - C@ in the H@ https://youtu.
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.
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.
WRAP UP - A Kid's Cabaret Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wrap Play Cafe
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
WRAP UP! will harness the energy of a classic cabaret, in a space that will be entertaining and familiar for children and their families.
The Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2022
The Forge Comedy Club is Brighton’s Flagship Stand Up Comedy night.
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’.
...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
Komedia Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
Discover the best in live comedy, featuring three top acts and an MC! Boasting the hottest line-ups including; Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jordan Brookes, Olga Koch, Barbara Nice, Jarr…
Big Quiffy Bingo
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent / Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 28th May 2021 - 8th May 2022
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
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’.
A.A.A. presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
- 25th May 2021 - 5th Jun 2022
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
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.
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…
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.
Le Wine Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- The Other Palace / Trinity Theatre
- 17th - 25th Feb 2022
Popular cabaret chanteuse Anna Lou Larkin takes the role of sommelier, pairing wine tasting with a murder mystery of who killed her lover, in this brand-new solo show that has adde…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 9th Feb - 25th May 2022
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Doll Parts: A Club Night Celebrating Women in Rock
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Aatma
- 4th Feb 2022
Calling all Rebel Girls and VioletsOn Friday 4th February 2022, XS POP will be tearing up Aatma in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter, to celebrate all of the best women wh…
Courtyard Bar & Kitchen Pudding Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 25th Jan 2022
The proof of the pudding is in the eating… On Tuesday 25 January Courtyard Bar & Kitchen are bringing back the night that celebrates the wonderful world of p…
The Big Adele Songbook
- Listing
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 22nd Jan 2022
Join Rudi Douglas and Grace Shush as they delve into the one and only Adele’s catalogue of music to perform live their favourite songs from 19, 21, 25 & 30.
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…
Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- National Liberal Club
- 3rd Nov 2021
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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.
FUNNYBOYZ presents DIVAS @ THE CAVERN CLUB
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Cavern Restaurant
- 27th Oct - 29th Dec 2021
DIVAS introduce this sensational new fine dining experience with drag queens SESSION TIME: 18.
Courtyard Bar & Kitchen Pudding Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 27th Oct 2021
The proof of the pudding is in the eating… On Wednesday 27 October Courtyard Bar & Kitchen are celebrating the wonderful world of puddings! Join us for an ev…
Hay Babes Pageant. London's Next BIG Thing
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 23rd Oct 2021
Hay Babes! Who will be London’s Next BIG Thing?Join Miss Taylor Trash for the most East London drag pageant you have ever seen in your lives!!!12 contestants will battle it ou…
Riposte x Club
- Listing
- London Fringe
- The Cause
- 23rd Oct 2021
8 Djs - 15 visual artists - 15 performers - 10 stalls (people selling merch) Queer art-rave.
Club Queer
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Chancers Nightclub
- 23rd Oct 2021
Devine Tension Presents Club Queer Queer Clubland Cabaret set in the heart of rural Dumfries & Galloway.
Chichester Cabaret Club
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oaklands Pavilion
- 16th Oct 2021
It’s FINALLY Back! After a hiatus due to you know what, we’re back stronger than ever and raring to go! Chichester Cabaret Club was officially born in 2016 and has featur…
The Big Geek Quiz 3 - The Geek World
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 13th Oct 2021
THE BIG GEEK QUIZ 3 - THE GEEK WORLDLondon’s favourite geek quiz is back at the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern for its third adventure.
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…
MSO - The Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 10th Oct 2021
The music that filled the dancehalls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 6th Oct - 1st Dec 2021
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
RVT Big Quiz - Pop Pickers
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 6th Oct 2021
THE RVT BIG QUIZ - POP PICKERS EDITIONHOSTED BY SIMON LE VANS AND DAVID ROBSON Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the quiz, they’re back! Yep it’s our very …
Aunt Flow's Fight Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Karaoke Hole
- 6th Oct 2021
Desperate for some variety in your performance consumption? Craving inspiration to fuel your feminist vagenda? Helen Potter and Frankie Regalia are proud to present the r…
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).
Hundred Watt Club - An evening of burlesque in Hastings!
- Listing Film
- UK Regional & Tours
- St Mary in the Castle
- 25th Sep 2021
Join Hundred Watt Club as they return to St Mary in the Castle for a vintage inspired, champagne popping evening of burlesque! Let your hair down and enjoy a good old fashioned gli…
The Horsedonkey Club
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- VFD
- 23rd Sep 2021
The Horsedonkey Club is strange variety nights organised as the context for a surprising mix of performing artists and artists who use performance.
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.
The Sunday Art Club: Sessions
The Sunday Art Club: Sessions launches at Arboretum in London’s West End offering an evening of intimate performance that provides a platform for multidisciplinary artists.
Filthy in Peach - The Bitten Peach Club Night at Colours Hoxton
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 17th Sep 2021
Come and get FILTHY IN PEACH at The Bitten Peach’s CLUB NIGHT at Colours Hoxton! PARTY + POP UP PERFORMANCES from 10pm-2am featuring an Asian cabaret dreamhouse of FILTHY FA…
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.
Club Kali After-Party Party on the Boat!
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Bar & Co Party Boat
- 4th Sep 2021
Special After-Party Party.
Hundred Watt Club - Burlesque & Vaudeville in Alton, Hampshire
- Listing Film
- UK Regional & Tours
- Alton Assembly Rooms
- 4th Sep 2021
Join Hundred Watt Club at Alton Assembly for a vintage inspired, champagne popping evening of burlesque! Let your hair down and enjoy a good old fashioned glittering line-up of sho…
Big Night Out
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- VFD
- 2nd Sep 2021
Big Night OutCreated & hosted by Grace n Mads Big Night Out is a night of queer performances.
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.
Big Band Bublé
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 29th Aug 2021
Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous tribute to the Canadian Crooner and t…
Duckie's Queer History Club
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hold Creative Spaces
- 29th Aug 2021
Free2pmSunday 29 AugustHold Creative Spaces, Penstone House, Albert Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HDDuckie are taking queer history out of the museum and back to the pub where it belongsJ…
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.
Cecily's Belly Laugh Picnic – Musical Balloon Band – Free Festival
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 26th - 29th Aug 2021
Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band.
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.
Leah MacRae: My Big, Fat, Fabulous Diary – The Best Bits!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- MultiStory
- 23rd - 29th Aug 2021
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
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).
Duckie's Queer History Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton
- Charles Street Tap
- 22nd Aug 2021
Free2pmSunday 15 August in BrightonCharles Street Tap, 8 Marine Parade, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1TADuckie are taking queer history out of the museum and back to the pub where it bel…
Killer Queens Presents: Choke In The Big Smoke
- Listing Film
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 22nd Aug 2021
WELCOME to Killer Queens Presents: Choke In The Big Smoke! This is the first London outing of our award winning sell out drag murder mystery shows, and in true Killer Queens fashio…
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).
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 24th Aug, 2021
Tues Night @ Social Club is one of those 'Marmite' shows that some people would consider their worst nightmare, while others could consider it tailor-made for them.
Ben Pope (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 18th Aug 2021
Ben Pope is ‘a total delight’ (Fest).
The Flop: A Band of Idiots
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 17th - 21st Aug 2021
60 minutes, 12 notes and three idiots.
Sarah & Duck’s Big Top Birthday
- Listing
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th - 18th Aug 2021
Meet Sarah and her best friend Duck! Join us for a magical adventure live on stage with a whole host of your favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, The Sha…
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…
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.
MARGATE PRIDE AFTER PARTY 2021 / MARGATE ARTS CLUB
- Listing Workshop
- UK Regional & Tours
- MARGATE ARTS CLUB
- 14th Aug 2021
JONJO JURYJACQUI POTATOJANET DISTRICT COUNCILGINROSY ROSSTED ROGERSANT CJOYLESSBONKSPECIAL GUESTS ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
CLUB FLIQ: Launch party with DJ Jeanie Crystal & Lemur Beats
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Crown House
- 14th Aug 2021
Join us for the launch of CLUB FLIQ, a new club night in St Leonards exclusively for queer women and non-binary babes.
Club Kali Independence-Gay Boat Party
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Bar & Co Party Boat
- 14th Aug 2021
Get back on board with Club Kali Independence Gay Boat Party! Saturday August 14th on board Bar&Co.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Taiwan Hengchun Folk Songs Singing Club – Sing To the World (Free)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 14th - 21st Aug 2021
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Hatty Ashdown: Dig Deep (Work-in-Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 14th - 15th Aug 2021
“Wonderfully inventive, consistently funny”- Time out.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Anthem - Old Skool Reunion: An Almighty Night Out - The Big Reunion
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 13th Aug 2021
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK.
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.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 12th - 22nd Aug 2021
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to dazzle children (aged 6+) and their families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Big Birthday Show With Magic Gareth
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 10th - 22nd Aug 2021
Did you have a birthday in the last year that was spoilt by COVID? Or an anniversary? Or a Christmas.
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.
Online Energy Healing Sessions
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Online Event
- 8th - 29th Aug 2021
Book an Energy Healing session online and bring your being into alignment with itself and the cosmos.
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.
Watford Outdoor Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Stage In The Park
- 7th Aug 2021
We’re proud to present our evening of summertime hilarity, mirth and merriment for your pleasure.
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.
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…
Ross Leslie: Guess Who's Back, Back Again, Big Lesbo's Back, Tell a Friend
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 6th - 27th Aug 2021
He’s back with a brand new comedy show for 2021! Mask off, mic on, laughs had! Four-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
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’.
The Big Show from Monkey Barrel Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 6th - 29th Aug 2021
The Big Show returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy’s top-rated, sell-out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15 (not 12th), with a top mixed-bill line-up each even…
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…
Ronald Forbes: The Dreamweaver's Puzzles Exhibition at the Scottish Arts Club
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Arts Club Online
- 6th Aug 2021
Ronald Forbes RSA RGI festival exhibition, The Dreamweaver’s Puzzles at the Scottish Arts Club (28th July to 29th August).
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…
Edinburgh Renaissance Band – On Demand
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 9th Aug 2021
A unique opportunity to enjoy this award winning, ever popular Early Music group, who have performed at every Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1973.
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…
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Stage In The Park
- 4th Aug 2021
Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires).
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 …
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 …
Saucy Sophie's Big Camp Quiz
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- 12 Old Quebec St
- 29th Jul - 28th Oct 2021
Every Thursday at The Quebec Saucy Sophie brings you the campest quiz in town.
Briefs Bite Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Southbank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall
- 28th Jul 2021 - 31st Jul 2022
BRIEFS BITE CLUB is a brand new, iconic extravaganza that sees the glittery gang serving up their signature camp-cabaret fantasy of circus, drag and comedy in a sexy showcase of ou…
Swinging At The Cotton Club
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Stage In The Park
- 25th Jul 2021
Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’! ‘Swinging at The Cotton Club’ is the action-packed sh…
THE BLUES BAND: 40 Years & Back for More
- Listing Music
- World Tours
- De La Warr Pavilion
- 23rd Jul 2021
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
‘Drink & Draw‘ with Queer Culture Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Balans Soho No.60
- 19th Jul - 23rd Aug 2021
Welcome to the return of our beloved Drink & Draw Social! Or for those who joined us in lockdown- finally an IRL Make & Mingle! Join Ellie & Megan on Monday a…
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…
Big Band: Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 11th Jul 2021
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 10th Jul 2021
Returning once more to Brighton Fringe, after consecutive sell-out shows, it’s time again to romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect huge anth…
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.
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…
Youth Club Experience: a slice of the 80s
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 25th - 26th Jun 2021
You remember what it was like to go to the youth club, don’t you? No.
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.
Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2021
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st Jun 2021
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
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.
The Big Albany Poetry Picnic
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 20th Jun 2021
Come together. Write Now! A brand new event, the POETRY PICNIC! A snack heavy celebration of music and poetry, with poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko.
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’.
Le Wine Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 19th - 26th Jun 2021
Chanteuse and sommelier, Anna Lou, presents a wine tasting to remember.
Le Wine Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 19th - 26th Jun 2021
Chanteuse and sommelier, Anna Lou, presents a wine tasting to remember.
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.
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.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Jun - 20th Dec 2021
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
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.
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).
Dave The Bear: The Big Hairy Growler
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th Jun 2021
The Man.
Dave The Bear: The Big Hairy Growler
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th Jun 2021
The Man.
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.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 5th Jun 2021
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
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…
New Parent Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 1st Jun - 8th Jul 2021
New parent? In need of entertainment for grown-ups? Come to these special daytime showings of our evening programme, where you can enjoy some of our best shows with your baby in to…
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.
Fringe Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Electric Arcade
- 29th May - 10th Jul 2021
Continue your evening with the Fringe’s wildest late-night show.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 29th May - 26th Jun 2021
After many long months of closure, we are now absolutely delighted to bring back Komedia’s renowned (and now socially distanced) live stand-up show, Krater Comedy Club! Discover…
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 29th May - 26th Jun 2021
After many long months of closure, we are now absolutely delighted to bring back Komedia’s renowned (and now socially distanced) live stand-up show, Krater Comedy Club! Discover…
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…
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…
The 3P Club Movie
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Get ready to ride your mighty stallions to Hollywood in 3.
The 3P Club Movie
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Get ready to ride your mighty stallions to Hollywood in 3.
Big Quiffy Bingo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd Jun, 2021
Big Quiffy Bingo was a show that was full of glitz and glamour, thanks to the host of the evening Boogaloo Stu.
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.
Artista presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 11th Jul 2021
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
AAA presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 11th Jul 2021
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
Artista's Secret Comedy Club: The Comedy Hub
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 27th Jun 2021
Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you! Performances on 6 days per week, 4 to 6 times per day, from 17:30 until 23:00 on weekdays and 14:3…
Uncle Funk and the Boogie Wonder Band ‘Disco Inferno’ Charity Night
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 14th May 2021
Friday 14th May 2021, 8pm (doors open at 7.
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.
BIG BOBBY. Little BOBBY.
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 1st Apr 2021
A deliciously twisted and tender comedy about inner gremlins and awkward romance.
Big Deal Drama
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Off Off Broadway
Big Deal Drama will be joining forces with poets, a visual artist and beatboxer/sound artist for Crep Project.
Stand Up Comedy Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 15th Jan 2021
Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Hounslow Community Brass Band
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 5th Jan 2021
Please note due to recent Government guidance changes, all HCBB sessions this term starting Jan 2021 will be held online in a 1 to 1 format.
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.
‘Drink & Draw‘ Returns! with Queer Culture Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Balans Soho No.60
- 9th Sep 2020 - 6th Sep 2021
Welcome to the return of our beloved Drink & Draw Social! Or for those who joined us in lockdown- finally an IRL Make & Mingle! Join Ellie & Megan on Monday a…
Big Band Swing!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 29th Aug 2020
Two hours of big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing from Scotland’s record-breaking big band, Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
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…
British Army Musicians: More Than Just A Marching Band
- Listing Events
- Online & Broadcast
- A Company 6 Scots
- 25th - 30th Aug 2020
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
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…
Big Ideas vs Limitations – Achieving Ambitious Designs at Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Events
- Online & Broadcast
- A Company 6 Scots
- 19th - 30th Aug 2020
Learn the ins and outs of the logistics behind achieving ambitious designs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Anna Driftmier, designer of Army @ The Fringe 2019 show Dead E…
Jamali Maddix: Strip Club Einstein
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 19th - 30th Aug 2020
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour again after his incredible 2018 W…
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.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 14th Aug 2020
Stephane Grappelli-style violinist Alex Yellowlees, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and wonderful double bassist Kenny Ellis.
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).
Al Start's Go Kid Music Club: Tall Tales
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 9th Aug 2020
Brighton resident and local legend Al Start is heading to the beach this Summer with an array of stories and songs for kids and their grown-ups.
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.
Clowntown: Patty and Giggles Go to the Zoo, a Funtastic Day Out with Sphere Clown Band
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 22nd Aug 2020
‘Infectious fun’ ***** (FringeReview.
Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Imagination Workshop
- 7th - 30th Aug 2020
‘Wonderful silliness’ ***** (GlamAdelaide.
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.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 6th - 30th Aug 2020
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 6th - 30th Aug 2020
Established as one of the best shows of the 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…
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Good morning, Edinburgh! After many successful Fringe sell-outs, we’re back for our fabulous 15th anniversary! Three new, stimulating, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15-minute c…
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.
The Glee Club
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Kiln Theatre
- 4th - 27th Jun 2020
‘When I go back those days in my head, it’s to that pit and the fun I had with a bunch of old men singing songs.
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.
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.
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,…
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.
Albert Lee & Band
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 8th Mar 2020
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
Albert Lee & Band
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 8th Mar 2020
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
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…
The Female Pilot Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Feb 2020
Come for a double at the Pilot Club! Two brand new sitcom pilots, read by the best comedy actors in Britain.
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big In This?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 21st - 22nd Feb 2020
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big In This?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 21st - 22nd Feb 2020
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
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…
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.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Jan - 27th Apr 2020
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
MagicFest - Comedy Magic Club
- Listing Magic
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 28th - 29th Dec 2019
Have your mind blown as you laugh yourself silly! A line up of the funniest, scariest, and freakiest, conjured up for your delight in our magic comedy club.
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.
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.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 18th Oct 2019
The Cocoa Butter Club brings you a fierce line up celebrating feminine attitude.
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Oct 2019
Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Nick brings the mellow thunder with a brand-new stand-up show with one of those zeitgeisty titles that kids love the…
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.
The Monthly Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd Oct - 4th Dec 2019
The Museum of of Comedy’s brand new monthly line up show! Hand-picked bills showcasing some of the finest acts on the circuit and our Monday Club regulars bri…
Female Pilot Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Sep 2019
Care for a double at the Female Pilot Club? Two brand-new sitcom scripts are taken up for a spin.
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.
Big The Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Dominion Theatre
- 6th Sep - 2nd Nov 2019
The heart-warming and hilarious Broadway show based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks, comes to The Dominion Theatre for its West End Premier.
*a great big sigh*
- Review
- ★★★
- Christopher James
- London Fringe
- Hen and Chickens Theatre
- 11th Sep, 2019
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
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.
The Wendy Weatherby Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 24th Aug 2019
Wendy showcases new material from her forthcoming album, featuring her powerful, siren-like voice (the mystical creatures that lured sailors to their death, not a police siren!), c…
Amusical Club Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 24th - 25th Aug 2019
Dance the night away to your favourite songs from the musicals – featuring live music from Amusical house band Dave and The Quavers, plus guest DJ sets from the best comedians in…
Big Band Bublé
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 24th Aug 2019
Fresh from his recent successful tour, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous…
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
The award-winning Aussie comedian is back with a brand-new show, taking on the end of the world.
The Golden Era of the Big Band presented by The Sound of Seventeen Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 21st Aug 2019
We will be picking the very best charts from our vast library to celebrate the golden age of the big bands.
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.
The 900 Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Poetry Library
- 20th - 24th Aug 2019
Five years after the death of their friend, Emily, Avery, Fi and Mac reunite to celebrate his life.
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.
Inverkeithing Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 20th Aug 2019
Returning to the Fringe for its fifth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an incredible evening of exciting jazz and toe-tapping swing from Ellington, Basie and many mo…
ETBF – Energy Efficiency of Traditional Buildings Seminar
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Architecture & Design Scotland
- 19th Aug 2019
Come join the Scottish Traditional Building Forum and Moses Jenkins from Historic Environment Scotland for a talk on appropriate energy efficiency measures for a traditional house.
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.
Band From County Hell
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stramash
- 18th Aug 2019
Live, original band as seen at The London Palladium with seven critically acclaimed, original albums and over 2,000 live shows.
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.
Big Swing Face
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bellfield / St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 16th - 17th Aug 2019
Back at the Fringe for a fourth sell-out year, the world’s biggest big band (probably!) bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of b…
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…
Bessy Bass Band's Munchtime Music!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 17th - 24th Aug 2019
Come and join Bessy and friends in their new lunchtime chamber music concerts for children! Bring along your own picnic and munch your lunch as Bessy and friends serenade you in ou…
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…
Build a Football Club, IRL!
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 13th Aug 2019
Have you taken your team to the Champions League Final in Football Manager? Is this all it takes to go pro? Mason Robbins (University of Edinburgh – FC Barcelona partnership) rec…
Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 12th Aug 2019
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
Big Band Does... Broadway
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
BBD Productions make their debut at the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway.
Arabella Weir: Does My Mum Loom Big in This?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th - 25th Aug 2019
The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
Ed Gamble: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 12th - 16th Aug 2019
Hi guys, Ed here.
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.
Jive Aces Big Beat Revue
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 12th - 14th Aug 2019
UK’s No 1 swing band, The Jive Aces, present their biggest theatre show to date The Big Beat Revue! Also featuring Kara Lane, Lottie B and Grazia Bevilacqua, this show features t…
Chameleon Lady (Band) with Special Guests!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Mash House
- 12th Aug 2019
Chameleon Lady are the latest big noise from Edinburgh with their exciting brand of semi-acoustic pop.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Minstrels and Monarchs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 12th - 14th Aug 2019
Music of great halls, cathedrals and servants’ quarters is brought to life by the group who have been delighting Fringe audiences since 1973.
Newtongrange Silver Band in Concert
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
- 11th Aug 2019
Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band based on the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 9th Aug 2019
Sold-out AMC 2017, 2018! Alex – the Scottish modern day Stephane Grappelli on violin, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, p…
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).
Big Band Grand Slam
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brewhemia
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2019
An unmissable evening with Edinburgh’s incredible swing, jazz and blues big bands on rotation every Thursday night.
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.
Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Imagination Workshop
- 8th - 18th Aug 2019
Luth’s on an action-packed circus adventure – but she needs your help! She’s looking for giggle-ready three to seven-year-olds to help her solve a whole host of fun physical chal…
Barnardo's Big Comedy Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 7th Aug 2019
Join us for an evening of stand-up comedy to raise funds for Barnardo’s.
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 6th - 7th Aug 2019
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years for another trip down memory lane.
Tenement Jazz Band: The Red Hot Roots of Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 26th Aug 2019
Tenement Jazz Band return to continue their exploration of the roots of jazz, from ragtime through to the jazz age.
Big Tam's Kilted Shindig
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
- 6th - 21st Aug 2019
Scotch pie push-ups, cludgie clenches, haggis swings anybody? You know you want to gie ‘em a go.
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.
The Sinners Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
Where can you go to find all the dirty scandals on campus? The Sinners Club is the only radio show where people can call in anonymously and tell the whole university their biggest …
Colonel Mustard and the Big Bad Wolf
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 18th Aug 2019
Is the Big Bad Wolf really bad, or just misunderstood and trying to trigger his muddled memory? Could music or something else beginning with M be the answer? Its a mystery that wil…
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.
The Big Bluesy Brunch
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brewhemia
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
Sundays are the day of rest, but Brewhemians don’t believe in this! We’ve got local blues bands, fantastic choirs and award-winning a cappella groups as well as showstopping silent…
Youth Orchestra Los Angeles with Big Noise Raploch
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Usher Hall
- 4th Aug 2019
RehearsingTraditional (arr.
Shappi Khorsandi: Skittish Warrior... Confessions of a Club Comic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 10th Aug 2019
Comedian, author and, most recently, idiot who agreed to be tortured on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!, Shappi is a woman of many parts.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight.
What’s the Big Idea? Playwriting Workshop with Oliver Emanuel
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 4th Aug 2019
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Howl Comedy Club Free Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Ever been to a really well-run comedy club? Watch an hour of pro comedy for free instead of the £10 charge outside of the Fringe.
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.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★
- William Leckie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 25th Aug, 2019
The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health.
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.
Rob Mulholland: Too Big To Fail
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Opium Nightclub, Upstairs
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
High-energy powerhouse standup for purists featuring big laughs from a road-hardened pro.
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.
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.
Little Death Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 14th Aug, 2019
The air of the Speigeltent circus hub is thick with dark debauchery, smoke and gin soaked Weimer punk jazz, setting the atmosphere for a celebration of the extraordinary.
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…
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.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Isla Whateley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 20th Aug, 2019
FOC It Up is a comedy collective aiming to showcase the talents of women and non-binary people of colour, in a comedy world that is mostly made up of straight white men.
Rap Club the Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2019
The true story of how a group of Croydon kids.
Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
The Next Next Big Thing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ Nightcap
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Have you ever been into something before it was cool? An indie band or the latest fashion trend? The Next Next Big Thing is your chance to get in on the ground floor with two of th…
The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon…
Strut Club Cabaret Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Progress
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alex Bailey Dillon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 23rd Aug, 2019
There is something deeply human and inherently charming about imperfect dance.
Paul Putner's Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
It’s the ruby anniversary of Madness and Paul Putner celebrates the past 40 years as a lifelong fan.
Louise Young and Anja Atkinson: Big Div Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Rising stars Louise Young and Anja Atkinson make their Fringe debut.
Vibe Revue Supper Club at The Grange
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Grange Club
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2019
Jazzy / funk supper club at the Grange Club in trendy Stockbridge, 20 minutes from Princes Street.
Global Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Global Comedy Club: showcasing some of the best up-and-coming comedians on the circuit.
The Brunch Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Rebel, geek, emo, which were you? Or were you the popular one? Scotland’s brightest new talents, The Network, take on the cliques in a homage to classic coming-of-age movies.
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Nick Elleray brings the mellow thunder to the Fringe with a brand-new stand-up show with a great new zeitgeisty title that the kids will love.
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.
Big Wendy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Novotel
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
2018 was going to be Emily’s year.
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…
Talk a Big Game
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Place
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
After shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns with last year’s hit show on… sports! Yep.
Canadian Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Canadian Club is a stand-up comedy show produced by one of the most Canadian people in the world, Brad Bryans. Free maple syrup offered to all audience members.
All Work, No Play
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Novotel
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
We all have to work.
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).
Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Life’s getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social – life now is guilt, followed by shame.
Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Join the funniest acts on the UK and international circuit as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
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.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
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.
A Wake in Progress
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘I’m sorry.
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
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.
The Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 1st - 17th Aug 2019
Wild man of the accordion, Sandy Brechin, launches a brand new show of fast and funky traditional tune sets, featuring amazing new compositions from the long-awaited forthcoming th…
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).
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘Funny.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
TV producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
Manhunt 2: Big Mood
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Best friends Emm and Leo have made the bold artistic decision to graduate without any skills or job prospects.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Just cos you’re a kid doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show doesn’t mean you can’t also hav…
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Good morning, Edinburgh! After Fringe sell-outs in 2017 and 2018, we’re moving to a lovely new venue.
The Big Gay StorySlam
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
The biggest, gayest set of tales the Fringe has ever heard comes out to play in this theatrical performance-meets-storytelling competition.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Millie Bayswater
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 4th Aug, 2019
Baby Wants Candy has become almost as much a staple of the Fringe as being slapped in the face with flyers on the Royal Mile.
The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul 2019
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
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.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
The National Trust Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 7th Aug, 2019
The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym…
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.
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…
Louise Young and Neil Harris: Big Div Energy £5 / PWYW
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 27th Jul 2019
Rising stars Louise Young and Neil Harris make their Great Yorkshire Fringe debut.
The Burning Duck Comedy Club £5 / PWYW Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 26th Jul 2019
York’s alternative comedy sensation the Burning Duck Comedy Club returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe, presenting the best ‘up-and-coming’ musical, ch…
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club - Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 26th - 27th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club: Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 26th - 27th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
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.
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.
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club - Gary Delaney, Angelos Epithemiou & Alex Boardman
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 19th - 20th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Darren Harriott: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 19th Jul 2019
Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person.
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club: Gary Delaney, Angelos Epithemiou & Alex Boardman
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 19th - 20th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Lucy Beaumont: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 19th Jul 2019
Lucy is a hugely talented comedy actress and writer.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 19th Jul - 13th Sep 2019
The Cocoa Butter Club presents a triple bill of exhilarating, vibrant and titillating cabaret.
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…
Big Box Aliens
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Lock 91
- 17th - 18th Jul 2019
Big Box Aliens is an alternative comedy experience like no other.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 18th Jul 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
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 …
*a great big sigh*
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 7th - 8th Jul 2019
The world outside is (probably) falling apart.
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…
SHAPPI KHORSANDI : Skittish Warrior...Confessions of a Club Comic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 28th Jun 2019
28th June, 8pm Tickets: £16 Suitable for: ages 14+.
The Female Pilots' Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jun 2019
How about a double at the Pilots' Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
The Female Pilot’s Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jun 2019
How about a double at the Pilot’s Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
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.
Band of Horses
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- O2 Forum Kentish Town
- 21st Jun 2019
Band Of Horses have been a mainstay of indie rock for a decade, with five studio albums, including the Grammy-nominated Infinite Arms, to their name.
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.
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.
Club Glitoris
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 6th Jun - 4th Jul 2019
Southend Fringe Festival Presents Club Glitoris. A drag, cabaret, burlesque, comedy night for all the weird and wonderful people to come together and party the night away.
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.
The Tulsa Time Band: A Tribute to Don Williams
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 1st Jun 2019
The first British tribute band performing the classic songs of Don Williams.
Big Swing Face
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Nicholas Church
- 1st Jun 2019
SLJO are very excited to introduce their new conductor, James Keirle, to Brighton Fringe.
Pirate Pearl and the Big Blue Monster!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2019
Pirate Pearl lives aboard the good ship Mirabel with her crusty old Grandpa Bert.
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.
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).
Super Cumbia Party Band
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 29th May 2019
We are SUPER CUMBIA PARTY BAND, a superhero ensemble with an important mission: to remove the sorrow from planet Earth.
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…
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.
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…
Big
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 23rd - 25th May 2019
Society puts a lot of pressure on Fat Girl.
Brighton's Big Fat Literary Olympics
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Richmond
- 22nd May 2019
Know your Austen from your Auster? Or couldn’t spot a novel from a shovel? You’re both welcome.
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.
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.
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.
Music with Mike: The Big Gig
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 19th - 31st May 2019
Join Brighton’s award-winning Music Mike in an action-packed musical adventure.
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 …
An Evening with the Sussex Musicians' Club
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 18th May 2019
An evening of brilliant music-making with soprano Valeria Guidotti, flautist Karen Rash, violinist Sophia Bartlette, guitarist Sebastian Goodwin-Day, and pianists Jon Byrne, Joe Wa…
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.
artrepublic Kids Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- artrepublic
- 18th May 2019
Join us for our popular monthly Kids Club; a creative couple of hours, hosted by an artrepublic artist on one Saturday each month and centred around one theme or activity.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC
- 10th May 2019
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 4th - 6th May 2019
Award-winning, best-selling author Stuart Reid brings his hilarious blend of bums, bogies and big bottom burps to Brighton.
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.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 4th - 6th May 2019
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
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.
Boat Show Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Boat Show Comedy Club
- 3rd May - 30th Nov 2019
London's finest floating comedy club aboard the Tattershall Castle.
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.
The Secret Comedy Club: Fringe Comedy Hub
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2019
We have over 80 professional comedy acts who applied to Artista Cafe & Gallery.
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…
Little Death Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 18th Apr - 23rd Jun 2019
Welcome to the darkest, funniest and most debauched kabarett club this side of Berlin! A gin soaked, Weimar-punk jazz band soundtracks a hazy night of dangerously fu…
Stand-Up Comedy Club (April)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 17th Apr 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
The Massaoke Band
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 12th Apr - 20th Sep 2019
For the uninitiated, Massaoke is a huge sing-along party with a brilliant live band, where everyone sings together guided by giant video lyrics, and the crowd is the star of the sh…
Fleetwood Bac - Tribute Band
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- O2 Islington2
- 12th Apr 2019
Fleetwood Bac, the world’s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, are bringing their authentic sound and look to the stage as they perform some of the band’s greate…
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.
Variety Film Club - My Fair Lady
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 4th Apr 2019
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of th…
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.
Carlton Main Frickley Band
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 17th Mar 2019
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band are well known in the brass band world.
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.
Stand-Up Comedy Club (March)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Mar 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
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 …
A Night of Big Band Favourites
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Dublin
- Civic Theatre
- 6th Mar 2019
A Larger than life show from a Larger than life Band.
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.
Variety Film Club - Wizard Of Oz
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 28th Feb 2019
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of th…
Teens pottery & ceramics club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 27th Feb 2019
£78 for 5 week courseWednesdays at 6.
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.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton
- Komedia Brighton
- 16th Feb 2019
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Jo Burke: Peculiar - Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Feb 2019
Jo Burke is feeling a little peculiar.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 16th Feb 2019
Comedy Club 4 Kids It's a comedy club, right, but for kids.
It's A Scream Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Feb - 14th Jun 2019
New parents! You can do a fun thing without ditching your babies! Three great stand up comedians performing in a room where babies are welcome (up to the age where they …
Stand-Up Comedy Club (February)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Feb 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Feb - 3rd Jul 2019
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club will run throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of ente…
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.
Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 9th Feb 2019
Big Fish Little Fish ‘We Can Be Heroes’ themed family rave with DJs Baker & Beale Come make merry again with the award winning, world famous Big Fish Lit…
The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales (U) - Family Cinema
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 2nd Feb 2019
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits.
Brainiac Live! - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 2nd Feb 2019
Strap on your safety goggles boys and girls, due to popular demand Science’s greatest and most volatile live show is returning with a vengeance.
Ed Byrne - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Comedy
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 1st Feb 2019
Most recently seen on Dara and Ed’s Road To Mandalay and various Mock The Weeks, Ed has become a household name from his multiple BBC TV appearances.
Smut Slam - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 31st Jan 2019
Smut Slam travels around the world spreading joy, laughs, and lots of education too! Now this community dirty-storytelling show—packed with stories of real life, real lust, real …
Jock Tamson\'s Bairns - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Music
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 31st Jan 2019
Part drag, part cabaret and part theatre, Jock Tamson’s Bairns is an immersive show where the audience is transported to an after hours gay bar and invited to speak their mind.
Carter School of Dance presents A Great Big Dance Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 27th Jan 2019
Tickets: £13.
Hardeep Singh Kohli: You Topia - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Comedy
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 27th Jan 2019
The BBC Radio 4 Sketchtopia host, Celebrity Big Brother star and Question Time & This Week regular, takes the follow up to his acclaimed 2017 hit on the road mixing his trademark �…
Hans Like A German - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 27th Jan 2019
International superstar Hans, the boy wonder of Berlin, serves up an all-singing, all-tap dancing, accordion-pumping, glittering blitzkrieg of cabaret backed by his three-piece ban…
Queer Haggis - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 26th Jan 2019
Roll out the glittery sparkle carpet, re-fill the party cannons and re-hang that big dirty disco ball – the most outrageous party of the year is back! Queer Haggis welcomes a br…
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).
Le Haggis - Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 25th Jan - 2nd Feb 2019
More theatrical than ever, Le Haggis VI will explode into the centre of the Spiegeltent at high octane speed, shimmering like a tartan sporran hanging off the side of very chiselle…
Big Burns Supper 2019
- Listing All Genres
- Scotland
- Spiegeltent
- 24th Jan - 3rd Feb 2019
Celebrating the Bards' birthday in the town where he composed his famous works, the eighth year of Big Burns Supper features eleven days of comedy, cabaret, music, theatre and mor…
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…
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Jan 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
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 Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Jan - 25th Mar 2019
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
Absolute Bowie - Tribute Band
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- O2 Islington2
- 11th Jan 2019
With their brand new stage show 50 Years of Bowie, Absolute Bowie will take audiences on a musical journey through the iconic singer's ever changing personas.
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - O2
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
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.
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.
The Band
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- 1st Dec 2018 - 12th Jan 2019
Take That are proud to present their new musical with a beautiful story written by the Olivier Award winning writer Tim Firth, The Band which is for anyone who grew up with a boyba…
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)
The Billy Joel Songbook performed by Elio Pace and his band
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 25th Nov 2018
Following on from his highly-acclaimed reunion concerts in the USA with Billy Joel’s original touring band and now in its fifth, hugely-successful year, Elio Pace …
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…
The 24/7 Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Nov 2018
Charlie Vero-Martin plays historical characters who share her birthday - the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in this fun and thought prov…
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Nottingham
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
- 21st - 25th Nov 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Rob Beckett: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 20th Nov - 13th Dec 2018
Rob Beckett: Work In Progress
Nearly Dan - Tribute Band
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Jazz Cafe
- 18th Nov 2018
The Spirit & Sound of Steely Dan.
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Sheffield
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 14th - 18th Nov 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his band
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 11th Nov 2018
Apollo Theatre Company in association with Spike Milligan Productions Ltd presentsThe Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his BandBy Spike MilliganFrom the producers…
Zac Brown Band
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The O2 Arena
- 27th Oct 2018
Southern-rock phenomenon Zac Brown Band and Grammy-nominated Californian vocalist Beth Hart are the latest acts to be announced for this year’s BluesFest, which returns to Th…
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 27th Oct - 20th Nov 2018
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 26th Oct 2018
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Nick Sharratt's Big Draw-Along
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 23rd Oct 2018
Join acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Nick Sharratt to find out how he creates his picture books.
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 19th Oct - 18th Nov 2018
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club By Jonathan HarveyDirected by Steven DexterDesigned by David Shields Lighting designed by Jamie PlattFrom the writer…
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Birmingham
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- NIA Birmingham
- 19th - 28th Oct 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Manchester
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Manchester Arena
- 10th - 14th Oct 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
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
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Newcastle
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Metro Radio Arena
- 2nd - 7th Oct 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The Covent Garden Comedy Club @ Heaven
The Covent Garden Comedy Club @ Heaven is celebrating 16 years of making London laugh in 2018 and is the biggest and most successful independent comedy club in Central London with …
Michael English and His Band
- Listing Events
- West End
- Islington Assembly Hall
- 22nd Sep 2018
Following the huge success of Michael’s previous visits to The U.
Disney On Ice: Dream Big - Glasgow
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Braehead Arena
- 21st - 30th Sep 2018
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
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.
Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 27th Aug 2018
Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band are delighted to be debuting at this year’s Fringe! The band, renowned for its vast repertoire covering everything from jazz standards to c…
Inverkeithing Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug 2018
Returning to the Fringe for its fourth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of exciting jazz and swing.
Alan Cumming presents Club Cumming
- Listing Music / Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 25th Aug 2018
Club Cumming began in Alan’s Studio 54 dressing room after performances of Cabaret on Broadway in 2015, where pals like Sting, Gareth Pugh and Monica Lewinsky would come backst…
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.
Big Swing Face
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Portobello Old Parish Church / St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
Back at the Fringe for a third year, the SLJO bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of big band and beyond.
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.
Big Band Swing! From Basie to Bublé
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
Relive the era when swing was king, with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals from Scotland’s popular record-breaking big swing band – everything from Basie to Bublé.
Rachel Parris' Musical Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2018
For three nights only, award-winning musical comedian and star of BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Rachel Parris, presents a late-night jamboree of tunes intended to tickle, including so…
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
16m subscribers.
Zeus on the Loose
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Camden Fringe
- The Cockpit
- 23rd Aug 2018
'Zeus on the Loose' .
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.
Big Boys Don't Cry
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 21st Aug 2018
Toxic masculinity is blamed for everything from the #MeToo movement to rates of male suicide.
Working Together: How Can Freelancers and Venues Work Effectively Together?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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.
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.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 20th - 26th Aug 2018
TV comedy producer Izzy (Peep Show, Toast of London, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
Eliza's Big Adventure!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Oh no, Eliza the explorer has been kicked out of her kingdom! She needs to go on an adventure to prove she is the best explorer and make it back in time for the summer celebration.
Newtongrange Silver Band In Concert
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
- 19th Aug 2018
Newtongrange Silver Band (established 1892) is a traditional mining village brass band but their repertoire is far from traditional.
Dodo Street Band - The Last Word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 18th Aug 2018
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
The Wendy Weatherby Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 18th Aug 2018
Beautiful heart-wrenching songs, lively cello tunes and lots of laughter from Edinburgh’s own bubbly queen of folk Wendy Weatherby and her all-star band, featuring Fiona Cuthill on…
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…
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 16th - 17th Aug 2018
A bit of fun and a trip down memory lane.
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist 6: Big O Makes It in New York... or, Does She? – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage / Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
- 14th - 27th Aug 2018
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Bongo Club Cabaret vs Cancer
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th Aug 2018
The legendary late-night variety show returns for one night only! An incredible line-up of cabaret, comedy and music acts from across the Fringe presented by Rhymes with Purple and…
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…
The Fun Club Presents...
- Review
- ★★
- C. M. Cromie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 21st Aug, 2018
I’m not sure how to explain The Fun Club Presents… Three performers – Sara Page, Franny Anne Rafferty and Alistair McPhail – in a room, all in animal face-paint, talk obliq…
Big Man. Little Instruments
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 15th - 27th Aug 2018
One man’s intimate story of escape from religion, to love, loss and triumph.
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.
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 …
Edinburgh Renaissance Band: Castle and Kirk
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 14th - 18th Aug 2018
The music of great halls, cathedrals and servants’ quarters is brought to life by the group who have been delighting Fringe audiences since 1973.
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…
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.
Big Love
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 13th - 16th Aug 2018
Big Love – Charles Mee’s adaption of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality.
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…
Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 13th Aug 2018
Hosted by Susan Calman in her only Fringe appearance this year.
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 …
Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 12th Aug 2018
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band are joined by Polyhymnia Dancers in the ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the…
Allman Brothers Band Appreciation
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stramash
- 12th - 19th Aug 2018
Safe House are back for a fifth year playing their highly acclaimed Allmans Brothers set including classics from the Fillmore East album Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,…
The Golden Era of the Big Band Presented by The Sound of Seventeen Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 12th Aug 2018
Welcome to the big band era and beyond! The Sound of Seventeen is a jazz orchestra line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a four-piece rhythm section bringing you swing, ja…
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Showcase
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 10th - 17th Aug 2018
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Sam Outlaw and Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 10th Aug 2018
Lonesome Highway are delighted to bring Sam back to Edinburgh with his wonderful band for their only Scottish show of the year.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 10th Aug 2018
Sold out AMC2017! Alex (the Scottish modern day Stephane Grappelli) on violin and virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform…
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.
Barnardo's Big Comedy Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 8th Aug 2018
Join us for a two-hour comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, whilst previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
Dani Sicari and The Easy Rollers: Live at The A Club
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 8th - 9th Aug 2018
What’s that, old sport? Swing classics and Prohibition-era hits from some of the finest talents in the country? Precisely! Prepare to be transported back to the golden age of jaz…
The Big Lie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Christine Kempell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jurys Inn
- 15th Aug, 2018
If the thought of watching a one woman play about a Kurdish refugee turned lawyer helping to broker a major arms deal for a Swedish law firm doesn’t thrill you then think again, …
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
Former PM and cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back.
Main Street Blues: High-Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
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.
Club Swizzle
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Roundhouse
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Comedy, circus and cabaret – served with a twist Loose, glorious and irresistibly fun, Club Swizzle is a night of sassy entertainment at the wildest bar in town.
Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
Chris Chopping's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dr Livingstone’s / The Clootie Dumpling / Three Broomsticks
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Last year, Chris was finally feeling happy and well-adjusted.
Eleanor Westbrook: Big Berg
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Vida
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Let the ‘Queen of silliness (***** BroadwayBaby.
Universoul Circus: Hip Hop Under the Big Top
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
After electrifying US audiences for 25 years, America’s ‘coolest show on earth’ (Newsweek) comes to the UK for the first time.
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 Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 4th Aug 2018
The wild man of Scottish accordion is back with his tip-top tunes, frighteningly fast fingering and hilarious hi-jinks and humour, accompanied by his groovin’ five-piece band.
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.
Little Death Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 22nd Aug, 2018
An atmosphere of fun and weimar cabaret beats envelop us as we enter Beauty at the Circus Hub.
Big Trouble in Little Monkey's Daycare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
Tommy is four-and-a-quarter years old, and a hard-boiled private investigator on the mean streets of Little Monkey’s Daycare.
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.
The OS Map Fan Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show in 2017.
The Big Balloon Singalong
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Caring for kids with a curious craze for karaoke? Then look no further than The Big Balloon Singalong! Fun for all the family and featuring all the greatest hits (.
Gary Little: Big Mouth
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Diamond Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
The Diamond Comedy Club is bringing some of the freshest voices in stand-up comedy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an unmissable late-night party! Each night, a different line…
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.
Berlin Survivors' Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Berlin, the capital of dark humour, dark history and dark rooms.
The 900 Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Poetry Library
- 3rd - 12th Aug 2018
Four friends reunite after five years to commemorate the death of their friend, which broke them apart.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Just ‘cos you’re a kid, doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just ‘cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show, doesn’t mean you can’t also…
Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘Five stars! Infectious fun’ (FringeReview.
Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Charteris
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
Enough fantasies of the apocalypse, it’s already here.
John Montgomery String Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
This is the five-piece band’s second consecutive appearance at the Fringe.
The Next Big Thing
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
John Lennon spent his Scottish boyhood holidays in Durness, Sutherland: not fake news! This thoughtful, comic fable of modern Scotland, adapted from the novel by Scottish Governmen…
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
‘Funny.
Phil Ellis Is Ready for the Big Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
After winning the Edinburgh Panel Prize in 2014 with Funz and Gamez, Phil’s ready to bring his unique, anarchic and unreliable comedy to the masses.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a different selection each day of four of the best comics at the Fringe.
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…
Tetchy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
The whole world is on edge.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
James Nokise: Talk a Big Game
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
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.
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.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price. Hand selected from our year-round auditions, this show is quality talent in its prime.
Robin Clyfan: The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jim Ralley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 25th Aug, 2018
At the centre of its big, warm heart, The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It is a story about a non-activist boy and his activist mother, and by extension a story about all of us and our…
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.
Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
Twice a day, Audrey, the unique 22-seat Vintage Mobile Cinema will become a comedy venue.
The Laird's Big Breaxit
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
Scotland’s landowners were in retreat.
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…
Big Shop
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
It’s time for the Big Shop, not to be confused with your ‘bits shop’ (which you might do at the little Tesco) or your ‘big wash’ (which is like the Big Shop but that’s not what we’…
Mickey Sharma – Filthy Club Comic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
With five Edinburgh shows under his belt and nine years experience as a professional, Mickey brings his best material. No feelings, just good jokes.
Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Nigel Ng is from Malaysia.
After Hours Cabaret Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 6th Aug, 2018
Entering the Underbelly Fresian, we were enticed by the melodious notes of a live band playing.
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price.
The Big Time
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 1st - 25th Aug 2018
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Show 2018
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st Aug 2018
See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr…
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.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Total sell-out 2015, 2016 and 2017! One of the best-known, longest-running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Annabel Pribelszki
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 10th Aug, 2018
If you like your cabaret kick-ass, feminist, patriarchy-smashing and unabashedly consensual, do not miss Glittery Clittery Fringe Wives Club.
Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Welcome to The 24/7 Club, where everyone was born on the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in Charlie V Martin’s new solo show about her birthday.
Big Aftermath of a Small Disclosure
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
By Magne van den Berg, UK premiere.
Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 30th Jul - 26th Aug 2018
The latest Edinburgh Fringe fun from the award-winning and best-selling author Stuart Reid.
The Onion Club: American Apocalypse Now
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2018
A deliciously dark musical cabaret exquisitely crushing the American dream, delivered with rare power and visceral beauty.
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Good morning, Edinburgh! Three funny, thought-provoking “menus” of ten-minute plays.
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.
Club Briefs
- Listing Events
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 25th Jul 2018 - 3rd Aug 2019
Get your dancing shoes on with cult cabaret hooligans and mischief makers BRIEFS in a late night romp of music, performance and mayhem - all inside Underbelly Festival’s stun…
The Burning Duck Comedy Club £5/PWYW Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 23rd - 29th Jul 2018
York’s alternative comedy sensation the Burning Duck Comedy Club returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe, presenting another handcrafted artisanal smorgasbang of the…
Hyena Lounge Kids Comedy Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 21st Jul 2018
Featuring 3 acts from the comedy circuit performing jokes that are suitable for children, but funny enough to get everyone laughing.
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 20th - 21st Jul 2018
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream of the…
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.
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 Band: Take That's New Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 10th - 14th Jul 2018
Written by award-winning writer Tim Firth, The Band is a beautiful story for anyone who grew up with a boyband and how those songs became the soundtrack of their lives.
The Big Things
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Kings Arms
- 9th - 11th Jul 2018
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
The Big Fat Running Show
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 5th - 7th Jul 2018
The Big Fat Running show is about .
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.
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.
Lloyd Langford: Big Face Strikes Again
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2018
Lloyd presents a sort of, work in progress, stand-up comedy show that he hopes to be rough but charming, like an old-timey hobo.
Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh 2018
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC
- 1st Jun 2018
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Friday Night Spiegel with Gypsy Disco
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 1st Jun 2018
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
Friday Night Spiegel
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 1st Jun 2018
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
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.
Brighton Big Drag Pageant
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 30th May 2018
Spiegeltent presents: ‘Brighton Big Drag Pagent’ Kings, Queens, and Inbetweens! Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
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.
Variety Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 29th May 2018 - 8th Jun 2019
The very best variety acts from all around the world do their awe inspiring and death defying performances for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families…but witho…
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.
A Really Really Big Modern Telly
- Review
- ★★★
- Marianne Lemond
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 1
- 2nd Jun, 2018
Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers have their finger on the pulse with this delightful double bill of comedy plays, interspersed with a few shorter sketches.
Funk The Format's Club Tropicana
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Venue (Formally The View)
- 27th May 2018
DJ Format, Soul Casserole, Lynda Phoenix, Nick Maxwell, King Prawn, Odyssey, Soozy Q and Lucy ‘Elle J’ Small.
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.
Club Click: Miami Meltdown
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 26th May 2018
Booty queens and hip hustlers pack your bags and fly down with us to Coconut Grove, Miami for a tropical night of sultry glamour, cabaret chic and dirty disco dancing.
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.
Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 24th - 26th May 2018
Nigel Ng is from Malaysia.
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.
The Big Fat Running Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 19th - 22nd May 2018
RUNNING CAN BE FUN[NY].
Big Band: Swingin' at the Spiegel
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2018
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
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.
Club de Fromage
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2018
Started by ex-gangster Fat Tony and now run by his half-wit son, Slow Alfie, this is the club that time forgot.
My Big Fat Geeky Wedding
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Claremont
- 18th - 20th May 2018
Little do we know just what might emerge in this festivity of two hearts coming together as one.
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.
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.
The O.S. Map Fan Club
- Review
- ★★
- Julia French
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 16th May, 2018
On paper – cartographical paper by preference – this is the sort of show that is the heart of fringe theatre.
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.
Big Dumb Cats
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 14th - 20th May 2018
Two word texts, a cat with no name, blood where it shouldn’t be and a fashion show to die for.
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.
Paul Zenon's Hellfire Club with the Urban Voodoo Machine
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 12th May 2018
Step right down for a debauched carnie cabaret within tent, hosted by magic roustabout and snake-oil peddler Paul Zenon, TV trickster and longtime ‘La Clique’ ringmaster.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 12th May 2018
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Big Berg
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Lovat
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 20th May, 2018
Eleanor Westbrook embodies what I love about the Fringe.
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.
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.
Massaoke's Club La La
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 11th - 25th May 2018
A live rock band, big-screen lyrics, and a room full of party-goers singing and dancing their hearts out together to the greatest rock and pop anthems of all time.
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.
BIG FAT GAY
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th - 10th May 2018
For the first time at Brighton Fringe, Martin brings you ‘BIG FAT GAY’.
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.
Mister Frank's Cotton Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- MEET: The Warren Box Office
- 5th - 26th May 2018
The famous Mister Frank presents a debauched prohibition themed night of live music, Charleston lessons, dancing and plenty of drinking! Meet at the Warren Box Office for your pas…
The Conjuring Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2018
A world of wizardry hidden inside the spellbinding Toy Museum.
Fever Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th May 2018
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
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.
Ecotricity – Britain’s greenest energy company
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- New Road
- 5th - 27th May 2018
Ecotricity is not your usual energy company.
Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th - 19th May 2018
Join our handpicked curators of comedy as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
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…
Club Cairo: The Serpent Slayer
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 4th May 2018
Club Cairo presents an evening of live music, dance and theatre from the Middle East and beyond.
Massaoke Club La La
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 4th May - 7th Sep 2018
Coming to Underbelly Festival for the first time, Massaoke Club La La is a night out you will never forget.
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.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 4th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians.
Fringe Club: A Silent Disco
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2018
The legendary Fringe Club returns to the Warren in 2018 with it’s own version of the legendary night out, Silent Disco.
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…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 25th Apr - 1st Aug 2018
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club will run throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of ente…
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.
It's A Scream Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 20th Apr 2018
New parents! You can do a fun thing without ditching your babies! Three great stand up comedians performing in a room where babies are welcome (up to the age where they…
Bridget Christie: What Now? (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th - 18th Apr 2018
Brexit.
Justin's Band
- Listing Music
- West End
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- 15th Apr 2018
Are you ready to be part of Justin’s Band? Because BAFTA Award-winning actor Justin Fletcher is going on a Musical Adventure and we would love you to come and play along wi…
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.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Mar - 30th Jul 2018
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
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).
Rawhide Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 23rd Mar - 28th Apr 2018
What do you want from a night out? A bit of dinner? Table service drinks? Some staggeringly good comedians making you laugh? Thought so.
Big River Motel Closing Night Party ft. BOOKA SHADE
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 18th Mar 2018
Send off Adelaide Fringe 2018 with RCC at Big River Motel with headline act Booka Shade Check in. Unpack & forget about a good nights sleep #BigRiverMotel
Bingo Jack's Big Book Magic Show
- Listing Magic
- Adelaide Fringe
- THE GC at The German Club
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe.
Peter Helliar - Big Boy Pants
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 16th - 18th Mar 2018
As seen on The Project, CRAM & Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network TEN).
Big River Motel Sat 17 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 17th Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
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.
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.
Big River Motel Fri 16 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 16th Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
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.
Baby Wants Candy, The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 8th - 18th Mar 2018
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
Gary Little: Scottish Club Classics
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Two time Scottish Comedy Award winner.
Double Denim: Big Party for Little Humans feat. Juan Vesuvius
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Adelaide Fringe
- Stirling Fringe
- 11th - 12th Mar 2018
Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew (aka Double Denim) combine forces with DJ Juan Vesuvius to bring you a big party for little humans! Through games, sketches, and music your favourit…
Sprint 2018: Big Bang #2 featuring Inauguration by Rhiannon Brace
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 12th Mar 2018
An explosive night of work-in-progress for the theatrically adventurous.
James Nokise: Talk A Big Game
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened.
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).
Big Value Kids Cabaret
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Austral Hotel
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you multi award winning family friendly cabaret acts from Edinburgh.
California Crooners Club
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Hilton Adelaide
- 11th - 12th Mar 2018
How do you top two sold out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe? You just make it better!! New songs, different mash ups, more people, better venue, extra sizzle!! Plundering the class…
Peter Combe and the Juicy Juicy Green Band - Live It Up
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 11th Mar 2018
Peter Combe is back with the fast furious and fabulous Juicy Juicy Green Band with songs from his latest ARIA nominated LIve It Up album plus the old favs.
Paces at Big River Motel
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 11th Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Big River Motel Sat 10 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 10th Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Massaoke Club La La
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 9th - 17th Mar 2018
The Fringe’s No.
The Skeleton Club Presents: Songs You Love to Hate
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Grace Emily Hotel
- 10th Mar 2018
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
Big River Motel Fri 9 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 9th Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
After Hours Cabaret Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
Welcome to the After Hours Cabaret Club.
Jennifer DeGrassi Band with The Bacharach and Beehive Choir
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Gov
- 7th Mar 2018
An evening of rapturous dark jazz alternative music from renown artist Jennifer DeGrassi and her band .
The Inquisition of the Big Bad Wolf
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Live From Tandanya
- 4th Mar 2018
Dance, theatre and comedy are fused into a great big hilarious wonderland that you can’t resist! Take a wild ride on this rollicking adventure that unleashes the untamed inner w…
Flapjack Cadillac - Big Ol' Pile Of Trash
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Tuxedo Cat at broadcast bar
- 3rd Mar 2018
Born out of Montreal’s vibrant sketch comedy scene, two JUST FOR LAUGHS Award winning idiots; Al Lafrance (I Think I’m Dead) and Shane Adamczak (The Ballad Of Frank Allen, Sound & …
Big River Motel Sat 3 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 3rd Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Big River Motel Fri 2 Mar
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 2nd Mar 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Big Man. Little Instruments.
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- La Bohème
- 25th Feb 2018
An honest tale of one man’s modern escape from the prison of belief.
Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Griffins Hotel
- 25th Feb 2018
The most awesome, exciting and inspirational author event EVER! as award-winning Scottish author Stuart Reid brings his best-selling books to life.
Big River Motel Sat 24 Feb
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 24th Feb 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Big River Motel Feat. Justice (DJ Set)
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 23rd Feb 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
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.
Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony / The Bally at Gluttony
- 5th Mar, 2018
With seats at the back reserved for the adults, the children are encouraged to sit on the floor right up against the stage for this lovely show that aims to educate and entertain i…
Big River Motel Feat. THUNDAMENTALS
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 17th Feb 2018
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Big River Motel Opening Night feat. Hermitude
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Royal Croquet Club
- 16th Feb 2018
Open for good time, not a long time, we’re kicking off the opening night of Adelaide Fringe 2018 with our biggest party yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Big Fish
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- The Other Palace
- 2nd Nov - 30th Dec 2017
What is it to really know your own father? Meet Edward Bloom, played by Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe award-winner Kelsey Grammer.
Pippa Evans Presents/BIG NOW
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 27th Oct 2017
Pippa Evans Presents… – Join Pippa Evans (founder member of Showstoppers) and some of her favourite improvisers as they explore the world through your eyes and theirs.
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.
Three Random Words - Improv at Backyard Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Backyard Comedy Club
- 17th Sep 2017
A great night out with some of London’s best improvisers - presented by City Impro and the Just Us League. Improv comedy like you have never seen it before.
Inverkeithing Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 27th Aug 2017
Returning after a second highly successful gig in 2016, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
G and Ste's Big Gay Wedding
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 26th Aug 2017
G and Ste are Fringe fanatics who felt that becoming part of the Fringe was the perfect way to celebrate their nuptials.
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.
Main Street Blues: High Energy Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 25th Aug 2017
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that bring together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material.
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 25th - 26th Aug 2017
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band, with another night of toe-tapping music from the era when swing was king.
David O'Doherty: Big Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 25th - 27th Aug 2017
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
David O'Doherty: Big Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Lindon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 28th Aug, 2017
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
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.
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…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 20th - 27th Aug 2017
Former Prime Minister and global cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back – and this time she’s hosting a club night! There’ll be non-stop 80s hits from a non-st…
Edinburgh Renaissance Band: Passion and Manners – 16th Century Dance workshop
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 20th Aug 2017
This workshop is suitable for anyone looking for a fun afternoon of unfamiliar dances, while still providing challenges for experienced dancers.
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.
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’.
Big Fringe Magic Gala
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 19th Aug 2017
Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest and best mixed bill magic night! The best illusion, magic and cabaret acts from the Fringe have assembled for one night only at Gilded Balloon’s biggest …
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.
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.
The Music of The Incredible String Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 17th Aug 2017
Whimsical, surreal, truly inspirational: psychedelic pioneers The Incredible String Band entranced listeners in the late 1960s and early 1970s with their visionary, dream-like so…
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 16th - 18th Aug 2017
A trip down memory lane, hear again 50s to 70s pop and folk hits like Putting on the Style, Amazing Grace, My Old Man’s a Dustman, Wild Rover, Hello Mary Lou, Nobody’s Child, Singi…
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.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band: Musical Migrants
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 16th - 18th Aug 2017
The contribution of travelling composers and performers to the music of Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group in the vibrant …
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.
Big Cat Small Flap
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern
- 14th - 27th Aug 2017
Big Cat Small Flap – the unique observations from a giant talking cat called Mr Nibbles on the state of humans and the world today, from Trump to Brexit to Instagram, and why the…
The Fair Intellectual Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
1717 – the inaugural meeting of a secret society where young ladies exercise their minds.
Shakespeare's Big Brother
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 14th - 18th Aug 2017
Can Hamlet please come into the diary room? You’ve had regular Big Brother.
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…
Northern Lights Present: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
‘The vocals are fantastic’ (Palatinate.
Tim Key: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th - 27th Aug 2017
Late at night.
Allman Brothers Band Appreciation
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stramash
- 13th - 18th Aug 2017
Safehouse are back at the Edinburgh Festival for a third consecutive year playing their highly acclaimed Allman Brothers set including classics from the At Fillmore East album: Whi…
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”.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 12th Aug 2017
Alex – the Scottish modern-day Stephane Grappelli – on violin, and virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform truly into…
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Showcase
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 11th - 18th Aug 2017
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
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.
Barnardo's Big Comedy Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 10th Aug 2017
Join us for a bumper-length comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
Harri Soinila's a Big Finnish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern
- 10th - 11th Aug 2017
Harri Soinila is a Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World, 2016 semi-finalist, headliner of shows in a bunch of countries and the godfather (or baby daddy) of English comedy …
The Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 9th Aug 2017
The king of Celtic ‘ccordion, Sandy Brechin, brings his lightning-fast fingers to the Fringe once again, along with his mad-cap humour, featuring hits from his many albums plus som…
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.
Blues: High-Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 28th Aug 2017
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
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.
Big Howard Little Howard: Man and Boy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Belle Angèle
- 6th - 25th Aug 2017
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
The Wendy Weatherby Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 5th Aug 2017
Beautiful heart-wrenching songs, lively cello tunes and lots of laughter from Edinburgh’s own bubbly queen of folk Wendy Weatherby and her all-star band, featuring Fiona Cuthill on…
Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Best Bites
- Review
- ★★★
- Melanie Erspamer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 11th Aug, 2017
With the overwhelming amount of options at the Fringe, Bite-Size allows one to see several short and sweet plays in the space of an hour.
John Montgomery String Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 5th Aug 2017
The band feature multi-stringed instrumentalists playing original music and songs in the folk/country rock genre.
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.
Big Howard Little Howard: Man and Boy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 5th - 27th Aug 2017
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
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.
Big Brother Hamlet: A Surveillance Adaptation
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 5th - 9th Aug 2017
Big Brother Hamlet takes the subjects of the all-powerful found in Shakespeare’s script – the King, the Ghost, the Church – and connects them with one of today’s most all-p…
Blueswater Presents: The Porch Band Audience Picks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 25th Aug 2017
A special stripped-down lineup of The Blueswater play an upbeat swampy set of blues songs decided in advance by fans on social media.
Big Fat Gay
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CC Blooms
- 11th Aug, 2017
It was an inauspicious beginning for Martin J Dixon’s new stand-up show, with only 11 audience members, some of whom were loud and rowdy throughout the show.
Supper Club at Checkpoint
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
The glitz, the glamour, the good times.
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.
Club Sol Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
The best holiday of your life! Club Sol will transport you to sunny Spain for an evening of comedy cabaret that you will never forget! Your holiday reps, The Mauve Coats, will pres…
Fancy Glitter Fanciulla on Tour Without the Band
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 4th - 15th Aug 2017
Rock’n’roll in all its facets.
The Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
This famous showcase returns with a dazzling array of the best comics from the Fringe.
Comedians Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
This brilliant show returns to Edinburgh.
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.
Scotch Egg Club Presents: Whisky on Water
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lochrin Belle
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Ever wanted to drink whisky, eat cheese, chocolate and scotch eggs while cruising along a canal? Well now you can! Scotch Egg Club brings you a Whisky tasting with a difference, wh…
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
‘Nish Kumar, James Acaster, Tom Allen and Bec Hill are among the big-name comics giving up an hour of their time to bring comedy to the juvenile masses; an inspired idea, and it’s …
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows.
The OS Map Fan Club
- Review
- ★★
- Caitlin Rebecca
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 9th Aug, 2017
Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.
The Great Big Beautiful Sky
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
Captain Zarg and Williamina Foxx are Guardians of the Universe.
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.
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 …
The St Andrews Revue presents: The Big Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
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.
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).
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.
Classic Joke Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Join the funniest acts in Edinburgh as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
The 23rd year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
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…
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. Four comedians, different to the early show. Two hours with tomorrow’s comedy stars. ‘Top value, top comedy’ (List).
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.
Chris Washington: Dream Big (Within Reason)
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah Virgo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 18th Aug, 2017
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
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.
Massaoke's Club La La
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
The Fringe’s number one party just got bigger! Rocking until 2.
David Huntsberger: Big Nothingness
- Review
- ★★
- Jonathan Mayo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th Aug, 2017
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
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…
Boogers, Books and Big Bottom Burps!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Award-winning author Stuart Reid will be sharing his books, including his latest release Gorgeous George and His Stupid Stinky Stories, and the audience will be expected to bring t…
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Funny.
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 …
Gary Little: Club Classics
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★
- Angela O’Callaghan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 8th Aug, 2017
The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Millie Bayswater
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 20th Aug, 2017
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night!
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd Aug 2017
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
Aunty Donna: Big Boys
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sarah Virgo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 15th Aug, 2017
This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever.
Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Izzy's Manifestos
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
It’s time to think outside the box, go crazy, go skydiving or just go to a different pub this Friday.
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.
Edinburgh Preview: Pippa Evans' Joy Provision! Plus BIG NOW and The Committee
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 28th Jul 2017
Prepare to have your joy levels optimised by “the finest female character comic around” (Time Out) as Pippa Evans presents Joy Provision! Plus BIG NOW and improvisers seen on B…
Curtis Stigers and the Ronnie Scott’s Big Band Perform ‘Sinatra at the Sands’
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Beth Prior
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- York Barbican
- 3rd Aug, 2017
In 1966, Frank Sinatra performed at the Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel & Casino, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Bright Lights, Big City Impro
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 4th Jul - 27th Aug 2017
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in City Impro’s debut Edinburgh Fringe show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketch…
Edinburhg Fringe Preview: Bright Lights, Big City Impro
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jun 2017
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in a special Edinburgh Fringe preview show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketches …
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…
Strike Up The Band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Mary’s Church
- 3rd Jun 2017
Following its 2016 sell-out Belgian tour, the SLJO is back with an all-new set featuring tunes from the golden era of Big Band.
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.
Little Meerkat's Big Panic
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 1st - 4th Jun 2017
Go on an award-winning, magical, musical, multi-sensory adventure in the Kalahari desert with Little Meekat and her friends Elephant and Wise Monkey to find out all about Calm and …
Comedian's Cinema Club: Beauty and the Beast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 9th Jun, 2017
Film and comedy lovers alike will appreciate this increasingly popular show, led by an impressive group of comedians that changes every performance, along with the film they choo…
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…
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ruby Speed
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 31st May, 2017
Nominated for Funny Women’s Best Show Award, Revan and Fennell’s Fan Club is a lively, goofy and above all entertaining sketch show, starring double act Rosie Revan a…
Club Click: The Soul of Dirty Disco
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 27th May 2017
Booty queens and hip hustlers let your freak flag fly at our dazzling evening of sumptuous glamour, glittering divas, cabaret chic and dirty disco dancing.
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.
Poetry and Jazz Layer Cake with John Harvey and the John Lake Band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 25th May 2017
Jazz and Poetry Layer Cake A delicious serving of modern original Jazz and poetry created by the award-winning author John Harvey (author of the bestselling Charlie Resnick series…
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.
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 …
Big Band: Jumpin' at the Spiegel
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2017
Straight No Chaser Big Band combine with JATS swing dance aces Sam and Gabi for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Tricity Vogue's All Girl Swing Band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Gem Electric
- 20th May 2017
“Anyone else a massive fan of the divine Miss Vogue and her ukulele? Thought so.
Club De Fromage
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2017
Started by ex-gangster Fat Tony and now run by his half-wit son, Slow Alfie, this is the club that time forgot.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 13th May 2017
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Saturday Night Spiegel
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 13th May 2017
Saturday night late dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent.
Perfection In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 13th - 14th May 2017
You don’t have to be perfect.
Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC
- 12th May 2017
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
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.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Udderbelly
- 7th May 2017 - 2nd Jun 2019
Kids, bring your folks to see the international circuit's best comedians, sketch acts and cabaret stars.
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…
FAT 45's Big Spiegel Spectacular
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th May 2017
Fat 45 is a blistering 11-piece big band bringing back the Jump Jive, Rock & Roll and Rhythm & Blues of the 1940s and 50s.
Mrs H and the Sing-Along Band
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 6th - 7th May 2017
Mrs H and the Sing-Along Band bring their unique family music to Brighton Fringe for the first time.
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.
Krater Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ruby Speed
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May, 2017
When compére Stephen Grant takes the stage, he capably gains control of the large, boisterous audience with his high energy stage presence and quick-witted quips.
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…
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ambassador Hotel
- 5th May - 4th Jun 2017
Comedy Compilation show of some of the best up and coming comics from the UK Comedy Circuit.
Renegade Brass Band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Gem Electric
- 5th May 2017
8 horns, 2 drummers, scratch-DJ and MC.
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.
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…
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 6th Mar, 2017
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
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…
The Boys in the Band
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Vaudeville Theatre
- 7th - 18th Feb 2017
Mark Gatiss stars in this strictly limited West End transfer of the first major revival of this iconic play in two decades.
Kinetic Comedy - The Big Relaunch
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
- 4th Feb 2017
Multi award nominated comedian and BBC/Virgin Radio Star Inel Tomlinson is relaunching his sell out live roadshow Kinetic Comedy.
Big Wow Small Wonder
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Half Moon Theatre
- 3rd Dec 2016
Justin is the smallest boy in the whole town.
Maddy and the Invisible Band...
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Half Moon Theatre
- 19th - 19th Nov 2016
Invisible Flash Theatre presents Maddy and the Invisible Band of Groovers Full of audience participation and using storytelling, puppetry and songs to celebrate difference and frie…
Growing Up Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 25th Sep - 13th Nov 2016
Indoor and outdoor craft and gardening activities: dig, grow, play and discover before or after watching a show in the theatre. Adults do not require a ticket.
Gourmet Cinema Club - Malmaison Hotel London
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Malmaison
- 28th Aug - 26th Nov 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
Inverkeithing Community Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 27th Aug 2016
Returning after a sell-out gig in 2015, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
The Simon Kennedy Band Live!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Buccleuch Free Church
- 26th Aug 2016
A guitar and organ driven blues trio, the band was formed in 2014 by Dundee-born guitarist Simon Kennedy.
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.
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 24th - 27th Aug 2016
Back at the Fringe again for another trip down memory lane.
Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 23rd Aug 2016
Wild man of the accordion and frontman of Burach and the Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums, Out of his Box and Out…
Big Thumb
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2016
Knowing Smirk return to the Fringe, where BroadwayBaby.
Bottomless Coffee Band – The Married Multi-Instrumentalists
- Review
- ★★★★
- Megan Atkins
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 24th Aug, 2016
Married multi-instrumentalists from South Africa: that’s what this folk duo define themselves as and it describes them perfectly.
BBC: Asian Network's Big Comedy Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 21st Aug 2016
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a fourth year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
Big the Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 21st - 28th Aug 2016
You’ve seen the film, now here’s the musical.
The Alex MacDonald Band with Cailean Morison
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Buccleuch Free Church
- 20th Aug 2016
The Alex MacDonald Band plays a unique brand of Scottish folk-rock that has been acclaimed in venues large and small across the country.
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Party
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 20th Aug 2016
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
The Groove Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 20th - 27th Aug 2016
Steeped in the funk, soul and jazz traditions, The Groove Band have selected some great classic tunes and given them new life, injecting their own brand of groove, infused with exc…
Gourmet Cinema Club - Sanctum Soho Hotel
- Listing Attraction
- West End
- Sanctum Soho Hotel
- 20th Aug - 22nd Oct 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
Hackney Colliery Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 19th - 21st Aug 2016
From sets at the Olympic Closing Ceremony and Brit, MOBO and Mercury awards to live sessions on BBC Two, Sky Arts, BBC Radio 2 and Jazz FM, from collaborations with the likes of Am…
Sing Sing Swing: Singing With the Big Bands
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 19th - 20th Aug 2016
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings a night of music and song from the golden age of the crooners.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band at St Mark's
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 18th - 20th Aug 2016
The music, song and dance of the Medieval and Renaissance worlds is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group.
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.
Let Big Brother Watch!
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 15th Aug 2016
Satellite images now cover every inch of the world.
Allman Brothers Band Appreciation
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
Safehouse return to the festival playing their highly acclaimed Allman Brothers set, including classics from the At the Fillmore East album, Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth R…
Big Shot The Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Camden Fringe
- The London Irish Centre
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
A story of ambition and love, Big Shot captivates with a blend of energy and poignance infused in its music and its characters.
Big Angie
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C soco at ibis
- 14th - 20th Aug 2016
Glasgow’s big darling brings her distinct brand of magic to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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.
Ms Fi & the Lost Head Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 14th Aug 2016
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together for the fourth year in a row to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the Americ…
Comedians Cinema Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 14th - 28th Aug 2016
Chaotic, alcohol-fuelled and very funny indeed.
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.
Alex Yellowlees Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 12th Aug 2016
‘Simply outstanding jazz musicianship’ (Turin International Jazz Festival).
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.
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…
Fat Head and the Big Dog
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 8th - 28th Aug 2016
Fat Head and the Big Dog is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Ireland’s fast-rising comedians Aaron McCann and Dave Elliott.
Yea Big
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 8th - 13th Aug 2016
A mixed bill of northern dance theatre our kid (close sibling) would be proud of! Bit brassic (short of cash)? Fear not! Grab yourself a ticket and get two shows for the price of o…
Ali McGregor Hosts the Big C
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 8th Aug 2016
Fringe royalty Ali McGregor takes the helm of this reimagining of the Big Comedy Gala in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, with special guest Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cummin…
Blues! High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2016
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band with a powerful set of up-tempo original material plus new and old blues classics.
Big Fish Little Fish – Ravin' Fringe
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Studio 24
- 7th - 28th Aug 2016
Real DJs, in real clubs playing real music, free glow sticks and transfer tattoos.
Midnight Show – Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows.
Harmon Leon's Big Fat Racist Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
VICE contributor/NY comedian, Harmon Leon has made a career infiltrating extremist hate groups in America.
Best of UCLU Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Movement
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
UCLU Comedy Club’s sketch troupe, The Gower Line, return to Edinburgh with their brand of ‘fast paced madness’ (Pi Media), presenting their favourite new sketches from the past yea…
Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Best Bites
- Review
- ★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 8th Aug, 2016
Big Bite is celebrating it’s 10-year Fringe anniversary with a ‘best of’ showcase: although an enjoyable selection of short pieces - effectively boiling down to long sketches…
Boomerang Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilgrim
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
London’s favourite spoken word night arrives in Edinburgh.
Putting the Band Back Together
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at Summerhall
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Why do we stop playing? What might make us start again? All those guitars propped up in bedrooms.
Luke Benson's Big Night Out (In the Afternoon)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Celebrate good times! Come on! The Geordie Giant brings an upbeat hour of observational and joke-filled stand-up about our drinking culture and nights out.
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.
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.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
Supper Club at Checkpoint
- Review
- ★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 9th Aug, 2016
Assembly’s Supper Club is up against the big, flashy late night circus revues and cabaret shows and sets out to compete with these by presenting many of the very best guest acts …
Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
‘Consistently boasting some of the most interesting line ups in the country’ (Times).
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Blueswater Presents: The Blueswater Porch Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Crags Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2016
A three-piece version of award-winning band The Blueswater plays a mix of original songs and arranged covers, with a raucous sound reminiscent of Mississippi Hill Country blues.
The Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Vintage Mobile Cinema
- 5th - 24th Aug 2016
Once a day the unique 22-seat Vintage Mobile Cinema will briefly become a comedy venue.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
‘A festival mainstay for 10 years now, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
The Shakespeare Club
- Review
- ★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 9th Aug, 2016
In the programme, The Shakespeare Club promises to be a somewhat cheesy, yet harmless play about finding oneself through Shakespeare’s characters.
Comedians Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Vintage Mobile Cinema
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Our favourite comedians present their favourite films.
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.
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
A show about growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India (Southall) and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality or brains.
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…
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.
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.
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.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
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…
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…
Club Spiegel
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Live, up late and luscious.
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Twenty second year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Crack Comedy Club's Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
If you’re a real fan of comedy, Crack Comedy’s Pick of the Fringe is the place for you.
Liars' Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
This successful London club night comes to Edinburgh.
David Longley: Everything I Hate About My Club Set
- Review
- ★★
- Sam Speedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 20th Aug, 2016
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
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.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
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.
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.
David O'Doherty: Big Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 21st Aug, 2016
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
Frugl Presents Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
I say, I say, I say.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club present their Pick of the Fringe, following full houses from 2013-2015.
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Award-winning double act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Fringe after making their critically acclaimed Edinburgh debut last year.
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.
Big Silly Mash-Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Returning to a bigger room after last year’s sell-outs, MC Andy Stedman hosts a mash-up of some of the top comedians at the Fringe together with up-and-coming newer faces.
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist Five: Big O Conquers the FOMO – Free
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
My Big Dick is Making Me Thirsty
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Crags Bar
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Matty Finlayson, noun – A hard-hitting action-packed gigolo, not dissimilar to a high-class call girl.
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.
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Timothy Leonine Tsang
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 24th Aug, 2016
On top of the breakfast (croissant, coffee and strawberries), there is a handful of ten-minute theatre pieces that are eccentric, funny and outrageous.
Shite Club – The Downfall of Jellybean Martinez
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
First rule of Shite Club: F*ck Shite Club! The mad Spanish bastard that is Jellybean searches for his new style of comedy by any means possible.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Hayley Sophie Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 19th Aug, 2016
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
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.
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.
The Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 12th Aug, 2016
Before the play starts, you can glean some idea of where this hour is headed from the onstage desk: bottles of wine and vodka, a line of cocaine, a singed teddy bear and a dildo ar…
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.
Floating Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Westminster City Pier
- 2nd Jul - 27th Aug 2016
Whats Included Brunch or Afternoon Tea (screening time dependant) Glass of bubbles each Allocated Tables Edible cinema tickets per person Floating Cinema Club brin…
Miles Jupp: Work-In-Progress
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 30th Jun 2016
Miles Jupp, star of Rev.
Gourmet Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Malmaison
- 25th Jun - 27th Aug 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
One World Jazz Suite - Part 2: Paul Busby's Bigger Band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 5th Jun 2016
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
Copperdollar Club Night
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd Jun 2016
A night of debauchery at the hands of Kat Lil and a whole rabble of Skellies, there in numbers like never before! Immerse yourself in the land of the carnival.
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).
Marilyn Carino with band
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 2nd Jun 2016
Marilyn Carino’s torchy, existential electro-soul has been likened to “Nina Simone coming back from the dead to front Morcheeba”; her latest album, ‘Leaves, Sadness, Science’ deeme…
Now I'm a Big Boy!
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 1st - 3rd Jun 2016
‘Now I’m a Big Boy!’ is written, produced and performed by young people, tackling issues of growing up and the problems surrounding sexual consent.
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.
A Really Really Big Modern Telly
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 30th May - 2nd Jun 2016
A pair of comedic short plays simultaneously celebrating and condemning modern life, sandwiched in sketches: A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, and a contemporary fa…
Club Click: Get Ya Freak On
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 28th May 2016
Let your freak flag fly at Brighton’s own Studio 54 by the sea.
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.
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.
Big Bobby, Little Bobby
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren
- 24th May - 23rd Jun 2016
A twisted, tender comedy about dealing with your dark side.
Big Bobby, Little Bobby
- Review
- ★★★★
- Charley Ville
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 27th May, 2016
If like me you find an Irish accent a wondrous tool capable, in a single crank, of spinning the very stars in the gutter, and if, like me also, you enjoy nothing better than a bi…
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.
Club Cairo
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 22nd May 2016
Club Cairo offers an exotic array of entertainment from Arabia.
The Wanton Taste Club
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Phoenix Brighton
- 22nd - 27th May 2016
Five afternoons of energising art, food and wellbeing! Eat your happy and put a tang in your step this May.
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.
Club Briefs
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 21st May - 4th Jun 2016
Cult cabaret hooligans Briefs present this late-night romp of disco dancing and pop-up performance.
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.
Carnival Collective vs. Orkestra Del Sol: UK Street Band Sound Clash!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 18th May 2016
Orkestra del Sol’s explosive reinvention of global brass band music has captured imaginations and left a trail of pummeled dance floors across continents.
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.
Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC
- 14th May 2016
Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Little Howard's Big Show for Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 14th - 15th May 2016
Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 14th May 2016
“Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up sets from grown-up, high-quality acts who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bits,” says The Independent.
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 14th - 15th May 2016
Comedians’ Cinema Club brings together the UK’s best comedians and forces them to improvise their way through movies.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Kings of the Jazz Trumpet with The SNC Big Band and Steve Waterman
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 6th May 2016
The trumpet in the history of jazz featuring compositions and arrangements by the kings of jazz as well as new works.
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 …
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2016
Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians. Brighton’s best night out. “THE place in Brighton to catch stand-up comedy” (The Independent)
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.
Buena Vista Social Club Live at the O2 with Tapas Dinner and Wine
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 6th Apr 2016
Channel the musical spirit of Havana for the evening paired with a delicious pre-concert meal at the O2 Arena! Named after the famous Havana members’ club that closed in t…
Now I'm A Big Boy!
- Review
- ★★
- Charley Ville
- Brighton
- Sweet Dukebox
- 11th Apr, 2016
If you believe ‘youth is wasted on the young’, then just for a second imagine it was lived by the not-so-young.
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.
Apollo Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Apollo Theater
- 10th Mar 2016
Marshall Brandon hosts this comedy show at the legendary theater’s Soundstage. Performers include Meshelle, Neko White and Heather Jay Harris, with music from DJ Qool Marv.
Gourmet Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- West End
- Sanctum Soho Hotel
- 13th Feb - 23rd Apr 2016
Experience a cinema screening like never before! There’s no better place to enjoy an indulgent movie night than at a private cinema in the heart of Soho - the traditional …
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…
Thalia Book Club: Michael Ian Black
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Symphony Space
- 7th Jan 2016
Mr.
Phalariss Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Beckett Theater at Theater Row
- 1st Dec 2015
In this idea-heavy one-man show, Steven Friedman, a Renaissance man whose areas of expertise include philosophy, seeks to weave a capsule history of philosophical thought with an a…
Big Apple Circus: The Grand Tour
- Listing Theatre
- USA Regional & Tours
- Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center
- 2nd Oct 2015
Friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, this popular circus takes travel as its theme this year, with its performers cavorting as Jazz Age sailors, aviators and sightseers.
Inverkeithing Community Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 29th Aug 2015
Join Fife’s biggest, most fabulous big band for a sumptuous afternoon of classic tunes from Count Basie to Maynard Ferguson.
Another Big Night in With the Silver Darlings
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 29th Aug 2015
Settle back and enjoy another big night in with the Silver Darlings.
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 28th - 29th Aug 2015
A toe-tapping evening of music from the era when swing was king with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals – everything from Basie to Bublé.
The MaineStreet Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 28th - 31st Aug 2015
Rock’n’roll spectacle! What are you looking for in an American rock band? Energy? Passion? General shenanigans? TMSB is coming to EdFringe! Guitars, keys, harmonies, drums, bass, a…
The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 28th Aug 2015
Back after a year off, Die Roten Punkte take the helm of this fundraiser for Macmillan.
The Big Cabaret Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 28th Aug 2015
Lili la Scala (AFVS) hosts this family-friendly variety show in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
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.
Soft Shoe Skiffle Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 26th - 28th Aug 2015
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years, for another trip down memory lane.
Hackney Colliery Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 24th - 26th Aug 2015
London’s brass juggernaut makes its Fringe debut for three shows only, fresh from floor-filling gigs across Europe.
BBC: Asian Network's Big Comedy Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 23rd Aug 2015
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a third year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
Big Swing Face
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 23rd Aug 2015
Following their 2014 sell-out Fringe performance, the SLJO are back with an all new set featuring the finest tunes from the golden era of Big Band.
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.
BBC: Sue Perkins' Big Night Out
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 22nd Aug 2015
Join Sue Perkins for BBC Two’s Festival highlights show, with live music, discussions, performance and comedy.
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.
The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Belle Angèle
- 20th Aug 2015
A late Thursday night celebration as the Funk ’n’ Soul Show goes live with presenter, DJ, acclaimed actor and funkster about town Craig Charles manning the decks until 5am.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band at St Mark's
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 20th Aug, 2015
It isn’t just through watching the plays of the Bard that you can get a taste of culture here at the Fringe; the Edinburgh Renaissance Band are bards of a different sort.
Sketch Club: The Final
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 19th Aug 2015
Welcome to the Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition to find the very best new sketch performers.
Barnardo's Big Comedy Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 18th Aug 2015
A bumper-length show giving you the chance to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows, courtesy of some of your favourite…
Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th - 24th Aug 2015
Wild man of the accordion and front man of Burach and The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums Out Of His Box and Out…
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.
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.
Lisa Scott With the Dave Swanson Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lebowskis Bar
- 15th Aug 2015
Twelfth year at the Fringe! From Billie Holiday to Ray Charles, Lisa sings with passion and humour, with ease and sophistication.
The Rising – A Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Citrus Club
- 15th - 22nd Aug 2015
The Rising – A Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band.
The David Latto Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 14th - 15th Aug 2015
The David Latto Band bring their brand of celtic-tinged Americana to AMC@St Bride’s and the Fringe for the first time.
Comedy Club 4 Kids 4 Grown-Ups
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 14th Aug 2015
Metaphorically, if our afternoon Comedy Club 4 Kids shows are Doctor Who, then this is the Torchwood spin-off.
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.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 14th Aug 2015
‘Simply outstanding jazz musicianship’ (Turin International Jazz Festival).
The BIG Sing-a-long!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 12th Aug 2015
Fun for all the family – a hugely popular, inspirational hour.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 12th - 26th Aug 2015
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louise Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 17th Aug, 2015
No amount of advance research can prepare you for Comedians’ Cinema Club.
Dive and Summerhall Present… C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2015
This show is wondrously delightful.
Sandbach School Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Te Kore
- 10th - 14th Aug 2015
This acclaimed big band return to the Fringe for the third time, having previously sold out.
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.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 18th Aug 2015
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Lunch in Cairo
- Review
- ★★
- Cara Ballingall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 19th Aug, 2015
This double bill of new writing by Tom Coash brings us to Cairo, where we’re welcomed with dates and hookah pipes.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Proud to support the Free Festival, The 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe.
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.
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.
The USOL Best Friends Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dragonfly
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
An hour of stand-up from award winners and best friends, Thom Barrett, Rob Saunders and Liam Sullivan.
UCLU Comedy Club Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Movement
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
Join UCLU Comedy Club’s Blank Slates for an hour of thrilling improvised comedy, as they follow the story of a young superhero on their rise to glory.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer.
Derek Ryan: The Slaughterhouse Rules - Uncut! (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Waverley Arches
- 8th - 14th Aug 2015
Dying is easy.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Midnight Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club goes late night, with a midnight show at the Edinburgh Fringe, following two sell-out runs.
For Big Boys Only
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just Festival at St John’s
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Uncover the linguistic layers of a Russian doll! Hear yourself in Nastya Rybachuk’s contemporary, provocative and witty verses.
Big Silly Comedy: Midnight Mash-Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Big Silly Midnight Mash-Up: Hot prospects, special guests and host Andy Stedman. Laugh, drink and get your party hat on.
Simon Caine Does His Club Set
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Fancy watching a comedian perform their club set during the world’s largest arts festival? You’re in luck.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following two sell-out runs.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
‘At the end of a long day’s Fringe-going, this club is Just the Tonic’ (Scotsman).
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.
BBC: BBC Presents... The Next Big Thing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 7th Aug 2015
Our pick of the best new shows opening at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015. Line-up TBC.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
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…
Cat Loud's Big Night In
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Elaine Liner
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 22nd Aug, 2015
If you’re living right, this could happen to you.
Little Thing, Big Thing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Bowman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 16th Aug, 2015
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
‘Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up from grown-up, high-quality acts like John Robins, Stu Goldsmith and Nish Kumar, who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bi…
Some Big Some Bang
- Review
- ★★★
- Dixon Baskerville
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 19th Aug, 2015
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
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.
Titty Bar Ha Ha: Club Titticana
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
The murderous hostesses, Hope and Gloria return for their third year of high end filth and games.
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.
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…
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.
Tom Binns: The Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
One man, three hilarious comedy acts.
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…
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.
Big Value Comedy Show – Lunchtime
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Take a punt at lunchtime.
Big Value Comedy Show – Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Our 21st year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Mike Wozniak: One Man Dad Cat Band
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dawn Kofie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 9th Aug, 2015
Mike Wozniak’s probably best known for playing moustachioed misfit Brian in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down.
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.
Big Value Comedy Show – Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe. Four different comedians to the earlier show. Two hours, four acts for £10 or less. ‘Top comedy, top value’ (List).
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.
Russell Hicks: Big Mouth Strikes Again
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
American smart ass showcases the wit that got him described as ‘a mix between Jack Dee and Dennis Leary’ (BroadwayBaby.
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.
The Dead Secrets Present... The Curiositorium
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
‘Scripted comedy of the highest quality’ (Buxton Fringe).
Lloyd Griffith: Great Grimsby's Big Turn On
- Review
- ★★
- Larry Bartleet
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2015
There’s a very fine line between watching an actual, heart-in-mouth onstage breakdown and one that’s convincingly feigned.
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…
Big Bite Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★
- Dan Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 13th Aug, 2015
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 13th Aug, 2015
If you’re planning on making the trip to see Baby Wants Candy, get your title suggestions ready now! The audience for his fully improvised musical comedy has barely taken their s…
Hardeep Singh Kohli: Big Mouth Strikes Again
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
When you’ve a mouth this big, is it any wonder you get into trouble? The Fringe’s favourite comedian, broadcaster, journalist and chef explains all in a brand new show.
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 9th Sep, 2015
Brimming with originality and presenting a confidently executed show, Revan and Fennell are a double act that have the potential to succeed the comedy throne of French & Saunders.
Big Shot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2015
Big Shot is subtitled, “This is not The Godfather”.
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.
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…
Club Click: The Soul of Dirty Disco
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 30th May 2015
Booty Queens & Hip Hustlers come on down for a dazzling evening of sumptuous glamour, glittering divas, cabaret chic & dirty disco dancing.
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.
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.
Mike Wozniak: One Man Dad Cat Band
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 22nd - 24th May 2015
Work in progress.
Fun Time: Count Basie for Big & Small Bands
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 22nd May 2015
Soak up the swing.
Hundred Watt Club: Burlesque & Cabaret
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 22nd May 2015
Returning to Brighton with another rip-roaring line-up! Featuring raucous, risqué and hairy boylesque from Dave the Bear; flirtatious striptease from pin-up Jeanie Wishes; plus hi…
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…
Phil Buckley's Big Idea
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 13th - 15th May 2015
Have you ever had an earth-shatteringly good idea? Phil Buckley hasn’t.
Sensational Singing From the Big Smoke
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 9th - 10th May 2015
Since 2007, award-winning a cappella sensation In the Smoke has been bringing the cream of London’s vocal talent to audiences across the UK.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 9th May 2015
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Big Girl's Blouse
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 8th - 10th May 2015
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman… Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family.
Spiegel Late with Club Click DJs
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th - 29th May 2015
The weekend starts Thursdays at the Spiegeltent with Club Click DJs playing a slinky mix of funky soul, R&B and dirty disco.
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.
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.
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.
Red Brick Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Otherplace at the Basement: Main Space
- 2nd - 30th May 2015
The Fringe’s favourite stand-up comedy club returns.
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…
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 1st - 31st May 2015
Award-winning comedy every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Copperdollar Club Night
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 1st May 2015
Kick off the Spiegeltent season in spectacular style.
Fringe Club on the Neilson Stage
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren Bar: Neilson Stage
- 1st - 31st May 2015
The best place to hang out this May, the Neilson Fringe Club Stage features a busy line-up of fantastic free performances this Fringe with family entertainment, followed by live mu…
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.
Big Love
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Pershing Square Signature Center
- 31st Jan 2015
(previews start on Feb.
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…
Big Long Sets
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater East
- 30th Dec 2014
Emmy Blotnick invites two headlining comics to perform 30-minute sets. This month’s guests are Adam Newman and Gary Gulman.
Club Class - The Aviation Comedy
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- THE LONDON THEATRE - New Cross
- 27th - 29th Nov 2014
Join a cast of 5 dressed as cabin crew yet playing everyone form pilots to passengers, baggage handlers to bits of the Airbus A320 on this charter flight of hell to the Algarve.
Big Apple Circus
- Listing Theatre
- USA Regional & Tours
- Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center
- 3rd Oct 2014
“Metamorphosis” is the theme of the latest edition of the Big Apple Circus, now nested at Lincoln Center for the holidays.
Roddy Woomble and Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 24th Aug 2014
Familiar to many thousands of music fans as the front man in the Scottish rock band Idlewild, Roddy Woomble is also a celebrated solo songwriter and performer.
The Sound of Seventeen Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 23rd Aug 2014
Come and join us for a show of classic big band music played by this popular band.
A Big Night in with the Silver Darlings
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 21st Aug 2014
Settle back and enjoy ‘a big night in with the Silver Darlings’.
The Really Big Diamond
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2014
An original musical based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; a grotesque allegory of the American Dream.
Club Spiegel presents Shooglenifty
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 19th - 22nd Aug 2014
The Shoogles return with a brand new album.
Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 18th Aug 2014
We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten…
Barnardo’s Big Comedy Benefit
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 18th Aug 2014
We’re back with another bumper-length show for a fantastic cause! Hosted by Jo Caulfield, this comedy extravaganza gives you a chance to preview a selection of this year’s top …
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 17th - 20th Aug 2014
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
Battlefield Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 16th Aug 2014
One of the great institutions of Scottish traditional music.
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.
Roger Swift and Patrick Draper - The Energy and the Apathy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Ryrie’s
- 16th - 24th Aug 2014
Two unique rising stars present their vastly differing stand-up styles to unsuspecting audiences.
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 15th - 16th Aug 2014
With Fringe sell-out show awards and an appearance in the Guinness Book of Records to their name, Jon Ritchie’s Swing Sensation Big Band makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Fri…
The Perch Creek Family Jug Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 14th - 17th Aug 2014
Direct from Melbourne, Australia, The Perch Creek Family Jugband are a band of five energetic multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, four of whom happen to be siblings.
Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 13th Aug 2014
We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten…
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…
Sandy Brechin Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 11th - 18th Aug 2014
Wild man of the accordion and frontman of Burach and The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums Out of His Box and Out …
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…
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…
The After Party with Alex Rossi and the Rhythmic Circus Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 10th - 24th Aug 2014
Alex Rossi and friends roll a mash-up of traditional blues, the swagger of hip-hop and the high energy of rock’n’roll into three funky hours of music. Special Fringe guests!
Sarah Bennetto's Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2014
This show is a little different from what the rest of the Festival has to offer.
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.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th Aug, 2014
Alex Yellowlees and his band take us back in time to the swinging twenties with a collection of hot club swinging jazz tracks, played with a lightness of touch and a lot of skill…
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 …
Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 7th - 10th Aug 2014
Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns with its ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Big Brother: Blitzkrieg
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 4th - 17th Aug 2014
In a world where World War Two never took place, an Austrian politician by the name of Adolf Hitler enters the Big Brother house.
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.
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.
Susan Murray's F*ckwit Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 10th Aug, 2014
The feisty fire-headed pocket rocket Susan Murray is here to reveal the breadth and depth of just who possesses membership to the F*ckwit Club.
James Christopher - Partially Sighted in All the Big Venues
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
A celebration of human flaws.
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.
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.
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).
The Breakfast Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
World class morning variety that rocks the whole family.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 11th Aug, 2014
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
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.
Adventures of the Singing Acupuncturist: Big O Finds Her Soul
- Review
- ★
- Katherine Price
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 26th Aug, 2014
Thankfully, there was no combination of singing and acupuncture.
Licence To Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Club Spiegel
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
The legendary late, live and luscious Club Spiegel will present a series of live bands, DJs and dancehall shenanigans throughout the festival.
Soho Comedy Club at the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Freestival St Mary’s
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
An hour of top quality comedy by the best acts at the Fringe bought to you by London’s famous Soho Comedy Club, rated by Time Out as one of the Top 10 Best Comedy Clubs in London…
Big Society
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Phones 4U
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
In coming to write this show I believed my job would be as easy as pie.
IndieRound (Fool Members Club) with Bob Slayer & Tim Fitzhigham
- Review
- ★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob & Miss Behave’s Bookshop
- 31st Aug, 2014
Some way into a verbal onslaught directed at yours truly, Bob Slayers makes an unexpected allusion to the observer effect in particle physics.
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.
The Next Big Thing
- Review
- ★★★
- Hannah Lucy Baker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 7th Aug, 2014
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Showcase Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Jane Thompson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 31st Aug, 2014
Hilarity Bites, as comedy showcases at the Fringe go, is a solid choice - a mix of an experienced compere and a good range of acts promising a solid hour of entertainment.
BBC: BBC Presents… The Next Big Thing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 1st Aug 2014
Our pick of the best new shows and breakthrough performances from the Edinburgh Festivals 2014.
99 Club Stand-up Selection - Cowgate - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 19th Aug, 2014
Luke Benson hosts 99 Club’s pick of the Fringe with a free hour of comedy that shows off the talents (and faults) at this year’s festival.
Scot and Lucia and the Big Flamenco Adventure!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Alba Flamenca
- 1st - 12th Aug 2014
Ole! Babies, toddlers and mummies gather together to tap, clap and shake to a delightful mixture of flamenco, puppets, storytelling and song.
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Kayleigh Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 16th Aug, 2014
This improv show sees stand up Eric Lampaert direct a series of movies with a cast of Fringe comedians that changes daily - some of whom have never even seen the movie they are …
Big Value Comedy Show - Early
- Review
- ★★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 31st Aug, 2014
Big Value Comedy Show (Early) promises two hours of comedy gold with four young stars of tomorrow.
Big Value Comedy Show - Lunchtime
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Come and join us for lunchtime laughs at a special Big Value bargain sized ticket price.
The Fair Intellectual Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Megan Dalton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 17th Aug, 2014
In 1717, three young women strove to discover ‘what we might attain unto if we were as industrious to cultivate our minds as we are to adorn our bodies’, and so set up the soci…
Big Value Comedy Show - Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Established as one of the most exciting shows at the Fringe, Big Value brings you the best of the breakthrough talent.
Big Red Bath
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenny Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2014
Adapted from the popular children’s book of the same name, Big Red Bath is Full House’s offering for younger children at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe (The Snow Dog is their show f…
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.
Baron Sternlook’s Big Naughty Improv Musical
- Review
- ★★
- Rivkah Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 7th Aug, 2014
Kudos to any improv troupe for even attempting the month-long exercise in uphill walking and sleep-deprivation that is the Fringe.
Working Men's Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Step into Working Men’s Club - the best bits of that unique type of entertainment.
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 …
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 9th Aug, 2014
I didn’t expect to be hearing hard-hitting political satire this afternoon, but wow, that was actually quite a good Tibet joke.
Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 7th Aug, 2014
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
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.
The Explorers Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Comedy! Exploring! Adventures! Life! Death! Other stuff! Come see the first solo Edinburgh Festival Fringe show from comedian Andrew Learmonth.
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.
101 Comedy Club - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
‘Funny.
The Little Big Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Little tent.
Mark Restuccia - Stooch Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Ever wondered what it’s really like to be a comedian? Ever wondered what they get up to the rest of the time when you don’t see them on stage? Ever wondered how they come up with t…
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.
Big Brass
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 15th Aug, 2014
For those who run at the mere mention of the phrase ‘musical comedy’, this sketch show is for you.
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.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 30th Jul - 25th Aug 2014
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
The Big Bite-Size Plays Factory Goes Down the Toilet
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug, 2014
This is a show about poo.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joe Christie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 4th Aug, 2014
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
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.
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.
Sundae Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 1st Jun 2014
Sundae Club returns for a very special four fabulous hours of creative fun for children and families at Komedia and Dukes @ Komedia.
Spiegel Dance
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 31st May 2014
Spiegel Dance is an exciting mixed bill of contemporary dance works.
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.
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.
Explorers Club: Lucid Dreaming
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 28th May 2014
Eccentricty and the quest for experience don’t stop at Brighton and further down the coast is another hotbed of intellectual pursuit.
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jay Kidd
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 26th May, 2014
Comedy Club 4 Kids is a first-rate comedy show for children and adults alike.
Working Men's Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 23rd - 24th May 2014
Come join our club.
Working Men's Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th Aug, 2012
The title of Luke Benson and David Hardcastle’s show can easily give rise to the fear that it will be a rather patronising pastiche of working class culture for the benefit of a …
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.
Mr. Stampe: Kind of a BIG Deal
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 24th May 2014
Jason Stampe is Kind of a big deal.
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…
The Big Wordshare: For Writers & Readers
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 18th - 18th May 2014
Love talking about books? Writing your own? For writers: come along to the morning session to seek advice and share experiences with fellow aspiring novelists and a panel of indust…
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…
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.
Robin Ince's Dirty Book Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jay Kidd
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 15th May, 2014
Clutching a handful of books, Robin Ince takes to the stage to welcome the audience into his world of lurid literature from across the ages.
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 …
The Big Tissue
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- 26 Gerard Street
- 11th - 18th May 2014
Ben, aged 7, got upset one evening and drew dots on some kitchen towel instead of going to bed.
Straight No Chaser Big Band: Navigation
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 11th May 2014
Hear the thrilling big band sound of 18-piece jazz ensemble Straight No Chaser as they perform original music from their latest CD: Navigation alongside a new piece commissioned fo…
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.
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 Big Bite-Size Late Breakfast
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 4th May - 1st Jun 2014
Join us for a Late Breakfast of international award-winning new plays.
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.
Red Brick Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 3rd - 31st May 2014
The finest, funniest late-night stand-up on the Fringe.
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.
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…
Krater Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Harriet Hirschler
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 4th May, 2012
The basement of Komedia is buzzing as soon as I enter; this is the place to be for stand up comedy in the South (or so I’ve been told).
Spiegel Late
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 2nd - 31st May 2014
Spiegeltents are the ultimate portable dancehall, which have been touring the world with their special blend of magic, glamour and escapism for more than 100 years.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 2nd - 31st May 2014
Komedia’s award-winning Krater Comedy Club has been described as “THE place in Brighton to catch stand-up comedy” by The Independent and has been winner of Chortle’s Best C…
Fringe Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 2nd - 31st May 2014
Continue your Brighton Fringe evening at our late-night show. Music from Brighton’s finest bands and a bar that won’t break the bank. For full listings see www.warrenvenue.com
Fringe Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Rowan Dent
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 24th May, 2014
As a child of rural Somerset, I am no stranger to folk music.
Club Sol Party
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 1st - 20th May 2014
‘Club Sol Party’ is a completely immersive event that will transport you to sunny Spain for an evening of comedy and cabaret that you will never forget.
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.
Big Jay and Friends
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Village Underground
- 22nd Apr 2014
Big Jay Oakerson brings his crowd-work show to the Comedy Cellar’s second room, with appearances by Dave Attell, Dan Soder, Luis J. Gomez and others.
The Comedians Club
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Comedians’ Club of New York
- 7th Apr 2014
New York City’s newest comedy club kicks off its Monday night show — with the emcee Josh Spear and stand-up from Jesse Joyce, Dan Soder and a surprise guest.
Big Terrific
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Cameo Gallery
- 2nd Apr 2014
Max Silvestri hosts this long-running and incredibly popular stand-up show, which always has a well-curated mix of up-and-comers and established headliners.
Yianni in Think Big (The Big One)
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2013
In his hugely popular free show Think Big, Yianni sets out his ambition to sell-out the biggest venue at the Fringe, have Michael ‘HackIntyre’ open for him and to enter the stage ‘…
Big Band Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug 2013
Big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing.
The Rising: The UK's No.1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug 2013
The Rising: a dynamic group of talented musicians who play tribute to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band. An absolute must for fans of the Boss.
The Kirsty Law Band
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th - 19th Aug 2013
Accompanied by Rona Wilkie (fiddle), Marit Fält (Låtmandola), Kirsty brings Scots traditional material to life and performs her own thought-provoking songs.
Nuala Kennedy Band with A. J. Roach
- Review
- ★★★
- Lily Blacksell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Nuala Kennedy has a beautiful lilting voice that suits her ‘cheerful-sounding murder ballad’ songs perfectly.
Storytellers' Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th - 17th Aug 2013
Sarah Bennetto is joined by some of the world’s best comedians telling stories by a fireside.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug 2013
This modern day Grappelli on violin with virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform intoxicating hot club jazz laced with Latin rhythms…
Big Boys Don't Cry
- Review
- ★★★
- Joe Talbot
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
The 27 Club as a concept is comprised of a much revered collection of musicians who died aged 27.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alistair Grant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
The 27 Club is possibly the only club in the world as exclusive to join as it is undesirable.
Band on the Run
- Review
- ★★★
- Cai Trefor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Frontman and songwriter Sandy Brechin played traditional accordion from his albums ‘Out of his Head’ and ‘Out of his Tree’, with backing from cajon, guitar, bass guitar, an…
Barnardo’s Big Comedy Benefit
- Review
- ★★★
- Joe Walsh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug 2013
The Boy with Tape on his Face - ‘Amazing’ (Scotsman), hosts pick-of-the-fringe 2011 and 2012 show.
The Big Comedy Gala in Aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug 2013
Hosted by Roy Walker (ITV’s Catchphrase).
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.
Band On the Run
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 13th Aug 2013
Wild man of the accordion, Sandy Brechin, plays fast and funky sets from his albums Out of His Box and Out of His Tree, accompanied by bass, guitar and percussion.
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�…
Club Noir Burlesque: Schlock Horror
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug 2013
A gory, bloody, wicked show.
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.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band: Thistles and Roses
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th - 9th Aug 2013
Music, alternately exhilarating and tender, by Edinburgh’s famous 13-strong early music group.
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.
The Gramophone Jazz Band's Late Night Speakeasy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Edinburgh’s up and coming New Orleans Dixieland jazz band means business.
The Blues Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug 2013
The Blues Band are acknowledged throughout the world as being the finest and most entertaining purveyors of rhythm and blues.
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.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets.
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.
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2013
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
The Distraction Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2013
London’s top musical comedy night arrives in Edinburgh! Featuring the best musical comedians and the funniest musicians to be found at the Fringe.
Yianni in Think Big
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carys Evans
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Yianni’s optimism and trademark nerdiness combine for a show that is refreshingly devoid of cynicism.
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.
Big Comedy Lunch
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Early afternoon gigs are generally seen as low-profile, low-quality slots in the hierarchy of festival scheduling, but sometimes they can hide events that definitely shouldn’t be…
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susan Ford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two.
The Rabbie Burns Supper Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Set in the impressive venue of the Ghillie Dhu, the Rabbie Burns Supper Club is an ostensible celebration of Burns poetry and Scots culture.
The Breakfast Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
It’s hard, a lot of the time, to find comedy that appeals to both children and adults.
Best of Waterloo Comedy Club - Ralph D'iamond Hosts
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 6th Aug 2013
Come and see the stars who’ve appeared at Waterloo Comedy Club including radio and TV guests, award winners and Fringe favourites.
Wits End Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2013
Our dashing hosts present a naughty nightcap of raucous comedy, cabaret and late night frivolity.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2013
2012 reviews: ‘Loaded with energy’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Loveboat Big Band Summer Love-In
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
Free - 99 Club Stand-Up Selection - Cowgate
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2013
Proudly supporting the Free Festival, the 99 Club brings a selection of four different comics every day.
Big Spoon, Little Spoon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 18th Aug 2013
Are you a big spoon or more of a little spoon type of person? Come see this stand-up show from two spoon enthusiasts.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space / Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
- 5th Aug, 2012
The Bongo Club is more accustomed to hosting face-chewing ravers than sweet-chewing kiddies, but this evening the kindergarten has taken over.
The Scottish Burly Ceilidh Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
For first-time ceilidh-goers, some tips: do not wear high heels.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Where can you get an hour of stand-up that includes routines about farts, worms and Charles Darwin? The Comedy Club 4 Kids, that’s where.
I'm With the Band
- Review
- ★★
- James Fennemore
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
The best allegories can stand on their own two feet.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Since 2007 Hilarity Bites alumni include John Bishop, Sarah Millican, Chris Ramsey, Russell Kane, Jason Cook, Pete Firman, Richard Herring, Reginald D.
Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2013
It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’…
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.
Big Value Comedy's Lunchtime Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
An early afternoon, discount show with another four of the hottest unknown acts on the first step of the ladder to success.
Ellis & Rose: Big in Denmark
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
Working Men's Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Edwards
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Luke Benson and David Hardcastle are bringing back the Working Men’s Club; pints and pork scratchings at the ready.
Big Value Comedy Show - Late
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Nightingale
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way first: this show is certainly value for money.
Stephen K Amos: Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 24th Aug 2013
The maestro of feel-good comedy.
The Hill and Weedon Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 14th Aug 2013
Hill and Weedon (Winners of Musical Comedy Awards 2013, Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalists 2012) are back with a powerhouse hour of funny music, sketches, beard whisperin…
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks
- Review
- ★★★
- Brett Herriot
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons and countless more world-wide were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men - S…
Daly's Comedy Club @ The Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
In this special free Fringe show you can expect the unexpected with some of our favourite acts handpicked for each show and a different line-up every day, there is something for ev…
Stephen K Amos - Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 24th Aug 2013
From the maestro of feel-good comedy.
Cookstown Sizzling Comedy Club Presents the Irishtorats of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Showcasing the very best in Irish comedy, this daily show will not disappoint, with the best headline acts on the Irish circuit and support from new up-and-coming comedians.
Big Value Comedy Show - Early
- Review
- ★★★★
- Clara Plackett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
The first truly laugh-out-loud-funny show I have seen at The Fringe, The Big Value Comedy Show is definitely worth the ticket price.
Big Value Comedy Show - Early
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Our 18th year as the recognised launchpad for future legends, featuring four top comedians.
Big Value Comedy Show - Late
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Consisting of four different acts each night, Big Value Comedy Late seeks to bring its audience variety and humour in equal measure whilst also giving them a sample of some of the …
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.
Tanyalee Davis - Big Trouble in Little 'Gina
- Review
- ★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
If you are over 35 or simply want to hear how middle-aged life is a going to be a blood-stained nightmare, then this is the show for you; for anyone else, sit tight for an uncomfor…
Helen O'Brien: Bronagh's Big Weekend
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sam Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Most of us remember our early teenage years with a mixture of mortification and despair, but then again, most of us don’t have the ability to translate our stories into devilishl…
Does My Face Look Big In This
- Review
- ★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Does My Face Look Big In This is a one-woman show with Caroline Hardie, a relatable, witty and energetic comedian.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rebecca Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Farce Noir Presents... The Big Sheep
- Review
- ★★★
- Stewart McLaren
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
This delightfully daft and silly send-up of ‘50s film noir is gleefully performed in one of the oddest venue spaces I’ve come across.
Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical!
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
Little Howard's Big Show for Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Joshua Hepple
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
It is a rarity for a Fringe show to give away freebies, so being offered a coffee and a croissant at the Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show was a pleasant surprise.
New Art Club: Feel About Your Body
- Review
- ★★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Dynamic, physical, moving (literally), touching (even more literally) and hilarious; this is the New Art Club, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, two men who are on a mission to make you …
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gwen Sims-Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Don’t come for the breakfast.
Bright Club: Scotland's Fringe
- Review
- ★★
- Milly Reilly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
A show that gathers different academics, doctors, scientists and the like to intellectually entertain has real potential and if the hour had been filled with funny facts from enter…
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory's Family Creatures
- Review
- ★★★
- Lia Sanders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory’s Family Creatures may seem an impenetrable sort of name but early into watching this show it became apparent that this was a sketch show intended …
Best of Waterloo Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★
- Catherine Anderson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
The volume of shows presented at the Edinburgh Fringe can sometimes be overwhelming, so the Waterloo Comedy Club has put on a free show to give the audience a taster of some of the…
Joanna Neary: Youth Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Adam Lebovits
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
If most people had a time machine, it’s unlikely their first choice of destination would be Truro in 1987.
The Bongo Club Cabaret (and NYE Club)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Nadia Mehdi
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Bongo Cabaret always has a lot to live up to, being well regarded as one of the best cabarets at the Fringe.
The Big Bite Size Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stewart McLaren
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2011
There’s no better way to start a busy day at the Fringe than with coffee, a croissant, a strawberry and a host of well performed, highly amusing short plays.
Tom-Tom Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tim Earl
- Brighton Fringe
- 31st May, 2008
What a box of delights! Jaw-dropping acrobatics, superb DJ-ing, stunning beat-boxing, intricate drumming, and enthusiastic, up-tempo presentation and compering.
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.
Take The Empire: The Great Big Marvellous Victorian Game Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rob Marks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2009
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
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.
New Art Club: Quiet Act of Destruction
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2011
New Art Club are certainly as good as their word, and over an hour they they recount an elaborate tale which centres around a fierce rivalry between two small, dull villages in Cam…
The Cheese and Pineapple Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah Verhaeg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2008
We are invited to a party.
Little Howard's Big Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- London Fringe
- 23rd May, 2012
It should be no surprise that I am not the only unaccompanied adult at Little Howard’s Big Show.
The Loveboat Big Band Album Launch Extravaganza
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Hello Sailor.
Andi Neate Band & Guests
- Review
- ★★★★
- David Walter Hall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2008
I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Natasha Long
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2008
Who doesnt want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is …
Big Day for the Goldbergs
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tess Ellison
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2010
Same old story, remarks Lucille Goldberg as she discusses her familys past.
Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
The Top Secret Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tiffany Shepherd
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Apparently not such a big secret after all, the Whistlebinkies was packed with those in the know waiting for a line-up of top comedians to kick start their night.
West End Glee Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Sep, 2010
The Sears Basset Glee Club is looking for a soloist for its London debut, and we - the audience - get to vote on who it will be.
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.
Lucia and Scot and the Big Flamenco Adventure!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Nina Seale
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Two puppets, Lucia and Scot, both love Flamenco dancing, but Scot just can’t find his flamenco rhythm.
Big Boys Don't Dance
- Review
- ★★★
- Dale Phoenix
- Brighton Fringe
- 5th Jun, 2013
I approached “Big Boys Don’t Dance” with trepidation.
The Shuffle Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Bruce Kent
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2007
Let the Spiegels resident late night band entertain you through the early hours with their slick performance of swing classics in a fantastic setting.
Little Johnny's Big Gay Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2009
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
Wedding Band: A Comedy by Charlie Baker
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2011
For most people, their wedding is the happiest day of their life.
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…
The Andi Neate Band
- Review
- ★★★★
- Larry Bartleet
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
In this one-off show, Andi Neate’s band was small and intimate.
Belgrave and Manera's Music Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
Bongo Club Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2008
Before going to the Bongo Club I was a cabaret virgin.
Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Frankl
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
The Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band presents Oliver Pissed
- Review
- ★★★
- Hannah Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
In the second floor of a pub off Grassmarket, a sweaty singer belts out peculiar variations on show tunes from Oliver! This is Oliver Pissed, as presented by The Sensational Alex S…
Tiffin Swing Band
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katie Elmore
- FUSE International
- 16th Jul, 2013
Reminiscent of a Rihanna concert, the Tiffin Swing Band starts their set late.
Big in Japan (or Three Steves and a Bob)
- Review
- ★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2007
There is much to commend in Bob Karpers new one-man show at Zoo.
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…
Battlefield Band
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
‘An oasis in the Fringe… with bagpipes’ is how piper and most talkative Battlefield Band member Alasdair White described their show.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Treasure Chest
- Review
- ★★★
- Bryony Clarke
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
An evening of music, song and dance from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance period is probably unlikely to set the pulse racing for most and yet while not exhilarating, the e…
The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party
- Review
- ★★★
- Vanessa Murray
- Brighton Fringe
- 28th May, 2012
A gloriously British summer afternoon, sipping tea and eating scones; the perfect setting for The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party.
New Rope String Band
- Review
- ★★
- Michael Tansini
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Musical comedy is a risky business.
Big Band Swing
- Review
- ★★★
- Cai Trefor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
26-song set divided into two parts in the tall St Cuthbert’s church (which included tea and biscuits at the interval) provided a nostalgic throwback to the 1920s, 30s and early …
Holly Burn: The H Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Nadia Mehdi
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Holly Burn seems to think she has provided us with something we have always wanted: the chance to join a private members club.
Big In Dubai!
- Review
- ★★
- Ed Nightingale
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Two Brits, one Yank, one Arab and few laughs.
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.
Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2012
Storyteller’s Club was the friendliest stand-up night I’ve ever been to.
Night of the Big Wind
- Review
- ★★★
- Cai Trefor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
The Night of the Big Wind is an innovative puppetry performance inspired by the book of the same title, written by Peter Carr.
Fat Club: The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Theo Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2009
Five people are compelled to join a fat club due to self deprecation and the search for a sex life.
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.
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Bartlett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
This is the European debut of Anthony J.
Frisky & Mannish: 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Brett Herriot
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Frisky and Mannish are well known for their comedy capers in their madcap tribute to pop icons, but what happens when the duo turn serious and take a look at the pop and rock pheno…
Continuity Scares Me: a work in progress
- Review
- ★★
- Steven Ellis
- Camden Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Alarm bells sounded early with Richard Wright’s show.
The Blanks' Big Break
- Review
- ★★★
- Stewart McLaren
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
This comedy a cappella troupe is fast becoming one of the biggest sellers of this year’s festival.
101 Comedy Club - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Alistair Grant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
With 101 Comedy Club seeing different up and coming comedians performing every night in four ten minute sets, it is perhaps unfair to form a complete judgement based on one night a…
Alistair Ogilvy and Band
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sujana Upadhyay
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2011
For those of us with a palette for traditional and contemporary Scottish folk music, Alistair Ogilvy and Band are here with a special treat.
Spiegel Supper Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Gross
- Brighton Fringe
- 22nd May, 2013
Broadway Baby doesn’t often get the chance to turn restaurant critic, but as Sam’s of Brighton have added their pre-show Supper Club at the Spiegeltent to the official Fringe p…
Sex, Lies & An 80s Tribute Band
- Review
- ★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2006
A travel writer returns to Scotland after twenty years travelling the world.
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.
The BIG Sing-a-long!
- Review
- ★★★
- Oscar French
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Big Project’s children’s choir returns for its third year at the Fringe, and if you’ve got children who love nothing more than to sing-a-long to chart toppers this is the…
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…
Club Noir Burlesque - The Games
- Review
- ★★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
En route to The Picture House, the Fringe’s home to the UK’s biggest burlesque night, there was just one day left of London’s golden games.
Big Sean, Mikey and Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catherine Bryer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Packed into a crowded, stuffy room in the turrets of Teviot, Ruaraidh Murray gives a schizophrenic performance in a production that’s somewhere between a play and stand-up comedy.
The Lunchtime Club 2011
- Review
- ★★★★
- William Summerlin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2011
In the beguiling little bunker that is the Tron, the Lunchtime Club, class of 2011, are predictably well attended.
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.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
The 27 Club is a club in which all members died at the age of 27, explains Jack Lukeman, having strutted onto the stage in sunglasses to a hefty round of applause.
Edinburgh Folk Club Festival Showcase
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Established in 1973, the Edinburgh Folk Club was represented at the Fringe for the first time this year with a showcase at the Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride’s that displayed …
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…
Davey Connor, Lucy Beaumont and Ed Patrick - The Big Comedy Showcase Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
When your lineup is three unheard-of comedians, and your venue is the Gilded Balloon’s tiny “Wee Room”, calling your show ‘The Big Comedy Showcase’ is actually a pretty s…
The Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gill Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2008
When the doors only open fifteen minutes after the stated start time, it doesnt bode well, but this show is worth the wait.
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.
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.
Vaudeville Cabaret Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2007
It’s an all too familiar, but unfortunate, story for a reviewer.
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…
Storytellers' Club at the Establishment
- Review
- ★★★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2007
Once upon a time at the Edinburgh Festival, a pretty young girl named Sarah Bennetto wanted to reclaim the late night shows from drunken debauchery and low brow skulduggery, so she…
The Dick Gaughan Band (feat The Bevvy Sisters)
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
Sometimes music does more than simply entertain you – sometimes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck and makes you sit up and listen.
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.
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.
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.
Club Gotham: Villains of Vaudeville
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
The Dark Knight keeps watch over our city.
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.
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.
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.
Cherry pops the question: ‘What’s the big deal about virginity?’
- Feature
- Bennett Bonci
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2017
‘There are very few things that are universal.
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.
Balletboyz join The Big Give Christmas Challenge in aid of Parkinson’s CAN Dance
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 29th Nov, 2016
The internationally celebrated dance company BalletBoyz have announced that they will be taking part in ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge’ from noon on Tuesday 29 November to n...
Interview: Natasha Granger & Kerrie Thompson from 90s Girl-band Musical 2 Become 1
- Feature
- Adrian Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2016
Natasha Granger and Kerrie Thompson wrote, produced and star in 90s girl-band musical 2 Become 1, a story about romance, speed dating and the ideal post-night-out meal.
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.
Going To Space: The Jäger Maestros Oompah Band
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Feb, 2015
Broadway Baby is talking to Chris Haigh of the The Jäger Maestros, an oompah band that promises to have crowds laughing, drinking and bouncing.
Into The Woods makes the big screen
Broadway Baby doesn't often discuss movies, but when the film in question is one of the most hotly anticipated stage musical adaptations of all time (and when the good folk at Disn...
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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