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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.
FKPE presents Connor Wood Featuring Maggie Winters
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 23rd Nov 2024
Connor Masich, best known as Connor Wood or @fibulaa across his socials, is a 28-year-old comedian based in Venice, CA.
The Exploding Heads Presents: Colin From Portsmouth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th Oct 2024
Online sensations and stars of hit podcast Sports Horn, The Exploding Heads, bring their characters to life on stage for the first time in their debut national tour comi…
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…
An Afternoon with Clinton Baptiste
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 25th Aug 2024
Britain’s foremost clairvoyant medium psychic from Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights brings you a “best of” from his UK tours.
musicALL presents: The Fridays
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 23rd Aug 2024
A show that joyfully celebrates the achievements of musicians who are disabled and/or neurodivergent.
ITVX Presents: Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 21st - 24th Aug 2024
Don’t miss the ultimate late-night comedy extravaganza! Join us for different line-ups every night, with known faces and new acts – all broadcast LIVE on ITVX.
PBJ Presents... Favourites of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 21st Aug 2024
PBJ presents some of the best up-and-coming and established stand-up talent at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Book now to avoid disappointment!
Craig on the Cliff
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 21st - 22nd Aug 2024
Craig Herbertson, Edinburgh singer and songwriter, presents a celebration in folk song and folk story of Scotland.
Blind Mirth Presents: A Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 19th - 24th Aug 2024
Blind Mirth returns to Edinburgh Fringe once again in a blaze of glory and parental disdain.
Grubby Little Mitts Presents: Sketch Book
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 17th - 24th Aug 2024
Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes…
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.
Leith Comedy Festival Presents... The Edinburgh Fringe Edition
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Biscuit Factory
- 15th - 17th Aug 2024
Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians on the Fringe at the iconic Biscuit Factory in Leith.
ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Columba’s by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
- 15th Aug 2024
For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and…
TikTok Presents: The Variety Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 14th Aug 2024
TikTok is the virtual stage of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Bristol Revunions Presents: All You Can Eat!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 13th - 24th Aug 2024
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2024, and we’ve got some incredible new recipes! We’ll be chopping, stirring, kneading and boiling to serve you some deli…
Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 13th - 25th Aug 2024
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
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…
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
Vox Stars, winners of the Spirit Of The Fringe Award (2022) present a new show for 2024, celebrating aspiring singers through the music of their idols.
The Suicide Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
The Suicide Club.
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.
Steve Richards Presents: Rock'n'Roll Politics
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 11th - 24th Aug 2024
Roll up for a brand-new series of shows: it’s election year in the UK and US.
Arias in the Afternoon
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh New Town Church
- 10th Aug 2024
A fabulous afternoon of opera highlights, in a wonderful New Town venue.
Così fan tutte
- Listing Opera
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Usher Hall
- 10th Aug 2024
A test of fidelity leads to deception, seduction and surprises in Mozart’s collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte.
An Afternoon with the Classical Guitar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Vincent’s
- 10th Aug 2024
Join Stewart Kelly for a journey around the world as you listen to the classical guitar repertoire. Featuring music from Spain, Poland, Scotland, America, Brazil and more.
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 21st Aug 2024
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the sixth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double-bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Brewdog Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Impro Poet Presents: What If History?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2024
They say that history repeats itself.
12th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2024
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2024
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
After Shakespeare – Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch.
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.
Simon Evans presents: Footnotes to Smith
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Panmure House
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’.
The Momma Drama presents Stretchmarks!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2024
The Momma Drama presents the hilarious and heartfelt show: Stretchmarks! An original play written by mums for mums, about the adventure of a lifetime: motherhood.
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…
Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships Winner 2022.
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…
Mandeep Singh Presents Singh'ing in the Rain
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ Potterrow
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Singh’ing in the Rain – Mandeep Singh brings a feel-good comedy hour about cracking on regardless of the circumstances.
Adele Cliff Has Some New Ideas You Might Enjoy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at Cabaret Voltaire
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Leicester Comedy Award nominee, Amused Moose Award shortlist-ee and double Pegasus Comedy Award win-ee, Adele has a year of new ideas to share.
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…
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.
Mr Chonkers Presents… Piggy Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 1st - 3rd Aug 2024
Piggy Time is a mixed-bill show featuring the funniest and weirdest comedy acts of the Fringe.
Circus Sonas Presents: Down with Gravity
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 1st - 18th Aug 2024
What goes up, must come down… but not necessary in the way that you expected.
Adam Riley: Late-night Comedy in the Afternoon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
Rik Carranza Presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 1st - 16th Aug 2024
Join host Rik Carranza as comedians from across the Fringe battle it out to discover which is the best franchise, Star Trek or Star Wars, the ultimate clash of fandoms.
Richard Cobb: Running Joke
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Following a host of sell-out shows and 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…
Rik Carranza Presents: Marvel vs DC
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 18th Aug 2024
Which is the true home of heroes – Marvel or DC? In this interactive show, kids battle it out on behalf of their heroes in games and challenges to decide which franchise has the …
Ashley Haden Presents Crosswords
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Crosswords is exactly what is says. Top comedians angry about the news, and top comedians and the audience doing the crossword. Get angry, get the clues and get laughs.
1k Comedy Presents: Toby Shure and Friends – Love Ireland!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Toby was, until he discovered the ancient lost Gaelic secrets to love, life and the universe.
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.
Fan/Girl
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 1st - 26th Aug 2024
Sparked by a conversation with a childhood friend that unearthed a long-forgotten obsession with football, Bryony wondered why all the girls she knew stopped playing football in th…
SalFUNNI presents: No Backup Plan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 1st - 11th Aug 2024
Returning again to the Fringe, and as always featuring students from the University of Salford.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘Funny.
Kyle Ayers presents: Hard to Say
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
US comedian Kyle Ayers (Conan, Comedy Central) tries to make light of having Trigeminal Neuralgia, a rare nerve disorder known as Suicide Disease.
Mime Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 15th Aug 2024
Sexy dads, vacuum cleaners, the German State Theatre.
Ladies Who Ranch
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 12th Aug 2024
We heard your pleas.
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.
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 …
Fan Girls
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 13th Jul - 24th Aug 2024
Get ready for an unmissable show that pulses with the soaring adrenaline of a first crush and feels like the best pop concert you’ve never been to…Meet Edna: she’s 14, she’…
Così fan tutte
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 26th Jun - 10th Jul 2024
Two confident young men make a bet to prove the fidelity of their girlfriends.
DC Richard Head
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
Murder! Conspiracy? Audience participation?! 4 officers have been found dead and DC Richard Head suspects foul play.
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…
The Theatrical Guild presents “An Audience with Brian Cox”
- Listing
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 2nd Jun 2024
The Theatrical Guild presents an intimate insight into the life and work of Worldwide Superstar Brian Cox (“Succession” & “Long Day’s Journey…
Avocado Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 2nd Jun 2024
Brothers from other mothers, Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and story-lines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2024
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
The Untold Fable of Fritz
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- Divadlo Inspirace
- 30th May, 2024
Let out your inner child and enjoy The Untold Fable of Fritz by Unsettled Theatre at the Prague Fringe Festival in the Divadlo Inspirace Theatre.
The Chemistry of Love
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- Restaurace Malostranská Beseda
- 2nd Jun, 2024
What do Shakespeare, thermodynamics and biochemistry have in common? The somewhat surprising answer is Love.
Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- Muzeum alchymistů a mágů staré Prahy
- 1st Jun, 2024
For fans of Holmes and anyone who enjoys a solid solo show, this performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act at the Prague Fringe by celebrated actor Nigel Miles-Thomas is a must-…
Twelfth Night
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- Malostranska Beseda Galerie
- 29th May, 2024
If you’ve never seen Shakespeare performed Aussie style, this is your chance.
UnErase Poetry - Stories from India
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- Malostranska Beseda Galerie
- 29th May, 2024
Making their international debut, UnErase Poetry, India's biggest spoken-word collective, with over two million followers on social media, provide an hour of delightful tales, …
At Home with Will Shakespeare
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Prague Fringe
- A Studio Rubín
- 1st Jun, 2024
Who knows what Shakespeare looked like? We might think we do, yet as Pip Utton points out in his solo performance of At Home With Will Shakespeare at the Prague Fringe, the most fa…
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.
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.
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.
Afternoon in Paris featuring Mike Hatchard
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 19th May 2024
Afternoon in Paris featuring Susanna Warren (clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals and melodica), Mike Hatchard (piano, vocals and violin), Jeremy Young (guitar) and Oz Dechaine (bass).
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…
Richard III (a one person show)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Yellow Book
- 15th - 19th May 2024
Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show.
KLH Dance presents: Legends
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market - Standing
- 12th May 2024
For over a decade, KLH Dance has been nurturing the talents of youth dancers in Brighton, and now, our Elite and Junior squad dancers, along with some of our KLH alumni, are taking…
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…
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…
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.
RANK.
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)
- 14th May, 2024
At the end of drunken night out all that Gemma and Jane want is to jump into a taxi, get home and crash into bed.
Richard III | Globe
- Listing
- West End
- Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
- 9th May - 3rd Aug 2024
Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster.
Far From Home Close To Love
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 14th May, 2024
Actor and writer Benjamin Kelm taps himself repeatedly about the face as he repeats the mantra, “You can do it, you can do it , you can do it.
Six Characters in Search of Pirandello
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 15th May, 2024
Playwright Tim Coakley has created an interesting twist on Luigi Pirandello’s groundbreaking play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, with his latest work, Six Characters in …
A Song of Songs
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre / Park Theatre London
- 17th May, 2024
The European premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre sees a work as mysterious in theatrical categorisation as the book on which it is based is in terms of religious litera…
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Teddy Thomas
- London Fringe
- Bridewell Theatre
- 14th May, 2024
From the moment you are handed your programme at the Bridewell Theatre you are immersed in the world of SEDOS’s Richard III directed by Dan Edge.
Felix Le Freak presents Men & Other Problems
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- North Laine Brewhouse
- 9th - 30th May 2024
“Nighty Night meets Benidorm” in this dark, satirical one-queen show.
Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 8th May 2024
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 8th May 2024
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
The Black Diamonds presents: Stealing the Show
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 7th May 2024
The Black Diamonds UK present ‘Stealing the Show’.
Off The Chest presents Brighton Bards
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 7th May 2024
The sell-out poetry night, Off The Chest, makes its Brighton premiere at Komedia on 7th May.
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…
Figment Arts & Artist Open Houses Presents: Story Maps
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- 2 Hanningtons Lane
- 5th - 19th May 2024
Figment Arts will be sharing the folklore, heritage and history of Sussex this May in association with Artist Open Houses.
Club Cream
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Vault @ Fool’s Paradise
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2024
The shows are over and its time to dance.
Smiley Dave Browne Presents: No Cap
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds)
- 3rd - 18th May 2024
Online viral comedian, takes to the stage for his new show of stories from a life of a dreamer with odd ways of handling what life had to throw and an obscure view of the world tha…
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…
The Government Inspector
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Marylebone Theatre
- 17th May, 2024
Bribery and corruption, greed and stupidity dominate Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector.
So That You May Go Beyond The Sea
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 3rd May, 2024
As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl…
A Year And A Day
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- New Wimbledon Theatre
- 6th May, 2024
Christopher Sainton-Clark, the sole actor in A Year and a Day, founded Raising Cain Productions in 2021 ‘with the aim of producing bold, innovative and cinematic small-scale thea…
Frozen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 3rd May, 2024
Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances.
Laughing Boy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 6th May, 2024
Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning.
What The Butler Saw
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Devonshire Park Theatre
- 1st May, 2024
Artistic Director and Founder of London Classic Theatre, Michael Cabot opened the company’s touring production of Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw at the Devonshire Park Theatr…
Community Service
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 16th Apr, 2024
Stan’s Cafe Theatre, Birmingham, is rooted in the community, so it’s no surprise that they have taken the local story of Trevor Prince, a gospel guitarist and one of the first bl…
Besa
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Drayton Arms Theatre
- 13th Apr, 2024
What an extraordinary and charming play this is, courtesy of De Insomniis Theatre.
Horne's Descent
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Old Red Lion Pub
- 5th Apr, 2024
It all starts off so nicely, but it’s not long before Nina Atesh’s drawing-room drama turns into a battleground of conflicts that resurrect the past, fight for the present and …
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…
My Beautifull Laundrette
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Liverpool Playhouse
- 8th Apr, 2024
Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its UK tour, courtesy of the Theatre Nation Partnerships conve…
Les Misérables (School Edition)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Westcliff High School For Boys
- 27th Mar, 2024
To stage Les Misérables is a massive undertaking for any theatre company, but Director Ben Jeffreys has consummately risen to the challenge with a production of the School’s Edi…
Foam
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 27th Mar, 2024
Harry McDonald’s Foam, at the Finborough Theatre, is a chronological series of snapshots that capture events in the life of Nicky Crane (1958-1993).
Hide and Seek
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 18th Mar, 2024
It’s refreshing to see a much-visited subject of bullying and homophobia in a world dominated by social media, given a fresh treatment that is both innovative and extraordinary, …
Rika’s Rooms
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre
- 8th Mar, 2024
Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo …
Guys & Dolls
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bridge Theatre
- 18th Mar, 2024
Celebrating the show’s first anniversary, Nicholas Hytner’s sensational, immersive production of Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre with a new lineup of stars, th…
Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football
- Listing
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Mar 2024
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football
- Listing
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Mar 2024
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
Uncle Vanya
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 15th Mar, 2024
The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, has scored a major triumph in securing the services of Sir Trevor Nunn to direct his faithful adaptation of Uncle Vanya in a production that has …
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…
Blonde Poison
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre
- 7th Mar, 2024
Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre.
The Duchess of Malfi
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- 15th Mar, 2024
Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se…
Richard Blackwood Live
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th Feb 2024
Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes.
Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 5th - 10th Feb 2024
Richard, Duke of Gloucester fresh from the conclusion of The Wars of The Roses remains dissatisfied and still ruthlessly ambitious, nothing and no one will stand in his way.
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 22nd Jan - 11th Mar 2024
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
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…
China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz presents: A Family Business
- Listing Theatre
- World Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 16th Jan - 2nd Mar 2024
Based on conversations with activists, academics and diplomats, theatre maker Chris Thorpe’s new show focuses on the human story of the struggle of nuclear disarmament, and the g…
Robin Hood (that sick f**k)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bread and Roses
- 1st May, 2024
Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre.
Double Trouble: Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Dec 2023
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
Double Trouble : Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Dec 2023
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
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…
ChoirCo presents: Taking the Guilt Out of Guilty Pleasures
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- EartH Theatre, Hackney
- 9th - 9th Dec 2023
ChoirCo is the UK’s biggest a cappella choir.
She Stoops to Conquer
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 30th Nov, 2023
Artistic Director Tom Littler, with Francesca Ellis, scores another inspired triumph with his production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.
Ghosts
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- 2nd Dec, 2023
The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br…
Treason - the Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Alexandra Palace
- 13th Nov, 2023
The brief descriptor of Treason the Musical as “a historic tale of division, religious persecution, and brutality” reads like a modern-day newspaper headline.
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…
Now Entering Ely, Nevada
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 1st Nov, 2023
Memory is a strange thing.
To Have And To Hold
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hampstead Theatre
- 9th Nov, 2023
The final days of a sixty-year marriage are turned into a domestic comedy in the latest offering from playwright Richard Bean, of One Man, Two Guvnors fame, in To Have and To Hold,…
1984
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hackney Town Hall
- 30th Oct, 2023
Playwright Adam Taub says, “In the era of Google, Amazon and Meta, when our every move is monitored and recorded, there is no more relevant story than 1984”.
Casting the Runes
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Pleasance Theatre Trust
- 23rd Oct, 2023
Following their hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year Box Tale Soup are now performing Casting the Runes, based on stories by M R James, at the Pleasance…
Manic Street Creature
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 27th Oct, 2023
Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world…
The Loaf
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Oct, 2023
Head to the Bridge House Theatre, Penge for an evening of delightful storytelling and charming performances in Alan Booty's two-hander, The Loaf.
Trueman and the Arsonists
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Roundhouse
- 1st Nov, 2023
Writer Simon Stephens has taken Max Frisch’s 1953 Biedermann und die Brandstifter, variously translated as The Fireraisers or The Arsonists and given it a heightened absurdist in…
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.
The Kaspar Hauser Experiment
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 23rd Oct, 2023
Winston Churchill’s famous expression, “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” could accurately be applied to the subject of The Kaspar Hauser Experiment a…
The Nag's Head
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 20th Oct, 2023
If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th…
Owners
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 19th Oct, 2023
Carly Churchill looks upon Owners, now revived at Jermyn Street Theatre, as a watershed in her life.
Iolanthe
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 16th Oct, 2023
There is nothing subtle about Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical attack on the House of Lords in Iolanthe, which premiered in both London and New York on 25th November 1882; the fi…
Gentlemen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 11th Oct, 2023
From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic.
fell
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 7th Oct, 2023
The current transformation of the postage stamp stage of Barons Court Theatre, located in the cellar vaults of The Curtains Up pub, has been wrought by Designer Jane Linz Roberts, …
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…
The Island
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Cervantes Theatre
- 30th Sep, 2023
There is an intriguing opening to The Island at the Cervantes Theatre.
Am I Irish Yet
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- White Bear Theater Pub
- 30th Sep, 2023
Described as a ‘one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan’ Am I Irish Yet? lays bare her problem as soon as she opens her mouth.
The Red Lion
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Queens Theatre - Hornchurch
- 27th Sep, 2023
Religious fervour and football fanaticism have much in common, so it seems entirely appropriate that Patrick Marber’s changing-room drama, The Red Lion should open to the sound o…
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 17th Oct, 2023
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Lessons on Revolution
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 5th Oct, 2023
Billed as ‘documentary theatre’ Lessons on Revolution at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating excursion into performance and the creative process that challenges the traditional i…
The Threepenny Opera
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Cockpit
- 13th Oct, 2023
Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge.
The Old Queen's Head
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Lion And Unicorn
- 22nd Sep, 2023
A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes…
I, Daniel Blake
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Everyman Theatre
- 5th Oct, 2023
Two lives come together in an unlikely match.
Mess Maker
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Sep, 2023
We’re all familiar with mess in one form or another, but for most of us dealing with it is probably not an all-consuming activity in the way that it is for writer and performer Jen…
Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Gielgud Theatre
- 24th Oct, 2023
The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021.
Boys From The Blackstuff
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 3rd Oct, 2023
The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series.
Artefact & Something Unspoken
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre
- 27th Sep, 2023
The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact…
The White Factory
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Marylebone Theatre
- 13th Oct, 2023
With horrific events occurring around the world, The White Factory at The Marylebone Theatre, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s and directed by Maxim Didenko comes as a poignant rem…
The Lady With a Dog
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Gatehouse
- 18th Sep, 2023
Publicity for Lady With a Dog, written and directed by Mark Giesser, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, promises a version in which ‘Chekhov’s famous short story of romance and infi…
Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 19th Sep, 2023
The traditional direction of migrants seeking a better life is turned on its head in Emanuele Aldrovandi’s Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (translated by Marco Young) at the Park Th…
One Under Par
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 14th Sep, 2023
Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th…
Rebecca
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 25th Sep, 2023
After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in…
Nick Mohammed Presents The Very Best & Worst of Mr. Swallow
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Duke of Yorks Theatre
- 5th - 9th Sep 2023
From his Cats Does Countdown clips that quickly went viral to Hollywood TV hits like Ted Lasso and Intelligence, Nick Mohammed is known for his silly-yet-scientific comedy, broad a…
Dead Dad Dog and Sunny Boy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2023
It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out.
God of Carnage
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 13th Sep, 2023
Who has not experienced a situation in which a surmountable incident escalates out of all proportion? Then, on the way to resolving it, further baggage accumulates around the subje…
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…
Insomnia Events Presents: LEVS
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 26th Aug 2023
Get ready for an electrifying night of absolute bangers as we welcome the incredibly talented LEVS DJ duo to The Liquid Room, Edinburgh.
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…
Sir Cliff Richard in Conversation With Gloria Hunniford
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stables at Prestonfield
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
Sir Cliff Richard in conversation with Gloria Hunniford discussing his career.
Klub Obskura Presents...
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 25th - 27th Aug 2023
Enter the depths of the Haus Obscura basement and discover a world unseen.
The Haus Obscura Presents...
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Aces and Eights
- 25th - 27th Aug 2023
Join the Haus Obscura as we present our Dark Stars! Returning performers from the deepest, darkest, dankest pits of drag and cabaret in our abhorrent Haus Obscura basement.
NEHH Presents... Withered Hand
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 24th Aug 2023
Edinburgh-based cult-indie songwriter Withered Hand (Dan Willson) is back with his first new album in nine years.
Craig on the Cliff
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 24th - 25th Aug 2023
Craig Herbertson, Edinburgh singer and songwriter, presents a celebration in song and story of Edinburgh.
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…
Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 25th Aug, 2023
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
Rozarina Larsen Presents: Whitefishing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2023
Rozarina Larsen presents: White Fishing – a work-in-progress comedy about finding your authenticity.
An Afternoon with Anton Du Beke and Friends
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica Leanne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 25th Aug, 2023
An Afternoon with Anton Du Beke and Friends, and what an afternoon; Du Beke gives a hilarious and dazzling show filled with humour, dance and song.
Jerry Sadowitz proudly presents... Last Year's Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 23rd - 25th Aug 2023
Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds.
Knock on Wood Presents: The Abrupt Son
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 22nd - 23rd Aug 2023
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Knock on Wood Presents: The Abrupt Son
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 22nd - 23rd Aug 2023
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Soul Penny Circus Presents: Dreams of a Clown
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
Soul Penny Circus is honored to present Dreams of a Clown, an original circus experience.
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…
The TUNEabomber
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 22nd Aug, 2023
Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful.
Blind Mirth Presents: Your Mum (And Other Playground Insults)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
The University of St Andrews’ funniest, sexiest and incidentally only improvised comedy troupe returns to the Fringe and this year, it’s back to school.
NEHH Presents... The Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th Aug 2023
Glaswegian musician, producer, DJ and curator Rebecca Vasmant, leads a live ensemble featuring some of the movers and shakers of the new Scottish jazz scene.
Deaf Action Presents: Faslane by Jenna Watt, Adapted and Performed by Amy Helena
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 20th Aug 2023
With her family having worked in Faslane all her life, and her friends protesting at the gates, Jenna endeavours to understand her relationship to Trident, the wider nuclear debate…
Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
- 19th - 27th Aug 2023
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Tarantara – An Afternoon of Gilbert and Sullivan
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stables at Prestonfield
- 19th Aug 2023
An afternoon of Gilbert and Sullivan will be performed by singers from English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera North, Carl Rosa and D’Oyly Carte.
Deaf Action Presents: The Gavin Lilley Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Deaf Action
- 19th - 20th Aug 2023
Essex-born Gavin Lilley, through his masterful use of sign language, has done stand-up shows all over Europe and the UK, bringing laughter to many deaf and hearing people with his …
Suse Steed Presents Magic Numbers
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 18th - 22nd Aug 2023
Join Suse for a stand up show about economics, magic, and making things disappear.
NEHH Presents... The Soul Foundation
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug 2023
Are you ready to groove your stuff to motown, a little Northern soul with a sprinkling of disco? Then hold on to your Detroit vinyl, as this band are right up your alley.
Cosi Fan Tutte
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 17th - 20th Aug 2023
Downtown Edinburgh, 2023.
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…
Mr Chonkers Presents: Piggy Time
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 17th - 19th Aug 2023
An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles.
NEHH Presents... An Evening of Joy
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2023
Francis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
An Afternoon with Matthew Herbert at The Hub
- Listing Talks
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Hub
- 17th Aug 2023
Join composer, DJ and producer Matthew Herbert for a discussion on his approach to musical innovation.
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.
Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 16th - 27th Aug 2023
World-class entertainer Brown returns from his five-star musical A Man, A Magic, A Music presenting a dazzling journey through Sam Cooke’s life: The King of Soul Music.
Out of the Blue Jazz Presents The Great American Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 16th - 19th Aug 2023
Back again after sell-out shows in 2019, swing jazz sensations Out of the Blue Jazz will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook, a classic mix of great lyrics, grea…
Nick Mohammed presents The Very Best and Worst of Mr Swallow
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug 2023
For one night only, double Emmy Award nominee and star of Ted Lasso Nick Mohammed brings Mr Swallow back to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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.
Bristol Revunions presents Ready to Board
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 15th - 26th Aug 2023
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Fringe with a brand-new sketch show, Ready to Board! Get your passports out and get ready for the flight of your life! The Bristol Revunions a…
Richard Brown and Jin Hao Li Split an Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 14th Aug 2023
Stand-up comedian and writer Richard Brown (‘A ruthless and angst-fuelled set with clever, impactful writing’ (TheWeeReview.
Semi-Toned Presents: Castaway
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 14th - 26th Aug 2023
A cappella sensation Semi-Toned are back for their ninth run at the Fringe.
Everything That Annoys Me, and You
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 17th Aug, 2023
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 14th - 19th Aug 2023
Vox Stars, winners of the Spirit of the Fringe Award 2022, present a new show for 2023, celebrating aspiring singers through the music of their idols.
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.
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2023
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fifth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Steve Richards Presents: Rock'n'Roll Politics
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 13th - 26th Aug 2023
In the last full year before the general election the legendary show returns with all the latest political dramas, characters, questions and unreliable predictions.
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.
Another Afternoon at the Opera with Brian Bannatyne-Scott and Friends
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 12th - 12th Aug 2023
An enchanting concert of operatic highlights, performed by international operatic bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott and fabulous up-and-coming young singers, accompanied by Polish pianist…
NEHH Presents... Kathryn Joseph
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug 2023
SAY Award winner, Kathryn Joseph returns to Summerhall’s Dissection Room playing songs from her new album, For You Who Are the Wronged.
Deaf Action Presents: Red Aphrodite by Amy Murray
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Deaf Action
- 12th - 13th Aug 2023
Amy Murray wants to break down all the taboos about womanhood, so she has now created a piece called Red Aphrodite that she will share through Edinburgh Deaf Festival.
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.
Deaf Action Presents: Fàilte Gu BSL/Welcome to BSL with Evie Waddell
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Deaf Action
- 12th Aug 2023
Fàilte Gu BSL (Welcome to BSL) is an immersive showcase of Gaelic and Scots signed-songs celebrating different aspects of traditional culture.
NEHH Presents... Auntie Flo (Live Set)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 11th Aug 2023
Revered jazz drummer Sarathy Korwar and global dance music pioneer Auntie Flo present their debut collaborative project – a bold sonic exploration of propulsive, tabla-infused rh…
Richard Michael Plays The Great American Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 11th - 13th Aug 2023
Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song…
Leith Comedy Festival Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Biscuit Factory
- 10th - 10th Aug 2023
One night only! Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians at the legendary Biscuit Factory in Leith.
An Afternoon with Geoff Sobelle at The Hub
- Listing Talks
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Hub
- 10th Aug 2023
Join award-winning absurdist performer Geoff Sobelle for an afternoon at The Hub.
Blueswater Presents: Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 10th - 28th Aug 2023
Catch award-winning rhythm and blues band The Blueswater for their only performances at the Fringe this year; five raucous gigs in Edinburgh’s best live music venue, The Jazz Bar.
Das Supperklub Presents: Icons
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brewhemia
- 10th - 24th Aug 2023
You’re invited to so much more than dinner.
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.
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.
Gigging It Up Presents: The Comedy Sessions
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Boteco do Brasil
- 8th - 24th Aug 2023
We bring you some of our favourite comedians to our sessions with a different line-up each show.
Afternoon Classics by ROSL Recitals
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 7th - 11th Aug 2023
Escape the afternoon crowds and enjoy amazing classical music with a ROSL Recital.
14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 9th Aug, 2023
Students from Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex, have arrived in Edinburgh with 14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac, an exciting re-imagining of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 classic tale writt…
NEHH Presents... We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 7th Aug 2023
Celebrated indie favourites We Were Promised Jetpacks formed in Edinburgh back in 2003 whilst still at school.
Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The West End Comedy Club
- 7th Aug 2023
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
Fruit Salad Airlines Presents: Jet Lag
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- West Port Oracle
- 7th - 24th Aug 2023
Edinburgh’s home-grown queer cabaret is back at the Fringe with a high altitude, scripted comedy! Take your seats on board a real, replica aircraft and enjoy some in-flight enterta…
Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The West End Comedy Club
- 7th Aug 2023
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
Richard Spalding: Look Who Loves Me (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 6th - 19th Aug 2023
If someone tells you they love you, it’s rude to ask why.
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW!
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 5th - 8th Aug 2023
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
Impro Poet Presents: What If History?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 5th - 15th Aug 2023
Impro Poet Presents: What If History? They say that history repeats itself.
Aloft Presents Sanctuary
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alex Bailey Dillon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 18th Aug, 2023
Aloft Circus Arts of Chicago (USA) burst onto the Fringe scene with their hit Brave Space last year.
NEHH Presents... Magic Nostalgic
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 5th Aug 2023
Having led a bit of nomadic existence since the closure of The Electric Circus in 2017, the club famed for its spinning wheel of musical categories returns to Summerhall.
Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW!
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 5th - 8th Aug 2023
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
Supporter Event: Supporters’ Afternoon Tea
- Listing Supporter events
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh
- 5th Aug 2023
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
11th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2023
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
NEHH Presents... London Astrobeat Orchestra Performs Talking Heads
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 5th Aug 2023
The London Astrobeat Orchestra have ignited a movement where cult western band repertoires are blended with African influences.
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.
Alyn Ashby Presents – TV Stardom for Beginners
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 4th - 12th Aug 2023
This unique (probably) show allows mere mortals like us to experience the world of the TV actor.
Whisky & Witches Presents Mythical Beasts: An Immersive, Mystical, Musical Whisky Tasting
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Mother Superior
- 6th Aug, 2023
Whisky and Witches sees the combination of Danish-born Christine Kammerer’s musical forte with the whimsical storytelling of Jane Ross.
JM Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 7th Aug, 2023
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
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.
Frighthouse Presents: The Wheel of Misfortune
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
The Wheel of Misfortune returns to the Fringe with new stories and new quirky tales full of funnies and frights, all presented by the Games Master.
Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022.
The Typewriter
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 8th Aug, 2023
The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office.
Square Peg
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 11th Aug, 2023
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
The Standard Short Long Drop
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 16th Aug, 2023
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
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 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 …
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.
NEHH Presents... Mull Historical Society
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 4th Aug 2023
Colin MacIntyre is a multi award-winning musician, producer, author for adults and children, and playwright, who has been voted Scotland’s Top Creative Talent.
Groovicle
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 20th Aug, 2023
Dancer and performer Elliot Minogue-Stone presents pop art, contemporary dance and cabaret in his brand-new mish-mash show, Groovicle at Zoo Southside.
Be Home Soon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 6th Aug, 2023
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
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…
The Grandfathers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 22nd Aug, 2023
What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha…
Summerhall's Opening Party: NEHH Presents... Optimo Espacio with Eyes of Others
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 4th Aug 2023
The duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes return to Summerhall’s Dissection Room with another one of their eclectic and euphoric sessions which has made them legends in the Glasgow and in…
Adele Cliff Can Break Your Arm
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Adele’s back, funnier and more dangerous than ever! Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee (2023).
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 …
Rik Carranza Presents Clash of Fandoms
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 3rd - 15th Aug 2023
The hit show Clash of Fandoms returns! The ultimate geek comedy debate show! Hosted by Pure Radio Scotland’s Rik Carranza and featuring a rotating line-up of guests representing ea…
BeComedy UK Presents: No Limits
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 20th Aug 2023
Dark jokes only! An irreverent comedy show where comedians push boundaries, slice and dice edgy topics and are not afraid of taking the risk.
Adam Riley: Late-Night Comedy in the Afternoon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
Richard Stott: Dear Lord… What A Sad Little Life
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
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.
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-…
Richard Cobb: Couple's Massage
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
In October 2022, Richard Cobb was on honeymoon in Cuba.
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 …
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…
Avocado Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 3rd - 4th Aug 2023
Best friends Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and storylines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
2nd Picture of Dorian Gray
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 6th Aug, 2023
Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel.
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…
Avocado Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 3rd - 4th Aug 2023
Best friends Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and storylines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
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…
Sing, River
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 24th Aug, 2023
The magic and mystery of midsummer combine with things past and present in Sing, River, written and performed by Nathaniel Jones of Love Song Productions at the Pleasance Courtyard…
Club Life
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Mel Evans
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 16th Aug, 2023
Club Life is club promoter Fred Deakin's personal autobiography.
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.
Mrs President
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 5th Aug, 2023
A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B…
Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot / The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
Indonesia’s leading English language stand-up comedians visit Edinburgh for the first time! The Indonesian stand-up comedy scene exploded 15 years ago and since then many performer…
A Manchester Anthem
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th Aug, 2023
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
Collar
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bread and Roses
- 1st Aug, 2023
If you think coming out as gay or announcing any change from the heteronormative might be difficult, then try telling your parents and friends that you've just been accepted on…
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.
Secret Cinema Presents Grease: The Live Experience
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
Calling all T-Birds and Pink Ladies: it’s time to immerse yourself in the world of Grease like never before! Step back in time to the 1950s and experience those summer nights…
Bones
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 13th Jul, 2023
In 70 action-packed minutes, Bones highlights mental health issues in sport, looking at one man’s struggle to reconcile his inner mental turmoil with the physical demands expecte…
Dillon Dance Youth Presents
- Listing Theatre
- FUSE International
- Arthur Cotterell Theatre
- 2nd - 3rd Jul 2023
About the show Recipients of last years FUSE International's 'Best Dance Show' award, Dillon Dance Youth returns for successive year.
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…
Dr Semmelweis
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- 25th Jul, 2023
Having emerged from a period in which we were exhorted to wash our hands at every opportunity and instructed on how to carry out the ritual, it is strange to go back in time to an …
Song From Far Away
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hampstead Theatre
- 4th Jul, 2023
Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits.
Ria Jones & Ceri Dupree: Misleading Ladies, Back With A Vengeance!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- The Crazy Coqs
- 27th Jun - 2nd Jul 2023
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
Ria Jones & Ceri Dupree: Misleading Ladies, Back With A Vengeance!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- The Crazy Coqs
- 27th Jun - 2nd Jul 2023
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
Lady Inger
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 3rd Jul, 2023
Ottisdotter theatre company’s production of Lady Inger provides a rare opportunity to see one of Henrik Ibsen’s earliest, least performed and less well-known works.
Dhaga Presents: Healing Through Craft
- Listing Events
- FUSE International
- FUSEBOX
- 24th Jun 2023
AboutYou might think about mindfulness and meditation when you think of healing and you might even think it’s quite boring to just sit there with your eyes closed.
Vincent River
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 29th Jun, 2023
Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion.
Behold! The Monkey Jesus - a (kind of) restoration comedy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack
- 27th Jun, 2023
From the extraordinary story of Cecilia Giménez (Mary Tillett), writer Joe Wiltshire Smith has created a beautifully crafted play that embraces her innocence and resilience, while…
Self Tape
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 25th Jun, 2023
Jonas (Michael Batten) would ideally like to be in full-time employment as an actor on stage.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Suse Steed presents Magic Numbers WIP
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
Join Suse for a stand up comedy show about economics, magic, and making things disappear.
Suse Steed presents Magic Numbers WIP
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2023
Some time ago, Suse Steed was an economist.
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…
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…
Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 27th - 28th May 2023
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble / The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 2nd Jun 2022 - 28th May 2023
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Rose
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Ambassadors Theatre. / The Ambassadors Theatre
- 31st May, 2023
Martin Sherman’s Rose is already an award-winning production that received widespread critical acclaim during its sell-out runs at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and the Park T…
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Cambridge Theatre
- 25th May, 2023
Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be do…
Dynamite Boogaloo: Afternoon Delight
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Dynamite Boogaloo: Afternoon Delight
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 28th May 2022 - 21st May 2023
Brighton’s legendary pop’n’cabaret knees-up returns once again to Brighton Fringe.
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…
Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 20th - 21st May 2023
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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…
Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 20th - 21st May 2023
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
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…
Fail Better presents Bigger is Better
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Fail Better presents Bigger is Better
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2023
Fail Better Presents: Bigger is Better - Spiegeltent Takeover! Brighton’s very own Latin/Ska pioneers ‘Town of Cats’ and the Klezmer-Punk lunatics ‘Buffo’s Wake Big Band’ will be …
BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC Elms Theatre
- 18th - 19th May 2023
With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding.
BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- BHASVIC Elms Theatre
- 18th - 19th May 2023
With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding.
Movin' Melvin Brown presents 'Me and Otis' (Soul of Otis Redding)
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 17th - 19th May 2023
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 17th - 19th May 2023
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
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…
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…
The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 20th May, 2023
Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023.
Carnival Collective Presents: A Beats and Brass Smorgasbord
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 11th - 11th May 2023
There are two things that get better with age - Cheese and Carnival Collective.
Leaves of Glass
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre / Park Theatre London
- 18th May, 2023
Philip Ridley’s multi-layered, complex and highly acclaimed story Leaves of Glass is breathtakingly revived by director Max Harrison in collaboration with Lidless Theatre in a mi…
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…
Carnival Collective Presents: A Beats and Brass Smorgasbord
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 11th May 2023
There are two things that get better with age - Cheese and Carnival Collective.
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.
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.
Under Milk Wood
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Wilton’s Music Hall
- 13th May, 2023
For 30 years now, Guy Masterson has been successfully taking on the monumental challenge of presenting Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show; revelations from the fictional …
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.
FAIL BETTER presents: FAITH i BRANKO / OPA ROSA
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 7th - 8th May 2023
Fiery and vibrant Klezmer, Balkan, Serbian, Greek & Roma world-music! 2 accessible, child friendly matinee concerts from 2 of the brightest lights in the world-music scene current…
Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 7th May 2023
Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 7th May 2023
Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
FAIL BETTER presents: FAITH i BRANKO / OPA ROSA
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 7th - 8th May 2023
Fiery and vibrant Klezmer, Balkan, Serbian, Greek & Roma world-music! 2 accessible, child friendly matinee concerts from 2 of the brightest lights in the world-music scene current…
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…
It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May 2023
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
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…
It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May 2023
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Biscuits for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hampstead Theatre
- 15th May, 2023
It’s not only the title of the play; Biscuits For Breakfast is all that some people have to start the day, and that’s if they are lucky.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Circle
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 11th May, 2023
The Artistic Director might have changed but the Orange Tree Theatre continues to resurrect plays from eras that many houses might shun.
Teechers Leavers ‘22
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 1st May, 2023
John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan…
Richard Parker
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 24th Apr - 6th May 2023
In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea.
Richard III - Rose Theatre
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Rose Theatre Kingston
- 26th Apr - 13th May 2023
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
Getaway / Runaway
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre
- 3rd May, 2023
Noah McCreadie has scored a triumph with his debut play Getaway/Runaway and the intimacy of the King’s Head Theatre provides the perfect setting for this intense drama from Shot …
The Good Person of Szechwan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 28th Apr, 2023
It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they …
F★★king Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Waterloo East Theatre
- 28th Apr, 2023
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
Jules and Jim.
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 8th May, 2023
In a rather surprising debut choice, Stella Powell-Jones has commenced her incumbency as Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s uninspired adapt…
Breeding
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 4th May, 2023
A fast pace and some hilarious banter about their names, how to pronounce and spell them, gets Barry McStay’s Breeding off to an immediately engaging and rip-roaring start that s…
Trumpets and Raspberries
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 1st May, 2023
Given the vast repertoire of plays available to theatre companies one often wonders how they decide on what to perform next and why: in this case, the somewhat lesser-known work by…
The Sun, the Mountain, and Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack Theatre
- 1st May, 2023
In an unlikely melding of three disparate stories, Jack Fairey finds common ground in his moving play The Sun, The Mountain, and Me for Bedivere Arts at the Jack Studio Theatre, in…
Robert Ross Presents Tommy Cannon, Straight Talking
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Apr 2023
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
Robert Ross Presents Tommy Cannon, Straight Talking
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Apr 2023
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
TWO
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 2 Bath Road
- 17th Apr, 2023
One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO.
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…
The Only White
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Chelsea Theatre
- 10th Apr, 2023
There is an inherent difficulty with plays that seek to tell a well-known story and thus lack a sense of mystery and element of surprise.
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…
Richard II
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Westcliff High School For Boys
- 22nd - 24th Mar 2023
In this Coronation year, what could be more topical than Shakespeare’s verse-told-tale of coronation, usurpation, coronation and murder? Join Westcliff Boys to experience beautiful…
Dance of Death
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Coronet
- 22nd Mar, 2023
The Coronet Theatre is once again hosting The National Theatre of Norway, who have arrived with their take on August Strindberg’s dark matrimonial drama Dance of Death.
Ten Days
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 19th Mar, 2023
Matthew Jameson embarked on a major project ten years ago.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
- 20th Mar, 2023
Hilarious, satirical, superbly staged and brilliantly performed, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has hit the Lyric, Hammersmith in an explosion of theatricality following its sens…
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.
Family Tree
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Belgrade Theatre
- 16th Mar, 2023
Our lives are indebted to many people.
JuiceBox Presents: Make It Rain
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground Lates
- 10th Mar 2023
Are you ready to Twerk Out with your Dollars Out?! JuiceBox Presents London’s Award-Winning Womxn-Led LGBTQ+ Strxptease Experience.
The Emperor's New Clothes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bread and Roses
- 15th Mar, 2023
What a joy to see a very simple and equally silly story adapted for the stage and turned into an hour of light-hearted frivolity, full of humour and ingenuity.
LoUis CYfer presents : The Last Resort
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground Lates
- 3rd Mar 2023
Been crying into ya SAD lamp and on the bakerloo line just to feel ya toes? Well worry no more lads, lasses, ENBY’s and beyond, cos LoUis, and his talented pals will give you the f…
Under the Black Rock
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 10th Mar, 2023
Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev…
The Long Run
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 4th Mar, 2023
There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze.
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…
Burn
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Vault Festival
- Leake Street Arches
- 1st Mar, 2023
The setting for Lucy Beresford-Knox’s Burn, could hardly be better.
In Stitches Theatre Company Presents Comedy Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 24th Feb 2023
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
This Bitter Earth
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- White Bear Theater Pub
- 3rd Mar, 2023
Two main strands are interwoven in Harrison David Rivers’ This Bitter Earth, currently making its UK premiere at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington.
Happy Meal
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Brixton House
- 1st Mar, 2023
I was invited to see Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal at Brixton House and made it quite clear that it wasn’t my sort of thing, that I would go in order to be supportive, that I almost …
Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Feb 2023
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Feb 2023
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
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.
The Walworth Farce
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 80 Newington Butts
- 28th Feb, 2023
What could be more appropriate to mark the opening of the Southwark Playhouse Elephant than Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce.
Macbeth
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Wilton’s Music Hall
- 20th Feb, 2023
A Macbeth that features only the eponymous hero and his wife is an opportunity to define the characters and chart the shifting balance of power between them as the tragedy unfolds.
Bewitch Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 11th Feb 2023
Stand up comedy showcasing top comedians from minority backgrounds.
Simon David Presents JOIE DE VIVRE!
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground Lates
- 10th Feb 2023
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
Zoe Ball presents “Johnny Ball – My previous life in Comedy!”
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th Feb 2023
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
Passion
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Lion And Unicorn
- 11th Feb, 2023
A heteronormative upbringing fights homosexual desire on a battleground that moves from a playful and sometimes argumentative bedroom to the secluded cell of a conversion therapy u…
Zoe Ball presents “Johnny Ball – My previous life in Comedy!”
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 7th Feb 2023
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
RAW MATERIAL PRESENTS
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 5th Feb 2023
Brixton’s creative and wellbeing hub, Raw Material features our in-house band, Raw VIBRATION! alongside other members of our Raw Sounds creative mental-health and wellbeing program…
FunnyBoyz Manchester presents... RuPaul's Drag Race UK S4: JustMay
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- New York New York
- 4th Feb - 17th Jun 2023
Newly announced Drag Race UK S4’s JustMay will be sashaying to Manchester and you’re invited! This show will include: 4 hour interactive experience with drag queens Glas…
Rebus: A Game Called Malice
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Queens Theatre - Hornchurch
- 6th Feb, 2023
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has opened its Spring 2023 season with the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice.
SMOKE
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 10th Feb, 2023
Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth.
I Found My Horn
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- White Bear Theater Pub
- 4th Feb, 2023
A man is going through almost a lifetime’s accumulation of important junk in his attic.
A Manchester Anthem
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 1st Feb, 2023
A breath of theatrical fresh is often much needed at big fringe-style events and it can currently be found at the Vault Festival in A Manchester Anthem.
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 30th Jan - 27th Mar 2023
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 30th Jan - 27th Mar 2023
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
Escaped Alone & What If If Only
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Questors Theatre
- 1st Feb, 2023
The ladies with their mugs of tea sitting outside a cottage with a fenced-off lawn would have grown up with the song In An English Country Garden, whose tune introduces George Savo…
How Not To Drown
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Stratford East
- 4th Feb, 2023
The debate surrounding refugees, migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political scene both internationally and domestically for decades.
Joy Multiplication Presents: Our Worst VAULT yet
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 25th Jan - 9th Mar 2023
In April 2015, four (hopeless) hopefuls met in the basement of a theatre for a comedy course.
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 …
The Lehman Trilogy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- National Theatre
- 14th Feb, 2023
The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season.
Have I None
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Golden Goose Theatre
- 29th Jan, 2023
Described by its author as a ‘tragi-farce’, Edward Bond’s Have I None at the Golden Goose Theatre is a blunt dystopian nightmare packed into an energetically angry fifty-five…
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…
The Elephant Song
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 26th Jan, 2023
Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o…
The Unfriend
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Criterion Theatre / Wyndham’s Theatre
- 26th Jan, 2023
The need to willingly suspend disbelief in order to fully enter into the spirit of a play is sometimes an essential requirement if the potential for enjoyment is not to be lost alt…
little scratch
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- New Diorama Theatre
- 19th Apr, 2023
If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit…
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 1st Feb, 2023
There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those.
On The Ropes
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Park Theatre
- 29th Jan, 2023
Scheduled over twelve rounds, On the Ropes at the Park Theatre goes from 7.
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 …
FunnyBoyz Liverpool presents: KYLIE MINOGUE
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Tres
- 16th Dec 2022
SESSION TIMES: 19.
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…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Westcliff High School For Boys
- 8th Dec, 2022
Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20…
Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- 14th Dec, 2022
Being dead, the great maestro of late baroque composition has the hope of being raised incorruptible.
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…
Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 8th Dec, 2022
The creative team behind Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor at the Park Theatre have done an outstanding job on this production.
Keeper Of The Flame
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 1st Dec, 2022
Two main strands run through Keeper of the Flame, written and performed by Rob Adams, a play that fits neatly into the confines of the delightful Bridge House Theatre.
FunnyBoyz Liverpool presents: CHER
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Supper Club at Blundell Street
- 25th Nov - 30th Dec 2022
FunnyBoyz Liverpool presents the ultimate tribute night with Cher! About this event SESSION TIMES: 19.
Wasted
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Jack Studio Theatre
- 28th Nov, 2022
Kae Tempest’s credentials as a poet and lyricist shine through in Wasted at the Jack Studio.
Arms and the Man
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 26th Nov, 2022
There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man.
Top Hat
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Mill at Sonning Theatre
- 28th Nov, 2022
The fabulous Mill at Sonning has revived last year’s Christmas success for another run over the festive season, It’s hard to believe that a full-scale musical like Top Hat, wit…
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.
Here
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 18th Nov, 2022
Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions.
MSND
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Chelsea Theatre
- 19th Nov, 2022
We’ll never know what, if anything, Shakespeare was on when he wrote AMidsummer Night’s Dream, but the team at Intermission Youth Theatre have based their ‘Shakespeare Remix�…
Cheer Up Slug
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bread and Roses
- 9th Nov, 2022
Jamie Patterson (Will) and Charis Murray (Bean) give delightful performances in Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Rees, the debut production for their company, Shot in the Dark Theatre, at t…
The Yeomen of the Guard
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- English National Opera
- 18th Nov, 2022
There was a more than usual buzz in the air at the Coliseum in anticipation of ENO’s latest foray into the world of Gilbert & Sullivan with The Yeoman of the Guard.
Paddy goes to Petra
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack Theatre
- 4th Nov, 2022
Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) leads a traditional life in rural Ireland.
A Butcher of Distinction
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 5th Nov, 2022
When the setting for your play is the basement of a London pub, where better to perform than at Barons Court Theatre which is located in the basement of the west London pub aptly n…
Dr Richard Shepherd
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Duchess Theatre
- 31st Oct 2022
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
Mary
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hampstead Theatre
- 2nd Nov, 2022
Douglas Henshall has wasted no time in returning to the stage after his years in Shetland.
Something in the Air
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 21st Oct, 2022
A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t…
The Poltergeist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 22nd Oct, 2022
The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre.
Dmitry
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Marylebone Theatre
- 12th Oct, 2022
In marked contrast to the UK’s recent smooth transition from one monarch to another, the story of Dmitry (Tom Byrne), at the new Marylebone Theatre, tells a woeful tale of power-…
NEHH Presents... Talisk
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2022
Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling.
Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Brian Cox In Conversation
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 26th Aug 2022
Emmy and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox arrives in Edinburgh to discuss his life and work, from Dundee Rep and Hannibal Lecktor, via cheeseburger tycoon Bob Servant…
NEHH Presents... Mediterraneo
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 26th Aug 2022
Mediterraneo brings South America, Southern Italy and Greece crashing into Summerhall for a huge 2022 festival edition of their live world music concert series.
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 …
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.
NEHH Presents... Efterklang
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 25th Aug 2022
For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop.
NEHH Presents... Tune-Yards
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 24th Aug 2022
From 2009 to 2018, Tune-Yards (Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically acclaimed albums on 4AD, travelled the world relentlessly to play liv…
Michael Brunström Presents Curt Hatred’s Rubber Funnel
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 24th - 28th Aug 2022
The latest surrealist caper from Michael Brunström, award-winning comedian and creator of The Human Loire, The Hay Wain Reloaded, Parsley and The Great Fire of London.
Richard Egarr & Friends
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Queen’s Hall
- 24th Aug 2022
The British harpsichordist and conductor joins brilliant Baroque performers for a journey through the riches of European 17th-century chamber music.
NEHH Presents... Kakatsitsi Master Drummers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 23rd Aug 2022
Kakatsitsi are a group of traditional drummers, dancers and singers from Ghana.
Long Nights in Paradise
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 26th Aug, 2022
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
Alright?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 30th Aug, 2022
Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C…
Trial by Jury
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 24th Aug, 2022
Stunning, imaginative, inspired, colourful, amusing, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung, this Trial By Jury is Gilbert and Sullivan at its very best.
Blind Mirth Presents: F*ck It, You Decide
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe and they’ve officially given up.
Durham University's Stand Society Presents: Dungaree
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 22nd - 28th Aug 2022
Straight from the mean, cobbled streets of Durham comes a troupe of student comics with a mission: making you laugh so hard you forget the overwhelming futility of life.
Illuminations Presents: The 11th Hour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
11 generations, 11 songs, but only one winner in The 11th Hour.
Born To Be Wide Presents: Edinburgh's Greatest Hits (Book Launch and DJs)
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fruitmarket
- 22nd Aug 2022
Scotland’s music industry social night, Born To Be Wide, presents a celebration of Edinburgh’s scene, past and present.
Rik Carranza Presents Clash of Fandoms
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 20th - 28th Aug 2022
The hit show Star Trek vs Star Wars evolves and returns in a new form! This is the ultimate geek comedy debate show! Hosted by Rik Carranza and featuring a rotating line-up of gues…
Edinburgh Telephone Choir Presents Rainbow Connections
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
- 20th Aug 2022
Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi…
NEHH Presents... Revolt
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th Aug 2022
Having run a series of successful nights in 2021 and 2022, dynamic duo Petfood and Harley Beentjes present their Fringe edition of Revolt; non-stop techno and high-octane beats on …
Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider
- 19th - 28th Aug 2022
Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing.
A Flamingo Called Frank Presents: Five in the Pink
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 19th - 27th Aug 2022
Quintet of sketch comedians seeking fun-loving and friendly audience, interested in a short, passionate fling, and maybe more.
NEHH Presents... James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug 2022
James Yorkston is a singer/songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
NEHH Presents... Jenny Hval
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug 2022
Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval unveils her new, critically acclaimed album Classic Objects, focusing on things Hval missed throughout lockdown; imagined, future places,…
Appraisal
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 26th Aug, 2022
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
NEHH Presents... Cate Le Bon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2022
Cate Le Bon is a celebrated musician and producer who since 2009 has been a singular voice in the UK’s musical community.
Cosi Fan Tutte/Love Me Out - The Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 16th - 21st Aug 2022
‘100% my type on paper.
Frighthouse Presents: The Wheel of Misfortune
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 16th - 28th Aug 2022
Frighthouse presents – The Wheel of Misfortune.
Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2022
The Greeks knew a lot about war and told great tales of heroism, victory and defeat.
Cosi Fan Tutte/Love Me Out - The Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 16th - 21st Aug 2022
‘100% my type on paper.
Nick Mohammed Presents The Very Best and Worst of Mr Swallow
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th - 28th Aug 2022
Mr Swallow returns with a mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material before hitting the road.
Horsepower
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 18th Aug, 2022
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
The Collie's Shed
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 20th Aug, 2022
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show.
Los Guardiola – The Comedy of Tango
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 21st Aug, 2022
The rhythm of the tango underpins Los Guardiola - The Comedy of Tango in this superb production from Musique et Toile, but the show is much broader than the one dance form.
Spit Me Out
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 26th Aug, 2022
Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues …
Semi-Toned Presents: Lost in Time
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following four consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe! This time, the boys in burgundy want to attemp…
Steve Richards Presents: Rock'n'Roll Politics
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
The legendary behind the scenes guide to all the epic political dramas and characters… plus unreliable predictions and questions.
Walk-Man
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 23rd Aug, 2022
It’s a day like any other.
Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug 2022
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
NEHH Presents... Start to End
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug 2022
A group of Scotland’s leading young musicians perform a selection of albums from Start to End.
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…
NEHH Presents... Auntie Flo (DJ)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug 2022
Brian d’Souza is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, producer and performer ‘taking world music into the future’ (Guardian).
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.
Blueswater Presents: Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 12th - 19th Aug 2022
High octane R’n’B performed in the raucous atmosphere of Edinburgh’s world-famous Jazz Bar.
Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Deaf Action
- 12th - 13th Aug 2022
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 12th - 20th Aug 2022
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations.
NEHH Presents... Withered Hand
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug 2022
Withered Hand is Edinburgh based singer-songwriter Dan Willson, who started writing songs and singing in his thirties following the birth of his first child and the death of a clos…
NEHH Presents... Honeyblood
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 11th Aug 2022
Taking inspiration from dark and cloudy 90s indie rock luminaries like PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, and Throwing Muses, Honeyblood is the project of Scottish singer/songwriter Stina Twe…
DNA by Dennis Kelly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue 45
- 18th Aug, 2022
The Year 12 girls from Wycombe Abbey school in High Wycombe under the direction of Phoebe Francis have created a fine production of DNA by Dennis Kelly.
Gämez Presents: TV Pilots LIVE
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 11th - 13th Aug 2022
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
Gämez Presents: TV Pilots LIVE
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 11th - 13th Aug 2022
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
NEHH Presents... Rura
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th Aug 2022
Rura, an award-winning act are one of Scotland’s most popular folk-based bands.
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…
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…
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOOTV
- 9th - 26th Aug 2022
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club: a night-and-action radio.
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 25th Aug 2022
Following their sell-out Fringe shows from 2018 / 2019, Whisky Road are back to perform their latest acoustic blues show at The Jazz Bar.
Bits 'N' Pieces
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Leith Arches
- 14th Aug, 2022
Saltire Sky Theatre have lived up to all the expectations they raised following 1902, their smash hit of last year’s Fringe that won them the Broadway Baby Bobby Award and Off We…
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…
Polly Peculiar
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 8th Aug, 2022
Polly Peculiar, at Greenside Nicholson Square, is a joy from beginning to end: the sort of play that under normal circumstances you might not be tempted to see.
Track 96 Presents the RAPture
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bannermans Bar
- 7th - 12th Aug 2022
London’s premier hip-hop improv group Track 96 present “The RAPture”, where members of the audience will help determine whether the human race survives or is consigned to obl…
Richard Todd: Transferable Skills
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
With a busted knee, a burst eardrum and heroic reveries replaced by painkillers and words like ‘ouch’, ‘pardon’ and ‘I’m down here!’, Todd reckons he has one last chance to reinv…
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.
Ladies Day
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre
- 6th - 20th Aug 2022
Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda.
NEHH Presents... Sacred Paws
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug 2022
Sacred Paws don’t take things too seriously.
The Black Cat Cabaret Presents Halcyon Nights
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Crazy Coqs
- 10th - 16th Aug 2022
Crazy Coqs’ iconic Saturday night residency show, The Black Cat Cabaret presents an evening of old school Hollywood glamour meets underground London nightlife, performed…
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.
10th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues And Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
NEHH Presents... Magic Nostalgic
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug 2022
Celebrate the return of the Fringe at Summerhall with the legendary wheel of musical chance! Every 30 minutes at Magic Nostalgic, we’ll invite someone from the crowd to come up ont…
David Alnwick: Good Afternoon, Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
Anarchy Cabaret Presents: The West End New Act of the Year Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
Fan/Girl
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
It’s 1998.
Craig on the Cliff
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 6th - 24th Aug 2022
Craig Herbertson, Edinburgh singer and songwriter, presents Edinburgh Folk, a celebration in song and story of the folk who shaped Edinburgh, from Scotland’s national poet, Robert …
Rebel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 13th Aug, 2022
Two contrasting elements combine to make Rebel into a spectacular show ideally suited to the vast tent that is Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows.
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…
Anarchy Cabaret Presents: The West End New Act of the Year Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
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…
Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich
- Review
- ★★★★
- Des Reynolds
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 6th Aug, 2022
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
NEHH Presents... Christian Löffler
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 5th Aug 2022
Christian Löffler’s art is heavily inspired by his environment.
Molière's The Learned Ladies
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 5th - 8th Aug 2022
At the heart of Molière’s extreme, comic farce, is the story of Henriette and Clitandre, who are in love.
Unseen Shepard
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 23rd Aug, 2022
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
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.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show, Queens of the Blues, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years.
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…
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2022
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last one hundred years…
Fitry
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 10th Aug, 2022
Fitry is an intriguing one-man show from Faso Danse Théâtre, Brussels, featuring Serge Aimé Coulibaly as the performer.
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.
The Funny Thing About Death
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 28th Aug, 2022
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
Heroin to Hero
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2022
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
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.
In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 5th Aug 2022
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
BOLD HOUSE Productions presents The Wasp
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 5th Aug 2022
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
‘Funny.
Adele Cliff: In the Dark
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is bad, Adele is good.
BeComedy UK Presents: No Limits
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
No Limits – an irreverent stand-up comedy show where comedians push boundaries, slice and dice edgy topics and are not afraid of taking the risk.
Tamar Broadbent Presents... Stacey Solo
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th - 14th Aug 2022
A strong female lead (detective) faces the toughest case of her career in this comedy crime show by Tamar Broadbent (BBC Radio 4, Boom Chicago).
Are You Being Murdered?
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 1st Sep, 2022
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky's F*ck Off Olympics
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Hey everyblobby! Come along and see what hastily cobbled together pile of shite I’ve managed to pull out my arse this year! There’ll be a start, some stuff in the middle and anothe…
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.
Just the Tonic's Afternoon Delight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A sample show of different acts from within Just the Tonic venues, and maybe some guests.
BOLD HOUSE Productions presents The Wasp
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
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.
9 Circles
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 23rd Aug, 2022
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 25th Aug, 2022
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
Richard Stott: Afterparty
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Richard Stott returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners.
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.
Irvine Welsh's Porno
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 10th Aug, 2022
The highly anticipated world premiere of Irvine Welsh's Porno catches up with the lives of Renton, Sickboy, Begbie & Spud, fifteen years after their appearance in TRAINSPOT…
False Start
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2022
What happens when you train for something your whole life, only to fail at the crucial moment? This question is the stimulus behind False Start, from acclaimed French-German theatr…
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.
In the Name of the Son
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 14th Aug, 2022
If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same…
Fanboy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 21st Aug, 2022
Fringe-first award winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels, Monster) is back at the Fringe with his new work Fanboy in which he explores his relationship with his past and future self.
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 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 …
Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Adapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, Leonardo! tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions he must make along the way.
Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 1st Sep, 2022
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
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).
The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 20th Aug, 2022
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
Richard Brown: Horror Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St)
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Richard Brown returns to the Fringe with a new show that promises to be as bleakly brilliant as his previous endeavours.
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2022
Multi award-winning podcast returns.
Monkey Barrel Comedy presents... Live!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Live Stream
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2022
Every night at 11:20pm this Fringe, we bring you the very best in live podcasts, stand-up specials, cabaret and clowning, compilation shows and much more.
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.
Adele Cliff: In the Dark
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 29th - 30th Jul 2022
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
Adele Cliff: In the Dark
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar
- 29th - 30th Jul 2022
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 27th Jul 2022
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Cafédral
- 27th Jul 2022
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Sniff
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Theatre503
- 26th Jul, 2022
Have you had the experience of sitting through a play and thinking, “If I’d known that was how it was going to end I’d have paid far more attention to all the details in the …
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.
The Lesson
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 3rd Jul, 2022
Director Max Lewendel has taken Theatre of the Absurd to a new level in his engrossing production of Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson in a translation by Donald Watson at the Southwa…
Richard Stott: Afterparty (Edinburgh Preview)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 23rd Jun 2022
Richard Stott as seen on ITV2 Stand Up Sketch Show and runner up in Dave TV’s Jokes of 2019 is back with a new show about your mid 30s.
Offered Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 30th Jun, 2022
Set in Chester in 1645 as England was ravaged by the Civil War, Offered Up, at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio Theatre is a commentary on the political and social life of the …
The Convert
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 17th Jun, 2022
Stunning from beginning to end The Convert is perhaps the most remarkable piece of theatre ever staged at Above The Stag in Vauxhall and that is no disrespect to the many fine prod…
Cancelling Socrates
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 16th Jun, 2022
Howard Brenton’s new play Cancelling Socrates at Jermyn Street Theatre is a fascinating piece that transports us to classical Greece in a consideration of the circumstances that …
Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble / The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2022
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2022
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2022
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
Starcrossed
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Wilton’s Music Hall
- 8th Jun, 2022
Shakespeare knew what it took to pen a romantic tragedy when he wrote Romeo and Juliet and hence carefully structured all the ingredients to meet the demands of the genre and creat…
No Particular Order
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Theatre503
- 9th Jun, 2022
Set in an unspecified time and without a location, No Particular Order resonates across the ages, through civilisations and empires, dictatorships and democracies and more, vividly…
Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Churchill Theatre / Gielgud Theatre / Richmond Theatre
- 10th May, 2022
The event might fall short of the hype that The Man Behind the Mask would be a ‘confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outr…
Festival of Europe presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 29th May 2022
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas.
Festival of Europe presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 29th May 2022
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas at 3pm at Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UF Featuring live music, debate, and poetry on the…
Gämez Presents: TV Pilots LIVE
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th May - 4th Jun 2022
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
Gämez Presents: TV Pilots LIVE
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th May - 4th Jun 2022
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Soho Boy
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Drayton Arms Theatre
- 28th May, 2022
Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly.
Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Water Rats
- 24th May, 2022
Did Alissa Finn choose to perform Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged at the Water Rats in King’s Cross because the stage has a pair of ionic columns framing the stage? No, is the …
Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 21st - 28th May 2022
Everything seems normal.
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…
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 …
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 …
Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 21st - 28th May 2022
Everything seems normal.
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.
Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 22nd May, 2022
Searchlight Theatre Company returns to the Brighton Fringe with their delightful show Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy at the Rialto Theatre.
Pack Productions Presents What's Hot!
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 13th May 2022
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
Pack Productions Presents What's Hot!
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 13th May 2022
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th May 2022
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 12th May 2022
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
The Dwarfs
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- White Bear Theater Pub
- 23rd May, 2022
The Dwarfs is a semi-autobiographical work and Harold Pinter's only novel.
The Man In The Shed
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 13th May, 2022
The Man In The Shed is a highly amusing and at time hilarious solo rant by actor Alex Dee, co-written as Alex Donald with Tim Connery.
The Recollection of Tony Ward
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Theatre Peckham
- 9th May, 2022
Jim Spencer Broadbent is a playwright based in South-East London, so he is delighted to be presenting his play The Recollection of Tony Ward as one of twenty-seven companies contri…
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.
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…
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…
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.
Fran Kissling Presents Entertainment to an Audience
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 21st May 2022
A character comedy extravaganza with comedy legends: President Obonjo, Julie Jepson as Shannon Crabsticks, Bunny Hopkyns, Alpha Wolf, Kitty Cassis, Michael Buttersworth, Ella the G…
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.
Fran Kissling Presents Entertainment to an Audience
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th - 21st May 2022
A character comedy extravaganza with comedy legends: President Obonjo, Julie Jepson as Shannon Crabsticks, Bunny Hopkyns, Alpha Wolf, Kitty Cassis, Michael Buttersworth, Ella the G…
My Fair Lady
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 25th May, 2022
Expectations can work in many ways and it’s interesting to realise the extent to which we can be influenced by what we have just seen.
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.
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.
Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
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.
two Palestinians go dogging
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Royal Court Theatre
- 22nd May, 2022
Brecht would have felt at home watching two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood Studio.
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…
Bom-Bane's Presents
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 6th - 28th May 2022
6, 7, 8 May: Eliza Skelton: “haunting & melodically beautiful” Sunday Times, plays songs from her wonderful new album ‘The Lookerer’ 10, 11 May: Local wordsmith Sophie Reid with d…
Bom-Bane's Presents
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 6th - 28th May 2022
6, 7, 8 May: Eliza Skelton: “haunting & melodically beautiful” Sunday Times, plays songs from her wonderful new album ‘The Lookerer’ 10, 11 May: Local wordsmith Sophie Reid with d…
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!…
The Breach
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hampstead Theatre
- 18th May, 2022
Celebrated director Sarah Frankcom makes her debut at Hampstead Theatre in a spartan production of Naomi Wallace’s morality-defying play The Breach.
Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
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…
Busman's Honeymoon
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Mill at Sonning Theatre
- 9th May, 2022
Both a restaurant and a theatre, The Mill at Sonning, with its beautiful river setting in the countryside near Reading, is currently host to the Busman's Honeymoon, co-written …
Orlando
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 6th May, 2022
Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s amusing challenge to the norms of society, stemmed from her own life and that of her lover Vita Sackville-West, but in her novel, the eponymous hero'…
The End of the Night
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre London
- 7th May, 2022
Dust-sheets cover what little furniture there is in the expansive room of Dr Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden), trusted personal physiotherapist to Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler (Ri…
Oklahoma!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Young Vic Theatre
- 17th May, 2022
When Marisha Wallace, who plays Ado Annie, sings “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” we are left in no doubt as to what she means and it gets the ovation it richly deserves…
If. Destroyed. Still. True.
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 29th Apr, 2022
Sometimes all the elements of a production combine to form something that is stunning and deeply moving.
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.
Absolute Certainty?
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 22nd Apr, 2022
Absolute Certainty? staged by Qweerdog Theatre revolves around the confused lives of two brothers and a friend.
How It Is (Part 2)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Coronet Theatre Ltd
- 27th Apr, 2022
How It Is (Part 2) being Part 2 of a three-part novel of which Part 1 comes before it and Part 3 follows it after which there is no more being a novel it is not a play yet here at …
Rabbit Hole
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 17th Apr, 2022
After sitting through two acts of around fifty-five minutes each at the Union Theatre, quite why David Lindsey-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five To…
Fighting Irish
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Belgrade Theatre
- 7th Apr, 2022
If you are into boxing, and I’m not, Fighting Irish gives you something to latch onto from the outset.
The Gondoliers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Hackney Empire
- 4th Apr, 2022
Gilbert & Sullivan have survived the test of time and now seem to have successfully weathered the pandemic.
Mojo Mickybo
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 1st Apr, 2022
Two stunningly energetic performances keep Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickyboy, courtesy of Bruiser Theatre Company, rolling along at a cracking pace that provides an hour of action-…
Diary of a Somebody
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Seven Dials Playhouse
- 4th Apr, 2022
John Lahr’s Diary of a Somebody makes a return to the stage after an absence of 35 years, this time at Seven Dials Playhouse.
The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 25th Mar, 2022
There is deceit in the title of this play.
Sasha Regan's All Male H.M.S. Pinafore
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Wilton’s Music Hall
- 19th Mar, 2022
Wilton’s Music Hall has come a long way since 1885 when Nelly Power sang The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery.
Under Electric Candlelight
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 17th Mar, 2022
I’ll settle for the company’s own description of Under Electric Candlelight as an ‘existential tragicomedy’, but dont worry about interpreting that.
The Glasshouse presents: A Celebration of 50 Years of Pride in the UK
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Glass House London
- 11th Mar 2022
Join us for a night of celebration with the Gay Liberation Front for its 50th anniversary! The event will feature a spectacular panel led by: Dan Glass, author of United …
Abigail’s Party
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Watford Palace Theatre
- 17th Mar, 2022
That irresistible 1970s suburban comedy, Abigail's Party, has been revived again; this time at the Watford Palace Theatre under the direction of Pravesh Kumar.
Dev's Army
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bread & Roses / The London Irish Centre
- 14th Mar, 2022
Dev’s Army, by Stuart D.
Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 8th - 12th Mar 2022
Blackpool chip shop heiress Teresa Toti is unlucky in love, to put it mildly.
Bacon
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 20th Mar, 2022
Bacon, at the Finborough Theatre, showcases the talents of two remarkable young actors in a moving exploration of teenage angst.
Moreno
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Theatre503
- 11th Mar, 2022
Simple acts can often have huge repercussions.
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Feb - 25th Apr 2022
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
When We Dead Awaken
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Coronet Theatre Ltd
- 12th Mar, 2022
For aficionados of Ibsen this is a production not to be missed; nor should those who just like to wallow in the velvety richness of traditional theatre ignore this rare opportunity…
Richard II
- Review
- ★★★
- Mel Evans
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack Theatre
- 26th Feb, 2022
Politically, it seems like a highly appropriate time to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II - an exploration of the nature of leadership and egotistical entitlement.
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…
The Collaboration
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Young Vic Theatre
- 20th Mar, 2022
Andy Warhol once declared, 'Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art'.
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…
Robert Ross Presents Hi-De-Hi: a 42nd anniversary reunion with Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 30th Jan 2022
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
The Stars Are Fire
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Jack Studio Theatre
- 31st Jan, 2022
The University of Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948.
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…
HOLST: The Music In The Spheres
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Jack Studio Theatre
- 31st Jan, 2022
In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a…
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 29th Jan, 2022
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman were joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical for their roles in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at The…
FunnyBoyz London presents "Britain's Got Talent LORRAINE BOWEN"
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- City of Quebec
- 10th Dec 2021
FUNNYBOYZ LONDON presentsLorraine Bowen ( ages 18+ )CITY OF QUEBECFriday 10th December 2021 Britain’s Got Talent star Lorraine Bowen, known for her song ” Crumble ” is coming …
Ivy Alexxander Presents: Lip Service
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Yellow Arch Studios
- 28th Nov 2021
Local legend, icon and star, Ivy Alexxander presents Lip Service, Sheffield’s biggest drag lip-sync battle! Join Ivy as she brings local drag artists together to battle it out for …
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- West End
- Piccadilly Theatre
- 24th Jan, 2023
Based on Baz Luhrmann’s epic love story, Moulin Rouge is a larger-than-life electrifying musical.
FunnyBoyz presents KYLIE VS MADONNA
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Supper Club at Blundell Street
- 12th Nov 2021
FUNNYBOYZ LIVERPOOL presentsKylie Vs Madonna ( ages 18+ )BLUNDELLS SUPPER CLUBFriday 12th November 2021 Beth McCann as Madonna will join Heather Marie as Kylie Minogue and giv…
Dominus Presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN!
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Missing Bar
- 12th Nov 2021
After the success of all our sell out House of Allure burlesque shows, we are happy to invite you to Dominus Von Vexo presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN! Piano’s playing, trumpets…
RICHARD CRAIG | VALE
- Listing Music
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 11th Nov 2021
Renowned Scottish flautist and new music champion, Richard Craig, closes the festival with a programme of recent works built around Richard Barrett’s “Vale&r…
The Art of Banksy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- 50 Earlham St
- 18th Nov, 2021
Banksy’s works pop up in all sorts of places, but seeing them is often a challenge.
Juliet & Romeo
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Chelsea Theatre
- 22nd Nov, 2021
Reversed, deconstructed and re-imagined to create a truly remarkable piece of theatre, Juliet & Romeo is the inaugural long-run production at The Chelsea Theatre, following its…
For Queen And Country
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 8th Nov, 2021
Writer/Director Paul Stone has unearthed a gem of World War II history and transformed it into a delightful monologue, now on stage at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 18th Nov, 2021
The Tony Awards for comedy must have had a lean year in 2013 when Christopher Durang won Best Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Footfalls & Rockaby
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 15th Nov, 2021
Some people pace up and down, others rock back and forth.
Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- National Liberal Club
- 3rd Nov 2021
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Accidental Birth of An Anarchist
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 12th Nov, 2021
Luke Oldfield’s Accidental Birth of an Anarchist at The Space on the Isle of Dogs tells of two novice activists from The People’s Movement to Protect the Planet who get jobs on…
HMS Pinafore
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- English National Opera
- 22nd Nov, 2021
As W S Gilbert once observed, “Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?” Cal McCrystal provides plenty of material for that in his pro…
Richard III (A One Person Show)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 30th Oct 2021
New covid-safe version of Brite Theater’s multi award-winning show! The fourth wall has been utterly obliterated, as the audience take on the roles of all the other characters at R…
Weirdos Comedy Presents: Murder at the True Crime Convention
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 29th - 31st Oct 2021
It is the True Crime Convention at the Museum of Comedy and fans have gathered to see their favourite True-Crime stars, get autographs and watch live podcast recordings …
FunnyBoyz London presents RuPaul's Drag Race ELEKTRA FENCE
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- City of Quebec
- 29th Oct 2021
FunnyBoyz London presents Drag Race UK S3 Elektra Fence About this event SESSION TIME: 19.
PopHorror presents Slash Vegas
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 27th Oct 2021
PopHorror presentsSlash Vegas! Buckle up for the most outrageously entertaining Halloween event of the season.
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…
The Dresser
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Richmond Theatre
- 30th Oct, 2021
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser evokes memories of a bygone age in British theatre and no setting more befits it than that glorious monument to thespian achievement, the Richmond Th…
The Sugar House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 15th Nov, 2021
Australian playwright Alana Valentine makes her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre with The Sugar House, in its first production outside of her home country, where it was nominat…
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.
Joe & Ken
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Old Red Lion Theatre Pub
- 27th Oct, 2021
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
FunnyBoyz presents... RuPaul's Drag Race UK Scarlett Harlett
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- 94-98 Bloom St
- 16th Oct 2021
FUNNYBOYZ MANCHESTER presentsSCARLETT HARLETT ( ages 18+ )NEW YORK NEW YORK BARSaturday 16th October 2021 Drag Race UK Season 3 Scarlett Harlett is coming to Manchester this O…
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…
Disabled Queer and Hear - Spooky Saturday Afternoon
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 9th Oct 2021
Disabled Queer and Hear presents a Spooky Saturday Afternoon at The RVTDisabled Queer and Hear are bringing us a Halloween themed show with a host of amazing LGBTQ+ disabled p…
The KHANDI SHOP presents KAULDRON
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 9th Oct 2021
WELCOME MY TREATS! To the new instalment of the KHANDI SHOP! Its halloween time treats! And this theme is all about the witchcraft! KAULDRON! with a line up that you wont forg…
The Witchfinder’s Sister
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
- 11th Oct, 2021
The Salem witch trials are well known, perhaps in large part due to Arthur Miller’s outstanding play The Crucible that put the Massachusetts town on the map.
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…
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…
FunnyBoyz presents FIZZ & FROCKS
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- NW1 3EE
- 6th Oct - 1st Dec 2021
FUNNYBOYZ LONDON presentsFizz & Frocks ( ages 18+ )ZODIAC BAR Italian Live Singer SISSY LEA is bringing the FunnyBoyz team to Zodiac for a night full of entertainmen…
The Idea
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Brockley Jack Theatre
- 8th Oct, 2021
The Brockley Jack Theatre is currently offering the opportunity to see a rarely performed and probably almost unknown operetta by Gustav Holst.
Foxes
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 503 Theatre St
- 13th Oct, 2021
It doesn’t take long to appreciate why Foxes, at Theatre 503, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award.
Rat King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2021
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Ladies Night, Monks Park WMC
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Monks Park Working Mens Club
- 1st Oct 2021
Ladies Night at Monks Park Working Mens ClubAdvance tickets are 10 - On the night they will be 15FRIDAY 01st OCTOBER 2021 doors open at 19:00 show starts at 20:30A fun packed eveni…
Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Young Vic Theatre
- 8th Oct, 2021
The long-awaited Hamlet, directed by Greg Hersov, is finally on stage at the Young Vic and as the young prince Cush Jumbo gives a commanding performance that keeps the whole produc…
How to Survive an Apocalypse
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 7th Oct, 2021
The renowned Finborough Theatre is still alive and well as witnessed by its latest production of Jordan Hall’s How To Survive An Apocalypse presented by Proud Haddock.
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…
FunnyBoyz presents THE SATURGAYS
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- City of Quebec
- 24th Sep 2021
SESSION TIME: 19.
Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2021
How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of…
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.
Love, Genius and a Walk
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Theatro Technis
- 28th Sep, 2021
Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma…
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.
Nelly - an afternoon with Nell Gwynne
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Kings Arms Theatre
- 19th Sep 2021
Nelly - An afternoon with Nell Gwynne - Sunday 19th Sept 3pm the Kings Arms Salford £5 Hers is the classic rags-to-riches, tart-with-a-heart story.
Nelly - an afternoon with Nell Gwynne
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Kings Arms Theatre
- 19th Sep 2021
Nelly - An afternoon with Nell Gwynne - Sunday 19th Sept 3pm the Kings Arms Salford £5 Hers is the classic rags-to-riches, tart-with-a-heart story.
Nelly - an afternoon with Nell Gwynne
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Kings Arms Theatre
- 19th Sep 2021
Nelly - An afternoon with Nell Gwynne - Sunday 19th Sept 3pm the Kings Arms Salford £5 Hers is the classic rags-to-riches, tart-with-a-heart story.
Nelly - an afternoon with Nell Gwynne
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- The Kings Arms Theatre
- 19th Sep 2021
Nelly - An afternoon with Nell Gwynne - Sunday 19th Sept 3pm the Kings Arms Salford £5 Hers is the classic rags-to-riches, tart-with-a-heart story.
Bolly-Illusion Presents The CUTIE-POC Variety Show VOL. 5
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 18th Sep 2021
Clubs and shows are BACK BABY which means it’s time for VOL.
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…
Evelyn Carnate Presents Filthy in Pink
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 17th Sep 2021
Evelyn Carnate Presents FILTHY IN PINK Featuring a cabaret dreamhouse of DIRTY BURLESQUE, FILTHY FANTASIES & HOT n HILARIOUS NIGHTMARES Plus a Filthy in Pink PARTY…
Relatively Speaking
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 22nd Sep, 2021
Noël Coward described Relatively Speaking as ‘a beautifully constructed and very funny comedy’ and this production at the Jermyn Street Theatre demonstrates how right he was.
Small Change
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 20th Sep, 2021
In addition to much discussion of the play itself, Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Omnibus Theatre Clapham had the bar buzzing with anecdotes from people recalling what their mo…
Arch Clapham + Fetch presents: PRIDE FEDERATION
- Listing Workshop
- London Fringe
- ARCH Clapham
- 11th Sep 2021
Arch Clapham + Fetch presents:PRIDE FEDERATION: United In LoveA day + night of Pride celebration.
Dominus Presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN!
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Missing Bar
- 10th Sep 2021
After the success of all 7 sell out House of Allure burlesque shows, we are happy to invite you to Dominus Von Vexo presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN!Saddle up and give a YEEEHAWWW! J…
FunnyBoyz London presents "DOLLY PARTON, the tribute"
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Supper Club at Blundell Street
- 10th Sep 2021
FUNNYBOYZ LIVERPOOL presentsDolly Parton ( ages 18+ )BLUNDELLS SUPPER CLUBFriday 10th September 2021 Beth McAnn as Dolly Parton is coming to London this September! This s…
PSA presents Summer of Love
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- VFD
- 9th Sep 2021
PSA is a small collective of visual artists, performers and musicians formed in the wake of the pandemic to bring people together after so long apart.
Prison Games
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Pleasance
- 9th Sep, 2021
Marcus Hercules, Artistic Director of Hercules Productions, is the one-man wonder behind Prison Games, currently live on-stage at The Pleasance in north London having previouslybee…
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Sep - 25th Oct 2021
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
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…
Beginning
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
- 8th Sep, 2021
Two people are left standing on opposite sides of the room at the end of a housewarming party in Crouch End: the hostess and a guy who came as the friend of a friend, but on whom s…
THE KHANDI SHOP presents KATS feat THE PUSSYCAT DAHLS
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 2nd Sep 2021
Pussycat dahlsIn a world where the queer and drag and cabaret scene loves to put people to creat me super groups and commercialise .
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…
NEHH Presents... Andrew Wasylyk
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 28th Aug 2021
Andrew Wasylyk is a Scottish composer and producer who has conceived and contributed to over 25 albums.
Gämez Presents: Improv Smackdown
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
This is Paradise
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 28th Aug, 2021
This is Paradise, Michael John O'Neill’s new play at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, is a lengthy monologue in which Kate (Amy Molloy) provides a complex interweaving of the…
Gämez Presents: Improv Smackdown
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 28th - 29th Aug 2021
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
NEHH Presents... Withered Hand
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2021
Withered Hand is the songwriting output of Edinburgh-based Dan Willson.
Monkey Barrel Comedy presents The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky featuring Project X
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 26th - 29th Aug 2021
Monkey Barrel Comedy’s alternative comedy night, Project X presents, all the way from Tennessee (US of America), The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky! Join Dusty and his ban…
NEHH Presents... Siobhan Wilson
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 26th Aug 2021
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, library music producer, Siobhan Wilson was born in Elgin, Scotland, UK.
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers – Your Tomorrow
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- MultiStory
- 26th Aug, 2021
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow.
Intricate Rituals
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 27th Aug, 2021
Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors.
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…
Still
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Scotland
- 21st Aug, 2021
Still by Frances Poet makes its world premiere courtesy of The Traverse Theatre Company at their theatre.
Afternoon High Teas(e)
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 21st Aug - 20th Nov 2021
Drag Queen & Burlesque Show at London’s cult cabaret club CellarDoor with Black Magic & Bubbles, Cup Cakes, Comedy & Camp, Finger Sandwiches & FabulousnessTicket li…
NEHH Presents... Admiral Fallow (Acoustic)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 21st Aug 2021
Admiral Fallow released their much-beloved debut album, Boots Met My Face, in 2011 and its widely acclaimed successor, Tree Bursts In Snow, the following year.
NEHH Presents... James Yorkston
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th - 20th Aug 2021
James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
NEHH Presents... Carla J Easton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug 2021
Carla J Easton is an award nominated singer-songwriter, releasing four critically acclaimed albums.
Richard II: The UK Tour
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 18th Aug - 25th Sep 2021
Set in a near-future, post-global ecological collapse, Quandary Collective’s Richard II is a bloodthirsty outdoor exhibition.
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.
NEHH Presents... Hamish Hawk
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2021
Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh-based songwriter.
It's Not Rocket Science
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 19th Aug, 2021
It’s Not Rocket Science at theSpace@Surgeons’ Hall is presented by Nottingham New Theatre, England’s only fully student-run theatre venue.
Adele Cliff: In the Dark (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 17th - 22nd Aug 2021
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Rossetti's Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 18th Aug, 2021
Lemon Squeeze Productions are presenting a new adaptation of Rossetti’s Women at the Space@Surgeons’ Hall, written and directed by Joan Greening, award-winning writer of ITV si…
Semi-Toned Presents: A Study in Burgundy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 28th Aug, 2021
Set in the wonderfully open, socially-distanced and drinks-to-your-seats Garden Theatre of theSpaceuk’s Symposium Hall, the a capella group Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with f…
Madhouse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st Aug, 2021
Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin.
For All The Love You Lost
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 19th Aug, 2021
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
NEHH presents... Kapil Seshasayee
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug 2021
Kapil Seshasayee is a polymath, and a true original talent, both as a songwriter and as a soundsmith, a one-man combination of Scott Walker, Blood Orange, Arca and Richard Dawson.
The Khandi Shop presents KOSMOS
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 14th Aug 2021
KOSMOSHello Khandi treats and welcome back to the third instalment of the Khandi shop, a night to showcase some of the tastiest talents in the queerosquere.
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.
NEHH Presents... Stanley Odd
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug 2021
Stanley Odd make music for people that get tongue-tied talking to girls; clumsy people that dance awkwardly in their bedrooms; people that are generally uncomfortable in social sit…
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.
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.
Heather Duster presents Funny Girl!
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Karaoke Hole
- 13th Aug 2021
Heather Duster presents Funny Girl: A one woman retelling of the iconic musical with a little more drag! Join Heather as she takes you on a musical journey with her one woman …
Classic Them Presents: A Slice of Life
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 13th - 15th Aug 2021
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
Richard Dawson
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Edinburgh Park
- 13th Aug 2021
The avant-garde Northumbrian folk storyteller combines an incredible singing voice, gritty subject matter and dark humour to create his unforgettable style.
Classic Them Presents: A Slice of Life
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Comedy Cabin
- 13th - 15th Aug 2021
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
NEHH Presents... Sacred Paws
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug 2021
Sacred Paws don’t take things too seriously.
Boisterous presents Bouncers
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Aug - 11th Sep 2021
Boisterous tear up the stage in a revamped production of the John Godber award- winning classic about a team of Bouncers, now known as Door Supervisors.
Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 12th - 14th Aug 2021
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
Run
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 14th Aug, 2021
Jonathan Smeed is making his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Run by Stephen Laughton at Lauriston Halls, courtesy of No Frills Theatre Company.
Richard Stott: Dog WIP
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th Aug 2021
Richard Stott returns to the Camden Fringe with a show exploring the merits and pitfalls of loyalty.
Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 12th - 14th Aug 2021
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
Adele Cliff: In the Dark (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 12th - 22nd Aug 2021
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
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.
Shook
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th Aug, 2021
Three lads have certain things in common.
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.
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.
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.
Pool (No Water)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 17th Aug, 2021
Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company has made a highly successful adaptation of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) at theSpace Triplex as part of the contribution by the graduates of Que…
Saving Mr Ultimate
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 15th Aug, 2021
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
Smile Like You're Happy
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 26th Aug, 2021
Smile.
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.
Corpsing
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 16th Aug, 2021
For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place.
Paddy the Cope
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 14th Aug, 2021
Paddy the Cope, written and directed by Raymond Ross, makes its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the delightful Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Cen…
NEHH Presents... Meursault
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 7th Aug 2021
Playing for the first time since ‘you-know-what’, Neil Pennycook and band take to the stage to perform material spanning Meursault’s entire back catalogue, as well as a few sly nod…
Richard Pulsford: A Bit Rich
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 7th - 27th Aug 2021
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the master of wordplay.
Moonlight On Leith
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 13th Aug, 2021
Moonlight on Leith, by Emilie Robson and Laila Noble, at theSpaceTriplex is inspired by the ‘Save Leith Walk’ campaign; a grassroots movement seeking to preserve the historic s…
A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 8th Aug, 2021
Chalkhill Theatre Ltd currently has a double debut with the company’s first appearance at the Festival Fringe and the premiere of their new play.
Sunshine on Leith
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- MultiStory
- 9th Aug, 2021
Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter.
NEHH Presents... Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug 2021
Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk (Scottish Gaelic for Rainbow) is a community of queer folk musicians based in Scotland and beyond.
Adele Cliff: In The Dark
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown / Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 26th Aug 2021
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
Theatre-19 Presents: John
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2021
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
Trudy Carmichael Presents: The Improvised One-Woman Show!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
Fiercely fabulous and fictitious Las Vegas lounge legend, Trudy Carmichael has lived (and nearly died), loved (and often lost) more than most mere mortals, but she gets through all…
Adele Cliff: In the Dark
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th Aug 2021
Brand new show In The Dark sees Adele Cliff discuss the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it.
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).
1902
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Leith Arches
- 16th Aug, 2021
In 1902 Hibs won the Scottish Cup.
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.
Blind Mirth presents Sex with Me!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 6th - 14th Aug 2021
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe with their unique mix of sparky, spontaneous and side-splittingly funny short…
Elsa McTaggart presents When The World Stood Still
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 6th - 28th Aug 2021
Boiler suits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! A truly mesmerising twinning of music and storytelling of how a global communi…
Plasters
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 16th Aug, 2021
Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman.
Adele Cliff: In The Dark
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown / Museum of Comedy
- 6th - 26th Aug 2021
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
Tropicana
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 9th Aug, 2021
Billed as ‘the future of queer comedy cabaret’ Tropicana is Aidan Sadler’s 80’s solo show of classic queer hits at the suitably late hour of 23:15 at theSpaceTriplex.
Myra's Story
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 9th Aug, 2021
A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it.
Ladies That Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 4th - 11th Aug 2021
Join us for a full menu of delicious improv comedy! Order what you like because the whole show will be made up from your suggestions.
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).
Medicine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Traverse Theatre
- 9th Aug, 2021
The banner proclaims, ‘Congratulations’ as it hangs from the ceiling above the unimaginable mess left by the previous afternoon's party in which inmates and staff seemingly…
Ladies That Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 4th - 11th Aug 2021
Join us for a full menu of delicious improv comedy! Order what you like because the whole show will be made up from your suggestions.
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…
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Live at the Albany with Romarna Campbell
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 25th Jul 2021
Tomorrow’s Warriors are proud to present the return of Romarna Campbell in our in-person gigs series, Live at the Albany.
My Night With Reg
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Turbine Theatre
- 2nd Aug, 2021
Is there an issue with capturing plays from the second half of the twentieth century that deal with gay issues of the period? The Southwark Playhouse recently managed a production …
every seven years
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Brockley Jack Theatre
- 24th Jul, 2021
For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T…
‘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…
Two Worlds No Family
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Lion & Unicorn
- 16th Jul, 2021
Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y…
The Game of Love and Chance
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 20th Jul, 2021
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
Secret Cinema presents Dirty Dancing
- Listing Film
- West End
- Secret Cinema
- 13th - 31st Jul 2022
Secret Cinema Presents DIRTY DANCING The year is 1963 and Kellerman's Resort is back for another summer of love! Step into the world of Dirty Dancing in this 4+ hour immersive …
Robert Ross Presents Hi-De-Hi: a 40th anniversary reunion with Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th - 11th Jul 2021
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
Robert Ross Presents Hi-De-Hi: a 41st anniversary reunion with Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th - 11th Jul 2021
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and pr…
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…
Helium
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 10th Jul, 2021
The Space on the Isle of Dogs continues its practice of supporting new talent with Helium, an original work by Grumble Pup Theatre, a fledgling company founded in the Black Country…
Mr and Mrs Nobody
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 10th Jul, 2021
A wonderfully entertaining evening of laughter and fine acting is currently to be found in Keith Waterhouse’s Mr and Mrs Nobody, staged by Gabriella Bird in her directorial debut…
Exile
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 7th Jul, 2021
Exile at the Southwark Playhouse, by JoMac Productions Limited & Blue Heart Theatre, is an interestingly constructed piece consisting of two life-crisis monologues by individu…
Brighton Gay Men's Chorus Presents: The Boys From The Chorus
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- St Nicholas Church
- 26th - 26th Jun 2021
SOLD OUT! Join us for the 8pm show live stream on YouTube for free: https://youtu.
Charles Hayward presents….
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 26th Jun 2021
Musician and sound activist Charles Hayward presents a wild mix of genre fluid music from the London underground and beyond.
Brighton Gay Men's Chorus Presents: The Boys From The Chorus
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- St Nicholas Church
- 26th - 26th Jun 2021
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus members present a show of solos and duets under the direction of Joe Paxton.
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.
Bad Nights and Odd Days
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 29th Jun, 2021
The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.
Staircase
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 30th Jun, 2021
The Southwark Playhouse has been transformed into an authentic 1960’s barbershop for the revival of Charles Dyer’s hit play Staircase, by Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in asso…
Warhol: Bullet Karma
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 29th Jun, 2021
Garry Roost’s one-hander, Warhol: Bullet Karma, at the Rialto Theatre, as part of the Brighton Fringe, explores aspects of the artist’s life through encounters with various peo…
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations Brighton Edition
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 21st - 27th Jun 2021
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations Brighton Edition
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 21st - 27th Jun 2021
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Live at the Albany with Xhosa Cole
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 20th Jun 2021
In the first of our in-person gigs in the Live at the Albany series, Tomorrow’s Warriors are proud to present Xhosa Cole.
Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
Richard is 38 years old.
Gämez Presents: Improv Smackdown
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
Gämez Presents: Improv Smackdown
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Oil Shed
- 19th - 20th Jun 2021
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
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.
Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 21st Jun, 2021
The apologetic opening to Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire, explaining the failure of the actors to turn up, might seem out of place in any standard piece of theatre, but then it wou…
Shedding A Skin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Soho Theatre
- 24th Jun, 2021
The Soho Theatre launched its post-lockdown summer season this week with Shedding A Skin, written and performed by Amanda Wilkin, the 2020 winner of the Verity Bargate Award.
Trestle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Brockley Jack Theatre
- 18th Jun, 2021
The Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley has opened its doors for the first time in fifteen months with a wonderfully heart-warming production of Stewart Pringle’s Trestle.
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.
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.
Watson: The Final Problem
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 15th Jun, 2021
Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i…
Diary of an Expat
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 14th Jun, 2021
Diary of an Expat makes a striking impression even before Cecilia Gragnani enters the stage for her solo play at the Rialto Theatre, directed by Katharina Reinthaller.
The Sensemaker
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 14th Jun, 2021
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is anything but that when played ad nauseam on a loop while you are kept on hold by a robotic voice saying, “All our operators are currently busy.
Make-up
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 12th Jun, 2021
One day perhaps someone will write a play about a drag queen where, beneath the frock and below the wig, above the high heels and under the layers of slap exists a man who is happy…
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 15th Jun, 2021
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Lone Flyer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 11th Jun, 2021
The Jermyn Street Theatre continues its Footprints Festival with Lucy Betts’ acclaimed production of Ade Morris’s Lone Flyer, which was first staged at The Watermill Theatre la…
After All These Years
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 9th Jun, 2021
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
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.
Chamberlain: Peace in our Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 9th Jun, 2021
History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se…
Drama King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 8th Jun, 2021
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 7th Jun, 2021
There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the adaptability of works by Robert Louis Stevenson for the stage, with productions popping up in many quarters.
Why I Am an Avocado
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 6th Jun, 2021
The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production.
Waiting for Hamlet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 7th Jun, 2021
Waiting for Hamlet has itself been waiting for some time.
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 …
An Intervention
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: Steine Main
- 9th Jun, 2021
Juicy Lime Productions presents Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play An Intervention, as part of the Brighton Fringe at the Sweet Room, Old SteineTwo characters, identified in the script on…
The Vertical Hour by David Hare
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 12th Jun, 2021
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
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…
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.
The Tragedy of Dorian Gray
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 30th Jun, 2021
Blue Devil Productions closed the Rialto Theatre’s Brighton Fringe season last week with a two-act production,The Tragedy of Dorian Gray; their first full-length play.
Fringe Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Electric Arcade
- 29th May - 10th Jul 2021
Continue your evening with the Fringe’s wildest late-night show.
Drag Queen Bingo & Cabaret every Saturday afternoon
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 29th May - 20th Nov 2021
Bingo to dream about & prizes from your worst nightmare with Wilma Ballsdrop, Topsie Redfern, Ruby Violet & Paul CosmicTicket link
The COW Community Presents: ...The F*ck Am I Doing?
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 27th Jun 2021
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The Richard Filby Spectacule
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 29th - 31st May 2021
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
The Richard Filby Spectacule
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 29th - 31st May 2021
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
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…
The Travesty of Richard III
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
The COW Community Presents: ...The F*ck Am I Doing?
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 27th Jun 2021
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Shipwreck Productions Presents: Always on My Mind
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
The Travesty of Richard III
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
Shipwreck Productions Presents: Always on My Mind
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
Between Two Waves
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 5th Jun, 2021
Between Two Waves by Australian playwright Ian Meadows interweaves an urgent call to recognise the world’s impending climate crisis and the troubled smaller world of a young clim…
University of Chichester Conservatoire Presents: Oklahoma! | Cosmoville | Soho Cinders
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Live Streaming
- 28th - 30th May 2021
A sensational TRIPLE-BILL of full-scale productions staged with unparalleled panache by the graduating Musical Theatre Triple Threat students of one of the country’s leading Cons…
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.
University of Chichester Conservatoire Presents: Oklahoma! | Soho Cinders
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Live Streaming
- 28th - 30th May 2021
A sensational DOUBLE-BILL of full-scale productions staged with unparalleled panache by the graduating Musical Theatre Triple Threat students of one of the country’s leading Cons…
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…
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Live at the Albany with Loucin
- Listing Music
- Off Broadway
Enjoy the atmosphere of the live music experience with this special online stream of with vocalist Loucin presented in partnership with renowned talent development organisation, To…
Vespertilio
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Online & Broadcast
- 19th Apr, 2021
The greater mouse-eared bat belongs to the family Vespertilionidae of the genus Myotis.
RICHARD JONES: ESCAPE
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 30th Mar 2021
£74 Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children)£23 Adult £20.
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.
Bard in the Yard: The Scottish Play
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 12th Jun, 2021
The Scottish Play is a solo performance written by Victoria Gartner, founder and artistic director of Will & Co which produces plays about Shakespear, under the umbrella title …
‘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…
In Conversation With: Richard Beck (Broadway Baby) & Matthew Shelley (Scottish Festivals PR)
- Listing Events
- Online & Broadcast
- A Company 6 Scots
- 20th - 30th Aug 2020
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
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…
Steelworks A Cappella Presents: Silver Linings
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 17th - 21st Aug 2020
Steelworks present their debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Silver Linings, an exploration of the boundless possibilities of a cappella.
Steve Richards Presents Rock'n'Roll Politics 2020
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
A wild political landscape opens up – election-winning Boris is not as mighty as he seems; Brexit not done, a new Labour leader, SNP storms: epic dramas for a brand new show.
Vampire's Ball Ultimate Halloween Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Online & Broadcast
- The Space UK
- 17th Aug, 2020
Brad Tassell and Steve Goodie describe themselves as a pair who have been ‘all-around nutty goofballs for more than 30 years’; and it shows.
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.
Out of the Blue Jazz presents The Great American Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 10th - 15th Aug 2020
Back from sell-out shows in 2019, this band are swing jazz sensations, Out of the Blue Jazz, who will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook in the style of iconic …
Lockdown Drag-out
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Online & Broadcast
- The Space UK
- 12th Aug, 2020
It’s either a mid-conversation pick-up or a recording error that opens Jane Martin’s monologue, Lockdown Drag-Out, in which she appears as the plummy and plumpy Audrey Stanton …
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.
10th Year: John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 29th Aug 2020
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
The Plague Thing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Space UK
- 11th Aug, 2020
If you’ve been feasting on BBC iPlayer during lockdown and enjoying the delights of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, it’s worth taking six minutes out of your social isolation t…
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 7th - 16th Aug 2020
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and ‘the best celeb interviewer in Britain’ (Guardian), probably best known for his role of Percy in Servants, brings his multi-award-winning podca…
Elsa Jean McTaggart Presents Hebridean Fire
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 27th Aug 2020
After a sell-out run in 2019, Elsa Jean McTaggart returns with Hebridean Fire.
Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that …
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues – Live at The Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 30th Aug 2020
Acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit returns to the Fringe with her sell-out show Queens of the Blues, a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we kn…
Richard Brown: Horror Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 6th - 30th Aug 2020
Horror in all it’s forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
Richard Stott: Toe the Line
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
From Dave’s Funniest Jokes 2019 runner-up comes a comedic journey of self-discovery exploring the benefits and pitfalls of both fitting in and standing out.
Breakin Covention Presents - The Ruggeds Between Us
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Peacock Theatre London
- 8th - 11th Jul 2020
Celebrating the most innovative and inspirational artists working in hip hop today, Breakin’ Convention Presents brings you b-boy world champions The Ruggeds.
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.
Robert Ross Presents Hi-De-Hi: a 40th anniversary reunion with Su Pollard and Jeffrey Holland
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Mar 2020
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
Robert Ross Presents: Forgotten Heroes of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Mar 2020
The Golden Age of Television was blessed with some of the best-loved of comedians, but why are Eric & Ernie and Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd so fondly r…
Richard Stott: Right Hand Man
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 10th Mar 2020
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
'Punkt Presents Penelope
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 10th - 14th Mar 2020
A dream odyssey into the world of the woman who waited 20 years for her bloke to return.
Richard Stott – Right Hand Man
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 10th Mar 2020
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Mar - 6th Apr 2020
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Robert Ross presents: A Comedy of Madness
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Mar 2020
The heritage of comedy is a troubled one - littered with the shells of those whose genius is inextricably linked with struggles with mental health.
Robert Ross Presents: Tony Slattery, in Conversation
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Mar 2020
Comedy legend Tony Slattery is live on stage in conversation with Britain's foremost comedy historian Robert Ross.
Richard Alston Dance Company - Final Edition
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells
- 7th - 8th Mar 2020
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
North Coast Presents ANYBODY! An Improvised Historical Hip Hopera
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th Mar 2020
North Coast, New York City’s premier hip-hop improv team, has long been known for their seamless melding of freestyle rapping and long form improv comedy.
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.
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.
Miss Kiddy and the Cads presents: A Vintage Christmas
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 8th Dec 2019
Miss Kiddy and the Cads - the UK’s hottest vintage show, for one night only presents 'A Vintage Christmas’.
Wind of Heaven
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 3rd Dec, 2019
There is something wonderfully seasonal about Wind of Heaven at the Finborough Theatre.
Sink The Pink presents ESCAPE FROM PLANET TRASH
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Pleasance Islington
- 19th Nov - 22nd Dec 2019
It's 2050 and in a galaxy not too far from our own, Planet Trash is the most dangerous place in the solar system - the dumping ground for the universe.
LCW presents: Sketchley Park
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 18th - 19th Nov 2019
Sketchley Park is the home of the weirdest and most wonderful new sketch writing from members of the London Comedy Writers group.
Olaf Falafel presents Knitting With Maracas
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Nov 2019
Winner of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe funniest joke, Olaf Falafel is back once again like a renegade master.
Sydney & the Old Girl
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre Cafe Bar
- 8th Nov, 2019
Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation.
Murder in the Cathedral
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Cathedral
- 6th Nov, 2019
Performing a play in a cathedral about an archbishop assassinated in a cathedral might sound like a match made in heaven.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 1st Nov, 2019
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an intensely Irish play set in the wilds of Connemara, premiered locally by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway in 1996.
The Match Box
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 2nd Nov, 2019
The prospect of a two-act monologue that lasts around two and a quarter, an interval, is perhaps daunting for both the actor and aficionados of the genre alike.
A Kind of Loving
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Jack Studio Theatre
- 8th Nov, 2019
The decade might be set in history as ‘Swinging’, but for many of us who lived through the ‘60’s the appellation has only a marginal connection with the realities of life.
The House of The Spirits / La Casa de Los Espíritus
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Cervantes Theatre
- 17th Nov, 2019
The mission of the Cervantes Theatre “to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London” is strikingly realised in its closing play of the 2019 season that featur…
Gaslight
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre
- 25th Oct, 2019
Gaslight has stood the test of time in the canon of British theatre.
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.
Vassa
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 25th Oct, 2019
In a rare proscenium-style presentation at the Almeida Theatre, director Tinuke Craig offers Maxim Gorky’s Vassa as her debut production for the venue in a new adaptation by Mike…
Breaking The Code
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tower Theatre Company
- 10th Oct, 2019
It’s only two years until the face of Alan Turing appears on the new £50 note.
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…
Velvet
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 7th Oct, 2019
To compile his one-man show, Velvet, Tom Ratcliffe combined personal experience and the disturbing revelations that emerged as the #MeToo movement gathered momentum.
Sky Blue Theatre presents: The British Theatre Challenge
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
- 1st - 5th Oct 2019
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
I Am Gavrilo Princip
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Queens Theatre Hornchurch
- 1st Oct, 2019
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler all stand out in the history of the twentieth century.
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.
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Trafalgar Studio 1
- 10th Oct, 2019
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Blood Wedding
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Young Vic
- 4th Oct, 2019
In the late 1920s Frederico García Lorca allegedly read about a bride who fled her wedding to elope with a former amor.
Mother Of Him
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre
- 4th Oct, 2019
Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir…
The Home: Open Afternoon and Cupcake Day
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Surrey House - Goldsmiths, Campus Living Villages
- 15th Sep 2019
You are warmly invited to integrate with our residents and have the most fun you’ll have had for a long time at our Open Afternoon.
Youth Without God
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Coronet Theatre
- 25th Sep, 2019
Youth Without God at the Coronet Theatre is heralded as ‘a dark fable about the individual conscience in a time of social uncertainty’ and the 1937 novel by Ödön von Horváth…
Luna Cinema Presents Monty Python's Life of Brian
- Listing Events
- West End
- Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
- 8th Sep 2019
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Monty Python’s Life of Brian is back on the big screen.
So Here We Are
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 13th Sep, 2019
Luke Norris's Southend-based play and winner of the Bruntwood Prize, So Here We Are, finally comes to Essex in a delightful production that fits perfectly into the Queen’s Th…
Stiletto Beach
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 13th Sep, 2019
The world premiere of Sadie Hasler’s Stiletto Beach has burst onto the stage at the dynamic Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in a bold, brave, fearless and funny exploration of what…
Luna Cinema Presents A Star is Born
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
- 1st Sep 2019
"The new A Star is Born is a total emotional knockout…rapturous and swooning, but also delicate and intimate and luminous.
Falsettos
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- The Other Palace
- 12th Sep, 2019
Falsettos has been around since 1992, but it’s UK premier has only just opened at The Other Palace, London.
JazzMain Presents Diggin Dexter!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 26th Aug 2019
The world famous Jazz Bar Edinburgh proudly hosts the JazzMain quartet, performing the music of Dexter Gordon.
Luna Cinema Presents Mary Poppins Returns
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
- 25th Aug 2019
Following last year's sell out screening of The Greatest Showman, The Luna Cinema returns to the Open Air Theatre with the long awaited sequel to Disney’s musical ma…
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…
'Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Donovan in conversation with Eddi Reader
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 23rd Aug 2019
Legendary singer-songwriter Donovan performs an acoustic set in this very special event showcasing the documentary film Donovan and The Beatles in India.
Afternoon Organ Recital with Marion Lees McPherson
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 23rd Aug 2019
Marion Lees McPherson, organist of Stockbridge Parish, presents a programme of German and French music.
Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 23rd Aug 2019
The creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids brings his perspective on the global television and film landscape in this special one-off event.
Torch Song
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Turbine Theatre
- 16th Sep, 2019
The neon sign above the stage at the new Turbine Theatre, Battersea, hints at the lights of New York City, but it also reminds us of the history behind director Drew McOnie’s pro…
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.
Shameless Berlin Presents: Pussy Powered Protest
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern
- 21st - 25th Aug 2019
Join us for a hedonistic hour of weird, funny and confusing entertainment direct from the seething capital of culture and queerness, Berlin.
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.
Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 20th Aug 2019
Russell T Davies is the man behind classic and acclaimed TV series Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Torchwood and Cucumber, among many others.
Soundhouse Presents: Three Times Five
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pianodrome at The Pitt
- 20th Aug 2019
Edinburgh-based promoter The Soundhouse Organisation presents Three Times Five, featuring Moishe’s Bagel, Kinnaris Quintet and John Goldie and the High Plains.
Hypnotique Presents: Totally Wired
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 19th - 25th Aug 2019
What happens when eccentricity meets electricity? What connects the invention of the lightbulb to the Berlin techno scene? Take a tour with Hypnotique (Britain’s third best there…
Charles Quarterman: An Afternoon with Charles Quarterman for One Hour
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2019
Hello, I am Charles Quarterman.
Crystal Bollix presents: The Bitch Ball
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 19th - 25th Aug 2019
Ever been called a bitch? Want to escape reality? Or simply want to have a motherf*cking good time? Welcome to the Bitch Ball.
Everyman
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 20th Aug, 2019
As the saying goes, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".
AcadePitch Presents – Romeo and Juliet: An A Cappella Tragedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Kate Nora
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 20th Aug, 2019
There are quite a few variations on the Romeo & Juliet theme at this year’s Fringe, but few have as many puns as AcadePitch Presents - Romeo and Juliet: An A Capella Tragedy.
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 19th - 24th Aug 2019
This show celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey and development, through the music of their idols.
My Other Self: The Evolution of Shakespeare's Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2019
A bold new adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s most blood soaked plays.
Soundhouse Presents: John Goldie and the High Plains
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pianodrome at The Pitt
- 19th Aug 2019
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now, John Goldie, is joined by his brand-new backing band, the High Plains.
Soundhouse Presents: Kinnaris Quintet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pianodrome at The Pitt
- 19th Aug 2019
Soundhouse presents one of Scotland’s hottest new folk bands.
Blue Rose Code Presents: This is Caledonian Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 19th Aug 2019
What is Caledonian Soul? Ross Wilson (AKA Blue Rose Code) will, with help from some very special guests, attempt to answer this question by offering his unique take on generations …
Austentatious presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 19th Aug 2019
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care! Join them as they improvise a …
Questions for Quiz Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2019
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Soundhouse Presents: Moishe's Bagel
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pianodrome at The Pitt
- 16th Aug 2019
Soundhouse favourites Moishe’s Bagel return with their thrillingly original, cutting-edge klezmer and folk music.
Richard Michael BEM at 70: Celebration
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 15th - 17th Aug 2019
Internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Michael performs a wide-ranging programme of standards looking back on a distinguished career, whilst looking forward to new possibilities…
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 14th - 26th Aug 2019
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
SHTF – Stuff Hits The Fan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 14th - 18th Aug 2019
We live in challenging times.
Unicorns, Almost
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2019
Name a Second World War poet.
Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire – Blindfold Cliff-Edge Unicorn Brexit Britain Bogus Prime Minister Democrageddon American Elections Cricket World Cup General State of the World Specials
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 13th - 25th Aug 2019
Zaltzman, host of the global smash-hit podcast The Bugle, brings his uniquely interactive stand-up show Satirist For Hire.
The Tragedy Of Richard II
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Rose Playhouse
- 13th - 18th Aug 2019
Anərkē Shakespeare, a new, innovative theatre company, creates raw, fast-paced Shakespeare, bringing you the multifaceted text by a diverse, gender-blind, actor-led ensemble with…
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…
Identity
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 17th Aug, 2019
With a highly experienced team behind this production it is no wonder that Identity by CTC COMPANY at Greenside, Infirmary St.
This Island's Mine
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 15th Aug, 2019
The Italia Conti Ensemble changes its membership every year as another cohort passes through the famous drama school.
44 Inch Chest
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 15th Aug, 2019
Rarely does the stage premiere of a work take place twenty-three years after it was written, but Out Of Bounds Theatre has claimed the honour with their gritty production of 44 Inc…
Out of the Blue Jazz Presents The Great American Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
Fabulous swing jazz band.
The Ladies
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Harry and Ella walk into a bar.
Steve Richards Presents Rock'n'Roll Politics 2019
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
A brand new behind the scenes guide to the latest epic political dramas.
EAST
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2019
Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR.
Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 25th Aug 2019
Revd Richard Coles is on a fortnight’s leave from his country parish and has been excused from his co-presenting duties of Saturday Live (BBC Radio 4) to bring to Edinburgh this hi…
Semi-Toned Presents: Life on Mars
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following two consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe.
Blaze Presents: Showgurl
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Brewhemia
- 11th - 18th Aug 2019
Join us in the stunning Brewhemia beer palace at 8.
Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Panmure House
- 9th - 25th Aug 2019
Nowhere has Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand been harder at work than at the festival itself.
Afternoon Jazz at the Depot
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Leith Depot
- 9th - 25th Aug 2019
The Transatlantic Happiness Project presents top-notch jazz Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons at Leith Depot.
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…
Tim Vine Presents: Plastic Elvis Live in Concert!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 7th Aug 2019
In this special one-off event, Plastic Elvis will thrill you with an evening of full throttle charisma, unstoppable rock’n’roll and jaw-dropping excitement.
Richard Michael at 70: Generations
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 7th - 9th Aug 2019
Pianist and educator Richard Michael BEM celebrates his 70th birthday by appearing with family members, Paul Michael (bass), Hilary Michael (violin and sax) and Joanna Duncan (viol…
Ugly Youth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 8th Aug, 2019
“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y…
The Ladies Room
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug 2019
Gemma Bedeau is a writer, costume designer and graphic novelist.
Real Eyes
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 11th Aug, 2019
Aged just 16 and 17, Harrison Sharpe (Matt) and Archie Stevens (Mikey) make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Real Eyes, an intensely moving story of brothers growing up t…
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 …
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.
Dragtime! Presents: Cirque du Slay
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
The circus has come to town, a circus that is quite unlike any other.
The Brave Anthology
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 7th Aug, 2019
Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’.
PASS Dance presents Springboard
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 5th - 25th Aug 2019
Performing Arts Studio Scotland: Dance at Edinburgh College present an eclectic mix of original choreographic work created by the staff, students and recent graduates of PASS Dance…
BBC: The Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 5th - 21st Aug 2019
Janice Forsyth and Grant Stott present The Afternoon Show from the heart of the festivals, showcasing the best acts and talking to the biggest names in town.
An Afternoon with The Rat Pack
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- McSorley’s Irish Bar
- 5th - 23rd Aug 2019
A mix of hits from the Great American Songbook that will have your fingers clicking and toes tapping all afternoon. See website for further details: www.mcsorleysbar.com/events/
Andy Gunn Presents: From T-Bone To Trucks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stramash
- 4th - 18th Aug 2019
Following 2018’s sold-out run, Scottish virtuoso Andy Gunn’s back with his homage to the greats of electric blues guitar with a multimedia experience featuring projected films, nar…
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.
Long Live the Cat Ladies?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 4th - 20th Aug 2019
In our twenties, an independent lifestyle seems liberating.
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.
Dear Mother Moon
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 7th Aug, 2019
Dear Mother Moon is one of four works presented by CalArts this year in what has become the Institute’s Edinburgh home, Venue 13.
Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Mr Fibbers Presents: Back in Tune
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2019
Mr Fibbers is back and funnier than ever with Back in Tune: a show packed with jokes, games and comedy songs that kids just love.
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.
Bristol Improv Presents: Dynamite!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Dynamite! is the regular showcase of the University of Bristol’s improvised comedy society, Bristol Improv.
The Gin Fayre Presents: International Scottish Gin Day
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Mansfield Traquair Centre
- 3rd - 3rd Aug 2019
As part of celebrations all around the world in honour of International Scottish Gin Day, we’ll be having our own celebrations in the heart of Edinburgh.
Afternoon Concerts at St Michael and All Saints
- Listing Musicals and Opera / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Michael and All Saints
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Afternoons: organ concert by Christopher Black; Sarah Moore sings Rachmaninoff/Mozart; Roxburgh Quartet playing Barber/Schostakovich; Hadley Court Singers/SMAS choir/orchestra musi…
The Jazz Bar Presents: Funk, Blues, Jazz and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2019
Edinburgh’s leading independent music venue showcases the very best local talent with nightly danceable funk, blues and special jazz performances (including The Jazz Bar’s 17-piece…
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Fight Song
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 10th Aug, 2019
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 10th Aug, 2019
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret…
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.
Man of Mischief Presents... Living the Dream
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Magic.
Well That's Oz
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 11th Aug, 2019
Absurdism runs amok in Well That’s Oz, one of four plays in this year’s programme from CalArts at Venue 13.
Afternoon Concert Series
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Giles’ Cathedral
- 3rd - 31st Aug 2019
Afternoon concerts have long been a feature of our day-to-day activities at St Giles’ Cathedral, and each year we continue to welcome artists from all over the world to perform in …
Wrath of Achilles
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 7th Aug, 2019
Writer Jack Fairey has taken on a huge task in adapting the substance of Homer’s Iliad into a modern story still firmly embedded in the Trojan War with a running time just short …
Blazers Presents Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Following on from their success in London, Blazers Comedy brings you an outstanding mixed bill from a plethora of hot-to-trot, up-and-coming, award-winning stand-up comedians, seen…
Miss Candy AppleBottom presents: Tales and Adventures from Beyond the Veil of Nonsense
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Candy’s stories, musicality and legs will take you on a journey of her/his adventures through time.
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.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues Live at The Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2019
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Judas
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square
- 23rd Aug, 2019
Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room.
Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents: Nae Bother!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
The Weegie boys are back again after two consecutive sellout runs at the fringe! They can’t wait to go mental in the capital with an even bigger and bamier show than the last! From…
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.
(Ab)solution
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 7th Aug, 2019
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Bells Presents: Soundscape
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2019
Hailing from Scottish seaside town St Andrews is the award-winning a cappella group Bells.
Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Bristol Improv Presents: Offscript!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
When you watch a show, you only see half the action.
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.
Puppet King Richard II
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2019
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
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.
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
The Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2019
Direct from the Wild West, the infamous Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!, a world-premiere cabaret featuring blood and thunder melodrama, heel-kickin’ musical theatre and…
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: From the Wind
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2019
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
‘The Podfather’ (Guardian) and ‘King of Edinburgh’ (List), probably best known for playing a policeman on Ant and Dec Unleashed, brings his multi award-winning podcast to Edinburgh…
Strut Club Cabaret Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Elsa Jean McTaggart Presents McTaggart Sisters
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
The McTaggart sisters Elsa Jean McTaggart and her youngest sister Miss Irenie Rose present a rare opportunity to hear these two highly acclaimed singers/songwriters/multi-instrumen…
The Words Are There
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2019
The Words Are There is a moving and innovative piece of physical theatre that appeals both for its approach to male domestic abuse, and for its style of performance.
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Teapot Dram Afternoon Tea
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cannonball Restaurant & Bar
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2019
For the first time ever, we welcome Glengoyne Distillery’s Teapot Dram Batch No 006.
Bleeding Black
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 13th Aug, 2019
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 13th Aug, 2019
For an incomplete play, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck has nevertheless managed to secure enduring interest.
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Returning for their ninth year, the award-winning Blueswater tell the stories and perform the songs of the artists that defined popular music around the world.
Teach
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2019
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
Dream of a King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 9th Aug, 2019
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Bacon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 5th Aug, 2019
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
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.
Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn.
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Symbiosis
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends …
Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Direct from great success in Australia, A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour is a show like no other.
Thief by Liam Rudden
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 17th Aug, 2019
The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre.
Ladies Who Lunch
- Review
- ★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 17th Aug, 2019
Four work colleagues reunite after 30 years, in this delightful intergenerational analysis of motherhood.
Stanley
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 19th Aug, 2019
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
Craig on the Cliff
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Randolph Cliff
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Craig on the Cliff – Craig Herbertson, Edinburgh singer, presents Cauld Blast Warm Heart, a celebration of the works of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, the genius who gav…
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.
Warwick Improv Presents: Anything You Want
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2019
Six actors.
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Dynamic Earth
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
A Songwriters' Circle Presents...
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd Aug 2019
A Songwriters’ Circle returns to the Fringe in a slightly different format for 2019, presenting two of Scotland’s finest songwriters playing a one-off show as a duo.
Edinburgh Gin Afternoon Tea
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hannah Crofts
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant
- 15th Aug, 2019
Nestled in New Town and overlooking Princes Street Gardens and the Scott Monument, The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant makes for a very pleasant spot for enjoying Afternoon Tea whil…
Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete's Foot) Live!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
After a swift rise to fame with her Nobel-nominated book Diary of a Drag Queen, DENIM’s Crystal is back.
Calum Ross Presents Ross: After the Screaming Stops
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
As a teenager, Calum asked a famous comedian how to get into comedy.
Kevin the Vampyr and Friends Presents The Vim and Vigour Variety Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
A one-man variety mash-up of story, song and stupidity.
Gloria Hole Presents: The Clinic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Got a burning problem? Got an itching question? Time to visit the clinic.
Conversations With Myself
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C cubed
- 13th Aug, 2019
It’s fifty years since the Stonewall riots sparked off the movement that became known as gay liberation.
Adele Cliff: Undershare
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Join one-woman joke-machine Adele Cliff, for a show about lions and sharing, but not the lion’s share.
Letter to Boddah
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C cubed
- 17th Aug, 2019
“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed…
Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
What happens when two circus performers are sent to prison? They come up with a new Fringe show of course.
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.
The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
With an all-new line-up and fresh material, the St Andrews Revue are back at the Fringe.
Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Critically acclaimed idiot Olaf Falafel is back once again like a renegade master.
Amelia Bayler Presents: Emotional Bangers
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes
- 1st - 26th Aug 2019
A light-hearted musical trip through the big issues du jour: addiction, narcissism and compulsive snacking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vauxhall Comedy Presents Tom Elwes and Ali Woods
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Vauxhall Comedy presents two of the brightest up-and-coming comedians on the UK circuit: Tom Elwes and Ali Woods (as heard on BBC Radio 4).
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.
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Skot Wilson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 10th Aug, 2019
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
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…
Richard Fry: O Starry Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 21st Aug 2019
Following an epiphany in the Van Gogh Museum, Fry takes a twisted wander through art history.
Richard Stott: Right Hand Man
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 9th Aug, 2019
Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says.
The Noise Next Door's Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 9th Aug, 2019
Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham return to Edinburgh with their latest libation, The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch, in Underbel…
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…
Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
This brand-spanking-new hour by the 2018 Chortle Best Newcomer nominee finally answers the question no one is dying to have answered: ‘where is she from?!’.
Lisa Richards presents Irish Comedians
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
With 25 years of experience at the Fringe, the Lisa Richards agency is excited to showcase some of our new and established talent.
Robert Ross presents: Jeffrey Holland - Comedy Friends and Comedy Heroes
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th - 28th Jul 2019
Somehow Comedy Historian Robert Ross and Hi-De-Hi star Jeffrey Holland didn't meet until a Comedy Legends cruise in the autumn of 2018, but it was an instant connec…
The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show: Through Time!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 27th Jul 2019
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
Classical Guitar: Richard Haslam
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 27th Jul 2019
Richard Haslam is a Derbyshire-born classical guitarist currently based in Manchester.
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…
Richard Herring: RHLSTP
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 26th Jul 2019
Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts.
Adele Cliff : Undershare
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 22nd Jul 2019
Join one woman joke-machine Adele Cliff, for a show about lions and sharing, but not the lion’s share.
Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 21st Jul 2019
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Ed Fringe Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 20th Jul 2019
A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand.
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…
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…
The Tempest
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Osney Mead
- 25th Jul, 2019
Many strange things occur in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but in this production, by Oxford’s Creation Theatre, there are more surprises than even Prospero might have conjured up…
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.
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.
The Ladies Antebellum: A Mighty Fine Adventure
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Kings Arms
- 7th - 8th Jul 2019
The Ladies Antebellum: A Mighty Fine Adventure follows two Southern Belles-turned-outlaws as they are hunted down by the finest sheriff the Wild West has ever known.
Innervisions Festival Presents - Janet Kay & Carroll Thompson
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Under The Bridge
- 6th Jul 2019
The Queen's of Lovers Rock announce an exclusive London concert as part of the 2019 Innervisions Festival.
Innervisions Festival Presents - Fela Kuti - Saluting the Black President
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Earth
- 5th Jul 2019
After sell out shows at the Electric Ballroom, 229 and The British Library, the Innervisions Festival is Saluting the Black President himself, Fela Kuti, tonight with the Dele Sosi…
Innervisions Festival Presents - Maceo Parker
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Roundhouse
- 5th Jul 2019
Iconic American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, Maceo Parker is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960’s as well as George Clinton's&nbs…
Candy Gigi Presents – Friday Night Sinner!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 5th - 11th Jul 2019
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Innervisions Festival Presents - RAMP (Roy Ayers Music Production)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Islington Assembly Hall
- 4th Jul 2019
Rare Groove Legends RAMP announce an exclusive European Concert.
Innervisions Festival Presents - Mavis Staples
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Roundhouse
- 4th Jul 2019
Mavis Staples' recording career spans from the 1950s to the current day.
Innervisions Festival Presents - Saul Williams
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Under The Bridge
- 4th Jul 2019
American rapper, singer-songwriter, poet, actor Saul Williams is coming to London to appear as part of the breath-taking Innervisions Festival line up between 3…
Innervisions Festival Presents - Aloe Blacc
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Roundhouse
- 3rd Jul 2019
Aloe Blacc is best known for his UK No.
The Hunt
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 1st Jul, 2019
Relax and enjoy the welcome extended to guests at the local infants’ school which Michele Austin delivers with considerable warmth and obvious delight.
Robert Ross presents: Tony Slattery - Slattery Will Get You Nowhere
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 30th Jun 2019
Previewing his eagerly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy historian Robert Ross.
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.
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.
Robert Ross presents: Tony Slattery is Unrehearsable
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 2nd Jun 2019
Tony Slattery is back in his natural habitat, joining forces with his improvisation partner, Allan Lear, for a brand new show of spontaneous laughter.
Gloria Hole presents: The Clinic
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 1
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2019
Still got an itching problem? For the third year running, join drag-ony aunt Gloria Hole and a panel of top comedians for another year of solving your pressing concerns.
All The Ladies Mic Night!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 31st May 2019
Monsteers Artistry Presents: All The Ladies Mic Night! All the Ladies Mic Night Includes Live Performances from Sarah Dorsett, Pippa Lea, Lauren Garnder, Christine Maia …
Sam Went: Bicentennial Fan
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 24th - 25th May 2019
Sam Went got dumped and did the very normal thing of transferring his feelings onto the 17th worst movie of all time - ‘Bicentennial Man’.
Eliza von Poppins presents... A Practically Perfect Guide to Living
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 23rd - 27th May 2019
Do you want to know how to solve your problems and become practically perfect in every way? Whenever you are in a stew, just ask “What would Julie Andrews do?” Eliza von Poppins …
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.
Robert Ross presents: Jonathan Kydd - My Dad, Sam Kydd
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th May 2019
There was once an industry joke that Sam Kydd was in every British film ever made.
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…
Hypnotique Presents: Totally Wired
- Review
- ★★★
- Monica Yell
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 20th May, 2019
Everyone I mentioned this show to asked the same question: 'What’s a theremin?' I'd try and explain: 'it’s an instrument, the one you play by just waving your h…
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.
PÖJJ Presents: PÖJJ
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 17th - 19th May 2019
Sketch comedy hat-trick ‘PÖJJ’ return to Brighton Fringe.
Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 17th - 19th May 2019
One man.
Ladies and a Gentleman
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 17th - 18th May 2019
Dömur og herra, Ladies and a Gentleman, is a burlesque group with its base in Kramhúsið Dance Studio in Reykjavik where they studied Burlesque with the mother of the Icelandic C…
Robert Ross presents: Tyler Butterworth - The Unknown Peter Butterworth
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th May 2019
Comedy actor Peter Butterworth is undoubtedly best-loved as an integral member of the Carry On team, appearing in sixteen of the film classics as well as an eighteen-mon…
Richard Wheatley is Blindingly Obvious
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 10th May - 1st Jun 2019
Fresh from debut runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and 2018, and unveiling his new show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, Richard is now looking to make his mark on the seafron…
Jazz in the Afternoon: Julie Roberts and Michael Hinton
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 10th May 2019
Unique and personal interpretations of songs from the jazz/blues years - plus a touch of Latin! Julie’s expressive voice is complemented by Michael’s superb piano playing in an exc…
A Writing Workshop with Richard Skinner
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- British Airways i360
- 10th May 2019
A workshop with Richard Skinner—novelist and director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy.
English National Opera presents Paul Bunyan
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Alexandra Palace
- 9th - 13th May 2019
Following its sell-out run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2018, Paul Bunyan will receive its first revival at Alexandra Palace Theatre this May.
Solve-along-a-Murder-She-Wrote presents
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 8th - 22nd May 2019
Pit your wits against JB Fletcher at this interactive screening of the classic ‘Murder, She Wrote’ episode, ‘Birds of a Feather’.
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.
Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 5th - 6th May 2019
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (‘Harry Hill’; Sky1, ‘Dog Ate My Homework’; CBBC, ‘Doctor Wh…
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.
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.
Gypsy Disco presents ‘The Rebels Ball’
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd May 2019
We are calling all fellow reprobates, sinners and free love enthusiasts to join us for a night of ceremonial debauchery as we launch the Spiegeltent season! The year is 2030 and p…
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.
The Hired Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 2nd May, 2019
The Hired Man has been doing the rounds since 1984 and now finds a home at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.
Man of La Mancha
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 2nd May, 2019
A rousing overture, with blasting brass and pounding percussion raises hopes at the Coliseum for the first London production of Man Of La Mancha for over fifty years.
The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tara Theatre
- 25th Apr, 2019
Despite occasional complaints, audiences over the centuries have generally become well-behaved.
Ebdon Management presents: A Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Apr 2019
Ebdon Management presents a tremendous selection of up and coming talent for your delectation.
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.
Three Sisters
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 18th Apr, 2019
An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida.
Post Mortem
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 21st Apr, 2019
It’s not just a dead body that can be the subject of a post mortem.
Market Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 25th Apr, 2019
A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy.
Carter School of Dance Presents A Great Dance Show 2
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 13th Apr 2019
Tickets: £13.
After The Dance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Bridewell Theatre
- 11th Apr, 2019
Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down.
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…
The Trials Of Oscar Wilde
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2019
Court rooms can often make for high drama, but unfortunately in this case the transcript of ‘the trial of the century, proves to be less than gripping.
Tony’s Last Tape
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 6th Apr, 2019
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
Cry Havoc
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Park Theatre
- 5th Apr, 2019
There is plenty of barking in the street during Tom Coash’s Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre.
The Conductor
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 1st Apr, 2019
The tragedy of World War II is remembered in many ways, but The Conductor, at The Space, takes a highly focussed look at just one small event in Russia’s window on the west in 19…
Othello
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
- 26th Mar, 2019
There are times when a production comes along that is a powerful reminder of the beauty and eloquence of Shakespeare’s writing, his clarity of exposition and ingenuity of plot, e…
Hair
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- New Wimbledon Theatre
- 1st Apr, 2019
We might still be in the age of Aquarius, or we may not yet have entered it, depending on whose calculations you prefer, but it is now over fifty years since Hair opened on Broadwa…
Fiddler on the Roof
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Playhouse Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2019
Welcome to Anatevka! The Playhouse Theatre has been transformed to create this ‘dear little village’ for Trevor Nunn’s penetrating production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Queer Trilogy: A Sticky Season, Minor Disruptions and Crystal Bollix Presents The Bitch Ball
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Drayton Arms Theatre
- 19th - 23rd Mar 2019
Three explosive new shows by three exciting new companies, all wrapped into one evening for your entertainment! A Sticky Season explores sticky queer histories through a languag…
Mark Thomas Presents: The Museum of Stolen Things
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th Mar 2019
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop museum of the nicked.
Othello
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 22nd Mar, 2019
The need for ‘a willing suspension of disbelief’ traditionally associated with an appreciation of Shakespeare’s Othello reaches a new level necessity in director Phil Willmot…
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.
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Alexandra Palace
- 20th Mar, 2019
The palatial ceiling aloft the shattered plaster and exposed brick walls of the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre are aptly suited to Headlong’s powerful production of Shak…
Ware Operatic presents My Fair Lady
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 5th - 9th Mar 2019
Tickets:£15, £13 concessions on Tuesday night£17, £15 concessions on Wednesday night£18, £16 concessions on Thursday night &…
ELIO PACE presents ELVIS PRESLEY
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 3rd Mar 2019
ELIO PACE Presents ELVIS PRESLEY On August 16th, 2017, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of…
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- GUILD HALL / Stamford Arts Centre / The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
- 18th Mar, 2019
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
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.
Cosi Fan Tutte
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 25th Feb 2019 - 10th Jul 2024
Thomas Allen and five young operatic talents star in Mozart's theatrical and tuneful comedy about love and fidelity.
Grand Stretch in the Afternoon
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 17th Feb 2019
A SLICE OF LIFE.
LOL (Ladies Of Laughter) Noreen Khan
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 16th Feb 2019
LOL (Ladies Of Laughter) with Noreen Khan comes to Watermans Arts Centre Brentford! Join Noreen Khan (BBC Asian Network) as she hosts a night of comedy with some of the …
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…
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…
To She Or Not To She
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 12th Feb, 2019
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" That is probably not most women’s favourite line from Shakespeare and could not be further from the truth when applied to Emma Bentley.
The Story's End
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 12th Feb, 2019
I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself…
Blasphemy
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 12th Feb, 2019
In the sad world of factory farming the horrors of animals trapped in cages for the duration of their painful lives is well-documented and visually familiar.
DNA
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 11th Feb, 2019
Just because you’ve committed a crime doesn’t mean you have to be caught; at least, not if you can devise a clever cover-up.
The Tempest
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 11th Feb, 2019
The are more "sounds" than "sweet airs" in Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest at the Greenwich Theatre and while some elements of the perform…
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 4th Feb - 1st Apr 2019
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
NT ENCORE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 29th Jan 2019
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
The Orchestra
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 1st Feb, 2019
The programme notes aptly describe The Orchestra at the Omnibus Theatre, which might be regarded as one of Jean Anouilh’s more incidental pieces.
Carter School of Dance presents A Great Big Dance Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 27th Jan 2019
Tickets: £13.
Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019
- Listing Puppetry
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 26th Jan 2019
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
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.
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.
Will Seaward presents: The Exotic Adventure of Michael the Christmas Pudding
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Dec 2018
Booming surrealist storytelling comedian Will Seaward (“part Brian Blessed, part Oscar Wilde” - the Telegraph, “genuinely, terrifyingly chari…
Al Murray Presents the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 11th - 23rd Dec 2018
♫On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, some dodgy meat off the back of a lorr-ry♫ The nation’s favourite publican, Al Murray – The …
Douglas Walker presents: Of Christmas Past
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th Dec 2018
Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but there is a sinister secret wrapped in the stories we tell.
Mother Goose Presents…
- Listing
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 26th Nov 2018
“Mother Goose Presents….
Olaf Falafel presents There’s no i in idiot
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Nov 2018
Critically acclaimed idiot Olaf Falafel presents his award winning Edinburgh show.
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…
COMEDY P.M PRESENTS: A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doc Away: Celebrating The NHS at 70 Years of Age
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 21st Nov 2018
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
Summer and Smoke
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Duke of Yorks Theatre
- 24th Nov, 2018
The Almeida Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, boldly and sensitively directed by Rebecca Frecknall, is now playing at the Duke of Y…
Love-Lies-Bleeding
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- PRINT ROOM at THE CORONET
- 19th Nov, 2018
A family on the verge of a momentous decision forms the focus of Don DeLillo’s Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet in a stark production by director Jack McNamara…
The Recruiting Officer
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Old Red Lion Theatre Pub
- 15th Nov, 2018
In her article for the British Library on Restorations Comedy Diane Maybankobserves that “little can be gained from removing the plays from their historical settings”.
Indebted To Chance.
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Old Red Lion Theatre Pub
- 12th Nov, 2018
Actor/scriptwriter Charlie Ryall leads an entertaining troupe of actors from Mercurius Theatre Company in her play Indebted to Chance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
Haunting Julia
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 5th Nov, 2018
After Alan Ayckbourn had seen The Woman in Black and the film The Haunting he was inspired to depart from his usual comedic tales of middle class life and try his hand at a ghost s…
BRASS, an Award-winning Musical by Benjamin Till
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 8th Nov, 2018
Brass, Benjamin Till’s winner of the ‘Best Musical’ in the 2014 UK Theatre Awards, fills the stage at the Union Theatre, Southwark, in its professional London première.
Dealing with Clair
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 31st Oct, 2018
The Orange Tree Theatre in a co-production with English Touring Theatre could hardly have expected that renewed police investigations into the mysterious disappearance of estate ag…
The Giant Killers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 1st Nov, 2018
Darwen is probably not the most well-known town in England, but it holds a very special place in the history of football.
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…
ear for eye
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
- 5th Nov, 2018
There are several peaks and notable features in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye that rise above the lengthy exposition of her themes that otherwise dominate this new work.
LOVE
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 28th Oct, 2018
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has reconfigured it’s stage and auditorium to house writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s production of Love.
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…
The Wild Duck
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 25th Oct, 2018
A brightly lit auditorium and bare stage, with its exposed brick walls, look all set for a rehearsal.
The Paradise Circus
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar
- 16th Oct, 2018
A little-known theatre hosts a lesser-known play and the result is a theatrical triumph.
Parents’ Evening
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 10th Oct, 2018
The Rebels’ Season continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre with Bathsheba Doran’s Parents’ Evening.
To Have To Shoot Irishmen
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 8th Oct, 2018
To Have To Shoot Irishmen opens the Irish Theatre Season at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham.
Quietly
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 15th Oct, 2018
Quietly is set in a pub in Belfast.
ONCE
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Queen’s Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2018
“It’s only people up there with guitars and other instruments telling and singing their way through an everyday love story.
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 …
West End Magic Presents... Oliver Tabor
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 29th Sep - 24th Nov 2018
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Little Fools
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 26th Sep, 2018
The autumn/winter season at the Space on the Isle of Dogs got off to a punchy start this week with Little Fools.
Kids Play
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 24th Sep, 2018
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews.
No Help Sent
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 23rd Sep, 2018
Gordon Brown once observed how Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a National Health Service was unimaginable in its day, yet it has withstood the test of time.
Revelation 1:18
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 23rd Sep, 2018
"I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!" Although never spoken in Revelation 1:18 these words from the last book in the bible capture the aspirational i…
Wine
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 24th Sep, 2018
Wine makes a return to the Tristan Bates Theatre following its successful run earlier in the year.
The Outsider (L’Étranger)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- PRINT ROOM at THE CORONET
- 20th Sep, 2018
Albert Camus’ The Outsider (L’Étranger), is starkly brought to the stage in an adaptation by Ben Okri, Winner of the Man Booker Prize, commissioned by The Print Room at The C…
Losing Venice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Orange Tree Theatre
- 13th Sep, 2018
Shakespeare created ‘the vastly fields of France’ in a cramped ‘cockpit’ and crammed within his ‘wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt’ all c…
Prairie Flower
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 19th Sep, 2018
Perhaps as a five-part radio serial Prairie Flower might provide some particular interest to crime enthusiasts, but as a two-hour monologue in the Upstairs at the Gatehouse, even w…
Abi
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Queen’s Theatre
- 8th Sep, 2018
Despite its title, we know very little of what actually happened at Abigail’s party.
Sh*t-Faced Showtime Presents: Oliver with a Twist!
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th - 9th Sep 2018
From the professional pissheads behind the international hit show Shit-faced Shakespeare comes an all new cockney knees-up musical extravaganza.
About Leo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 18th Sep, 2018
About Leo is the first offering in The Rebels Season at Jermyn Street Theatre; an autumn programme that focuses on ‘people who dared to be different’.
Abigail's Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Queen’s Theatre
- 8th Sep, 2018
It’s a mark of how well a play is rooted in a particular era that the mere mention of Estée Lauder’s Youth Dew perfume can send ripples of mirth throughout the auditorium to a…
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 26th Aug 2018
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Richard Rodgers – A Song in My Heart
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug 2018
Appearing for the 28th successive year in the magnificent setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Fife vocal concert group Ensemble (www.
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…
Secret Cinema presents William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Secret Location
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
At Secret Cinema, we take the essence of the film and build a living, breathing world that you can be a part of.
Amnesty International UK and the Guilty Feminist Presents The Secret Policeman's Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
The Guilty Feminist joins forces with Amnesty International UK to bring The Secret Policeman back to life for 2018! Following the magnificent Secret Policeman’s tradition of presen…
Creative Project: An Afternoon With Wendy and Friends – Road to Meikle Seggie
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greyfriars Kirk
- 24th Aug 2018
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk.
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…
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…
In Your Own Sweet Way
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 25th Aug, 2018
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
Afternoon Organ Recital in Stockbridge With Marion Lees McPherson
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 20th Aug 2018
Marion Lees McPherson will spend an afternoon in Stockbridge Church with her annual organ recital of music by Bach, Schumann and Brahms.
Andy Gunn Presents: From T-Bone to Trucks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Fronted by Scottish guitar virtuoso Andy Gunn, From T-Bone to Trucks will take you on a journey through the decades, showcasing the most loved and respected exponents of the blues.
Richard Plays Richard Rogers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 20th - 22nd Aug 2018
Celebrated pianist, composer and broadcaster Richard Michael BEM pays homage to the song-writing talents of another Richard in a programme of his best known tunes – song-writing …
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.
Dragtime Presents: Things Live!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Things Live! A variety cabaret of Dragtime’s most unusual and magical drag performances yet.
Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Upstairs at the Gatehouse
- 20th - 24th Aug 2018
Old bones ache before a storm.
Austentatious presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 20th Aug 2018
For one night only, the award-winning cast of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches in aid of Waverley Care.
Consort of Voices Presents
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canongate Kirk
- 18th Aug 2018
Consort of Voices return to the historic Canongate Kirk in what will be our tenth year of Fringe performances.
An Afternoon of Delights
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 18th Aug 2018
Sell-out shows at the Fringe in 2016 and 2017! Voci Voices are four classically trained singers who offer an afternoon of songs from opera, operetta, musicals, jazz, swing and ever…
In Conversation With... Richard Leonard
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 18th Aug 2018
A proud socialist and trade unionist, elected Scottish Labour Party leader in 2017 on a radical programme of change.
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…
Cezary Goes to War
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 18th Aug, 2018
The Regional Medical Draft Board has strict guidelines for the classification of recruits and their suitability for deployment.
JazzMain Presents: The Argyle Jazz Summit
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar
- 16th - 24th Aug 2018
JazzMain honours the true pioneers of 50s and 60s American West Coast jazz, when The Blue Note record label was home to iconic talent such as Horace Silver and Dexter Gordon blazin…
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…
Goodbye Rosetta
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 17th Aug, 2018
Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
Audible Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th - 25th Aug 2018
Audible hosts two weeks of completely free live comedy shows, showcasing the finest acts the festival has to offer, all being recorded for audio series Audible Presents.
Blue Rose Code Presents: This Is Caledonian Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 14th Aug 2018
What is Caledonian Soul? Ross Wilson (aka Blue Rose Code) will attempt to answer this question with the help of a 14-piece band and some well-known musical friends.
Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th - 27th Aug 2018
Join former 80s pop star turned vicar and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles – co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and BBC One’s The Big Painting Challenge, star of Strictly C…
HMS Pinafore
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 15th Aug, 2018
The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore.
Kids Play
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 15th Aug, 2018
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
The Ladies Loo Chronicles
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall / theSpace on North Bridge
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
Sick, sex and secrets.
Two by Jim Cartwright (Clueless Presents)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
Whether you’re after a relaxing lager or fancy a reminiscent Babycham, The White Oak is the pub for you.
Picasso's Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Fruitmarket Gallery
- 26th Aug, 2018
Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured.
Reigen
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St / theSpace @ Venue45
- 15th Aug, 2018
Some plays lend themselves to radical reinterpretations and stagings while others need handling with more care.
Waiting for Ofsted
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 15th Aug, 2018
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
Fan Girl
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th - 25th Aug 2018
Geraldine is a lonely young secretary living with her invalid and overbearing mother.
Steve Richards Presents Rock'n'Roll Politics 2018
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 13th - 25th Aug 2018
In a different show every day the audience has the chance to seize back control of Rock’n’Roll Politics as broadcaster and author Steve Richards conducts a tour of the latest seism…
Afternoon Organ Recital in Stockbridge With Nancy Crook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 12th Aug 2018
Nancy Crook will be returning to the Fringe with her annual afternoon organ recital of music by Bach, de Grigny and Jackson at Stockbridge Church.
Forget Me Nots
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2018
Forget Me Nots is a new piece of ‘queer theatre’ from Rokkur Friggjar, a collective of theatre makers based in Iceland and the UK, who are contributors to this year’s Army@Su…
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.
Shell Shock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2018
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
NEHH Presents... The Kevin Rowland DJ Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th Aug 2018
Kevin Rowland – Style icon and leader of the band Dexys (formerly Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is renowned for his vast wealth of musical knowledge and a highly charged eclecticism, …
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…
The Troth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2018
Based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri’s iconic Hindi short story Usne Kaha Tha, The Troth is about one soldier, Sardar Lehna Singh, and the sacrifice he makes to keep his secret pro…
Annette Gregory Presents Ladies of Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Charteris
- 10th - 11th Aug 2018
It’s her singing and their playing that helps to bring it alive for audiences.
InValid Voices
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2018
When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C…
Richard Walker: Sings Adequately, Mediocre Magic and Passably Humorous - The Show!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar
- 10th - 11th Aug 2018
Mediocre magic.
Blueswater Presents: Logan's Close
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 9th - 24th Aug 2018
Logan’s Close are an Edinburgh based four-piece, performing original music with strong influence from 60s rhythm and blues.
NEHH Presents... Start to End – Solid Air by John Martyn
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 9th Aug 2018
Start to End return with a live band interpretation of John Martyn’s classic fourth solo studio album Solid Air, following a sold-out appearance at Celtic Connections 2018.
The Gin Chronicles in New York
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 13th Aug, 2018
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
The Dame
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Dome
- 20th Aug, 2018
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
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…
Blueswater Presents: Bala Baile
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 14th Aug 2018
Bala Baile is an Edinburgh-based Latin trio.
Blueswater Presents: Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 24th Aug 2018
The Blueswater is an award-winning Edinburgh band.
Black Ivy Sunday Afternoon Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Ivy
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
A weekly celebration that will have your toes tapping as you enjoy live jazz music at Black Ivy every Sunday afternoon. See www.weareblackivy.com for more information.
Bucket Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 17th Aug, 2018
Bucket Men takes place in a small basement studio at C Royale where two men coincidentally have jobs in a small basement of a faceless government building.
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.
The Rat Pack Presents: International Stars of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire / Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Fringe hit! A different daily bill of global stand-up comedy stars.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
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.
You Are Frogs
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 18th Aug, 2018
If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs.
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.
Professor Novak Presents: Cabinet – A Victorian Séance
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Tolbooth Market
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Past secrets remain hidden, not by the sinister or well-meant, but from fear.
Man Down
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 18th Aug, 2018
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
Bristol Improv Presents Story Slam
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
It’s Story Slam time! Bristol Improv’s brand new show uses your ideas and experiences as the basis for its improvised stories.
Blueswater Presents: Smitten
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2018
Smitten are a minimalist, smoky, pop three-piece.
Princes Street Gardens Piano Afternoon Tea
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Experience authentic light jazz by our in-house pianist, while also enjoying the Scottish Cafe’s award-winning afternoon tea.
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.
Bite-Size Plays Presents: Neverwant
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 4th - 27th Aug 2018
Neverwant: the algorithm of life.
Afternoon Concerts at 3.30
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Michael and All Saints
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Performers: Theresa Burton (recorder), Aisling Kenny (soprano), Ursula Schlapp (viola da gamba), Katie Johnston (cello), Ailsa Aitkenhead (piano), Annemarie Klein (recorder), Dorie…
Red and Boiling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 18th Aug, 2018
Red and Boiling is an entertaining cabaret-style show with some serious undertones.
Strings for Kids: Misha's Gang Presents
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2018
Misha Rachlevsky and Russia’s finest string players engage, educate and entertain youngsters of all ages in a musical journey full of fun, interaction and surprises.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
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.
Gloria Hole Presents: The Clinic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Got a burning problem? Got an itching question? Time to visit the clinic.
The OS Map Fan Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show in 2017.
My Name Is Dorothy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 9th Aug, 2018
The first point to make clear is that My Name is Dorothy has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz.
Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
After exploding all over last year’s Fringe, the doyenne of erotic fiction, Pamela DeMenthe, returns with her seminal scorcher, Sticky Digits: an interactive masterclass in salacio…
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.
Ladies of Pleasure Tour
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- City of Edinburgh Tours
- 3rd - 31st Aug 2018
In the 18th century the Royal Mile had 117 brothels! This tour is led by a lady of the night (a guide, not a lady of negotiable virtues).
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.
Richard Pulsford: Uns-Pun
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Virgin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th Aug, 2018
Simon David bursts onto the stage in a bout of eccentricity that boldly asserts his dominance over the evening.
Blueswater Presents: Good Morning, Billie!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘There’s two kinds of blues, happy blues and then sad blues.
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.
Warwick Improv Presents: Anything You Want
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
Six actors.
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.
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…
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
A return visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their own brand of acoustic blues and roots music played on acoustic guitar and double bass w…
Shackleton's Stowaway
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 8th Aug, 2018
Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway.
Blueswater Presents: The Roots of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Join Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, on a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired each other.
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 9th Aug, 2018
A young man waited outside the Greenside Royal Terrace Venue for Éowyn Emerald & Dancers to appear after their performance.
Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 12th Aug, 2018
Curious Pheasant Theatre reinvents the Bard’s most famous tale of ‘star-cross’d’ lovers in a bare-bones, twisted production that will have purists running for shelter and a…
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
One hundred years of blues, 60 minutes to play it.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
‘Funny.
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.
FunnyHappyStuff.co.uk Presents String Theory
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
FunnyHappyStuff.
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.
Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Coffee House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself.
Afternoon Delight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
Sample show of different shows from within our 15 spaces, and maybe some guests.
Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Spiffing Personnages
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
Ray Fordyce is back again to host a delightful afternoon of comedy and entertainment to brighten any Fringe day.
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.
KEITH. Presents KEVIN.
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Place
- 2nd - 19th Aug 2018
‘Unbeatable comedic timing’ ***** (DurhamStudentTheatre.
Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Ursine stand-up Richard Hanrahan finally gets his act together, or at least tries to.
To Have Done With the Judgement of God
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 12th Aug, 2018
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
Charlie Baker Presents: The Greatest Goat of All Time
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Dog Ate My Homework, Doctor Who) and…
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.
Adele Cliff: Sheep
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Popular nerd Adele Cliff presents her gag-packed debut hour, all about individuality, searching for friends, following, fitting in and actual sheep.
Richard Wright: Virgin
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Richard Wright is a virgin.
Circus Sonas Presents: Dirty Tattooed Circus Bastards
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Circus Sonas presents: Dirty Tattooed Circus Bastards. Cirque Du Soleil meets Motorhead. A circus show for adults. This show is probably not for you..
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.
The St Andrews Revue Presents: Bears!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
The St Andrews Revue are back for their eighth Edinburgh Fringe! This year they’re on the run from the law, and their ‘extremely funny’ (BroadwayBaby.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
The 10-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an epic new show for just about everyone.
Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
One man.
Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- City of Edinburgh Tours
- 1st - 31st Aug 2018
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around historic closes and wynds, then take a visit down into our underground vaults.
Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Richard is Britain’s leading blind theoretical physicist turned stand-up comedian with a Blue Peter badge… well, definitely in the top three.
The Man Presents: Women
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
What happens to the women that men can’t write? In this showcase of strong female characters, a group of Cambridge’s finest lady and non-binary comics will endeavour to find out.
Rik Carranza: Still a Fan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2018
Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan.
Dad's Army Afternoon Tea Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance at EICC
- 1st - 18th Aug 2018
Two actors play 25 characters in this Edinburgh and London hit transplanted to a specially created 1940s-style venue unique to this show, celebrating the 50th birthday of Croft and…
Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
An artist draws the same image repeatedly with indomitable zeal.
Egg: Richard Pictures
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Brand-new sketch show from stars of award-winning Fringe favourites BattleActs (BBC Radio 1).
Douglas Walker Presents: Of Christmas Past
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but there’s a sinister secret wrapped in the stories we tell.
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.
Rik Carranza presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
The hit show of 2016 and 2017 returns! The ultimate comedy panel show that boldly goes to a galaxy far far away.
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.
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.
Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Scratch
- Listing Theatre
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 29th Jul 2018
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Blink by Phil Porter
- Listing Theatre
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 28th Jul 2018
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
Coquette Presents… MOULIN OUSE
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 28th Jul 2018
York’s answer to the Moulin Rouge! After sell out performances at previous Great Yorkshire Fringe festivals, Coquette will be celebrating our 10th birthday with a brand new…
Physics Fan Fiction
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 27th Jul 2018
Stand-up comedy about theoretical physics.
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…
Hymn to Love
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 28th Jul, 2018
“I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song.
Iolanthe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 25th Jul, 2018
Prime Minister Clement Attlee once observed that ‘the House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days’.
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…
The Arts Barge Presents... The Great Yorkshire Swing!
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 23rd Jul 2018
Celebrating collaboration, a sensational vintage night of swing music and dance - Rinkadon Jukeboy and his Blind Tiger Dance Band, the hottest sounds this side of the Pe…
ELIO PACE presents ELVIS PRESLEY
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 22nd Jul 2018
Any Elvis Presley fan will tell you that August 16th, back in 1977, was the day the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ died at only 42 years of age.
Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Belvoir Castle)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Belvoir Castle
- 22nd Jul 2018
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
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.
Annette Gregory Presents - ‘Ladies Of Jazz’
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 20th Jul 2018
Following on from her successful ‘Ella’ tour, Annette will captivate you with The Ladies Of Jazz.
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…
Fred and Ginger
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- A.E Harris
- 23rd Jul, 2018
Love is a many-splendored thing, or so the soundtrack maintains as it heralds a fifty-minute romp through teenage troubles, acting aspirations and romantic realities.
The Final Journey of Edward Wilson
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Blue Orange Theatre
- 24th Jul, 2018
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
Adele Cliff : Sheep
- Review
- ★★★
- Louise Jones
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 23rd Jul, 2018
Adele Cliff is no mindless follower, a point she’s very keen to address.
Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Stansted Park)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Stansted Park
- 18th Jul 2018
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The Nursery Theatre presents... Saturday Night Improv
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 21st Apr - 21st Jul 2018
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Ragley Hall)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Ragley Hall
- 12th Jul 2018
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Barry Humphries Weimar Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- London Palladium / The Barbican
- 14th Jul, 2018
Ernst Krenek, Erich Korngold, Frank Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff and Mischa Spoliansky were not household names in the late 1940s when a young Barry Humphries in Melbourne, Australia …
Earthquakes in London
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Bridewell Theatre
- 11th Jul, 2018
In a lengthy whirlwind of staccato scenes with lento, adagio and presto interludes, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London combines political intrigue, corporate corruption, perso…
Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Englefield Estate)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Englefield Estate
- 8th Jul 2018
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Euston Park)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Euston Hall
- 6th Jul 2018
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The Nursery Theatre presents... Friday Night Improv
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 4th May - 20th Jul 2018
Standup and improv comedy unite in one explosively funny night! Join us as a group of experienced improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) story in three acts based on the …
Knights of the Rose
- Review
- ★
- Richard Beck
- West End
- Arts Theatre
- 6th Jul, 2018
"Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon" (II Samuel 1:20) is a line that does not appear in Knights of the Rose.
The Play About My Dad
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Jermyn Street Theatre
- 30th Jun, 2018
According to its author, Loo Killebrew, The Play About My Dad “should feel quick-moving, and hopefully have a rhythm that is similar to the rhythm of a storm.
West End Magic Presents... Wayne Trice
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Jun - 27th Oct 2018
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Richard Wright: Literally A Virgin
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Jun 2018
Richard Wright is a 35 year old, obese, balding, geeky, adult virgin who still lives at home with his parents.
Two by Jim Cartwright
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Drayton Arms Theatre
- 12th Jun, 2018
Clueless Theatre makes a remarkable company debut with a production of Jim Cartwright’s Two.
Adele Cliff : Sheep WIP
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 9th Jun 2018
Adele Cliff, Funny Women Regional Finalist 2018, Dave's Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2017 & 2016, Huffington Post's Ten Must See New Acts 2016.
The End of History
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- St Giles-in-the-Fields
- 10th Jun, 2018
The End of History is billed as “a moving and funny site-responsive play with music which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two radically differe…
artrepublic Presents: Art Yard Sale
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Square
- 3rd Jun 2018
Back for 2018! Another fantastic day out for art lovers everywhere.
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…
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.
West End Magic Presents... Oliver Meech
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th May - 21st Jul 2018
A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
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.
Tribal Remix Presents: Migrations
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 25th May 2018
A belly dance showcase presenting incredible talent from around the world.
Clueless Theatre Presents: Two by Jim Cartwright
- Review
- ★★★★
- Eleanor Hart
- Brighton Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 28th May, 2018
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
Spilt Milk Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Burrow
- 21st - 23rd May 2018
Spilt Milk are back in Brighton and they’re milkier than ever! After a great run at Brighton Fringe 2017 they are returning to Brighton to spread the love and calcium.
BRICTT Presents: UNEXPECTED ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA
- Review
- ★★★★
- Karen Dobres
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 23rd May, 2018
What if Frankenstein’s monster were transported to our modern-day technological world and treated with the same fear and disgust he encountered in the original story? Not so hard…
Pussy Liquor presents Disco Pussy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Annabel Pribelszki
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 23rd May, 2018
For queers and their allies who like their cabaret feminist, political, patriarchy-smashing, sex positive, riot grrl and kick ass, Pussy Liquor is most definitely the night for you…
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.
The Story Beast & Richard Soames
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 18th - 20th May 2018
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer award-nominated ‘Story Beast’, “a bearded force of nature” (The Guardian) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), …
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.
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.
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 …
Edana Minghella Quartet presents: From Ella to Elvis
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 12th - 13th May 2018
Following last year’s sell-out performances, vocalist Edana Minghella returns with ‘From Ella to Elvis’: gorgeous songs of love and longing from jazz standards to contemporary clas…
Ladies Marmalade
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 11th - 15th May 2018
Ladies Marmalade is a reminder that comedy is more than what you see on TV.
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.
Physics Fan Fiction
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 10th - 12th May 2018
Theoretical physicist Dr Fran Day takes a break from studying particles that probably don’t exist to take to the stage in a stand-up science comedy spectacular.
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…
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…
Woyzeck
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 11th May, 2018
Having spent three months eating only peas, it comes as no surprise that the eponymous central character in Woyzeck appears in a state of both physical frailty and mental instabili…
Richard Todd: Toddymandias, Todd of Todds
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs / Sweet @ The Welly
- 6th - 24th May 2018
A living statue watches as a vandal tags her.
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.
Rope
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 12th May, 2018
Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch receives one scant mention towards the end of Patrick Hamilton's Rope, yet it is the driving force that underpins the play.
Bite-Size Plays presents: Neverwant
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 5th - 7th May 2018
Neverwant.
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.
Richard Stainbank: The Wilderness Years
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 13th May 2018
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
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.
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.
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.
Boisterous presents Bouncers
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 30th Apr - 12th May 2018
John Godber’s Bouncers in a new version by Maurice Bessman Boisterous tear up the stage in a revamped production of the John Godber award- winning classic about a…
West End Magic Presents…
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Apr 2018
West End Magic presents:A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
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…
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 4th Jul, 2018
“I come from a time and country where I was treated like a wrong hushed up.
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…
More Heat Than Light
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The London Theatre
- 9th Apr, 2018
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
The Banana Bunch presents: Bananas on the Run – An Improvised Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 29th Mar - 31st May 2018
Come and join The Banana Bunch – Bex Darmody, Annalea Doyle and Emma Stroud as three bananas on the run from the boring, mundane and downright crazy world we live …
Will
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Rose Playhouse
- 1st Apr, 2018
The happy band of players that performs Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare’s Life is reminiscent of the troupes that wandered the country when the Bard was ali…
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 26th Mar - 19th Nov 2018
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
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.
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.
Richard Alston Dance Company - Mid Century Modern
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells
- 23rd - 24th Mar 2018
Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat…
Gravity Boots presents: Oh Yeah TV Live!
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 11th - 18th Mar 2018
Get yourself ready Australia, America’s favourite daytime TV show is coming down under! That’s right Sharon Van de Meer (two years probation DUI) and Shaleese Wildcat (People�…
Gary Little: Scottish Club Classics
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Two time Scottish Comedy Award winner.
AN AFTERNOON OF WINE, WOMAN AND SONG
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Sinclair’s Gully Winery
- 12th - 18th Mar 2018
A magical place, fabulous Adelaide Hills wine, and a very special performance under the candlebark gums.
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…
Jazz Ladies Uncorked
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- National Wine Centre
- 11th Mar 2018
Join highly acclaimed cabaret artist Kim Spargo and the Collected Musicians in the beautiful National Wine Centre to raise a glass to the Ladies of Jazz as we celebrate divas like …
Massaoke Club La La
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 9th - 17th Mar 2018
The Fringe’s No.
Murder City Roller Girls presents Summer Shovin'
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- The ARC Campbelltown
- 10th Mar 2018
Get your old-school 50s gear on and make like Greased Lightning to the ARC Campbelltown for some hard-hitting roller derby action! The T Birds will be taking on the Pink Ladies i…
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.
After Hours Cabaret Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
Welcome to the After Hours Cabaret Club.
Death Of A Ladies' Man - The Lustful Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Historian Hotel
- 25th Feb 2018
The bawdy, the dirty, and the downright horny - The Towers of Song are going to rock’n’roll their way through the lustful side of Leonard’s music.
Finger Bun presents "The Classic Rock Ashes"
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Norwood Hotel
- 24th Feb 2018
Finger Bun are back! Now and for the first time ever, Finger Bun will put the titans of rock from the UK and Oz head to head in a competition unlike any other.
Nathaniel presents ‘Let’s Get It On – The Songs of Marvin Gaye’
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- THE GC at The German Club
- 17th Feb 2018
On a spring day in 1939, The Prince of Soul, Marvin Gaye, was born to loving parents in Washington DC and became one of the elite few who shaped the sound of Motown in the 1960’s…
Lady Windermere's Fan
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Vaudeville Theatre
- 12th Jan - 7th Apr 2018
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order.
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (London)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 20th - 30th Dec 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Zeal Presents: DragProv
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 13th Dec 2017
An improvised drag extravaganza to raise money for Mermaids UK! Werking it onstage we have: Brent Would Christian Adore and Eaton Messe Sue Gives A F*ck Ariel Starbuck The Barebac…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum / Lyceum Theatre
- 11th Dec 2017 - 6th Dec 2020
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
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.
Bomb Happy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Goole Town Council
- 17th Nov, 2017
Bomb Happy is a verbatim victory.
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (Sheffield)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 15th - 19th Nov 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
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.
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (Birmingham)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- NIA Birmingham
- 18th - 29th Oct 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Cockpit
- 12th Oct - 4th Nov 2017
Critically acclaimed Front Foot Theatre presents Shakespeare’s most charismatic, tour de force villain, Richard III.
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (Manchester)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Manchester Arena
- 11th - 15th Oct 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
The Overcoat
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre / The Old Sorting Office Art Centre
- 7th Oct, 2017
Scandal and Gallows theatre company shines as a remarkably talented team in this production of The Overcoat by rising star scriptwriter George Johnston, who has imaginatively tra…
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (Newcastle)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Metro Radio Arena
- 3rd - 8th Oct 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Disney On Ice Presents Passport To Adventure (Glasgow)
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Glasgow
- Braehead Arena
- 22nd Sep - 1st Oct 2017
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
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.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
NEHH Presents: Xylouris White
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2017
Master of Cretan lute George Xylouris and Jim White (Dirty Three), a most innovative and charismatic drummer, are creating a musical duo.
Luke Rollason Presents Planet Earth III
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Monkey Barrel
- 27th Aug 2017
Planet Earth III is a low-budget, one-man nature documentary, set in a future where our worst predictions came true – following ecological collapse, thousands of endangered speci…
NEHH Presents: Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 25th - 26th Aug 2017
Up the dark, dark stairs, upon the bloody gallows of soft rock, through the oubliette of cheese, into the torture chamber of disco, you are welcomed to the Late Night Pop Dungeon.
NEHH Presents: Pictish Trail & Friends
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 24th Aug 2017
Svelt, intelligent, adorable balladeer trapped inside the body of an oversized, oft-bearded folk ogre.
Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Richard Carpenter is Close to You
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 23rd Aug 2017
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Wired
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 28th Aug, 2017
Wired is one of several productions with a military theme being performed at the Army Reserve Centre, Summerhall’s new venue, army@Fringe.
NEHH Presents: Julie Byrne
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 23rd Aug 2017
American wanderer Julie Byrne’s second album, Not Even Happiness, vividly archives what would have otherwise been lost to the road – bustling roadside diners, the stars over the …
When the Sky Falls In
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 29th Aug, 2017
When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick.
Certain Young Men
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 23rd Aug, 2017
Peter Gill”s Certain Young Men was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in 1999.
A Bridge by a Cliff
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus / Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 21st - 27th Aug 2017
According to Isaac Newton’s theory, colours don’t exist; they are instead reflections of substances, vulnerable to our own perception.
One for the Road...
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th Sep, 2017
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
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…
Consort of Voices Presents
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canongate Kirk
- 19th Aug 2017
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate for the ninth successive year, presenting another varied and eclectic programme of music, this year with an emphasis on Scandinavian compo…
Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th - 27th Aug 2017
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show that ‘defined comedy in 2016’ (**** Guardian) and earned a Total Theatre Award nomination for Innovation returns for 10 days only.
Austentatious Presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 17th Aug 2017
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care.
Richard Egarr
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 17th Aug 2017
Renowned keyboard player and conductor Richard Egarr is one of the UK’s most compelling musicians – and, as music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, also one of the coun…
NEHH Presents: Hinds & Support
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 16th Aug 2017
Since bursting onto the Madrid DIY scene, Hinds – Ana Perrote, Carlotta Cosials, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – have mastered a raw and playful sound all their own.
Mary, Queen of Scots
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 19th Aug, 2017
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
Hivemind Presents: An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 15th - 27th Aug 2017
By day, this city’s streets are bright and orderly, but by night, it is the playground of shysters and crooks, smugglers and thieves.
Afternoon T With Georgia Tasda
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CC Blooms
- 15th - 25th Aug 2017
Here she comes! London’s breakthrough comedy drag act arrives in Edinburgh with a brand-new show! Join Georgia Tasda for a brew as she spills the T.
Richard III (A One-Woman Show)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Melanie Erspamer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 18th Aug, 2017
It’s Shakespeare performed in a completely new way: a Shakespeare play condensed to the size of one woman, Emily Carding, and the way she deals with the audience.
Rob Thomas presents "Callback"
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Camden Comedy Club
- 14th - 17th Aug 2017
An hour of creative stand-up from this multiple award finalist (“Very strong payoffs” Chortle).
Blueswater Presents: Down the Rabbit Hole
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 14th - 26th Aug 2017
Cabaret diva Cat Loud is venturing down the rabbit hole on a spicy musical adventure, stumbling upon songstresses and local legends in a unique bluesy variety show.
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.
Semi-Toned: Stay Tuned
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 25th Aug, 2017
If the boys of Semi-Toned ever tire of a cappella they could always take up comedy.
Probably Still Drunk Collective Presents: Inebriated
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 13th - 26th Aug 2017
Join us as we spend an hour celebrating the brave, drunken, high, and sex-crazed pioneers that built our civilization one bad choice at a time and watch us as we stumble in their f…
The Rat Pack Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 13th - 27th Aug 2017
The best stand-ups and storytellers on the Fringe come together as The Rat Pack celebrates five sell-out years with a different line-up every day, plus occasional live music and ca…
NEHH Presents: Orkestra del Sol
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug 2017
2017 is their last year! Edinburgh’s favourite purveyors of sousaphone-fuelled brassy honkstep will be hanging up their horns at the end of this year.
The Sheffield Revue Presents: Comedy in a Basement
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 12th - 18th Aug 2017
Come one, come all – come join us, the University of Sheffield’s comedy society, in this wonderful Basement Bar at 48 Below, as we dazzle you with our sketch comedians and stan…
The Nick Ross Orchestra Presents: Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 12th Aug 2017
The Nick Ross Orchestra presents Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era.
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.
Afternoon Organ Recitals in Stockbridge
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 11th - 25th Aug 2017
Two afternoon organ recitals in Stockbridge, one featuring Nancy Crook and one featuring Marion Lees McPherson.
Beyond Enigma – Judith Gardner Jones Sings Elgar, With Pianist Richard J Lewis
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 10th Aug 2017
Elgar songs for solo and trio featuring Judith Gardner Jones and pianist Richard J Lewis, with Madeleine Trépanier, and Alicia Pettit.
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.
Blueswater Presents: Smitten
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 10th - 17th Aug 2017
Smitten are a minimalist smoky pop trio.
Camden Fringe Presents - Huw Joseph and Bandini + Guest
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Proud Camden
- 10th Aug 2017
For one night only Proud Camden is hosting a night of music and comedy with an all killer no filler line up: Australian comedy rock artist Huw Joseph, the incredible talent of quir…
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.
Luke Rollason Presents Planet Earth III
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Monkey Barrel
- 9th - 15th Aug 2017
Planet Earth III is a low-budget, one-man nature documentary, set in a future where our worst predictions came true – following ecological collapse, thousands of endangered speci…
NEHH Presents: Lemon Bucket Orkestra & Ben Caplan
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug 2017
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is Canada’s only balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk super-band.
Blueswater Presents: Bala Baile
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 28th Aug 2017
Bala Baile is an Edinburgh-based Latin quartet.
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 28th Aug 2017
New show for this year at the award winning Jazz Bar from Scottish duo Colorblind Slim.
Blueswater Presents: Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 25th Aug 2017
The Blueswater is the band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high-energy late night gigs at one of Scotland’s best small music venues, The Jazz Bar.
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.
Hivemind Presents: Playlight Robbery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Daisy McConnel
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 17th Aug, 2017
Choosing a title from the loose flyers offered up by audience members, Hivemind’s quintet compose two improvised half-an-hour jaunts.
Gunshot Medley
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 13th Aug, 2017
“Black lives matter!” Hold it there and let that well-known refrain ring in your head, along with the image it conjures up in your mind.
About a Goth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2017
Life as a Goth is not easy.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
‘Boogie-woogie.
Autopsy. The Soul of Richard Nixon
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Natural Food Kafe
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
The soul of Richard Nixon attempts to justify his actions while the audience act as the jury.
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.
Richard Brown: Hold Tightly to the Walls
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Globe Bar
- 23rd Aug, 2017
For some Fringe performers, their tech gremlins are the cute ones from the movie franchise.
Dommy B Presents...
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hispaniola
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
Award-winning, high-energy storyteller Dommy B returns for his fourth consecutive Fringe with magical tales of monsters and mayhem! ‘Really very inspiring.
The Warwick Review presents: Night Shift
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Black Market Room 2
- 5th - 15th Aug 2017
The Warwick Revue are back with a brand new show that’s nothing like you’ve ever seen before.
Audible Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Audible presents four weekends of completely free live comedy shows, showcasing the finest acts the festival has to offer, all being recorded for a new Audible stand-up series.
Supper Club at Checkpoint
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
The glitz, the glamour, the good times.
Gary Dunn Presents Monkey Magic
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 10th Aug 2017
Gary Dunn is back! Monkey Magic, is his second show at the Edinburgh Fringe and it’s bigger, badder, and even more bananas than the first! With his trusty sidekick Chico the Monk…
Moulin Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 4th - 19th Aug 2017
The Bluebelles return to take Edinburgh for the third year running! Following sold-out performances and 5-star reviews, this year expect a night of vintage cabaret, as you are whis…
Lord Dismiss Us
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 8th Aug, 2017
Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro…
Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams' Ivan's Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 8th Aug, 2017
For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin…
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…
Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 4th - 25th Aug 2017
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and multi award-winning ‘Podfather’ (Elle) returns with the internet chat show, that all the cool kids who hang around the Omni Centre call RHEFP (RH…
Fox and Hound Presents 1 in 2 Chance
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 13th Aug, 2017
As her lead character, Helen Fox explains that one out of every two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford has his choice Phrases Ready, with wordplay, jokes and puns aplenty.
BBC: Steve Wright in the Afternoon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 4th Aug 2017
Steve Wright broadcasts live on Radio 2 from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue on the opening day of the Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Candy Gigi Presents: Becky Rimmer's Bat Mitzvah!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Becky Rimmer, along with her father and mother, Mervyn and Gaye Rimmer, invite you to join them in the celebration of Becky’s Bat Mitzvah! Gaye asks that any young boys coming to t…
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.
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…
Blueswater Presents: Cat Loud
- Review
- ★★★
- Caitlin Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 9th Aug, 2017
Light your cigarette, put on your evening clothes and grab a cocktail to enjoy Cat Loud, a sexy cabaret performance that will thrill.
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 …
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Led by superb vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unr…
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.
Blueswater Presents: The Roots of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired eac…
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
One hundred years of blues, one hour to play it.
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.
Afternoon Delight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2017
Family-friendly sample show of different shows within the venue’s 14 performance spaces.
Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
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.
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.
Bleach
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 4th Aug, 2017
There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well.
Rik Carranza: I'm a Fan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
How far would you go to fit in? What happens when you deny the very thing that defines you? In this deeply personal show, Rik Carranza revisits a past that forced him to choose bet…
The Rat Pack Presents...
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Clark
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 7th Aug, 2017
If the illustrious names that have performed as part of The Rat Pack Presents is a guide, then it is worth heading along to the Cabaret Voltaire during this year’s festival.
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.
Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Vic St Coffee Co
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
Richard Todd: Monsters
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Like a piece of forgotten sellotape stuck on a wall, neurotic ditherer Richard Todd clings to nothing but his place on the earth; may his grip hold for an hour of art therapy, inne…
Afternoon Concerts at 3.30
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Michael and All Saints
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Performers: Roxburgh Quartet, Hans Gál Trio (Emma Donald, Katie Johnston, Ailsa Aitkenhead), Squair Mile Consort of Viols, Duo da Chiesa (Andrea Kuypers, Philip Sawyer), Turadh (E…
Rik Carranza Presents: Star Trek vs Star Wars
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Returning to Edinburgh after a sell-out run at the Fringe 2016, prepare yourself for the ultimate showdown.
Funny Cluckers – Afternoon Show – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
One of the least thought out shows on the Fringe, possibly featuring: alternative facts corner, fake news correspondents, pest of the fest and live guests.
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.
The Goddess League Presents the Lady: Divine Feminine With Claire Milne
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whitespace 76
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Changes in representation of the sacred feminine over centuries affect our relationships, body image and environment today.
Afternoon T With Georgia Tasda
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise Palms
- 3rd - 16th Aug 2017
Here she comes! London’s breakthrough comedy drag act arrives in Edinburgh with a brand-new show! Join Georgia Tasda for a brew as she spills the T.
Olaf Falafel Presents: The Marmosets of My Mind
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Back with another hour of surreal stupidity.
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…
Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Thoroughly Pleasant People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2017
Ray Fordyce is back to host another afternoon feast of comedy and entertainment. Featuring three or more acts each day, this is a must for every Fringe visitor.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Funny.
Normal Boy Presents: Normal Boy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Holyrood
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Hysterical… Terrifyingly brilliant commitment to everything’ (TheEdgeSUSU.
Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 5th Aug, 2017
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe.
Pamela DeMenthe Presents: Sticky Digits
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Ever wanted to know how to break into the world of erotic fiction? Self-published erotic authoress, Pamela DeMenthe, is throbbing her way to Edinburgh to present her hotly anticipa…
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…
Venus and Adonis
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C primo
- 31st Aug, 2017
It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis.
Richard Carpenter is Close to You
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2017
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Lindon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 20th Aug, 2017
The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show is what it says on the ticket.
Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I'm 50!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Clark
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2017
The King is back, long live the King.
A Thousand Doorways
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C primo
- 17th Aug, 2017
A finely-woven, patterned rug hangs from the ceiling, its design typical of the region.
Coming Clean
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 31st Jul, 2017
It’s 35 years since Kevin Elyot’s first play, Coming Clean, premiered at the Bush Theatre and 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
Afternoon Family Underground Ghost Tour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- City of Edinburgh Tours
- 1st - 31st Aug 2017
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around some old streets and wynds, then take a visit down into our Underground Vaults.
Richard Carpenter is Close to You
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Clark
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Shed
- 31st Jul, 2017
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
A Boy Named Sue
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 31st Jul, 2017
Sid, struggling to become Sue, proclaims, “The great barrier between myself and the outside world is my appearance”.
DDG Presents… No Guts No Guano
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 26th Jul 2017
Duck Duck Goose flies in to the Nursery Theatre for a varied night of improv comedy from ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ to adorable duos & an all-female group.
Tremors
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 28th Jun, 2017
An ‘incident in a hotel room’ becomes a life-changing event for Tom Crowe, a rising star of the Labour Party whose past, present and future form the basis of Tremors.
Queers
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 30th Jun, 2017
Queers comes with no explanation, but the title alone is enough preparation for an hour of material that is amusing and sad, historical and contemporary.
Richard Alston-Triple Bill
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Sadler’s Wells
- 16th - 17th Jun 2017
Richard Alston’s newest creation comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of a triple bill.
Thirty Three
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th Jun, 2017
Saska (Corinne Furlong) decides to hold what which she hopes will be a cosy dinner party for a select group of her closest friends.
Sweet Charity
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brighton Academy - Preston Park Campus
- 9th Jun, 2017
The Brighton Academy of Performing Arts uses its Preston Park studio theatre to showcase the talents of its students.
Brawn
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 9th Jun, 2017
Ryan was a bright lad at school.
Sonder Theatre Company Presents: NeverFolk
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 1st - 3rd Jun 2017
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
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…
The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 4th Jun, 2017
The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito is “presented by BA(Hons) Acting and Creative Performance students, from the University Centre Colchester” who “in their final year of study p…
Collapse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet St Andrew’s
- 20th Jun, 2017
In under thirty minutes Collapse presents a hauntingly hypnotic exploration of Cassandra’ agony as she prophetically laments the collapse of her city.
The Stroop Effect
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 9th Jun, 2017
The disparity between the promotional material put out by theatre groups and the reality of what they present to audiences is often quite staggering.
Goggles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 9th Jun, 2017
Pets come in many forms.
Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 4th Jun, 2017
Summer in the south is aggressively hot and stiflingly humid.
Spilt Milk Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 2
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2017
Spilling, dripping and leaking comedy from every angle, come and join Spilt Milk, a brand-new sketch group, for their exciting show, packed with original new comedy writing.
Blink by Phil Porter
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 2nd Jun, 2017
Described as “unconventional, quirky, and voyeuristic”, Peppered Wit’s production of Blink by Phil Porter fulfills each of those descriptions.
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…
The Beta Males Go Solo: The Story Beast & Richard Soames
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 27th - 29th May 2017
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award-nominated ‘Story Beast’ (“a bearded force of nature” (Guardian)) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), Ric…
Project2 presents Geekeasy: Star Trek
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Miller
- 27th May 2017
Geekeasy is a themed comedy night for nerds with stand-up, musical comedy, improv, storytelling and more.
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.
The Petting Zoo presents ZooTube
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 27th - 28th May 2017
The Petting Zoo (“Improv supergroup” Time Out) presents ‘ZooTube’, where the good, the bad and the downright bizarre of the world of online videos is merrily ransacked to provi…
Wacht!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 7th Jun, 2017
We’ve all been to a gallery and not paid much attention to the invigilators there to watch over the gallery.
Louder: Apples and Snakes and NWS presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 25th May - 4th Jun 2017
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South team up to present a programme of poetry, spoken word and live literature.
All Talk: Apples and Snakes and NWS presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 25th May - 4th Jun 2017
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South team up to present a programme of poetry, spoken word and live literature.
Kings Cross (Remix)
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 23rd May, 2017
I’m always interested in the extent to which the publicity for a performance matches the reality of the production; how the promise materialises on the stage.
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.
Movin' Melvin Brown presents 'Me and Otis'
- Review
- ★★★
- Charley Ville
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 27th May, 2017
“Remember this”, quoth Movin’ Melvin Brown, winding up his 80-minute set with just a couple more trademark 33 1/3 rpm chuckles, ‘it’s nice to be important.
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 …
Richard III (a one-woman show)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 17th - 21st May 2017
Richard III.
Terror Australis
- Review
- ★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 31st May, 2017
I love edgy cabaret - give me songs about Chemsex (thanks Bourgeois and Maurice), or anti-drag (thanks David Hoyle) or blood, sweat and other bodily fluids (thanks Christeene) an…
Afternoon Recital with Helen Burford
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 14th May 2017
Pianist/composer/musical-explorer Helen Burford performs a programme of global exotica and new commissions for solo piano, toy piano and Indian santoor.
artrepublic presents: Art Yard Sale
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Square
- 14th May 2017
Back for 2017! Another fantastic day out for art lovers everywhere.
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…
Edana Minghella Quartet presents From Ella to Elvis
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Verdict Cafe & Club
- 13th - 27th May 2017
Two nights at The Verdict for Edana Minghella’s quartet.
OUT
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 17th May, 2017
We are presented with two bodies: a loud Jamaican dance hall music and disco lights.
Great Train Robbery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 15th May, 2017
Apparently, one of the men involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 resides in Hove - but this story isn’t about him, instead it’s about the women behind the heist, the ones…
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Duke of Yorks Theatre
- 9th May - 2nd Sep 2017
Following sold out seasons at the National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK Tour, the smash hit, award-winning new musical from the National Theatre of Scotland and Live T…
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 .
Ladies Marmalade
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th - 10th May 2017
Ladies Marmalade is a show with 3 unusual and hilarious women who will make you taste different flavours of comedy .
Thomas Wolfe Presents: The Brighton Fringe Poets
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Sallis Benney Theatre
- 8th May 2017
Local author and poet Thomas Wolfe presents a night of spoken word, poetry and storytelling from some of Brighton’s best poets.
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.
Oyster Boy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 11th May, 2017
Inspired by Tim Burton’s poem, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Haste Theatre transport us to Coney Island where Mr Gelati (Valeria Compagnoni) and the future Mrs Gelati (Lexi…
Terabac
- Review
- ★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- Purple Playhouse Theatre
- 9th May, 2017
If you’re a budding ecologist who also has a love of physical theatre, Terabac is the show for you.
Goddess
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 8th May, 2017
Holiday Snow is just your average woman from the Valleys, now settled in Rhyl, with dreams of a hot tub and a marshmallow room.
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.
The Cult of Comedy presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 5th - 27th May 2017
An hour of entertainment from musicians, clowns and wordmongers of all flavours, local and international, showcasing the best Brighton Fringe has to offer.
The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton Fringe
- ONCA
- 15th May, 2017
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
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.
BLINDFOLD: The Night of the Hunt
- Review
- ★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 13th May, 2017
I wasn’t entirely sure what I’d witnessed after walking out of BLINDFOLD: The Night of the Hunt, a surreal play by Greek company THE.
My Fanny Valentine
- Review
- ★★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 2
- 9th May, 2017
Megan Juniper takes us on a quick romp through a date gone wrong, intertwined with fun, catchy songs and important messages for the modern day woman Standing centre stage in a fa…
Richard Carpenter's Close to You
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andrew Allen
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 4th Jun, 2017
Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
Mozart in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- Cadogan Hall
- 4th Apr 2017
Mozart in the Afternoon will take place 4th April 2017 at Cadogan Hall Conductors: Alan Tongue, The Beecham Orchestra, & Iain Farrington The concert will introduce a new form of �…
At the Junction Cafe
- Review
- ★★
- Rosie Blackwell-Sutton
- Brighton
- The Purple Playhouse Theatre
- 3rd Apr, 2017
Expecting an innovative and funny play, I was left disappointed to come across a heavily clichéd script and very little laughter.
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 Shoreditch Improv Festival Saturday Afternoon Giggles
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 20th Feb, 2017
The Water Poet was easy to spot on Saturday afternoon.
Edinburgh University Footlights Presents: Urinetown The Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh
- Church Hill Theatre
- 7th - 11th Feb 2017
Urinetown is set in a town that is desperately suffering a water shortage following a 20 year drought.
Disney On Ice presents Frozen - London
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 24th - 29th Dec 2016
Enter a fantastical winter wonderland beyond imagination when Disney On Ice presents Frozen.
Disney On Ice presents Frozen - Sheffield
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Motorpoint Arena Sheffield
- 14th - 18th Dec 2016
Enter a fantastical winter wonderland beyond imagination when Disney On Ice presents Frozen.
Thrive
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- artsdepot
- 21st Oct, 2016
Post Traumatic Stress from a variety of sources is a familiar phenomenon in modern times.
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.
The Tempest
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 21st Oct, 2016
Welcome to The Tempest as Shakespeare and probably most other people never imagined it could be.
On the Roof Presents: BBQ + City Impro
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- EastTwenty Bar & Kitchen
- 9th - 23rd Sep 2016
Improv Comedy in a unique setting with a BBQ and stunning views
If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Old Red Lion Theatre
- 5th Sep, 2016
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 28th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
NEHH Presents... NJTOS, featuring Bill Wells & Wolf
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 28th Aug 2016
Not jazz, nor a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and G…
Buckingham Palace Tour and Afternoon Tea
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Buckingham Palace
- 28th Aug - 2nd Oct 2016
Visit Inside Buckingham Palace See the State Rooms, Used for Official Royal Occasions Walk Through the Picture Gallery Explore the South Garden Enjoy Traditional Afterno…
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.
Consort of Voices Presents – Shakespeare Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canongate Kirk
- 27th Aug 2016
Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk for our eighth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Venue Marketplace
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 27th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Gin Whore Tour
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Devil’s Cut
- 31st Aug, 2016
Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event.
NEHH Presents... Withered Hand & Chris T-T
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 27th Aug 2016
Withered Hand is the musical output of Edinburgh-based Dan Willson, a feature of the city’s DIY music scene for many years.
Luisa Omielan – Am I Right Ladies?!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 27th Aug 2016
Luisa Omielan, Queen B of comedy is back for one weekend only.
NEHH Presents… Mediterraneo Festival Edition: A Wild Night of Live World Music
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 26th Aug 2016
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert.
NEHH Presents... Eska
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 26th Aug 2016
Eska, one of music’s best-kept secrets, has built an inimitable reputation as a writer and performer through collaborations with such legends of the game as Grace Jones, Cinematic …
Alice in Wasteland Presents CabaRave... The Closing Show Party!
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Studio 24
- 26th Aug 2016
Come along and journey through the rabbit hole on this exciting adventure! Our special closing party presents the final Edinburgh fringe performance of the one-hour spectacular Ali…
Richard III and Soundwall
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Serenity Cafe
- 25th - 26th Aug 2016
A condensed version of Shakespeare’s infamous Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest yet most revered works, which charts its tyrannical protagonist’s rise to the English th…
Cardinal Burns Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 24th - 27th Aug 2016
British Comedy Award-winning sketch heroes Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns – fresh from their sell out monthly show in Hackney where anything goes – bring their show to Ple…
Twix
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 25th Aug, 2016
Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together.
No Exit (Huis Clos)
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 29th Aug, 2016
No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers.
Attempts on Her Life
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 23rd Aug, 2016
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
Decade
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 24th Aug, 2016
9/11, as it now succinctly known, is one of those ‘where were you on the day?’ events.
Semi-Toned Presents: Sing Theory
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2016
Exeter University’s a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with Sing Theory! Using their trademark combination of vivacious humour, vocal mastery and velvety charm,…
Krapp's Last Tape
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 25th Aug, 2016
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
The Rose and Crown
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 26th Aug, 2016
There’s always a good smattering of obscure, seldom-performed or minor plays at the Festival Fringe.
The Wall
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 27th Aug, 2016
The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions.
The Telemachy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 25th Aug, 2016
It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public.
The HandleBards: Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 28th Aug, 2016
The Handlebards are a unique group, reinventing the concept of the company of travelling players.
Grey Matter
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 22nd Aug, 2016
Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour.
NEHH Presents... Broken Records & Adam Stafford
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th Aug 2016
Broken Records bring their expansive, soaring mix of elation and melancholy to Summerhall’s Dissection Room, with the raw energy of Springsteen and the drama of Arcade Fire.
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.
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.
Dr Alasdair Raffe Presents James VII: A Misunderstood King?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 19th Aug 2016
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
BBC: Steve Wright in the Afternoon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 19th Aug 2016
Steve Wright broadcasts live from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue. Join us for BBC Radio 2’s afternoon show with special guests, music and a host of other features.
NEHH Presents... The Soul Foundation
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug 2016
Their third show at the Dissection Rooms, the TSF crew returns with an explosive live set of motown classics along with new renditions of northern soul dance floor escapisms.
NEHH Presents... Richard Dawson & Nev Clay
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug 2016
Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
NEHH Presents... Mount Kimbie (DJ Set), Hi & Saberhägen
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug 2016
One of post-dubstep’s bright lights, Mount Kimbie come to Summerhall’s Dissection Room for a genre-evading late-night DJ set, drawing from a thick soup of influences that leave…
Dr Bill Aird Presents The Men in St Margaret of Scotland’s Life
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 17th Aug 2016
The Life of St Margaret provides a unique insight into late 11th-century Scotland and her profound influence on her husband and his kingdom.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 17th Aug 2016
Universal Comedy is a Scottish charity that changes lives through comedy.
Steve Richards Presents Rock 'n' Roll Politics
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 16th - 28th Aug 2016
Loyalty.
West Side Story
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 21st Aug, 2016
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
Dr Andrea Major (University of Leeds) Presents An East Indian Slave Trade? Rethinking Indian Indentured Labour Migration
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 16th Aug 2016
Between the 1830s and 1920s over 1.
Attila the Stockbroker Presents His Autobiography: Arguments Yard
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Silk
- 16th - 20th Aug 2016
Legendary radical performance poet Attila brings his acclaimed autobiography Arguments Yard (Cherry Red Books) to life on stage.
The Age of (Distr)action
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 18th Aug, 2016
In Edinburgh as members of Group 64, the cast of The Age of (Distr)action are an inclusive young people’s theatre company from Putney who have created, written and performed this…
Posh
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 24th Aug, 2016
Theresa May went to Oxford, but unlike Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, she could never have been invited to become a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, to which Laura Wad…
Leicester Comedy Festival Presents Best of That Other Fest With Sarah Millican & Special Guests
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 16th Aug 2016
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
Bildraum
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th Aug, 2016
Bildraum is part of the ‘Big in Belgium’ series, featuring six of the country’s many outstanding theatre and performance companies.
Spool
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 18th Aug, 2016
Suppose, just suppose, that your mind and body lived separately from each other.
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.
Felix Holt: The Radical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 20th Aug, 2016
‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical.
Three Jumpers
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 18th Aug, 2016
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
Dr Sandra Bingham Presents Pirates, Plunder and Personalities: The Rediscovery of Ancient Carthage
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 15th Aug 2016
Early archaeological enthusiasts at Carthage were drawn in search of the city of Dido and Hannibal.
Jumping the Barriers
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 21st Aug, 2016
There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country.
Family Voices and Victoria Station
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 18th Aug, 2016
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
Road
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 22nd Aug, 2016
It’s Road, but not as we know it.
The Mikado
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 21st Aug, 2016
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 22nd Aug, 2016
The Italia Conti Ensemble returns to the Festival Fringe with their second-year students again split into two groups, each with its own choice of play.
The Rat Pack Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 15th - 16th Aug 2016
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
Semi-Toned Presents: Sing Theory
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
Exeter University’s a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with Sing Theory! Using their trademark combination of vivacious humour, vocal mastery and velvety charm,…
Year Ten
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 18th Aug, 2016
Never judge a play by its title.
Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Afternoon)
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 14th Aug 2016
Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival.
Comedians Cinema Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 14th - 28th Aug 2016
Chaotic, alcohol-fuelled and very funny indeed.
NEHH Presents... WHITE & Bossy Love
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug 2016
WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire.
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.
NEHH Presents... Orkestra del Sol & The Jellyman's Daughter
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug 2016
Orkestra del Sol, a joyous reinvention of global brassy street music, has left a trail of pummelled dancefloors across Europe and countries including India, Australia and China.
Dr David Silkenat Presents The Long Life of the Lost Cause: Why it Took 150 Years for the Confederate Flag to Come Down
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 12th Aug 2016
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- London Fringe
- National Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2016
Combining the bawdy naughtiness of St Trinian’s, the desire to escape sobriety, language and depiction of true Scottishness of Trainspotting, with beautiful choral harmonies and …
NEHH Presents... GrownUps
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug 2016
Back, back, back and bouncier than ever, the exclusive vinyl club night for the more fully fledged music fan returns for a one-off, late night festival special.
Blueswater Presents: Storyville!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 12th - 26th Aug 2016
Named after New Orleans’ historic red-light district, The Blueswater is proud to present the dirtiest, raunchiest, and most violent blues songs ever written.
NEHH Presents... Willis Earl Beal
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 11th Aug 2016
Willis Earl Beal has yet to be born.
NEHH Presents... Rachel Sermanni, Matt Norris & The Moon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th Aug 2016
One of Britain’s most promising folk artists, Highland-born Rachel Sermanni comes to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
Blueswater Presents: The Jazz Bar Party
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 10th - 24th Aug 2016
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar, one of the UK’s best small music …
Austentatious presents... Crosstentatious! In Aid of Waverley Care
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 10th Aug 2016
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care.
BLD presents Pop Lock-in
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Electric Circus
- 7th - 20th Aug 2016
Let the kids be the stars of Fringe 2016! Following 2014-2015 sell-outs, Pop Lock-in returns to take over Edinburgh’s coolest nightclub.
RSC Live: Richard II
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 7th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance.
Afternoon Concerts at Three Thirty
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St. Michael and All Saints
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Fourteen concerts given by musicians from Estonia, Finland, Luxemburg, Poland, UK, and from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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.
NEHH Presents... Kathryn Joseph & The Anchoress
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug 2016
A haunting and utterly compelling SAY award-winning album Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled comes to Summerhall’s dissection room.
Physics Fan Fiction
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Silk
- 6th - 15th Aug 2016
Apocalypses and politics go hand in hand as University of Oxford physicist Fran Day takes a break from studying particles that probably don’t exist to take to the stage in a stan…
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…
Running-a-Mock Presents: Facebook Official
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
King’s College London’s improv team is looking for new friends.
Boomerang Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilgrim
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
London’s favourite spoken word night arrives in Edinburgh.
Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the ‘undisputed buzz comedy of last year’ **** (Guardian), Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell…
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.
Confetti
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 31st Aug, 2016
There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Matthew Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 19th Aug, 2016
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Chapel Street
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st Aug, 2016
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
100 years of blues, one hour to play it.
Russian Standard House of Davai presents PingTron
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
Responding to phenomenal demand, Russian Standard are bringing PingTron, a unique and exceptional take on ping pong, to Edinburgh for the very first time.
Movin' Melvin Brown Presents Me and Otis
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Multi award-winning entertainer with sold out performances, presents a sensational UK premiere.
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 16th Aug, 2016
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers, make a welcome return to Edinburgh in their usual Greenside, Royal Terrace location.
Blueswater Presents: Cat Loud's Wayward Girls
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Seemingly wholesome island lass Cat Loud is still on the prowl for her next big adventure.
On Ego by Mick Gordon
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 12th Aug, 2016
Many theatre companies oversell their wares with outrageous hyperbole.
Oliver!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th Aug, 2016
The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre.
2 By 5
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 7th Aug, 2016
International Collegiate Theatre Festival has put together a delightful programme of both well-known and less familiar works to create this production of 2 By 5.
Partial Nudity
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 13th Aug, 2016
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
Spring Awakening
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 10th Aug, 2016
Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards.
Alba Flamenca
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Alba Flamenca
- 31st Aug, 2016
If you missed this show all is not lost.
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.
Call Mr Robeson
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 16th Aug, 2016
Call Mr Robeson is Tayo Aluko’s tribute to one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable singers in terms of looks and voice.
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 …
Three for Two by Phil Booth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 11th Aug, 2016
We all have our price.
Cabaret Whore Presents... La Poule Plombée
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah Virgo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2016
Bursting with musical variety and talent, razor-sharp lyrics and incredible chemistry, Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston return to this year’s Fringe with Cabaret Whore Pre…
5 Out of 10 Men...
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 16th Aug, 2016
Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that.
The HandleBards: Richard III
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly @ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: West Gate
- 5th - 19th Aug 2016
After cycling 1,500 miles from London to Edinburgh, the four-strong all-male HandleBards present Shakespeare’s play as you’ve never seen it before – fast-paced, irreverent and bi…
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.
Lïnger
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 16th Aug, 2016
Breandán de Gallaí, the celebrated ex-Riverdance principal, has devised a biographical series of dances to create Lïnger, which is performed in the generously spacious main thea…
Afternoon Delight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Family friendly showcase of different performers within the venue’s 14 spaces.
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.
Are We Stronger Than Winston?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 13th Aug, 2016
The British might be renowned for talking and complaining about the weather, but if you come from Fiji there are more heightened concerns than just cold rainy days.
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.
A Dream of Dying
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 16th Aug, 2016
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 11th Aug, 2016
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
Red
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 20th Aug, 2016
The redness of Red is not visible.
The End
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 12th Aug, 2016
Celebrated Scottish choreographer Jack Webb has brought his latest, typically idiosyncratic work, The End, for performance at this year’s Festival Fringe as part of the extensive…
Comedians Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Vintage Mobile Cinema
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Our favourite comedians present their favourite films.
The Cult of Comedy Presents
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Showcasing the best the Fringe has to offer.
Troika
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 12th Aug, 2016
Great composers sometimes create a theme that is so captivating or remarkable that other great composers write variations on it.
Blueswater Presents: Early Blues and Roots with Toby Mottershead
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents his personal history of early blues and roots music in an intimate solo show.
Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 12th Aug, 2016
Ladies in Waiting, written by and starring James Cougar Canfield as the lascivious and misogynistic King Henry VIII, is a steamy, feminist critique of the most notorious of England…
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.
Audible Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Audible presents a series of completely free live performances and special guest appearances, celebrating the best of spoken word comedy.
The White Crow
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 15th Aug, 2016
Adolph Eichmann never personally killed anyone, but he was hanged in 1962, having been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
UK Pun Championships 2016 runner-up Richard Pulsford has phrases ready.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 19th Aug, 2016
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
Briefs Factory Presents: Sweatshop
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 7th Aug, 2016
You know you’re in for a good time when a variety show opens with one half of cabaret legends Frisky & Mannish belting out a pop medley, whilst self-proclaimed “sex clown” Be…
Bash
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C too
- 12th Aug, 2016
Neil LaBute sets out to upset and disturb audiences and he made a spectacular start with his first play Bash: Latterday Plays.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
Voices of Soweto Presents Ubuntu
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Ubuntu, meaning compassion and humanity, is a show that speaks about unity amongst the African continent and the world.
Ali Brice Presents Home is Where Eric Meat is
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 15th Aug, 2016
We join Eric Meat on what is a sad occasion: the day is due to move out of his childhood home.
Growing Pains
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 18th Aug, 2016
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
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…
Club Spiegel
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Live, up late and luscious.
Richard Brown: Stop, Children, What's That Sound? Everybody Look, It's Richard Brown!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Intelligent, alternative comedy from one of Scotland’s rising stars.
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…
Saturday Night Forever
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 13th Aug, 2016
I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb.
Gag Reflex Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Gag Reflex Presents.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
Richard Todd
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘How much happier the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
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.
The Rat Pack Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
Spencer Jones Presents The Herbert in Eggy Bagel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 8th Aug, 2016
Spencer Jones is once more going full tilt in the surrealism stakes, and the result is a fantastically strange success.
Frugl Presents Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
I say, I say, I say.
Oh Hello!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 14th Aug, 2016
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
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.
Daniel Kitson Presents an Insufficient Number of Undeveloped Ideas Over Ninety Testing Minutes Starting at Noon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
Chef: Come Dine With Us!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 20th Aug, 2016
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
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.
5 Guys Chillin'
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 7th Aug, 2016
If your idea of chillin’ is sitting in the armchair with a cup of cocoa and a novel, you probably won’t feel at ease with this play.
St Andrews Revue Presents: Loop
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
The St Andrews Revue are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their brand new sketch comedy spectacular Loop: 50 minutes of mind-blowing comedy that will make you laugh so ha…
Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Casual Acquaintances
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 4th - 27th Aug 2016
After a gap year, Ray Fordyce is back to host an afternoon of entertainment and comedy treats.
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2016
If you’re expecting a cosy drawing-room comedy about an aging female relative then you have clearly not read the publicity and are in for a big surprise.
The Free Association Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
Three brilliant, original and hilarious improv acts: DVD Box Set – your new favourite TV show, entirely improvised by a cast of FA players, inspired by an audience suggestion.
Care Takers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 10th Aug, 2016
Seeing Care Takers is like watching all the episodes of a fabulous five-part drama series in one sitting.
Fresher
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2016
There are two very good reasons for going to see Fresher: it is an outstanding play that ingeniously tackles contemporary issues, and the production is also raising money for Young…
Bucket List
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 8th Aug, 2016
What do you do when your mother is murdered for protesting corporate and governmental corruption? In the case of Milagros, you fight for the justice your mother was denied and see…
Squirm
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 7th Aug, 2016
The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Adam & Eve and Steve
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 6th Aug, 2016
In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward.
Dropped
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 10th Aug, 2016
There’s a lot of camouflage in Dropped.
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.
Wank Bank Masterclass
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Aug, 2016
The Aussies have a certain way with words and in the case Adam Seymour with his hands also.
The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Hamlet in Bed
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2016
Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m…
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…
Denton and Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2016
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
The Dwelling Place
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2016
Two large basement rooms in Summerhall have been transformed into a remarkable installation and immersive theatre, musical, video, sound, and light performance area.
What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Damián Ortega
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Fruitmarket Gallery
- 5th Aug, 2016
The Fruitmarket Gallery boasts “World class contemporary art at the heart of the city”.
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…
The Dingleberry Theatre Foundation Presents: Mandatory Seminar
- Listing Comedy
- Off Broadway
- Annoyance Theatre NY
- 30th Jun - 28th Jul 2016
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
RICHARD III
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Swan Theatre
- 26th Jun 2016
Who better to convey the darkness & danger of Shakespeare’s most compelling villain and his scheming entourage than armed forces veterans-turned-actors? Set in a modern military …
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.
Streetfunk presents....STRAIGHT UP '16
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton
- Brighton Dome Concert Hall
- 11th Jun 2016
Streetfunk’s fantastic annual youth dance showcase is back for the 9th year running!!! If you love dance, love Hip Hop and love all things Urban then this show will be your party…
artrepublic presents: Art Yard Sale
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Square
- 5th Jun 2016
Meet many cutting-edge local and national artists and buy incredible art direct at the artrepublic Art Yard Sale! Head to Jubilee Square for this spectacular Brighton Fringe climax…
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.
Addy van der Borgh presents Blind Charlie Harwood
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Blues harmonica and booze harmonica legend Blind Charlie Harwood makes his Brighton debut after 35 years of licking the blues.
Cabaret Whore Presents: La Poule Plombée
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom Edward
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 5th Jun, 2016
Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston remain on top form with their new laugh-out-loud spin-off Cabaret Whore, in which Young’s comic character La Poule Plombée is finally g…
Movin' Melvin Brown presents 'Me and Otis'
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2016
‘Best Music Show’ nominee in Adelaide, the acclaimed Movin’ Melvin presents a sensational premiere, featuring songs Otis Redding did, plus more! Extravaganza of song, tap-dan…
Dead Man Presents: Tessa Waters: Over Promises
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 29th - 30th May 2016
Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity.
The Abelia Saxophone Quartet presents: Evolution
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Emporium Theatre
- 28th - 28th May 2016
Incorporating as many different styles, centuries and saxophones as a sixty minute recital will allow, we’ll take you through the timeline of the saxophone quartet, demonstrating t…
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.
Electric Cabaret Presents 'Moulin Rouge'
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Grosvenor G Casino Brighton
- 27th May 2016
Enchanting songbird and hostess Lilian Lake welcomes you to the Moulin Rouge.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 28th May, 2016
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart.
Bootworks Theatre presents: Now Listen To Me Very Carefully
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 23rd - 24th May 2016
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
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.
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.
Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 20th - 22nd May 2016
Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary celebration & final performance in its entirety.
Afternoon Recital with Helen Burford
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 15th May 2016
Critically-acclaimed pianist Helen Burford returns to Brighton Fringe with a fascinating solo programme, featuring works by Somei Satoh, Piazzolla, Handel and Timo Andres.
Traumfrau presents Disco Outrage - Spiegeltent: The Queer Takeover (A Night of infamous disco and disgraceful performers)
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 14th May 2016
Dance until the late hours.
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.
Zaza Music Presents: Martha Tilston
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 11th May 2016
Martha Tilston has carved her unique niche in the modern English folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world.
One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gill Balfour
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 12th May, 2016
Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires.
Richard Wright: Proper Grown Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2016
Hello people of Brighton! I’m bringing my show to you as part of Brighton Fringe.
The Cult of Comedy presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 6th - 28th May 2016
“a smorgasbord of different voices finding the funny in new places.
New Writing South presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- The Writers’ Place
- 6th - 27th May 2016
A selection of spoken word, poetry and short fiction, shining a light on brilliant new writing.
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)
'Who Sampled Who' presents 'Fallen Hip Hop Legends'
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre / Jubilee Library
- 30th Apr - 5th Jun 2016
An interactive, musical, play experience by Exploring Senses and One Brighton FM.
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…
Ted Alexandro Presents a Night of Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- New York Comedy Club
- 23rd Mar 2016
Mr.
The Theatre Workshop Presents...Monologue Jam!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Oliver Lugg
- Brighton
- The Iron Duke Pub Guesthouse Kitchen & Theatre
- 30th Mar, 2016
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
Richard Herring: Happy Now?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 21st Mar, 2016
His 20’s were a fist of fun, his 30’s spent deciphering the intricacies of Big Cook and Little Cook’s business partnership, and then, oh fuck!, he was 40.
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.
Good King Richard
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Drayton Arms
- 1st - 12th Mar 2016
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
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…
Mrs Henderson Presents
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Noel Coward Theatre
- 9th Feb - 18th Jun 2016
A brand new stage version of Mrs Henderson Presents is coming to the West End in Winter 2016.
Zippos Presents Cirque Berserk!
- Review
- ★★★
- James W. Woe
- UK Regional & Tours
- Peacock Theatre
- 15th Mar, 2016
The Marx Brothers greatest failing is at the circus.
Jana & Lauren Presents
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Magnet Theater
- 8th Jan 2016
Jana Schmieding and Lauren Olson host the final New York edition of this monthly character showcase, in which comedians perform brand-new, original characters.
Thalia Book Club: Michael Ian Black
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Symphony Space
- 7th Jan 2016
Mr.
Sunny Afternoon
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- 5th Jan - 29th Oct 2016
The West End’s New ‘Great British Musical’ (The Times) has opened to huge critical acclaim.
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Union Hall
- 28th Dec 2015
‘Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction’ (Monday) Brian Cook hosts this quarterly storytelling show, which features comedians reading erotic fan fiction “based upon their…
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
- 1st Nov 2015
Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers.
The Nursery Presents
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Edric Theatre and Rehearsal Suite, London South Bank University
- 2nd Oct - 5th Dec 2015
The Nursery presents its autumn season of improvised comedy at the Edric Theatre, Borough Every weekend from 2 October to 5 December, 8-10pm Highlights include improv masters Th…
Alex Hodgson Presents a Braw Bricht Moonlicht Nicht
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 29th Aug 2015
Returning to The Brunton (Musselburgh) with original and traditional Scottish folk music, stories and songs delivered with a charismatic stage presence and unique sense of humour.
BBC: BBC Presents... Edinburgh 2015
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 29th Aug 2015
A night celebrating the biggest breakthrough acts of 2015. Line-up TBC.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2015
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
QI Presents: No Such Thing as a Fish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Potterrow
- 26th - 30th Aug 2015
Live recording of the hit podcast from the writers of the BBC show QI.
H.M.S. Pinafore
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 30th Aug, 2015
While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 29th Aug, 2015
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men could be seen as a dark comedy or as just dark.
Piaf
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 28th Aug, 2015
Piaf opens with a spectacular tableau of the entire cast.
Oliver Twist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 29th Aug, 2015
Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist.
For Queen and Country
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 27th Aug, 2015
For Queen and Country.
Party
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 28th Aug, 2015
Party isn’t that sort of party; well, it sort of is, and maybe it should be, but overall it isn’t – though it might be after it’s finished.
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alex Hargreaves
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 25th Aug, 2015
Richard III is one of the most fascinating Shakespeare plays I know, and it is always interesting to see new interpretations by different companies.
I Am
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 27th Aug, 2015
I Am is the sequel to LCP Dance Theatre’s Am I.
I Loved You and I Loved You
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 26th Aug, 2015
If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club.
Last Man Standing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 26th Aug, 2015
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
YAMA
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 25th Aug, 2015
There is dance and there is Scottish Dance Theatre.
Savage
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 25th Aug, 2015
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
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.
The Sun Ra Arkestra with Richard Youngs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 20th Aug 2015
Summerhall is proud to present the Sun Ra Arkestra, live in the Dissection Room.
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.
Steve Richards Presents Rock'n'Roll Politics 4
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 18th - 30th Aug 2015
Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics 4.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 18th Aug 2015
Universal Comedy is a Scottish Charity that changes lives through comedy.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Bowman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 23rd Aug, 2015
Swearing more than a band of sailors, the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour present an entirely candid portrait of female teenage sexuality and lives.
Oliver!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 26th Aug, 2015
With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts.
A Little Respect
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2015
Here we go again.
The State of Concrete
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 22nd Aug, 2015
The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex.
Odd Shaped Balls
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 22nd Aug, 2015
‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me.
Romeo and Juliet
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 23rd Aug, 2015
A Daily Mirror awaits us on our seats announcing the death of a ‘pair of “star-crossed” lovers … in the wake of increasingly violent clashes in the streets’.
Faust
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 19th Aug, 2015
In sixteenth-century Germany it was not regarded as irreverant to perform comic puppet shows featuring characters and scenes from the legend of Faust.
In the Pink A Cappella Presents Tuniversity Challenge
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 17th - 29th Aug 2015
Oxford University’s finest all female a Cappella group takes on University Challenge.
Richard Wiseman: How to be Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
- Review
- ★★★★
- Toh Wen Li
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Richard Wiseman, psychologist and bestselling author of several popular psychology books, returns to the Fringe to talk for an hour about the psychology of perception, touching on …
Undermined
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Undermined was going to be called Shafted, but a guy named Godber had already beaten Danny Mellor to it.
Bambino Beats Presents Under the Sea
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilrig Studio
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2015
Perfect way for under sixes to burn off energy at this fun, musical and sea animal filled session.
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).
A Beggar for a Miracle: A Fan’s Life in Football
- Review
- ★★★
- Conor Matchett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 15th Aug, 2015
This was a talk for the footballing purist – a no-frills, brief chat with two of the footballing world’s most renowned authors.
Luisa Omielan: Am I Right Ladies?!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 13th - 15th Aug 2015
Fresh, hilarious and brilliant! Another signature party with jokes from Luisa Omielan, following her unprecedentedly successful debut stand-up show, What Would Beyoncé Do?! An emp…
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Catriona Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just Festival at St John’s
- 14th Aug, 2015
I have seen several performances of Richard III; Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen on film, and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, but Emily Carding’s portrayal of the king who murders…
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.
Pappy's Presents...The Secret Dudes Society
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 11th - 25th Aug 2015
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy award nominees and stars of BBC Three’s Badults, Pappy’s, bring their comedy club to the Edinburgh Fringe for four very special shows.
Posh
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Te Kore
- 30th Aug, 2015
With this year’s general election behind us and members now in office the return of Posh to the Festival Fringe is timely.
Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 19th Aug, 2015
Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy started out as two plays in a year-long project by One World Actors Centre (Kuwait) to produce Jean Anouilh’s Antigone in both English and Arabic.
Roaring Boys
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Te Kore
- 1st Sep, 2015
Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history.
Afternoon Noise
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Te Kore
- 9th - 14th Aug 2015
A daily evolving production line of musicians and artists involved in and around the musical life of Jamie Sharp. Explore the hints on Twitter for more clues…
BLD presents Pop Lock-in
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Electric Circus
- 9th - 29th Aug 2015
Sell-out 2014.
BBC: BBC Presents…
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 9th - 26th Aug 2015
Familiar BBC faces present their pick of the Edinburgh Festivals. Join us for music, theatre, spoken word, puppetry, cabaret and – of course – plenty of comedy.
The Pirates of Penzance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 20th Aug, 2015
“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute.
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.
Bayou Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 14th Aug, 2015
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
Richard Brown: Art is Easy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dragonfly
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
The follow up to his debut show, This is Not for You (**** Scotsman), this is an alternative comedy show about hopelessness.
The Oxford Revue Presents – Free
- Review
- ★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Belle Angèle
- 13th Aug, 2015
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
My Name is...
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at Summerhall
- 20th Aug, 2015
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
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.
Friday I'm in Love Presents: Massaoke
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 8th - 31st Aug 2015
Forget karaoke! Join the Massaoke revolution.
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.
Reconciling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 19th Aug, 2015
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
Cerys Nelmes Presents Pick'n'Mix – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Southsider
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
West Country comedian and MC extraordinaire, Cerys Nelmes, returns to this year’s Fringe with a full run of her popular show, Pick’n’Mix! Cerys MCs an hour of comedy featuring th…
Five Drinks
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 27th Aug, 2015
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
‘Boogie-woogie.
IamI
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Yet again CalArts pushes forward the frontiers of theatre with an extraordinary, fascinating and labyrinthine work.
Richard Gadd: Waiting for Gaddot
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
The troubled comedian returns to the festival for the third year running (Cheese and Crack Whores, 2013; Breaking Gadd, 2014) having received rave reviews, sell-out crowds, critica…
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.
Auld Reekie Roller Girls Presents: Live Roller Derby
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meadowbank Sports Centre
- 8th Aug 2015
Fans of big hits and speedy whips can get their fill of roller derby at Auld Reekie Roller Girls’ first festival game.
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.
The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Thistle Edinburgh, The King James
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
Wonderland
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen.
BED
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
The Ascension of Mrs Leech
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 22nd Aug, 2015
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
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.
Christian O'Connell: You've Ruined My Morning... and Other Fan Mail
- Review
- ★★★★
- Callum Stott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 25th Aug, 2015
Many people will of course know Christian O’Connell from presenting the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show of which he has been doing now for over 10 years and in his time on the stat…
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.
The American Soldier
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 19th Aug, 2015
We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans.
Thirteen (13)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 14th Aug, 2015
The storyline is shallow, the message insubstantial and the script contrived, so you don’t have anything deep to think about.
Simon Caine Presents Buddhism and Cats
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
Ozymandias
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 19th Aug, 2015
Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl…
Bones
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 15th Aug, 2015
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
The Amazing World of MC Escher
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- 26th Aug, 2015
Given our familiarity with Escher’s unmistakable style it’s hard to believe that this is the first major exhibition of his work in the UK and that there is only one print of …
Rent
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 13th Aug, 2015
Fans of Rent will love this full length presentation and for those who have never seen it, this is a great opportunity to watch a rip-roaring production.
The Hendrick's Emporium of Sensorial Submersion
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion
- 26th Aug, 2015
The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion is yet another triumph for the phantasmagorically fertile imaginations of the genial geniuses of gin.
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).
Styx
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 22nd Aug, 2015
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Oak
- 7th - 28th Aug 2015
Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK.
Homme | Animal
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 15th Aug, 2015
‘How can I know who I am …feeling with pure energy, / With my heart, my mind, my body, my soul, / This is who and what I am.
Conor O’Toole: A Retrospective 1995-2015
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Conor O’Toole reviews his life’s work from ages four to 24.
Aardwolf Presents: Wet Behind the Ears
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Wet Behind the Ears brings you the finest new comedy talent from across the country.
A Face That Fits
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2015
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
Simon Caine Presents Buddhism and Cats
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
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…
Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lost Horizons at Ryries Bar
- 7th - 28th Aug 2015
Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK.
The Unknown Soldier
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 25th Aug, 2015
The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War.
When the Sh*t Hits the Fan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
Two divorces, a rare autoimmune disease and both becoming single mums wasn’t part of the life plan.
Edinburgh Gin O'Clock
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Boards
- 10th Aug, 2015
The Edinburgh Gin Company has left its distillery behind and moved to The Boards in the Edinburgh Playhouse to tell a brief history of the city’s alcohol and gin heritage along w…
Gag Reflex Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Gag Reflex presents Tom Lucy, Sean Nolan, Chris Washington and Benji Waterstones, hosted by Freddy Quinne and Kate McCabe.
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…
Laugh Train Home Presents: Chick-Ass Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 6th - 29th Aug 2015
London’s Laugh Train Home host Robyn Perkins **** (ThreeWeeks, English Comedian of the Year Finalist) and Sarah Iles, (Comedy Network Award winner) are joined by their favourite aw…
Comfort Slaves
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2015
Suitability: 16+ (Restriction).
RAZ by Jim Cartwright
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 15th Aug, 2015
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
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.
John Scott Presents Dissent
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Dissent: noun, def.
Ken Crystal Afternoon Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 6th - 29th Aug 2015
Grab a beer, nurse your hangover and relax.
Tom Binns: The Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
One man, three hilarious comedy acts.
Afternoon Delight
- Review
- ★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th Aug, 2015
Bill shows (where the show is made up of several guest acts) can be a mixed bag especially when the format is to showcase one venue’s acts from across their programme.
The Trials of Galileo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Galileo lived in age when the church reigned supreme, faith was more important than fact and dogma denied discovery.
Ali Brice presents: Eric Meat Has No Proof, Only Memories of Pasta
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Brice is back with a host of silly characters.
International Stud
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C cubed
- 10th Aug, 2015
Originally a one-act play consisting of five scenes, The International Stud premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1978 and later became the first part of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark work, …
Spencer Jones Presents: The Herbert in Proper Job
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 30th Aug, 2015
On any given night during the Edinburgh Fringe there are dozens of funny comics standing on stage talking about the life and loves of a performer.
Richard Melvin Presents… Live at The Stand Podcast
- Review
- ★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 13th Aug, 2015
Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…
The Noise Next Door: The Really, Really Good Afternoon Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
The seven-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone.
Mark Forward presents Mark Forward
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 24th Aug, 2015
‘I could tell you anything I want and you would have to believe it!’ yells Mark Forward about twenty minutes into his show, as an invisible falcon perches on his arm.
Richard Soames Does the Right Thing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees).
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…
K'rd Strip: A Place to Stand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 30th Aug, 2015
K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand is a bizarre yet beautiful blend of Māori culture, contemporary dance, vocals and music, drag and real life stories.
La Clique and The Famous Spiegeltent presents VELVET
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 17th Aug, 2015
La Clique has been a feature on the Fringe for over ten years and has a well deserved reputation for slick circus cabaret and variety.
S.E.N
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 18th Aug, 2015
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Labels
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2015
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Danza del Caribe: Itara
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 11th Aug, 2015
Welcome to a world in which West Africa meets Jamaica, meets Cuba: A world of burning desire, or as they say in Yoruba, Itara.
Bat-Fan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2015
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
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.
Jethro Compton presents Sirenia
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kay Tee
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 13th Aug, 2015
There is a room in C Nova that you have never seen before: up endless winding staircases and through many closed doors, a small attic store has been meticulously transformed into t…
Richard Parker
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 15th Aug, 2015
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
Loot
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 17th Aug, 2015
There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot.
La Ronde
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 12th Aug, 2015
In keeping with its history, this latest production of La Ronde by Zebronkeyis controversial.
All the King's Men presents: Radio Gaga
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dan Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 13th Aug, 2015
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars Quintet Presents The Ronnie Scott’s Story
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- White Rose Rotunda
- 2nd Aug 2015
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s musical director and his ‘All Stars’, take to the stage to celebrate ‘The Ronnie Scott’s Story’.
West End Magic Presents – Magic Workshops for Children
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- Tea Pot
- 31st Jul - 1st Aug 2015
Teaching children aged 7-13 the basics of magic.
Carolines Presents
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Carolines
- 30th Jul 2015
Anthony DeVito, one of the funniest up-and-comers in New York, hosts this showcase at the iconic comedy club.
The Arts Barge Project Presents…The Great Yorkshire Swing!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- White Rose Rotunda
- 27th Jul, 2015
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
Coquette presents: Moulin Ouse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 25th Jul, 2015
Wearing a great, white, sparkly dress, Kiki de Ville struts onto the stage and you immediately know you are in for a good night.
Richard II
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens
- 26th Jul, 2015
Shakespeare’s popular play Richard II recounts the fate of the famously decadent king as he spends his father’s fortune, places punitive taxes onto the poor, and spends his no…
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Bryant Park
- 6th - 10th Jul 2015
The arts organization Inception to Exhibition, founded in 2009 to support new creative ventures, presents four Friday nights of free dance in the Midtown outdoors.
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…
artrepublic presents: Art Yard Sale
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Square
- 31st May 2015
Buy art direct from the artist at the inaugural artrepublic Art Yard Sale! Head to Jubilee Square to meet with and buy from some of the world’s leading artists at this spectacula…
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.
Electric Cabaret Presents: Moulin Rouge
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Grosvenor G Casino Brighton
- 29th May 2015
Verity Valentine, the sassy and enchanting songbird and hostess welcomes you to the Moulin Rouge.
Richard Lewis in Conversation with JB Smoove
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 26th May 2015
Richard Lewis’s long-form, fury-driven stand-up has influenced scores of comedians over the last 40 years.
Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 23rd - 30th May 2015
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Carlos Cojones Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 22nd - 25th May 2015
Columbia’s second biggest export, Carlos Cojones, comes to Brighton to tell the world about his life. With a little help from his friends.
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…
The Beta Males Go Solo: Adam, Richard & The Story Beast
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 15th - 17th May 2015
Join Adam Blampied “Delightful” (British Theatre Guide), Richard Soames “Excellent” (Sunday Times) and The Story Beast “Bearded force of nature” (Guardian) as The Beta Males finall…
The Improverts - Exam Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
- 14th - 15th May 2015
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
The Cold Heart Revue presents Where Are The Villains Now
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Fiddler’s Elbow
- 13th - 27th May 2015
The Cold Heart Revue is a UK solo music act making his Brighton Fringe debut with ‘Where Are The Villains Now’.
Afternoon Recital with Helen Burford
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 10th May 2015
Critically acclaimed pianist Helen Burford returns to Brighton Fringe with a fascinating solo programme featuring works by J.
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…
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…
Je Suis (Fool's Guide to Cliff Edges)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Exeter Street Hall
- 2nd - 30th May 2015
The fool steps off a cliff.
The Cult of Comedy Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 2nd - 24th May 2015
An eclectic mix of comedians.
MC Wikko Presents: A General Guide to Existence...and Stuff
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 2nd - 30th May 2015
Do you ever gaze at the stars and wonder what it all means? Well, help is at hand because ‘the Bard of Lewisham’ is back and he’ll be tackling everything about everything and…
Blackshaw Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Battersea Library
- 2nd - 16th May 2015
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
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.
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…
DNAYS Presents: The Wunderkammer at the Museum
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Natural History Museum
- 24th - 24th Apr 2015
Join improv comedy group Do Not Adjust Your Stage as they create stories, scenes and characters inspired by the Ted-style talks from Museum scientists in The Wunderkammer.
Jo Firestone Presents: The Unexpectashow
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
- 8th Apr 2015
Jo Firestone kicks off her new monthly series of unpredictably strange shows.
No Feelings Presents
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield
- 25th Feb 2015
This monthly variety show features an eclectic mix of stand-ups, improvisers and other acts. Performers include Todd Barry, Myq Kaplan, Micah Sherman and the improv team the Enemy.
Richard Goode and Friends
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
- 22nd Feb 2015
It’s always a treat to hear the pianist Richard Goode, here in partnership with young artists he has mentored at the Marlboro Music Festival.
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…
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.
Chloe Arnolds Syncopated Ladies
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
- 7th Nov 2014
This summer Chloe Arnold and her girl group of fierce tappers, Syncopated Ladies, made a splash on the reality TV dance competition “So You Think You Can Dance,” with a…
Blackshaw Theatre presents Halloween Tales
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Selkirk
- 30th Oct - 1st Nov 2014
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
The Experiment Comedy presents Manifesto!: A One-Year Extravaganza
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield
- 26th Oct 2014
Mo Fathelbab and Tim Ellis go all out to celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly comedy show.
2014 Richard Tucker Gala
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
- 12th Oct 2014
Since 1975, when the great Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker died, the foundation initiated in his name has fostered the careers of emerging American singers and brought opera to …
Richard Lewis
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Carolines
- 1st Sep 2014
This renowned comedian, often considered an heir to Lenny Bruce, is a master of long-form storytelling who turns his endless neurotic energy into brilliant comedy.
Richard Thompson in Concert
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 25th Aug 2014
Critically acclaimed prolific songwriter, Ivor Novello Award winner, recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of Al…
BBC: BBC Presents… Edinburgh 2014
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 24th Aug 2014
A night celebrating the festivals with some of the biggest breakthrough acts of 2014.
Simon Singh: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 31st Aug, 2014
Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 22nd Aug 2014
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
An Evening with Richard Michael and Family
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 24th Aug, 2014
Scotsman Richard Michael leads his talented family on piano with his daughters Hilary Michael on violin and saxophone, Joanna Duncan on violin and xylophone, and nephew Paul Michae…
Club Spiegel presents Shooglenifty
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 19th - 22nd Aug 2014
The Shoogles return with a brand new album.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 19th Aug 2014
Universal Comedy is a Scottish charity that changes lives through comedy.
Confusions
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 31st Aug, 2014
One of the confusions in this production, although not without precedent, is the running order of the five interrelated plays that make up the complete work.
Compulsion
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 31st Aug, 2014
Declan Cooke is a physically big guy with a powerful presence: if you saw him standing at the bar you would imagine him to be full of confidence and completely in control of his li…
James Bannon: Running with the Firm
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 31st Aug, 2014
James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of…
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…
Wireless Theatre Presents: Couples Who Changed the World
- Review
- ★★
- Henry St Leger
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 31st Aug, 2014
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
BBC: Richard Bacon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 18th Aug 2014
Your chance to see Richard Bacon present his lively and entertaining BBC Radio 5live show from the Edinburgh Festivals with celebrity guests.
Now We Are Pope: Frederick Rolfe in Venice
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 31st Aug, 2014
Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913) was a minor English writer, artist and photographer and serious eccentric.
Who's Afraid of Michael Gove?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 31st Aug, 2014
The Tories have take control and Michael Gove is Prime Minister.
Nature's Heart
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 23rd Aug, 2014
Koji Takeuchi was born in Japan and began his search for truth in his teens.
Footloose
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Church Hill Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2014
“Footloose may be a hit, but it’s trash - high powered fodder for the teen market.
The Black Diamond Express Presents: Midnight Train
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Mash House
- 15th - 17th Aug 2014
The band return to the Made in Scotland Showcase to conduct fyrebrand sonic sermons of devilish proportions.
Richard Wiseman: Night School
- Review
- ★★★
- J. A. Sutherland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 16th Aug, 2014
Night School is an odd ‘show’ that seems to hover somewhere between an entertaining lecture and a TED talk.
BBC: Asian Network Presents… Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 14th Aug 2014
The BBC Asian Network return to the Edinburgh Festival for a second year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the Edinburgh Festivals.
Dorian
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 23rd Aug, 2014
In a 1990 interview on Japanese television, Berkoff said, “I believe that you don’t need anything more than just utter simplicity and that everything in my art must be created …
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 - Maintaining Sash and Case Windows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acheson House
- 13th Aug, 2014
If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again.
Winter of Our Discotheque
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 19th Aug, 2014
Autistic, severely depressed and with inadequate provision for her, Tess Humphrey left school at the age of thirteen.
Bambino Beats Presents Inside the Musical Zoo
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilrig Studio
- 12th - 17th Aug 2014
Perfect way for under sixes to burn off energy at this fun musical and animal filled session. Bang the drums, sing the retro songs and dance the dances inside the musical zoo.
Woodbine Willie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Elim
- 19th Aug, 2014
Chain smoker and chaplain, poet and padre, furnisher of faith and fags, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy dispensed Woodbines and the word of God on the Western Front during the First Worl…
Falling in love with Frida
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 31st Aug, 2014
Caroline Bowditch, Welly O’Brien and Nicole Guarino provide a wonderful evening in a cosy little room at Dance Base: it’s not very often a full house can consist of twelve peop…
O is for Ofsted
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 18th Aug, 2014
Ofsted inspections are generally not much fun.
Violetta's Last Tango
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ghillie Dhu
- 17th Aug, 2014
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
MacBheatha
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 19th Aug, 2014
Summerhall’s steeply tiered Demonstration Room gives off the air of an amphitheatre, but its back wall houses very modern projections.
The Other Guys: Afternoon Delight
- Review
- ★★★
- Charlotte Ivers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Boards
- 16th Aug, 2014
The Other Guys: Afternoon Delight is an enjoyable and light hearted a capella show.
Blastocyst.org.uk Presents...
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gryphon@WestEnd
- 11th - 15th Aug 2014
A variety show with comedians and actors talking .
The Hacienda Tales
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 19th Aug, 2014
Canterbury may have one of the world’s most famous cathedrals, but Manchester had the Hacienda.
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.
Consort of Voices presents
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canongate Kirk
- 9th Aug 2014
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk in the Royal Mile for their sixth appearance at the Fringe, and present a varied choral programme of items from both sides of the Twe…
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.
Miann
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2014
Soiled bodies writhe across across a primordial swamp in earthbound exploration, rising from time to time in contorted gestures.
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…
Cafe Voices
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 12th Aug, 2014
Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling.
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 …
Hendrick's Parlour Bar
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge
- 31st Aug, 2014
“Immersive theatre productions tend to operate in dynamically fluid settings, allowing the audience a more active, voyeuristic, and central role, while also individualizing their…
National Collective Presents...
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 7th - 23rd Aug 2014
As the date of Scotland’s Referendum fast approaches, National Collective presents a series of entertaining and informative performances, speakers and discussions to inspire deba…
SHOUT! The Mod Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 19th Aug, 2014
Bored with Berkoff? Choking on Chekhov? Fed-up with Feydeau? “Don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’, don’t stand in the pouring rain.
Ladies Live Longer: Volunteerology
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 6th - 22nd Aug 2014
Award-winning Ladies Live Longer return with a brand new cult.
Rock Trial
- Review
- ★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 7th Aug, 2014
Forget the defendant, it is the cast of this excruciating production who should be in the dock.
BBC: BBC Presents…
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 3rd - 23rd Aug 2014
Familiar BBC faces present their pick of the Edinburgh Festivals.
Nunsense
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 8th Aug, 2014
“I always had a good experience with nuns,” said Dan Coggins, who wrote the book, music and lyrics we all know as Nunsense to show us what nuns are “really like.
A Robot Presents Comedy - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2014
The future.
BBC: BBC Presents… Cabaret!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 2nd Aug 2014
We present our pick of the newest, biggest and best cabaret acts.
Jukebox presents Late and Loud
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lulu
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
Late and Loud presents BBC Radio’s Edith Bowman and Chris Stark along with TV funny man Russell Kane for a series of Jukebox takeovers.
Just Deserts Presents Waiting for Leo's Oscar
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Canons’ Gait
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2014
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
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.
Richard Tyrone Jones: Crap Time Lord
- Review
- ★★★★
- Will Pope
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilgrim
- 5th Aug, 2014
Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe…
Katia Kvinge presents Karacters
- Review
- ★★★
- Will Jackson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Globe Bar
- 7th Aug, 2014
Katia Kvinge is straight out of The Second City, Groundlings and UCB Theatre.
Holestar Presents Sorry I'm a Lady
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Street
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2014
Sorry I’m a Lady traces how Holestar, ‘London’s favourite Tranny with a Fanny’ (Time Out), left school without qualifications, joined the army and went on to become a brothel recep…
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
‘Boogie-woogie.
Little Wheel presents: Confused About Y-Fronts!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hotel Ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2014
Are you confused by life? Do you miss Y-fronts? Did you even realise they were gone? Ever wonder what a live sex show is like, or how accountants chat girls up? Are you worried abo…
Things from Before Pt. 4
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 9th Aug, 2014
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
Milk Presents: Self Service
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stewart McLaren
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 20th Aug, 2014
Suitably advertised as a punk-style voyage, this is a raucous hour of cabaret, humour and profound insights into the connotations of the word ‘queer’.
Richard Tyrone Jones: What the F*ck is This?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 13th Aug, 2014
In the bowels of Banshee Labyrinth lurk the most unlikely of creatures, and none more terrifying nor outlandish as Richard Tyrone.
The Breakfast Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
World class morning variety that rocks the whole family.
Richard Brown: This Is Not for You
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hotel Ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour.
The Oxford Revue Presents – Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Hamish Hartnoll
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Jam House
- 8th Aug, 2014
For a free sketch show you can’t go wrong with Oxford Revue’s free accompaniment to its main show.
The Caddington Affair
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 6th Aug, 2014
The boys of Tiffin School are in town and look set to make a huge impact with The Caddington Affair, one of two devised pieces presented by different groups of year 12 A Level st…
The Noctambulist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 9th Aug, 2014
This is a rock-solid, totally refreshing naturalist drama performed by outstanding actors.
Beat a Maxx Presents: Project You
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Opal Lounge
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
Tickled Pig Presents: So Hot Right Now
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Ryrie’s
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2014
Three fine comedians who are all just so hot right now are upstairs in a pub somewhere telling jokes.
Tea Time Story
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 4th Aug, 2014
How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use.
Mercedes Benson Presents... The Pleasure is Yours
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St John’s
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2014
Mercedes Benson takes a break from shopping in Lidl to introduce some of her closest friends.
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.
Tickled Pig Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Tickled Pig (Time Out’s Critic’s Choice) presents Edd Hedges (So You Think You’re Funny winner 2013), Robbie Ormrod, ‘top-notch performer’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
An Extraordinary Light
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2014
“The Nobel prize, by canonising individuals, disguises the truth that they are all, in Newton’s famous phrase, standing ‘on giants’ shoulders’ and on each other’s as well.
Edinburgh Jews
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- National Library of Scotland Maps
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Edinburgh Jews is an exhibition originally compiled by two students at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity.
Evil
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
Jesper Arin, who performs this one-man play, stood at the exit to the theatre as the audience left.
#The Cult of Comedy presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 17th Aug 2014
10 minute tasters from four and five star shows, with exciting emerging talent.
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.
Forty-Five Minutes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 9th Aug, 2014
Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance.
Faith
- Review
- ★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 8th Aug, 2014
Faith is based on the story of Imber, a village which had the misfortune to be located too near to a military base on Salisbury Plain.
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…
Error 404
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 31st Aug, 2014
“Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.
Dr Ettrick-Hogg Presents The Bite - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
This is the show you’ll be telling people about in five years time.
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.
Laugh Train Home Presents: Dropkick Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Laugh Train Home brings together its favourite acts, with a different line-up each day, MC’d by Robyn Perkins.
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 6th Aug, 2014
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers made a successful debut at last year’s Fringe and are back again this year with another varied programme of short dances.
Richard Gadd: Breaking Gadd
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jane Thompson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 10th Aug, 2014
Richard Gadd is a deeply disturbed young man.
Luisa Omielan... Am I Right Ladies?!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th Aug, 2014
After the success of her previous show, What Would Beyoncé Do?! Luisa Omielan has returned to Edinburgh with a brand new stand-up act, Am I Right Ladies? It’s a loud and crude t…
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.
Olaudah Equiano: The Enslaved African
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 4th Aug, 2014
The spoken content of this play, written and directed by Adam Tulloch, is minimal; the direction is bold and brave.
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.
Ken Crystal Afternoon Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Grab a beer, nurse your hangover and relax.
Gambit Theatre Presents: Contrast
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 5th Aug, 2014
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
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 …
Man Enough
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
- 5th Aug, 2014
Chris is 18 years old, gay, and in search of fun and attention.
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…
Afternoon Delight
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 23rd Aug, 2014
Overwhelming as the Festival is, it’s a good to try a pick-and-mix of shows.
Backfat Presents Choice Cuts
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield
- 31st Jul 2014 - 31st Jul 2015
Emily Winter, Janet Manley and John Payne host this variety show in support of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, with performances from Dave Hill, Michelle Wolf, Colin Nissan, Mark No…
The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 8th Aug, 2014
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon.
A Virgin's Guide To... Rocky Horror
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 13th Aug, 2014
“This is not The Rocky Horror Show stage production” - a significant point of clarification in the Fringe programme lest anyone might think that this is the real thing.
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.
Pennyroyal
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 8th Aug, 2014
This is one for all the lads who have ever had girlfriends problems, all the lassies who have had to put up with boyfriends, and anyone who likes tea.
Thomas Pocket presents: Me (Oscar Jenkyn-Jones)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Thomas Pocket presents: Me (Oscar Jenkyn-Jones) is the debut solo show from exciting young absurdist Oscar Jenkyn-Jones.
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.
Eddie Hoo: Angry in the Afternoon - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Offensive and outrageous comedy.
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.
Ali Brice Presents: Eric Meat Wants to Go Shopping
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
The star of Weirdo’s cult hit The Colonel, Ali Brice brings his long-overdue, hotly anticipated and ridiculously silly debut show to Edinburgh.
Ian Fox Presents The Unsearchables - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Milo Boyd
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 20th Aug, 2014
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google.
101 Comedy Club - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
‘Funny.
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…
Seymour Mace presents Questionable Time!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club V
- 30th Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Get down to The Stand for a brand-new psychological, philosophical and largely nonsensical comedy panel show.
Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2014
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
Hancock’s Last Half Hour by Heathcote Williams
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 3rd Aug, 2014
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
MenSWEAR Collection: Three, Two, F*ck
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 1st Aug, 2014
What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally…
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenny Williams
- London Fringe
- St Paul’s Church
- 15th Jul, 2014
There may be questions surrounding his historical accuracy, but there can be no denying that Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most fascinating and entertaining of Englis…
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.
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.
Sahaja Yoga Presents: Sacred World Music
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jinan Petra Golley
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 31st May, 2014
Sitting in the pews of Brighton’s Unitarian Church and readying myself for an evening of devotional music largely centred on Hindu and Sufi traditions, I felt slightly dubious.
How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 24th May 2014
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
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.
Venue B
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 24th - 31st May 2014
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- To be discovered…
- 24th - 25th May 2014
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
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 …
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.
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.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra presents Merry Mount
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
- 7th May 2014
Howard Hanson was the longtime director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and this excellent ensemble honors him with a rare performance of this vivid, grand opera, base…
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.
Afternoon Recital with Helen Burford
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 4th May 2014
Outstanding pianist, Helen Burford, presents an afternoon recital programme of solo works by Haydn, Scarlatti, Martin Butler and the European premiere of Julie Harris’ American Tri…
Afternoon Recital with Helen Burford
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 4th May 2014
Outstanding young pianist,Helen Burford,returns to the Brighton Fringe with a programme of classical and contemporary solo piano music,including works by Bach,Brubeck,Kapustin and …
Am I Right Ladies?!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Corinne O’Sullivan
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 20th May, 2014
How much can you expect from a free comedy show at the Brighton Fringe? A lot, as it turns out, as comedienne Luisa Omielan, fresh from her critically applauded touring show What W…
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.
The Cult of Comedy Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Blue Man
- 3rd - 25th May 2014
Showcasing the best Brighton Fringe has to offer with different comedians every night.
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).
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
Brooklyn Comedy Festival Presents: An Evening in the City
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- SubCulture: Arts Underground
- 2nd May 2014
The producers of last year’s inaugural Brooklyn Comedy Festival continue their cultivation of the city’s best comedy.
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.
Richard Goode
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
- 1st May 2014
This superlative pianist is an insightful interpreter of a range of repertory.
Cosí Fan Tutte
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
- 23rd Apr 2014 - 30th Apr 2015
After more than two years out of action because of various illnesses and accidents, James Levine returned triumphantly to the Metropolitan Opera in September conducting a revival o…
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.
The Cliff
- Review
- ★★★
- Brett Herriot
- Edinburgh
- St. Augustine’s Studio Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2014
Michael Shand’s new one-hour play starts with two men visiting the edge of the cliff from which their friend fell a year before.
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★
- Bryony Clarke
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Blue Elephant Theatre / Secret Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2012
It was once thought that school productions of Shakespeare plays were for the enjoyment of supportive parents and few others.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
IdeasTap Presents: Getting to Grips With Producing
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug 2013
Find out from a panel of industry experts what it takes to be a successful producer, receive invaluable advice and tips on funding, marketing and project development.
Così Fan Tutte
- Review
- ★★★★
- Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2013
Modernisations are always tricky.
BBC: The Richard Bacon Programme
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug 2013
BBC 5 Live’s Richard Bacon presents his show from the BBC’s venue at the Edinburgh Festivals. Join him for big name guests and topical debate.
University of Westminster Presents... Body Odours
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th - 24th Aug 2013
Drama - dra-ma. noun: a play for theatre, radio, or television. Such works as a genre or style of literature.
Utter! Presents... Identity Mix-Up
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Joe Walsh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
I don’t think I’ve felt as privileged to be in a performer’s company at a Fringe show as I felt when watching Keith Jarrett.
Afternoon Delight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th - 25th Aug 2013
Three men weave together enthralling, hilarious narratives and jokes.
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…
Black Rubix Theatre Presents: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster
- Review
- ★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
Blues! Live at Venue 45
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th - 22nd Aug 2013
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
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.
Medea
- Review
- ★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Many readers will be familiar with the experience of almost falling asleep in a lecture theatre; it is probably less common for the urge to arise while a Greek tragedy is in full s…
Tony Benn and Richard Holloway: Two Old Gits
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
Joshua Seigal Presents the Legend of Ooshus Magooshus (And Lots of Other Poems)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lia Sanders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
One can’t help but like Joshua Seigal.
An Afternoon of Playback Theatre
- Listing Theatre / Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 17th Aug 2013
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
Wing It, Dusty
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
As Deidre and Veronica awake on their wedding day, the action of this show takes place in a bedroom with conversation ranging from Deirdre’s love of Julie Andrews to Veronica’s ins…
All the King's Men Presents
- Review
- ★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Sonica Presents Sven Werner's Tales of Magical Realism
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 25th Aug 2013
Werner’s atmospheric installation takes you on an illusion-fuelled journey to darkly poetic places.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Buonasera!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 24th Aug 2013
Let our flamboyant troupe take you on a holiday where the sun is warm, the nights passionate and the pasta always al dente.
Humza Arshad presents Diary of a Badman
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th - 25th Aug 2013
With 47+ million YouTube views, DOABM is Arshad’s hysterical take on what life is like for a young British Pakistani Muslim.
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.
TO&ST in the Afternoon
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th - 21st Aug 2013
As TO&ST – the Time Out and Soho Theatre Edinburgh Cabaret Award – returns for its second year, join jury member and Time Out London cabaret editor Ben Walters for a weekly loo…
Hamelin: The Last Child
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
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.
Charlie Dupré Presents: The Stories of Shakey P
- Review
- ★★★★
- Nina Glencross
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
The idea of using rap as a linguistic art form to present a ‘playful reimagining’ of many of Shakespeare’s finest work is something young Charlie Dupré successfully pulls of…
Charlie Dupré Presents... The Stories of Shakey P
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Spoken word and rap artist Charlie Dupre comes on stage to the strains of cello and violin, an accompaniment that is perhaps a little at odds with his casual hip-hop style and deli…
Richard Wiseman: Psychobabble
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Richard Wiseman’s Psychobabble feels like an assembly.
Casual Violence Presents: House of Nostril
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Jamie Hamilton is an energetic and inventive sketch writer, with an unusual ability to take conventions from other genres and spin them until they become surreal.
Richard Wiseman - Psychobabble
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug 2013
Best-selling author, psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman rummages around in your mind.
Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb.
All That Malarkey Presents...
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 9th Aug 2013
Dazzlingly versatile, All That Malarkey’s repertoire spans operatic classics to R&B, musical theatre to cheesy pop, jazz standards to their own original material and much more! A…
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.
The Oxford Revue Presents - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
Paul F Taylor Presents The Greatest Show In The World Ever
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Banks
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
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.
Mansfield Presents Lovers' Vows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 17th Aug 2013
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, chapter 14.
Bristol Improv Presents... / PBH's Free Fringe
- Review
- ★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
Yurtakids! Presents Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★
- Lia Sanders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
This is Cinderella, but not as you know it.
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.
Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores
- Review
- ★★★★
- Beth Cochrane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Wonderfully dark and disturbing, Richard Gadd has come to Edinburgh’s Free Fringe not only to make his audience cry with laughter, but also to push the boundaries of physical com…
Boredom
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Two girls dressed in leopard print belong in what must be the most boring world possible and for one whole hour let us in on how they pass the time.
Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH's Free Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Beth Cochrane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2013
Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the…
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.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bryce Lucas
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
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.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catherine Bryer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
Crying Out Loud presents La Poème
- Review
- ★★★★
- Steven Fraser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
At only thirty minutes long, La Poeme may seem short in length, but the performance manages to fit as many engaging images into this short time span as is humanly possible.
Crying Out Loud presents l'Après-midi d'un Foehn - Version 1
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Nanna Gunnars
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Although listed as a children show and only 25 minutes long, this beautiful but simple production certainly made an impact on the audience members, no matter what their age was.
Bruce Fummey - Gaelic in the Afternoon
- Review
- ★★★
- Mathew Tansini
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Bruce Fummey’s show is a chronicle of his learning the native language of Scotland.
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.
Chaos By Design
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Rape is a crime against humanity, especially when used as a weapon of war.
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.
Grated Expectations
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
For those who are not experts in Dickensian literature, Grated Expectations might well prove hard to understand.
Sonica Presents Robbie Thomson's Ecstatic Arc
- Review
- ★★★★
- Steven Fraser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
From 11am to 6pm, Robbie Thomson’s Ecstatic Arc is just a regular art installation in the Library Gallery in the Summerhall venue.
The Principle of Uncertainty
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
In The Principle of Uncertainty we have a physics lecture on Quantum Mechanics containing live music with the premise that the only certainty is that nothing in the universe is cer…
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.
Ruby Heart Entertainment Presents an All Star Diva Tribute Show
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2013
Ruby Heart Entertainment presents an all-star diva tribute show each night of the week, including world famous divas Adele, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga and Jessie J.
Will Sidgwick Presents Will Sidgwick - Live
- Review
- ★★
- Melinda Hughes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Will Sidgwick is very new to stand up, having been on the scene for under a year and he clearly has a lot to learn about material and originality.
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.
Hound Dog
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Although far from perfect, this is a pleasant and, at times, touching comedy about the stresses and strains of family life.
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.
Three Women
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Watching Three Women is immensely frustrating.
Seymour Mace Presents, Marmaduke Spatula’s F*ckin’ Spectacular Cabaret of Sunshine Show.
- Review
- ★★★
- Nanna Gunnars
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
I’m afraid I don’t particularly trust shows with exceptionally long titles that are self-claimed ‘spectacular’.
Pip Utton: Churchill
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Thirteen-O’Clock, Parliament Square, London.
Crying Out Loud presents Flown
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 26th Aug 2013
Flying drum kits, levitating ironing boards and swinging divas.
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.
Afternoon Delight
- Review
- ★★★
- Julia Oliphant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Afternoon Delight pitches itself as a good way to sample some of the comedy flavours going on at the Fringe.
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.
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.
Marcus Brigstocke presents Unavailable for Comment
- Review
- ★★★
- Mathew Tansini
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Unavailable for Comment, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke, is a news-based quiz and sketch show.
The Equal Opportunities Act 2010 Presents... Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Stand-up comedy that fulfils the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s diversity requirements all in one fantastic show.
Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
If you love a good story, then you’ll love this.
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…
Richard Digance
- Review
- ★★★
- Bryce Lucas
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
For fans of Richard Digance, his twenty-two show run at the Fringe is long overdue.
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…
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.
Romeo/Juliet
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre / Pleasance Theatre, London
- 13th Aug, 2013
Rarely has there been a version of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Afternoon Delight
- Review
- ★★★
- Susan Ford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Afternoon Delight is a watered down version of a big variety show, showcasing acts that will be performing at Just the Tonic this year.
Mammoth
- Review
- ★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
From Eastern Finland comes Mammoth which is most definitely an acquired taste.
Richard Herring - We're All Going to Die!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Joe Walsh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Oran Mor
- 4th Aug, 2013
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2013
‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist…
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.
WitTank presents The School
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
‘Bastardi Sumus Absolutam’ (‘We Are Absolute Bastards’) reads the school motto beneath the crest that welcomes the audience on arrival to WitTank’s The School.
Morning and Afternoon
- Review
- ★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
A cynic would suggest that a one-man show written and performed by an acclaimed director is one likely to fall into certain pitfalls; history is littered with those who have steppe…
God Bless Liz Lochhead
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
God Bless Liz Lochhead follows three failing actors who attempt to stage an adaptation of Tartuffe, 25 years after a disastrous tour of that production brought chaos to all their l…
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 …
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…
Executed for Sodomy: the Life Story of Caterina Linck
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Speir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
During the Fringe, a haven for ill equipped hastily prepared venues, it can be reassuring to witness a comedy show at a place dedicated to stand up all year round.
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…
Hinge Presents: Ordinary Things
- Review
- ★★★
- Alexis Macnab
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Hill Street venue has a great find in their ‘Master’s Room’ space and Hinge Theatre has installed itself there to present Ordinary Things: a two-actor, four character pla…
Richard Herring: Talking C*ck - The Second Coming
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alexander Boughton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Every man in the audience stiffened as a pulsating phallus inflated on the screen in front of us at the start of the show.
Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work.
Damion Larkin: Cuddly Loser
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Early in his set Cuddly Loser Damion Larkin describes himself as ‘five foot seven and made of pies.
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.
Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sue Denham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2005
Jessica Almasy is compulsive viewing, much like the material she delivers in her solo performance, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope).
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.
David O'Doherty Presents 403 Second Masterworks
- Review
- ★★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The format for this show is very simple.
Future Perfect Presents The Family Plot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Clarissa Widya
- London Fringe
- 21st Jun, 2013
Future Perfect is a writers’ collective that in several formations organise readings of their own work.
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…
Henning Wehn No Surrender
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
This is the second year running that I have seen a Fringe set by Henning Wehn – and although the man is a brilliant stand-up, the common threads running through his material are …
Hitler! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
Satirical portraits of Adolf Hitler have been around since Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’, through ‘The Producers’, to the Mr T Experience’s ‘Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend’.
Alfie Brown - The Love You Take
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2011
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
The Cheese and Pineapple Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah Verhaeg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2008
We are invited to a party.
Wondrous Flitting
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2011
The title of Wondrous Flitting is a double reference: it stands for both the miraculous appearance in 24-year-old waster Sam’s house of the Holy House of Loreto, a medieval site of…
Richard Herring - Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sue Denham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2010
This year, Richard Herring is resurrecting his first ever one-man Fringe show, Christ On A Bike, which he performed in 2001.
The Sugar Dandies: Ladies Not Required
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kevin Stevens
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2009
The Sugar Dandies are made up of loveable gay couple Soren and Bradley Stauffer Kruse.
Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle…
Chortle Presents: Fast Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ali Quaile
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Chortle has long been a staple for any keen comedy fan.
Night Heron
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun …
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 …
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carrie Rian Johnson
- London Fringe
- 13th Apr, 2013
Entering the theatre in the midst of a party it was clear that this was going to be an energetic play.
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.
Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev…
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.
Fee Fie Foe Fum
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Kids are a notoriously tough crowd.
Stitching
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Various media have opted for sex as the defining theme of this year’s Fringe, and a number of the shows I’ve been able to see are characterised by a clear-eyed recognition of the d…
Thomas Hardie Presents: Where's Thomas, Hardie?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catherine Anderson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Caroline Hardie is one half of the double act Thomas Hardie, presenting a mixture of stand-up comedy and sketches.
Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
It’s hard to fault this set by Ed Byrne, although it’s very tempting to do so.
Wednesday
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Brutality is hard to sustain onstage.
Paul Dabek Presents Thurston
- Review
- ★★★
- Larry Bartleet
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
This is a one-man show with a difference: the actor is also a magician.
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.
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…
Ladies Day
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Greg Smith
- Henley Fringe
- 19th Jul, 2012
Ladies Day charts the lives of four women working in a fish-filleting factory.
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.
Cheese-Badger presents... Midge (a Two-Man Musical) - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
Spent
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2011
Have you ever seen a man sweat through the back of a business suit? If that’s an experience in which your life is lacking, it’s one of many reasons why you might be interested in s…
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.
My Romantic History
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
‘Isn’t memory funny?’, comments Amy, one of the two main characters of DC Jackson’s My Romantic History.
Bec Hill Didn't Want to Play Your Stupid Game Anyway
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood.
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…
My Name is Richard
- Review
- ★★★★
- David Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2010
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
Bashir Lazhar
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
French-Canadian drama Bashir Lazhar draws its tension from the point at which two forms of loneliness intersect – that of an Algerian immigrant trying to make his way in a new wo…
Brazil! Brazil! Presents Favela Funk Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Heather Doughty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
As I followed the sound of salsa music into the grand ballroom at The Assembly Rooms, I have to admit I felt a little underdressed in jeans and trainers.
Vocal Associates presents: Faybulous!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Bartlett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
The Vocal Associates bring distinguished composer Tony Makarome’s musical adaptation of Aesop’s fables to this year’s Fringe.
Henning Wehn - My Struggle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Henning Wehn might be the most bizarre stand-up comedian I have ever seen, but I think that’s intentional.
Hinge Presents: Scooped
- Review
- ★★★★
- Cai Trefor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Scooped is a re-working of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, Scoop; the adaptation was directed by Katie Lambert and written in collaboration with her cast.
Last Easter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
Mr Kolpert
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Adapted from a 1990s German play by David Geiselmann, this student production is a thrilling race through the cruelty and aggression underlying social etiquette.
David O'Doherty Presents: Rory Sheridan's Tales of The Antarctica
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
David ‘Perrier Award winning’ O’Doherty has grown a beard especially for his role as the intrepid – read: inept - explorer Rory Sheridan.
Project Adorno's Top Ten of Popular Culture
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
Emma Thompson presents: Fair Trade
- Review
- ★★★★
- Matt Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2010
To have a tagline from Emma Thompson, undoubtedly a belle of British cinema, is to wield a hefty endorsement.
Claire Benjamin Presents The Von Trapp Family Singers
- Review
- ★★
- Gordon Noele
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
Sometimes a title of a show can be so specific in its subject matter that it can pull the audience in and deliver exactly what they expect to see.
Chris Martin: No. Not That One
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
Chris Addison
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Picture Chris Addison in your mind for a minute.
Richard Thompson in Concert
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
There are 21 Richard Thompsons listed in Wikipedia, including a Conservative baronet, a racing driver and a Warner Bros animator.
Ladies of the Sacred Heart
- Review
- ★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Not another comedy about nuns! I cried, being one of those people who dont find nuns intrinsically amusing, but I must confess I found it difficult to suppress a giggle when the …
Richard Herring ménage à un
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2006
Richard Herring returns to Edinburgh with his 21st show in 15 years.
Pork
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
David Egan’s Pork is an interesting stab at an interesting topic; set in a future dystopia where pigs live side by side with feral humans in a sinister charitable enclave known onl…
Lach: The Day I Went Insane
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Previous reviewers have compared Lach to Woody Allen and Woody Guthrie, and while these two are good reference points I’d like to start by pointing out just how much he looks, and …
National Theatre of Scotland Presents Love Letters to the Public Transport System By Molly Taylor
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Caligula
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Although his writing is poetry as much as philosophy, there is a danger that any performance of a work by Albert Camus might neglect the more intriguingly human aspects of his lite…
Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Having watched Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice, you find yourself trying to work out what it is exactly you have just seen.
Sherica
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
Last year, Wednesday by Ian Winterton was one of my picks of the Fringe.
Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes…
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.
Body of Water
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
There’s a comedy show at this year’s Fringe entitled All Young People Are C*nts.
Grant's True Tales Presents Spark London Storytelling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
If everyone has a story to tell, one that’s worth listening to, then why is it that the only stories that shift copies off shelves and set Twitter alight are the births, marriage…
Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2012
Storyteller’s Club was the friendliest stand-up night I’ve ever been to.
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.
'Dream Man' by James Carroll Pickett
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
Aaron Berg Presents Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2007
This performance is by a group of students from Stanford University in California.
Music Bugs Presents It's Carnival Time...
- Review
- ★★★
- David Knowles
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Music Bugs is a company which provides music classes for ‘babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers’, an age group whose three primary occupations seem to be screaming, laughing and f…
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.
Richard O'Brien's Mephistopheles Smith
- Review
- ★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2007
Having seen the Janus Theatre Company productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, perhaps my expectations were simply too high for Mephistopheles …
Andi Osho: All the Single Ladies
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Priestnall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2011
Andi Osho, the rising female comedian famous for her appearances on Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, is taking to pieces what it means to be a single lady in…
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…
Carnivale
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
If you’ve ever seen or read JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls you’ll be broadly familiar with the message of UnWish Theatre’s Carnivale, a dinner party with a difference where the …
Random History of Rock'n'Roll in Middle English, by Geoff Chaucer Junior
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
Ladies Live Longer: Ladylike
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Ladylike gets off to a rather standard start with an introduction to the double act’s caricatured personalities, which aren’t anything novel: Victoria Temple-Morris is arrogant…
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…
Josie Long: Be Honourable!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
Apples
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Adapted from Richard Milward’s 2006 novel, Apples is a slice of teen life in all its grottiness, expanded to cartoonish proportions from a starting point of Northern reality.
Richard Herring: What is Love Anyway?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov…
Don't Call Us We'll Call You
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
Ladies In Waiting: Brownie Re-union
- Review
- ★★
- Gordon Johnston
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2008
Set in what could be an authentic Guide hut in the Pleasance, this show is built around a 25th reunion of an 80’s Brownie troop as Brown Owl looks back at her girls and we get to s…
The Meeting
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Reuben Johnson’s The Meeting commands a strong central performance by Reuben Johnson, speaking the lines of Reuben Johnson under the keen directorial eye of Reuben Johnson.
The Gilded Red Cage
- Review
- ★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
I actually feel guilty about disliking this play so much.
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…
Tim Turnbull's Tales of Terror - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t…
Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2011
‘I wuv you with the intensity of a thousand suns,’ yells Will (Jack Swain) in Misshapen Theatre’s Phillipa And Will Are Now In A Relationship, a romantic comedy told entirely throu…
Richard Parker
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sujana Upadhyay
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2011
Welsh-born playwright Owen Thomas’ newest play, Richard Parker, explores coincidence – is our life really a series of coincidences, or are they just products of us over-analysi…
Watch This Presents: Nothing to Show
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rob Marks
- UK Regional & Tours
- 7th Jun, 2010
Heres a trade secret for you, readers at home: reviewing comedy is the hardest part of this job.
Richard III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Leon Conrad
- London Fringe
- 3rd Apr, 2011
There are places which have unquestionable resonance.
Pink Noise by FORK
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2011
There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the…
Threshold
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
Some would say the journey is more important than the destination, but this rule doesn’t apply to 19;29’s Threshold, a choose-your-own-adventure psychodrama presenting the implosio…
Gary Delaney: Purist
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2010
Most comedy shows, like most reviews, come with some kind of inbuilt narrative, some trajectory from A to B that allows the performer to hook on their best jokes, anecdotes and obs…
Eccentronic presents: Neurovision
- Review
- ★★★
- Amelia Charman
- Brighton Fringe
- 13th May, 2013
Audience’s experienced what an acid trip in the middle of the afternoon must feel like with Croydon’s number one electro-comedy duo Eccentronic.
Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman.
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.
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.
The Humour League Presents - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.
The National
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2011
There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an…
Frisky and Mannish: The College Years
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
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.
Man Who Was Thursday
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them.
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.
Withered Hand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
‘I’m Withered Hand, and these are my friends’, announces Dan Willson as his three-piece backing band join him on the stage of the Electric Circus.
Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter To Richard Branson
- Review
- ★★★★
- Adam Harwood
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2009
The title of this show hides nothing about its content, as bubbly Northerner Tom Wrigglesworth recounts his tales of woe and confusion on the 10.
The Degenerates
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
In a dystopian future society where all homosexuals are ‘rehabilitated’ by being forced to have straight sex in a sinister hostel, one man and one woman do a lot of shouting in Rib…
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 …
Mandrake
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2010
The Mandrake charts familiar territory for a Renaissance city comedy cuckoldry, trickery, and professional stereotypes but as might be expected from a play by Machiavelli, th…
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
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.
BattleActs! Presents...
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lexie Wilson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Before the acts even take to the stage the atmosphere anticipating Battle Acts! Present is electric.
The Tempest
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2010
Aces High promise a radical, multimedia, re-gendered re-imagination of The Tempest, but deliver a bit of a damp squib, something more like a light drizzle or a power shower when th…
Allsopp and Henderson's The Jinglists
- Review
- ★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Comedy is subjective a cliché the truth of which I’d never truly experienced before seeing Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists.
The London Jam Presents Game of Death
- Review
- ★★★★
- Clarissa Widya
- London Fringe
- 27th Jan, 2014
Jacob Banigan is a Canadian who works with Theater Im Bahnhof and English Lovers in Austria, but on the Park Theatre stage Banigan performed his one man show Game of Death.
The Real Daniel O'Donnell Show Presents: The Clock Hour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gill Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2008
Narrator Avis Sherman (Michael Legge) introduces the plan twelve twisted tales.
The Factory Presents The Odyssey at The London Jam
- Review
- ★★★
- Clarissa Widya
- London Fringe
- 23rd Jan, 2014
The Factory Theatre presented The Odyssey as part of the London Jam at the Park Theatre.
Why We Ate Cliff Richard
- Review
- ★★★
- Gill Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2008
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
The London Jam Presents Abandoman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Clarissa Widya
- London Fringe
- 22nd Jan, 2014
This week Park Theatre in Finsbury is hosting The London Jam, a festival celebrating improvisation talent.
Vaudeville Cabaret Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2007
It’s an all too familiar, but unfortunate, story for a reviewer.
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…
Guilt & Shame
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Guilt and Shame is a sketch show about the failure of a sketch show, or more specifically its utter breakdown.
Terry Pratchett's Lords And Ladies
- Review
- ★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2009
Terry Pratchetts Lords And Ladies is part of his hugely successful Discworld series.
Hinge Presents: Dorian
- Review
- ★★★★
- Abigail Lewis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Hinge Theatre’s Dorian is a stage adaptation of Will Self’s novel Dorian, itself an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde original, The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
Grant's True Tales Presents The Liar Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Fans of Would I Lie To You? will need no prompting to visit this ingenious variation on the theme of Spot the Porker, in which four storytellers by turns deliver 10-15 minute solo …
In This Lonely Town
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Andrianna Smela and her accompanist Maria Dessena are classically trained musicians playing cabaret music, and my main gripe with this programme of the songs of Kurt Weill and othe…
St Andrews Presents - Blind Mirth Improv Comedy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Joshua Hepple
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
This is improvisation at it’s best.
Ragamala Dance Presents Yathra (Journey)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Leon Conrad
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2009
The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance.
Dance Base Presents.. Norman Douglas, Jem Treays & Janis Claxton
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2006
This was the last of the Dance Base medley of choreographers that I caught and, by far, the most exhilarating.
Dance Base Presents... Iskandar, Curve Foundation, Karl Jay-Lewin & Michael Popper
- Review
- ★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2006
Show 1 of Dance Bases 2006 Fringe performances consists of four separate pieces by Iskandar Dance Company, Karl Jay-Lewin Company, Michael Popper and the Curve Foundation respect…
An Evening With David Sedaris
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2011
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
Dance Base Presents... Freshmess, X Factor & Samudra
- Review
- ★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2006
Dance Base presents three different pieces by three very different companies.
Dance Base Presents... Rosie Kay Dance Companys The Wild Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2006
Joseph Moncure Marchs poem, The Wild Party, has been the inspiration for everything from films to plays.
Off the Cuff Presents: The Village
- Review
- ★★
- Vanessa Murray
- Brighton Fringe
- 6th May, 2012
In a tiny venue, with an even smaller audience Off the Cuff was faced with a difficult challenge for their late night improvised comedy act.
An Afternoon with John and Camilla Cleese hosted by Fred MacAulay
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 25th Aug 2018
Join us for a very special Edinburgh Festival Fringe event – an afternoon with John Cleese and his daughter Camilla, hosted by comedian Fred MacAulay.
Nightvision x Kölsch presents IPSO – Fringe Closing Party
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 24th Aug 2019
Marking the closing weekend of the Edinburgh Fringe, the legendary Kölsch is bringing his fresh new international party, IPSO, to the capital for one night only.
BRA Presents: The News in Brief
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma
- 6th - 7th Aug 2019
Good Evening and welcome to BRA News.
In Memory of the Ladies of Jazz
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
Feel the Spirit at Centennial Park Cemetery as you travel along your own ‘journey’ at the awakening of the ladies of Jazz and Gospel.
It's Me, Richard Wright, I'm the Problem It's Me
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
Jarvis Cocker presents JARV IS...
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 22nd Aug 2019
JARV is an experiment JARV is a night to remember JARV is a live experience with no barriers JARV is .
Club Gotham: Villains of Vaudeville
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
The Dark Knight keeps watch over our city.
I Am Yours Sincerely, Major John Cox MC
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Jun, 2024
Ed Saunders-Lee writes about the research and background to creating his solo show, I Am Yours Sincerely, on the life of his step-grandfather, Major John Cox MC.
Don’t Put Your Mother On The Stage
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 27th May, 2024
Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too
Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th May, 2024
Gabriele Uboldi write about Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto
Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- 23rd May, 2024
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about...
Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Opens
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th May, 2024
Submissions are now open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024
Brendan Shelly - A Lifetime in the Making
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 15th May, 2024
Brendan Shelly talks about Ageless Arts' inaugural production, Porridge Boy at the Greenwich Theatre .
Frozen: Where Right and Wrong Melt Into One
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 26th Apr, 2024
We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play.
Edward Oulton: Young, Northern and Hopeful with £45,000
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- 8th Apr, 2024
Richard Beck met up with Edward Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre.
The British Theatre Challenge 2024
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 8th Apr, 2024
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
BYMT and Ellie Jones take on Animal Farm
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- 1st Apr, 2024
We talk to Ellie Jones and some of the cast about her production of Animal Farm for BYMT.
Barry McStay: My Story of Breeding
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 30th Mar, 2024
Barry McStay tells us about his experience of writing and revising his play, Breeding
Comedian Lama Alfard - Self-Confessed Total Badass Who Truly Stands Out
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- World Tours
- 11th Mar, 2024
We talk to Lama Alfard about her career in comedy.
FemFestBrighton Celebrates Five Fabulous Years
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Brighton
- 29th Feb, 2024
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
Merging Metatheatre, Autofiction and Necrophilia
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 2nd Feb, 2024
We interview the director and cast of Sergio Blanco's When You Pass Over My Tomb at the Arcola Theatre.
EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Jan, 2024
EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens
From Lady to Gentleman - That's Shalott
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 28th Dec, 2023
We interview Gareth Watkins about his exciting new play The Gentleman of Shallot.
Greenside Vacates Old Town Infirmary Street in Move to New Town George Street
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Dec, 2023
Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe.
VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 28th Nov, 2023
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
Cocktails, Concerts and Carols at St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- West End
- 25th Nov, 2023
St Martin's-in-the-Fields announces it Christmas celebrations.
Malevo: From La Pampa To The Peacock
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 28th Oct, 2023
Argentine dance sensation Malevo perform at the Peacock Thatre.
What Price A Slice of Bread?
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 15th Oct, 2023
This week The Loaf by Alan Booty opens at The Bridge House Theatre in Penge, SE20. We spoke to him about his background, the play and its development.
Plays and Panto in Penge
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 10th Sep, 2023
The Bridge House Theatre, Penge announces its autumn/winter programme.
Wandsworth Announces Fringe Funding
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 10th Sep, 2023
Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2024 is now open for declarations of interest and grant application
VAULT Not Opening
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 6th Sep, 2023
VAULT Festival 2024 will not go ahead.
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.
Breaking the Sterotype
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2023
We reunited Lithuanian writer, Gintare Parulyte and Croatian-American performer Kristin Winters to talk online about the one-woman show, Lovefool, they have created and are now bri...
Georgie Carroll Nurses Her Debut
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
Georgie Carroll talks to us about her debut show, Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Claire Woolner: Pee Power
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
Claire Woolner, the LA-based absurdist comedian, performance artist and surrealist clown, talks about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe
Kerry Ipema and KK Apple: Risk Peeing Your Pants
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks.
Pitch: Being Queer and Loving the Beautiful Game
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
Nell Bailey, Artistic Director of November Theatre talks about the company's new play, Pitch at the Edinburgh Fringe.
17 Minutes- The Afermath of a Shooting
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
We invited playwright Scott Organ to tell us about 17 Minutes at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mervyn Stutter: Fun and Choas Outside a Phone Box
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
Mervyn Stutter talks to us about his 31st year at the Fringe, how things have changed and his show, Pick of the Fringe
Emma Taylor: Making a Revue from the News
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
The Empowerment of Edinburgh Fringe
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul, 2023
We asked Charlotte Anne-Tilley to reflect upon her journey to becoming an actor/writer prior to opening with her show Almost Adult at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Clare Cockburn Blossoms With Her Rose
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Jul, 2023
We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Ed Edwards: Assassinating Michael Gove
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Jul, 2023
Ed Edwards gives some observations loosely connected to his new play England & Son at this year's Edinburgh Fringe
Chris Grace Performs a Trilogy
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Jul, 2023
Chris Grace is performing in three shows this Fringe: Chris Grace As Scarlett Johannson; Shamilton and Baby Wants Candy all at Assembly George Square.
Paige Wilhide: Break Up and Empower Yourself
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Jul, 2023
Paige Wilhide performs for the first time outside of the USA with her show Breakup Addict at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Jenny Foulds: Dancing on Sticky Floors
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Jul, 2023
Established spoken word performer Jenny Foulds talks about her show, Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human at the Edinburgh Fringe nd her life so far.
Cast and Crew Set to Crash and Burn
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Jul, 2023
I met up with Playwright/Actor Will Leckie, Director Zoë Morris and the cast to talk about their play, Crash and Burn at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Liz Toonkel: Vegan Magic with a Mission
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jul, 2023
We talked with Liz Toonkel about her show, Magic for Animals, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Falling In Love Again - With Clowns
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jul, 2023
Quebec clowns Rémi Jacques and Jean-Félix Bélanger talk about their art ahead of their show, Brotipo, opeining at the Edinburgh Fringe
Anu Vaidyanathan: Butter Chicken Is A Conspiracy
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jul, 2023
Anu Vaidyanathan talks about her show, Blimp, at the Edinburgh Fringe and the many influences on her life and achievements.
Phil Green: Four Weddings & A Breakdown
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jul, 2023
We talked to Phil Green about his background and his show, Four Weddings & A Breakdown at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Lily Wolff Gives Mary Lincoln a Voice
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Jul, 2023
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks with director Lily Wolff, who is bringing Mrs President to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Rebecca McGlynn: Toxic Masculinity, Gender Identity & Singing Penises
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Jul, 2023
Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Lisa Verlo: Making Up For Lost Time
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Jul, 2023
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
Catherine DuBord Takes On The Last Flapper
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Jul, 2023
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Chopped Liver and Unions -The London Matchgirls' Strike
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Jul, 2023
Richard Beck speaks to Lottie Walker about her Edinburgh Fringe play Chopped Liver and Unions, celebrating one of the early pioneers of women union leaders, the Ukranian Jewish...
Kevin Quantum: The Magic of Momentum
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Jul, 2023
Kevin Quantum talks about the science and magic that combine to make his show, Momentum.
Ted Kaczynski: Parole Board Performance
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Jul, 2023
John Lampe talks about turning eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski into the subject his musical The TUNEabomber that premiers at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Dennis Elkins - Life in a Cardboard Box
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Jul, 2023
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Maggie Widdoes - Explosive Piece of Ass
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Jul, 2023
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews US comedian Maggie Widdoes about her Tweets and forthcoming show Stay Big & Go Get 'Em at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Bordesley Balances the Brummie Budget - Bearly
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- 13th Jul, 2023
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, heads to Birmingham to meet, football mascot Bordesley (pictured), the newly-elected Leader of the Council and the team who created him for Stan'...
No Weird Brain, Just Matt Hale.
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Jul, 2023
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
Cogs set Wheel in Motion for Noah McCreadie
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 30th Jun, 2023
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews Noah McCreadie, director of Getaway/Runaway.
Romeo & Juliet Tours East-End Parks
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 25th Jun, 2023
The East London Shakespeare Festival (16 June - 13 Aug) promises a ‘summer of partying and love’ and a production of Romeo and Juliet that is ‘riotous and atmospheric’.
Cast and Director on Vincent River at Greenwich Theatre
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 23rd Jun, 2023
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
“Did I just hear that?” - Julian Starr.
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- 12th Jun, 2023
Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck
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.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sam Leishman
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2017
The final day! Richard's alcohol-fueled quest to find Edinburgh's best bar staff ends up at WestRoom, where he found Sam Leishman, a 20 year old Guinness drinker with a passion for...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Gavin Robertson
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2017
Richard didn't stumble far from yesterday's bar, Foundry 39, as just a few yards up Charlotte Lane he fell into Sygn, a trendy retro-style cocktail bar & diner where Edinburgh Bars...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Brown
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2017
Tucked on the corner of Queensferry Street and Charlotte Lane you'll find the ultra-hip bar and eatery, Foundry 39.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Nathan Hinze
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2017
Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene.
Summerhall’s army@TheFringe: An Affront to the Arts or an Ambitious Alliance?
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2017
The Army has set up camp for the first time at the Fringe and is stationed with Summerhall in its own premises.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Dale Welstead
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2017
In the heart of the Old Town, Cabaret Voltaire is a legendary live music venue in the vaults beneath North Bridge.
The Edinburgh Cocktail Festival is this Year’s New Kid on the Block
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh
- 24th Aug, 2017
Back in 1947 the founders of the Edinburgh International Festival could hardly have imagined what their legacy would be.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Lainey Corroon
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2017
The Three Sisters – renamed the Free Sisters during the Fringe – has long been a festival hub and a jewel in the crown of the Free Festival.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Erik Stenersen
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2017
Just around the corner from the iconic Greyfriar's Bobby you'll find the Oz Bar, and that's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Erik Stenersen.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Danny Smith
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2017
Edinburgh is Festival City for good reason, and amongst all the theatre, comedy, books and arts there's even a Scottish Gin Festival.
The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2017
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Denise Garland
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2017
Formerly a parsonage, Cloisters Bar is a uniquely traditional Edinburgh pub.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Maurice Penny
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2017
Just off the Royal Mile and Cowgate you'll find a craft beer shop and bar called the Salt Horse.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Tomas Germanavicius
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2017
The Heads & Tales bar is the home of Edinburgh Gin, and it's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Tomas Germanavicius, a Lithuanian who's a dab hand at mixing up a c...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Jay Weeks
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2017
Richard's headed over to Leith to the eclectic bar that is The Mousetrap where he finds today's Edinburgh Barstar, Jay Weeks.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Molly McCluskey
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2017
Richard is exploring Edinburgh's East End today to discover the Barstar of the Day at The Newsroom, where Glaswegian Molly McCluskey is making plans on photography while sipping a ...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Montse Pearce
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2017
Richard's headed south to Clerk Street where at the unique Dog House bar he's discovered today's Edinburgh Barstar, Montse Pearce, a Spanish-born artist with good taste in whisky.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sophie Malone
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2017
Just off George Street you'll find the Thistle Street Bar (the TSB as it's affectionally known).
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Donald McGhie
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2017
An authentic Tiki bar in the New Town? Richard popped on his hula skirt and hotfooted over to the Auld Reekie Tiki Bar to meet today's Edinburgh Barstar - Donald McGhie, former ban...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Briar Russell
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2017
Hidden away in the Old Town on Advocates Close you'll find The Devil's Advocate, and if you're lucky today's Edinburgh Barstar will also be on shift.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Alan Mulvihill
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2017
It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ross Bryant
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2017
Richard's in one of Edinburgh's most unique bars today to meet Ross Bryant, co-owner of Bryant & Mack Private Detectives on Rose Street North Lane.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Robbie Johnston
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2017
Richard is still in New Town, but with great bar staff like Robbie Johnston at Nightcap - why would you want to leave? Nightcap might be a relatively new addition to the Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Kyle Jamieson
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2017
Richard's in New Town today to meet our Edinburgh Barstar of the Day, the fabulously hirsute Kyle Jamieson who takes care of his punters at Panda and Sons on Queen Street.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Urwin
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2017
Richard takes us just a few steps from Princes Street today for the discovery of Hoot The Redeemer and the wonderful Sarah Urwin serving cocktails.
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Cordelia Toennies
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2017
Richard ventures over to Broughton Street Lane to the Outhouse where today's EdFringe Barstar is Cordelia Toennies from Germany, who studied drama in Scotland and wants to move to ...
Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ben Howard
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2017
In a sea of celebrities, we chat to the people who really matter - the people serving us a drink. Today we find out a little more about Ben Howard at the Abattoir Bar.
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.
SpaceDating: Blueswater Presents: Cat Loud’s Wayward Girls
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2016
Broadway Baby has a little chat with sultry songstress Cat Loud, who is bringing Cat Loud's Wayward Girls to Edinburgh '16 alongside The Bluewater.
C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Mar, 2016
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
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.
Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe
- Feature
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2015
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
'Wreaking havoc on the interactive whiteboard' - Richard O'Brien's Free For All
- Feature
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2015
Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry.
The Richard Alger and Tina Kronis Extended Interview
- Feature
- Lauren Moreau
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2014
Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...
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