Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Fresh from Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own and Have I Got News For You, Maisie Adam is heading back out on tour with a brand new show.
FKSPE presents Adam Ray LiveAdam Ray can most recently be seen recurring on Welcome To Chippendales (Hulu), the story of the founder of the legendary Chippendales strip …
August 1815.
The bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe returns for one night only.
Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts, and Stath Lets Flats, Kiell Smith-Bynoe brings his unmissable improvised comedy show back to the Fringe for one week only! Featuring the very best impro…
Canada’s Allyson June Smith is Little Smith Sunshine.
From David Hume to Robert Burns, Blind Harry to Muriel Spark, James Boswell to Margaret Oliphant, meet the congenial ghosts of famous Edinburgh writers at their fireside, and hear …
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2023 Ian Smith returns with a limited work in progress run.
Edinburgh Youth Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s most performed play is a unique take on a story you know well.
The Dream of Being a Madame weaves a tale of two young women, disparate in their origins and desires, yet bound by their shared quest for self-definition in an unforgiving world.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
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…
Are you fascinated with Edinburgh’s history? Do you want to learn more about the Scottish Enlightenment and its leading figures and have a blast while doing it? You may even meet a…
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
The legend of stage and screen returns to Edinburgh for an intimate on-stage conversation.
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’.
Last year Adam Bloom wrote a groundbreaking, best-selling book: Finding Your Comic Genius.
Since last performing in Edinburgh in 2007, Adam Bloom has ghostwritten for 70 comedians as well as working on 29 projects with an Oscar nominee.
Legendary double act Fiasco Job Job, Arthur Smith and Phil Nice, having surprisingly beaten the visitation of the grim reaper, reunite for one final time to celebrate their 40th an…
If you took every thought you’ve ever had about your life, every comedy sketch you’d ever seen and the vast, inky blackness of space and put them all into a blender: you’d pr…
Wild and unapologetically hilarious comedy show about dreams, quirks of our diverse society, and the absurdity of life.
In 1974, Jimmy Connors was the greatest tennis player on Earth.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Join multi award-nominated comedian Adam Greene (writer for BBC’s The News Quiz) for super funny laughs and jokes about fun stuff that is funny and you will laugh.
American comedian, Clayton Smith, makes his Fringe debut with a solo stand-up show that is cerebral, raunchy, heartfelt and quintessentially American.
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…
A stand-up split bill with a difference: It’s set in the teen-magazine sleepover dream world.
Adam knew he had to make some major lifestyle changes but couldn’t find the willpower.
Listen up, hunts.
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand-new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spontaneity.
Tiff tells you why she’d make a good husband.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Have you experienced the intensity of being famous without any of the perks? Been doppelgäng-banged to the point you no longer exist? Lube up for this deep dive into fame and misf…
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 …
The wonky and worried award-winning comedy of the Stoke-on-Trent urchin returns after last year’s successful debut.
Best Show Nominee, Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Melbourne Comedy Festival.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Lady Chiltern and her ideal husband – upstanding, honourable, attentive – have the perfect London life with their friends from all the most notable families around.
The Stoke-on-Trent urchin has cooked up a new comedy hour of fast-paced, daft existential dread with the odd song and sound effect to try and keep you from checking your phone.
A queer retelling of A Midsummers Night’s Dream set in the 1970’s is set to hit the Debating Chamber on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May.
The Ireland We Dreamed Of is a new dance theatre performance by visual artist Sinead McCann in collaboration with sociologist Dr Louise Brangan.
A networking opportunity to meet other Brighton Fringe artists and venues who are also taking part for the first time in 2024.
Award-winning Flabbergast Theatre bring a rambunctious approach to Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, an exhilarating and hilarious show in which Goblins run amok, the King and Que…
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spo…
Making your dreams come true.
A man about to kill himself falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful, future earth, where people live in harmony with each other and nature.
An one-man adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky short story of the same name, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man comes to the Marylebone Theatre stage with all the pertinent of its day: …
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Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …
Host of the global smash-hit podcast Have A Word & star of Live At The Apollo; Adam Rowe is hitting the road with his brand new stand-up tour.
‘Bestselling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023’ The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns to the West End, fresh from a record-breaking sell out run at the Edinbu…
This one woman play explores memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and culture, drawn from experiences growing up fighting eye cancer and eventually blindness as a …
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023 Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-hosting the Northern News podcast) presents a show about stress, love and …
Join the HandleBards at the Actors Church for a hilarious, high-octane production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
A group of friends meet in a forest for a hunt. What they find excites and terrified them. Secrets are learnt, the value of life is questioned, and the hunt turns on its head.
The Sandman is missing and children aren’t going to sleep.
The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns for his first month at the Fringe since 2016.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
A darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
A new play by Neil Weatherall Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Perthshire farmer and comedian Jim Smith dons the checked shirt again as he returns with his 2022 smash-hit stand-up show telling tales of Scottish rural life.
The creatives behind this year’s production of Life is a Dream discuss working across different languages and cultures.
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats, Kiell Smith-Bynoe hosts a late-night improv show featuring the best improvisers at the Fringe.
Join The HandleBards for their cycle-powered, four-hander, high-octane version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy.
Channelling Westeros with a lower-budget wardrobe, Adam Riches brings his Game of Thrones themed game show to an audience of ‘bastards’.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
Imagine you had a time machine so you could travel back to the past to fix your mistakes.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
These sessions, kindly funded by The Friends of Panmure House, are delivered by leading experts exploring less commonly approached aspects of Smith’s life and works.
Twice nominated for Young Musician of the Year, acclaimed Edinburgh singer-songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the brightest stars on the UK roots music scene.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
When the two multi award-winning comedians Adam Greene and Peter Bazely decided to form comedy supergroup Bi and Large, they knew it would be a hit but nothing prepared them for th…
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Are you fascinated with Edinburgh’s history? Do you want to have a blast while learning about the Scottish Enlightenment and its leading figures? You may even meet a special guest!…
‘Living The Dream’ – Every Brits answer to the question ‘how you doing?’ regardless of how completely tragic their life is.
JJ Pyle finds herself accidentally, unfortunately, home for Christmas and stuck in this little truck with her dad in Indiana, where everything is surrounded by cornfields.
Host of the global smash-hit podcast Have A Word, star of Live at the Apollo and Dave’s Best Joke of the Fringe winner is back with a brand-new hour of stand-up.
In 2018, Adam Riches was The Guy Who You Meet Right After You Come Out Of A Long-Term Relationship.
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…
A cheater’s guide to love – Jokes on marriage, divorce, therapy, death and cheating.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
When the two multi award-winning comedians Adam Greene and Peter Bazely decided to form comedy supergroup Bi and Large, they knew it would be a hit but nothing prepared them for th…
In this anticipated follow-up to last year’s sell-out show, Adam Greene addresses aging, self-care and love? Surely not… ‘definitely one to keep tabs on’ (Bruce Dessau, Evening…
Ay up ducks, it’s me (fella doing the show).
From the makers of the sell-out success Sherlock’s Secret Challenge comes a new game that allows you to become a pirate for a day.
What it might be, how we can miss it and how we can find it again.
As Adam Kay closes in on becoming a household name, he is evidently an Edinburghhold name, packing out the prestigious Pleasance Grand to brimming point.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Forster & Smith are a mindreader and magician respectively.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Forster & Smith are a mindreader and magician respectively.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Ay up ducks, it’s me (fella doing the show).
The wild hunt raced through the sky, taking its monstrous regiment of women, led by the goddess Diana, the Lady, to terrorise the world.
The wild hunt raced through the sky, taking its monstrous regiment of women, led by the goddess Diana, the Lady, to terrorise the world.
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith” Bruce Dessau (The Times) This is Arthur Smith’s love letter to the world of comedy and the playground of the…
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith’ Bruce Dessau” (Times).
WITCH HUNT asks who really holds the power in a world where the witches have become the hunters and the predators are now the prey? Following their sell-out, award-winning show En…
WITCH HUNT asks who really holds the power in a world where the witches have become the hunters and the predators are now the prey? Following their sell-out, award-winning show En…
Everyone’s welcome to come and play our Treasure Hunt at Caravanserai. It’s free and you can win prizes!
When is a story ready to tell? Inspired by the ongoing real events of a college cult, DREAM SCHOOL is a thriller about who wins and who loses when we cash in on trauma.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
Join the revellers as mother nature envelops the Globe Theatre for Shakespeare’s deliciously disruptive and intoxicating comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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Fresh from Live at The Apollo, A League of Their Own, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam is back with her new show ‘Buzzed’.
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, A League of Their Own, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam is back with her new show ‘Buzzed’.
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
Victor works for the Federation Against Copyright Theft, FACT.
Adam Riches returns with an exclusive two-night run of his hit 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show ‘The Guy Who.
Adam Riches and Dan Cook have finally joined forces to create what the public have been clamouring to happen for years - a character comedy show about two men.
‘Ay up, it’s me (fella doing this show).
In her solo show Adventure of an Old CxNT or Living my Dream Helen Prior tells a hilarious story of life with the help of her own curated gallery of art masterpieces.
MANIC PIXIE DREAM REN A Film School Dissertation-Induced Meltdown Sentimental: A New Gig Musical Speaking of break-ups, the world’s ending.
The Testament According to Adam Old systems need to be changed Dopa-Mean GirlA musical comedy about ADHD brains The Testament According to Adam - Capitol Theatre Co…
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith presents a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
An unpredictable debut from the chaotic mind of self-proclaimed loser Adam Willis (Willis & Vere).
The Dream Machine is a long-form improv show, based around audience suggestions.
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam is back with a brand new show for 2022, ‘Buzzed’.
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam is back with a brand new show for 2022, ‘Buzzed’.
Fane Productions invite you to spend an evening with award-winning British garden designer and Gardeners’ World presenter, Adam Frost.
A queer re-telling.
Take a trip into one of Shakespeare’s classic comedies, in this version 12 actors will play over 20 roles. Set in a modern Britain, tackling love in many sources.
When a struggling actor can’t pay rent, she signs herself and her roommate (she won’t mind) up for a fun robot friend in order to receive a big paycheck.
BAFTA-winning actor, comedian, singer, writer, independence campaigner, panto legend, feminist and socialist; Smith is rarely accused of lacking opinions.
‘Everything starts with a dream’.
For centuries philosophers have asked the question, Who am I? But it’s now time to ask, Am I Sam Smith? Through the camp ecstasy of comedy cabaret, Dan Wye, creator of Séayoncé, …
Acclaimed Edinburgh-born singer-songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the brightest stars on the UK roots music scene.
Multi award-winning comedian and critically acclaimed loud Northerner Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show – and seen on Comedy Central Live) retur…
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast.
Desperate to fulfil her mother’s wish of finding a husband, Rebecca Anderson explores love and a whole bunch of other stuff in her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals …
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
After his last sell-out tour, Perthshire farmer and comedian Jim Smith returns with a brand-new show telling tales of Scottish rural life.
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
Just what is the Edinburgh Fringe? Some say it’s the world’s greatest uncensored platform for freedom of expression; some see it as a free market, money-driven fun-fest.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
A beautiful, profoundly naked performance presented as nature intended.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food.
Allyson June Smith and Daisy Earl are two of the highest regarded female comedians in the industry.
What happens in the forest, stays in the forest.
We solve our greatest problems through dreaming while our deepest fears are revealed in them as well.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
Comedian by night, stay-at-home-dad / trophy husband by day! International comedian Ryan Wingfield shares his take on the challenges of family life and other experiences in this so…
Multi award-nominated comedian, Adam Greene takes his debut hour to Edinburgh talking quick fixes for self-improvement, clean living and long-term mental well-being.
3’s Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones, three of the rising stars of Australian comedy, for a whole new hour of hilarious stand up.
Maisie Adam is Buzzed about a lot of things, and it is a nice change of pace to hear how things are going well for a comedian.
Experience Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy in the heart of Covent Garden with the award-winning Iris Theatre.
“THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam comes to the Caroline of Brunswick with a Work in Progress of her brand new show f…
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam comes to the Caroline of Brunswick with a Work in Progress of her brand new show f…
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
Ay Up Ducks! Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, we’re bringing our stand-up show to Brighton.
Ay Up Ducks! Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, we’re bringing our stand-up show to Brighton.
My 75 years at the Edinburgh FringeFor the 75th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Arthur Smith writes a love letter to this playground of his imagination and recalls some of the tri…
Adam Rowe, host of the smash hit Have A Word Podcast, star of Live At The Apollo and Roast Battle brings us his brand new stand-up tour; ‘Imperious’.
Adam Rowe, host of the smash hit Have A Word Podcast, star of Live At The Apollo and Roast Battle brings us his brand new stand-up tour; ‘Imperious’.
Hunt is about a group of Belfast teenagers playing their version of hide and seek.
BirminghamFriday 19th November, The Nightingale Club Were finishing this year with a bang and pleased to announced the return of MAX to the U.
For over forty years, writer and comedian Arthur Smith has been at the forefront of new and emerging comedy.
Vroom vroom Join us on Friday 1st October for our next Mothers Meeting with a superstar cast of Alexis Meshida, Miss Terri Boxx and Rupauls Drag Race U.
A lot has changed for Paul in recent years.
This Pride weekend, come down to The Phoenix Arts Club to celebrate some of the best LGBTQ+ talent that London has to offer.
Fairies.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Two 30-minute sets of stand-up from up-and-coming comedians from the north of England, Paddy Young (as seen on ITV2, Sky, Channel 4) and Adam Flood (BBC New Comedian 2019 nominee, …
Adam Rowe – Imperious (WIP).
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) presents some new ideas (and some old ones) through a mixture of theatrical techniques, such…
Acclaimed Edinburgh born singer-songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the brightest stars on the UK roots music scene.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this ‘electrifying’ (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
You will need a team of two to four, internet access on your phone, your eyes and legs! We’ll provide the kit and instructions.
One-woman, bilingual (English/French) mask show.
Emma and Sinéad know all that glitters isn’t gold, but when given the opportunity to go from €3.
Gather your team of 2-5 sailors and get to the shores of Calton Island.
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.
Treasure Hunt for the Imagination.
Presented by comedian and financial writer Dominic Frisby, this one-hour feature documentary also stars Jimmy Carr, Al Murray, Shazia Mirza, Henning Wehn and Arthur Smith.
A collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada.
It’s 1881 and the manuscript for Robert Louis Stevenson’s new novel has just been stolen.
The Dream Train weaves together a quartet of characters with JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a play that has the clarity and strangeness of a particularly convincing dream.
The story of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times.
An unpredictable debut from the chaotic mind of self-proclaimed loser Adam Willis (Willis & Vere).
An unpredictable debut from the chaotic mind of self-proclaimed loser Adam Willis (Willis & Vere).
An unpredictable debut from the chaotic mind of self-proclaimed loser Adam Willis (Willis & Vere).
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Enter a dreamlike world where the ordinary appears extraordinary.
Join poet Adam Kammerling as he launches his debut collection Seder, alongside a gang of hyper-talented poets and musicians.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
Get ready for a fiesta like no other as our ★★★★ (The Times, The Stage)raucous 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns with piñ…
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
Part of The History Bois residency at ONCA barge, this online workshop run by poet, drag king and artist SL Grange is for folks wanting to connect with their Queer tr/ancestors.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
MEETING is a short “Zama” (Zoom Drama) about the most awkward meeting imaginable on Zoom - and given that almost every meeting on Zoom is awkward, you can imagine just how awkward …
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
The story of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times, told with love, laughter and song.
MEETING is a short “Zama” (Zoom Drama) about the most awkward meeting imaginable on Zoom - and given that almost every meeting on Zoom is awkward, you can imagine just how awkward …
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
The story of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times, told with love, laughter and song.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Hamlet Isn’t Dead, in association with the US Karagöz Theatre, presents a modern shadow puppetry play in a classical style.
We peek into the private lives of a couple, now in their later years yet still wrestling with the complexities of relationship and the desire to be seen and understood in a place w…
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… but 1.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
The Dream Machine: ‘Making your dreams come true’.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
To coincide with its publication, we invite you to join comedian and podcast host Adam Buxton as he talks about and reads from his upcoming new book.
Multi-million bestselling author back at the Fringe for two nights only.
Louis Prima (Sicilian-American, 1930’s-1950’s, comedy-jazzer), Keely Smith and band stormed Las Vegas.
What would happen if Ludwig van Beethoven met Albert Ammons!? They might play classical and boogie-woogie piano for each other, exchange anecdotes and musical facts, or perhaps eve…
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
Told through a series of flashbacks interspersed with the “Last Supper”, The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband is a hilarious exploration of jealousy, humiliation, deceit and betrayal w…
Rockin’ blues, stomping boogie-woogie and silky soul jazz! Pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith delivers class and variety, explosive dynamism, classic songs and dry humour.
The genius combination of a one hour long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
“Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.
A lot has changed for Paul in recent years.
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a BIG surprise.
Amanda is an actor, singer, writer and comedian.
Pinnacle is a brand new hour of brutally honest, opinionated, no holds barred stand-up from DAVE’s Best Joke Of The Edinburgh Fringe Winner, Liverpool Comedian Of …
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
BAFTA-winning actor, comedian, singer, writer, independence campaigner, panto legend, feminist and socialist, Smith is rarely accused of lacking opinions.
This is a show about letting others and experiences steal your identity and what to do to get it back. As told by Sharon Stacy Statue.
Ketchikan, Alaska and New York City: island towns at opposite ends of the American continent.
Million-copy bestseller Adam Kay returns to the Fringe for two nights only, sharing entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this ‘electrifying’ (Guardian) evening of stand-u…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Scotland’s most celebrated fiddle band Blazin’ Fiddles will be joined by the twice-voted Scots Singer of the Year and two-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Emily Smith for a …
Almost 40 and totally single, Mandy takes us on a hilarious, raw 55-minute rollercoaster ride unearthing the magic elixir for her unmarried soul.
Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) presents his uplifting, sell-out show, Baggy Point.
Six actors, neon tutus and the unmistakable lyrics of Agadoo.
This year’s hottest product has just hit the city.
Kimjang is a Korean foodie tradition, where families and friends come together to make kimchi.
An exceptional opportunity to be immersed in classical and Tai Chi contemporary dances performed by talented young dancers.
Nowhere has Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand been harder at work than at the festival itself.
After last years sell-out performances at the Fringe, English Comedian of the Year finalist Adam Rowe has bought his show Pinnacle to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Following his first national tour in 2018, which saw him go from circuit act to one of the biggest selling names in UK stand-up in less than a year, Paul Smith returns w…
In the midst of the comedy maelstrom, into which Edinburgh in August descends, I was privileged to enjoy an extraordinary artistic experience.
Brought to you by the folk orchestra of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School of Zhejiang.
Louis Prima, Sicilian-New Orleanian, 1930s-1950s, comedy-jazzer, sung by Philip Contini: ‘his genius makes him so special’ (Scotsman).
Please help. I am trapped in a cardboard supermarket.
Stand-up comedy combined with a daytime TV auction! As a range of bought, found and homemade objects go under the hammer, it’s hard to know if the stakes or the bids will be lower.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Magic.
Boy meets girl, they fall in love, and everyone lives happily ever after. If only it were that simple. Hold on to your heart. Cupid is armed and dangerous!
A stand-up comedy show with two halves, by two comedians united by the powerful force of convenience.
Actors from around the world rehearsed via Skype for four months and then met here in Scotland to put on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Come join us for …
A brand-new show for 2019! Can Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) and her best friend Guffy locate the Ghostly Farting Monk and save the Kingdom of Wiffyville from Prince Nas…
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…
The story of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times, told with love, laughter and song.
What would happen if the lost papers of a genius were recovered in the modern day? Four actors present a dramatisation of the life and works of Adam Smith, performed in the house i…
The story of Adam and Eve and all of its ramifications is a well-trotted and oft adapted story.
3’s Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones, three of the rising stars of Australian comedy for a whole new hour of hilarious stand-up.
Sun, surf, skydiving and stand-up.
Boys don’t cry – but should they? Ross Smith can’t remember the last time he did and is unsure if he still can.
Runaways.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Following their award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy return with a surreal and darkly hilarious brouhaha directed by Cal McCrystal.
80’s comedy fantasy! Cassandra Hunt and Cynthia Murphy, co-hosts of America’s No.
The star of Tonight at the Palladium (ITV), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Live from the BBC is back with, without doubt, his funniest show yet.
Somewhat new to the interactive theatre scene, and a little suspicious of what I would find, Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders was an unexpected delight.
On stage, six pieces of paper, fixed by clips, are suspended on a washing line.
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Our current understanding of the evolution of man comes from evidence based on archeological digs.
Relax and enjoy the welcome extended to guests at the local infants’ school which Michele Austin delivers with considerable warmth and obvious delight.
SOMNIUM: A Dancer’s Dream, is the explosive dance show starring World Latin Showdance Champions and Strictly professionals Neil and Katya Jones.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, Dave’s ‘The Magic Sponge’) returns to Brighton with a work in progress of his sixth solo show.
Stand-up comics Blake AJ and Adam Flood unpack the funnies in an hour-long show split between them.
Following Enter The Dragons, their 2017 Broadway Baby Bobby award-winning show, A&E Comedy are back with a new cackle-inducing performance, laced with mirth and magic.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
As seen on lots of the sorts of shows that everyone’s heard of but never watched (Stand up Central, Live at the Comedy Store, Tonight at the Palladium etc.
Winner of So You Think You’re Funny? 2017 and Amused Moose National New Comic 2018, Maisie Adam presents a work in progress of her second Edinburgh show.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Hip-hop dance-based production with some added variety to celebrate our twenty-year anniversary and showcase our talented students, which range from the age of 4 upwards…
£1410am - 12pmChildren age 8-16 For all young photographers, a chance to create awesome images with resident photographer Angela Walker.
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
GRAMMY-nominated pop icon Adam Ant returns to our main space this winter due to popular demand.
A sell-out event every December for a decade, Adam Kay presents a night of festive filth – his antidote to the pantomime horrors in every other theatre this time o…
Dystopian Dream is the brand new production created from a concept originated by Nitin Sawhney and co-devised with Honji Wang and Sebastien Ramirez.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
What does it take to become undeniably good at what you do? Fresh from a sell-out UK tour; Liverpool Comedian of the Year winner and English Comedian of the Year nominee Adam Rowe,…
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this ‘electrifying’ (Guardian) evening of stand-up comedy.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The Three Inch Fools bring their innovative productions of two of Shakespeare’s most infamous and iconic plays to The George Inn on the South Bank, London’s Shakespearean heart.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
18 months ago, Maisie decided to try stand-up comedy.
Written by actor Christopher Saul, (currently Pompey in IMPERIUM at The Gielgud Theatre), based this play on recordings he made of his Grandmother, Flo, in 1969.
Its 1969 and Flo looks back on her life in London from the Boer War to the Summer of Love.
The link between imaginary and existing worlds is explored by 23 visionaries in a range of media.
Last Leg host Adam Hills prepares for an upcoming book tour by reading some selected chapters of his best-selling autobiography Best Foot Forward.
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…
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, rhythmic New Orleans piano, hard bop classics with searing guitar evoking the good-time speakeasy atmosphere.
3am Waitress by UK company Rogueplay is billed as "merging physical theatre with dance and aerial circus", but may be better described as a duo acro-dance piece since the…
Back for five nights only.
A dramatic representation of the life of Adam Smith, supported by Kirkcaldy 4 All.
This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
‘I simply cannot wait to see more of their magic’ ***** (Tribe).
Julia Krone Oliver, a local Edinburgh artist originally from Cape Town, paints life-affirming dreamlike landscapes.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
With his high energy delivery, natural comic ability and overall friendly vibe, Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) will share his uplifting account of the ups and downs of disco…
Adam Larter plays Sir Dance-a-lot, one of the Boogie Knights who has been exiled from a land where disco lovers are persecuted, and where rock ‘n roll and the evil King Gary now …
‘If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended.
After their 2015 Edinburgh smash hit Barbu, expectations were high for Cirque Alfonse’s new production, and their new circus spectacular Tabarnak does not disappoint.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
It’s time for the heist of the century.
Arthur Smith presents this heartwarming tribute to his dead father, Syd.
Traversing Edinburgh in August is sure to invite all sorts of flyerers.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner returns with this hotly anticipated sequel to his 2015 smash hit.
Aidan was divinely happy as an apathetic atheist until his wife started training as a vicar.
Stand-up comedy showcase produced by Los Angeles based stand-up comic Kirk Smith.
See this award-nominated (best comedy Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian (now lives in Bedfordshire…gutted) who played to full houses throughout Fringe 2017.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
Dream Logos is the divine logic of dreams in the backdrop of the known universe in projected image, dance, aerial, and theatre.
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On March 20th, 7:13pm.
Adam Patel, one of the UK’s top street magicians, takes to the stage for the first time to showcase his skills of sleight of hand, perceptual manipulation and mind-hacking while …
An ex-SNP politico, a bible-wielding American mom and JK Rowling walk into a.
Many people firmly believe that the circus discipline of Tightwire must in fact be an illusion or a magic trick.
What does it take to become undeniably good at what you do? Fresh from a sell-out UK tour; Liverpool Comedian of the Year winner and English Comedian of the Year nominee Adam Rowe,…
Having spent half of his adult life studying physics and half studying magic, Magic Circle member Quantum explores the exotic space where science and magic meet.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner returns with a brand-new show unlike anything else.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, as seen on Tonight at the Palladium and Live at the BBC.
After a sell-out debut, one third of Massive Dad (‘Hilarious’ (Guardian)) returns with another show about how we got here and where we’re supposed to go next.
The Edinburgh Fringe is the sort of place where you expect to see experimental, strange and unusual performances, and Paper Doll Militia’s Egg will certainly satisfy audiences lo…
After an absence of two years, the Perthshire farmer returns to Edinburgh with another trailer load of tales of rural life and how country people view the outside world.
Ian Smith is multi-award winning comedian.
A washed up detective with a penchant for Calpol and redemption, Haar is haunted by the bloody trail and unsolved murders by the Rubik's Cube Killer.
Ian Smith (BBC3's Sweat the Small Stuff) is a multi-award winning comedian, fuelled by 35p energy drinks.
The smash-hit production of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt returns vividly and noisily to the West End stage in director Sally Cookson’s fun-filled adaptation set to Benji …
Following award-winning, sell-out performances in Edinburgh and Adelaide and receiving a ‘High Commendation Award’ (Adelaide 2017), Kevin makes his Brighton premiere with a bra…
Ian Smith is a multi-award-winning comedian; this is a work in progress of his fifth solo show.
Following on from the phenomenal success of Transfigured Night, Danish choreographer and two time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup creates a new work for Rambert.
I have grown two inches this year and I have no idea why.
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 Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays comes to Oxford after its critically-acclaimed London and international festival runs.
The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles.
Alcoholics recovery meetings are happening all around us, all the time.
Sir Dance-A-Lot is the last of the known Boogie Knights, a gang of brave steppers with funk in their hearts and nobility also in their hearts.
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.
See this award-nominated (Best Comedy, Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian stand-up, now living in Bedford, who played to full houses throughout his Edinburgh Fringe run (2017).
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…
Born from the desire to bring visionary art into greater awareness, the ‘Psychedelic Dream Temple’ is not just a showcase of some of the worlds most talented artists but also a pla…
Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this “electrifying” (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music.
The internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated vocalist, Stacey Kent, returns to the UK for a very limited number of 2017/18 dates, featuring music from her latest albu…
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Lyric for two performances only…
David Byrne’s The Secret Life of Humans is a captivating insight in to what it means to be part of human civilisation.
One of the UK’s top street magicians, Adam Patel, takes to the stage for the first time to showcase his skills of sleight-of-hand, perceptual manipulation and mind…
Over a decade ago, multi-instrumentalist Adam Page held a weekly residency to explore and hone his skills in improvising using a looping pedal.
Escape Room Treasure Hunt returns for its 3rd year, with a brand new room: You and your team work in a 1920s prohibition-era speakeasy - but the cops will be raiding it! You have 4…
Best Comedy Award - Brighton Fringe 2016 Best Comedy Weekly Award - Adelaide Fringe 2017 Internationally-renowned, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo returns to Adela…
Access Denied are a group of 18 talented performers ranging in ages from 12-18 years.
3’s Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller & Peter Jones, three of the rising stars of Australian comedy for a whole new hour of hilarious stand-up.
Award Winning Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys bring the dance Party! Bring your dancing shoes! 6 piece band with full horn section featuring the music of Prince, Bruno Mars, Marvin…
Personally selected by Chris Rock to be a special guest on his Total Blackout arena tour, James is one of only four Australian comedians ever to perform on CONAN and the only Austr…
Based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy, Britten’s opera follows the consequences of a falling-out between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen, Tytania.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The HandleBards are the world’s first cycling theatre company.
Take two funny men and ask them to create a hilarious dash through Genesis and Exodus in just under 90 minutes.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
A double-bill of extraordinary power and originality, Hope Hunt & The Ascension into Lazarus performed by Belfast-based Oona Doherty, gets beneath the hard exterior of disaffected …
The girls are back in town.
Following sell-out shows in London’s West End and at Fringe 2016, award-winning musical comedian Adam Kay presents his take on the legendary songbook of Tom Lehrer.
Adam Kay used to be a doctor and he wants to tell us all about it.
A unique take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from a Russian company dedicated to the Bard.
An American, a Scot and a woman walk into a bar – they’re three of the Oxford Revue’s finest returning to Edinburgh with an hour of character comedy.
The Amazing Clinic of Armour and Smith is an amusing farce about a doctor’s waiting room filled with patients in desperate need of solutions to their relationship problems.
A Shakespeare comedy done right, this play manages to put a modern twist on the well known classic by filling it with quirky characters that look like they’ve picked right out of…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Alcoholics’ recovery meetings are happening all around us, all the time.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
There’s only two chances to see the Fringe’s favourite bluesman stand up and sing swing with Campbell Normand on piano and Ed Kelly on double bass.
Adam tells the story of Adam Kashmiry, a trans man born in Alexandria, Egypt.
The laws of stand up hold that childhood diaries are always good for a laugh.
‘Boogie-woogie.
‘You live your whole life and then it’s just you.
Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated chap and star of Live at the Palladium, Live From the BBC and other stuff returns for another smash-hit show.
The incredible, true story of the Wild West’s greatest Lakota warrior, this original one-man drama depicts the quiet, brilliant figure who defied the mighty US military, attempting…
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
2016 saw JoJo Smith dip her toe into the Fringe waters with a brief run of her first solo show I was Mick Jones’ Bank Clerk.
From two former students of Philippe Gaulier.
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
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…
You want stories? JoJo has a lifetime’s worth.
Quirky, honest, dark and irreverent humour from this critically acclaimed Australian stand-up and writer (The Last Leg) forced by love and money to live in suburban UK where he can…
Does wanting to care, even if you don’t really, make you a good person? Adam Rowe thinks so, but then again he would; he’s unbearable.
Perhaps you thought, as admittedly I did, that Ian Smith’s 2017 show title was making some kind of reference to the much used and abused colloquial term for “special snowflake�…
Don’t worry, I also had to Google most of the words in the title.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
Short and Curly do not do things by halves.
Whatever Happened to Vandal Raptor? is a perfect demonstration of a performance as protest, performance as change, and how one person can make a difference by creating a space…
Short and Curly do not do things by halves.
Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, BBC1’s The Ark) is an award-winning comedian.
There is no such thing as magic, something a nerd might be keen to point out.
Tom Taylor returns with his one person particularly posh whodunnit featuring Charles Montague, a posh dandy womanizer who is one of those people who you can’t work out quite why …
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows featuring the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit.
For the School Colours is an interestingly educational piece of theatre about a forgotten pioneer of school-based children’s literature made popular by Enid Blyton and J.
An hour long sketch show full of ‘Art’, egotism and arses, WMD Makes Everything Better demonstrates puerile humour at its best.
Fear-tre of Fear is an hour of laugh out loud irreverent stories bringing the mundane into thrilling perspective or, more terrifyingly, providing a fantastical bent to horrors of m…
A programme of three great works by Frederick Ashton closes The Royal Ballet’s Season.
A stunning acrobat suspended beneath a free standing arch performs to an original live score performed by DJ Tigerstyle, Matt Constantine (strings/keyboards) and David Shaw (percus…
Winner: Best Comedy Award, Brighton Fringe, 2016.
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 …
‘Living On The Edge - LIVE’ is the new one-woman stand-up comedy show from Maisie Adam, “one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming young comedians” (Ditto Theatre).
Adam Scott Vincent is a core writer of Channel 4’s award-winning satirical show ‘The Last Leg’.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Ian Smith (BBC3’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, BBC1’s ‘The Ark’) is an award-winning comedian.
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.
If you’re looking for a wholesome chapter from The Good Book then this is not the show for you.
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…
You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an…
With a face like the Edvard Munch painting The Scream and limbs flying everywhere like a jointed wooden puppet, Dutch comic Hans Teeuwen begins his show with a burst of freestyl…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Fiona Hunter, Mike Vass, and Innes Watson ride high in the pantheon of young musical talent with which Scotland is blessed.
Professor Chris Carter welcomes one of the leading journalists of our time, Sky News political editor Adam Boulton, to share his take on the leaders and major events that have prov…
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.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Corelli Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre presents Just, by Ali Smith and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson.
In this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, troubled programmer Victor Stone attempts to restore his reputation after being responsible for crashing the stock market.
The Point is a daring and challenging project driven by female artists.
That meeting that we’ve all been to.
Fencible Productions invite you to an entertaining and enlightening encounter with the Adam Family – father William and brothers Robert, John and James – pillars of Scotland an…
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The European premiere of the official documentary film on Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers (Sandman, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, Neverwhere, Dr Wh…
Only two chances to see the Fringe’s favourite bluesman stand up and sing swing with Campbell Normand’s outstanding Trio.
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Love is complicated.
South African sensations return.
Three people’s dreams merge in post-apocalyptic Britain.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
It’s 1987 and Glenn Fiscal is riding high in the corporate stationery world.
What if you could see into the future for a thousand years? Would that be long enough? A battle for the future, a battle for a child, a battle for a dream.
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Mark Smith (Russell Howard’s Good News) returns to Edinburgh with a new show and Lord have mercy is he excited.
Stand-up comedian, HuffingtonPost.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
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.
Want to find peace of mind but can’t be arsed to get up early for yoga? Would rather be in the pub than chanting naked up a mountain? Worried your spiritual journey may involve bus…
From the pen of former Royal Court Young Writer, Nick Cassenbaum, comes a brand new absurd comedy for young people about living a dream.
Literature narrows the gap between diverse nations.
It was a little hard to breathe when watching Adam Hess.
Although still in his early 20s, newcomer Adam is already one of the most sought after acts in the country and is fast becoming a favourite at the UK’s biggest comedy clubs and f…
I imagine Camille O’Sullivan has been called an Irish Chanteuse in reviews more times that you’ve had a flyer thrust at you on the Mile.
South African sensations return.
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…
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A magical showcase of the funniest, fiercest female comics at the Fringe, curated by Funny Women 2015 finalist Sophie Duker and hotshot Texan improviser Erin Bimmons.
A unique exhibition telling the little known but inspirational story of socks.
For a fan of legendary lyricist Tom Lehrer this show is a delight.
Adam Kay sits at a grand piano and sings ‘bracingly intelligent, enormously funny songs’ (Times) in the key of A minor.
In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward.
Ockham’s Razor are a British physical theatre company specialising in unique performances utilising aerial equipment.
She put her hopes and dreams on hold supporting him and helping him achieve his.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Point de fuite - Vanishing point is NOT another cheesy show about immigrants! It is a wicked cocktail of fiercely ironic performance laced with hilariously surreal buffoonery, inve…
A one-man drama about Indian chief, Crazy Horse that captures the high adventure of the Sioux Wars of the Wild West.
The course of true love doesn’t run smooth for long in this Shakespearian comedy.
“Politics doesn’t have to be dull.
SHE had HER hopes and dreams on hold supporting HIM and HIS.
Fresh from his sell-out run in Edinburgh, comedy writer for Channel Four’s ‘The Last Leg’, Adam judges himself and the world with wanton cynicism but now wonders if this is just …
She’s played in the West End, sparkled in La Clique and starred as Titania in Shakespeare’s Globe – but now, she’s “in a tent in Brighton, in the middle of a roundabout.
Local thespians in Brighton may be familiar with the Academy of Creative Training (ACT), which strives to offer instruction to the ordinary individual who dreams of a life on the…
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…
There have been a lot of Simon Munneries over the years.
(previews start on Jan.
At the end of her show Margaret Cho pulls onstage a pianist and a guitar player and sings: “I wanna kill my rapist.
The Further Adventures of… tells the story of a little girl who grows up to be a writer.
All This Jazz present a wonderful set of sumptuous songs and dazzling duets by vocalists Alison Bishop and Shelagh Westwater, featuring fabulous virtuoso playing from Robbie Hether…
‘If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended… That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear…’ With a quarrel raging between Oberon, Kin…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
In spite of the title, there is nothing careless about Adam Vincent’s debut stand-up show at Edinburgh – although I wish I could say the same about the person who listed the wr…
‘A hugely promising stand up’ **** (Chortle.
If you like your comedy dark and edgy then walk away my friend, Adam Hills is not for you.
In Silver Darlings, celebrated writer Alexander McCall Smith has joined forces with innovative Scottish composer James Ross, to write a song cycle about Scotland and the sea.
From the Royal Botanic Gardens you can see (when it isn’t raining) almost all of central Edinburgh, the Athens of the north.
Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Mark Thomas, Susan Calman, Bridget Christie, Liz Lochhead, Arthur Smith, Jo Caulfield, Fred MacAulay and Angela Barnes.
It’s town meets country as the Perthshire farmer performs his debut Edinburgh Fringe show.
Mr.
To dream or not to dream? For the residents of Lhaytar, the only remaining city on an otherwise flooded Earth, the answer is definitively the latter.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
Edinburgh’s biggest comedy event returns with an all-star cast with special guest hosts Adam Hills and Marcus Brigstocke.
A madcap vaudeville style comedy set during the Alaskan gold rush of 1896.
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Elaine C Smith the comedienne, actress, singer, writer, raconteur, political activist and star of Rab C Nesbitt returns to the Fringe with a new one woman show – a brilliant mix …
‘My music is not based on my being transgender.
Be transported by this enormously spirited and fast-moving production to the mischievous world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Mark Smith (Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment, Russell Howard’s Good News, car owner) is back with a brand new show.
Daniel Smith Blues Piano.
The answer we get from Jack Heal to the question of his show’s title is that, not only do scientists dream of genetically engineered sheep, but they are actively pursuing how to …
‘Boogie-woogie.
Have you ever felt that perhaps you have too much money? That the money you have set aside for a house, a car or that kidney transplant a doctor has told you that you critically ne…
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…
Mark Smith (Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment, Russell Howard’s Good News, car owner) is back with a brand new show.
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
The Dream Sequentialists is a show about dream goblins.
Adam Hess: Salmon is an hour of almost non-stop jokes, spoken at breakneck speeds by a guy who is going places.
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, as you’ve never seen it before.
Picture this.
As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very common choice for the Fringe.
A solid and entertaining piece of Shakespeare that’s well handled by its young cast.
Mr Children Man (The Beta Males’ Adam Blampied) is the acclaimed children’s author of Fabulous Fergus Goes to the Circus and is embarking on his debut reading tour.
Multi-award winning performer Gabriel Bisset-Smith will take you on a journey of intergalactic travel, strange sexual positions, bizarre dance routines, Kanye West and unhinged mur…
Adam Benjamin (BBC New Comedy Award 2014), Victor Preda (Romania) and very special guests present an hour of just fun, completely unpretentious stand-up.
While Riches’ audiences are usually treated – one might say subjected, if you’re on the front row - to an abundance of audience participation, this year’s iteration feature…
Ian Smith is a wonderful comedian with a beautiful imagination.
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…
Wonders at Dusk is not just a magic show; it is a magical experience.
These singers know how to dazzle and excite their audience.
When I consider Charles Dickens, a man whose life was seemingly a stumble from one tragedy to the next, I tend not to think ‘comedy stage show material’.
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
Watercolours, oils and prints of Scottish landscapes and wildlife by artist Leo du Feu and Susan Smith. Open daily. www.rosl.org.uk
(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…
What title could be more succinct? Cars and Girls is the story of a young man’s freewheeling adventures in life – looking for excitement, for love and for meaning.
Winner of the 2014 Brighton Digital Festival education award, this sell-out show is back.
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.
“I normally hate audience participation,” says the man sitting next to me.
Mr. Wade, an enchanting storyteller who has won 20 Moth StorySlams, splits an hour of storytelling with the comedian Jo Firestone.
The dance which is like a knife in the shadows, the dance of gamblers and the farewell of lovers - tango! A dreamlike collision of tragedy and unexpected humour.
Another hour of choice stand-up from the acclaimed/dazed Sean McLoughlin, who was nominated by fellow comedians for the ‘Best Performer’ Barry Award at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014.
A festival favourite founded by its current producer in 1989 in Queens Park.
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 are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
An artist from Sudan presents East African art.
Adam Vincent is a stand up comic, writer (C4’s ‘The Last Leg’) and mediocre nurse.
Deep in the forest, faeries wait .
It is the year 2042.
The year is 2042: Hollywood is dead, the film industry buckled under the weight of hefty blockbuster films.
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
Meet Helena & Hermia, two teenagers addicted and dependent on social media.
In partnership with the 92nd Street Y, SubCulture, the intimate basement recital hall in the East Village, invited the eminent pianist Andras Schiff to select three emerging young …
The 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival examines dance from the inside out, with its Stripped/Dressed conceit of exposing the seams and stitches of a work before presenti…
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…
(previews start on Jan.
When Ms.
Mr. Wade, a 20-time winner of the storytelling juggernaut the Moth, hosts this variety show, which features a guest racounter each month.
Alter Ego charges in with another winning production.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Relive the angst of young unrequited love, the nerves of amateur actors who have to perform for the Duke or risk being hanged, and the mischief and mayhem caused by the fairies.
Jeremy Hunt and Other Spelling Mistakes is a new comedy sketch show from St.
xYMTS are back walking the path of life and picking up pace.
Two of Scotland’s greatest jazz artists, saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Brian Kellock, team up for this unique late night Fringe show they’ll perform 100% unplugged in the b…
It would be unfair to describe Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen Vol.
Craig Campbell is one of the most natural and kind hearted comics on the circuit.
One of the brightest rising stars on the Scottish music scene, 23-year-old singer/songwriter Adam Holmes, with special guests.
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking opera, folk, choir and dancing presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
It’s a cheering sight when a long queue forms outside a venue for a group’s first performance and the cheer from the audience that greeted Chacapella showed that they clearly h…
Returning to an even bigger venue this year, sketch duo McNeil and Pamphilon reprise their geekalicious gameshow for this year’s Fringe: once again McNeil and Pamphilon Go 8 Bit …
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Alzheimer’s is a disease close to the hearts of many people, as it affects so many of such a wide variety of ages, cultures and societies.
The Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show will carry on to reflect on the well-being of everyday life.
The twists and turns of the topsy-turvy world of Alice in Wonderland are well known and loved by many, enshrined in literary pop culture.
Down-home blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano/vocals, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
‘Boogie-woogie.
Idealistic Robert Chiltern has cut a swathe through Parliament but Westminster can be dangerous.
Fringe musicals are often incredibly hard to get right but with a score as sizzling as the sun on the beach and some incredibly skilled performers, Riptide: The Slasher Musical hit…
Unicornucopia is James Ross’s insane and breakneck hour of Free Fringe stand-up, in which he rattles with hilarious speed through topics of colleagues, love, dreams and some hila…
Curious Directive have hit the Fringe this year with epic sci-fi drama Pioneer, a space-exploration thriller of stunning proportions.
Infinity Repertory Theatre update Shakespeare’s comedy to the 21st century as a musical with a rollicking rock’n’roll aim in mind.
Tripped Theatre’s stylised adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream fits one of the Bard’s most famous and fun plays into the space of one hour, with only four…
‘I have had a most rare vision.
(performances start on Aug.
The Seussification of a Midsummer Night’s Dream sees an all female cast embark on a speedy but delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
In the recent explosion in popularity of a cappella it seems like you can’t walk up the Royal Mile without tripping over a group of symmetrically dressed singers who’ve lost th…
In this farcical one-hour romp through the troves of storybook tropes, Fringe sketch regulars Casual Violence treat the audience to a kids-show-for-adults style adventure into a wo…
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale is given a family-friendly and wonderfully whimsical adaptation in this new production by Fourth Monkey.
With three decades of performing under her belt, Elaine C.
With more raucous energy than a crate of Red Bull sprinkled with cocaine, Rob Cawsey and Gabe Bisset Smith under the collective guise Guilt & Shame bring their new show Going Strai…
This production of Shakespeare’s classic and well loved comedy is set in the pretty garden of a church.
SmallWar, a piece adapted from actual accounts of events and experiences from conflicts spanning from WWI to Afghanistan, is an interestingly understated exploration of the emotion…
With a strange, original and interesting production, Tomás Ford brings his Patrick Bateman of the Fringe to the Mash House to tell a one-man-musical tale of double crossing deceit…
One of the country’s most exciting new comedians does 40 minutes of stand-up that he really hopes you come to and have the best day of your life.
For half an hour in a room somewhere in the back of the Free Sisters, Adam Belbin is doing a comedy show about leaving the comedy world.
Northern Stage’s production of I Promise You Sex and Violence is a critique of modern attitudes to homophobia, racism and sexuality.
One of the lesser known but better versed performers in The Stand’s programme at this year’s Fringe, Alistair Green’s show Well Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm is a no-frills …
The two best ones from The Beta Males, Adam Blampied, ‘delightful’ (BritishTheatreGuide.
Stepping into some pretty big comedy shoes, Cambridge Footlights have brought a fast-paced sketch and improv show to this year’s Fringe.
The chatty Yorkshire patter of Ian Smith’s comedy offers an incredibly relatable show in the Pleasance comedy programme at this year’s festival.
Dream Girls is a masterful collection of comedy mixed with surprisingly (even for McCullough) emotional moments that had the audience in awe.
Having taken the Fringe by storm last year with their debut piece The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, young and incredibly talented theatre company Kill The Beast returns to The Pleasance wit…
2011 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Adam Riches returns with a brand new hour of phenomenal bullshit.
The king of surrealist stand-up, Sam Simmons, brings his incredible and irreverent style to the Udderbelly in Death of a Sails Man, the gut-achingly funny tale of a windsurfer lost…
Vampires never seem to go out of fashion.
Fierce, fast, farcical and ferocious, The Beta Males certainly pack a punch in their new show Happenstance.
Up in Pleasance’s intimate stand-up venue Attic, there is one young comedian who is making waves on the comedy scene as he manages to cement himself as a firm Fringe favourite ev…
The double helix structure of DNA is knowledge that today we take for granted.
Eager to entertain, all-female group Improv Noir follow the well-trodden formula of inviting ideas from the audience as to a place and a character then spend the next hour creati…
From an initial four to a now fuller six, Bridget Fraser has written a stunning set of monologues that appear at first hand to have little connection to each other but actually r…
These acoustic comedians return to the Henley Fringe with their assortment of quirky songs and music.
A one-woman cabaret show presenting the life of Anita Boult, a jobbing musical actress trying to cope with life in New York city.
A dark-comedy about the lives of the Rogers and their relationship problems.
Creator Tom Ward-Thomas has written a two-act comedy that peers into the lives of passengers commuting to Cornwall.
Stalwarts of the Henley Fringe Festival, Falcon Grange are back for their seventh year with another smooth show.
Like many men of his generation, Simon Feilder talks about his insecurities about being a single man, but unlike a lot of them he spices his show up with multi-media presentation…
Outrageous, shocking and disgusting that women over a certain age should even attempt to create a comedy sketch show?Not at all.
Adam Wade, who has won the Moth Story Slam 18 times, hosts this monthly variety show, which also features a special guest storyteller.
The comedians Carl Arnheiter and Dave Hill lead a museum tour-turned-comedy show around the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Lorna is settling into her new life in London while Brian is enjoying a reclusive lifestyle as a night chef; between Lorna’s brave forays into various evening classes and Brian�…
Josh Smith embarks on yet another show that includes the unfortunate events that happen daily and yet he shares them.
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
The Brighton based John Lake Trio will be performing an evening of original melodic modern jazz composed by John Lake along with some covers of modern standards from bands such as …
Ambassadors Theatre: 20th May 7pm.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Following a successful run at festivals such as Edinburgh Fringe 2013 and various venues around the UK and Ireland, join Ireland’s tallest comedian at Brighton Fringe 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.
A Live role-play game based on Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox; manhunt meets interactive theatre.
Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio’s clunky new two-hander, starring the Tony winner Michele Pawk as a venomous mother and Ms.
(performances start on May 9) Who could fall asleep in the midst of Times Square? You are invited to try when Jim Findlay and Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners …
Desky, Dedman and Gramo met in a closet and were so taken with each other that they decided to form a club.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
It’s refreshing to hear a rising comedian of Chris Ramsey’s stature realise that he does actually have a pretty good job and his sincerity is often very touching.
The MCA promotes five acts in one evening with the intention of increasing their exposure in a lively environment, with a healthy sense of competition to aid the fun.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Angus: Weaver of Grass is an unusual and beautiful production that weaves together music, puppetry, and mask into a visual and aural spectacle.
American song and dance man Movin’ Melvin Brown is not content to have just one show at the Fringe (The Ray Charles Experience), or two (an interactive workshop Tap into Health -…
Finally Josh Smith’s From Top to Bottom Show comes to Edinburgh after his recent sell-out performances! ‘Had our audience in stitches’ (Creswell Social Club).
Adam Hills jogged onto stage and brought an immediate, exuberant atmosphere to Assembly Hall.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
3Bugs Theatre Company return to the Fringe with a new adaptation of this classic children’s story.
Somewhat of a fringe legend, Omid Djalili has graced many a theatre on his national tours over the last 20 years since he performed his very first Edinburgh Fringe show.
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.
In amongst the more controversial theatre on at the Fringe this year we have emerging playwright Sophie Foster’s new work, which dissects the media culture surrounding suspected …
Scotland’s version of Peter and the Wolf is an enchanting tale with a lot of heart.
The Cold War is over, but this time America lost.
Children and adults alike will be familiar with Roald Dahl’s timeless story of Fantastic Mr Fox.
With an admittedly clever pun for a title, this misplaced family comedy misses the mark in its attempt to entertain, both musically and humorously.
Mario Kart, Street Fighter and Bomber Man are all names that strike nostalgic excitement into the hearts of many of a certain generation.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking Opera, folk choir, national dancing, presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
As Jonathon Larson’s most well-known and best-loved work, any production of Rent has high standards to live up to.
A unique evening with the actress, comedienne, singer, political campaigner and raconteur, sharing intimate and hilarious recollections from her hugely successful autobiography Not…
Joining the fringe for the first time Scroobius Pip seemed right at home on the stage.
Every so often, an act comes along to ask, ‘What is comedy, anyway?’ Generally, these acts employ this gem as a tool of deflection and are, in fact, a little talentless.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Branded as an alternative to pre-ordained comedy, the Improverts spar off each other and the audience, using entirely unplanned and unscripted material to create big, fresh laughs.
Arthur Smith resembles Leonard Cohen in more ways than one.
At the start of the show I heard some people remark that they had seen Beth Vyse last year and had come back.
The theme of moving house - especially a move that brings you into permanent residence with your partner and an opportunity to learn all their annoying habits - might strike many a…
Enjoying a 22nd season with one of the most-established revue shows on the Fringe circuit, Mervyn Stutter at one point implores his audience to ‘pass the message on’ about his …
Plumpy’nut encapsulates all those parts of the DIY ‘let’s throw together a show’ side of fringe comedy.
The award-winning interactive installation and fully-functioning cafe returns! Food, service and business are all presented as art with guest waiters, themed days and the sensation…
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
“I have a moshpit!” yelled Ali McGregor as her eager audience gathered round and popped the bubbles she was producing.
The world of PR is one ripe for comedy gold, Izzy Tennyson’s new play has taken this, using it not only for its humour but also to paint a dark portrait of the professional world…
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Expertly treading the line between cheese and charm is this new musical from Augment Productions.
Gothic fairies .
Genuinely scary theatre can be hard to get right but this young theatre company has hit the balance of scares and gags bang on in this exciting and innovative show.
Les Labyrinthes’ Adam Smith Le Grand Tour is an interesting and thought-provoking exploration into the life and ideas of Adam Smith – key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
The Jocks and Geordies is a show that has found an audience.
A commanding, busty Titania sits with her changeling child as drab fairies dance woozily around her to crackly swing music.
The Late Show attracts a lot more of a local audience than most Fringe events and there is a sense that it doesn’t necessarily mind separating itself somewhat from the hustle and b…
Yasmin Reza’s modern masterpiece is here brought to life in the most frenetic, extreme and exciting way.
Join Ireland’s tallest comedian as he unravels the world through his unique point of view. Join Charlie on his surreal journey of devilment and hilarious stand-up.
Taking the story of four elderly women who have been entangled in a freak attack by a murder of crows and take refuge in the Coronet Cinema this is a strange, intriguing and entert…
Xara Vaughn is a charming, funny and clearly very talented performer.
Could six months living in Auntie Annie’s conservatory push you over the edge? Find out in this hilarious debut from Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2013 nominee Danny War…
Award-winning stand-up from two of the country’s best newcomers Adam Hess and David Elms (as seen on BBC3).
It’s an old trick seen may times before: someone crawls along the floor, someone films them sideways and they look, on camera, like they are climbing up a wall.
There’s not a lot to say about Ivan Brackenbury that hasn’t already been said since he exploded onto the Edinburgh stage seven years ago, receiving enough critical attention to…
‘Why is it easier to speak to a stranger than it is to my own daughter?’ Rosa, an elderly woman approaching the end of her life, asks Stella, a Nigerian immigrant reluctantly i…
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.
Nobody’s Boy is a tapestry of songs by well-known songwriters woven together to narrate an emotional tale of childhood, identity and belonging.
This inventive piece of devised physical theatre is the rousing story of a group of female workers in 1910 who went on strike from their jobs as chain-makers, demanding higher pay …
There are tons and tons of sketch shows on at the Fringe this year, meaning that it is easy for them to get lost amongst the crowd.
When you only have forty or so words to play with in the Fringe programme, be careful not to waste them.
There are plenty of rough diamonds in the melée of eager young performers who flock to the Fringe and 25 year old Sean McLoughlin, taking his first tentative steps into the Edinbu…
Mixed Doubles is billed as ‘An Entertainment on Marriage’ and so it is, specifically marriage grown old and a little bit stale.
Pressing the right pedal records, pressing the left pedal replays.
Thought I ought to nail down the other half of next year’s show before next year comes around. An all new half-hour of comedy from the once-promising Adam Belbin.
When an uncertain young American was experiencing the fallout of the sixties in the form of psilocybin, he learned one very valuable lesson he would not forget in a hurry: buckle y…
What a rush, like a blast of tabasco blown straight up your twitching snake-eye, this half-man, all-comedy beast promises floods of tears (some even of laughter) from the most stoi…
They may have the charm of a boy band but The Magnets are certainly all men.
Geoff Cotton’s show is a mix of sketches, comedy songs, stand-up and satire.
Established as a regular sketch show at the Fringe, there is a certain fear when these six bright young things take to the stage that you might be subject to watching the sort of s…
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
For over one hundred years The Wind in The Willows has remained one of the most popular pieces of English literature.
Following their successful Pleasance run at the Fringe last year, BEASTS once again return with their inimitable brand of absurdist, ridiculous sketch comedy.
‘Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em laugh!’ shrilled Donald O’Connor in the original Singin’ in the Rain movie, taking just three short words to get right to the heart of what co…
Want to be a doctor, but can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of six years at medical school? This hilarious lecture is for you.
With a show that is definitely not for the easily offended, Adam Kay reels off a series of his inimitable brand of parody songs with expert comedic timing and the hilarity that onl…
Gary Delaney gets straight to the point of this one-man performance, declaring ‘I’ve just written some new jokes - this isn’t a ‘my dad’s dead’ kind of show.
Stand-up variety shows at the fringe can often be hit-and-miss, but this one just gets it spot on.
The mother-daughter duo of Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie kicked off this show with a rather unusual bit of audience interaction.
It’s the morning after the fall of man.
Ian Smith is the first to admit that Anything is perhaps too generically named, so the audience are forgiven for being apprehensive.
There once was an ugly duckling.
From the moment this quirky Cornish duo burst onto set with an eclectic combination of 80s-style electronic music and energetic moves, you know you’re in for something a little d…
If you take five 17 years olds, give them an internship at a leading advertising agency, add in the promise of a permanent job for only one of them then you have the right ingredie…
Joe Fairbrother has talent in abundance.
With his show Intensive Carey, this Fringe favourite returns after a one year hiatus with the story of how he almost died, a number of times, by having a heart attack.
A young lad with a winsome demeanour entered the room and high-fived everyone in the audience.
Based on John Steinbeck’s novella of the same name, The Pearl tells the story of the poor pearl diver Kino and what happens when he discovers ‘the pearl of the world’.
One complaint reserved by many locals is that the Festival attracts a lot of sorts born with silver spoons in their mouths, or, as Joe Bor’s climber creation puts it, the sort wh…
After extensive touring, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt settles in the daytime slots at the Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue this month.
In this adaptation of the novella of the same name by Henry James, HookHitch Theatre present the story of a governess hired to care for orphaned siblings on an estate that seems to…
It’s fair to say that you may as well put a sofa on a stage as big as the Pleasance Grand.
A melting pot of youthful talent all wrestle for attention in this production, which features heavy emphasis on individual players with some standout solo performances.
The Fringe cliché about performing to an audience of two men and a dog is every company’s nightmare.
Riches creates a dazzling array of characters in Adam Riches Rides! The risk assessment forms for the Pleasance Beside may have to get rewritten following some of the audience int…
Dream On is a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is performed here with great energy and humour by Side by Side Theatre.
If most people had a time machine, it’s unlikely their first choice of destination would be Truro in 1987.
As their sinuous bodies glided and writhed over the stage, stirring to the wailing undertones of the soundtrack, I was mesmerised.
This show is really fun: three performers in some barebones theatre - ultimate Fringe style, nothing but a black box - telling a comic version of Treasure Island.
Evil - The Musical details the lives of seven evil villains as they battle Guy Super and endeavor to become the most evil of all.
In the gardens of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly known as the Dean Gallery), a combined cast of Scottish performers and the Norwegian company Stella Polaris put o…
As a play that deals with an important piece of Brighton’s rich and colourful historical fabric, the setting of Hove Town Hall is disappointingly inadequate.
While Arthur Smith protests that he’s no longer on the sauce, the format and sheer unpredictability of this concept seem like they were conceived on some booze-addled bender.
If there’s one thing Idiots of Ants can’t be accused of, it’s a lack of enthusiasm.
“I am hungry!” declares Fat, shortly after the play begins.
When DeAnne Smith entered the stage dressed in an adorable ensemble, picks up her ukulele and started singing a tune that sounded like it had been lifted from the soundtrack of 500…
Not all of life’s surprises can be nice, but Adam Kay transpires to be a very pleasant one indeed.
Off-Broadway’s longest running musical comes to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Dregs, a sketch duo starring Max Dickins and Mark Smith, are hotly tipped performers.
From the very first ‘Argh’, this show was filled with so much enthusiasm it was almost scary.
Lewis Schaffer’s schtick is that he is an ex New York Jew making his way in this strange foreign land and hating every minute of it.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
One of the Fringe’s most astounding and emotion-fuelled plays has enjoyed several sell-out shows and rapturous reviews over the course of this month.
With her phenomenal voice and subtle and sexy ambiance, Ali McGregor knows how to make an entrance.
Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog, or Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan to their parents, barely leave the stage for the duration of this dizzying hour of sketch comedy.
Dave Gorman has formed a double act - with a projection screen.
In the year before the centenary of World War I this production puts us in the middle of the conflict in France.
Bossa Nova and More is a Hungarian guitar duo that aims to play authentic Bossa Nova combined with less traditional numbers to create an entirely enjoyable experience.
On a trip to France for a vintage car rally, four friends convene in a farmhouse - only two of them bring plus ones, making for a comedy of manners that speeds along as fast as any…
A collection of four short plays looking at different elements of life and love, each presents its own element of the comic brought about from the tragic and vice versa.
BBC: Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret returns to the Fringe with its hosts Scot Mills and Nick Grimshaw.
The Fringe Festival may be the home of the new and outrageous but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some classic hits as well.
This seemingly seasoned sketch show quartet has the promise of a fully entertaining set, but though the performers are in sync with each other and each other, their material could …
Danny Bevins is not a gentle comedian.
With a combination of music, song and puppetry The Golden Cowpat recounts the story of Betty the cow in the style of an old episode of Jackanory.
John Godber is generally a safe bet in terms of production.
Mick Foley has a hardcore fan base.
35 mm is a musical exhibition combining photographic art with song.
A woman flails around in her hospital bedroom as if operated on strings by a huge blue man in an overcoat, himself a disquieting looking papier-mâché puppet.
Stand-up comedy is never an easy option and Daniel Simonsen certainly had his work cut out for him in attempting to do so with little by way of preparation.
A co-production with Vertical Line and Greenwich theatre, Take Two Every Four Hours is a work in progress by Henry Regan and Ross Stanley.
There’s an old Jackie Mason joke where, when talking about the reception of his material, he claims that ‘gentiles love it’ but when Jews hear it, their response doesn’t st…
Shooting Stars presentation of Much Ado About Nothing is given a modern and youthful interpretation.
With a sell out show and standing room only, the expectation for Mark Restuccia’s set was high.
Three young lads in search of comedy gold, No Poofs No Piano comprises of sketches and quips with typical schoolboy humour.
Sculpting a uniquely defined path, Katharine Ryan’s brand of comedy is savvy but approachable as she rattles through a highly professional set with interestingly innovative content…
Silent Shakespeare attempts to give meaning to some of his most famous characters, but without words.
The premise of the play is a re-telling of The Case of the Prime Minister, the Floozie and the Lummock Rock Lighthouse.
While the usual argument of why comediennes are not prevalent at the Fringe has yet again reared its ugly head, another, of whether there is enough provision for children at the fe…
Shrew’s Who? is an attempt at role reversal of Shakespeare’s The Taming of The Shrew.
It is, naturally, a much harder world that comedians may find themselves in at the Fringe compared to those more atoned to the theatre world.
Nice to see some music listed on the Fringe Festival and a good chance to savour something other than theatre.
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…
Once again WitTank return to the Fringe with a material that is sure to entertain.
Ladies Day charts the lives of four women working in a fish-filleting factory.
With 20 million YouTube hits and three number one albums in the iTunes comedy charts, Adam Kay is going from strength to strength.
Visiting Time opens dramatically in a hospital room.
She Stoops To Conquer is perhaps the best-known work of Oliver Goldsmith.
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
Most school kids don’t want to read Shakespeare.
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…
The Bane trilogy - a one man tribute to film noir and American gangsters featuring hitman Bruce Bane who ‘always gets his man’ in a series of perilous exploits - is a cult hit …
This is easily the most unusual thing I have ever seen at the Fringe.
Spank! has wormed its way to the top of Edinburgh’s late night schedule through a combination of a party-style atmosphere and the willingness for decency to go out of the window.
I have always been of the opinion that Shakespeare cannot be read but must be performed.
The last twenty minutes of Eric’s Tales of the Sea are heart-wrenchingly powerful.
Dead Cat Bounce embody all that a concept rock band should.
The Performance Corporation, well known for their award-winning historical adaptations, have launched right into the contemporary, corporate world for their latest piece ‘Power Po…
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
Andrew Maxwell likes to laugh.
After winning last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell Kane’s marriage fell apart, he had a breakdown, and didn’t perform for a considerable part of the year.
The Room is one of the worst films ever made.
In this experimental theatre piece .
As the lights dimmed for the start of One Hour Only, video projections and voice-overs appeared on stage, calling the audience to attention as the characters set the scene for the …
Courage Performers, a youth performing arts club from Wiltshire, presents a very strong rendition of the Shakespeare classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with a Second World W…
Adam Larter splatters onto his stage like paint from Jackson Pollock’s paintbrush, ungainly and definitely not graceful as he crashes all over the place.
Dream Pill is a tale of modern slavery.
Milan based Babygang theatre present an experimental exploration of self in a messy production which says nothing worthwhile, barely scratching the surface of anything other than a…
Cusp is a coming-of-age story told through the voices of many to describe the journey of one woman.
It must make many a performer, struggling to get even their front two rows filled for a Fringe show that they have spent months meticulously planning for, that a show with practica…
Thom Tuck looks and sounds like a cross between David Mitchell and a long-lost sixth form teacher famed for getting a bit drunk.
Carl Donnelly has written his autobiography and hopes to share it with his audience, despite the fact it hasn’t been published yet.
The story of a World War Two child survivor is delightfully told in a simple production which exudes energy and passion.
Robyn Peterson’s polished and accomplished one-woman performance, biographising her past as a young American who has got hopelessly devoted to the modelling world, lives up to the …
Chris Corcoran and Elis James aka Mr Chairman and Rex Jones, the Caretaker, invite you to join them (and the third mystery comedian who remains un-credited) at the committee meetin…
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
The famed brown bear Wojtek, found in Iran and later adopted by Polish troops in exchange for a mere few tins of processed meat during the Second World War, became a symbol of hope…
My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a …
Beginning in the East End of Glasgow in 1979 when major supplies of heroin first appeared on the streets (and Margaret Thatcher on the steps of Number Ten), stand up comedian and w…
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
The Chyngton Youth Academy made up of 11 to 15 year olds performs this seasonal Shakespeare favourite with enthusiasm and fervour.
Duddingston Kirk may be slightly further afield than some of the more central Fringe venues but the performances here presented are worth the journey.
With its modest and pretty title, Some Small Love Story sets the tone for its performance.
As the audience walked in to the magical setting of Polly our narrator, Veronica Hare, told everyone to pick up a little note, paper and pens.
The GRV would be well-advised to put out some more signs advertising where this five-pound Fringe venue actually is, because when you eventually find it, there’s some real classics…
Playing Fate is the story of a relationship told in reverse.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
As the younger members of the audience ran around the room chasing bubbles before the show began it was immediately apparent that Ricochet Theatre understood their audience.
If a stand-up show concludes with an impassioned yell of the phrase ‘women’s rights are worth farting for’, chances are you’re not in the company of a normal stand-up.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
Shakepeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of his most popular works, so it’s not surprising that the majority of hands are up when The Pantaloons ask their au…
15% of The Seagull is a playful and tongue-in-cheek deconstruction of the theatrical process.
This show is comedy flying by the seat of its pants: not exactly improvised, but certainly thrown together.
Even from the offstage pre-amble, which wryly and shrewdly disassociates the use of the phrase ‘The N Word’ from the word itself - telling us that the former phrase won’t be …
Rhys Darby is under no illusions as to why many of his audience will have turned up.
Firstly - Kate Fox is very talented at what she does well.
The best moments in Cardinal Burns’ victory lap run of six dates at the Fringe are when the duo ditch any notion of their characters resembling people in the real world and, a la…
A whimsical piece devised by three artists seemingly disillusioned with the straighter side of the acting world, Scales of the Unexpected takes a relatively inviting look at pop cu…
‘You’re a funny crowd tonight aren’t you? For the first ten minutes I was sure this gig had bombed’.
The idea of performing an improvised musical is not a new one, and is always likely to enthrall a late-night audience who can never quite comprehend how skillfully their new ideas …
Bluebeard sets out to challenge the conventions of the standard fairly tale, and the values and desires it represents that have become our cultural norm.
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.
I promised I wouldn’t ogle.
Don Quixote has forgotten his role and nature.
Men of Character describes itself as two one-man sketch shows that overlap with one another with an overarching plot line.
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.
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 …
Say what you like about the show, the title doesn’t attempt to mislead you.
Starting with a video of him in distress in the worst hotel room ever, Tom Wrigglesworth spends an entertaining hour spinning us a complex yarn about how his wedding day came to en…
Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play has a script that dazzles, full of wordplay and witty one-liners.
This is not a comedy.
Alzheimer’s The Musical is a peek into the lives of those who might be getting slightly older in body but who are most definitely young at heart.
That Tom Binns’ now revered earlier creation, Ivan Brackenbury, has polarised opinion over the last few Fringes is undoubted.
The Marmite of the Edinburgh Fringe returns with another dose of hospital jokes, as infirmary DJ Ivan Brackenbury yet again offers his take on how to cheer up his patient listeners…
This speedy, sexually politicised satire is spot on and achingly relevant.
Surreal humour is usually considered to be at odds with a comedic mainstream, though many who are named practitioners of the surreal are some of the most broadly watched of comics.
Struggling with children at this year’s Fringe? Unsure about what show to take them to in order to keep them occupied and help them experience the magic around? A Most Curious Ques…
A magic show is fundamentally different from most other shows – because the success of the show is based on how much trickery can be covered up from the audience, rather than how…
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
The idea of geek chic is a funny thing.
Raw follows a woman’s journey of self-discovery as she ventures forth from her monotonous everyday life in search of something more.
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.
This Humble Quest offers up a madcap, frenetic late night quiz show, hosted by Mark Allen and diminutive, slightly eerie sidekick Eli Silverman, as a duo of guests take part in a n…
The Rape of Lucrece is Shakespeare’s narrative poem detailing the vicious assault on the heroine and its disastrous ramifications.
At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain.
As their show title suggests The Jane Austen Argument explore the spaces in the world we live in: the spaces that exist everywhere, both physically and emotionally, the spaces that…
Despite the best efforts of the cast, Lillia fails to achieve the level of intensity it aspires to.
This is a proper throw back.
Screaming Inside is a one man show depicting a year in the life of a self titled ‘lone ranger of the technology department.
From the start the atmosphere was decidedly unusual for something described as improv.
In a venue with no natural light, these two shine.
This show is a pleasant mix of upper-middle class safe humour combined with more crude, but successful, crafty one-liners from this truesome twosome, showing how a fully develo…
Whilst continually being a swelteringly drowsy venue, the Pleasance Attic has nonetheless been a happy hunting ground for up and coming comedians in recent years - Matt Kirshen and…
The classic tale of The Velveteen Rabbit is a favorite throughout the world.
For years, Pappy’s have established their reputation as one of the most beloved sketch troupes on the Fringe.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Yellow Wallpaper is an adaptation of the short story by the same name.
“Has anyone been on an adventure today?” asked Veronica Hare as she welcomed the audience into the magical space for William, a one-person storytelling performance combined wit…
Brendon Burns is forty-one.
Despite the midday showing time, Funk Rocket 5000 is a pitch-black comedy.
‘I’ll keep you alive.
Pirates of Penzance at the King’s Head Theatre presented by Charles Court Opera is a fantastic and funny production of the classic light opera.
Adam and Eve: it’s the oldest Rom-Com of the Christian world.
For many thousands of even seasoned Fringe-goers, the mystique and delights of the Famous Speigel Garden can frequently be passed by, with the comparatively few shows that it offer…
It’s rare for a Fringe stand-up show to devote a significant stretch of time to the correct pronunciation of Kettering Town F.
Edinburghs raunchiest strip club of the Fringe opens with a warning from one of the several bouncers allocated, who decree Move around, follow the action, but do not touch the …
I hesitate to describe The Magnets as an a cappella band, because I am still not entirely convinced there was not a full band on stage.
When you arrive five minutes late, panting and cursing the incomprehensible fact that the Zoo has two separate venues and youve turned up at the wrong one it is quite a sur…
What do sweltering rooms, PBH, taking free samples from the Fudge Kitchen and being overwhelmed with flyers have in common? Answer: they are all Fringe institutions.
The realms of fantasy board games never normally appeal to anyone but those on the peripheral edges of society.
The message of the play is simple - with a bit of imagination and intent every child has the potential to be anything.
Hillbilly hilarity can prove difficult to digest at the best of times, but this musical feast, based on the cult film by South Park creator Trey Parker, offers a light-hearted appr…
Even by the standards of the Fringe, the Zoo has long since been established for pushing the boundaries of modern theatre and displaying provocative, no-holds-barred action in thei…
This red, rude and raunchy show faced a difficult task transforming a university lecture theatre into the cabaret version of hell on earth, but thanks to some inspired acting from …
Hurrah! My days of reviewing theatre are over; I’m now a food critic! These were my thoughts en route to the new pop-up Hunt and Darton Café on St Mary’s Street.
A two man show by charismatic performers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey promises fast paced farce within the context of an 1870’s period setting, interestingly established at the …
What five words first come to mind when you hear The Americans? This is what the award-winning American comedian, Jeff Kreisler, has been asking people on his travels.
Britt Ekland has known and loved many famous people and for this she is famous, but bubbling beneath the surface is a determined, vibrant woman who - through her own admission - kn…
The Oxford Revue’s initial introduction takes advantage of its location’s atmospheric setting.
Often with self-styled ‘leftfield’ comics oddity is limited to execution rather than completely disconnected content.
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.
Marlow’s classic tale is brought to the Zoo, ever the first venue to take on the more risque of performances, in a show that delivers plenty of raunchiness, devilish cunning and lu…
The Alleycats present an energetic fun-filled show with popular music.
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…
I don’t think that political soapboxing should ordinarily have a place in comedy.
Nine - The Musical tells the story of Guido Contini, a fictional movie director in 1960s Italy, as he goes through a mid-life crisis.
Rocket Science is easier and much funnier than it sounds.
When the doors only open fifteen minutes after the stated start time, it doesnt bode well, but this show is worth the wait.
For Free and Easy it pays to be very early at the Stand, or that wont just be the venue name.
The highly acclaimed Rhod Gilbert returns to Edinburgh with an act that deserves the packed-out venues that he will be playing to for every night this month.
Webster explains the show as a plethora of different things and it certainly is.
Much of the Shakespeare at the Fringe this year has been performed with a twist: musicals, dance, physical theatre, spin-offs, the playwright’s words given new meanings or even tak…
Two comic actors play numerous different quirky characters, as the quest to read the big, breaking news goes on.
Bruce Devlin interviews guests and lets them strut their stuff before an appreciative audience.
The lights dimmed as I was pounding my second coffee and 3rd mini donut and with the opening line “What happens in this room stays in this room; like Fight Club”, the promising…
Last year, Jeff Achtem’s ‘Swamp Juice’ took the art of shadow puppetry to mesmeric heights.
Longley quickly explains the plan for his show, that he calls A Joke is Just A Joke.
Narrator Avis Sherman (Michael Legge) introduces the plan twelve twisted tales.
Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble…
The set is elaborately decked out to look like a diva’s dressing room.
The shows title gives little away, so when an electronic voice counts up the percentage complete, this looks likely to go geeky.
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
Rhod Gilbert bounces on stage, chatting to the audience.
This two person show is set in a surreal, but unnervingly, probable world of a massive corporation - where encouraging chirpy American voices in the lift congratulate people on ‘te…
Starting from a theme of love, and her love life problems, Lucy decided to make things less complicated by searching out the bare necessities.
Blimey, Tony Law is funny.
When history looks back at the greatness of famous Tims, it will not be particularly favourable.
Josie Longs effervescent cheeriness and excitement at all this world has to offer turns geeky, untouched topics in comedy goldmines.
Many comics wouldnt risk starting a show chatting about their hernia, but Tonkinson quickly gets up close and personal with his audience and their experiences.
Andy Zaltzman’s main topic is always politics, meaning he can cover the audience’s democratic disillusionment, teachers’ pay, and the immigration issue in just a few linked sentenc…
Starting with a song, Felix Dexter quickly moved onto gags, explaining the slightly racially dramatic title, and covering issues of black stereotypes.
The creator of One Man Star Wars returned to the Fringe last year to put on One Man Lord of the Rings - a certain hit for all who are fans of the book, and one that clearly has had…
Douieb is first of the two performers on stage, discussing his other gigs of the day.
A new play written by Lou May Miller, a modern take on Pedo Calderon’s ‘Life Is A Dream’ ,finds an early grave in this debut performance by Kudos.
A million miles away from turbulence, Flawless have a smooth take off, a pleasant flight and a well-rehearsed landing that can’t help but bring a smile to my face.
There are some shows where you have to wonder ‘what is this person doing here, and more importantly why?’ Simon Lilley and Asli Akby have entered this show in the Fringe, payin…
Platform 65’s cultural critique studies the politics that lay behind Asian religious ceremonial tradition and offsets them critically against a postmodern culture in which today’…
To perform a Bette Midler tribute show is risky.
Many stand-ups use the idea of a nervy, neurotic persona as part of their acts.
Pat Burtscher has more charm than sense.
This comedy show is about the Israel-Palestine conflict and lasts for two hours.
I doubt that the grand surroundings of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre had previously played host to any event opening with a spotlight falling on a man in a Ringmast…
I didn’t find myself laughing uproariously at Casual Violence.
Taking Flight theatre’s interpretation of the raucous and farcical Shakespearian classic captured perfectly the sense of carnival at the play’s heart, in their open-access adap…
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
Tired of the exhausting work of writing shows, Adam Hills has resolved to be rid of routine and base a show entirely around chatting to the audience.
Despite being named after an album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band famed for its extravagant tendencies, John Robins’ show of the same name is comforting and familiar.
Based on true stories of child immigrants sent to Australia, this performance takes us from the Quays of London onto a voyage of discovery and into the imagination of Jennifer Lark…
Graham Woolnough’s lusciously bizarre backstage peek at the lives of royalty is a theatrical treat for those with any political disposition.
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is a pop-up museum, running for one week only, as part of The Spire’s secret Fringe programme.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
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Betrayal, money, power, politics and love.
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 Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
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...
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.
Broadway Baby's Senior Critic Simon Smith looks back over 2016, a year in which we took what we've learned for more than a decade as the biggest reviewer on the Fringe and turned o...
Bobby Winner Ten Storey Love Song (adapted by Luke Barnes from the Richard Milward novel) is a play cum techno gig about five wretched tower-block inhabitants who deserve better fr...
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.