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.
Felipe Esparza is not just your average comedian - he's a force of nature on stage, leaving audiences in stitches with his wild stories and real world experiences t…
Ireland's Queens of Comedy are back with their brand new show, Girls World Tour.
Described as ‘the funniest dad on Instagram’, stand-up comedian George Lewis has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches ab…
Do you ever feel like this isn’t how it was meant to be? You wanted your life to be a series of stylish, cinematic moments… shots of you in a silk robe walk…
Olivier nominated Rachel Tucker is famed for her powerhouse performance that “leaves no roof intact!” Her Irish charm will immediately put you at ease as she…
This is a story about the rivalry between the two great northern cities of Liverpool and Manchester and, the fact that they have so much in common yet… it is ofte…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, and a sell-out nationwide tour, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of bruta…
Scotland’s queen of comedy, Fern Brady (Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg), is back on tour with a brand-new show.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
To live longer we should avoid smoking and fast food.
The visionary behind the viral short film The Director – Work At Home (viewed in excess of a dozen times in four years) and champion of off-off-off-off-off-off Broadyway, The Dir…
The Some Laugh Podcast returns to the Fringe with Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson having some laugh – or at least some laughs – discussi…
You Heard Me is for anyone who has been underestimated, or told to shut up.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Embark on Meg Chizek’s hilariously chaotic quest for perfection, while she follows her dreams and discovers life’s true meaning! As she twirls through rejection, conformity and eve…
Blind Mirth returns to Edinburgh Fringe once again in a blaze of glory and parental disdain.
August 1815.
You’re only as good as your worst day.
It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha).
Life is too complicated – so Riley Nottingham (Thank God You’re Here, Metro Sexual, Manifesto) is giving up choices altogether.
After being fired by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his back and the rum on his back.
Eric Davidson’s Amazin’ Prime Parodies (26 Songs to Make the Whole World Cringe).
The funniest dad on Instagram has racked up hundreds of millions of views online.
The needs of many people with migraines remain unmet.
‘They come over here.
Join Scottish supermodel Eunice Olumide MBE as she discusses everything you want to know about the fashion industry – do’s and don’ts, sustainability, greenwashing, brands gone r…
Tune-in for a mockumentary edition of This Is Your Life as our imposter Michael Aspel interviews Ludwig van Beethoven.
Are intrusive thoughts funny? No… but also, yes.
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Winner of the Neurodiverse Review Disability Champions Award 2023, Mark brings his debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
At Come to Mommy nothing is off the table! Having a problem at work? A tiff with your spouse? Did you commit arson? No matter the problem, you can always Come to Mommy, hosted by G…
A fun, interactive and educational sell-out show for babies and toddlers that is also enjoyable by the whole family! Professional violinist and cellist perform familiar classical m…
Take a strobe down memory lane with the UK’s premier rave raconteur.
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2024, and we’ve got some incredible new recipes! We’ll be chopping, stirring, kneading and boiling to serve you some deli…
This classic Victorian adventure sees the fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg come across a cascade of eccentric characters and exotic places, all because of a wager.
Sikisa brings her new work in progress show to the Fringe, exploring the things we do to escape.
Love Your Work is a bi-annual work-in-progress showcase dedicated to facilitating dance and mental health.
It’s Tibby’s 25th birthday and she is throwing a big party: after years, her friends from uni are coming together — and they are all doing better than her.
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
Who knew the Baroque could be so bawdy? iuchair tells a tale of debauchery played out in the coarsest catches of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries.
Park yourself behind the counter and take stock during this heartfelt devised comedy.
Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years.
From Hillsborough to Grenfell, the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the Miners’ Strike, hear the inspiring tales of 30 years of social justice campaigns.
For Your Entertainment enters its third year in the Fringe, with the same aim to raise awareness and funds for the Scottish Huntingtons Association.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Bluffing Your Way in Ballet pirouettes its fast-paced and irreverent way through the history of ballet.
Are our memories important in our day-to-day present lives? How can sociologists uncover people’s memories and why should they bother to do so? Delve deeper with Dr Sophie Athert…
Beldon Haigh performing their stunning new album World Got So Dumb in the world-famous masks of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
Philip Contini is back with his acclaimed singing show celebrating Dean Martin: Italian-American singer, actor, comedian, recording artist, television star, King of Cool.
You can’t search Google for poetry: it’s true! Every word you search for on Google is auctioned to the highest bidder, but it’s the commercial rather than poetic value of the…
Great songs of the 70s from James Taylor, Carole King, John Denver, Don McLean and many more from the singer/songwriter era.
Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown.
One in five adults in the UK have hearing loss, which can result in difficulty following conversations and social withdrawal.
Take a deep dive into one of the first multicultural symphonies with the Bamberger Symphoniker, narrator Gerard McBurney and guest artists.
Experience Queen’s legendary hits in this electrifying jukebox musical comedy.
On New Year’s Eve on Sydney Harbour the lives of Claire and Elisabeth collide.
We’ll take you on a one-of-a-kind, astronomer-led, immersive planetarium journey from our planet to the farthest reaches of the Solar System.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Outstanding Performance of a Solo Show (NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination).
Abandon all common sense and come on a voyage through the absurd world of Edward Lear.
Meet the most famous girl group of all time.
Multi-award winning Scottish stand-up Ray Bradshaw is coming back to the fringe with a brand-new work in progress show for 2024.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Six affluent socialites convene for a night of excess in a luxurious Edinburgh penthouse.
The Grumpy Magicians present: Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
Candid and hilarious new stand-up hour, talking about who I am, in an era where people are really keen to hear about who you are, so long as who you are is something they want to h…
You’re at risk of identity theft! Unless you come to this very informative, interactive, luxury seminar in which I, Bernadette (Agnes Carrington), invite you to experience the extr…
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure cabaret! Love them or hate them, tribute acts are here to stay.
Sarah Preacher, an awkward teenage girl living in a structured outpost away from an AI-dominated Overworld, faces a life-altering dilemma when a mysterious figure arrives in her co…
When a 30-something actress is suddenly aged-out of the industry, she undergoes a wildly unconventional spa treatment to get her old life back.
‘A properly talented comic.
A comedy show starring comedian Toni Nagy and her 13-year old daughter Adelia Aldrich.
A funeral you can’t keep your inappropriate self from laughing through: this one-person show is a love letter to the humiliating experience of becoming a grown up, and the way gr…
Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian with a secret.
Two doctors devise, with your help, a revolutionary health manifesto.
With Vladimir McTavish and friends.
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Join Duane Forrest on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae to the global influence of Bob Marley.
A story of empowerment through vulnerability.
Lonely musical composer Randy Thatcher has finally found the confidence to share his magnum opus (to an imaginary audience in his bedroom).
Based on writer-performer Sam Ipema’s life, Dear Annie, I Hate You is the story of Sam and her brain aneurysm, Annie.
An absurdist character-comedy show from a helpless clown.
Herstory, ancestry and f*ckupery - it’s all in the making of show.
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
A hilarious and heartfelt musical that tackles modern love in all its forms.
Guilty or innocent? You decide! The award-winning, critically acclaimed courtroom roast returns to the Fringe for its eleventh year! You accuse friends and family of crimes, and to…
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
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…
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Title says it all! *Evil laugh*.
This show will change your afterlife! How will the end of the world affect you? Is it nigh? Are pets allowed in heaven? Which religion guarantees unlimited free booze in the afterl…
Leicester Comedy Award nominee, Amused Moose Award shortlist-ee and double Pegasus Comedy Award win-ee, Adele has a year of new ideas to share.
Nominated for Best Production at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023, You’re Needy (sounds frustrating) is a site-specific piece for one audience member about a woman’s retreat from everyd…
In December 2023, Sam See left his home country of Singapore and moved to London because clearly, now’s the best time.
‘Highly original’ **** (StageRaw.
Glaswegian comedian and author Iain MacDonald embraces the international aspect of comedy as he takes you on a pun-venture around the world in this hilarious show in which he has a…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Prateek’s been on the top comedy stages, from Comedy Cellar in NYC to top clubs across Europe.
Comedy panel show where top comics answer the daft questions you choose on our exclusive app, and take on stand-up challenges that test their comedy muscles.
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, part improv, part video ga…
After losing wife Mina to a sudden accident, Gyujin suffers from memories of his wife that remain throughout the house.
Award-winning gag-merchant and three-time Joke of the Fringe winner Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in half an hour.
One guest.
‘Choosing sperm is weird.
If you can break up with your dad, you can break up with anyone.
Catherine Cohen is back.
Half-Brit comedian Jane Mumford was born and raised in Switzerland.
NHS anaesthetist, comedian and author Ed Patrick injects the Edinburgh Fringe with a gut-punch show about becoming a junior doctor, the NHS, the pitfalls of modern medicine and the…
You are cordially invited.
Award-winning gag merchant and three-time Joke of the Fringe winner Masai Graham delivers over 100 clean jokes in half an hour.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! The same spirited show hosted by Kyle Legacy but with all-new faces sharing their best drunken comedic tales! …
‘Hilarious.
Tom Ward (Live at The Apollo, QI) is back, and talking all the big topics of our times – masculinity, three-star hotels, erectile dysfunction, reality TV, adverts, mental health …
Two hundred years ago the first virtual-reality experiences were born in Edinburgh, not from digital technologies, but from the mastery of painted perspective, the control of space…
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have.
In our exhibition, now an established festival favourite, we feature carnelian, with a specially designed collection of this healing and protective stone, used in jewellery for tho…
Gracie is looking for love, and it’s been tough.
The songmeister’s back to tell us how artificial intelligence is no match for good ol’ organic stupidity, and (from experience) how actual intelligence can’t save you from being un…
Belles was the it girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl.
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
Jake and Liv deserve the world.
Witness mind-blowing sounds, beats, sketches and vocal agility performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
‘Being President of a footy club is pretty straightforward, right? Sign the best players, sell more beer, and try not to burn it all to the ground!’ A loud, obnoxious and darkly h…
55 years; a lonely speck, time off in lieu and a weekend in Tuscany.
A one-woman show about grief, self-discovery, a cow named Madonna and Delta Goodrem.
After two smash-hit, sell-out runs, Chloe Petts returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show… and this time she’s getting personal.
You learn it young.
We’re all alive and we’re all going to die.
Following her sell-out run Growing Old Disgracefully, Jojo’s back older and more disgraceful, now ridiculing and rejoicing the role of motherhood.
The 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee and winner of the Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality returns with a brand new show! After the huge success of his 2023 Phil…
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the grand final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
A new solo performance by Funny Women finalist Natalie Bellingham using comedy, storytelling, movement and interaction to celebrate being human in all its banality, sprinkled with …
Irishman Andrew Ryan is finally living the life he always thought he would.
Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job.
Being of service can be a wonderful thing.
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
James Barr fearlessly tackles the aftermath of an abusive relationship in an hour of trailblazing stand-up.
Trumpets: parp parp parp paaarp, Fringe favourite and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) descends from his ivory (Fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this m…
A line-up show starring the top three acts from the 2023 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Samira Banks, Christopher Donovan and L…
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A debut from the 2022 So You Think You’re Funny? winner.
Confronted with her fear of being unlovable and forever misunderstood an overly self-aware comedian puts together the biggest show of her life.
You know when you feel like no one gets you and you’re the odd one out, but then you realise everyone’s felt like that at some point, so you just crack on? Will’s debut hour is abo…
Sam Wilson, Class 8C, is obviously the correct choice for Head Boy.
Ugly? Poor? Does your life suck ass? Or do you just think it does?! Learn how to manifest a better life by simply just thinking hard and good.
Take a bunch of tuneful strangers.
Mumbai-based global stand-up star Rahul Subramanian makes his Edinburgh debut.
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 …
A second show has hit Paddy Young.
The “most dangerous man in comedy” is back at the Fringe with some games and more multimedia nonsense.
From the maker of Succession and White Lotus, Money™ brings you yet another little white b*tch you will love to hate: Olga Koch.
Erika Ehler navigates the disturbing reality of what it’s like to be young, hot and yet so alone; platonic relationships and the bittersweet transition of hangouts becoming reuni…
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Sara Barron (Would I Lie to You?; Live at the Apollo) has a new show that’s fierce, savage and other adjectives from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is set to take the roof off The Other Palace this summer.
Due to phenomenal demand, critically acclaimed Your Lie in April will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre for 12 weeks only.
Direct from its critically acclaimed sold-out New York premiere, this sharp new comedy reminds us that with great obsession comes great heartache.
What if you could see music? Award-winning concert pianist and inventor Larkhall takes us on a virtuoso multi-sensory journey.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
What’s wrong with you? Self-described shortcomings inspire darkly hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt new musicals every show from the co-creator of five star, multiple Fringe se…
The High Seas, 1705.
Join AFLO.
BUILDING YOUR NETWORK & PRESENTING YOURSELF BEYOND A LOCAL CONTEXT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE)…
There is 54 minutes until the end When you sit down the show will begin.
Leicester Comedy Festival Award Nominee Jon Hipkiss returns to the Brighton Fringe for the first time in five years with the show that was among one of the best audience reviewed s…
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Hypothetical and a number of apps on your phone.
Chris East’s brain is a soup.
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* An hour of fearless stand up comedy from James Barr.
Join us for an exciting meetup event hosted by Brighton Cloud to discover ways to drive your learning and development.
Ten years after a horrible crime tore them apart, two lovers reunite at the worst time.
We are women.
An interactive solo performance about failure, feeling like an idiot and music, by Rachel Blackman and her creative team.
In December 2023, Sam See left his home country of Singapore and moved to London because clearly, now’s the best time.
The 2023 Brighton Fringe award-winning show returns! Disability in society: fairytale or pigging nightmare? It seems the Big Bad Wolf’s blown your house down: with two life-cha…
Blue Blood is the extraordinary story of the scandalous adventures of outcast Gabriel Jones as he murders his way through the illustrious Gascoyne family on his way to claiming a d…
Taking A Love Pill at the End of the World is a play about existing at the end.
See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”.
There’s no future for Igg and Tom.
Take a trip to the old West and join rootin’ tootin’ improv cowboys Tea & Toast for some songs by the campfire.
My name’s Bernadette, and let me start by saying you are under siege: it’s high time you started taking Identity Theft seriously.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and host of the cult-hit podcast, They Like to Watch, Sara Barron has a new show that’s fierce, savage and other adjectives from RuPaul’s Drag Race.
You Can Call It Confirmation Bias is a performance about how fortune-telling miracle fish and trees that look like women’s legs helped us to predict the future.
You Belong Here With Me, My Darling is a show about belonging.
Rip-roaring, off-the-wall stand-up from one of the silliest people I know.
Local comedian Riggs (Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Finalist/BBC New Comedy Award Nominated) has found his acoustic guitar and learnt all his favourite sad songs.
Do you have an idea for a creative project? How can you make that idea a reality? Mark Stringer can help you.
Discover Middle Earth as you’ve never seen it before as drag and cabaret superstars put their own unique take on some of the most beloved characters from Tolkein’s epic fantasy fra…
Just turned 40, sober as a judge, with a new baby.
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
Crazier than finding a penguin in your fridge.
Live, laugh, learn - welcome to the Ted Talks that would hit the cutting room floor.
Will Robbins Presents his Comedy Show Hour.
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Billy no-mates Britain doesn’t get on with Europe, with the other continents, or even with itself.
Duane Forrest performs acoustic renditions of legendary reggae songs from Bob Marley to Toots and the Maytals that reshaped countless lives including his own.
Matt Lowes brings his debut solo stand up show “Matt Lowes: In Your Endo” to Brighton Fringe for 2023.
Dare you let him come inside your mind? Magic Mike (the magician, not the stripper), Blackpool’s least favourite son and Alakazammy award winner for most innovative based animal i…
Winner of the ND Review Disability Champions Award and the Amateo Award 2022 brings his debut show to LCF.
In a world where 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone FGM and where labiaplasty is the fastest growing form of cosmetic surgery in the UK, most people don’t rec…
As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl…
Taste, smell, touch and sight are invoked in a sensory dance theatre show served in an intimate cabaret-style setting.
After 10 sold-out West End performances of ‘Death Note the Musical in Concert’, its producers are to stage the European premiere of one of the most popular romantic stories and…
WILD ABOUT YOU, a New Musical in Concert with music and lyrics by Broadway star, Chilina Kennedy (Paradise Square, Beautiful the Carole King Musical), is coming to the West End.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
You Got It, Boss! Life at #2: A Henchman's Tale Stand up, Smack down! Where comedy and wrestling collide You Got It, Boss! - Charisma CheckWhat's a goon su…
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The Lost Bride A journey through heartbreak and grief.
20 Minutes of Deliberate AbsurdityOne Idea And Off She Goes!Chapter 40Unearthed diaries and an unlikely reunion 20 Minutes of Deliberate Absurdity - BIRDWOMAN Musician a…
The SpidersOld is the Web we WeaveCornucopia Jones Wants You to Succeed!Even You Could Have It All All The Spiders - Dermot Doyle The Spiders is a musical about large …
Three ghosts meet in a theatre.
A Shack on the Edge of the WorldWords o'the Wise, Ceol o'the Soul.
A Shack on the Edge of the WorldWords o'the Wise, Ceol o'the Soul.
Men Eating Dinner Take, eat; this is my body.
Viral sensation and all round great guy Vittorio Angelone is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars.
Viral sensation and all round great guy Vittorio Angelone is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
You know you’re in for a wild night at the Arcola Theatre when one of the content warnings is ‘Mentions of necrophilia’.
Who’d have thought that putting on a dress and reading some stories would lead to war on the streets of South London?Meet That Girl.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Exploring the idea of what it means to grow up, let go, and discover your own identity, Now & Then: I Think of You follows two women as they sort through memories of what once was.
Following sold out performances across the UK, Go Your Own Way, the spellbinding show featuring the music from the legendary multiple Grammy Award Winning Fleetwood Mac &ndash…
You Belong To Me is a savage new comedy by Rory Nolan about the rules we make, the laws we break and what falls between the cracks in an unflinching look at two people w…
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ returning to The Hen & Chickens Theatre, playing from Thursday 30th November until Saturday 2nd December at 19:30.
To celebrate 30 years of the PDC World Darts Championship, some of the biggest names in the sport will take to the stage in London for a night that no darts fan will wan…
Rugby fans across the country will remember exactly where they were the moment Jonny Wilkinson kicked a last-minute drop goal to secure England Rugby’s first ever Rugby World…
This hilarious new dance fuelled comedy follows burger bar employees, Natalie and Kyle, as they fall in love with Northern Soul.
The show is a candid look into what life is like as a young woman in the world today consisting of silly stories and anecdotes covering topics such as growing up with a priest for …
The Collaborations Agency presents Ali Fox Ali Fox is obsessed with the past.
An experiential ghost story, unlike anything you have ever experienced before.
Josh Wolf is a comedian, actor and NY Times Bestselling author best known for his work as a round table guest and writer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and &…
Former double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, as seen on BBC1’s ‘Live at the Apollo’, Andrew Lawrence, now famed for his bitingly satirical YouTube cha…
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq The World sashays into arenas for five huge glittering shows across England, Scotland and Ireland featuring fan favourite drag queens from the US.
What if the Big Bad Wolf blew your house down? What if you had to start building your life all over again? Award-winning show about family disability and being an accidental carer…
A thought-provoking new play exploring the roles we play, for ourselves and for others.
Jason Byrne is writing and performing in his first play, directed by Feidlim Cannon of Brokentalkers.
Wish You Were Here is an informal postcard addressed to friends, lovers and past selves.
Wish You Were Here is an informal postcard addressed to friends, lovers and past selves.
How To Start Your Own Cult - an hour of brand new character comedy.
How To Start Your Own Cult - an hour of brand new character comedy.
Fresh from her smash-hit Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre sell-out debut, Chloe Petts returns with her follow-up hour.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
Glory dreams of singing at the world’s most prestigious festival, the only thing standing her way is a mysterious pyramid.
Join Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn for a very special Edinburgh Fringe edition of You Dress Funny, the event where comedy meets fashion.
Spoken word and performance artist Subira Joy explores their experiences being targeted by the police as a Black, queer and trans person in the UK.
Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one.
Pam Ford Stand-Up Comedian has worked in a care home before and after the pandemic and has met many amazing “oldies” with amazing life stories to tell.
The University of St Andrews’ funniest, sexiest and incidentally only improvised comedy troupe returns to the Fringe and this year, it’s back to school.
Popular South African production, Baked Shakespeare, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! Baked Shakespeare – a group of professionally trained actors – performing Shakespeare ho…
Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death, and less thematic stuff like football, shoplifting, and milk.
“Once upon a time there was a girl who decided to leave.
Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death, and less thematic stuff like football, shoplifting, and milk.
“Once upon a time there was a girl who decided to leave.
Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi…
Discover and enjoy traditional dance from around the world with our experienced teachers.
Hiya! It’s me, Gary, and I’ve listened to the fans who said, ‘Gary, you’re amazin’, dae a chat show!’ Sooo.
Celebrate love, transformation, and community this summer in Shakespeare’s joyous comedy, As You Like It, in the Globe Theatre this summer.
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for! Fringe’s ultimate musical theatre party night has arrived.
Fimbo Butures (Maya Williams and Lizzy Tan) bring For you: wicked to the Fringe after a world premiere at VAULT Festival 2023.
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
Returning after two sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, global sensation Jazz Emu is back with his virtuoso musical spectacular.
Last year’s critically acclaimed show is back for a limited run.
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
A fun, interactive and educational show for babies and toddlers.
This is a story about love.
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
This is a story about love.
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
Join the Some Laugh Podcast live at the Fringe! Award-winning comedians Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson have some laugh – or at least some laughs, discussing…
Dad, Playboy and Me.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Following double Fringe First winners (The Believers Are But Brothers; Rich Kids – A History of Shopping Malls In Tehran), the final piece of Javaad Alipoor’s trilogy is an inves…
This year, Nile Seguin decided to try 50 new, potentially life-changing experiences (nothing crazy: pansexuality, ethical non-monogamy, bubble tea).
What do William Shakespeare and Johann Sebastian Bach have in common? Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and Sonnetcast podcaster, is trying to find out, bringing you some …
After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
A stunning song cycle by Jason Robert Brown centring human relationships in all their messy beauty.
Thirteen-year-old Chrissie is a budding climate-change campaigner, but her family just don’t get it! When a huge storm hits her seaside town of Skiddle, Chrissie reluctantly gets…
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
Two clowns, Anna and Felix, set out on a quest for home.
Hollywood, 1950.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
We are women.
Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired.
Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired.
Back by popular demand, Dinosaur World Live returns to Regent’s Park for another roarsome summer season! Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in…
An ‘imaginative and emotional’ storytelling and poetry show with ‘several laugh-out-loud routines’ by ‘fabulous performer of spoken word’ **** (NorthWestEnd.
Thank you for the Music takes you on a comic and quizzical journey through tough times.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
Two Plays for the price of one.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
A double bill, both 30 minutes long.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Two Plays for the price of one.
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Ed Patrick starts his show Catch Your Breath with a simple, “I’m a doctor, so I’m running late,” a rather light-hearted, if telling, joke that puts us at ease with its self…
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Holly Hall’s character comedy show explores our frustrating and sometimes hilarious inability to express our anger as you navigate the anxiety-ridden ups and downs of life.
Philip Contini sings your favourite, unforgettable, classic songs of Cole Porter, one of the greatest composer-lyricists of the 20th century, accompanied by the sensational 6-piece…
‘The real deal.
Bob Marley – How Reggae Changed the World is a show that is not only thought-provoking but stirs emotion too.
Choreographer Igor Lider’s dance performance Change invites the viewer into the exciting world of street dance.
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, improv, video game and cho…
2 nights of hilarious stand up comedy in aid of the Scottish Huntingtons Association, with excellent Scottish up and coming comedians at the ready to make you laugh whilst raising …
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
Returning to Edinburgh following his successful tribute show, Frank & Dean, at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pete Sinclair returns with a full-hour show celebrating the hi…
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air.
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
‘The real deal.
The World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year.
After being betrayed by his captain, Sharkbait Mulligan finds himself with just the clothes on his chest and the rum on his chest.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
Join me as I put the fun back into searching for meaning in a chaotic universe, if we agree to spell universe as ‘fun-iverse’ which I believe we agreed to.
What happens when the young Viola finds herself shipwrecked and decides to disguise herself as her twin brother Sebastian? What doesn’t happen?! This contemporary version of Shakes…
A thrilling debut stand-up show from whimsical Australian comedian Jacob Henegan.
An inspired performance that looks to the farthest reaches of the universe to see deeper into ourselves.
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the Grand Final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
Oracle is a jaw-dropping, thought-reading experience that has audiences grinning ear to ear, scratching heads in bafflement, and wondering if they’ve just seen a glimpse of their p…
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic songs and music.
How To Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World – With a Piano! is a self-help, group-therapy show that really doesn’t tell us anything that we haven’t seen before.
Selkie (Laura Booth) is learning about the stars.
A show all about the tales of the disabled.
Childhood tales of flying boats inspired Brian to travel the world.
An insane mixtape of silly songs, stupid sketches and crazy clowning! For over a decade the award-winning Listies have toured the world doing shows for literally gazillions of kidu…
Thank You for the Music, a new American musical revue, celebrates the greatest hits from radio, stage and screen.
Three hilarious comedians, three different nationalities (Israel, Ireland and Germany), three different types of humor.
Have you ever wanted to know every book ever? Well if Leo doesn’t read all the books in one night (entirely in song) the demon will burn everything.
James Allen and Annabelle Devey invite you to an hour of exhilarating and chucklesome stand-up; fresh from the North West comedy circuit.
A buddy comedy for an existential generation.
Buy that Meno-Porsche, bungee-jump with your second family, or dare to try Marmite again! Whatever your age, it’s a great time for a midlife crisis! We’ll share how to ditch pa…
One lucky audience member will see their dreams analysed onstage, thanks to October Brian’s patented Sleep-to-Sketch Technology.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
Twenty-something Audrey is struggling with her latest phobia… the local supermarket.
With Vladimir McTavish and friends.
Writer and solo performer, Zoë Kim, leads the play, oscillating between Mother and Daughter, unraveling a candid semi-autobiographical story about our love languages and how we of…
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
‘The best job in life is to be the father of a daughter.
Phoebe is a young college student navigating her life as different obstacles arise.
An hour too long a commitment for you? Come see the best international comics in Edinburgh fringe do 15 minutes of their best stuff and decide if you want more, think of it like fu…
Adele’s back, funnier and more dangerous than ever! Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee (2023).
The world’s only stand-up/improv/chat tattoo comedy show hits the Fringe to take you down the hilarious highway of human graffiti.
Join award-winning comedian Kathryn Mather in this slightly dark, slightly whimsical show about finding love and finding yourself against the backdrop of the pandemic.
Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history.
Multiple award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
The Oxford Revue is turning 70 years old! From Monty Python to Mr Bean to Love Actually, the alumni of Oxford’s premier comedy troupe have been polluting the UK cultural landscape …
Enjoy this gift of a show by Alfie Packham, who’s here to unwrap love, death and less thematic stuff like shoplifting, football and milk.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
Wwyditwy? Is a comedy game show in which contestants are judged on their creativity and ability to improvise when presented with absurd, morally dubious situations.
A cheater’s guide to love – Jokes on marriage, divorce, therapy, death and cheating.
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ **** (Guardian).
Ian is the world’s only rational skeptic psychic comedian.
This absurdist trio brings you an hour of off-the-walls stand-up and sketch comedy through the Welsh, Irish, Malaysian and 30-something perspective.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! Same spirited show but hosted by Kyle Legacy and with all new faces performing stand-up and sharing their best…
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Glaswegian comedian and author Iain MacDonald embraces the international aspect of the festival as he takes you on a pun-venture around the world in this hilarious show in which he…
A performance grounded in friendship and a desire for objects to predict the future.
Remember when you were allowed to say anything you liked and got no trouble for it? Me neither.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
Award-winning gag merchant and three-time Joke of the Fringe winner, Masai Graham delivers over 100 clean jokes in half an hour.
“The primary school teacher vibes don’t end here,” Sasha Ellen jokes lightheartedly at the start of When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.
The Fringe’s cult-hit stand-up comedy panel show that you influence in real time is back.
London-based Chinese comedian Alvin Liu’s debut show delivers distinctive cultural humour with his playful views on China and the UK.
Winner of Best Kids Show at Adelaide Fringe 2023.
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
Join Mr Toad, Ratty, Badger and friends in a new family musical by Roger McGough, inspired by The Wind in the Willows.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with NYC comedian Katharyn Henson.
We’ve got news.
Sure, Britain’s got talent, but has it got any friends? We don’t get on with Europe, with the other continents, or even with each other.
Uma Gahd, everyone’s favourite unofficial auntie, brings you her one-woman drag comedy.
Blossoming (You Undo Me) is a straightforward one-person musical about a young Chinese man growing into his queerness and yet it weaves several narrative threads and theatrical for…
This is a refreshingly new and interesting take on death through the medium of a musical.
Oftentimes when you go to a stand-up show, a comedian will attempt or fix or comment on a problem in the world, at least by providing a series of observations that you can’t real…
Man meets man.
For his entire life, performer Mark Vigeant did everything he possibly could to make everyone around him happy.
A line-up show featuring the top three acts from the 2022 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Joshua Bethania, Pravanya Pillay and J…
Chloe Petts’ latest hour If You Can’t Say Anything Nice is teeming with insults and slander as she scrutinises rudeness, rage, and her own relationship with anger.
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
William Thompson (BBC New Comedy Awards finalist 2021, as seen and heard on Dave, Channel 4 and BBC Scotland) is a rising star from Belfast.
Tired of explaining his nationality to a crowd, Pierre Novellie has filled his new hour Why Are You Laughing? with a discussion on topics as distinct and unconnected as British dri…
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
Witness mind-blowing sound, energy and vocal dexterity performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
An absurd sketch show where it’s always 2am, set in the liminal space between screen-lit insomnia and bad dreams.
Award-winning musical comedian and viral internet-hit-maker Anesti Danelis returns with his hit comedy concert that will change your life.
Language is the springboard for fun and games in this interactive, family-friendly production.
Who amongst us hasn’t uttered the phrase, “I can’t believe you’ve done this!?” whilst laughing with a friend over a particularly embarrassing story.
The play 17 Minutes explores the communal and residual effects of a shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the …
With sex, Siri, and the familiar mundane at the top of the mind, operatic bass-baritone and comedienne Monét X Change shares her anecdotal, intrusive thoughts and opinions on life…
Monster vs Hero, TV Camera vs Reporter, Husband vs Husband: their battles and rituals.
Can love survive when someone dies? ‘No bastard ever warned me that your love life goes down the shitter when someone dies.
Glaswegian comedian and popular Twitch streamer Rosco McClelland enters clad in a denim biker vest and a spider’s web tattoo coning one elbow.
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
Cassie is a hot mess.
CHOO CHOO! (Or.
Adam Scott-Rowley, creator of the award-winning ***** (Independent) THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT presents, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
A fly-on-the-padded-wall account of the mental health world that also busts some myths (there are no padded walls).
This returning musical is an exceptionally joyful and tremendously funny look into the lives of food delivery drivers.
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World is a 15-minute consultation delivered through a 1 on 1 phone call, in which the solo audience members’ responses through a yes or n…
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom, written and performed by Raymond Wilson and produced by All Those Figs, is an expert fringe show.
Where does beauty go when the beholder has no eye? Comedian Richard Wheatley returns to the Fringe with his new show, as he ridicules the perplexing paradoxes of a blind man in the…
What makes a footballer a hero? What makes a hero a legend? Locality? Loyalty? Skill? Players like Bobby Walker appear once in a generation.
The gallery is housed in a 19th-century bakehouse in the heart of the artistic village of Stockbridge.
Famous for a reason… Old Town graveyards and underground. Experience them on our unstoppable scare-fest through Edinburgh’s most horrifying secrets. Are you brave enough?
You’re Alright is a new comedy dance show from award-winning choreographer, Sam Burkett.
The guy is back in Vittorio Angelone’s Who Am I? I Am!; an in depth exploration of self-identity and perception, whilst being cautiously celebratory in its ownership.
You’re Alright is a new comedy dance show from award-winning choreographer, Sam Burkett.
We’ve got news.
We’ve got news.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
This dark comedy, set on the 15-year anniversary of the Apocalypse tackles themes of isolation, late-stage capitalism and purpose.
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air. He ponders the warning signs that spelled our doom. Is anyone listening? Have they ever…?
A psychedelic, forest-core journey of discovery about the stubborn resilience of lesbian love in the face of adversity.
Loud eaters.
The Lavender Theatre opens its gates from 17 July 2023 for its inaugural summer season with Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
An interactive, immersive journey where you play a newly conscious octopus on a quest to find your missing mother.
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
After 21 years and 224 days Hal's back being single.
From the outset the jazz club on the top floor of Toulouse Lautrec appears to have a cosy rustic atmosphere, like one that we'd associate with a gazebo.
This revival of Ken Ludwig’s celebration of George and Ira Gershwin’s music takes us on a full-throttle ride through American classics and culture, brightening up the stage …
Directed and choreographed by multi-Tony and Olivier award winner Susan Stroman, this spectacular production transfers from a sell-out season at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Direct from its sold-out smash-hit run at VAULT Festival 2023, where it won the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, I F*cked You in My Spaceship is a ‘wickedly funny’ and r…
You are invited to gather as One Tribe to bring hearts and minds together in a dynamic, creative, healing circle for change and transformation.
You are invited to gather as One Tribe to bring hearts and minds together in a dynamic, creative, healing circle for change and transformation.
Jamie and her Nanna have seen their home disappear under rising sea levels, and find themselves on a terrifying and exhilarating adventure to rebuild their lives and stop climate c…
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21 years since it all began… the world’s favourite rock theatrical returns home! The worldwide smash-hit We Will Rock You by Queen and Ben Elton returns to London, nex…
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Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
As You Like It by The Three Inch Fools, presented at The Actors' Church as part of their Theatre in the Garden Summer Season.
“Don’t live your life girl, unless it’s just like a movie.
“Don’t live your life girl, unless it’s just like a movie.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
Scared of commitment? Drink too much coffee? Own an NFT? Audience problems become a unique and oddly uplifting musical on the spot.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
Mary O’Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but she loves to shop.
We are women.
‘Welcome to our World’ is a new open house event created and curated by students at Downsview Life Skills College.
‘Welcome to our World’ is a new open house event created and curated by students at Downsview Life Skills College.
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you will learn the art of massage, and the beauty of bodywork.
Fierce, funny, and wonderfully frank, Poppy and Rubina have sex and they aren’t ashamed to talk about it.
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you will learn the art of massage, and the beauty of bodywork.
A thrilling debut hour from absurdist Australian stand up Jacob Henegan.
A thrilling debut hour from absurdist Australian stand up Jacob Henegan.
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Want to know your future? ‘Cause we already do.
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Want to know your future? ‘Cause we already do.
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one.
Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one.
Three of London’s fast rising, exciting new female comedy voices Marty Gleeson, Su Mi and Frances Keyton fuse together to bring you an hour of turbocharged off the wall standup a…
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
Join your hosts, the hilarious Katie and Demetrius, as they introduce memorable hit songs, performed live, from past Eurovision Song Contests.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
Join your hosts, the hilarious Katie and Demetrius, as they introduce memorable hit songs, performed live, from past Eurovision Song Contests.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
In Schalk Bezuidenhout’s I’ll Make Laugh To You, the fun and games start before the show does, introducing us to his subtley pointed sarcasm before launching in a self-deprecat…
Perceived through a lens of fear and censorship.
Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Bet’s Back! Kathy Diamond plays Bet Lynch in this one woman performance of monologues and music.
Bet’s Back! Kathy Diamond plays Bet Lynch in this one woman performance of monologues and music.
Following her sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre in 2022, Chloe Petts returns with a work-in-progress of her new show.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Following her sellout runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre in 2022, Chloe Petts returns with a work-in-progress of her new show.
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
A night of stand up comedy in aid of Mental Health Charity Sikh Your Mind.
Smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun is to be celebrated with a special one-night only concert production at The London Palladium.
OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
Masters Of Comedy Come Mek We Larf promises a night of funtastic entertainment, featuring the Best in Stand-Up Comedy.
What do Mother Teresa, Napoleon and Hitler have in common? Well, they all have what Hedda Gabler wants most of all.
Black magic, tricks & treats from your worst nightmare - with gothic magician & hypnotist Dr JohnTicket price includes a reserved seat.
This delightful evening of tall tales proves storytelling isn’t just for kids! Join award-winning storytellers Minnie Wilkinson (The Tell Tales) and Niall Moorjani (Mohan: A Par…
'How long has the earth been around for? Millions, billions who knows, I don’t know, I don’t care to find out.
Adam Scott-Rowley (creator of the award-winning ★★★★★ THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT) presents YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
Glenn Moore presents one of the best reviewed shows of the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, firmly establishing himself as one of the greatest joke-writers of his generation.
Dan has been a data collector for 10 years.
Glenn Moore presents one of the best reviewed shows of the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, firmly establishing himself as one of the greatest joke-writers of his generation.
A North-West writer explores growing up queer in rural England and the climate emergency.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
What does it mean to be ‘Not Safe For Work’? Drawing from experiences in camming, life modeling, stripping and formal dance training, ‘For you: wicked’ is a reflection of s…
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
Mission: Understand Joshua’s world.
In this riotous show, commanding and lightning-quick Drag King Brent takes a deep dive into the fascinating and often confusing world of human behaviour.
A theatrical comedy meta horror multimedia experience - this show has all the adjectives and more! A desperate actor seeks a friend to be the ‘reader’ for their self tape.
blurb: Suitable for budding playwrights who want to meet dramaturgical story wizards Eoghan Carrick, Sarah Baxter, Michelle Read and Pamela McQueen to talk about their p…
You're accepted.
Come watch a working class motormouth, trapped in a hipster’s body.
Theatre interns collect severed horse heads Emily Featherman A play about the inadequacy of plays.
The Greatest Story Ever CastThe Devil is in the detail You Who!Knock knock: who's really there? The Greatest Story Ever Cast - Frank Notions Mary is auditionin…
It’s summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England.
if all the times i cared had names.
One of You Has to DieA post-apocalyptic interactive comedy showHR_final.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (do not look that up).
The Last Incel A woman has entered the chat Imagine If You Will.
We all feel underappreciated at work, and Death is no exception.
Two couples launch an extraterrestrial game of shifting relationship dynamics threatened by invasion, alienation, and abduction, when they invite a stranger into their homes with h…
“If you don’t want it, I mean, it’s a bit fucking weird, isn’t it? You’re just a guy in an alien costume.
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Three of London’s fast rising, exciting new female comedy voices Marty Gleeson, Su Mi and Frances Keyton have fused together to bring you an hour of turbo charged off the wall st…
According to google Eva’s boobs weigh the same as an average newborn baby and that’s quite a weight to have on your back, metaphorically, and physically.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
Winner of the 2021 Quantum Leopard Champion of Champion’s Award and 2021 Funny Women Stage Awards Finalist, Louisa Keight really really really wants you to like her.
Multimedia comedian Ted Hill unsuccessfully tries in several silly ways to fix climate change.
The year is 1889 and intrepid journalist Nellie Bly is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet: racing around the world to beat Jules Verne’s famous fictional hero, Phileas …
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
Following sold-out runs at the Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and the Garrick Theatre, Rob Madge brings their triumphant celebration of the ups and downs of raising a queer chil…
Chloe Petts presents her follow up show to hit debut, Transience.
Discover Middle Earth as you’ve never seen it before as drag and cabaret superstars put their own unique take on some of the most beloved characters from Tolkein’s epic fantasy fra…
A Chinese New Year charity party that transcends language and culture.
A Chinese New Year charity party that transcends language and culture.
You Can’t Understand is a cheeky coming-of-age story about a young woman named Keika, aka Keika Freika, aka genius, aka quirky babe.
A cheeky coming-of-age story about a young woman named Keika, aka Keika Freika, aka genius, aka quirky babe.
Featuring South African artist and theatre maker Jemma Kahn and directed by Lindiwe Matshikiza, We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants is a unique solo performance of seven st…
A dark comedy drama about a heavily populated society which has been pushed to take extreme measures.
A dark comedy drama about an overpopulated society pushed to take extreme measures.
MYRA DUBOIS: WE WISH YOU A MYRA CHRISTMASMYRA DUBOIS presents her cracker of a seasonal spectacular for one tinsel-strewn night yule never forget!Myras now legendary Christmas show…
This winter journey into the Forest of Arden in William Shakespeare’s glorious romantic comedy, As You Like It.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
George has had a tough week.
WE’RE BACK BABY! All You Can Eat Cabaret is back for the new year and we”re bringing you more fat joy, beauty and excellence.
“Wear thick pants because you’ll wet yourself laughing!” – JENNIFER SAUNDERS “La Voix’s impersonations are surpassed only by her own cheekily en…
Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run in 2021, Amy Trigg‘s ‘enormously entertaining’ (The Guardian) Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me returns to Kiln…
Thank You for The Music - The ultimate tribute to ABBA This international smash-hit tribute show brings all of ABBA’s number one hits to the stage in a production …
If you have a spare hour, thirty quid, and can travel to London’s West End, I urge you to get a ticket for My Son’s a Queer (but what can you do?).
Alice is drowning under misguided medical advice, chirpy Insta-announcements and yet another fucking miscarriage.
Mirror, semen, manoeuvre… HAM THEATRE bring their award winning play to The Bridge House Theatre - a fast paced comedy with bits of physical theatre, music and singing, set …
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
This story follows the journey of two sisters – Peggy and Janet – in their search for happiness.
Meet Keika, an uncertified entrepreneur in bad gyal business.
I always say- you can’t just do a stuffy old recital Seán! But the music is so beautiful, it comes to life when sung, it needs to be sung! Every piece has m…
In front of a live audience, James and guests will be exploring the spectrum of food and the stories that blossom from culinary experiences, from filthy-delicious takeaw…
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
Like most dystopian stories, Simon Perrott’s Everybody Wants to Rule the World has a basis in reality which forces us to reflect on the issues of today.
Join the ‘best wild night out at the Fringe’ (Scotland on Sunday), Spank!, as they celebrate 20 years at The Fringe, and bow out disgracefully with this show-stopping one-night-onl…
Enjoy a livestreamed concert from The Philadelphia Orchestra in the picturesque Princes Street Gardens, as we celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us…
Skin is strange and wonderful.
Lisa O’Hare’s debut show at the Greater Manchester Fringe in 2019 was described as ‘a perfect little package of fringe theatre.
Lisa O’Hare’s debut show at the Greater Manchester Fringe in 2019 was described as ‘a perfect little package of fringe theatre.
Join The Philadelphia Orchestra for a special free concert to celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us and our community.
Playwright Sergio Blanco explores his relationship with death in this moving, autobiographical work.
A cast of actors use music, dance and video to tell their stories in this uplifting exploration of living with Down syndrome.
I am joined by Edinburgh’s best jazz guys for this one-hour show of class material. Good to be back at the Fringe in this fine venue, Leith Depot.
Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before journeying to London, Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an E…
Theodora van der Beek’s Arts Council funded film telling the darkly comedic tale of a YouTuber princess trapped in a tower in a world of only pink.
Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before journeying to London, Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an E…
The comedy fundraiser extravaganza is back! Following a sell-out, all-star line-up in 2019, join us for a night of laughter to show your support for our planet.
Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding.
The morning after a drunken rendezvous with an old boyfriend, a woman and her friend discuss autonomy, identity and bad sex.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Ubiquitous fitness, health and dating apps ask us some very personal questions.
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe and they’ve officially given up.
A fun, interactive and educational show for babies and toddlers – suitable for the whole family, where wriggling is allowed! Professional violinist and cellist perform a live pro…
Two sisters.
It has been a period of upheaval and uncertainty with COVID and the political situation.
The world is ending.
A chance meeting changes Annika’s life forever.
Do you want to be desirable? Do pretty people have better friends? Let’s look at research on attraction and inspect the Carl Rogers’ famous quote, ‘What is most personal is most ge…
Des is back with the latest version of his one man Ghostbusters tribute show, STILL READY TO BELIEVE YOU.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of all-style two vs two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
This award-winning online play was developed when the world went into lockdown.
Traditional and contemporary songs that take you on a musical journey through Scotland and beyond from ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Creative people have always made incredible things that inspire, provoke and excite, so how do they create when data is one of their raw materials? Over the last four years creativ…
It’s the summer of 2017.
It’s the summer of 2017.
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother, when the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on, for the night out you have been waiting for, celebrate the songs of music roya…
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Multi-award-winning Australian World Orchestra make their Festival debut with maestro Zubin Mehta, who returns for the first time in over 40 years.
Troubled? Weak? Feel like a fraud? Good.
A show that will take you on an emotional, inspiring, global journey.
This panel discussion focuses on how we can continue to collaborate internationally whilst creating sustainable practices as part of our Refuge series.
Malcolm is a resident of Morningside, Edinburgh’s douce suburb.
Mark Borkowski is the doyen of the world’s most controversial artform: the publicity stunt.
Join service persons from the Armed Forces as they discuss how the poetry of Robert Burns is a source of continuing inspiration to them and their colleagues.
Korea’s TOB Group presents a double bill of contemporary dance shows exploring the bystander effect and mass consumerism.
Algorithms are art.
Travel – always exciting, especially when the man of your dreams pops up to join you.
Real, Mad World is a brilliant piece of new writing following the joys and heartbreaks of trans life.
‘Perspectives.
A collaborative, devised piece that celebrates clubbing and what it means to young people.
A one-woman show about Leda, an actor struggling to make it.
A musical coming-of-age journey.
A Choose Your Own Adventure comedy show! Mary Flanigan makes the jokes, you make the choices.
Welcome to Clapham South tube station – home to the last five survivors of the climate crisis.
2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out! Rocket into space or face the haunted mansion? Say ‘I do!’ or murder the best man? Save the world or end it? In Choose Your Own, you decide…
Debuting at the Fringe this year, Foot Notes is one of Durham University’s much loved a cappella groups.
When 18-year-old Eliza doesn’t come home one night, her family and friends are forced to confront their own issues and insecurities in an attempt to find out what has happened to…
Immrama: Columba’s Journey, Your Story.
A special school assembly harking back to the grand old days of the bawdy British boarding school, hosted by drag king and self-proclaimed “Head” Master Mr Brake Down.
Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have.
An aural delight of soulful, melodic jazzy-blues, pop and folk-blues to shake your tail-feather.
Award-winning comedian Elf Lyons invites you for an hour of revelry, raconteuring and comedy, which your great-grandad would consider indecent for a lady to listen to.
The Great Resignation? We call it The Great Escape! Join hilarious Brits abroad Jess Bauldry and Sharon VS to hear how they broke out from the 9 to 5 and their musings on the meani…
Pioneering theatre company Solar Bear presents a rude, riotous celebration of Scottish deaf talent.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
This show is about identity, where to buy it, and how to cook it properly to make you stand out with your friends.
Would you save the world if you could? Alexander Fleming’s penicillin was a life-changing discovery that became a world-changing cure.
Come traverse the world with me! No hotels to book.
The most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see.
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
One performance only. Arrive early, sell-out expected.
Broadcaster Mark Stephen and folk singer Gill Bowman look beyond the haggis and tartan to the real Scotland: stories, secret places and iconic songs.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Jason recently lost his father, Paddy Byrne.
Have you ever considered how much easier it would be to stop trying to be a nice person and just be a dick to everyone? You will after watching this show.
Fade In: Heidi sits at her desk writing the blurb for this show.
Ali Brice is embracing life after almost losing it.
See the UK’s longest running and best comedy newcomer competition back for its 35th year.
Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, What You Will is set on Long Island’s Gold Coast in the 1920s and follows the antics of Vi Candor as she circumvents a man’s world in …
As seen on BT Sport’s DIY Pundit, the Amused Moose Comedy Award winner Danny Ward returns to Edinburgh with his seventh solo show.
Few things are guaranteed: death, taxes and Joseph getting ID’d! After amassing over 3 million views on TikTok, taking the runner-up spot at the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the…
Rory wants to pop the question.
Andrew O’Neill, non-binary whirlwind and star of BBC Radio 4’s Damned Andrew brings back the best show they’ve ever done.
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as: ‘the relationship.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
Paper.
Come with us on a dramatic journey to the very edge of our solar system and back! In real time we’ll be seeing the boundaries of human exploration and following in the footsteps of…
All families have secrets.
Having written over 200 songs during lockdown exploring some of the more comical aspects of the pandemic, Siobhan Argyle is bringing her sold-out show from Glasgow to the Edinburgh…
Just one of the many questions the producer of QI, Blackadder, Spitting Image, The News Quiz, Not the Nine O’Clock News is hoping to answer over eleven harrowing teatimes.
A celebration of Queen songs performed by four of the UK’s most talented singers and dancers in a tribute to the musical We Will Rock You.
After years of patching up a rapidly deteriorating airport on an island lost in a Foie Gras scandal, Lick is staring down the propeller of a cargo plane.
A solo show about a gender identity crisis, in the high-pressure isolation of lockdown.
Boiler suits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! From a sunny party land in Gran Canaria to the cold, wet, windy Western Isles …
Jacky shares her top 10 reasons why she wants to leave the planet, all through performance poetry.
Blink and You’ll Miss It is the incredible, one-man show from Terry Geo, writer and director of Blink of an Eye.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
A college student offers a scattered recollection of her childhood, her perceived trauma and the chaos leading up to her mother’s recent disappearance.
‘Unsettling yet captivating’ (Alt A Review).
A jaw-dropping mind-reading show that will have you grinning from ear to ear, scratching your head in bafflement, and wondering if you might just have seen a glimpse of the future.
See You is must see.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
This is the story of Bob Hecklestein, a boy born without a sense of humour, who learned to overcome his disability and grew up to become the world’s greatest heckler.
The Great Baldini (Emperor of Illusion/Maharajah of Mystery) is a magical legend, a relict of the music halls, a performer of the old school.
The year is 1889 and intrepid journalist Nellie Bly is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet: racing around the world to beat Jules Verne’s famous fictional hero, Phileas …
In 2020, Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan reopened, asking patrons on the rollercoasters to Scream Inside Your Heart.
Bold.
In 2020, Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan reopened, asking patrons on the rollercoasters to Scream Inside Your Heart.
A play about love transcending separation.
Your Aunt Fanny are an all-womxn theatre company from the North East of England.
Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper and Jennifer Decilveo’s Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is in one word, a celebration.
Watch the German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
The cult hit stand-up panel show where the audience can join the fun without being picked on! Enjoy three top stand-ups answering the daft questions that have been picked using our…
A tender, furious and fragile reimagining of Moby Dick from Fringe-First Award winning writer and storyteller Casey Jay Andrews.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their grandma.
She’s back, the 6’5” towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Come See.
There is a robot in trouble and it needs your help! The stunning visual effects and immersive interactive technology mean kids aged 5 to 95 will be enthralled in this thrilling, ed…
Two teams of comedians – one team depressed, one team anxious.
You are blindfolded.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
“Excuse me sir, would you mind if I gave this gentleman the free seat beside you?” says a keen and kind Aliya Kanani before the beginning of her sold-out show.
Game changer of an act Sam Serrano showcases their trademark self-deprecating and dark style in their debut show, Make Me Your Queen.
Northern Irish comic Caroline McEvoy and Arab comic Farah Sharp are used to conflict.
With Vladimir McTavish and friends.
Maureen Langan doesn’t want to hate people; they make her hate them.
Come Sit on the Couch With Me: is this a therapy couch or a casting couch, and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical – but true – look at communication in …
Boy, you’re an alien.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Jon Pearson – crowned Best MC in the Midlands, 2022 – presents his unscripted, unfiltered and unplanned award-winning Leicester Comedy Festival performance plus his brand-new S…
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Title says it all! (Evil laugh).
NHS junior doctor, comedian and now author (oooooh, check him) Ed Patrick returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the makings of a new show.
Musical comedian and viral internet songboy, Anesti Danelis, presents a comedy concert inspired by all of those stupid self-help books.
Join us for a drink and another hour of non-stop inebriated laughter! Same spirited show but with all new faces performing stand-up and sharing their best drunken comedic tales! If…
Finally, something Netflix can’t match! Darkest Thoughts offers you the audience a chance to get immediate comedy based on any topic you can think of.
Al Lubel talks about his name for fifty-six minutes and about something else for four minutes.
The master of straight-shooting, straight-talking, gimmick-free stand-up is back! ‘Possibly the most important comic of his generation’ **** (Mat Ewins).
Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r…
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
In her first solo show, Swiss Comedy Talent Award finalist Michelle Kalt tackles the aftermath of an embarrassingly peaceful break-up, covering everything from bad dates (or whatev…
Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day.
Award-winning comedian, NHS psychiatrist and author Benji Waterstones shares highlights from his forthcoming book.
Join Paul Mccaffrey and Seann Walsh for a live version of The UK’s Top 10 Comedy Podcast. Comedy’s two angriest friends just got angrier.
Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.
A stand-up comedy compilation show hosted by Tom Mayhew, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
This popular show returns for its fifth run. Four circuit comedians from the UK and Berlin will make you laugh until you wet yourself, in this fast-paced club-style hour.
One-woman show about being a sibling to someone who’s autistic.
After two sell-out Fringes, Tessa Coates is beside herself with excitement to be back with a brand-new show.
A worldwide sensation from Montreal to Beijing, Fills Monkey return with an exhilarating new show.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Introducing Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy who debuts at the Fringe this year.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
You can be ashamed of many things.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
A new show for 2022 bringing you the best of the winners and finalists from 2021’s So You Think You’re Funny? comedy newcomer competition.
A robot, an alien and a human.
Son of a climate scientist, Australian theatre maker David Finnigan has always made work about climate change – then his country caught fire.
There’s not really any way to describe how much I enjoyed Glenn Moore’s show other than to say that by the halfway point, I had put my notepad away and was just enjoying the ri…
Explosive, gag-packed comedy from Leicester Comedy Festival Award nominees returning to the Fringe following their acclaimed 2021 run.
In the last hours of 2019, David Finnigan’s best friend prepared to make a break for home with his family before fires cut off the highway.
You can have too many carrots in one show.
This unflinching case study scrutinizes one of the most pertinent conversations of our time: women’s safety.
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
Change is always hard and what better person to lead the men selflessly by the hand into the new world than TV’s Jayde Adams in her brand-new show.
This is a visceral and vitally important piece in which playwright Eliza Gearty and director Alex Kampfner have wrought an exquisite little nugget of social political theatre: subl…
You won’t have had children yet, as Jenny is the first person to ever go through this particular ordeal, but you might be keen to learn a little something about this incredible new…
After 21 years and 224 days Hal’s back being single.
John Hastings has had to deal with the shit life has thrown at him since 2019… He got a divorce during Covid, his best friend got a terminal diagnosis, he got bed bugs, he nearly…
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
Now an established festival favourite, this 36th festival exhibition presents our very own Festival Collection of unique jewellery designed with rare Central Asian pendants, Kuba t…
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World celebrates the life and work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014).
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
The World Press Photo exhibition connects people to the stories that matter.
They’re in Hackney; a vibrant, unheard of original setting.
They’re in Hackney; a vibrant, unheard of original setting.
Blending dark comedy with the surreal, Experiment Human tells the story of Monkion, a non-human creature, curious to understand the world outside their laboratory in the attic.
This powerful and experimental piece of theatre explores the challenge for the disabled community to be heard in the face of broad stroke Daily Mail prejudice and aggressive, insti…
A rip-roaring ride through the plagues of history! From swarms of locusts to vine-destroying bugs, from the Black Death to Covid.
Monday, June 27th 7:30pm Under Your Nose + Q&ATrailer: https://www.
Comedian Jacqueline Novak’s GET ON YOUR KNEES is the most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see.
The return of a play about memory, poetry, hypnosis, and redemption.
In this genre-defying performance we witness a spellbinding combination of theatre, music, hypnosis, dream, sound collage, film and text as we share the last night of a persecuted …
A brand new kickass-pirational pop musical bursts into life as the Fantastically Great Women take to the stage to tell their stories.
I Can’t Hear You by Natasha Brotherdale Smith is a queer, female led two hander.
Attack? I don’t know anything about an attack.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
Screaming Alley debuts Brighton Festival in an effort to prove that romance ain’t dead (and nor is panto season!) gis a kiss.
Screaming Alley debuts Brighton Festival in an effort to prove that romance ain’t dead (and nor is panto season!) gis a kiss.
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.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, or as we call it the Great Escape.
2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, or as we call it the Great Escape.
Exhibition and performances from learners at Downsview Life Skills College.
Exhibition and performances from learners at Downsview Life Skills College.
Join Vash for an hour of standup comedy and misinformation.
Join Vash for an hour of standup comedy and misinformation.
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
All You Can Beat Workshop.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championship Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 10…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championships Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 1…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championship Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 10…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham, UK Pun Championships Winner 2016, Joke of the Fringe Winner 2016 and (some guy called) DAVE Joke of the Fringe Winner 2021, delivers over 1…
All You Can Beat Workshop.
Come celebrate with us in the new immersive multimedia tour by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Come celebrate with us in the new immersive multimedia tour by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors.
Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors.
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
Scared of commitment? Drink too much coffee? Own an NFT? Audience problems become a unique and oddly uplifting musical on the spot.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
Getting To Know You (“an outward expression of internal sounds” - audience member 2021) is a highly physical solo dance work exploring the journey into self-inquiry.
One of the best things about theatre, and art in general, is the space it creates for difficult conversations and analysis.
Getting To Know You (“an outward expression of internal sounds” - audience member 2021) is a highly physical solo dance work exploring the journey into self-inquiry.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Local musician and composer Jo Eagle celebrates the 200th anniversary of the invention of the accordion and the 30th anniversary since she first picked one up and gave it a squeeze…
Local musician and composer Jo Eagle celebrates the 200th anniversary of the invention of the accordion and the 30th anniversary since she first picked one up and gave it a squeeze…
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Hi Jeff Just emailing about the copy for the Fringe thing.
Hi Jeff Just emailing about the copy for the Fringe thing.
In our world of fast fashion, the buy-now-pay-later mentality fed to us by banks like Klarna and the rising cost of living, Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money will truly resonate with…
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth, and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
This new work by Italian choreographer Sara Sguotti invites us to explore the relationship between performer, space and the imagination and features a live score by Spartaco Cortes…
This new work by Italian choreographer Sara Sguotti invites us to explore the relationship between performer, space and the imagination and features a live score by Spartaco Cortes…
Dennis Kelly is one of the UK’s most extraordinary and original writers working today.
I Couldn’t Do Your Job is a poignant, captivating and timely verbatim play which shows an honest insight into the people behind the uniforms.
A night of conversation and song with Joshua Morgan (Ain’t Too Proud, Les Misérables), hosted by Off-Broadway actor Patrick Oliver Jones and his top 25 theater podcast Why I’ll …
A VAULT transfer stand-up show, which asks 'who are we?'Maddie Campion has a new show, after two sell-out VAULT festival appearances, this transfer from the cancelled 2022 …
CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?!! The world premiere of a brand new kick-asspirational pop musical bursts to life as the Fantastically Great Women take to the stage to …
Have you always wanted to go to a presentation about ADHD that veers off into the wacky and wonderful world of Neuroscience, Julie Andrews, Cher and Dolly Parton? Well n…
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
Following their success with the 2019 tour of Ian Townsend’s multi-award-winning play All The Bens,1974 Productions are proud to present Ian’s new full-length play My Favourite…
You Should Not Be Watching MeA musician overshares WARNING! Edgy MaterialYou'll be in stiches.
PLEASE COME TALK TO ME Let us not remain strangers Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)A Stuttering Comedy Show in Development PLEASE COME TALK TO ME -&nbs…
Love lives and dies, onlineTwo rooms, two people, two calls, two times.
Thank you, next The life of an auditioning actor Three Queens Stuck in Dublin City We’re all born naked, but the rest is shade! Thank you, next - Megan O&ap…
You pull the strings.
The truly mind-boggling story of how a long, long time ago two hunter-gatherers, Ugg and Ogg, palled up with their enemies the wolves and invented man’s best friend, the dog.
Eddie is a single waiter who wasn’t talented enough to die at 27.
Eddie is a single waiter who wasn’t talented enough to die at 27.
This funny, sincere and profoundly moving ecological adventure will feature Jordan Benjamin (Hairspray – London Coliseum) as Rain and Mei Henri (The Birt…
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
Rain and Zoe Save the World by Crystal Skillman at Jermyn Street Theatre is an action adventure story that follows two teenage friends as they embark on a journey to disrupt some o…
Robert Batson (Brighton Fringe Development) will host this session about fundraising options and opportunities.
This UK premiere, presented by The Dark Times Theatre Company, is genre-defying performance, witness a spellbinding combination of theatre, music, hypnosis, sound collage, dream, f…
A man caught in the act.
In partnership with Gay Community News So, who’s your favourite Irish trans writer? For a small demographic, trans people are a very big subject in I…
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
A Map to You tells the vibrant life stories shared with playwrights by individuals and their families living with dementia .
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
THE BIG GEEK QUIZ 3 - THE GEEK WORLDLondon’s favourite geek quiz is back at the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern for its third adventure.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Come and join the QPOCPROJECT’s collaboration with licensed therapist Anthony Davis.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
What follows is a window into how a couple find the strength to move forward, the will to stay together, and the determination to keep the memory of their child alive.
This is an Ecstatic Experiential Mutual Care sharing about using the Tarot to Explore Your Soul and understand Your place in the Universe! Its a weekly Tarot drop-in sharing! …
In addition to much discussion of the play itself, Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Omnibus Theatre Clapham had the bar buzzing with anecdotes from people recalling what their mo…
Hey Gents,Here are details of the long waiting Massage Exchange Workshop on Tuesday 14th September.
The proper army wouldn’t have her but Fella still found herself behind enemy lines.
The proper army wouldn’t have her but Fella still found herself behind enemy lines.
The proper army wouldn’t have her but Fella still found herself behind enemy lines.
The proper army wouldn’t have her but Fella still found herself behind enemy lines.
This is an Ecstatic Experiential Mutual Care sharing about using the Tarot to Explore Your Soul and understand Your place in the Universe! Its a weekly Tarot drop-in sharing! …
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
In this workshop brought to you by queer writing collective, Sapphic Writers, well be exploring what makes sapphic (writing from the perspective of a queer woman or non-binary pers…
Commissioned by Just Festival, No Alleluias is sung by professional singers and supported by a virtual NHS choir.
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
The ‘absurd and excellent’ (RifeMagazine.
The kids have moved out and it’s the dawn of a new era! Tom’s embracing change with his usual spirit and vigour; he can draw lessons from the past but he’ll be damned if he …
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow.
Mixing gaming and 3D technology, this experimental production fuses original music, virtual performances and a new script exploring migrant experiences; from the poorest Chinese sa…
Allison Miller is on trial pleading not guilty to all charges held against her.
A fun, interactive and educational show for babies and toddlers that can be enjoyed by all the family.
A fun, interactive and educational show for babies and toddlers that can be enjoyed by all the family.
After six years together, one of which was particularly crazy, an American says goodbye to Scotland with the help of a song and a puppet and tries to figure out why she’s leaving.
BREAK YOUR BANK!!! A multi brand pop up shop for ONE DAY ONLYBringing you the yummiest garms from UK based sustainable & independent businesses.
Elly spent the last year at a prestigious performing arts school in France.
Elly spent the last year at a prestigious performing arts school in France.
Looking for justice? ‘Cos we’ve plenty of it.
We are finally back, no restrictions, just pure queer drum and bass freedom!Come down to our first non-lockdown event.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a 'modern classic' or are his publishers as deluded as h…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
LET US RAZE YOU - Artist ShowcaseA night of Queer Cabaret Debuts! New talent, New ideas & New perspectives.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse has got a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your mi…
Take a gonzo dive into a world of sex dungeons, meth and so much more with New York City comedian, Katharyn Henson.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse has got a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your mi…
What is love? Perhaps we can work it out together? LOVE YOU is a solo show that blends storytelling & dance written & performed by Samantha Morrish.
What is love? Perhaps we can work it out together? LOVE YOU is a solo show that blends storytelling & dance written & performed by Samantha Morrish.
In this workshop brought to you by queer writing collective, Sapphic Writers, well be exploring what makes sapphic (writing from the perspective of a queer woman or non-binary pers…
From writer Ahlam and director Katie Posner, this film presents the award-winning You Bury Me as a poignant snapshot of post-Arab-Spring Cairo.
Following the death of their manager, four bartenders are faced with the impossible task of resurrecting their bar before it is taken over by a massive corporate chain.
The ‘absurd and excellent’ (RifeMagazine.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
From appearances Mock The Week and QI and others, Eshaan Akbar comes to Edinburgh for three nights only.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
The Great Baldini is the head of the shadowy and sinister Illusionati - a group of elite magicians controlling the world through the magical dark arts.
Writer Ahlam and director Katie Posner present the award-winning You Bury Me as a poignant snapshot of post-Arab-Spring Cairo.
The Great Baldini sets the stage excellently for his show, greeting each audience member at the door, and asking their name, which he will repeat when he invites them to volunteer …
This show was going to be titled “I Used to Eat Dog Food” but that would have meant leaving out all material about the sex dungeon, the legendary yeast infection, and everything el…
This show was going to be titled “I Used to Eat Dog Food” but that would have meant leaving out all material about the sex dungeon, the legendary yeast infection, and everything el…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
Three top academics, three dangerous ideas and your host comedian, Susan Morrison.
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show "I'll Tell You What", an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the …
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show “I’ll Tell You What”, an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the circuit.
Laura Smyth and Suzie Preece present their split bill show “I’ll Tell You What”, an hour of stand-up comedy by two of the funniest women coming up on the circuit.
Love, work and the passage of time.
“What would happen if you answered the front door, and the person standing there was you?” Exploring what makes you, you, and not someone else? What would you do faced with you? Wo…
Love, work and the passage of time.
“What would happen if you answered the front door, and the person standing there was you?” Exploring what makes you, you, and not someone else? What would you do faced with you? Wo…
Ben’s getting older, what should be the final flurries of youth sees him fall squarely into middle age with new ailments to contend with, medical dilemmas, alarming levels of grump…
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.
A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.
Smile.
Award-winning gag merchant (2016 UK Pun Champion winner) Masai Graham delivers over one hundred clean jokes in just half an hour.
A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has written a book! Is it really a “modern classic” or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make your minds …
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a 'modern classic' or are his publishers as deluded as h…
Award-winning gag merchant (2016 UK Pun Champion winner) Masai Graham delivers over one hundred naughty jokes in just half an hour.
A brand new work-in-progress hour from former BBC Comedy staff writer and very old baby Charlie Dinkin.
Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler.
We all have struggles, problems, and fears - let me show you some of mine.
‘Sensational’ is how one viewer described this high-quality filmed version of Mark Wheeller’s moving play.
A theatrical film about the impact of the pandemic through the eyes of clowns.
Combining childlike wonder, adult cynicism, and Shakespearean gravitas in his impressively compelling story, master storyteller Dennis Elkins poses increasingly difficult questions…
Your Servant, Mephistopheles follows the demonic deuteragonist as they keep up after a young John Faustus and dodge their boss, Lucifer.
If You Find This is about a young woman working as a carer, who finds herself on the brink of life and death.
Edinburgh’s favourite topical comedy show.
An immersive feel-good experience that comprises personal storytelling and comedy to tell a story about growing up and making a home in the world.
Trapped in a manor house, two hapless Glaswegian detectives must investigate the deaths of each family member, but try not to become victims themselves… A time-warp murder myster…
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.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
Timmy was in showbusiness for 28 years, he was a child actor, appeared in the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone.
Boiler suits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! A truly mesmerising twinning of music and storytelling of how a global communi…
On Your Bike comes with a lot of hype.
Come on an Edinburgh Food Safari, where we do the hunting and you do the eating.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
A young woman working as a carer finds herself on the brink of life and death.
A young woman working as a carer finds herself on the brink of life and death.
Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt, Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you a brand-new interactive musical sho…
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
For our 35th festival we present a stunning selling exhibition exploring the use of talisman and charms in jewellery design.
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
This Is Your Trial is an improvised comedy show.
Join The Greenhouse Theatre - the UK’s first 100% zero-waste theatre - this summer for an all-singing, all-dancing, full-of-life reimagining of Shakespeare’s pastoral classic.
The MDs are a group of UCL medical students, whose sketch comedy and stand-up routines reveal a side of medicine that the public has never seen before.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
Someone has seen a wolf.
An evening of organically improvised live jazz and groove music. Led by saxophonist Quinn Oulton, and featuring some of the finest creative minds of the UK jazz scene.
Maddie Campion: WIPA fun show to be enjoyed by everyone or you'll be reported to the fun police.
Shakespeare’s As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of romance and poetry, satire and slapstick.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Six people, five stories, one truck.
Now in her mid-forties, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the arrival of the man whom she gave up for adoption thirty years before.
Now in her mid-forties, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the arrival of the man whom she gave up for adoption thirty years before.
When Rob was 12, they attempted to stage a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Boilersuits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! From a sunny party land in Gran Canaria to the cold, wet, windy Western Isles o…
Boilersuits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! From a sunny party land in Gran Canaria to the cold, wet, windy Western Isles o…
A personal performance of a woman’s struggle growing up in a man-made world.
Eleanor suspects she may have intimacy issues.
Eleanor suspects she may have intimacy issues.
Professor Claire Smith (Head of Anatomy) and Dr Michael Koenig (Histopathologist) will take you on a journey through your intestines.
Meet and hear from inspirational Fringe Directors and Producers from around the world.
Meet and hear from inspirational Fringe Directors and Producers from around the world.
Professor Claire Smith (Head of Anatomy) and Dr Michael Koenig (Histopathologist) will take you on a journey through your intestines.
The dandy kings of cabaret Joe Morose, Dusty Limits & Des O’Connor invite you to Theatreland’s former lavatory & Oscar Wilde’s forgotten cottage for a royal flush of vaudev…
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.
The Great Baldini is the head of the shadowy and sinister Illusionati - a group of elite magicians controlling the world through the magical dark arts.
The Great Baldini is the head of the shadowy and sinister Illusionati - a group of elite magicians controlling the world through the magical dark arts.
The proper army wouldn’t have her but Fella still found herself behind enemy lines.
Some people chase pigeons when they’re out of work.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra…
Going Primal – Chapter 2: Punk your Spirit: Three solo acts of humans unleashing their own inner spirits.
A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make you…
Award-winning comedian and NHS psychiatrist Benji Waterstones has landed a book deal! Is he sitting on a ‘modern classic’ or are his publishers as deluded as his patients? Make you…
If you had a house fire what single item would you save? Treasure reveals the surprising and often touching stories that people have about the one thing they would hate to lose.
Our air-hostesses, Perl and Merlot are delighted to invite you onboard Flight 2012 to Ibiza.
‘Land If You Can!’ is a role-playing play.
If you had a house fire what single item would you save? Treasure reveals the surprising and often touching stories that people have about the one thing they would hate to lose.
Here Come The Boys features four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’ in a dazzling new production that includes special guest star, Strictly’s stunning Nadiya Bychkova.
£75 (£60 for students)09.
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
£7510am-3pmSuitable for ages 18+This workshop is all about signage onto rustic wooden planks that will be prepared for you.
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
Are You OK? reflects on a world turned upside down and inside out by the pandemic in two different countries.
Join Lekhani on her hair journey as she discovers that she can’t wash her hair with 99p Alberto Balsam, that she has no clue how to cornrow and that everyone has something to say a…
£7510am-3pmSuitable for age 18+This workshop is designed for you to put your own design onto local sanded wood or ply to create a detailed piece of pyrography art.
It’s about one moment.
Following a sold-out UK national tour, Here Come The Boys, featuring the four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’, is set to transfer to the West End in a dazzling new productio…
THIS EVENT IS EXCLUSIVE TO HOUNSLOW SHORT BREAKS FAMILIES.
BoJo and his friends are coming to Liverpool for half term week! The dreaded Assassin Bug has made his way to BoJo Land and is infecting all of the townspeople … Can BoJo along …
Get ready for a Musical Theatre extravaganza that will have you dancing in your seats.
This autumn, The New Shadow Cabinet and BOAT bring you an intimate, firelit evening of music and folklore.
Traditional and contemporary songs that take you on a musical journey through Scotland and beyond from ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Join Robin Perko for an hour workshop and learn how to re-programme your mind to see the world like an artist.
Listen to the music of the greatest composers in jazz played by one of Scotland’s best Jazz Quintets.
Get started with writing that story you’ve always dreamed of telling in this interactive one-hour workshop.
Set in the early 90s and spanning 10 years, this play explores relationships and the toll these relationships take on the six principle characters.
In 2017, Watson – prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Charlotte will take you through the timeline of creating your own work, along with a practical element to get you started on your own play.
Oliver Yellop, (Further Theatre) brings you a workshop on the process of making I Am Gavrilo Princip.
Travel – always exciting, especially when the man of your dreams pops up to join you.
Phil Spencer will discuss the financial challenges of making a short film and how to overcome them.
Broadcaster Mark Stephen and singer/songwriter Gill Bowman look beyond the haggis and tartan to the real Scotland; stories, secret places and iconic songs.
An emotional, touching and hilarious piece of original theatre.
An uplifting comedy confessional hosted by Nancy and Baz Ashmawy, Irish mother and son stars, of Sky One’s Emmy Award-winning TV show – 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy.
This unique one-man performance binds classic 1980s Alarm album Eye of the Hurricane into a powerful theatrical narrative backed by emotive electro-acoustic rock concert dynamics.
Sometimes we all feel different but not everyone has that confirmed by a professional.
This unique one-man performance binds classic 1980s Alarm album Change into a powerful theatrical narrative, backed by emotive electro-acoustic rock concert dynamics.
The legendary dark prince of comedy-cabaret has brought his new show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Unless you want it to be.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
First hour of stand up from Maddie Campion; a show about career choices, billionaires, and the hustle.
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
It’s me, Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks! In this show I’ll examine relationships (all kinds, baby), mental health (other people’s,…
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, t…
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from this year’s Edinburgh festival, Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show.
Enjoy the freshest fringe theatre, performance art, dance, music and art classes from the comfort of your own living room, as part of WAF In Your Living Room.
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Peter Gills’ powerful memory play, set on the east side of Cardiff in the 1950s and the 1970s, about boy-hood, the complex relationships between mothers and sons and the search f…
Stephen Schwartz is the multi-award winning creator of an extraordinary catalogue of songs for stage and screen.
BoJo’s World, a political satire play by Succour Punch Theatre, is a children’s television show style political satire.
Bringing to life Philip Osment’s final play, Can I Help You? is a magical realist examination of the role race and gender have to play in mental health and suicide.
An award winning play by Laura Harper - From the outside, Dawn has it all; nice house, fast car, great friends and family, and a new job out in sunny Dubai.
Matt Hoss is a man on a mission.
Emilia does dating!Emilia does… not know what she’s doing.
Fresh from a slot on James Corden’s Late Late Show, Lou Sanders breezes into Brighton to blow away the grubby taint of the coronavirus—and your dad.
Love is never easy.
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
Award-winning war photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy explores the creative inspiration behind PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album in A Dog Called Money, an arresting collage-sty…
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because the Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for…
Join the fun as we conjure up a magic show from thin air! Thrilling illusions, spooky mind reading, stunning sleight-of-hand, and death-defying escapes.
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
In 2039, a successful Black writer lives a perfect life in a future where racism has ceased to exist.
Are you eager to discover the better comic who is lurking inside you? Do you need a push to break out of a rut with your comedy routine? Are you looking for support to u…
Love is more than just a game for two.
ZooNation’s smash-hit sensation Some Like It Hip Hop thrilled audiences and critics when it opened in 2011, prompting five-star reviews and standing ovations with its infecti…
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable…
Now in it’s 12th year touring, the award winning Rule The World has been recognised as the Number 1 Take That tribute show in the world! The cast appeared alongsid…
Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus are back with Give Me Your Love, a funny and profound fable informed by groundbreaking research.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in partnership with the National Theatre present A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Wo…
Did Grover drop an F-bomb on Sesame Street? Do the names Yanny and Laurel make you want to fight? You know what your ears tell you; you heard it yourself! But why do so many people…
Lift your spirits with a selection of spine-tingling choral gems to inspire and delight.
Before going mainstream in 2016, fake news was principally used to attack climate science.
Celebrating 32 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Step aside from the frantic streets and slip into a meditative mood with the tranquil harmonies of five centuries from Gibbons and Tallis to Gjeilo, Whitacre and Lauridsen.
Our world is getting colder – emotionally.
In 2018, David Finnigan met with 30 scientists and asked each of them a question: ‘What’s the biggest change happening in the world today?’ What they told him was a fascinating mix…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
A talk by Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on their approach for maintaining your traditional building throughout the year.
What do you want to see? A marriage or a funeral? An abandoned spaceship or a creepy dungeon? A murder or a resurrection? In Choose Your Own.
‘What I had experienced had not been a full life, nor was it a full death but it was a real loss.
An immersive, interactive experience that takes you on a journey full of whimsy and wonder, brought to you by critically-acclaimed veterans of the Los Angeles immersive theatre sce…
Jess is sat on the living room floor, nursing a glass of wine… or two… or three.
“Is it a stand-up show, is it a rally?” Nish Kumar certainly blurs the boundaries between the two.
Join us for a one-off comedy extravaganza, raising awareness for one of the most pressing issues of our time – protecting our planet.
London, 1946.
Our show tells the story of two women.
Danny lives happily in a gypsy caravan with his father, but his world is turned upside-down when he learns that his father poaches pheasants from the estate of the vicious, greedy …
This show follows the journey of a team of podcasters setting out to investigate the disappearance of an iconic infomercial grifter.
Problems are like whirlpools; they suck you in.
Imagine Bandersnatch with less clothes, more STDs and an instagram filter over the screen.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Aberdeen A Cappella.
Come and hear a lunchtime recital with music written by strong women as well as arias about the power of women.
Brand-new show from the award-winning, five-star Glaswegian chanteuse.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Want Some More explores the harsh realities of living with a whole range of eating disorders from binge eating to diabulimia; retelling word for word accounts in Stage Strong Produ…
Naomi Sheldon (Funny Women Best Show, 2018) returns with a new psychological drama that takes the audience on an exploration of sound and the supernatural.
See the Proopcast Live in hot Edinburgh.
The Tales of Kieran Hodgson: Part One.
A well-loved family favourite.
Total Theatre Award-winning Rachel Mars returns following her gleeful sell-out hit Our Carnal Hearts.
Why would a poet have LinkedIn? And why does Ross’s say he’s ‘an ideas man’? When asked this in an interview, he panics, but somehow he gets the job.
Watson presents a show that’s no more than 50% ready for public consumption and hopes for the festival’s legendary supportive vibe to carry him through.
Zaltzman, host of the global smash-hit podcast The Bugle, brings his uniquely interactive stand-up show Satirist For Hire.
Following five-star reviews at the Fringe 2018, Gone Rogue Productions returns with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard), Alison Thea-Skot, returns to the Fringe for two nights with her five-star smash-hit show.
After playing to packed houses at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a return to his greatest triumph Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Tony Slattery is back with a no-holds-barred reflecti…
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
Part I: fool me once.
[SFX: FANFARE] Michael Brunström is an Olympic athlete striving for gold medal glory.
The wrestling double act, Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh, return! Thom and Andrew are forming the first-ever comedy tag-team and are going to use all the elements of tag-team wrestling …
‘Can we just say we’re completely pro sex’ – Pig.
Critically acclaimed award-winning show returns to Edinburgh for a third year.
Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua.
Samson and Mabel are the UKs youngest double act.
How do you read? Drowning in never-ending email? Rapidly devouring whodunnits, then immediately forgetting them? Perhaps you are seduced by clickbait or read the news and get depre…
This new comedy gives the audience a fly-on-the-wall view of how messy putting on a student Fringe play can be.
Two girls take on the world of app store dating.
What happens when we bring era-defining characters back to life? A thought-provoking avant-garde history-play, exploring the self through the epic, Paradise Lost.
A stripped back, thrilling and edgy contemporary dance work.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of all-style two vs two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Transform paper into 3D forms.
The Laugh 4 Change Comedy Fundraiser features some of the best comedians on the circuit who will come together for an hour of stand-up comedy in support of refugee action.
I need to preface with this review with a disclaimer – this is either a one-star or a five-star show, depending on your sense of humour.
It’s the smallest comedy show in the smallest venue at the Fringe.
Staying sharp as you age is easy… just eat this super berry, do five simple things or play this game to beat dementia! But what if it’s not as simple as the hype suggests? If w…
Sell-out show returns! A fun, interactive and educational classical violin and cello concert for babies and toddlers where wriggling is allowed! The programme includes music from a…
Later! Ramblier! Jimeoin’s 26th Fringe! ‘Inspired ramblings.
The hit stage show starring dinosaur aficionado Dr Ben Garrod.
What if your mind is not only in your brain? How exactly would your mind extend across brain, body and beyond? Philosopher Dave Chalmers claims that if his iPhone were implanted in…
Grief is a tricky business and can make you do irrational things.
Edinburgh-born Italian crooner Philip Contini sings a selection of Cole Porter’s best-loved repertoire with anecdotes from the colourfully flamboyant life of one of the world’s gre…
Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures.
The world’s population continues to grow at an alarming rate, putting an enormous strain on food systems and production.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Broadcaster Mark Stephen and singer-songwriter Gill Bowman look beyond the haggis and tartan to the real Scotland – stories, secret places and iconic songs.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Very recently Polly Pattison discovered a hoard of letters from her mother to her father in the early years of WWII.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? You struggle, I struggle, and the world struggles.
On Sunday 4th August, a cast who have just met an hour beforehand will give a completely unrehearsed performance of As You Like It at a secret pop up location in south London!
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 32nd year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
An English lawyer, a German IT guy, and an Israeli TV writer throw away their life to entertain you.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Research has got to the point that researchers like Stephen Lawrie (University of Edinburgh) can predict who will get some major mental illnesses years before they develop.
Lubna explores her identity as a Scottish Pakistani muslim women living in a world dominated by fat, blonde, white men.
Award-winning spoken word artist Melanie Branton performs poetry and songs about her roots and plays the recorder (the ultimate punk instrument) badly.
Hell to Play is a bad-taste absurd comedy game show set in Hell.
Writer, theatre-maker and creator of cult Edinburgh hit John Peel’s Shed, John Osborne has a new storytelling show about music and dementia.
Bea’s vagina can narrate, DJ, and dance, but she can’t have sex.
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival – and this year, he’s been trying to escape.
And other noble-minded nonsense.
From 2018 audience reviews: ‘He milked me.
When you are given a class project of Flat Stanley who better than your stand-up comedian Uncle Dave to do it for you.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Last ever year for the show that started the Free Fringe.
After the apocalypse, hope.
In the middle of the night, there’s a noise – a snuffling and a shuffling and a splintering of wood.
International touring songwriter Dan Haynes comes to Edinburgh as part of his Had Some Falls tour.
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
How many comedy sketches does it take to screw in a light bulb? 30? 50?! 100?! Well we’ve gone one better, literally.
Using only their voices and innovative live looping techniques, international vocal sensation FreePlay sings you around the world without leaving your seat.
Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh don’t know what to do now their 20s are over.
Madame Komondor Will See You Now is a wildly interactive solo comedy show that probes everything from excessive male masturbation to enhancing a woman’s pleasure.
Six actors.
Your Fringe adventure starts here! Now in its 21st year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of…
Catch some world-class street performers, bag a bargain at the Half Price Hut or browse through the arts and crafts markets – all against the stunning backdrop of the National Ga…
William Mastrosimone’s one-act play, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, is a powerful response to the wave of school killings that have erupted in recent times.
From early Celtic tradition, through Shakespearean superstition to modern high fantasy, everyone has heard of fairies.
A brand-new adaptation of this rarely performed musical song cycle with fully fledged characters and setting.
After international success in Ireland and Australia, the critically acclaimed, award-winning show returns to Edinburgh for a seventh year.
This funny show is for anyone who ever listens to dreadfully dull presentations, cringe-worthy wedding speeches or rambling nonsense from “experts” and thinks, ‘there must be a b…
Are you aware of the devastation that is possible by just one negative thought.
Eleanor Conway's vagina has a name (Jenny), and this is important to know.
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 32nd year! A great night of the funniest from the Fringe,…
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Written/performed by John McCann and directed by Erasmus Mackenna, who brought you last year’s Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning play DUPed.
Darcie has been described as one of the most exciting new comedians on the circuit.
Lola’s funny, confident, and always striving for perfection.
Aged just 17, Brian forged his mother’s signature, borrowed €10k and ran away to New Zealand.
Pip Utton returns with last year’s smash hit.
Take Your Brain To Another Dimension II at Edinburgh’s VAB Lab – an exhibition of modern art.
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.
Six actors.
Some people have called it ‘the biggest scam or our age’.
Fake news, global warming, austerity, terrorism, the car crash that is Brexit.
One broken world and ten funny songs to fix it.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016-18.
Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house…
A ‘master of craze ceremony’ **** (Guardian).
Irish-born Phyllis was one of only two New Zealand women ever to have been honoured with France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur, for extreme bravery in WWII.
Last year Bruce spent an hour telling hilarious stories about how he looked into the abyss of middle age with the maturity of a teenager.
John Hastings is back at the Fringe and has moved out of his regular haunt, the Pleasance Courtyard, to a more homely Monkey Barrel.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A motley assortment of North American comedians each deliver their polished 7-15 minute sets.
‘One of the best roasters in Los Angeles’ (Jeff Ross).
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
The Wild Unfeeling World is an ingenious bit of storytelling; not only is it an innovative and eccentric reimagining of Moby Dick, but a stunning example of a wonderfully modern ap…
Does a body make us human? Does it have a soul? What hides beneath nudity? What is nudity itself? Nudity is extreme openness and vulnerability and, at the same time, an incomprehen…
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Raul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Sunjai Arif can show you the world as he shares his memories of nostalgic pop culture all while attempting not to be sued by Disney.
This is our 33rd festival exhibition and the jewellery exhibition is an established festival highlight.
Retired children’s TV pioneer Peter Fleming needs your help.
In 1961, Hannah’s mum, Angela, was in the Australian premiere production of The Sound of Music.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
Andy Quirk, the UK’s premier rapper of first world problems and his surly lead backup dancer Anna J invite you to join their crew for their latest musical comedy show dealing wit…
If you have never smoked meth, worked in a sex dungeon, or eaten dog food, don’t worry, because Katharyn Henson did it so you didn’t have to! In her Fringe debut, New York City com…
Here Comes Your Man is a lovely hour of storytelling from a bright new talent Matt Hoss.
Arrested and kicked out of France, this is a show about the misadventures of a comedian in the Calais Jungle.
Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
A fully improvised show created using your favourite TV programmes.
Please note: this is not a comedy show.
The hilarious science show is back with a new food-themed show.
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable and, at ti…
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
It’s 1981 and ska music pulses.
In 2017, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Nath Valvo can really get a room worked up.
Walking up the stairs of the Assembly Roxy is akin to creeping up the creaking steps of Frankenstein’s tower.
He was exhausted by life.
Drawing the line between the exaggerated and the tender is no easy feat.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People is an all-singing, all-dancing re-enactment of what Rhys’s Mam wrote down 40 years ago.
Performing nerd Tom Crosbie may not have the answers to any global issues, but, for an hour, he transports you to his land of whimsy, where his concentrated nerdistry reduces life’…
All new material from prolific Canadian superstar.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Life is short.
A show about getting lost and getting found.
78,801 photos and 4,738 photographers from 129 countries.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
Existing is exhausting.
(And I feel fine (but not all the time)).
“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show” is all I was ever told as a kid.
“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show” is all I was ever told as a kid.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
One broken world and ten funny songs to fix it.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert Ross In a preview of his Edinburgh Fringe appearance, a festival which also s…
Six actors, six parts and the roll of a die.
Panama 1956.
Emma Stroud (Psychologies Magazine Clown in Residence, Award winning performer and TEDx Speaker) returns with her new one woman show in preview before it tours in 2020.
Previewing his eagerly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy historian Robert Ross.
Step back in time to the golden era of music where the jukebox roared and feet didn't touch the floor.
Her voice.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham.
50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck is back in theatres in 2019 with a brand new show, bringing to the stage a…
A guided improvisation dance workshop to get in touch with your inner and authentic movement.
Lubna Kerr is confused about her identity.
Join us for a dance and physical workshop like no other.
In early 1980 the Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss started thinking about categories for possible sculptures: history, culture, sports, entertainment, science, personal memories, and …
Award-winning performance from Amsterdam Fringe 2018.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
The BSMS anatomy team are at it again, revealing the mysteries of the human body.
The self-declared siren of South Yorkshire presents a festive spectacular in what is undoubtably the best Christmas show you’ll see this summer.
Three confused minds, one rather long acronym! Brighton-based trio, Spit the Ink, deliver a fantastic mix of comedy, poetry and spoken word in their Fringe debut.
Award-winning performances of Adolf, Bacon, Chaplin, Maggie and Churchill have taken Pip around the world.
A combination of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay that gives the audience the opportunity to create the ultimate relationship ‘to do list’.
Brighton favourites The Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand! Join the jet set when you book with Electric Cabaret Airlines.
“Unmissable” ***** (Fringe Biscuit) “Genius” **** (Broadway Baby) “Pure Talent” **** (A Younger Theatre) Tilly and Inga exist in a surreal bubble called ‘Girl World’ where …
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Majk Stokes is a singer-songwriter, poet, environmentalist, Quaker and self-confessed caffeine-addict.
Cat Loud is an award-winning cabaret performer and jazz singer from a remote Scottish island.
Tilly and Inga exist in a surreal bubble called Girl World where the only rule is “No boys allowed!” Girl World is a pop-tastic, musical playground where best friends wrea…
Set in a dingy two-bed flat in London, ‘Have You Heard About Guy?’ is the story of Frank and George, two struggling actresses living in a pre-#MeToo world.
‘You’re Nicked You Slag!’ is an hour of comedy revelling in police corruption, celebrating dodginess, and basking in the simple joy of death and destruction.
Influencer.
Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh don’t know what to do now their 20s are over.
This isn’t a show about death, oh no.
Detective Miller needs your help! Set in 1950s Britain, in a world of shifting shadows and rising crime.
John Osborne is a writer known for his poetry and his popular Edinburgh show John Peel’s Shed.
Come into the forest; dare to change your state of mind.
Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures.
A fast, hard-hitting comedy featuring six characters at the same yoga centre, all eaten up with secrets.
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
Brits and comedians are big sports fans, but what is the world’s greatest sport? Rugby union or league? Proper football or that American version? Is the Olympics just people runn…
Bobby works on Woolies’ record counter.
Sleeping Trees have been travelling around the world! They’ve been scuba-diving at the Great Barrier Reef, trekking the ancient Inca trails of Peru and gone dogging in Blackpool.
In a galaxy far, far away.
A fun space to connect with music and dance! DJs playing vinyl only, hosted by Nin Warrior guesting local legends.
Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his startup for a million quid.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
The audience are greeted with the glow of orange lights shining from various lamps around the room.
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
Superstar disc jokey Juan Vesuvius delivers the greatest and strangest DJ set you’ve ever experienced.
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
Funny, serious, suspenseful and, above all, expertly crafted….
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
Addressing the loss, development, and discovery of one’s identity through an ongoing and ever changing life-long relationship, ‘Like You Hate Me’ is a deeply honest reflectio…
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck – The Rod Stewart Story is back in theatres in 2019 with a bran…
Duration: Approx 2hrs 40mins Hand-picked by Adele herself on Graham Norton’s BBC ADELE Special, the outstanding Katie Markham has the show-stopping voice and capti…
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
What if you were black, gay and a woman in America right now? Jess and Meredith are a married, interracial, gay couple living in New York in 2017 – the era of Trump – weatheri…
Director: Marielle Heller Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E.
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
Director: Marielle Heller Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E.
Enter a dazzling world of adventure at The Wonderful World of Disney On Ice! Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on an inspiring walk down memory lane in celebration of magic and fa…
Next Thing You Know is a musical about four New Yorkers waking up from their invincible twenties and confronting adulthood in the city that never sleeps.
A brand new show from 'The Outright King of Live Comedy’ - The Times.
In this workshop we will start to knit a sock using all those scraps and leftovers sock knitters accumulate.
An Evaluation Of Brian What does it mean to be good? Smile C**t, You're Not Dead YetDeath, Cancer, Existential Dread and Laughs An Evaluation Of Brian - Giant'…
You have endless knit-spiration but you're not confident you can translate your dreams into actual knitwear.
Anne Gill, Your MothaWhen your creations bite back The Murder Trust of Iron Mike MolloyThe true story of The Rasputin Of The Bronx Anne Gill, Your Motha - Anne Gi…
A hilarious, poignant play about falling out, making up, and the joy of true friendship.
£3516 February at 2.
ManologueA one-woman show about masculinity Have You Seen This Girl?One Small Town.
The ThinkingDeveloped at FRINGE LAB with support from Dublin Fringe Festival Your Ma & Other Stories.
Richard E Grant and Melissa McCarthy have both received Academy, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations for their roles In Can You Ever Forgive Me?.
"Bring Your Own Baby Comedy have transformed parental leave" i paper "Guaranteed to leave at least one of you crying with laughter" Mother and Baby M…
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?Only a native in night-dreams Scream With UsWhen talking's not enough WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng"Where are you from?&q…
Unhook your mindbras.
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 …
£2010am - 12pmAge 16+ Do you always use your camera on Auto? Why not learn to master the modes and menus so you can become more confident and creative …
After six UK #1 singles, five UK #1 albums and 25 years together, the iconic Boyzone will release their final album ‘Thank You & Goodnight’ on November 16th.
Critically acclaimed companies Feral Foxy Ladies & Kaleido Film Collective (★★★★ ‘totally engaging’ - A Younger Theatre) return to VAULT after a sell-out run of Balancing A…
A Small House at the Edge of the World is the story of how one location captures and distills two lifetimes worth of love, joy and sorrow.
A Small House at the Edge of the World is the story of how one location captures and distills two lifetimes worth of love, joy and sorrow.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
The BBC Radio 4 Sketchtopia host, Celebrity Big Brother star and Question Time & This Week regular, takes the follow up to his acclaimed 2017 hit on the road mixing his trademark �…
£65 inc.
Harry and Chris are the hottest comedy-rap-jazz duo out there.
Your Toys is an hour-long performance for children aged 5-9 and their grown ups, where the audience bring their own toys to become the characters in an adventure.
The exceptional Slot Machine Theatre bring their puppetry skills to a show like no other - one that features your very own toys! A heartwarming story about friends pulling togeth…
Don’t miss the extraordinary and joyously original Caroline, Or Change, as the five-star, Olivier award-winning musical transfers to the West End this November following…
Guy and Sam.
An evening of stand-up comedy with stars of many of the funniest shows on TV helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 …
The ‘Outright King of Live Comedy’ (The Times) Jason Byrne is back at the Leicester Square Theatre for more comedy chaos.
Back by popular demand and with new material! The hilarious and sometimes unfortunate results of wrong or mangled messages and mistaken identity, all mixed up in some very human s…
You Are Here! is an exciting new-type of family show that combines live performance with the immersive 360o full-dome planetarium experience.
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Jamie Lloyd must be excreting pheromones of cool right now.
Concert starts at 9.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
British jazz diva Jacqui Dankworth and American vocalist/pianist Charlie Wood get together for a husband and wife duet concert celebrating some of the great musical partnerships of…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe in partnership with Just Festival.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A series of sketches and vignettes exploring misunderstanding and mistaken identity, miscommunication, sexuality and people’s fantasies.
Celebrating 31 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
‘If I had a name for every woman with a story, I’d run out of space and I’d be writing forever’.
Composer James Glasgow (Secondhand Dance Company, Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Choice winner) performs new music composed for the award-winning poems of Mario Moroni as Moroni recit…
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…
Spend an evening in the company of the world team beatbox champions, The Beatbox Collective.
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
Performer/producer? Want to tour the world? What touring opportunities are out there? A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from fringe festival directors from around the world; al…
Nick and Mia: two young struggling writers trying to make ends meet who are at the end of their rope, seemingly without a shot in hell of making something for themselves.
Join us for the second year of the new comedy competition celebrating all things sketch! The organiser’s behind the UK’s biggest comedy newcomer competition are on the hunt for the…
This unbelievably ambitious, deluded, multiple job-applicant failure attempts to inspire his audiences to become the best they can be.
A badly planned polar expedition in 1912 led to the Russian ship The Saint Anna to be locked into the ice of the Kara Sea.
Mark Vigil presents four characters, each delivering a Ted Talk sort of thing, ish.
I’d had a conversation with Dan about ecstasy.
Nutty Noah, recently crowned UK Family Entertainer of the Year 2018, invites you to join him in poking his tongue out at death and stamping on the foot of St Peter.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to these questions, this is the event for you! Lea…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
This duo will lift you up with their ridiculous stories as you transcend with their emotive songs.
Join us for a postmodern take on popular songs from the past decade as well as standards by the likes of Gershwin, Berlin, and Ellington.
This is a show about Raymond Bishop.
After receiving her sell-out garland in 2017, Bessy returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show.
Rosie Jones is a comedian with a penchant for being mischievous.
Comedy legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy-historian Robert Ross.
Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World in this interactive new for show all the family.
Fresh from his tour of Australia earlier this year, comedy singer-songwriter Majk Stokes presents a new collection of witty and whimsical songs and poems covering two of his bigges…
Barbara Brownskirt, the prolific poet-in-residence at 197 bus stop, Penge, semi-welcomes you to her thought-provoking and unsettling knee-length poetry comedy show.
Last year, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Gryll…
Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? We struggle, and the world struggles.
Girl meets boy.
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, ‘voice.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years.Turn up early.Sellout expected.
Free (ticketed).Sellout expected.
Two unlikely friends find a camaraderie against a backdrop of bitter conflict, questionable politics and moral debate waged overseas.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood. Humorous, full of fun and fabulous musical numbers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Comedian Michael Malone (Comedy Central, FOX, Hulu) breaks down the idiotic ways we deal with life, death, love and sex in his new unforgettable and moving show, I Love You.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
The Bluebelles are bringing midnight snacks and jazzy tracks to the Edinburgh Fringe with a fantastic a cappella night in! Returning to Edinburgh for their fourth year, following s…
‘The more I drink in real life, the more my babies are taken away by social services in my Sims life.
World in Progress is a brand-new musical song-cycle that explores our ever-changing relationship with the earth.
What is your idea of love? There’s a very blurred line between a protective, loving relationship and one that’s abusive.
St Marylebone Theatre Company explore the experiences of women in the 20th and 21st century, asking where have we come from and who do we want to be?
I am worth what I have.
People often get awkward, white, Northern Tom Short, and awkward, white, Northern Tom Little mixed up.
‘Zoe.
House of Jack presents Rock What You Got, an event packed full of hip hop and breakin’ two v two battles featuring some of the best dancers from around the UK.
The magical internet-providing properties of fibre optics are well known.
It’s the smallest comedy show, in the smallest venue at the Fringe.
Are you having a bad month? Us too.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Six feisty older women shine a light on family violence.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a surprisingly silly trek through psychiatric wards, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
All Change is a new bittersweet comedy about growing old.
Philip Contini sings Cole Porter’s most famous, best-loved songs with anecdotes from the colourfully flamboyant life of one of the world’s greatest songwriters and lyricists.
Daniel and Victoria are two successful professionals in a happy marriage.
Is anyone truly monolingual anymore? Knowing dialects, learning languages at school, and hearing migrant speakers make everybody bilingual to some extent.
The Lads with special guest Murray McGrath and Some Criminals.
And So I Watch You from Afar released The Endless Shimmering on the 20 October 2017 on Los Angeles based record label Sargent House, home of fellow noiseniks Deafheaven, Chelsea Wo…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Broadcaster Mark Stephen and singer-songwriter Gill Bowman look beyond the haggis and tartan to the real Scotland – stories, secret places and iconic songs.
Fringe sell-out show! A fun, interactive and educational violin and cello concert for babies and toddlers where wriggling is allowed!
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Universal Academy, an award-winning charter school from the state of Texas, proudly presents this riveting hit new musical! Featuring a multicultural cast of students, this product…
Meet Liv – clever, funny, confident – everything a 15-year-old girl wants to be.
Your supermarket knows when you’re pregnant; Google knows what medical conditions you have; Facebook could help your doctor diagnose you.
Theatre On The Edge requests the honour of your presence at the wedding reception of Robert and Issy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A journey through chamber music gems with the Edinburgh Quartet – featuring works by Mozart, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak and Gesualdo over three performances.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Chris Difford celebrates the release of his autobiography with some very special shows.
Edinburgh Fringe is typically visited for a gluttonous helping of comedy and theatre shows.
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 31st year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
Returning with a brand-new kick-ass sequel, Queen’s bass guitar dances across sexual politics.
Bills, dating, raising children – life is challenging enough! Who wants to think about potential future health issues and care needs with more immediate matters to consider? Unfo…
Inspired by the true story of Dr Horror: a 2008 case against a man from Brampton, Canada guilty of organ theft.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland and debut at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tomas is bringing his show back for a fina…
Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.
If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs.
Saunter down the promenade with Northern Power Blouse for a show full of sketches, silly songs and larger-than-life characters.
Did you always sit at the back in class? Were you bored? Or maybe you were one of the lucky ones who was engaged and inspired by a teacher? Many people have memories and strong vie…
What do you do when you have a best mate who’s so sad he might die? Especially since your friendship is built around a mutual appreciation of 90s hip hop, borderline alcoholism and…
Ever wondered what might happen if Queen Victoria met Genghis Khan? In this totally improvised comedy, the audience choose which chapters of history they want to see rewritten.
Porky’s back at the Free Fringe and in rare form after two UK tours supporting The Lovely Eggs as well as his alter ego Phill Jupitus, whom he’s not really that fond of.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Following her five-star smash-hit It’s Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), Alison Thea-Skot brings you a sizzling explosion of chaotic character comedy.
Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm has long been an adult, but still feels like a problem child.
Rachel and Peter are 17; they’ve been together for six months.
As a kid you’re told you know nothing.
Single Comedians trying to impress you. Part dating show, part cabaret. All acts are single and wanting to meet you! Remember – what happens in Edinburgh, stays in Edinburgh…
Frisky are transporting audiences to a fantasy land created by two pre-pubescent girls, Tilly and Inga (played by Camille Dawson and Serena Ramsey).
Alexander Fleming’s death-defying, worldly wonder antibiotic drugs have saved us for the last 90 years.
Award-winning actor Ingvild Haugstad from Det Andre Teatret tells the story of a person who retreats from the world after losing a soulmate to a freak raspberry accident.
Barry promised he would "share [his] soul with you" at the start of the show, and golly, he really does.
Catch some world-class street performances, bag a bargain at the Half Price Hut or browse the arts and craft markets – all against the stunning backdrop of the National Galleries…
Being in love is.
It’s 2005 and somehow Liverpool are back in the European Cup Final.
‘I used to think love was about not knowing where I end and you begin.
Sometimes life is just a toss of a coin.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
‘The children grabbed him (the father) and put him on the table.
Four friends decide to ignore the warnings about their local woods and meddle with seemingly demonic forces in the hope to create a film about a local urban legend.
Six actors.
Come on then! (To my show.
Your Fringe adventure starts here! For the 20th year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of al…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story most people know, but the life of Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Caroll, and the real Alice Liddell is much less popular.
November 22nd 1963.
Life is full of accidents, mishaps, frustrations and disappointments.
Bare Productions are a new, fresh Edinburgh-based company comprising of some of the best local talent who have all performed in multiple five-star sell-out shows at the Fringe.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Last year, I was lucky enough to catch Alyona Ageeva’s Physical Theatre PosleSlov perform to a small audience and immediately became a fan.
Enjoy al fresco Shakespeare in the C south gardens.
According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to f…
Fringe legend and ‘outright king of live comedy’ (Times), Jason Byrne, is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Poets spend their lives writing about it, everyone thinks about it, but when love is between two men some people turn a blind eye.
Sofía & Marcelo are an innovative Mexican duo who combine different musical elements to achieve an experience in the spectator.
See this award-nominated (best comedy Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian (now lives in Bedfordshire…gutted) who played to full houses throughout Fringe 2017.
Two lovers.
Lovable Brit Ollie Horn (‘always a crowd pleaser’ (Edd Daggers, ROR Comedy)) tells fast-paced tales of life as an unlikely Japanese TV star and life on the road as he tours around …
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Audiences vote daily to determine the winner in the World Cup of Comedy at the Fringe.
Stand-up comic Gareth Berliner was cast in Coronation Street four years ago to play dodgy drug dealer Macca, and was told he didn’t need make-up! He’s also very funny.
The family-friendly version of the UK’s only comedy court returns with a new venue! An improvised show where Steve Bennett invites top comedians to be lawyers, prosecuting and defe…
An anarchic, unprecedented and hilarious insight into the life of a stripper in London’s fast-changing cityscape.
Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women with only a postcode in common.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and host of The Mash Report trials new material for a national tour.
Our parents are fine.
Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself.
There is something very reminiscent of Bill Murray in Matt Duwell: the optimistic sarcasm is the overlying note in his voice; he produces easy crowd-pleasing material, imbued with …
Last year we prevented an apocalypse and almost got a panda pregnant, and then Jonathan Ross called us ‘fabulously entertaining’, so now we’re drunk with comedy-rap-jazz power.
The UK’s only courtroom-based improvised comedy is back for a sixth year.
A new show about wrestling by double act Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh.
Experience catchy AF original bangers*, too much confetti and distractingly sexy dance moves as NZ’s hottest new comedy duo take on all the most ridiculous trends in the world of p…
Glenn Moore from Mock the Week and Absolute Radio presents a new show full of the distinctive jokes and offbeat gags we’ve come to accept.
Adorably awkward with a twist of gay, Los Angeles-based comedian Justin Matson has been kicked off of three rollercoasters for being too fat.
In an affectionate tribute, leading impressionist Julian Dutton of BBC One’s The Big Impression brings to life one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
Something’s up with Lewis Schaffer.
Bringing his first solo show to the Fringe with a combination of storytelling, songs and surreal improvisations, Andrew Sim intends to liberate you from overthinking and explore th…
On April 1st 2017, following a 10 year career in the music biz, recording artist Jordan Gray announced a sudden and surprise leap into stand-up comedy.
Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Spend a rip-roaring hour in the pub with the man himself! He’ll tell you all about his family, what it’s like on tour and the glory days at th…
A love story, set on Preston Road, and also in space and in time.
Winner: VAULT Festival Comedy Award.
Fresh from filming on an upcoming comedy show for Channel 4, Lenny brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Later this year Phil embarks on a national tour of his hit show Your Wrong.
What if you didn’t know you were dead? A dark new comedy.
Thanksgiving with your family in the most eye-popping of places.
Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub…
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016 and 2017.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
Based on the best-selling series of books by Laura Numeroff, this fast-paced, comedic adaptation embraces the joys of parenting – as told through the eyes of a child and a surpri…
She’s a myriad of paradoxes.
Whip-smart stream-of-consciousness comedy from ‘master of shamelessly silly yet socially conscious clowning’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
A beatboxing and storytelling comedy show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Rosie Holt is not for everyone.
‘Anesti Danelis delivers the funny with a hefty side of heart.
When you’re considered the best at what you do, some of us might rest on our laurels but Mat Ricardo wants (indeed, needs) new challenges.
Which comic belongs in your bubble? Send your suggestions through our app: comedy gold or utter crap? Three top comedians compete to impress with tailor-made jokes based on the dem…
East London’s premier rapper of first-world problems, Andy Quirk, and his backup dancer, Anna J, invite you to join their crew for fist-pumping therapy tackling the inconsequential…
Rahul Kohli was unperturbed by the small audience on the evening this reviewer attended, likening it to ‘a Theresa May cabinet meeting’.
As the lights go down, the audience are met with a film playing on a screen, with a voiceover asking various people of diverse identities what utopia means to them.
Fresh from a year of touring around Australia and the East, Henry is back and has something to say.
It has often been said that Myra DuBois is an act way ahead of her time.
The multi award-winning Gingzilla is on a mission to conquer the world! Gingzilla: Glamonster vs the World presents gender equality and femininity from the 1950s to now.
Edinburgh is undoubtedly the most haunted city in the world.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Told through spoken word and within timed boxing rounds, Until You Hear That Bell is a story about ten years of amateur boxing and a changing relationship between father and son.
As a character actor, Pip Utton is renowned for his depictions of world-famous figures, ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Charles Dickens and everything in between.
Does a story even exist if it’s not on Instagram? Tamsyn Kelly is a hilarious, fresh, new voice.
A unique blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting stand-up and personal story telling about romantic love and why we prioritise it above all else.
What do I need to do to make you like me? Just tell me so we can all just relax.
Nominated Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe.
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
Sleeping Trees have been travelling around the world! They've been scuba-diving at the Great Barrier Reef, trekking the ancient Inca trails of Peru and gone dogging in Blackpool.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
This summer, the World Press Photo Exhibition returns to the Scottish Parliament.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Unhook your mindbras.
Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee, Chris Washington debuts his brand-new show about the best year of his life! Including receiving the prestigious 10 years service tie pin from Royal…
This is our 32nd festival exhibition and the jewellery exhibition is an established festival highlight.
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, but “overwhelmingly politically incorrect” (What’s Good, NZ) Alex Williamson knows how to banter.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert Ross.
Hotly tipped Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan brings his debut solo show down south where he regales his tales of living out of a backpack for 18 months trav…
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
A new show about wrestling by double act Thom Bee & Andrew Marsh.
Abigoliah was born in the mid-west and has a conservative southern family.
Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in candid conversation with Comedy Historian Robert RossAfter playing to packed Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 houses with a retu…
Prize-winning author Karen McLeod’s solo show returns to the RVT.
A play promising to be the first of its kind premieres in July at Landor Space, Clapham, inviting audiences to take control of a show where every night really is different.
Jess and Meredith are a married, interracial, gay couple living in New York in 2017 – the era of Trump – weathering a new wave of intolerance, discrimination and oppression, wh…
Fifteen Minutes is the debut hour of critically acclaimed comedian Rosie Jones (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Silent Witness).
Lenny Sherman is one of the best joke writers In comedy.
In the mythical Forest of Arden, a world of transformation where anything is possible and anything permissible, two young people discover what it really means to be in love.
Join storyteller Cathianne Hall and actor Jowanna Rose in a double bill as they journey from the opening titles of a 1960’s girl-about-town sitcom to the party from Hell, explori…
We can’t help living in the future – booking flights for holidays, organising birthday parties, writing applications.
Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
The tale of Tilly vs Inga is a subversive coming-of-age musical comedy filled with love and violence; with a live band, singing, swearing, goddess-worship, octopus birth-rites and …
Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld bring their advice podcast "If I Were You" to the stage! Join our hosts as they dispense wisdom on areas of life they are qua…
Join multi award-winner and Britain's Got Talent 2017 semi-finalist Jess Robinson for an evening of spot-on celebrity impressions, musical comedy and stunning vocal gymnastics.
Falkland opens with a projected collage of imagery from the time of the Falkands war – punk rock, Brezhnev, Pacman, the Brixton riots, the wedding of Charles and Diana.
The perfect end to the bank holiday weekend - first a kicking soul gig, then relax with a drink as the weird and wonderful unfolds before you.
A feel-good, interactive-theatre storytelling experience like no other! Let Mr Dilly take you on a journey of joy, laughter and fun into a world of wonder, using drama, music and i…
Some Guys Have All The Luck is a fantastic theatrical production celebrating the career of one of rocks greatest icons, Rod Stewart – from street busker through to…
You could get squashed by an elephant that’s out of control, or you could come and see the latest ‘death’-defying show from Nutty Noah.
Winner Vault Festival Comedy Award 2017 Winner of the IYAF: Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy Award in 2017 After the success of their five-star, award-winning farce ‘The Starship Os…
What really goes on in our head? Is it true? What we believe to think? Is it beautiful? Is it confronting? And is it honest? What can you learn from your thoughts? They have more t…
We’ve all had childhoods.
Now in its 10th triumphant year, ‘And The Devil May Drag You Under’ is the cult hit of Brighton Fringe.
A firm rite of the Queens, the boys from Der Wunderlich Revue have been peddling their own unique brand of chaos, smut, nudity and stupidity for ten years.
You are invited to the ultimate test of brains, brawn, and brilliance.
It’s the eve of the apocalypse and Cat is making her way home.
Back on the road by popular demand, Someone Like You (The Adele Songbook) is an immaculate celebration of one of our generation’s finest singer-songwriters, and is…
Going to the toilet: one of life’s mysteries.
Tom and Bunny Save the World is a folk musical.
Award-nominated comic Jim Campbell has been busy with a chart-topping podcast, an acclaimed book and his personal life exploding.
Enjoy a night of rhyming, rice and peas with Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger alongside a menu of performers chosen for their wit, wisdom and ability to move you.
As 2018 falls to a zombie apocalypse, Tom and Bunny begin their perilous journey to Yorkshire in a quest for sanctuary and a proper cup of tea.
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.
A split bill musical/absurdist stand up comedy show.
Frank Sanazi returns to Brighton with a chance to see his smash hit Edinburgh show ‘Stuck in ze bunker with You’.
Saunter down the promenade with Northern Power Blouse for a show full of sketches, songs and larger than life characters, all set by the glamorous northern seaside.
Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Come and meet the man himself and take the lid off a legend in your local.
From our first dates, sexual frustration, sexual tension, Tinder, insecurities, boredom, to marriage.
With live, original music, this highly visual, sensitive production is a humorous and touching exploration of the dragons we all face. £7 / £24 family
This Brighton-based forum theatre company produce thought-provoking performances using storytelling, discussion and re-enactment.
Join Zelem Saydullaev (Squawker Finalist 2015 , South Coast Comedian of the Year Semi Finalist 2016 ) and Johnny Wardlow (as heard on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio 2) for an hour of sens…
Rarely do we get a chance to change someone else’s life, be it for a moment or forever.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a personal trek through his mental health history, including his time in a psychiatric ward, suicide attempts, depression an…
Comedians Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh love wrestling and they want you to love it too.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
The multi-award winning 7ft GLAMONSTER is on a mission to CONQUER THE WORLD.
The multi-award winning 7ft GLAMONSTER is on a mission to CONQUER THE WORLD.
The new show from Barry Ferns: Spirit of the Fringe (2014, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Malcolm Hardee Award-winner.
Step back in time to the golden era of music where the jukebox roared and feet didn't touch the floor.
We all have that cousin.
A multimedia spectacular from Angel Comedy founder Barry Ferns and Alasdair Beckett-King (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the of Year 2017).
Matt Duwell is a Snowflake, and he is owning that label (despite thinking labels are pejorative).
East London’s premier rapper of first-world problems, Andy quirk, and his backup dancer Anna J, bring fist-pumping therapy for modern living to the masses.
It is a familiar setting: a small stage, a requisite black backdrop and a single chair.
Like money? You’ll love this show.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
I have the greatest admiration for stand-up comedians.
Inspired by The Fool, Now, (& Death?).
Are you eager to discover the better comic who is lurking inside you?Do you need a push to break out of a rut with your comedy routine?Are you looking for support to upg…
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, but “overwhelmingly politically incorrect” (What’s Good, NZ) Alex Williamson knows how to banter.
You Can’t Take it With You is a 1930’s era screwball comedy enthusiastically embraced by Sedos (The Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society), an amateur company three deca…
★★★★ ‘Brilliant - the closest thing the fringe has to rock gods’ Fest Magazine ★★★★ ‘Wickedly amusing’ The Times ★★★★ ‘Spirited comedy.
As the blockbuster Chicago returns to the West End for its 21 year anniversary, Kander and Ebb are more celebrated than ever.
After a sell-out debut Fringe performance in 2017, ACH Group’s Sing for Joy Choir is back with a brand new show: Colour Your World.
A decade since he left Berlin, armed with an accordion, some hotpants and a dream, Hans has decided it’s time to Advance Australia’s Flair! In homage to the country he now calls…
Take a guided twilight stroll along North Tce.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 & selling out all 23 shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 & 2017.
This is an ongoing womanifesto, call to arms, protest party and long hard kiss from surreal showgurl, obscene beauty queen and sex clown - Betty Grumble.
Following a SOLD OUT Adelaide Fringe season in 2017, the Nunga from Down Under is back to wow the crowd with his show Aboriginal Gigolo.
Cafe Boite Presents 3 Friday events presenting a variety of music and dance from SA’s newest communities, Afghan, Persian, Syrian, South Asian and African.
Red hair.
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
First employer Cat Stevens True story.
Celebrating the timeless music of the multi-grammy award winning four piece that is Fleetwood Mac! Re-live, reminisce and re-discover the sounds of the 70’s through a one hour …
The Adelaide Male Voice Choir was formed in 1884 as the Adelaide English Glee Society, and although it has changed its name it hasn’t changed its commitment to providing top qualit…
As we wait to enter the Speigel Zelt at Gluttony, Gingzilla is out front, working the crowd.
hit107’s Amos Gill remains one of Australia’s most prolific young comedians.
Edinburgh sellout.
It’s been a big year for Amelia Ryan (Storm In A D Cup, Lady Liberty, Livvy & Pete).
Join us as we share the colour, the sounds and magic of the Adelaide Fringe - with the world.
This is a selected exhibition of art works by Fellows of the RSASA at the Buckingham Arms Hotel.
Scottish comedian Chris Henry has been touring the world for years making people laugh, but this year he is looking for love.
Lewis Garnham’s dad is very smart.
“Who’s Your Daddy? returns to Adelaide with an amazing line-up of both local and International comedians, both Mums & Dads, all talking Parenthood.
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
The UK’s only courtroom-based improvised comedy returns for a fifth year.
A reflection on our obsession to ‘heal’ what cannot be cured; manage what is none of our business and ignore what makes us uncomfortable.
Canada’s reigning “Queen troubadour of intelligent black-comic sex balladry” (Edmonton Journal) returns to Adelaide for four nights only with a collection of songs and covers from …
The Scottish “Globetrotting Comedian” (Broadway Baby) returns to Perth after previously living in the country on a working holiday visa for a year and a week.
British comedian Terry North introduces the very best in International Comedy with this rotating line-up of top-notch comedians who are visiting Adelaide.
You are invited to the ultimate test of brains, brawn, and brilliance.
Woody and friends’ musical party will inspire all children (and their parents).
For 15 years Reginald D Hunter has been casting a wry eye over the ways of his adopted homeland.
Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Come and spend a rip-roaring hour in the pub with the man himself! He’ll tell you all about life on tour, the glory days at the Globe.
Join Nikko as he shares the harrowing details of the multiple times he survived capture from the hands of criminal organisations, won the title of world’s healthiest baby and stopp…
A brand NEW SHOW to top its 15/16 sell out “Turn Up Your Radio” seasons.
UK-based singer-songwriter, poet, musician, environmentalist and caffeine addict Majk Stokes comes to Adelaide for the first time to present a show built around two of his greatest…
Life’s a party.
In a fiery display of wit, comedy and anecdotes dressed up with glamour and style, Joanne Kam (Comedy Central Asia) will have you crying with laughter as she shares her views on li…
The Underground Lovers were the quintessential Melbourne indie cult band of the late 90s/early 2000s.
Winner – Best Comedy at 2016 Sydney Fringe Festival ★★★★ - Herald Sun ★★★★ Theatre People ★★★★ The Australia Times Rose Callaghan (ABC, triple j, Nova…
SHAKE YOUR BOOTY 70S DISCO SHOW features a 12 piece band performing solid gold disco hits at THE GOV, including 70s Disco dance classics from The Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, Hot…
Inspiring, intriguing, tender and true.
The show that’s Rocking Aus comes to Adelaide Fringe.
I am worth what I have.
You’re invited to my super fun awesome party! Bring a plus-one; hell, bring a plus-five! Just don’t bring drugs, because my parents’ trust is super important to me.
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL ROSS Michael Ross’s biting satire delivers a piece very much for our times, reflecting on the dignity and many indignities of labour.
Brendan Fitzgerald Jazz Ensemble trumpets the slip and slide dance rhythms and slinky melodies of the 30’s and 40’s Swing era in this suave, sophisticated cabaret.
They have 99 problems and alcohol consumption is 97 of them.
Many stand-up comedians like to be super punchy in their comedy.
Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in January …
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you…
Selladoor Family presents Guess How Much I Love You.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
In a Brighton basement eight young women sit on stools, waiting, the audience in a semi-circle around them.
EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.
She speaks! After two Emmys, a Grammy, decades of starring in television shows and touring, Kathy Griffin is launching her FIRST world tour after suddenly never being more in-deman…
A monstrous force rules the land.
Glittering pyrotechnics illuminating Edinburgh’s iconic Castle.
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea but ‘overwhelmingly politically incorrect’ (WhatsGood.
The World Youth Designer Forum (WYDF), a cumulative accelerator and incubator discourse, explores the 2017 theme – Design Interventions: Nationalism vs Globalism.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Three of today’s most admired musicians – each an international soloist in his own right, and with a long history of accomplished chamber performances together – bring the 20…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
As we mark 70 years of this phenomenal festival we want to take stock and explore the future of the Fringe.
Superstar US violinist Joshua Bell has brought fresh new vigour to the already accomplished Academy of St Martin in the Fields since taking the reins as Music Director in 2011, the…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Gilded Balloon’s annual comedy competition, So You Think You’re Funny.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jim Everett, AKA Jimmy Francis, is relatively new to comedy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A group of school friends reunite for fond reminiscences, only to rekindle old rivalries, leaving them wondering how much they’ve really changed.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, this is the event for yo…
I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change is earnestly performed by a youthful and small cast – the reason for scraping the second star – but the uninspired script and the overa…
Join Outstanding Canadian Comedy Award winner Rachelle Elie in her boisterous, bawdy romp through the multiple manifestations of love and relationships.
Take two funny men and ask them to create a hilarious dash through Genesis and Exodus in just under 90 minutes.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
Perfect As You Are is an internationally touring production by Massive Vibe Live! with production and lyrics by Queen Be! It brings alive everyone’s power to benefit all.
Ivor Dembina is very funny and manages to entertain the audience for an hour by conforming to as many stereotypes of a Jew as he can.
Grab a seat, hold on tight and have as much fun as your kids.
Sex clown, wild woman and surreal showgirl, the award-winning, head-spinning Betty Grumble returns to Edinburgh with her flesh riot of laughing love and ecosex.
Your Best Guess is a collaboration between the Portuguese theatre company mala voadora and Chris Thorpe.
It’s pop in a dazzling new costume.
‘It’s about one moment.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Joshua Bell is quite simply a musical phenomenon – not only one of the world’s great violin soloists, but also a respected chamber musician and an accomplished orchestra direct…
A unique journey into the private life of a gadget you thought was on your side.
Ever had to walk into that room where your boss, with fake concern in his eyes, tells you that he’s having to let you go? Ever wish you had the balls to say ‘f**k you’? Well, I did…
Farce has a proud place in British theatre history.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back with a new show for 2017! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland, Tomas is bringing his abilities across the sea to the Edinburgh Frin…
Musical gems from the Great American and British Songbooks.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
The story of the clarinet told from a truly global perspective by Scotland’s premier clarinet ensemble, in virtuosic performances on clarinets of all sizes.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This Australian singer/harpist is bringing her successful Adelaide Fringe show to Edinburgh! Siobhán is what you get when you combine Celtic passion and Classical training! Throw …
A narcissistic Alien and a terrified Earthling have found the solution you’ve been waiting for.
Ventriloquist extraordinaire Nina Conti is back with her famous masks, ready to use you as her puppet.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A brand-new string to the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! To celebrate 30 years of nurturing and developing new comic talent – we’re on…
Zaltzman, host of legendary podcast The Bugle, delivers satire on commission, as ordered by you, the public, in his unique interactive show.
By day, this city’s streets are bright and orderly, but by night, it is the playground of shysters and crooks, smugglers and thieves.
After years in the sketch show game, Iain Connell, star and co-creator of BBC hit show Burnistoun (a sell-out at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe) is throwing caution to the wind…
East 15 is holding auditions for both these creative and challenging courses, exploring global performance and acting for overseas students.
Isn’t the expression ‘having a senior moment’ awful? Yet people often think of changes in their mental skills with age in terms of decline.
Givin’ It Some is a fun, fast-paced, dirty, edgy, enlightening insight into the taboos of sex today.
Smashing Mirrors Theatre are shining a spotlight on those usually left in the shadows through their heart-breaking play The Loneliest Girl in the World, written and directed by Eli…
A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
When ex-lovers meet after a gap of many years, what can we believe about the stories they tell? ‘So You Say’ explores the divergence over time of the stories we tell about even…
Period production set in India in the 1940s, staging a spiritual journey two people take as they step foot into the theatre of life.
An educational, interactive and light-hearted classical music experience for all the family.
Sally’s had a gut full of fabricated food allergies.
Not the 2006 Broadway musical, but the 1981 play on which that was based, Spring Awakening is notable for its controversies upon original publication.
Exeter’s longest-running all female a cappella group are back for their fourth year, ready to give the boys a run for their money! Performing songs sung by men, but with the style …
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! A great night of the funniest from…
Do you love singing? Would you like the chance to sing some of classical music’s most iconic choral pieces, led by a wonderfully expressive conductor? If so, come along and sing …
Rapidly growing to international stardom after sell out shows in the USA and worldwide, Vir Das embarks on his first ever UK tour alongside the release of his first Netflix comedy …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The charming, funny and original musical It Shoulda Been You invites you to a wedding day you’ll never forget, where anything that can go wrong does and love pops up in mysterious …
Unleash your inner queen! Via Shakespeare, Chekhov to RuPaul, a kickass theatre-cum-cabaret tour de force exploring sexual politics and identity, revealing how an exotic dancer bec…
A woman returns to a hometown she no longer recognises in this haunting new play from Dalia Taha.
In this post-truth era, we desperately need more scientists to critically evaluate evidence for political and corporate claims; we can’t afford to keep losing many of our best wo…
Let’s spend an hour playing together.
This subtle and witty play tackles the breathtaking economic transformation of China, the dreams it enables and those it crushes.
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is an initiative set up to ‘take the academics out of their ivory towers and engage with the public’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A Scottish Documentary Institute production for the Edinburgh International Festival directed by Anne Milne and produced by Noe Mendelle.
Ruby Wax is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe once again with a new show on mental health, Frazzled.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Superfans of Greg Proops will enjoy the intimate feel of being in the room at the time of his Podcast live recording.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Quilarious: A new exciting comedy format.
Set in the venue’s bar, immerse yourself in Berkoff’s biting parody of the world of theatre which pokes fun at the pretensions of thespians and the superficial nature of their life…
Returning from Australia after a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, A Case of You is a poignant, imaginative and dynamic homage to one of the greatest songwriters of the Wo…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
A humorous journey through life encountering random characters.
Two halves of a long-dead acting duo meet again for a sarcastic and witty reunion.
Tokio Myers is a multi-instrumental artist and composer fusing classical piano with electronic sounds and beats, creating an immersive and compelling show.
‘And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness’.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Unleash your inner queen! Via Shakespeare, Chekhov to RuPaul, a kickass theatre-cum-cabaret tour de force exploring sexual politics and identity, revealing how an exotic dancer bec…
Ever wondered what would’ve happened if Rihanna had met Genghis Khan? What if Julius Caesar accidentally invented Snapchat? In this improvised comedy, the audience choose which cha…
Single comedians from around the Fringe will try to laugh their way into your… hearts in this unique and fun-filled compilation cabaret show.
Fitted out in an elegant tuxedo, in an echo of Marlene Dietrich’s revolutionary turn in 1930’s Morocco, Kate O’Donnell is every inch the smooth Old Hollywood dame.
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn.
A lot can change in a year.
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
East London’s premier rapper of first world problems invites you to join his crew for a chart rundown of fist-pumping therapy for modern living.
It’s just like the famous ‘bad guy’ scene in Scarface, when Tony Montana rants that iconic phrase, ‘You need people like me.
Barry Loves You: an ambitious claim to make, even if he already knew you.
Come and spend an hour with us if you like! Third place in the Musical Comedy Awards 2017, Matt Hutson sings intense anthems about love, loss, friendship and the extent to which he…
Miranda Kane’s show, 07800 834030: Thank You For Waiting returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for more secrets, confessions and answers – the dirtier the better.
‘Engaging comic.
Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.
When a man and a woman… or a woman and a woman… or a man and a man… or any combination really, love each other very much, they come together – well, not always together.
Navigating the intricacies of a one-night stand can be a tricky social and biological journey.
In Shit, I’m in Love with you Again, Canadian comic Rachelle Elie relates her life story through the mediums of story, stand-up and song.
Join the Comic Sans of Drag, Kate Butch, for an hour of comedy, songs and games.
‘Smile Like You Mean It’ looks at the life of someone with bipolar disorder.
Bill Beteet, a Laugh Factory comedian from Chicago, will lead you through an existential comedic journey that will have you laugh about life, love, and your inevitable death.
In the latest text by Mudar Alhaggi, this play is about daily life in the midst of the Syrian war, the waiting and the disappointed illusion that the next day might bring about cha…
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The hit-show in its fifth year! Four international top comedians per night, one against one, no allies.
Blind Mirth are the University of St Andrews’ improv comedy group and they are back once again at this year’s Fringe.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Glamour, glitter and girls - The Lady Boys of Bangkok is a fabulous collection of performers who lip sync and dance to feel good songs opening with Gloria Gaynor’s First Be A Wom…
Frank Sinazi, the “Leader of the Iraq Pack”, is a smooth-talking American entertainer who will not only occasionally burst into song, but also into some loud episodes of a slig…
Broadcast live from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh, featuring live world music and Celtic sounds.
The worldwide touring exhibition of award-winning photos will come to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
With one of the longest titles you’ll come across it feels as though this show will have a lot to unpack.
People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies.
Following his sell out Edinburgh Festival season, this unique, non-fiction stand up takes little concepts like, oh you know, Einstein’s’ theory of relativity, and explains them…
Malcolm is from respectable Morningside.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Nominated for Best Comedy 2016 by Fringe World, with 23 sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
New Zealand’s Barnie Duncan has created a perfect comedy persona; he’s believable enough as a character but ridiculous in so many perfectly pitched ways.
Take a deep breath and join me on a multimedia rampage.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows returns following his 2014 show The Ten Best Songs of All Time with a personal trek through his mental health history, including his …
Aaron Twitchen combines aerial circus performance with stand-up comedy.
The novelty musical gets its fair share of traction over the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Fat Rascal Theatre are attempting to stake their claim as rulers of the field.
How does one describe Betty Grumble? No really, I’m at a loss.
Denim, a drag Haus come girl band, are on tour and they’ve finally reached Wembley Arena (actually, the Belly Laugh at Underbelly).
Money.
Hurt and Anderson are on the edge.
Sally’s had a gut full of fabricated food allergies.
Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth.
Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.
A new satirical hour from award-winning stand-up comic and writer Keir McAllister.
Fresh off the series finale of his critically acclaimed American comedy series, Review, Andy Daly (also seen on such shows as Eastbound & Down, The Office and Silicon Valley) makes…
Controversial viewpoints and a dismissive attitude to PC culture can work if two criteria are met: good style, and the ability to fully explain the rationale behind an opinion.
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…
Follow in the footsteps of power on this walking tour of capitalism from British Empire to banking crisis, with jokes.
Ninety-four word limit? Well, better not waste any.
Gentle and well-meaning, The Wonderful World of Lapin is a good attempt to introduce young children to the French language.
Come witness the astonishing resurrection of ‘the best comedian you haven’t heard of yet (Time Out).
The worse the world gets the funnier Stuart Black gets.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Stand-up comedian Sam Gore has been taking down celebrities and politicians with his cutting, satirical, absurdist diatribes on Facebook since 2014 and garnered over fifty thousand…
Reginald’s searingly honest material has garnered him a fan base spanning the generations.
China Goes Pop is an action-packed hour for all the family to enjoy; full of acrobatics held together by a simple love story between two of the performers.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Fringe favourite and you can tell immediately by his stage presence that he is relaxed with the audience.
Recently I have become a bit disappointed after seeing a few household name comedians as I feel that some of them have become a little out of touch with their audiences in the mate…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
After six years of austerity, is it even possible to be an artist and make enough money for luxuries like bread? Show Me the Money is a funny, inspirational show by multimedia arti…
Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World is a hidden gem of the Fringe that starts off all fun and games (literally) before delving into an account of living with depression that is so h…
Improvisation and a cappella groups are two a penny at the Fringe, and it can be difficult to find a unique format with which to entertain the crowds.
Kae Kurd has the self-possession and charisma of a seasoned performer, which is particularly impressive given that Kurd Your Enthusiasm is his debut Fringe show.
There’s certainly no shortage of solo shows about mental health at the Fringe so it takes a certain level of quality to stand out.
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
A joyful and touching view of the world through other people’s eyes, Lists… is a show composed entirely of crowdsourced lists.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
Back after last year’s fantastic show, the Listies are just as wonderfully ridiculous as ever.
Choose Your Battles is Lucy Porter’s 11th Edinburgh Show and it’s a wonderfully crafted hour that is both funny and, at times, a poignant look at someone who goes out of their way …
If you love Donald Trump, you’ll hate this show! Get ready for a hilarious, thought-provoking, heartbreaking yet inspiring experience – in glorious four-part harmony and over-the…
Slut tells a story which is sadly the experience of many women; girls who have the benefit of naivety during their younger years, which is then destroyed when they face the reality…
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea but ‘overwhelmingly politically incorrect’ (WhatsGood.
How to Act is set up as a masterclass in acting with a fantastic twist that brings questions of race and gender into a topical debate.
Sean Kelly, the ever-smiling, ever-shouting auctioneer star of Storage Hunters.
Starving Artists are back with a compelling show about homosexuality in which Mark Pinkosh shares how being gay has affected his life.
This is our 31st festival exhibition and the jewellery exhibition is an established festival highlight.
Weird tales in dark wynds, creepy facts in closes, ghastly details in graveyards and unspeakable truths when we descend underground.
Presented across Inverleith House and the Front Range glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Plant Scenery of the World aims to evoke the theatrical, awe-inspiring, utop…
The UK’s only comedy court is back, but now, for all the family! An improvised show where Steve Bennett invites top comedians to be lawyers, prosecuting and defending members of th…
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
When a new couple move in to a north London apartment block their neighbours are quick to invite them over for dinner, though not all is as it seems.
Sean Kelly Sold Your Way! A night of stand-up comedy & charity auction.
“Some stories didn’t make it into the history books” In 1943, young Mid-Westerner Stu serves in the army as a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal ‘f…
Following on from his innovative digital work Pattern Recognition, Sadler's Wells New Wave Associate Alexander Whitley takes on the breath-taking scale of space for his company…
Globe-trotting laughter master Stephen K Amos returns with his new tour show.
This show is about two things: home and the body.
‘Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt’ is a darkly funny, pathos-fuelled show inspired by the TV show of similar name by writer and performance artist Karen McLeod.
Following the story of ‘The Liar’, a broken down, two-bit mentalist act who has reached the end of his tether and threatens to finish it all.
The island is sinking.
Critically acclaimed musical satirists make a triumphant return to Brighton Spiegeltent with their out-of-this-world Edinburgh Fringe smash hit.
This Brighton-based forum theatre company produce thought-provoking performances about social and political matters, using storytelling, discussion, and re-enactment.
After making the journey from tracksuit-wearing chav to high-flying city exec, from shopping in Wilkinsons to buying brioche in Waitrose, Kelly Convey shares why she’s come to re…
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Sometimes you stumble on a stand-up so freshly funny that you remember why you started liking unknown comedy shows in the first place.
A1 Sporting Speakers return to the Palladium in May with the much loved heavyweight champion of the World.
The original Educating Rita met Buddha of Suburbia and pretended to be an ordinary working class housewife whilst she went on strange spiritual quests, educated herself, and got an…
Writer/director Sofia Rendall and a cast of Sussex University students bring you a brand new satirical piece in several parts that each parody business culture and its various inad…
Do you ever take, observe, choose, desire, curse, think, feel, plan what you are going to say at your sister’s funeral in absolute detail? I want to know if we have anything …
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 …
Settling into a pew at Sweet St Andrew’s along with a small but eager crowd, I had no idea what to expect from I Will Carry You Over Hard Times.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” Evening Standard.
Andy Quirk and Andy Onions go halves on a uniquely energetic and entertaining comedy show.
A live radio play (hilarious sound effects included).
If you thought a night with the Rainbow Chorus couldn’t get any better, then get ready for a departure from our usual concerts as we roll out an evening of songs from the familiar,…
In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
For businesses interested in more than profit.
Sofie Hagen is a Danish feminist comedian, who once badmouthed a cop - not on purpose.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Challenges common perceptions of mental ill-health.
A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
After a sell-out two year run at the Edinburgh Festival, ‘Can You Put This In The Bin For Me?’ returns for the 2017 Brighton Fringe.
Hotter, cheekier, funnier than ever: the country’s number one touring cabaret show The Ladyboys of Bangkok return with a Bang in 2017 with their lavish new production ‘Who Runs the…
Heal your wounds with another hour of stand-up from “The best comedian you haven’t heard of yet” (Time Out), “One brilliant punchline after another.
If you ever crave the feeling that all the weight has been taken off your shoulders, this show and its desire to unburden you is worth a shot.
The multi-talented writer and director Sam Chittenden has done it again.
It is with a plethora of “well”s with which this show must be described: well written, well performed, well timed and very well done.
Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
‘The Idiot’s Guide to the World’ is a clown show that explores a variety of physical comedy genres.
Out of this World is action packed theatre from acclaimed writer and director Mark Murphy.
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…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
The hugely successful TV programme, Who Do You Think You Are? traces celebrities’ ancestry, discovering surprises from their families’ past along the way.
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Join Phileas Fogg and his faithful servant Passepartout in their audacious plan to navigate the globe in just 80 days.
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert.
HarmonyChoir (and special guests) will bring you an evening of inspirational and empowering music! HarmonyChoir is a group of singers, some of whom have experience with mental heal…
A comedic play about society’s need for the “ideal body”.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
Welcome to the final of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers’ competition.
Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting.
Fusing storytelling, rich imagery and dynamic movement, Murphy scales down and examines his opinions, insecurities, ambitions and the tricky nature of keeping a long-term relations…
As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s late plays, which celebrates love in the real world and views freedom in a vulnerable place, exposing the naked nature of desire and love a…
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these ques…
The competition to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the country has to offer.
Plastics harm our world, right? Costing us energy, using up resources and polluting? Wrong.
One performance only. Turn up early – sell-out expected.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
You’ll Never Get This Time Back is a zany, absurd and irreverent hour of fun that casts a comic eye over the darker regions of the human soul.
Comperes should never interrupt comedians: Jo Caulfield (Mock the Week) and Stuart Murphy (award-winning MC) disagree! What happens when the MC stops the comedian, starts a convers…
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Digital can bring the world together.
Ellen spent six months volunteering in Europe’s refugee camps.
Do you have a cool idea for a new wearable device? Could you be a great inventor? Then this is a great workshop for you.
Using the Microbit device and Microsoft Blocks you will learn to code the Microbit to run a number of games and projects.
Shortlisted for a Channel 4 Comedy Award: a theatre play about a doting husband and double-glazing salesman who discovers his wife is going to relationship counselling and insists …
Five woman poets, five unique performances of new writing, one Sunday in one beautiful venue. Please see bowdykitebooks.com for full details on line-up.
It’s a troubling question and most of us probably don’t know the answer.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
LondonTheatre1 says ★★★★★ “Appropriately camp and stagey, but warm and good-humoured, I would happily sit through all of it again.
Broadcast live from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh featuring world music and Celtic sounds.
Sometimes a little simplicity can go a long way in the theatre, and in this case, the title of this piece about the life of composer and performer Ivor Novello is very apt, as it r…
As a piece of verbatim theatre, I Love You / It’s Over gives a much more clear headed, down-to-earth view of love than you’re likely to find in a more highly wrought play.
We all leave a trace.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Eryn and Luke have a show.
From 2016/17, the Scottish Government can set income tax rates and thresholds for Scottish taxpayers.
Ever wondered what would’ve happened if Buddha met Hitler? Or what if Tesla accidentally invented time travel? In this improvised comedy show the audience will decide which chapt…
A tribute to Half Man Half Biscuit’s 30+ years in music.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Since its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut back in 2001 this incredible variety show has been performed on BBC Three, BBC Radio 4, and London’s West End.
Ever been called into that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you’d fought back and told them exactly what you thought of the whole bollock-brained process? Well,…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change takes you through a series of hilarious vignettes that show the roller coaster ride that is relationships.
Lynn Ruth Miller is the poster girl for growing old disgracefully.
Calling all explorers! Join us on the voyage of a lifetime to discover fairy tales, myths and legends from around the globe.
Bring a 3D fish tank to life by making all of the creatures in your tank interact with each other.
Sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015! Live concerts for babies and toddlers delivered by a professional violinist and cellist.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Forty five minutes of fun-stuffed, giggle-riddled, family friendly silliness with Fringe veterans Ian Billings and Chris White.
Sol Rogers, CEO/Founder of REWIND:VR will look at the developments in the past 20 years that have enabled VR to become a reality; from technology and platforms to smartphones and a…
Sam Mitchell and Cressida Wetton: two comedians for the price of none! A free show featuring two promising performers doing half an hour each: Sam Mitchell (2015 BBC New Comedy Awa…
The smash hit, sell out production from Hartshorn - Hook Productions returns for one night only, reuniting the stellar cast of Simon Lipkin, Julie Atherton, Gina Beck and Samuel Ho…
Breezing in as part of the Made In Adelaide initiative after a sold out run there, I had high expectations of this presentation.
John Godber’s fluid exploration of British society, drinking culture and nightlife in the 1980s is a fast-paced romp through fragments of characters’ lives, from upper-class ch…
In this new musical, a piece which has flashes of The Picture of Dorian Gray crossed with psycho-dramatic elements of an Edgar Allen Poe ballad, a story of clandestine love, beauty…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We now have great weapons against cervical cancer, but it still kills women every year.
Nine actors recreate raging typhoons, runaway trains, stampeding elephants and over 30 different characters in Mark Brown’s brilliant new stage adaptation of the Jules Verne classi…
Making its European premiere, this Canadian comedy gem packs more ideas and laughs into 40 minutes than most plays triple its length.
A modern-day musical twist on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with music by Joshua Salzman and book and lyrics by Ryan Cunningham.
Silky voiced James Lambeth returns, showcasing the genius of Johnny Mercer.
Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play about the ethics of genetic cloning and an extension of the well-worn ‘nature versus nurture’ debate is a challenging text for actors.
UCLU Musical Theatre Society’s Fringe production of the Joe Dipietro’s fast paced musical comedy is an incredibly entertaining and fast paced journey into the world of dating, …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Tania has just arrived from Paris for a very special occasion: The World’s Tastiest Carrot Competition! In her leather trunk, she carries her very own garden, from which a whole …
Written, directed and composed by three 20-year-old students, this is a brand new musical exploring the story of a man who effectively changed the course of history.
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
For over twenty years Chechelele have been delighting audiences with songs about love, freedom, slavery and everyday life: music with stories and meaning performed with energy and …
In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.
Casting one’s mind over the great theatrical titles of our time, there are very few which can compete with the concept suggested by the name of this play by Tale Gate Theatre.
Come join Bessy Bass and share in her adventures as she leaves her Scottish, coastal home to embark on a journey to visit musical friends and family in several European destination…
Bradford on Avon’s popular poetry series Words & Ears moors up at the Fringe for one night only, with JL Williams (jlwilliamspoetry.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Ambitious in its intentions, At War With Love uses a selection of thirty-two of William Shakespeare’s sonnets to form a narrative set against the backdrop of the First World War.
What will you choose to do about cancer? Join us for an inspiring hour of interactive games and verbatim theatre taking you on the journeys of patients, clinicians and researchers …
A twelve-year-old girl writes a poem.
“Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?”Such is the musical refrain setting the playful, yet pervasively sinister, tone which permeates this piece from the outset.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The first thing you are met with when walking into Eagle House School’s Production of Burying Your Brother in the Pavement is approximately 20 young teenagers spaced out on the s…
Come let loose and forget about your worries with feasting, music, mayhem, bloody coxcombs and admirable fooling.
In this session, NVA Director and co-founder Iain Simons is going to explore these ideas, give examples of what the NVA is doing to help and generally get excited.
We Will Rock You meets Yes Prime Minister in this hilarious story of electioneering by 2015 MP candidate Will Goodhand (Channel 4’s Beauty and the Geek, 99 Club stand-up), featur…
This practical workshop will see you use Lego software to programme a robot, You will use basic coding skills, write algorithms, learn how to debug, use variables and solve lots of…
Strictly Come Trancing, the only hypnosis cabaret show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 returns bigger and better than ever.
Welcome to the 29th year of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers competition! After months of regional showcases, these guys are the funniest of the hundreds of…
It is a story well-known to millions, made all the more poignant and absorbing for its absolute authenticity.
Some Voices is a sharp, gritty and touching play that some may recognise from a 2000 film adaptation starring Daniel Craig.
Nineteenth and last year for the show that started the Free Fringe.
A gloriously friendly show packed with hopes, dreams, snacks and drums.
You’re an up-and-coming scientist.
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
For a fast-paced, fun show filled with audience interaction, A Fool’s Paradise might be for you.
A journey in poems and stories across Burma, Egypt and Nicaragua through the eyes of a human rights worker.
Ben Dali’s Strictly Come Trancing has a flashy presentation as he enters to Eye Of The Tiger in a glittering jacket and pop-star headset.
The stellar reputation of Paines Plough’s championing of new writing for the theatre means that each new offering is welcomed with a great deal of anticipation.
Two of Newcastle’s rising stars present two separate half hours of stand up.
Multi award-winning poet Dominic Berry (seen poeting on BBC and Channel 4) returns after touring Canada and USA with his unforgettable new show about love, loss, and his quest for …
A modern day analysis of the world of consumerism.
Jay Handley has set himself a task with this show title.
“I’ve done absolutely no flyering for this show,” says Alexis Dubus, “so I have no idea why you’re here.
Amused Moose Best Show nominee TT returns, with a devastatingly funny show.
An hour of no-nonsense, crowd-pleasing comedy from one of the festival’s most experienced performers.
After almost three decades, it’s time for Turps to curl back into the foetal, reconnect the umbilical, and tell himself that everything will be alright.
A collection of witty, intelligent and highly entertaining plays written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League.
What’s in your shopping basket? Probably not the same as what’s in Steve’s.
Claiming to be the gayest thing in a room full of LGBT people in a gay bar (although straights are welcome too) is quite the boast.
Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle.
Byron is a bipolar writer.
This world premiere by Chicago’s award-winning Wego Drama is a family friendly show! The audience gets to choose what adventure Alan will take.
Have you been mistaken for a pervert? Are you awkward in a sex shop? Do you try to disguise your farts with a cough? Have you ever wondered how scissoring works? Do you enjoy havin…
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn, weaving through narrow closes, open squares and secret gardens to discover how this city has been inspiring writer…
Often described as a ‘Polypill’ against a variety of illnesses and diseases, is exercise really the elixir for health? Can exercise prematurely wear out your joints? Does excessive…
A young man in search of fortune and adventure lands a job on a commercial fishing boat in the middle of the Bering Sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner already exists as a work of enviable length.
Calling all explorers! Join us on the voyage of a lifetime to discover fairy tales, myths and legends from around the globe.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
How does breaking up work in the digital age? Are we really that OK? A comic examination of one woman’s race to the bottom both on and offline and the gap between the two.
Ever wondered, or perhaps dreaded, what it would be like if your search history could talk? With a host of zany characters and one wonderfully surreal party, You Tweet My Face Spac…
The setting is intimate, and encroaching on the personal space of a frail man, in a battered armchair listening to the television (news of the Gulf War is on – the year is 1991) …
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
The Edinburgh Fringe has recently seen a surge in theatrical adaptations of Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman.
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Chris Henry is a frantic comic.
The premise of the show is deceptively simple, and the clue is in the title: what a woman would do or go through for a man who she wholeheartedly loves, even though he has already …
Jane Austen’s satirical novel, itself a pastiche of recognisable and well-worn tropes of the Gothic literary genre, is here given new life by company Box Tale Soup, consisting of…
I’m Missing You is a gloomy, original writing production about grief, family, loyalty and obsession.
In this one-woman show, Klahr Thorsen takes her audience on a whirlwind journey that dips and glides – sometimes gracefully, sometimes not – between fiction and personal histor…
Barbara is a three-time Grammy nominated jazz and blues recording artist who has worked with an A-list of jazz greats.
In the award-winning performance of Your Majesties, Navaridas and Deutinger reenact Barack Obama’s Nobel lecture, held at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in 2009.
Seemingly at the end of his tether, a teacher sits, tie loose, marking work, clearly frustrated to say the least.
The set-up is simple: an armchair, a side-table, and a teapot, cup, and saucer.
An expansive stage space is dominated by assorted wooden furniture, with some pieces decked out in opulent reds and golds.
An actual baby, just.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Actor Mat Ewins will make you a star in Mat Ewins: Mat Ewins Will Make You a Star.
Nina Simone is one of the greatest music icons of the last century, producing songs as soulful as her voice.
Will poor Viola ever find her twin brother Sebastian? Expect adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
Early on, Schaffer decided that the show wasn’t going so well.
While acknowledging his immense talent, some reviewers have accused Steen Raskopoulos of going through the motions, trotting out the same tired routines he’s been spinning for…
2016’s been a bit of a bumpy year to say the least so, it was only a matter of time before we started receiving advice from extra-terrestrials.
In the latest theatrical offering of a Jane Austen themed adaptation, this piece, which is billed as a new musical by Penny Ashton, interweaves thirty-three direct passages from Au…
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at this year’s Fringe, Kansas Smitty’s will throw the kind of party they’ve become famous for: the jazz rave.
George Orwell once wrote a fairy tale in order to avoid accusations of criticising reality.
Jen has had a year of ups or downs: she was locked in a shop, reprimanded at 35,000 feet and thought having a life plan of trying all the biscuits was OK.
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…
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016.
If you find it in your heart to forgive the failings of Masai Graham’s previous show, Aaaaah! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes, and stuck around for the follow-up, you�…
Masai Graham has assembled an act so far from risky that it is bubble wrapped in woefully predictable innuendos, presumably to retain its innocence.
As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on.
New York-based Irish comedian Colum Tyrrell brings you the best international acts from around the world.
A new stand-up and sketch show by Sarah Bennetto.
Lynn Ruth Miller is the poster girl for growing old disgracefully.
Pernilla Holland’s debut solo show is an ambitious but bumpy foray into character comedy.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
As seen on Showtime’s Knock, Knock, It’s Tig, and featured in Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist, Ever is bringing her debut show to Edinburgh.
‘Ireland’s hottest comedian’ (OneWorldChronicle.
Scottish comedian and Fringe veteran McTavish has celebrated his 60th birthday this year, and has therefore adopted a more ponderous and docile approach in his set, instead of dedi…
Having previously seen an outstanding Georgian language version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm by the Tumanisvili Film Actors Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, in…
Rhombus Ensemble’s Your Mother’s Vagina is a whirlwind of subject matter wrapped up in the lives of its two protagonists: Layla and Sue Anne.
Arriving from sell-out performances at the Adelaide Fringe, Jonathan’s love of travelling is a clear inspiration to his choice of music.
In a dystopian London, in which the unseen outside world is ravaged by violence, drugs and fear, Mercury Fur focuses upon the relationship between two brothers and depicts, in char…
Despite coming across as likeable and charming, Romina Puma’s stand-up set doesn’t provoke too many laughs.
Spoken word behemoth Fat Roland mixes deadpan comedy and surreal stories with wonderfully odd illustrations.
Animal (Are you a proper person?) is a show about learning who you are and being proud of whatever that might be.
It’s sequel season and after last year’s highly attended and much revered two-handed show – ‘consistently amusing and solid performances’ (BroadwayBaby.
Emerging in a Grecian breastplate of gold, to a poetic backdrop of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est the stage is seemingly set for the presentation of a man whose view of hims…
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
Jack Barry has the potential to be an electric comic.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
The title song, by Cole Porter, makes an appearance part way through the second half of this narrativised collection of numbers, and really speaks of the character’s ultimate sta…
The queen who ruled a kingdom (and an empire) as you’ve never dared think of her before.
British-Arab Ella has spent the last few years passing as white: National Geographic Explorer, ‘Achingly funny’ (LooseLips.
Bristol Improv return to the Fringe with their new format Bristol Improv Take Over the World! Follow five dastardly scientists as they attempt to thwart opponents and overcome obst…
Kate Bush may well have adopted a new receptacle in the form of a skimpy harlequin from down under.
At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed.
Featuring the very best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomers’ competition.
Frenchy’s 2015 debut sold out Edinburgh Fringe and all the major Australian Comedy Festivals… and his single Friendzone debuted in iTunes Australia’s Top 30! With over 200 mi…
“You come in like a lion and you leave like a lamb”.
The Thinking Drinkers are back at the Fringe and this year they’re serving up a whistle stop tour of the world’s boozy traditions, mixing up a cocktail of historical facts, fil…
‘What does it mean to be a human?’Voiced explicitly at one moment during this equal parts captivating, inviting and horrifying production, the question of the very nature of hu…
Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.
Erin McGathy (This Feels Terrible, Drunk History, Community) presents a comedy show about love, guts, despair and wearing wedding dresses covered in candy for approval.
The show that guarantees the biggest laughs of the festival and your money back! BBC Radio Four favourite, Evans, has been immersing himself in economics for a couple of years, lik…
Helen Duff has gone from strength to strength, after her hilarious yet heart-breaking Vanity Bites Back show last year.
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
In the small world of 30 Inches Aquarium, simple but amazing things are happening.
The female object of Beethoven’s widely known composition for solo piano is unknown, though in this devised production by the York Drama Soc, she is given form and identity as th…
Joining the ranks of slightly nerdy comedians who primarily joke about their non-existent sex lives, So You Think You’re Funny finalist Alex Kealy is a safe bet for some well-tho…
It can probably be agreed that there’s a lot to be unhappy about in the world at the moment.
Come Get Some! is a rather energetic title, as titles go, but its excitement about Nick Cody is absolutely justified.
90s-kid’s television hero Dave Benson Phillips brings back his hit children’s game-show Get Your Own Back, but there’s a twist.
On every front, this show is a winner.
When a remote lighthouse is attacked by a dangerous band of wreckers and vagabonds only one of the keepers escapes alive Joining forces with the sole survivor of a shipwreck, the p…
The UK’s only courtroom based improvised comedy returns for a fourth year.
Be Prepared for a Disney-style musical like you’ve never seen before! We’ll take you to A Whole New World full of princesses, witches, and talking animals, starring in an improvise…
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Don’t miss Susie Youssef as she weaves stories, characters, sketches and occasional dance breaks into an hour of comedy about her big family, her medium-size anxiety problem and th…
This is a disappointing show, mainly because the Oxford Revue don’t have that many funny sketches to perform.
The hype for Nina Conti is huge.
Life has many lessons and sometimes the teacher becomes the student.
Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us imagines a future in which humanity has simply ceased to exist, and it’s surprisingly soothing.
Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers.
Let Harry Venning, Guardian cartoonist and award-winning writer of BBC Radio 4’s Clare In the Community, help you to Release Your Inner Cartoonist.
Nish Kumar has provided a wily hour of satire as some people could sit for the entire show and not realise it’s really a show about politics.
She put her hopes and dreams on hold supporting him and helping him achieve his.
Naomi Petersen is a newcomer to the Fringe and in this whirlwind hour of musical and character comedy the laughs fail to keep pace with her sky-high enthusiasm.
Set in 2057, a time not too far away from our own, The Mission charts the selection and preparation for an unprecedented space exploration by an unremarkable and apparently run-of-…
What is a map? The National Library of Scotland’s free exhibition You Are Here asks that question, taking you on a cartographic journey from Edinburgh to the ends of the earth.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The many extraordinary ways in which artists have portrayed themselves are explored in this exhibition, with over 150 self-portraits by over a hundred artists, across six centuries…
This is our 30th Festival Fringe Exhibition and the jewellery exhibition is an established festival highlight.
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
After a sell out, 5 star run at Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, Alison Thea-Skot brings her surreal, joyous and unhinged character comedy show to Brighton.
He’s been called “dancer to watch” by The World Dances, represented GB in the Tap World Championships and even danced for the Royal Family.
Rosie is living in the theatre due to a case of agoraphobia.
House of Blakewell want to make you happy.
Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play.
“Rosie is living in the theatre due to a case of agoraphobia.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” (Evening Standard) Doug Segal (Winner: Best Cabaret Act, Brighton Fringe) is back in Brighton to preview his new show which is designed to make…
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date? An engaging and amusing…
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date?
Playful pink lighting, red velvet drapes, glittery fixtures and wooden circus seats - entering the Brighton Spiegeltent screams ‘Showtime!’ Come Fly With Me is a charming, c…
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
Josh is good at dancing, but not at people.
Lynn Ruth Miller is 82-years-old.
If you have known Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and all their forest friends, David Benedictus, who wrote the only officially sanctioned sequel to A.
Once upon a time you were just a cell in your mother’s womb.
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
Life-sized animal puppets with fully articulated limbs come to life in front of your eyes in a cacophony of singing, dancing and plenty of audience participation.
Your quick wits and sharp tongue are all that stand between Earth and total destruction.
SHE had HER hopes and dreams on hold supporting HIM and HIS.
When you see the joy on a small child’s face as he’s about to press the button to call the lift, you realise that your adult life will never offer you that same level of joy ever a…
This original musical tells a fairytale about everyday life - the many voices telling us what to do and who to be.
“Cook it how you like, it’s still a potato” is an Italian expression for the many words and ways we keep coming up with to describe something, without in fact changing its meaning.
Broadcaster and comedian Dolan is one of the most in-demand MCs.
With a sparkle of one-of-a-kind outlandish glamour, the Dilemma girls host this unique walk-about performance, inviting you to take part in the mobile game show ‘Would You Rather?’…
In this show Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love story.
NINA CONTI IN YOUR FACE She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is the second-longest running off Broadway musical.
Modern-day deadbeat Simon (Eli Kent) would rather natter to his mum, objectify his girlfriend, and play video-games with a pothead gorilla than think about the recent death of hi…
The 13th iteration of this festival celebrating all things flamenco brings a bright lineup of music and dance to locations throughout the city.
What happens to your sense of identity when the world in which that self was created dramatically changes? If you lived to fight, what if the outcome of that fight wasn’t what yo…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour! 2015 is finally here Actress Georgia May Foote, Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and TV presenter Anita Rani are the next celebrity contestan…
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…
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
Ruby Wax - comedian, writer, mental health campaigner - brings her one-woman show to the West End following a sell-out UK tour.
CLOSE TO YOU, a new musical featuring Burt Bacharach’s songbook, makes its highly anticipated West End transfer to the Criterion Theatre from 3rd October.
Pack your bags for a trip around the world in 80 days! The majestic, mysterious and fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune that he can circumnavigate th…
ON YOUR FEET! is the new Broadway musical about two people who believed in their talent, their music and each other and became an international sensation.
(previews start on Friday; opens on Jan.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Thursday) “Art,” said the Catholic mystic Thomas Merton, “enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
(previews start on Jan.
In this idea-heavy one-man show, Steven Friedman, a Renaissance man whose areas of expertise include philosophy, seeks to weave a capsule history of philosophical thought with an a…
Die Doing What You Love is the first (and last) solo show from comedian Tom Holmes.
It’s impossible to dislike the persona we think of when we think of Dawn French - her clownlike, down-to-earth warmth and sense of approachable ‘ordinariness’ make us feel that w…
Two of the city’s finest rising comics, Janelle James and Kerry Coddett, each perform a half-hour of stand-up.
These excellent musicians return to Carnegie Hall for a program featuring two major works of the piano-violin duo repertory — Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata …
If you grew up in the 1970s it was almost compulsory to know the music of Burt Bacharach and lyrics of Hal David - Alfie, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Look of Love and What the World N…
Former losing contestant on much loved ITV quiz show ‘Blockbusters’, metaphorical swashbuckler DANIEL KITSON hosts an evening of first class stand up comedy in aid of the United Na…
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Oct.
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
Welcome to the final of the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
The Money is deceptively simple: there is cash on the table and players must unanimously decide how to spend it.
Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting.
She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film – all without moving her …
It’s 1941 and millions of women have their loved ones ripped away from them, unsure if they’ll ever meet again.
As your organisation grows, funders and other advisors may suggest you need a more a formal structure.
For one night only, Sing in The City’s premier choir The Aw’ Blacks will be performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.
Article 12 (UNCRC) says adults must listen to and take account of children’s views and their creative expression should be valued.
Austin Sound Exchange is comprised of professional musicians and vocalists from Austin, Texas who have collaborated to share their city’s unique musical genres with people all over…
Stand By Your Man: True Crime Cabaret presents chilling, thrilling true stories of regular women with one thing in common: they all fell in love with serial killers.
Swingerella used to be Cinderella until her last Prince Charming got her self-harming and she became Swingerella – goddess of fabulousness and high priestess of voodoo.
Recitals for Wrigglers are concerts especially tailored for babies and toddlers, delivered by a professional violinist and cellist.
Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffered from severe clinical depression.
It’s just Proops and you.
Swingerella used to be Cinderella until her last Prince Charming got her self-harming and she became Swingerella – goddess of fabulousness and high priestess of voodoo.
In 2009, a crack vocal quartet was put on a diet for a crime they didn’t commit.
If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club.
South Africa’s National Arts Festival is Africa’s largest and most colourful multi-discipline arts event held in Grahamstown each July.
Rowan is a hip hop and punk-inspired poet diagnosed with a specific learning difficulty and speech impediment, often disabled by other people’s perceptions.
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
On Sunday afternoon, myself and around fifteen other people – most of them women – perch ourselves on armchairs in a cosy room in Appletree Writers at The Whole Works, on a qu…
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Caroline Horton enters laden with suitcases against a pastel French tricolour.
A company of past members of the West End production of Les Miserablés draw on that show’s passion and music to create an inspired evening featuring all your favourites: Phantom…
Improv comedy is a British export, adopted by America and is now making its way back across the pond to impact the ever developing UK comedy scene.
A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from Fringe Festival directors around the world.
Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change.
American jazz and soul singer, Coco Rouzier, debuts her long-awaited original album at the Fringe! It’s soul music with jazzy phrasing and timing! ‘Coco is the Real Thing!’ (Je…
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered yes to these questions,…
Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change.
In this exciting collaboration, award-winning vocalist and performer, Jungr, and Grammy and Emmy Award winner McDaniel investigate The Beatles; celebrating Paul, John, George and R…
How would you feel if you were paralysed or had blackouts, only to be told you were imagining it, hysterical, or making it up? This is still the experience of some patients with Fu…
Your Aunt Fanny have been performing their unique brand of comedy throughout the North East to sellout audiences since 2013.
A new musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao.
A creative play space for Spoken Word artists.
This show is reviewer proof.
What would you do for love? What would you do for money? In our world of pay day loans and credit on tap how easy is it to become overwhelmed? Jess’ craving for more than she can…
There’s a lot to live up to as a 21st century woman – having it all isn’t quite working out.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Mark Ravenhill’s play uses the metaphor of two brothers – twins – to represent the former partitioning of Germany into East and West during the time of the Berlin wall.
This young company from The Theatre School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent brings an array of engaging, emotional, and believable performances to Dennis Kelly’s gritty play.
Stories, studies and stupidity about finding happiness in strange and scientific places by poet Agnes Török, winner of 2014’s Best International Spoken Word Show Award (PBH).
Australian idiot attempts comedy in a bus.
For many people today, their impression of Albert Einstein is quite possibly informed by the oft-seen image of his face: tongue sticking out – to all intents and purposes every b…
Cirque du Soleil acrobat James Kingsford-Smith returns to the Fringe with his twisted and deeply hysterical new solo show.
Make Some Noize is Edinburgh’s most anticipated all day music festival featuring some of the world’s biggest music artists.
Ranging from pleasantly slow and soothing to fast and excitable and even angry, the sounds produced by the Chechelele World Music Choir were vibrant and vast.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
As we grow older and we become more aware of the world, the way we look at people, the way we attach emotions and feelings begins to change.
The UK desperately needs more scientists and engineers, yet highly qualified, talented and ambitious women are still deserting science.
Clare Harrison’s 15 Minutes of Shame is a variety show where Clare entertains you with everything she has done for fame, from a spread in a newspaper – not in a readers’ wives …
Welcome to the Edinburgh Spiritual Emergency Support Group.
The common phrase ‘an apple a day, keeps the doctor away’ sounds quite sensible in promoting healthy living, doesn’t it? However, a quick internet search suggests that eating an …
A common objective for artists participating in the Fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
First things first, a notable mention must be awarded to the sterling efforts of the two-piece band.
Ever made a joke on Twitter that came out wrong and as a consequence been torn apart by a crazy mob? Or been part of crazy mob tearing someone apart for telling a joke on Twitter? …
Bella and Esh (her hapless assistant) present an absurd, darkly comic guide to bereavement.
Surreal clown, singer and Phil Kay collaborator Cammy Sinclair (38yrs) accidentally took his son Robin (3yrs) to a gig.
The challenge for any writer tackling the well-worn topic of WWII is to find a particular niche or angle which has not previously been given adequate treatment.
Cervical cancer only affects women but is caused by a virus (HPV) very common in both sexes.
If ever there were a production which vociferously defends the ability of young people to make theatre with the impact of a professional standard (whatever that actually means) thi…
In this devised piece, the company from the University of Pennsylvania’s Theatre Arts Program set themselves an almighty challenge in terms of the subject matter they deal with (…
Described as a ‘backwards love story’, Waitless is an interesting twist on the genre of romance.
Welcome to the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
GM Bacteria? Noooo! But what if I told you that GM Salmonella might save your life one day? Most people remember Salmonella because of the controversy with eggs, and many know that…
Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
A poetically powerful, awkwardly hilarious unravelling of what it is to be single for the first time since being a teenager.
Key Change, directed by Laura Lindow, is devised by women in HMPYOI Low Newton and follows the stories of 4 female inmates.
‘Comic monster’ (Chortle.
Commander Chris Hadfield said that six months on the International Space Station made him feel a great sense of just how much the world is all one place and we are all one people l…
Phantom Owls present the Skylight Theatre production of New York Times best-selling author, acclaimed American humorist, Annabelle Gurwitch’s I See You Made an Effort.
Dominic Berry takes us on a personal journey in his spoken word show inspired by the world of online gaming.
We’ve all had our penises sat on and this lady gonna talk about it.
‘A fast-paced gem of a play about saying goodbye to your nearest and dearest.
In an attempt to prove that Aesop was history’s greatest fabulist, a group of storytellers crack the spine of a massive edition of Aesop’s Fables, releasing the old man’s most memo…
Following The Wardrobe Ensemble’s previous creations, including the depicted opening of a Swedish furniture store (RIOT) and an account of the Chilean Mining Accident of 2010 (33…
Edgar Allen Poe’s seminal poem, which charts the gradual descent into madness of a heartbroken lover compounded by the incessant repetitions of a talking bird, gives its name and…
Many people will of course know Christian O’Connell from presenting the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show of which he has been doing now for over 10 years and in his time on the stat…
A traumatised zookeeper tells the tale of her misadventures with her co-workers and an escaped Tiger who is now their captor… and director.
Nikolai Gogol’s short story, formed of a series of diary entries, charts the descent into madness of an ordinary civil servant, whose observations on the power-holders within his…
A new musical set at the beginning of the First World War.
Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…
This piece of new writing from Ben Maier is the latest addition to the succession of plays at this year’s Fringe which in some way seek to deal with issues of mental health.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Learn the secrets of the cartoonists art with the award-winning creator of Clare in the Community (BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian) and Hamlet (the stage and in and around The Pleasan…
Ostensibly a community play, there can be little doubt that the impact of Letters to Aberlour will be most keenly felt by people from the area in which the play is set, and by thos…
Straight out of the Slipper Room, New York City’s legendary variety theatre, comedy master Mel Frye takes you on a wild ride through his long and storied career.
See the very best of previous contestants and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
This is immersive theatre.
Shut Your Cakehole.
Given our familiarity with Escher’s unmistakable style it’s hard to believe that this is the first major exhibition of his work in the UK and that there is only one print of …
‘Comic monster’ (Chortle.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
As theatrical metaphors go, the equating of psychological ‘baggage’ to physical suitcases is one of the more straight-forward examples, yet that is not to decry the effectivene…
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
What better combination is there for a feel-good show than a group of men singing a cappella Britney and a book of alpaca facts? London-based singers and all-round fun guys, the Bu…
It is difficult to know where to start with Violet Fox’s autobiographical show about her fraught relationship with her mother – I’ll take a note from her and start at the beg…
Voices returns, pitting the festival’s best comedy performers against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down…
‘A good way to be happy’, Alice Keedwell tells us, is ‘you’ve got to silence the critic inside your head for a moment or two’.
Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers.
Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
No, this show is not about a Cher impersonator, nor is it an ABBA or Take That tribute band.
Not the End of the World is based on the novel by Geraldine McCaughrean which reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark from the point of view of Noah’s daughter, Timna, as she grappl…
Though Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most prominent literary names, Persuasion is perhaps her least widely read work.
After their successful debut last year, Dyer and Whitney are back with more of their unique, original and hilarious character comedy sketches and songs! This new duo sold out at Le…
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
When Tom Stade walks on stage you can tell he’s at home.
British Exist Theatre Company admit that they sometimes embrace challenging and provocative subjects.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
Bryony Kimmings is a theatre maker, performer and actor.
A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club.
Lance Corporal James Randall is sitting in a living room strewn with desert sand and an abandoned maroon beret by the television.
International Comedian and British job thief Dana Alexander is back with her fourth Edinburgh Show.
Around the World in 80 Days is one of Jules Verne’s famous adventure novels.
‘A raconteur extraordinaire! One of a kind! Sunshine is star!’ (Japan Times).
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Philip Ridley is often shocking, constantly provocative, and always thought-provoking.
Billed as both musical theatre and performance art, the audience for Brigitte Aphrodite’s My Beautiful Black Dog, her autobiographical account of depression, is likely to bring v…
Evan Wonders of the World is a show that jumps into Evan Desmarais’s head and tries to figure out what’s wrong.
George McNeill came from a small mining village called Tranent where he started out as a professional soccer player.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
Shakespeare’s body of work is well-traveled by theatrical patrons – some might say imposingly so.
‘Demitris Deech is a great story-teller’ (BroadwayBaby.
Have you ever been surprised to receive a phonecall from a friend that you were just thinking about? How many times have you felt so in tune with a person that you knew what they w…
Is this a damn early time to start a show? Yes! Is it the only way to start your Fringe? Yes! With an interactive musical improv ending, this show you want to set your alarm for.
It is not often that Howard Barker’s plays are produced in Britain (he is far more popular in Europe and America) in spite of his prodigious output and well-known name.
Ben Target is in no way an average stand-up.
I am not entirely sure why comedians Ben Shannon and Mike Reed decided their set should be forty-eight minutes long, rather than a full hour, but it actually doesn’t really matte…
Show your Hope is a mobile art exhibition by Dutch storyteller Mr Martin who has been travelling all over the world with a van full of paintings since 2003.
Artistic Director of Gecko, Amit Lahav, revealed in conversation after this dynamic, forceful and moving performance that the initial stimulus for Institute had been an exploration…
He’s back.
Alex Edelman, New York-based upstart and winner of 2014’s Foster’s Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, returns with another gosh-darned show comprised of jokes and stories about hi…
An hour of uncompromisingly hilarious stand-up from ‘one of the best upcoming Scottish Comedians’ (List).
As the bombastic theme tune starts playing, waves of nostalgia roll across the audience.
In a small, bare room in Pleasance Courtyard, armed with a projector screen and a pack of makeup wipes, Angela Barnes is ready to change your view on beauty standards - and make yo…
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…
The improv concept of This Is Your Trial is sound: two comedians take on the roles of prosecution and defence as they argue over cases that are brought by the audience.
Tez talks, and you should listen.
It’s a brave soul who chooses to sit in the front row of In Your Face, Nina Conti’s latest helping of deconstructive ventriloquism.
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
The absurdist mindset in The Empire Builders would suggest that any endeavour to find meaning in the play is inherently flawed, due to humanity’s inability to make sense of anyth…
Delivered as an interactive art workshop, with a narrative line slowly emerging, Some Thing New is a great idea with an unsatisfying execution.
This time next year, the Assembly George Square Theatre will not be big enough to contain David O’Doherty.
Science stand-up comedian, bestselling author and popular TV host Lieven Scheire will lead you in his own inimitable way from the Special Relativity of Einstein to the Belgians bei…
With the title Some People Talk About Violence one would be forgiven for thinking Barrel Organ’s new show is serious and depressing.
In this excellent piece of story-telling, Alfie White embarks upon a thrilling everyday adventure that is engaging for all ages.
This ginormous spectacle transports you back to the time where the biggest excitement for children was when the travelling circus came to town.
This exciting selling exhibition is housed in Galerie Mirages, a 19th-century former bakehouse.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Aug 24) The final show of A.
I was reading about a Gay Pride event in Glasgow last week that had banned drag acts from performing for fear they may offend transgendered members of their community who were conf…
Live long-form improvised comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, DNAYS, plus guest groups.
Five men are trapped in a West Virginia mine in this visceral play, whose lighting comes only from the actors’ headlamps.
(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…
As heard on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.
The University of Brighton proudly presents its final year Product Design students.
“Meta, self-referential bullshit” – the play’s words, not mine.
The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
Joni has just met someone special.
Can you stay true to yourself when everything suggests you change? After sell-out performances in London and New York, 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in a story of two m…
Tom Allen is a sharp, incisive comedian whose talent exceeds his fame.
For everyone who wants to find out anything about end of life, death and bereavement.
George Orwell’s classic allegory about the Russian Revolution is a serious political satire in children’s wrapping paper.
Swingerella, goddess of fabulousness, used to be Cinderella - until her prince charming got her self-harming.
On 16th May, Sahajatara explores how “being here, now” opens us to nature’s beauty and our duty to protect it.
Before the show had even started, there was a show.
I’m not sure what I saw on Sunday.
It’s risky for a comedian to structure her set around things she doesn’t like.
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…
Ernie is a doting grandfather admitted into care.
If you are preparing for the Edinburgh Fringe or performing in Brighton, this expert panel discussion can help with getting your show noticed by media, arts industry and audiences.
Life-sized elephant, giraffe and lion marionettes come to The Warren! The animals will greet you outside and lead you indoors to enjoy a breathtaking puppetry show to delight all a…
All Change is a short, minimalistic play about old age, dementia and father-daughter relationships.
“ I’m going to sort EVERYTHING out! Sort out this troubled nation like an unruly sock drawer at half-term” Lotta Quizeen is returning to Brighton with her unique blend of dome…
The day after Britain goes to the polls, “Scotland’s top satirical stand-up” (Morning Star) presents his comedy response to the 2015 General Election.
“Just leave it all to me! I’ll sort this troubled nation like an unruly sock drawer at half term…” A unique combo of domestic audience trials, current affairs quips & rudd…
Mr. Proops, a 30-year veteran of stand-up, hosts this “salubrious soliloquy” of a podcast, in which he explores current events and any other topics that interest him.
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…
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ explores what life with an alcoholic parent can be like through the eyes of Kath’s daughter, Sam.
“I know it’s harsh but I can’t imagine her ever being cool or sexy or anything”.
The Cinco de Mayo edition of this monthly show sees improvisers retell well-known stories in the style of the indie film director Wes Anderson.
A Star Wars themed family-friendly disco party.
Are you cool enough? Do you get out of the house? Have you cried today? Shut up.
Charm el Sheikh: Two women alone on holiday in an Egyptian resort find their worlds collide in the most unimaginable way.
Stuck with You is two romantic play.
An exhibition of work that depicts what visitors enjoy in Brighton - the eccentric, comic, delightful or strange.
They met at Greenham.
This play is billed as an adaptation of Edwards Lear’s classic poem The Owl and the Pussycat.
Like no other act on the comedy circuit, Josh’s self-deprecating, edgy humour covers life as a disabled person - from everyday reality to dating and sex.
After storming Brighton 2014, award-winning House of Blakewell return to take on the happiness industry.
The responsibilities of being an audience rarely weigh as heavily as they do in this series of short monologues, performed by one actor for one theatergoer in a mobile space the si…
Unfortunately, I had slightly misled myself in preparation for this show.
Spanish verse is the inspiration for this program, which features music by Shostakovich, Schumann, William Bolcom, Taneyev, Wolf, Peter Lieberson, Xavier Montsalvage and Granados, …
Dreamlike music, some of it dark and haunting, is the focus of this lovely program, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and featuring the superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in B…
Free-flowing, long-form improv comedy from Do Not Adjust Your Stage (DNAYS).
This superstar violinist joins forces with the pianist Sam Haywood for a program featuring Beethoven’s Sonata No.
(previews start on March 11; opens on March 22) Expect lots of cakes and ale, though very few actors, when Bedlam offers two versions of Shakespeare’s comedy in repertory, bo…
(previews start on March 17; opens on April 14) Something old, something new, something borrowed and something Broadway: The veteran showman David Hyde Pierce directs this new musi…
(performances start on March 18) Why not follow a wand’rin’ star over to City Center for this Encores! revival of Lerner and Loewe’s 1951 musical set in 1850s Cal…
Some of New York’s funniest performers gather to reinterpret classic award show speeches, including Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Julie Klausner, Erin Markey, Michael Musto, Be…
The musical improvisers Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love sto…
(previews start on Feb.
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…
This writer for “Saturday Night Live” performs a show of stand-up, sketch, short stories and silly experimentation.
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Dave Hill, a suave local favorite, hosts this top-notch night of comedy and music with a Christmas-themed show.
Five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: the real story behind his infamous origins.
This two-hander by Kate Robin, who works on the Showtime series “The Affair,” is about a man and woman, married to others, who fall into an unexpected intimacy after me…
This mild comedy isn’t all that well acted, but at least it defies expectations.
Tom Papa records an episode of his old-timey radio show, which features sketches, stand-up and music.
The third play in Oran Mor’s Autumn/Winter Season is a breath of fresh air, a nuanced and enjoyable picture of a thoroughly likeable character.
Filiz Ozcan directs a bitter-sweet love story in which two lonely strangers find themselves drawn to each other, leading them to question whether love does truly hold the key to ha…
Their TV and stage shows were hits in their native New Zealand. Now Ben Hurley and Steve Wrigley bring their act to New York City.
Kara Klenk welcomes a raft of comics to this reliable weekly show: Byron Bowers, Adrienne Iapalucci, Kevin McCaffrey, Alex Koll, Josh Gondelman, Tony Deyo and Rob Cantrell.
(previews start on Sept.
Would you eat bacon from a lab designed pig? Is GM meat really a solution to future food shortages? Debates about genetically modifying our food raise many concerns.
Jonathan Wood’s songs have accumulated over four decades.
The point of a thought-experiment is to provide a way of exploring the consequences of an idea, not through a metaphorical prism, but through a literal imagining of what might happ…
Welcome to the 27th Final of the UK’s best stand-up comedy newcomers competition! After the Gilded Balloon has scoured the nation in search of the best new comic talent, we are dow…
Medical science has advanced thanks to what we’ve learnt from patients’ data.
A sharp, satirical show examining the annoying habits of those trying to change the world, while finding themselves.
As your organisation grows, funders and other advisors may suggest you need a more a formal structure.
The pioneering Statistical Accounts of Scotland systematically described 18th-century Scotland and its people, capturing glimpses of the daily lives of those forgotten by the histo…
Come and play.
Majk (pronounced Mike, for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) presents a witty collection of finely crafted comedy folk songs on topics ranging from sc…
As seen poeting on Channel 4 and BBC, Dominic Berry (winner of New York’s Nuyorican Poets Café Slam and Manchester Literature Festival’s Superheroes of Slam) brings video game-ins…
Blending performance, comedy and film, Kim Noble tries to get close to other people on this planet.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell out expected.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a Broadway musical based on the Peanuts comic strip, featuring familiar characters like Lucy, Snoopy and Schroeder.
Pam Ford has taken 40 years to be happy in her skin, she wants everyone to discover their best bits, and get happy right now, what a great way to start the day with a lunchtime sho…
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
John Bird started The Big Issue magazine. His story is achingly funny and powerfully inspiring. It will make you want to rush out and start making changes in your own life.
This is your chance to meet Fringes from across the globe and find out how you can take part in their festivals.
Two comedians with quite different styles split an hour to give you a quick shot of what they are all about.
An interactive experience like no other as you take part in live mind-blowing experiments that will make you laugh, scream and gasp.
Heard it before? Not like this, you haven’t.
Aloha! The award-winning Castle Performing Arts Center is tap dancing its way back to the American High School Theatre Festival from their home in Hawaii with the high energy comed…
A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from national and international Fringe Festival Producers.
The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood.
A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from national and international Fringe Festival Producers.
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Enjoy a fascinating fashion show exhibiting beautiful garments made from colourful organic cotton and ethical eri-silk fabric handwoven by vulnerable indigenous women and survivors…
Why are women deserting sciences in droves? Is it unconscious bias, a lack of aspiration, lack of confidence - or just lack of ability? Are we failing our daughters, or is this jus…
The World Mouse Plague is a complex, experimental illusion of a play.
Presented with the British Council, this event is for artists and producers interested in touring their shows at an international level.
How would you feel if you were paralysed or had blackouts, only to be told you were imagining it or, worse still, making it up? This is still the experience of some patients with F…
Hamell has been working diligently on both a new album and a one-man show for the last couple of years after winning the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival F…
This is a surprisingly intimate glimpse into the inner world of multimedia artist Nathan Penlington, with plenty of exciting decisions along the way.
Bill Cosby said: ‘I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody’.
An immersive morning dance experience for those who dare to start their day in style! Nothing wakes you up more than a soul-shaking dance, electrifying music, yoga, massage and a m…
Scotland is the ‘sick man of Europe’.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
From the gospel parlors of black Florida to the racist salons of white NYC, Sevan learns that it takes more than an NKOTB t-shirt to become a white American.
The Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show will carry on to reflect on the well-being of everyday life.
Create your very own comic strip in this unique, fun art class, led by Creative Director of Graphic Scotland, Ariadne Cass-Maran.
Need more media coverage? Can’t afford a publicist? (Not happy with the one you have?) Learn to generate positive publicity in print, online - everywhere! - with easy steps from me…
A common objective for artists participating in the fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
Proops greets every guest that enters the theatre with a personal handshake, a touch that shocked and pleased the audience.
The return of Liam McEneaney’s long-running variety show, with performances from the comedians Gilbert Gottfried and Amanda Melson, the musicians Mike Doughty and Kaki King, …
WHYS is the BBC’s global conversation show – tapping into the most talked about news stories each day and getting the people involved to discuss them across radio and social me…
And The Horse You Rode In On begins with the easy unfolding of soldiers’ badinage.
PDS Theater returns to the Fringe with a raucous take on Shakespeare’s comedy.
Lisa has lost an hour.
“You don’t know what heckling is!” screams Michael Legge at a woman in the first row, cutting down her contention that the Northern-Irish comedian is lovely.
‘And you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead’.
In 2003 a US led coalition went to war with Iraq and Kieran Hodgson spent 10 days living with a very nice French family.
It’s four minutes in and I find myself clapping harder than ever while singing “Auld Reeke you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind.
A very ambitious performer, Guy Combes was not content with the idea of simply telling jokes.
Ghostbusters turns 30 this year.
May I Take Your Order? is the hilarious new one-woman show from Gabrielle Killick that lifts the lid on the life of an impoverished student actress struggling to live the dream.
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
Out of work, out of money and utterly useless, Caped Concern and Captain Cliche struggle through their new lives in the everyday society they once protected, finding themselves at …
Medical student music group One Dissection from St George’s, University of London escape the dissecting room and break into a different kind of theatre to present a medical a cappe…
Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour.
This festival exhibition highlights the Jami’ al-Tawarikh (World History or Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din, one of the masterpieces of medieval Islamic manuscripts.
(previews start on Aug.
From the off the Edinburgh Revue never really got kicking.
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
With so much improvised comedy coming to Edinburgh every year, it’s important to create a formula for a show that allows it to stand out from the crowd.
Only Ruby Wax would have the tenacity to walk on stage, hardly acknowledge the audience and make herself a cup of tea before beginning to even think about starting her show.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
In a deserted bar in a dusty town somewhere in the Australian outback, a barman prepares himself for the drudgery of a long day.
Do you want to make a positive change in the world? So do we! Films, music, chat, and much more to celebrate and be inspired by people who are fighting for a better tomorrow.
Eric Lampaert makes no claims to be tackling the big issues - in Testiculating (Waving Your Arms Talking B*ll*cks), he talks about everything and anything that catches his eye from…
The punslinger returns with new jokes, silly songs and twitchy dancing.
Brydie Lee Kennedy is not short on life experience.
Good sketch comedy is extremely uplifting, and it’s even better when you find it at the Free Fringe in one of the innumerable odd little rooms above bars.
Once Pathos: Can You Kill for Love? hits its stride, it is an enjoyable and moving performance.
Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance.
With hilarious outfits, original music and a few custard pies thrown in, this two-hander follows the further adventures of Cinderella’s naughty Ugly Sisters as they travel in sea…
“It’s the game show of all game shows!” our host tells us as we begin.
Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts’ musical comedy, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has become a staple of the fringe in recent years, probably because it requires a small, …
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
‘A wonderful meditation on journeys, lives and spaces’ (Audience member, A Walk.
A man and a woman have come together to tell us about Diderot’s novel, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master.
We are all, surely, familiar with the phenomenon of the choose your own adventure novel.
Do You Remember Rock’n’Roll Radio? Would you give up a high flying sales job to manage England’s worst radio station? Roland Gent did just that.
This one-woman show begins with a deluge of diagnoses handed out to the audience members by the performer.
You know that scene in every crime show ever, when the police finally show up at the serial killer’s lair to find a treasure trove of strange, coded messages pinned to the wall…
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
A sturdy tweed jacket hangs on a coat hanger, overlooking the sparse stage.
The Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny is a comedy omnibus and competition, offering little showcase slots for Fringe veterans and newcomers.
Sometimes a show just leaves you in despair and unfortunately These Is Your Lifes is one of them.
This jewellery exhibition is an established festival favourite featuring our own unique jewellery designs inspired by travels to Africa and Asia.
With the surreal scalpel of sketch and stand-up, sketchup will cut out the non-funny stuff, leaving only funny bones.
Based on Our Māoris, the memoirs of Lady Mary Ann Martin, On the Upside Down of the World is a riveting period drama set during the colonization of the last place on earth.
Natasia Demetriou is new to solo shows.
Maddy Carrick’s first solo comedy children’s show, The World’s Worst Birthday Party, teaches children the value of friendship and to appreciate what they have, in a way that …
Does anyone else remember Tom Deacon on BBC Switch’s daily online programme The 5:19 Show? Just me then.
In this captivating and poignant piece of new writing, F Scott Fitzgerald, the author who coined the 1920s The Jazz Age, and his wife Zelda, retell their own story of love, loss an…
A festival goers guide to this show: Have a few drinks; prepare some funny questions - keep it light and fluffy; attend the show; ask Jesus a question.
In 1912, Captain Georgy Brusilov sailed to the Arctic.
The idea of a comedy play that’s centred around something we are all really familiar with at the moment - ‘listicles’ - is quite intriguing.
There is no doubt that an audience of a certain age will fondly remember the two famous actors starring in You’re Never Too Old, although audiences of any age could not fail to e…
Patrick Mulholland and Paul McDaniel return to Edinburgh, and this time they’re full of beans.
Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers.
The long walk to the remote control.
This year, Jason Byrne has decided to do away with racking his brain on what to name his show.
Northern Stage’s production of I Promise You Sex and Violence is a critique of modern attitudes to homophobia, racism and sexuality.
The title of Masai Graham’s show gives the impression that it is a grand test of comedic athleticism, hinting at a Tim Vine like mania.
A wannabe playwright has had his play accepted by a play festival, but he has not written one yet.
Patrice Gerideau takes us on an autobiographical journey exploring the appearance altering disorder, Vitiligo.
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 …
Hotly anticipated debut hour from BBC New Comedy Award winner and star of Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week.
Paul Chowdry is perhaps one of the most interesting comedians at the Fringe this year.
The show opens with Dolan asking whether anybody in the audience is married.
Gordon Southern is eager for his tenth solo show to take off with a bang and he certainly gets off to a great start.
An interactive, improvised courtroom drama, This is Your Trial puts the audience under scrutiny, pulling people onto the stage as the accused, charged with ridiculous crimes.
Full disclosure: I came very close to tears during Hardeep is Your Love.
John Robins has written a show about love.
Following a sell-out 2013 Annuale, Deirdre Robertson’s debut Fringe show is a playful collaboration with Inflatablemonster (sculptor Andrew MacVicar).
The philosopher Blaise Pascal said: ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone’.
Familia de la Noche take the story of Pinocchio and turn it on its head, with the former puppet boy as the titular “greatest liar in the world.
Byron Vincent enters the venue in pinstriped pyjamas and a pair of tatty trainers, wiping his long fringe out of his eyes.
A group photography exhibition focusing on the plight of indigenous people throughout the world and the ways cultures express a shared humanity.
Brendan Fitzgibbons and Lance Weiss host this free bar show, which features respected local comics, occasional drop-ins from big names and free pizza.
Nathan Fielder and Michael Koman, creators of Comedy Central’s cult hit “Nathan for You,” present a preview of the new season.
This blitz through dates, relationships, marriages, kids, divorces and funerals is a joyous and occasionally moving romp.
If we were to use one word to describe Brendon Burns’ career it’d be “interesting”.
The comedians Carl Arnheiter and Dave Hill lead a museum tour-turned-comedy show around the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dave Hill and his band Valley Lodge host this impressive lineup of comedy and music, with performances from David Cross, Juliana Hatfield, Michael Che, Jean Grae, Kate Berlant, Mar…
Julie Klausner hosts this live episode of her über-popular podcast, with the guests Ted Leo, Nellie McKay, Jake Fogelnest and Danielle Henderson.
Award-winning entertainer Doug Segal’s comedy mind reading show turns the audience into mind reading mentalists.
Listen to the Changing Tunes Band and MJ’s Liberty Choir.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Come and watch The Origin of Apples, a documentary which explores the extraordinary political, personal and scientific challenges which lay in the path of visionary biologists in K…
‘Tell Me You Love Me’ by Teresa Husher & Emma Wingrove is a play about the words that are left unsaid.
Daring to be more honest and giving it some attitude, Juliet finally discusses what she really cares about.
A co-hosted event between the Institute of Development Studies and Pathways of Women’s Empowerment (an international research and communications programme), What if Women Ruled t…
When author Edward Packard created the Choose Your Own Adventure genre in 1979, he probably didn’t expect their huge success.
Since winning the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2007, Deacon has hosted his own BBC Radio 1 show, done some telly (‘The Rob Brydon Show’, ‘Fake Reaction’, Dave’s One Night Stand’…
Josh Smith embarks on yet another show that includes the unfortunate events that happen daily and yet he shares them.
Although it took some time for the praise to surface, Fawlty Towers is now recognized as one of the most acclaimed British sitcoms of all time.
Sitting in the pews of Brighton’s Unitarian Church and readying myself for an evening of devotional music largely centred on Hindu and Sufi traditions, I felt slightly dubious.
Brydie has made mistakes.
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Tina C is a comedy country singer from the good ole U.
Mr. Friedlander, the former “30 Rock” star, hosts this night of stand-up, with Jessica Kirson, Pete Lee and others.
As somebody who, for better or worse, spent more than three months studying Alfred Hitchcock – probably, I mention for introductory flair, history’s most famous director – I …
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
May 17th is World Neurofibromatosis awareness day and what better way to raise awareness and funds than two hours of top quality comedy.
‘Close To You’ follows the story of Jennifer and her turbulent relationship with anorexia, an affliction that is intertwined with her love and idolisation of 70s pop sensation Kare…
All day event with distinguished novelist Philip Hensher, poet Jo Skelt and other compelling speakers.
Come Rhyme With Me provided a warm atmosphere, shared food and most importantly, some truly talented poets.
A review of EastEnd Cabaret seems almost redundant nowadays, given the number of years that these two girls have prevailed in the Fringe circuit.
Anthropoetry was, in a line, a spoken word event with a live musical backdrop that used the body as its modus operandi.
‘As You Like It’ is Shakespeare’s brilliant comedy of banishment, disguise, mischief and romance set in the depths of the forest of Arden.
‘As You Like It’ is one of those Shakespeare plays that has eluded me and Sedos Theatre’s production was perhaps the best way to be introduced to this play.
We all have ‘daddy issues’ and I’ll share mine.
Whether you are preparing for Edinburgh or performing in Brighton, our expert panel is here to help you get your show noticed by media and arts industry professionals.
Enjoyed performing at Brighton Fringe and want to take your show elsewhere? Not sure where to go or how to start? Join our panel of experts to find out how far in advance tours are…
Visit our little house on the edge of the woods and escape the bustle of city life.
I’m gonna put it out there - in spite of the attention-grabbing title, I don’t think Elf Lyons is a pervert.
Get advice on touring your show after the Fringe, both in the UK and internationally.
Brighton’s creativity and influence has spread far and wide.
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.
If all great truths begin as blasphemies then George Bernard Shaw was undoubtedly the most blasphemous man of his age.
Need a producer? A venue? A mentor? A residency? Want to improve your work and make new contacts, but don’t know where to start? Hear from venue managers, producers and companies…
‘Time = Money’ is a 1-2-1 participative poetry performance art event which explores the notion of the relative exchange values of time, money and poetry.
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
Cocktail Masterclass.
Host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week and Star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo Paul Chowdhry is back in 2014 with his biggest tour to date tackling everything borderline within th…
This shrill, frantic musical drag parody of “The Golden Girls” — one of the best-written and -acted sitcoms of the 1980s and ’90s — is so raunchy, ove…
Two independent improv teams join the established troupe Thank You, Robot for a night of long-form performances.
Less Than Rent’s current production Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re The Very Man! is billed as ‘an adventure-capitalist rodeo.
This multilayered collaboration, spearheaded by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty, ensconces two performers (Madeline Best and Carlton Ward) in a convoluted technological landscape of v…
With 24 of Queen’s biggest hits delivered in a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the bands’ legendary live performances, this will be one of the…
Join industry experts from Arts Council England, The Old Market and BBC Radio Sussex for a workshop exploring all things Marketing.
(in previews; opens on April 21) Playwrights Horizons continues its season with the premiere of this tough-love comedy by Kirk Lynn, the Austin, Tex.
For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria.
Probably the most famous British gardener around (not wishing to offend Alan Titchmarsh), Monty Don presents an hour of spoken word in which he tells the stories of his own persona…
You may have heard the global population is rising and that the world is less than 30% land, however, this show asks - how much do you really know about the other seven billion peo…
Nighttime.
This Third Angel and mala voadora production at the Northern Stage at St.
After an unassuming entrance where he wanders onstage in jeans and a checked shirt, Jason Manford thrust aside his microphone stand and quipped “Alright chairs in here, aren’t …
Whatever Gets You Through The Night is a wide-spanning arts project: an album, a film, a stage show and a book have all come together under the umbrella heading of ‘somewhere in …
A 45 minute performance which focuses on the aspects of Alfred Russel Wallaces’ inspirational character that led him to the theory of evolution by natural selection - he then tol…
A new commission by American avant-garde composer Jim O’Rourke for the internationally-acclaimed Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra incorporating improvised music, instructions on Jap…
A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from Fringe Festival Directors from around the world.
Meet other Fringe Festivals from across the globe and find out how you can take part.
This show returns after a sell-out 2012 Fringe.
Frances Cooper (soprano) and Anne Lewis (mezzo-soprano) guide you through the Elements of Etiquette, the courtesy and decorum of a bygone era, aided by Mozart, MacMillan and Bernst…
A collection of songs all connected by a central theme. It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.
Charlie hopes to lift his miserable and lonely life by buying a furry companion.
Society has crumbled, zombies are on the loose - what do you do next? A) Search for food, B) try to find other people or C) go see some bad comedians late at night with an underwri…
Laugh your Farce Off is a collation of three new pieces of farcical writing, performed and produced by multiple artists involved in other shows at the Fringe.
A witty hour with Observer restaurant critic and One Show regular Jay Rayner as he takes apart the conventional wisdom in foodie-circles on how we’ll feed ourselves in the 21st C…
Nick discusses plans for his funeral with a majestic PowerPoint presentation. Will also talk about sport, hobbies etc. Bring a sandwich. #lunchtime. www.freefestival.co.uk
An event for participants interested in touring their shows at an international level.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
Following his 2011 sell-out run, the Fringe’s favourite funnyman returns to reflect on romance in middle age. One man, one mic, five nights, 44 years. Book early! **** (Times).
For many people, a date in August had been looming.
The third concert of the Astrid String Quartet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
Mind reader, hypnotist and psychic entertainer Ian Harvey Stone presents his brand new show.
Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson looks at CVs, showreels, headshots to your presence - essential for actors just starting in the industry or for anyone who could use a refresher.
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
Songs For A New World was Jason Robert Brown’s first produced show.
That simple word opens up many possibilities throughout your solo journey through You Once Said Yes.
As one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, As You Like It is a typical example of a pastoral story, concerning three parties of exile who individually flee to the sanctuary o…
First performed in 1700, William Congreve’s quintessential Restoration Comedy has an appeal which defies the sillier conventions of its genre.
One can’t help but like Joshua Seigal.
The funniest piece in this collection of performed poems isn’t about the human body.
‘At the third stroke…’ Join Frank on his search for long-lost wife Gladys, who is stuck inside the talking clock. A frank, farcical look at a world governed by the clock.
This brave attempt at the musical by Jason Robert Brown renowned for being tricky by Straight Line Theatre company was not an inspiring first encounter with the show.
Before this show, every time I walked past the nondescript sign on Nicolson Street imploring me to give the Scientologists a try, I was tempted to stop.
Fringe First-winning one on one experience unfolds with you at the heart of it.
Luna tackles love, loss, marriage, what it means to be an American woman.
Z Theatre Company consists of a bunch of likeable first year drama students from Hull University.
Are You Sitting Comfortably? takes as its premise the intriguing idea of setting a run of the mill office romcom inside a radio.
The presenter of Channel 4’s Superscrimpers with special guests in a show that makes money (or the lack of it) fun. Put a smile on your face and the pennies back in your pocket.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers, this discussion will give you invaluable advice on ma…
Danish comedian Valdemar Pustelnik creates a picture of general discontent in his first English stand-up show, delivering laughs as big as the man himself.
Buddy Baker, an obedient and hardworking son, moves in with his playboy bachelor brother Alan, in 1960s New York City, turning both their lives upside down in this classic Neil Sim…
Develop your show after the Fringe with a focus on touring in the UK. A panel of experts will discuss the benefits, complexities and logistics of touring in the UK.
It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun …
In this musical adaptation of the Canterbury Tales, a family go on a pilgrimage with Father Geoffrey in order to restore their unity after months of tiresome quarrelling.
Back for its fourth Fringe, don’t miss acclaimed Lawrence Academy Dance Theatre! ‘Fluent, accomplished, dynamic’ (Christian Science Monitor, 2003).
Generally speaking, stand-up showcases are the sorts of show that offer the worst of both worlds, since audiences have to either sit through some desperately unfunny jokes from sta…
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
New York musical theatre entertainer/comedian Jonathan Prager brings his golden voice, heartfelt interpretation and comedic sensibility to a glorious and hilarious mix of little kn…
Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’.
Musical history has been unfair to Brian Appleton, the rock musicologist who claims to have been instrumental in the development of prog rock, The Smiths and Phil Collins.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Sadly, this Disney inspired show is lighter and emptier than even Snow White’s mind.
Twenty-five years of the best stand-up comedy competition in the UK, we have whittled it down to the best from hundreds of entries.
Welcome to the 26th year of the best stand-up comedy newcomers competition in the UK! Previous winners include Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Peter Kay and David O’Doherty! Who will be cro…
Two pm - neighbours changed Wi-Fi password.
Earlier this year Kate appeared on ITV’s This Morning. This is the opposite of that show. Real issues, satire and amazing guests from comedy and politics. www.katesmurthwaite.co.uk
What are you doing here? Although he says it’s a show which may answer some of the big questions of being, I expect James Christopher doesn’t really mean this in an existential…
I’m fine, you? A response regularly given by a small, kooky East London Jew, and a tall, awkward, musical Dane.
It’s raining outside and our host – Stuart Laws – is on a mission to entertain us.
A heart-wrenching performance by the wonderful Wotlarx Enterprises, Can You Hear Seagulls? is an hour of subtle humour and warmth.
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
Is Greg Proops the smartest man in the world? Well, his 2013 Fringe show would certainly make you believe it.
Hired by Aladdin’s genie, trainer Alice Lashman teaches you how to wish successfully.
Dr Professor Neal Portenza has more titles than I would give stars.
Imagine a gang of thugs with knives. Now replace the knives with jokes and the thugs with three best friends that want to stab you into fits of laughter. That’s us.
Andy Warhol once proclaimed that in the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.
Tired of the voice in your head? Tired of trying to contact your inner-self? Tired of rhetorical questions? This is a show about your brain.
A dramatic and poignant insight into life in Cambridge during the Second World War.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Peter Buckley Hill.
Award-winning Kevin Short’s new play about the perverse realities of life.
Amongst the general hubbub as the audience left the show, the snippets I overheard were ‘That was hilarious’, ‘I can’t believe he said that’, and simply ‘WtTF’.
The cast of short musical ‘It’s not what you know’ are talented.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
An entertaining yet highly prurient act, Martin Mor’s How Do You Like Your Blue-eyed Boy Mister Death? offers a reinvigorated, revitalised and thoroughly welcome attitude towards…
Idle Motion is a theatre group that specialises in physical theatre.
Vicky Arlidge is a charming and talented musician whose songs about motherhood and marriage are pleasant and fun.
Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland.
The beginning of What Is the Weight Of Your Desire?, by Czech company VerTe Dance, makes it clear to the audience that they’re walking into a rather typically odd fringe show.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Close to You is a one-woman show with music.
This powerful and intense one man show tells the story of Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald just days after Oswald himself as…
Improvabunga, performed by the Watch This improv group, is a fast-paced show where anything can happen.
The Greatest Liar in All the World is an extension/parallel exploration of children’s favourite Pinocchio.
Gregory Akerman introduces us to Nellie Garcia, a 19th-century lady who has been forgotten.
A small show in a small space for a small group.
The memories of an unknown 50-year-old, who happened to meet many characters along his path in life from the rich, powerful and famous to those who make life interesting…
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
The Real MacGuffins are a hilariously funny sketch group that had the audience roaring with laughter.
First of all, it’s important that you ignore the title of this show because it has absolutely nothing to do with what you’ll be watching.
The debut stand-up show from Irish comedian Daniel McLaughlin.
All new for 2013.
The media makes it difficult to feel happy in your skin. It’s taken me 40 years to feel happy in mine. I want everyone to feel it. Let’s sort it out now!
Ian Saville, a self-professed ‘socialist magician’, takes you through the history of money and communism by the medium of magic in a free show that pulls off some rather exquis…
Will You Hold My Hand? is brought to you by two self-confessed ‘educators’ We are Goose; their style might be described as somewhere between Terry Deary and Rolf Harris.
This Was Your Life is a rethink of the classic game show, in which its audience can decide whether its contestant, Michael, will go to heaven or hell.
Okay, so we’re going to take the Festival’s best stand-up and sketch comics and freak them out with the voice of God, who’ll get them improvising like you’ve never seen the…
Imagine, for a moment, always having to tell the truth.
2012’s Fringe hit returns, pitting the festival’s best comedians against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
As well as being one of Scotland’s headline comedians Obie also runs memory training workshops.
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
Katie Mulgrew’s debut solo Edinburgh show is a charmingly chatty walk through the comedian’s life, from the large-headed daughter of Jimmy Cricket who struggled as a child in s…
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books, where you got to pick what happens at the end of each page? Nathan Penlington does.
Davey Connor is a charming, unimposing performer whose style washes over the audience and wins them over seemingly without effort.
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
A public-school Ed Byrne in appearance with the patter of a middle-aged Jack Whitehall, Mark Dolan’s You’re Awesome is a gentle, beguiling hour.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2), BBC3’s Comedy Marathon, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy.
Gavin Webster is on a mission.
Multi award-winning Doug returns with a brand new show that’ll turn you into mind reading mentalists.
It is a rarity for a Fringe show to give away freebies, so being offered a coffee and a croissant at the Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show was a pleasant surprise.
Dynamic, physical, moving (literally), touching (even more literally) and hilarious; this is the New Art Club, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, two men who are on a mission to make you …
With thousands of shows out there, Rhys Mathewson’s show title is a clever one.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
Showcasing the current state of knowledge concerning the biodiversity of the spectacular palm family, this exhibition takes you on a journey through the discovery, collection, stud…
Jewellery of the World is far more than its name would suggest.
Galerie Mirages presents a stunning selling exhibition showcasing exclusive jade jewellery, Roman glass, Polish designer, trade beads, tribal collection, pearls, lapis lazuli, turq…
Miles Jupp chairs It’s Not What You Know, the panel show which sets out to see how well panellists know those closest to them.
Spring Awakening is a fantastic musical and this company have tried very hard to do itjustice.
Croydon’s amateur dramatics club brings to the Fringe a perfectly nice but mediocre sketch show.
Based on a true story, Sophie Pelhams one-woman show about coping with bipolar disorder is sensitively disturbing and, surprisingly, also fantastically funny.
Eat $h*t has a strong environmental presence and the message is clear: our excrement could save the world if we could just leave behind the taboo and get over our poo phobia.
(previews start on Thursday; opens on July 11) The Forest of Arden has a new look.
The Caves on the Cowgate certainly can’t be accused of over-selling itself as a venue - you get exactly what it says on the ticket as you’re ushered into their dingy cellar, alread…
An Acre and Change takes a fresh look at the dispute over land distribution.
Alan Hudson tries something a little different with this magic show, choosing to weave his tricks around a story of how he came to be at the Fringe in the first place.
During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses.
Macbeth is a Fringe favourite, and having seen many adaptations of ‘The Scottish Play’, it is safe to say Greenwich Theatre’s adaption was particularly interesting and entertai…
In my opinion medical professionals should stop making musical one-woman shows at the Fringe.
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
‘Pretentious’ - the word that haunts all corners of conceptual art, the offensive fallback of the Philistines and the impatient.
Doug Segal delivers a perplexing array of mind-blowing, mind-reading tricks modulating gradually to a standing ovation climax.
Kev Orkian of Britain’s Got Talent! fame has toured the world and performed for royalty.
When the matchmakers of Austens time are no more, fear not: I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change negotiates, with excruciatingly spot-on humour, the difficulties of the mo…
Zipping through all of Greek mythology in an hour and a half is quite a lot of fun when it is presented by a company of student actors who tackle the task with enthusiasm; it is ra…
With a title like Flash Mob I thought this show might have included an actual ‘flash mob’ around Bristo Square.
An hour can be a long time.
The Northern Stage at St Stephen’s is a rather wonderful room, and the Unfolding Theatre Company’s Best in the World – directed by Annie Rigby, written by Carina Rodney and p…
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
The tiny room in the Shack Comedy Club on Rose Street was a fitting venue for an intimate, surprisingly generous and occasionally bleak comedy set from Stuart Black, which often fe…
Shrewsbury School here lives up to its gleaming reputation with a technically flawless production.
In his program notes writer Adam J A Cass remarks this one-person show is based on a boy who is out there somewhere, the out there being cyber space.
Off-Broadway’s longest running musical comes to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
George Lewkowicz’s Superbard Starts to Save the World never quite finds its feet despite game attempts by the show’s creator to inject life into its rather confused narrative.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
As with every other play about the experiences within the acting trade, In Your Dreams comes with a reference to RADA, a few mentions of Peter Brook, and suffers from a fetishisati…
This is one of the most evocative and deeply moving shows I have ever seen.
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.
From the moment you arrive at the top floor of C SoCo, be prepared to be whisked into the whirlwind of energy created by this tightly drilled ensemble.
Moving dexterously between paranoid nightmare sequences and kitsch music numbers, You Obviously Know What I’m Talking About tells the story of nervous recluse Winfield Scott Bori…
Arthur Conan Doyles story of The Lost World is brought to life using live animation and music by the members of The Paper Cinema.
‘Well Done You’ calls itself a character sketch show, but Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt are in character even when not doing sketches.
John Godber is generally a safe bet in terms of production.
‘Dear World’ is one of those problem musicals, beloved by its creator Jerry Herman but, like his other sickly child ‘Mack and Mabel’, never quite taking off.
This was an intriguing and innovative portrayal of one of the bard’s best known comedies performed by an all male cast of eleven.
As I entered this new space at ten thirty last night after a full days reviewing my heart sank.
With so much free fringe it’s can be a daunting prospect wading through the guide to find what’s worthwhile.
Just so you’re perfectly clear, You Will Be Rare is hugely engaging and memorable; but it’s not a piece of 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…
This pair of independent comedians is sure to evoke a titter from even the stoniest of critics.
This remarkable show features a host of wonderfully grotesque characters and is written and performed by the talented Simon McCoy.
David Mulholland is a former Wall Street Journal hack and this is a show driven by the passion of a good journalist for getting the story right and a hatred of bad journalism and t…
The boys and girl comprising The Leeds Tealights performers, and of course their behind-the-scenes team, have created a comedy sketch show that can be hailed as a storming success …
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
David Tennant and Robert Peston walk into a bar.
It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood.
My evening had not got off to a good start.
As you were takes a deep look into the effects of war.
Luke Wright doesn’t invite audiences to buy a printed anthology of his work after he performs: he invites them to buy his CD.
When one of the acts announced that this shouldn’t be called The Best of So You Think You’re Funny, but instead, Which Comedian is Free on a Week Night at 11.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
It is an absolute delight to be able to report that Jeremiah Smallchild and Gideon Lamb have returned to the den of iniquity, incontinence, drug-peddling and pederasty that is the …
Bright and sparky comedy group Fat Kitten take the art of improvisation to a whole new level in what they call a ‘vicious improv match to the death’.
Depression and other mental illnesses are often unfairly ignored in our society.
Where better to hear about Scottish history and the current state of affairs than the SNP Club that becomes Stand II for the duration of the festival? Scottish comedy stalwart Vlad…
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
Jason Robert Browns American song-cycle is a Fringe favourite with student companies.
Sketch You Up! is a brand new sketch show written by Dan Robinson.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Oh dear.
Should he go to heaven or face eternal damnation? The audience decide in this fresh and raucously funny musical.
In a grey, raining world, five dancers flail through space trying to enliven it with their toddler-bright candy-colored clothing.
Follow Phileas Fogg and his adorable madcap valet, Passepartout, as they race against time to circumnavigate the world in just 80 days.
Completely bizarre, the Dog-Eared Collective held nothing back in their unrelenting comedy set which had everything from detective lives of Beethoven and Bach to Glasgow’s 2022 O…
Andrew Lawrence, winner of the BBC New Act of the Year 2004, is at the Pleasance with his first solo show, How to Butcher Your Loved Ones.
Im sitting there, innocently enjoying the show, when John-Luke Roberts points at me and declares that no-one really likes having conversations with me, they only do it so they ca…
Bang Bang Youre Dead is largely based on a shooting in Oregon in 1998, in which a fifteen-year old boy killed his parents and then two of his fellow high school pupils, injuring …
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most widely performed plays of all time; a likely candidate for any fringe catalogue.
This show really intrigued me.
Before I walk into the theatre it is quarter to six in the afternoon.
Fresh from the American High School Theatre Festival, this talented group of students give a simple, classy performance of the Jason Robert Brown song cycle.
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
It is a brave company which puts on the first Fringe production of the Gershwins’ ‘Crazy for You’ so soon after the Regents Park Open Air production, which transferred succes…
Jessica Pidsley has given herself a challenge, one that she hopes will help her audience to change their attitudes towards their body.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
Stewart Lee’s 2012 show had already had quite an airing before it came to The Assembly Rooms for the Fringe.
Dirty Pretty Money is a play that looks at the relationship people have with power and money in today’s society.
Tiernan Douieb is an interesting comedian.
Trevor Noah was brought to the Fringe by Eddie Izzard, who wants to promote international acts at the Fringe.
Tina Macfarlane has a first in Actuarial Maths from Glasgow University - ‘A real university, not a polytechnic like Strathclyde’ - but there’s a recession on, so it’s not m…
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
The question of how a person really measures the value of their lives and those lives that they effect has always been the heart and soul of the Broadway smash-hit rock opera Rent.
Made in China’s We Hope You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a 50 minute snapshot of two lifelong friends, Jess and Chris, sharing a night in, while everyone else is out getting…
‘You are the true heroes of the Fringe!’ announced Tommy Holgate, the bikram-yoga-obsessed host-cum-compere of Tommy Talks.
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
With its modest and pretty title, Some Small Love Story sets the tone for its performance.
Having watched Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice, you find yourself trying to work out what it is exactly you have just seen.
The number of shows and scripts around drug culture Britain are appallingly lacking.
I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change is a comedy musical from the pen of Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts.
The Wonderful Sisters are a singing trio cabaret act from Australia who welcome us to their show with a charming three part harmony song, ‘Down in Louisiana.
he headline of this review was the most prolific tweet of the night at Unravel’s ‘Only Gig You Can Control With Your Phone’ and frankly, it’s a good question.
David Hasselhoff has a large and committed international following: Pleasance Grand was sold out on his opening night and at almost £20 a ticket, this is one of the more expensive…
This performance was never going to be a side-splitter.
Just Up The Stairs at The Caves is packed to the rafters for this mid-afternoon hour of sketch comedy.
Embracing the wonderful world of Wilfredo feels like it’s going to be quite an arduous task once this misfortunate creature greets you, but how wrong you can be.
If I Ruled the World is a 20-minute, interactive audio performance set in Brighton Station.
Who really was Marilyn Monroe? Sadly after seeing I Wanna Be Loved By You Im still as clueless as when I went in.
Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order.
A British Guide to World Peace is Toby Mitchell’s third in a trilogy of ‘British Guide’ shows that started with ‘French Pop’ in 2005 and then ‘World Religion’ last year.
Maybe its just nostalgia, but you know the way things are going, back may be the only way of going forward So speaks Jim one of the many and varied characters that Steve Wate…
To be read in a key that bridges the major and minor temperaments Hello there, good day to you,Good day from Broadway Baby too.
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Hosted by Fred MacAuley and Susan Calman, this year’s Amnesty fundraiser treated the audience to a wide selection of comedy from Fringe stars including The Boy With Tape On His F…
Please ensure your seat is in the upright position and that your tray tables are securely stowed.
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.
We All Love Llamas is a great free poetry event to take your kids to while in Edinburgh.
Couple Francisco and Anna share their flat with Fergus.
I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute…
Though I didn’t feel instantly transported to the south of Spain as I normally do when watching flamenco musicians and dancers, Flamenco Flow Global is certainly the real deal.
London Gay Men’s Choir Ensemble are back at the Fringe with another camped-up musical.
It will come as no surprise that this is a controversial play.
Riding on the success of last year’s excellent production of A Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare Napa Valley launched themselves into the deep end with an incredibly daring adaptatio…
The play is set largely in and around a hotel, part of the Global Hotel chain.
Now making its third appearance on Hove Lawns, the Foodies Festival is steadily becoming an established name on the Fringe circuit.
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
What a lovely, original and unpredictable show this is.
Sporting Leo Sayer hair, tinted round-lens specs and a Cheshire Cat smile, Carl Donnelly is an eminently likeable 28-year-old blessed with the natural off-beat London wit of Noel F…
Fiona Paul wants to take us to ‘Pleasure Level 10’; starting with handing out Jaffa Cakes on the door, she very nearly succeeds.
Published in 1899, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ was perhaps Sigmund Freud’s first major work, preceding the likes of ‘The Psychopathology of Everyday Life’ and ‘Three…
At the beginning of this tour we’re on Lothian Street and Cuth when our guide boldly informs us that we are on Lothian Road.
While call centres are certainly no stranger to the routines of stand-ups, it is a rarity to find someone from the other side of the fence.
Disembodied voices are not what you need to hear in a venue that’s already as spooky as the Old Town’s Underbelly, but that what you get at the start of Ed Aczel’s comedy set as he…
Dancing Brick are a company that have done well at the Fringe over the years.
This was not quite the show I was expecting.
Religious belief is a funny thing - so much so that duo Toby Mitchell and Sarah Thomas Lane have devised an hour long comedy show to describe it.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Meet Jess, a young woman with whom we can all relate to at some time in our lives.
This piece is an adaption of Alexander McCall Smith’s popular novel which follows the lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street.
The End of the World Show is an entertaining whirl through the world’s major religions and their approaches to the eponymous End-Times, written and performed by comedian Mark Spe…
This show is exactly what it is.
No one could accuse St Andrews Mermaids for lack of ambition.
Knot Theory presents a new piece of writing about the decline of a suburban family in a piece of new writing by Niki Orfanou.
Traversing the line between the silly and the outrageous whilst keeping a comic dignity is a difficult skill to master.
The BBC is the Church of England of the media.
Lick and Chew are a boy/girl duo taking you through a whirlwind series of sketches held together nicely by an underlying travel theme.
Prince Philip supposedly coined the word ‘dontopedology’ in describing his talent for ‘opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it’, and in this free show at Espio…
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a director’s dream.
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 …
Barry Morgan’s act rests heavily on double entendre.
Zoi Dimitriou and Andrew Graham begin their “interdisciplinary duet” counting and slowly crumpling to the ground.
Glee and High School Musical meet Dr Seuss.
As both a successful actor and biographer, Ian Kelly possesses the charm and expertise required to be a good lecturer.
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…
Reviewing a play by Bertholt Brecht presents some immediate difficulties as, according to the author’s intentions, whether one enjoys the play means zilch, as he believed that th…
Three characters from The Seagull are in a CND meeting.
And the Devil May Drag You Under is a modern, sexy circus show adapted to fit the stage at Fletch @ St Andrews.
Updating Shakespeare into modern dress may be de rigeur, but it takes a lot of nerve to do the same with restoration comedy, much of the appeal of which for modern audiences - and …
Pattie Brewster, played by Amy Hoggart, is just looking for some friends and she’s hoping that her Edinburgh audiences will provide.
Ever wondered if magic can really happen? Do ghosts exist? What actually is Anthropology? Clovis Van Darkhelm has some answers, though they may not be exactly what you were expecti…
A man in the front row at Bec Hill’s show accuses her of being the worst comedian he’s ever seen.
Garrett Millerick impersonates different characters from standard British life in Which One’s Fergal? Millerick only had three audience members and was performing at the back of a …
Overheard at C Soco: Id like to see Your Mum but only if theres room.
Sammy J is an Australian comedy singer-songwriter who interweaves stories from his own life with jaunty numbers on the piano, occasionally sipping on his carton of juice as a Frenc…
Pique is a multiform exhibition about the modern obsession with beauty and its potentially devastating impact upon self-esteem.
‘I Wish You Love’ traces the intense friendship between Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich through dialogue and their own songs.
This is the show that started the Free Fringe, hosted by the man who started it.
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…
Well I never.
Do Not Adjust Your Stage is an interesting concept.
So, another year another thousand student companies bringing I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change to the Fringe.
The artistic mode known as the musical usually rests on the foundation of a dramatic plot, with passionate music marking the profound and emotive elements of the production’s story…
“D’you hear about Todd?” An innocuous question shouted over a bar inspires the better part of an hour’s worth of reflection on death in the modern age in this curious and c…
Some Small Love Story, as the title may suggest, is a short, self-contained and in the end inconsequential story about love and loss, with some songs thrown in for good measure.
Olga and Dino are leaving their lives behind.
Last year on my final weekend at the Fringe, a friend of mine met a local man at the Silent Disco, started snogging him, and then eventually started to date him.
‘For Your Entertainment’ is a dazzlingly black exploration of guilt, self-expression and sexuality that touches on paedophilia, masturbation, rape and cancer.
Ed O’Meara has some of the scariest flyers on the Fringe, with a teasing tag, ‘Follow Your Nightmares’.
The old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’ is not one that Hannah Ringham subscribes to.
Alun Cochrane is the owner of a shed and a son and holds these as signs that he is growing up.
Mid-afternoon, an audience of just 10 people is not what most standups would want to see in front of them.
First, allow me to vent my admiration for this show with mindless superlatives: Fantastic.
The story of Oedipus is an extremely well known Greek myth which tells the tale of a man who kills his father and weds his mother.
This is improvisation at it’s best.
Atmospheric is the word for this production.
Vive Le Cabaret is a variety performance with a variety of class.
I love Lili.
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.
The costumes may be naff, the props may break, but the belly laughs come thick and fast in this fun-filled hour of winningly surreal sketch comedy.
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
Achtung! Achtung! Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland are bringing their highly acclaimed World War II podcast to the Edinburgh Festival.
The spectacular Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings together unforgettable orchestral classics from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and fireworks specially choreographed by inter…
80’s wizard Peter Baecker invites everyone to enjoy, visit and contribute to an interactive installation revolving around our love of the 80’s.
The World Pun Championships! Comedians compete against each other in the ultimate battle of wits! Hosted by Taylor Goodwin the Guinness World Record for Most Jokes told in an Hour …
Having gone viral for her impersonation and parodies of Liz Truss, impressionist Nerine Skinner chats with Katerina Partolina about 'The Exorcism of Liz Truss', in the sense of bot...
Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Simon Ximenez "feelz the noise" as he talks with punk legend Ed Banger about bringing the glam to the Edinburgh Festival this year.
Comedy Editor and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with RuPaul's Drag Race royalty Monét X Change to discuss her debut Fringe show Life Be Lifein', why audiences today a...
We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks.
We invited playwright Scott Organ to tell us about 17 Minutes at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We all have a funny relationship with money, and Alison Spittle, Lane Kwederis and Mary O’Connell are no exception.
Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes’ Her Me Out will be premiering at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August - you may have seen Sikisa on the BBC or Live at The Apollo, or even received legal...
Alternative and experimental performances have always been at the heart of Fringe, but is there still space for something a little more unpredictable? Enter Harry Clayton-Wright.
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.
Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at a fringe festival such as Edinburgh with tips on budgets, creating a press release, socia...
Some years ago I wrote an article about the best strategies for getting Broadway Baby to review your show.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Meik Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and author of The Little Book of Hygge.
Earlier this month I saw an amusing post on Twitter from Garrett Millerick who decided not to drop £2K on an EdFringe PR and instead buy a top-of-the-range flatscreen TV instead.
Broadway Baby’s Gordon Douglas met Adam Castle, the host of Pollyanna to talk about the outrageous, late-night queer cabaret that’s on everybody’s minds.
Over 3,000 separate productions will squeeze themselves into Edinburgh this August and the slightly depressing reality is that most will not achieve their objectives for the fest...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Renowned for its comedy, Brighton Fringe is the perfect time to discover brand new talents. Here’s our guide to stand-ups you’d be totally crazy to miss.
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, sports presenter Ore Oduba and actress Lesley Joseph are the latest celebrities announced to appear on the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour, wh...
In a world boiling over with police invasion of privacy, romance and rising sea levels, what could possibly go wrong? Part eco-political rally cry, part meditation on the collapse ...
Experienced industry professionals are offering personal time and advice to fringe performers at a How to Market Your Show event hosted by C venues.
Comic Russell Hicks has seen them all, and provides some advice for audience members tempted to join in with the show how not to be 'that guy'.
Rachel McCrum, inaugural BBC Scotland Poet In Residence in 2015, has just wrapped up the last shows of Rally & Broad, a spoken word, music and live lit events series she ran with J...
Today Broadway Baby is having a chat with Katie Merritt, whose company is performing Stories from Around the World this Fringe!
Duncan Paveling makes his feature screenwriting debut with My Feral Heart, a portrait of Luke (Steven Brandon), a man with Down’s syndrome who has been the sole carer for his eld...
Naman Ramachandran is a screenwriter, critic, and film journalist whose co-authored monograph Lights, Camera, Masala: Making Movies in Mumbai was published in 2006.
Today we're chatting to A Case of You: The Musical of Joni Mitchell, a contemporary interpretation of the hits that made Joni an icon of the 70's.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Luke Wright is a British poet, performer and broadcaster.
Matt Tedford’s drag incarnation as Margaret Thatcher started life as a simple Halloween joke but has since taken on a bit of a life of her own, winning him Best Male Performer at...
Agnes Török is a Swedish spoken-word performer, poetry events organizer and part of Loud Poets.
Jemima Foxtrot is an award-shortlisted performance poet who fuses spoken word and song in her Fringe show, Melody.
Round two from our stand-up columnist Steffan Alun.
Stand Up Steffan Alun has a fair few things to say about stepping up to stand up at the Free Fringe.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more.
Broadway Baby publisher, Pete Shaw, reveals how reviewers pick the shows they're going to see, including the specific way Broadway Baby handles its selection.