Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, sees comedy’s ‘angriest optimist’ return for a hilarious, honest, and mostly historically accurate, exploration of …
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Completing the Trilogy that begun with Genius 2.
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.
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
Cork man Chris Kent returns with his brand new show Back At It.
Sassy swing and jumpin’ jazz from Scotland’s hugely popular and biggest amateur big band.
Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
A range of music from musical theatre, movie themes, popular music and swing.
Guitar and Songs: ‘Claude Bourbon’s music is rooted in multiple traditions – blues, jazz, folk, Mediterranean, and for good measure classical.
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies explores the tragic, hilarious and baffling road of silence travelled by women in Western culture.
Camilla is obsessed with stories, great stories, the greatest stories ever told.
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band return for 2024 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music and dance from the Middle Ages to …
Songwriter and half of globe-trotting ‘Harry and Chris’ ***** (Sunday Post) has written songs for Disney and Netflix.
For three performances only, the four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and star of BBC’s Two Doors Down is back with 2023’s critically-acclaimed, sell-out show.
From 2024 Sondheim/Jonathan Larson Grant Rooftop Writer and 10th-ranked woman poet in the world Gigi Bella, Big Feelings explores mental health, feminism and the gospel of Taco Bel…
Join Delhi maestro Manmohan Dogra for a journey through soulful Hindustani classical music, featuring vocal ragas and a tabla solo in Banares style.
Simon Leach will perform the First Partita and English Suite, composed by J S Bach, for solo harpsichord. Simon will perform on a 1973 Michael Johnson harpsichord.
Electric swing blues tribute show, celebrating the music of the three blues masters: BB King, Albert King, Freddie King.
A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Award-winning, live music variety cabaret from Blues and Burlesque.
Dom Hutchins – The Big Issues.
Join a massive line-up of comedy stars for a stupendous evening to fight against brain tumours.
Cobin Millage is f*cking sick and tired of this f*cking sh*t.
Learning a second language can change the way you use your first.
Going further afield, we have added some real treasures from Eastern Europe and Central America.
In their Fringe debut, the UK’s No.
Joined by two musicians and two dancers, Brazilian singer/songwriter Giulia Drummond takes us through a ritualistic performance exploring the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot.
Once again, this nine-piece ensemble will deliver the music of Springsteen with precision and energy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tim plays a new show every year at the Fringe.
Nicknamed ‘the Hendrix of the Kora’, Seckou is celebrated for his ingenious tunings and virtuosity.
2022 and 2023 Fringe sell-out show.
Blowing Through the Ages is a triumphant, engaging ramble across 500 years of music from virtuoso musicians John Sampson, playing a range of period instruments including crumhorn, …
Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn and pianist Simon Lepper delve into the colourful world and emotive landscapes of the late Romantic era.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the sixth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double-bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Following successful shows in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues) returns to the Jazz Bar to perform his new show of authentic, up-…
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Have you ever wondered what life is like being 3’10”? What it’s like doing day-to-day activities? What questions people ask you everyday? Well wonder no more, as George Coppen tak…
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…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
More jokes from the UK Comics’ Comic Best Act winner Mark Simmons (Mock The Week), whilst taking a break from his sold-out national tour.
His crowdwork videos have consistently gone viral all over social media (@PhilipsComedy) so join this award-winning MC and comedian for a hilarious mix of brand-new jokes and witty…
Welcome to our Speakeasy and a vibrant night of swinging trad jazz improvisation.
Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz.
26 boxes full of joy and fun.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big band era.
A queer adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years presents an emotionally charged musical following Jamie and Cathy as they fall in and out of love over their turbul…
Queer, chic and outrageous – you’re invited to the biggest, gayest party at the Fringe (fun straights allowed).
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…
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
Join the guys for a visual feast and hilarious tales of touring Scotland to shoot this year’s topless calendar.
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr…
A stand-up show from a Geordie powerhouse comic that’s been doing it for 32 years.
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’.
SCOTTISH PREMIERE Award-winning company 1927 combines fantastical animations with bold storytelling to tell the wild adventures of the mysterious Mr E.
The feel-good, eight-piece band returns to Edinburgh with their award-winning show, taking its audience across America and discovering the roots of blues and soul.
Meaty Sue’s parents have gone to the big barbecue in the sky and her impending wedding day is missing her elusive estranged Big Brother Big Farma Phil.
A group of stereotypically attractive and slightly dim young people trapped in a fun fair haunted house.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
Following sell-out runs in Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back with a brand-new show.
Big Bad Beck is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down in this WIP show.
Adele’s mad journey into comedy started because her kids bought her a comedy course for her birthday.
A comedy storytelling show about sobriety, impulse control, and growing up from acclaimed comedy veteran Matt Davis (USA).
Following sell-out runs worldwide, this award-winning show returns to take you on a moving journey through the career of a modern legend.
Simon shares his new stand-up hour.
A lifetime being a professional f*cking lunatic that enjoys swearing in front of people.
‘A fierce 70 minutes of music and protest’ (Scotsman).
A brand new show from award-winning, working-class queer comedian Sian Davies.
25 years ago, Soness swapped Florida for Tokyo to become the voice of many well-known animations.
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
End your day at the Festival in style at our iconic Edinburgh venue with the very best in stand-up talent.
Ever felt down? Like you’re swimming upstream? Like life isn’t all its quacked up to be? You’re not alone! Join award-winning cabaret star Ada Campe for a few flights of fanc…
Comedian/actor Terry O’Neill returns to the Fringe following his wildly successful debut show last year, to explore a passion we all share – movies! Take a hilarious dive into ci…
The longest-running burlesque show at Fringe returns for a tenth dazzling edition.
Big Value Comedy Show is an established showcase of the best new comedic talent.
After thrilling the world, with more than 600,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance, Monte Carlo Festival and Moulin Rouge, the ‘best circus s…
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Lauren Pattison is back with a brand-new show.
One-of-a-kind interactive comedy show featuring Australia’s most eligible bachelor Daniel Delby who had his first girlfriend at 33.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
Join Dan Fardell (‘one of the best new joke writers I’ve seen in ages’ (Romesh Ranganathan)) as he turns his charming, gag-heavy style in a very personal direction for this hilario…
We all know the fairy tales and their immortal final line: happily ever after… But that isn’t real life.
When Terence Hartnett found out that his testicular cancer had spread to his lung, he got out his notebook and started writing jokes.
Rosie and Hugh the Hedgehog are best friends.
Big Fish is Stephanie Bradshaw’s debut stand-up show, inspired by her life as an attention-seeking (anxious, delicate, shy) mega diva, based in the small rural town of Keswick, Cum…
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
Begins with the history of dating from dance halls and slow sets to modern ‘apps’.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.
After a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe, host of Radio 4’s The Divil’s Own John Meagher makes his debut at The Gilded Balloon with his debut show Big Year.
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
A baby and a Fringe debut.
Good morning Edinburgh! We’re back bringing you brand-new, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15 minute comedies, eccentricities and mini-dramas - all served up with complimentary t…
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
The wonky and worried award-winning comedy of the Stoke-on-Trent urchin returns after last year’s successful debut.
Comedy’s angriest optimist returns for a hilarious, honest and mostly historically accurate, exploration of space travel, his totally insignificant place in the universe and how …
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Set in the deep south of USA in 1918 when interracial marriage was illegal, Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, are defying all odds with their secret love.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Edinburgh.
Join Ken Wood and the Mixers on a once in a lifetime musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
It is our great pleasure to invite you all to The Big Game on Sunday 26th May (bank holiday!!), a collaboration celebration, a psych-circus spectacle, and the biggest gig we’ve b…
On 26 May 2024, Rob Madge should have been performing on Broadway.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show BIG FAT GAY (he’s used the title before, it’s a good title).
Travel back and forth in time with Through the Ages at Downsview Life Skills College.
Seeing the word ‘immersive’ before ‘theatre’ will make as many people run for the hills as to the box office.
An exhibition to celebrate Brighton’s bond with Bhopal, illuminating the appalling, inspiring story of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas tragedy…
Join Brighton comedy stalwart and regular host of On The Edge comedy, Dan Fardell, in his new hour of stand-up, in which he tries a new direction and brings a more personal story t…
Prepare yourself for a night of laughter with Lily Starr otherwise known affectionately as Big Lez.
From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, sellout Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work in progress show that may or may not b…
A dance workshop full of sparkle and fun to make you smile, while learning easy-to-follow groovy moves to an eclectic mix of Bollywood beats and reimagined dance classics, interspe…
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
When life feels like a test you didn’t study for, and you’re feeling as useful as an understocked mobile library, climb aboard Tanya’s dilapidated ‘fun’ bus as she navigate…
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Big shoes to fill.
Timothy Quinlan’s one-man show exposes the often hilarious and sometimes tragic truth about life in musical theatre, featuring songs from roles and shows he performed.
“Back by popular demand”.
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
You don’t get many second chances in life.
I AM MORE THAN supports women in the city who are experiencing homelessness, to use their creative voices to tell their communities who they are and that they are not defined by ho…
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Standing ovations, once reserved to acknowledge only the highest calibre of performance, are now part of the theatre routine.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In the same way that, for many, Destiny’s Child is Beyonce, the Brontë Sisters is (are?) Charlotte (Jane Eyre).
‘One of the all time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) performs a truly unique stand-up show.
‘One of the all time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) performs a truly unique stand-up show.
Simon Munnery performs a truly unique stand-up show.
Simon Munnery performs a truly unique stand-up show.
The Lost Bride A journey through heartbreak and grief.
It’s 1948 and on board the Windrush Empire, journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie are full of expectations and aspirations.
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
As a title, there’s something intriguing about Dear Octopus, now playing the National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage.
It’s taken a hell of a time to get here, but finally, Hell has arrived in London’s West End.
It’s rare to see an original musical open in the West End.
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
Has the National Theatre put the Lyttelton on Airbnb? In October, we had the city-break-length two-week run of Alexander Zeldin’s The Confessions (quite long enough, in my opinio…
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
For too long the supporting characters of Star Wars have been overshadowed by the popularity of the beloved heroes.
Looking out at you from the poster for the National Theatre’s latest version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Harriet Walter cuts an imperious figure.
The human brain doesn’t allow us to remember pain.
It’s Christmas Eve 2009: seven years into the world-famous boy band’s indefinite “hiatus”, *NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick has until midnight to make a wish that could change his life f…
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…
Hello, Seann here.
Hello, Seann here.
The New Rory & Mal Podcast goes LIVE! Bringing an interactive listening experience to the audience like never before, the guys (and some special guests) are coming t…
A fatal car crash, generational genocide, and child mortality.
Comic legend Frank Skinner brings his critically acclaimed new show ‘30 Years of Dirt’ to London’s West End for seven nights only, following a sell-out run at the…
Written and directed by “l’auteur du naturalisme”, Alexander Zeldin, The Confessions feels like a too-small show on a too-big stage.
‘Bestselling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023’ The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns to the West End, fresh from a record-breaking sell out run at the Edinbu…
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK.
Saucy, sexy, dirty blues songs from the 1920s-40s, many of which feature the word ‘hot dog’ performed by chanteuse Suzanne Noble accompanied by ‘Gorgeous’ George Webster on the pia…
Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improv comedy to the West End! Fresh from the Fringe, their show features chaotic games, epic scenes, an…
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improvised comedy to the West End! Featuring chaotic g…
In 2020, the world changed forever, as three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
The Bellshill Salvation Army Band was formed in 1921, its primary function being to support the worship and ministry of their church.
The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns for his first month at the Fringe since 2016.
Charismatic Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel takes to the podium for an odyssey through his country’s folk roots, followed by Mahler’s spectacular First Symphony.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
Join the talented young musicians of Big Noise Raploch’s Rinconada Chamber Orchestra as they showcase their skills at this extraordinary concert.
Christine invites you to enjoy JS Bach’s expressive, contemplative Cello Suite No.
The Prov Johnstone Band is an eclectic mix of musicians and music.
Imagine boarding a spaceship travelling at the speed of light with nothing but a guitar.
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
Variety of music including musical theatre, movie themes, swing, and popular songs for all the family.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony brings together intense drama and captivating lyricism in its joyful musical celebration of friendship and solidarity.
Listen to iconic recorded pieces from the orchestra’s journey through Venezuela’s social action music programme, El Sistema.
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
Man down! Celebrated Scottish comedy legend Raymond Mearns has only gone and had a stroke and had to cancel his Fringe run….
‘Oh my God.
Already a veteran performer, having toured the world’s stages for a decade, predominantly as a founding member of world-folk band Dallahan and as a highly sought-after session mu…
Have you ever been riding a homosapien and asked (internally): ‘OMG am I squashing this person like a double decker bus’? Or stumbled mentally upon ‘Please lord, let me have shaved…
The winner of Drag Race hits the Fringe as part of their debut solo tour! Join Danny as they take to the stage with their live band in a show which promises to be bigger, better an…
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years for another trip down memory lane.
Exceptional young musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela come together for a chamber concert in the relaxed setting of The Hub.
Slip’n’slide inside a rock’n’roll fantasy party of joy, chaos and catharsis as genderqueer drag-clowns Oasissy (‘Ones to watch’ (List)) invite you into their madferrit, monobro…
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band is back for 2023 with a fresh programme of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, the much-loved programme of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages…
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Nestico and Fitzgerald to Earth, Wind and Fire.
This dynamic seven-piece band return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the 12th year to play the back catalogue and the latest album! With the precision and energy of the E Stre…
Celebrating 100 years since the iconic Disney title sequence first graced our screens, award-winning international vocal ensemble Octavoce present a whirlwind a cappella trip throu…
Nothing is stronger than female friendship, except maybe the pressures of adulting.
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.
Pitchblenders swing quartet dishes up old-school blues and jazz.
The music of Simon Bradley is infused by his Donegal roots, the vibrant music scene of 1990s Edinburgh and a career playing fiddle with Asturian stalwarts Llan De Cubel.
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.
Olivia aka Big O is delighted to present her second hour of comedy.
Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl…
Simon Hall started performing comedy in 2020, yeah, that 2020! Since then, performing has not got any easier and life has continually tried to block his progress.
Alexander’s strong songwriting, riff-driven guitar work and rich vocals, strut the high ground between folk, blues and Americana music.
Big Smoke Comedy is stand-up comedy with a fully improvised finale and the only show of its kind.
“If you like dick and hate tories this is the show for you” – Reuben Kaye 2023I was gagged from start to finish, Reuben Kaye is one of the best performers I have seen at this…
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a stupendous evening of comedy to help fight against brain tumours.
Chris Difford is the founding member of Squeeze, formed 50 years ago in South London.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
This one-act educational outreach play for 5-10 year olds and their families follows Bumble, a honeybee, on an adventure to find a bee balm flower.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fifth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
A wonderful and varied selection of concert band music from 40 musicians featuring music from stage and screen! A free concert with donations to support Edinburgh Direct Aid.
Following their sell-out shows in 2022, Scotland’s acclaimed band Main Street Blues return with their fabulous Kings of the Blues show.
From his years as the visionary in Simon and Garfunkel through to his many solo hits, journey through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
After a completely sold-out Edinburgh 2022 run and her biggest tour to date, Grace returns with her hit show, A Show About Me(n), with some brand-new material never heard before! T…
In 2020, the world changed forever, as Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
Poppyscotland are proud to introduce to the Fringe an inspirational group of Armed Forces veterans.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
The music that filled the dance halls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
In a thrilling, last-minute addition, Simon Amstell will return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in six years to perform a late-night show of new stand-up material for a …
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
Up Close with the Blues with international blues star Giles Robson and featuring Sandy Tweeddale, guitar.
Witness first-hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
2022 Fringe sell-out show.
Have you seen Hamlet? Of course you have, don’t worry this isn’t really that.
The country’s best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated.
‘I am Hamlet.
Following sell-out Fringe shows in 2022, acclaimed Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues and Whisky Road), is back at the Jazz Bar to perform his authentic…
“Back to the Moon” is a one-woman show that challenges the barriers of language and explores different ways of communicating.
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
“Back to the Moon” is a one-woman show that challenges the barriers of language and explores different ways of communicating.
Emptiness is a pure space between nothingness and existence.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Popular Edinburgh-based guitar duo Hot Tin Roof play original bluesy tunes and well known blues covers, featuring Andy Challen on acoustic guitar/vocal and Gavin Jack on electric g…
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big-band era.
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething comedian.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething comedian.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Moira’s back in this Fringe First-winning sequel.
I’m more of a casual Eva fan.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
For too long the supporting characters of Star Wars have been overshadowed by the popularity of the beloved heroes.
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
It’s Berlin 1914, a younger, pre-crazy-haired Albert Einstein awaits news from an eclipse expedition that will prove his theory of general relativity.
Come on a musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
Following consecutive sold-out performances and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back To Black returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe to take you on a moving and energizing…
Tim Barton plays the piano.
‘Oh my God.
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
Edward Bloom’s larger-than-life stories delight everyone – much to the dismay of his pragmatic son, Will.
Everybody Sing are delighted to present a musical journey through the decades.
There is secret connection among all of us.
JJ Pyle finds herself accidentally, unfortunately, home for Christmas and stuck in this little truck with her dad in Indiana, where everything is surrounded by cornfields.
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
Come and revel in the earthy tones of this low member of the clarinet family.
Our long-running weekly beginners’ showcase is considered one of the best open mics in the UK.
WPB are six rising comedy stars who’ve been performing in prisons across Scotland since November 2022.
Nominated Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
In Greek mythology, the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, by her nephew, Zeus.
Hey kids and kidults, cool cats and dancing dogs, Jarred and Hobbit are back with an all-new action-packed hoopla! Guaranteed LOLs and interactive fun for the entire family (OK, ma…
In Frank Skinner's Thirty Years of Dirt (a clever pun I shamefully only just got this second), Skinner proves exactly what makes him such a dab hand at this comedy malarkey.
At times hard to follow and at others uniquely resonant, Maggie Widdoes’ one-woman show Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em is the perfect example of how the Fringe brings what you least e…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe.
Using William Blake’s poem (B-side to the English national anthem) and The Fall’s take on it as a springboard, I endeavour to serve up satire, comedy and poetry with one eye on the…
Back In Time for Tea is a concept imagined to challenge the notion of musical genre.
Join that gorgeous stand-up Simon Jay with a brand-new hour of comedy.
An acrobatic spoof of the movie The Blues Brothers, with plenty of flips and stunts weaved in alongside some clowning.
Rising stand-up star Freya Mallard is back with a hilarious work-in-progress stand-up show A Little More Conversation a Little Less Action Please, after her sold-out Edinburgh run …
Daniel Delby has been single for 35 years.
A highly anticipated brand-new hour from comic legend Frank Skinner (‘King of stand-up’ (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard)), following his sell-out hit Showbiz.
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
The touching, engaging tale of a shattered body trying to gather itself in a time of war.
The Doktor is back! With even more science! More laughs! More Kaboom! Spin the wheel and choose what happens next.
A Christmas Carol meets It’s A Wonderful Life meets.
This show is a love letter to unique families, queer self-discovery and devoted fathers.
He enters resplendent in his tartan jacket, setting in motion sixty minutes of stunningly acute comic observation laced with some telling introspection all delivered with totally e…
Musical comedy is a difficult genre of comedy to do well, not only because of the addition of an instrument, but the fact that the jokes have to be succinct and the comedian themse…
As Adam Kay closes in on becoming a household name, he is evidently an Edinburghhold name, packing out the prestigious Pleasance Grand to brimming point.
What’s the worst lie you’ve told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu…
You played, you cried.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which is now 20% more stupider than ever before.
Simon Brodkin’s Xavier follows the rule that you should never judge a book by its cover.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
Having gone back to work as an electrician, Chris found himself with two jobs and the ridiculous notion of buying a house.
Get ready to embark on a decadent journey through Scotland’s rich whisky heritage! After a three-year absence, our top-rated, Forbes-featured whisky tasting experience returns to T…
When Rufus Norris recently announced he was stepping down as director of the National Theatre, some struggled to summarise his legacy.
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
Do you love all things 1940s & 1950s? Do you love swing dance and Lindy Hop music? Then you don’t want to miss Miss Jean & The Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band! Taking you on a jo…
Established in 2016, Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band perform vintage music all over the country.
Prepare to be transported by award-winning singer songwriter Amity’s soulful powerhouse sound and profound lyrics.
Hailing from the midlands, Bab is a female sketch duo comprised of Amy Spinks and Lauren Soley.
Milne Glendinning Band (MGB) is a cross genre trio featuring vocalist Debra Milne, with guitar maestro Stephen Glendinning, and Michael Clark on bass.
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celebrat…
Prepare to be moved by Amity’s soulful powerhouse sound and profound lyrics, delivering captivating songs that pierce through the mundane and demand attention.
A cross genre trio featuring vocalist Debra Milne, guitar maestro Stephen Glendinning, and Michael Clark on bass.
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 …
About the show The world is dying.
About the eventBe Right Back is a performative workshop about migration and diaspora.
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
AboutYou might think about mindfulness and meditation when you think of healing and you might even think it’s quite boring to just sit there with your eyes closed.
From The Lego Movie to Love Island, entertainment isn’t entertainment unless it’s ‘meta’.
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Ne…
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Ne…
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most-viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creato…
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL Masculinity is in crisis.
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
A comedy about the passing of time.
A comedy about the passing of time.
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
Awwwww I Feel Good! Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to jump and jive to the fun, all-action sounds of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’.
Awwwww I Feel Good! Join manic frontman Kenneth B Woode and the cast of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’ as they tell the sensational story of soul music and its greatest pe…
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith” Bruce Dessau (The Times) This is Arthur Smith’s love letter to the world of comedy and the playground of the…
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith’ Bruce Dessau” (Times).
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Jonny Woo (London drag legend and co-owner gay pub The Glory) returns to Brighton Fringe following hit appearances with Night at The Musicals (with Le Gateau Chocolat) and Transfor…
Direct from a sell out worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives at The London Palladium! Using huge projection photos and …
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
Amy Winehouse captured the world with her unique vocal stylings and unapologetic lyrics combined with a sassy, yet dark brooding personality.
As one of the most iconic members of the 27 club, Amy Winehouse left an indelible impression, not just on popular music, but on popular culture as a whole.
In a world full of distractions, survival mode and the crushing weight of “being a good feminist”, is the female orgasm ever going to be a priority? Join Lucy on her personal v…
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
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.
The biggest show on the continent is coming to Liverpool this May and we’re throwing a party! Come and watch the show on a big screen with food, fizz and frie…
The world is dying.
The world is dying.
Scrub up! You’re getting fucked! Multi-award winning feminist collective return to Brighton Fringe with a celebration of the frontline workers upholding a healthcare system that�…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Inclusive, radical and hella creative, it’s Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant! The hottest ticket of last year’s Fringe returns for the 2023 ed…
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
The Online Bicycle Museum has arranged for vintage bicycles, tricycles and pedal cars to be displayed at various locations around Brighton and Hove.
Glenda & Rita are two actresses from the Golden Era of cinema, immortalised in black & white and struggling to find work in this brutal, unforgiving technicolour world.
“Back by popular demand”, Brighton’s most unusual walking tour.
The silver starlets are back with a sequel to their ‘side-splitting’ show ‘Sing The Movie Greats’ with even more songs from the silver screen! From the award-winning musical comed…
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
In 1964, acting legends Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton both wanted to “give their Hamlet”.
The National Theatre continues its support of new writing at the Dorfman with Dixon and Daughters: an emotional play dealing with the far-reaching effects of historic child abuse.
Dancing at Lughnasa is easily Brian Friel’s most widely known play thanks to the 1998 film version that starred Meryl Streep.
“The Passmore Edwards Legacy: The Man Who Built Libraries and Much More” - a talk by biographer Dean Evans on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth.
The Big O is fast paced, intimate, hilarious and heartfelt exploration of 21st Century attitudes and experiences of female pleasure, orgasm and consent through the eyes of one woma…
This is the story of the greatest Black Briton to have ever been forgotten.
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
Big TopJoin the circus! Or don't.
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
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.
You may assume a play with the title Romeo and Julie, that is billed as a “modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet”, would include elements recognisabl…
Unless it has the sophistication of a Sondheim, or the renown and heritage of a Rodgers and Hammerstein, it’s rare to see a musical on a National Theatre stage.
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
You don’t need to know the story of Phaedra to recognise its origins as Greek mythology.
Stars of the international cabaret scene as you’ve never seen them before, performing lesser-known routines, trialling ridiculous concepts they’ve never dared perform before or eve…
CellarDoor’s burlesque beauties are back!After a fun-filled Xmas it won’t just be Santas’ stockings coming down at CellarDoor.
STAR WARS: The Panto Strikes BackAn original parody of the classic films by Nick SchweitzerMonday 19th Friday 23rd December, 8-10PMAt Off Broadway 10 Steine Street, Kemptown, …
Many years ago, I employed Fay Ripley to do a voiceover for a TV ad.
When you’re a child, Christmas is all about that one big day.
Do you need to know a play before you see a play?The question came to mind at the opening of what we’re told is a “landmark production” of Othello, now playing at the Nationa…
Award-winning and acclaimed sketch comedy double-act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Museum of Comedy for an evening of new and not-so-new material after a three year hiatus.
Following three sold-out West End runs and a smash hit UK tour, Death Drop is back! The drag murder mystery sensation is returning with a brand-new show and an all-star cast to be …
On the 125th anniversary of the publishing of Dracula, join Dacre Stoker, one of Bram’s only living descendants, along with actors Margaret McA…
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?).
25 years on from the release of The Seahorses’ seminal album Do It Yourself, vocalist Chris Helme will revisit the iconic record with a series of one-off acoustic performances ac…
Are dreams supposed to be ambitions we strive to realise? Or simply ideals meant to be unattainable, existing to help us get through our mundane everyday lives?This seems to be the…
It’s rare for a play’s allegory to be as widely known as its actual story.
A concert of contemporary classical chamber music featuring both compositions by musicians who served in the armed forces, and new work composed in response to the works of these …
It’s time to hang on to what we got and celebrate the iconic sounds of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, The Rolling Hills Chorus under the direction of Rosalind Johnson return again to the Edinburgh Fringe as Scotland’s Premier Barbersh…
Scotland’s number-one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, and record-breaking Scottish Big Band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation invite you to a night full of seductive songs…
Glaswegian singer/songwriter with soaring vocals and unique lyrics.
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
Big Boys and Friends is a silly lil’ mixed-bill comedy-cabaret from Channel 4’s critically acclaimed Big Boys, comedian Jack Rooke and character comic Jon Pointing.
Rediscover your favourite songs as Miss Kiddy and the Cads steal the biggest contemporary hits and give them a musical makeover of style and sass.
Remember that time you pooed yourself in public? Or when you swore at your mum for asking you to tidy your pigsty of a room? Maybe you’re still blushing over the time someone poi…
‘Milkman Amongst Tulips’, possibly the most famous painting of the Baroque period, is the only surviving work by Dutch master Schmurt Veeglik.
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns in 2022 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of instrumental music from the Middle Ages …
John Carnie and Spider Mackenzie explore Dylan’s bluesier side, which has influenced half of his canon of over 500 songs, as well as interpretations of his other classics.
The music which filled dance halls during the big band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
Extra 10:15pm show added due to demand! World-class stand-up from live comedy’s internationally acclaimed Irish master.
Once more The Rising look forward to delivering the music of the Boss with passion and precision to Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Following previous festival sell-out shows, this seve…
This discussion looks back over the Festival’s 75 year history and delves into the importance of the arts in times of crisis as part of our Refuge series.
Perrier Award-winning comedy legend Simon Fanshawe is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in decades with the live show based on his book, The Power Of Difference.
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE BIG TOP BIRTHDAY! Join Sarah and her best friend Duck as they plan the ultimate circus soiree to help Scarf Lady celebrate her birthday.
Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald return to the Fringe this year in an act that delivers a whisky-soaked night of tremolo and bass that walks through the annals of blues classic…
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
See The Main Street Blues band perform a special two-hour show featuring an expanded line up to their usual four-piece set up for one night only at The Brunton.
Ranging from the bittersweet to the bawdy, from in-character monologues to heartfelt true confessions.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
Follow our adventurous, modern-day Alice through the looking glass to a wonderful, upside-down world of kings, queens, knights and other strange and comical characters who challeng…
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
The rapidly ageing minor national treasure from Taskmaster and so on, begins building on the success of current show, This Can’t Be It by taking the first steps towards a new one.
‘Perspectives.
The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show.
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
Celebrating his 40th anniversary earning his living as a poet/musician, Attila is using this year’s Fringe to launch Heart On My Sleeve, his collected works published by Cherry Red…
The gals are back for one night only! Join The Fannies laughing at life from PMT to HRT, fuelled on G’n’T and B&H.
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
Join us on a tour through medieval and renaissance Europe, playing period instruments of every kind: cornetts, sackbuts, serpents, viols, rebecs, fiddle, violins, shawms, curtals, …
In this cabaret exploring body standards in the entertainment industry, Abby Rose Morris details her experiences as a plus-size performer while dismantling the ever-present cultura…
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Miller and Nestico to Fitzgerald and Earth, Wind and Fire.
An Electric Blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddy King, including classics such as The Thrill is Gone, Born Under a Bad Sign, Hideaway and many many more.
An aural delight of soulful, melodic jazzy-blues, pop and folk-blues to shake your tail-feather.
What is it like to shop when disabled? Celebrating the diversity of disability and prioritising ability over disability, this exhibition explores disabled experiences in shops, pub…
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Returning after a sell-out 2018 show, Tenement Jazz Band continue their exploration of the roots of jazz, ragtime and blues.
Internationally acclaimed bluesman Lone Bear brings to the stage the powerful delta blues and ragtime on resonator guitar, harmonica and vocals.
Following their sell-out Fringe shows from 2018 / 2019, Whisky Road are back to perform their latest acoustic blues show at The Jazz Bar.
Davina is searching for a long-lost family member.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
Fade In: Heidi sits at her desk writing the blurb for this show.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Paul Richards literally can’t stop drumming; he’s performed all over the world, from huge gigs in China to grotty working men’s clubs, posh corporate gigs to the whole of the UK to…
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Jack Campbell did his first stand-up gig in 2010, aged 19.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food.
Mark Glentworth returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique biographical musical about a successful musician and composer who suddenly and rapidly suffers a career-sto…
I think I’ve fallen in love.
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show, Queens of the Blues, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years.
Mick McNeill’s rapid climb up the Scottish comedy ladder has seen him become a weekend favourite at every weekend comedy club in the country.
Returning to the Fringe after sell-out shows in 2016, 2017 and 2018, Pitchcraft are the Edinburgh choir with a difference.
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? MARK GLENTWORTH returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his uni…
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last one hundred years…
Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art.
Starring CJ de Mooi (Eggheads), Banana Crabtree Simon is an intimate and emotionally honest journey of one man’s struggle with early onset dementia.
After its sensational debut in 2019 and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back to Black returns, taking you on a moving and energising journey through a modern legend’s ca…
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
This feel-good show connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion of the pioneering R&B and soul acts of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic folk/blues songs and…
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway after their five-star sell-out run in 2019.
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
Canada’s award-winning clown band sparks the imagination with… clowns in space! Join Patty as she ventures to Clowntown Colony on the mysterious Planet X to bring her clown frien…
Witness first–hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
Award-winning Red Bus Bistro and acclaimed comedian Raymond Mearns have teamed up for the duration of the Fringe to offer a unique comedy tour experience travelling round the wonde…
Critically acclaimed as one of the greatest tribute shows in the world, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years has toured extensively in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA for over 10 …
Has it really been 10 years since Sheeps first performed in Edinburgh? No.
Self-doubt? Low self-esteem? Well, this sounds cheery.
Here comes the bride, forty-foot wide! It’s the wedding of the century and you’re invited as Lucy Frederick – ‘Eye wateringly honest’ (Scotsman) – walks down the aisle.
If you want to discover – or further explore – cabaret, you couldn’t do better than to start with Reuben Kaye.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Paul Simon is a name that has cemented itself into the ‘hearts and bones’ of audiences all over the world.
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
Four of the best newer acts.
A delightful mess of a show combining the electrifying skills of award-winning comedian Jarred Christmas and the vocal genius of world-champion beatboxer Hobbit.
A Romantic (Stand-Up) Comedy (Show).
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
As we enter the venue, Chelsea Birkby is waiting at the entrance with a tray of glasses of water for us because it can get pretty hot inside the room.
Fringe veteran Simon Munnery once more brings his eclectic mix of props, jokes, sketches, songs, poetry, and storytelling to the stage of The Stand with Trials and Tribulations.
All of Us is an attack on welfare state reform.
World-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creator Simon Brodkin returns with a blistering new stand-up show ripping into his ADHD diagnosis, I’m A Celebrity rejection, barmitzvah humil…
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,…
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
Black Blues Brothers have quickly gained the reputation as one of the go-to circus-based acts on the Fringe, and, after witnessing this spectacle, it’s not hard to see why.
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020).
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Fresh from their universally adored BBC Three pilot, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson make their long-awaited return to the Fringe with a sketch show about love.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Do you love all things 1940s & 1950s? Do you love swing dance and Lindy Hop music? Then you don’t want to miss Miss Jean & The Ragtime Rewind Vintage Swing Band! Taking you on a jo…
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
Liverpool Fringe’s Best Original Play 2021.
Liverpool Fringe’s Best Original Play 2021.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Simon Hall brings his manic energy and style to Brighton Fringe in his new show Simon Hall is Completely Fine.
Self-doubt? Imposter Syndrome? Low self-esteem? Suffering from any of these? You’re in good company.
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
Self-doubt? Imposter Syndrome? Low self-esteem? Suffering from any of these? You’re in good company.
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
LET’S KEEP DANCING!Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
LET’S KEEP DANCING! Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Water has many practical and symbolic meanings, across cultures, geographies and identities.
The big band is back at the Spiegeltent for their 6th season at the Fringe.
Brighton Jazz Mafia big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
Water has many practical and symbolic meanings, across cultures, geographies and identities.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
BARBARA BROWNSKIRT’S BIG NIGHT OUT.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
“Back by popular demand”.
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee 2021) presents a new work in progress show.
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…
A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Horace Silver.
In 2017, David Eldridge’s play Beginning dramatised an awkward conversation between two white, financially comfortable, urban-dwelling, adult Gen X-ers, caught in that time of em…
As a title, The Corn is Green proves the old adage about books, covers and the perils of judging thereof.
Monday, April 25th 7:30pm - Audrey Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992Trailer: https://www.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
My 75 years at the Edinburgh FringeFor the 75th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Arthur Smith writes a love letter to this playground of his imagination and recalls some of the tri…
Simon David invites YOU to the live recording of his horrible DEBUT ALBUM From tender ballads (Daddy I Wanna Dance & Shitting On A Dick) to crowd favourites (Straggot, Why…
You wait ages for one Hamlet to come along.
World-famous prankster and creator of the hugely popular Lee Nelson, is back on stage with TROUBLEMAKER, his sensational new stand-up show.
Join us for a night of celebration with the Gay Liberation Front for its 50th anniversary! The event will feature a spectacular panel led by: Dan Glass, author of United …
After years of turmoil caused by politics and pandemic, nostalgia is exactly what Doc ordered.
Wuthering Heights.
Join Rudi Douglas and Grace Shush as they delve into the one and only Adele’s catalogue of music to perform live their favourite songs from 19, 21, 25 & 30.
On January 6th 1982, a young Irish emigrant borrows an English language book from a library in Munich.
On January 6th 1982, a young Irish emigrant borrows an English language book from a library in Munich.
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
Music from a special guest performer Established in 1989 by poet Theo Dorgan, Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series offers exciting opportunities for talented, em…
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 1998! It was the year pure pop really hit the big time with B*Witched …
There are few things worth travelling the length of the Jubilee Line for on a cold and wet rush-hour on a December night.
Ladies, Gaydies, Theydies, straight people who can take a joke Fashionista, and musical comedian, Simon David is back at The Glory trying out some horrible new songs LIVE! Fro…
Can you believe it’s been 18 years since we first saw the Girls on Popstars The Rivals!? To celebrate their birthday and of course mourn the loss of our favourite wild child o…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sep…
World-famous prankster and creator of the hugely popular Lee Nelson, is back on stage with TROUBLEMAKER, his sensational new stand-up show.
Hay Babes! Who will be London’s Next BIG Thing?Join Miss Taylor Trash for the most East London drag pageant you have ever seen in your lives!!!12 contestants will battle it ou…
Dragpunk’s I’M NOT OKAY has risen from the grave for an iconic HELLOWEEN SPECIAL! Your favourite emo party has been resurrected, for a night of classic emo bangers and alt dra…
THE BIG GEEK QUIZ 3 - THE GEEK WORLDLondon’s favourite geek quiz is back at the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern for its third adventure.
Dad`s Army Vicar Frank Williams invites you to join him for a hilarious afternoon of TV nostalgia to celebrate his 90th Birthday! With Frank's special star gue…
The music that filled the dancehalls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK.
THE RVT BIG QUIZ - POP PICKERS EDITIONHOSTED BY SIMON LE VANS AND DAVID ROBSON Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the quiz, they’re back! Yep it’s our very …
Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland’s greatest living female voice.
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 2001! Its been 20 years since 2001, the year that Atomic Kitten swappe…
Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical, The Last Five Years, returns to London’s West End for the first time in over ten years, after two sensational sell-out seaso…
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
New Venture Theatre will host a party to celebrate the reopening of the theatre to live performances and the launch of it’s 74th season.
Big Night OutCreated & hosted by Grace n Mads Big Night Out is a night of queer performances.
Simon David (A hoot - The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous tribute to the Canadian Crooner and t…
In 1982, Simon Callow wrote his first book: it was called Being An Actor, and it was his reckless attempt, after not even ten years of acting, to describe the physical, psychologic…
I renamed the tour.
Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band.
Oliver Harris returns to Frankenstein’s after three highly successful runs.
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling out for six consecutiv…
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
WELCOME to Killer Queens Presents: Choke In The Big Smoke! This is the first London outing of our award winning sell out drag murder mystery shows, and in true Killer Queens fashio…
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
Welcome to Hill Valley! Take an electrifying ride back in time as the 1985 blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon arrives in London’s West End as a groundbreaking new musical …
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? This isn’t a story about being sick, it’s a story about healing yourse…
60 minutes, 12 notes and three idiots.
Meet Sarah and her best friend Duck! Join us for a magical adventure live on stage with a whole host of your favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, The Sha…
Come on a musical journey through time as we perform tracks across the years using only our voices! The University of Birmingham A Cappella Society is back for their fifth time at …
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Perthshire maverick Gussie McCraig joins No.
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK.
Neu! Reekie! presents a one-off happening in their distinct avant-garde style.
Did you have a birthday in the last year that was spoilt by COVID? Or an anniversary? Or a Christmas.
WHEN WE SAY YEE, YOU SAY HAW! WE DIDN’T F**KING SAY YEE! Join East London’s showgirl LORI MAE (yall!) & international drag idiot CRYSTAL LUBRIKUNT down in…
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.
He’s back with a brand new comedy show for 2021! Mask off, mic on, laughs had! Four-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
Triple bill with Scotland’s most exciting emerging comedy stars sharing the stage to bring you some fantastic new stand-up.
Funbox are back at the Fringe.
The Big Show returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy’s top-rated, sell-out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15 (not 12th), with a top mixed-bill line-up each even…
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling out for six consecutiv…
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show after a year-long hiatus, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years with an intimate perform…
Through Bush, Through Briar: An adaptation of a Midsummer Night’s Dream in which a Scrooge-like town councilman is planning to tear down a fairy forest to build a theatre.
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.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
A unique opportunity to enjoy this award winning, ever popular Early Music group, who have performed at every Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1973.
Tai Gu Tales was created by Hsiu Wei Lin, formerly a principal dancer with the iconic Taiwanese Cloud Gate company.
Scots-Cajun music, Louisiana French classics and vintage blues jostle with distinctively Scottish straight-from-the-heart original songs by Jennifer Ewan and the blues-drenched Caj…
The tour will start at the Netherbow Port, broached by the Jacobites before dawn on Tuesday, September 17th 1745 (just outside the World’s End public house), proceed through the Gr…
Oliver Harris returns to Frankenstein’s after three highly successful runs.
★ ★ ★ ★ ‘informative, entertaining and inspiringly creative’ Quench Magazine It’s 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Bernhard is sat at home in England.
★ ★ ★ ★ ‘informative, entertaining and inspiringly creative’ Quench Magazine It’s 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Bernhard is sat at home in England.
Every Thursday at The Quebec Saucy Sophie brings you the campest quiz in town.
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T…
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Award-winning actress presents a different take on the well-established tales of addiction.
Award-winning actress presents a different take on the well-established tales of addiction.
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
I had very little idea of what this show was about, except that it had a bit of a cult following after its run on (and off) Broadway.
Bumfluffery and other silliness.
A question taken from the 2020 English Literature GCSE exam that never was.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Come together. Write Now! A brand new event, the POETRY PICNIC! A snack heavy celebration of music and poetry, with poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
Time has a habit of taking its revenges.
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
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 Man.
The Man.
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
“Back by popular demand”.
In this mockumentary, we follow the trials and tribulations of 00s boyband 3hree as they attempt a reunion and a comeback gig.
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
In this mockumentary, we follow the trials and tribulations of 00s boyband 3hree as they attempt a reunion and a comeback gig.
Big Quiffy Bingo was a show that was full of glitz and glamour, thanks to the host of the evening Boogaloo Stu.
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
After phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is.
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Coming to you in 2021 Neil Sands and his wonderful cast will be back with a brand new show which will be spreading enough happiness and joy to lift the sp…
Friday 14th May 2021, 8pm (doors open at 7.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story (50th Anniversary Tour) Direct from a weeklong run in London’s West End at the Vaudeville Theatre, a SOLD OUT Worldwide tour and stan…
A deliciously twisted and tender comedy about inner gremlins and awkward romance.
Big Deal Drama will be joining forces with poets, a visual artist and beatboxer/sound artist for Crep Project.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Please note due to recent Government guidance changes, all HCBB sessions this term starting Jan 2021 will be held online in a 1 to 1 format.
“There’s nothing quite like the magic of theatre…” A commonly heard, if somewhat meaningless assertion.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Two hours of big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing from Scotland’s record-breaking big band, Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, the show premieres at Brighton to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
Join Daisy Rogers, Founder of Liberally, as she discusses the place of storytelling in the fight for greater diversity and inclusion across the liberal arts, through expressive mix…
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
Learn the ins and outs of the logistics behind achieving ambitious designs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Anna Driftmier, designer of Army @ The Fringe 2019 show Dead E…
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and 2019, The Last Five Years returns! Written by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, this two-character musical tracks the emot…
This year Jennifer and her band bring a blues theme to their bonnie bayou.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 90 years.
Whisky Road are very pleased to be back for a third year at the Jazz Bar presenting their top-class, sell-out, lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Román Baca talks about his healing journey from ballet to the Iraq War and back again.
Join The Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous’ (New York Times).
Captain Ben Mason (Director of Music Band of the Grenadier Guards) and Lance Sergeant Ian Shepherd (Band of the Grenadier Guards) lead a session on creating atmosphere through musi…
Lone Bear plays early blues and country rags on resonator guitar, blues harp and kazoo, with classics from the 20s, 30s, 40s and originals which showcase his unique finger-picking …
This pair of renowned musicians met and regularly play in Texas.
An electric blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddie King, including classics The Thrill Is Gone and Born Under a Bad Sign.
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
Banana Crabtree Simon.
‘Infectious fun’ ***** (FringeReview.
An emotional, touching and hilarious piece of original theatre.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting hour of foot-stomping acoustic blues.
Based on his book My Camino Walk – A Way to Healing, the author takes you on his life-changing journey through the mythic landscape on the ancient pilgrimage route of the Camino …
Rockin’ blues, stomping boogie-woogie and silky soul jazz! Pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith delivers class and variety, explosive dynamism, classic songs and dry humour.
A modern musical by the Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown that follows the comedy highs and heartfelt lows of Jamie and Cathy’s five-year relationship.
UK premiere: from his years as the visionary in one of the most successful duos through to his many solo hits, travel through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
‘Wonderful silliness’ ***** (GlamAdelaide.
The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that …
Acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit returns to the Fringe with her sell-out show Queens of the Blues, a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we kn…
Following a sell-out run at Fringe 2019, Back To Black returns to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling-out for six consecutiv…
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After many successful Fringe sell-outs, we’re back for our fabulous 15th anniversary! Three new, stimulating, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15-minute c…
Last year’s show, Dressing for Dinner, earned Evans some of the most ecstatic reviews of his career including an unbeaten 4.
Amici Dance Theatre Company, celebrate their 40th anniversary this year.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
In 1996, Robert Lepage's initial production of The Seven Streams was far from critic-pleasing.
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
We had to have him in our Sunday performance schedule after his wonderfully successful show last year.
‘John Shuttleworth's Back’.
‘John Shuttleworth's Back’.
Though we aren’t given the choice that may be implied by the inclusion of the subtitle in The Visit or The Old Lady Who Comes to Call, it is a play that uses juxtaposition as it …
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
The challenge in attempting to adapt Elena Ferrante's 10 million-selling quadrilogy, The Neapolitan Novels lies not in finding the time to read through the 1,600 pages of sourc…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Nick brings the mellow thunder with a brand-new stand-up show with one of those zeitgeisty titles that kids love the…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
The heart-warming and hilarious Broadway show based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks, comes to The Dominion Theatre for its West End Premier.
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
If, unlike me, you include politics, the public-school system or pub quizzing in your CV’s ‘Other Interests’ section, you’ll already know that Hansard is the name given to …
Wendy showcases new material from her forthcoming album, featuring her powerful, siren-like voice (the mystical creatures that lured sailors to their death, not a police siren!), c…
Cold Turkey Blues – singer/songwriter Chris Ray King with a one-off, solo acoustic set. Storytelling, dark humour, romance and a surprisingly high body count.
It’s back, the show on the fringe of the Fringe! Come join us at the Fringe’s best up-and-coming venue for an unpredictable night of music, comedy, dance, magic, poetry and circus!…
Fresh from his recent successful tour, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter, Donald Tru…
Saucy, sexy, award-winning live music cabaret.
Sarah McGuinness welcomes you Back to Blacks, the eclectic live music and chat show streaming regularly from Blacks Club, Soho.
We will be picking the very best charts from our vast library to celebrate the golden age of the big bands.
Returning to the Fringe for its fifth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an incredible evening of exciting jazz and toe-tapping swing from Ellington, Basie and many mo…
I was young when I chose to love my city.
The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
‘Bourbon weaved his songs through the audience as if on a journey through life, taking in different flavours of Europe and beyond.
Live, original band as seen at The London Palladium with seven critically acclaimed, original albums and over 2,000 live shows.
Celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Back at the Fringe for a fourth sell-out year, the world’s biggest big band (probably!) bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of b…
Come and join Bessy and friends in their new lunchtime chamber music concerts for children! Bring along your own picnic and munch your lunch as Bessy and friends serenade you in ou…
Learning from the Chicago Symphony, the home of the blues, Chi-Town’s singular jazz scene, folk, roots-rock and life in the 60s-70s, Tim’s wondrous musical immersion allowed him to…
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…
The 25th year of the Festival’s best free music event.
An evolution of his successful 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and Perth Australia Fringe World show Twisted, Aaron Ayjay continues to take you down the dark and twisted road of musical come…
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
This mystical dance performance is about the connection between what we see and what we believe.
The show they couldn’t stop! Back by popular demand for their second year running, join the most famous Brothers in Blues as they sing and dance their way through the greatest hi…
‘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.
Award-winning jazz vocalist Ali, with a heavy hitting band of internationally acclaimed musicians, resurrects the original outspoken blues and torch song divas.
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
BBD Productions make their debut at the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway.
Part I: fool me once.
The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
UK’s No 1 swing band, The Jive Aces, present their biggest theatre show to date The Big Beat Revue! Also featuring Kara Lane, Lottie B and Grazia Bevilacqua, this show features t…
Chameleon Lady are the latest big noise from Edinburgh with their exciting brand of semi-acoustic pop.
England, 1585.
Music of great halls, cathedrals and servants’ quarters is brought to life by the group who have been delighting Fringe audiences since 1973.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion generated by the pioneering R’n’B and soul acts of the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band based on the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot-stomping acoustic blues and roots.
Later! Ramblier! Jimeoin’s 26th Fringe! ‘Inspired ramblings.
An unmissable evening with Edinburgh’s incredible swing, jazz and blues big bands on rotation every Thursday night.
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
Luth’s on an action-packed circus adventure – but she needs your help! She’s looking for giggle-ready three to seven-year-olds to help her solve a whole host of fun physical chal…
Join us for an evening of stand-up comedy to raise funds for Barnardo’s.
Main Street Blues present an hour of blues from the trio of blues icons known as The Three Kings.
A return Fringe visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their highly successful show.
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years for another trip down memory lane.
Tenement Jazz Band return to continue their exploration of the roots of jazz, from ragtime through to the jazz age.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Scotch pie push-ups, cludgie clenches, haggis swings anybody? You know you want to gie ‘em a go.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Is the Big Bad Wolf really bad, or just misunderstood and trying to trigger his muddled memory? Could music or something else beginning with M be the answer? Its a mystery that wil…
In this fully immersive tasting experience, you sample five different whiskies from the very young to the old and rare.
From their critically acclaimed show Six Gals Named Smith, the six women of the RHRM present songs and fun chat on original jazz and blues queens.
Join award-winning comedian James Alderson as he takes a hilarious double A-sided trip down memory lane to see if it really is better now than in the 80s, before he gets much older…
Sundays are the day of rest, but Brewhemians don’t believe in this! We’ve got local blues bands, fantastic choirs and award-winning a cappella groups as well as showstopping silent…
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Following their run of sell-out lunchtime acoustic blues shows in Fringe 2018, Whisky Road are back with their lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Mr Fibbers is back and funnier than ever with Back in Tune: a show packed with jokes, games and comedy songs that kids just love.
Edinburgh’s leading independent music venue showcases the very best local talent with nightly danceable funk, blues and special jazz performances (including The Jazz Bar’s 17-piece…
High-energy powerhouse standup for purists featuring big laughs from a road-hardened pro.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Join Gareth Richards, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards best newcomer nominee 2010 for his ninth stand-up comedy show, with some hilarious songs played on the Q Chord.
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
After a baffling 2018 run (The Wee Review Fringe Experience Award: ‘most memorable experience – be it good.
Come ride on a bus through the streets of Edinburgh as dancers propel themselves along the aisles and hang from the roof.
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
Have you ever been into something before it was cool? An indie band or the latest fashion trend? The Next Next Big Thing is your chance to get in on the ground floor with two of th…
Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon…
Returning for their ninth year, the award-winning Blueswater tell the stories and perform the songs of the artists that defined popular music around the world.
Back To Black premiers at the Fringe to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who shattered records and moved millions.
It’s the ruby anniversary of Madness and Paul Putner celebrates the past 40 years as a lifelong fan.
Rising stars Louise Young and Anja Atkinson make their Fringe debut.
It’s been 50 years since the world’s most pivotal music festival.
These two idiots are about to sell each other out for a chance at making more money than anyone’s ever made at Fringe.
Playing their eighth consecutive Festival Fringe, Hot Tin Roof are back with their highly acclaimed show Blues Guitar Duo, playing originals and popular blues classics at Edinburgh…
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after five consecutive sell-out years with …
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Nick Elleray brings the mellow thunder to the Fringe with a brand-new stand-up show with a great new zeitgeisty title that the kids will love.
Following two triumphant sell-out years at the Fringe, the extraordinary Oliver Harris returns as the young and beautiful Elvis Presley.
2018 was going to be Emily’s year.
After shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns with last year’s hit show on… sports! Yep.
What happens when two circus performers are sent to prison? They come up with a new Fringe show of course.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
It’s a sell-out audience in the huge space at Assembly Rooms.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Life’s getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social – life now is guilt, followed by shame.
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Poettess is a psychotherapist.
Wild man of the accordion, Sandy Brechin, launches a brand new show of fast and funky traditional tune sets, featuring amazing new compositions from the long-awaited forthcoming th…
Set to an 80s soundtrack, this video installation looks back at the years 1979-1989 and marks the 40th and 30th anniversaries of some of the most important events in national and g…
Britain’s Got Talent approached Mark Bunyan last October to sing on their programme but two days before his London Palladium debut, the BGT lawyers decided that his song about ap…
Best friends Emm and Leo have made the bold artistic decision to graduate without any skills or job prospects.
Observing the little traditional conventions in life – one pink sock for Michaelmas day, keeping toenail clippings in a separate jar from fingernails, cream first, then jam, then…
‘Who are you?’ asked the Cheshire cat.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After Fringe sell-outs in 2017 and 2018, we’re moving to a lovely new venue.
The biggest, gayest set of tales the Fringe has ever heard comes out to play in this theatrical performance-meets-storytelling competition.
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
Baby Wants Candy has become almost as much a staple of the Fringe as being slapped in the face with flyers on the Royal Mile.
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
GFH builds on the runaway success of Gabby’s last Edinburgh show and offers a new series of life hacks on today’s dating and partying scene.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
Andy has performed at 40 Edinburgh Festivals.
Paul Simon is a name that has cemented itself into the Hearts and Bones of audiences all over the world.
The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art play host to the first-ever survey exhibition of collage in the world.
Music, quotes and verse.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
Rising stars Louise Young and Neil Harris make their Great Yorkshire Fringe debut.
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who will leave you to sing, the blues in the night.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Big Box Aliens is an alternative comedy experience like no other.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
There was a time not long ago – when Facebook and Google weren’t even words – where we watched TV and learned from it, absorbing any new knowledge we discovered as fact.
BOUNCING BACK by Gail Young The Netball World Cup comes to Liverpool in 2019 - and it also hits the stage at The Royal Court! Gail Young Productions proudl…
by Gail Young The Netball World Cup comes to Liverpool in 2019 - and it also hits the stage at The Royal Court! Gail Young Productions proudly presents “Bouncing B…
The world outside is (probably) falling apart.
A brief language lesson: According to the “part-banter, part-racist” English idiom, the North, is somewhere it is said to be Grim Up.
Band Of Horses have been a mainstay of indie rock for a decade, with five studio albums, including the Grammy-nominated Infinite Arms, to their name.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
After a phenomenal sell out tour in 2018, Walk Right Back is.
Can words still pack a punch in the reign of Twitter? Have the carriers of thought, the deliverers of argument, the elements of poetry, the sounds that make us human – lost t…
The first British tribute band performing the classic songs of Don Williams.
SLJO are very excited to introduce their new conductor, James Keirle, to Brighton Fringe.
Pirate Pearl lives aboard the good ship Mirabel with her crusty old Grandpa Bert.
You may know him as “comedy legend Lee Nelson” (The Sun) or “some unfunny pillock” (The Deputy Prime Minister) who gave Theresa May a P45, but yo…
We are SUPER CUMBIA PARTY BAND, a superhero ensemble with an important mission: to remove the sorrow from planet Earth.
A comedy play about two backstage technicians who would rather see themselves in the limelight.
Society puts a lot of pressure on Fat Girl.
A new piece of work by a new BAME theatre ensemble The Last Company Theatre, Last Rehearsal is written and directed by Chilean Maria Jose Andrade.
Know your Austen from your Auster? Or couldn’t spot a novel from a shovel? You’re both welcome.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Majk Stokes is a singer-songwriter, poet, environmentalist, Quaker and self-confessed caffeine-addict.
Join Brighton’s award-winning Music Mike in an action-packed musical adventure.
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul, with a set including original numbers, and new arrangements of classics …
The team behind FAUX, presented by Loose-Locked, is large and impressive.
Nick Elleray, “quality downbeat comedy” (Chortle), is known for his dry, bleak musings on the dark and squalid aspects of life.
I had no idea what to expect from John Hinton’s Ensonglopedia of British History.
The brilliant British pianist Simon Ballard returns to play works by Schubert, Ries, Dvorak, Smetana, Ireland, Moszkowski, de Severac and Sydney Smith.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Based on actual historical events, Mary Blandy’s Gallows Tree is a one-woman play that charts the last hour(s) of Mary Blandy as she awaits the gallows in Oxford Prison in 1752, …
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul, from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smoldering sounds of Stax and Motown.
Putting it Back Together: Proust, Alzheimers and Dr Dre all feature in a show about how memory is subjective, how no-one truly remembers anything and how we all put things back tog…
“One of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit” (Guardian), Vladimir McTavish became a full-time comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences across the g…
In this workshop we will use the basic technique of puppetry and combine that with acting and dancing.
Award-winning, best-selling author Stuart Reid brings his hilarious blend of bums, bogies and big bottom burps to Brighton.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
There is a long history of female performers and theatre-makers who mine their personal experience to create autobiographical monologues exploring their (female) identity.
Late Night Gimp Fight compile their best material from the last ten years to provide a crude and raucous evening of entertainment.
We’re in Sussex, somewhere on the Downs, in the 1800s.
Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their number one career of choice.
For the uninitiated, Massaoke is a huge sing-along party with a brilliant live band, where everyone sings together guided by giant video lyrics, and the crowd is the star of the sh…
Fleetwood Bac, the world’s first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, are bringing their authentic sound and look to the stage as they perform some of the band’s greate…
From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
The whole thing is a mess and only one person can sort it out.
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band are well known in the brass band world.
Plays, and other kinds of performance, may have many functions, but stand-up comedy has only one.
A Larger than life show from a Larger than life Band.
MadeMusic takes him out of dullness BIG GIRLS BLOUSEWhen you assume.
Archaeologists from the Museum of Comedy are excited to reveal their discovery of an ancient comedy artefact: the remains of the long-thought-mythical Mark Bunyan have b…
Proforça Theatre Company presents the next generation of “Feel More”, Seven more stories from the universe of our main production of "Feel" returning in Spring 2019.
Archaeologists from the Museum of Comedy are excited to reveal their discovery of an ancient comedy artefact: the remains of the long-thought-mythical Mark Bunyan have b…
Big Fish Little Fish ‘We Can Be Heroes’ themed family rave with DJs Baker & Beale Come make merry again with the award winning, world famous Big Fish Lit…
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle pieces together Alexandra and Kate Donnachie’s sometimes heartbreaking but often hilarious memories of growing up together and managing their cl…
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits.
Strap on your safety goggles boys and girls, due to popular demand Science’s greatest and most volatile live show is returning with a vengeance.
Most recently seen on Dara and Ed’s Road To Mandalay and various Mock The Weeks, Ed has become a household name from his multiple BBC TV appearances.
Smut Slam travels around the world spreading joy, laughs, and lots of education too! Now this community dirty-storytelling show—packed with stories of real life, real lust, real …
Part drag, part cabaret and part theatre, Jock Tamson’s Bairns is an immersive show where the audience is transported to an after hours gay bar and invited to speak their mind.
It was only towards the very end of last year that it was announced – or rather whispered, hidden away as it was somewhere in the list of actors always included in the National T…
The Ronan Collins Showband Show Reeling In the Showband Years has been a smash hit for the past 9 years, and we are delighted to say it returns once again to the Civic T…
Tickets: £13.
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 �…
International superstar Hans, the boy wonder of Berlin, serves up an all-singing, all-tap dancing, accordion-pumping, glittering blitzkrieg of cabaret backed by his three-piece ban…
Roll out the glittery sparkle carpet, re-fill the party cannons and re-hang that big dirty disco ball – the most outrageous party of the year is back! Queer Haggis welcomes a br…
More theatrical than ever, Le Haggis VI will explode into the centre of the Spiegeltent at high octane speed, shimmering like a tartan sporran hanging off the side of very chiselle…
Celebrating the Bards' birthday in the town where he composed his famous works, the eighth year of Big Burns Supper features eleven days of comedy, cabaret, music, theatre and mor…
From the man who pranked Theresa May, Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter, Kanye West and many more of the world’s biggest knobs; acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin…
Six Night of Live Blues Music in the Heart of Central London.
With their brand new stage show 50 Years of Bowie, Absolute Bowie will take audiences on a musical journey through the iconic singer's ever changing personas.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
It’s time to get well and truly in the Christmas spirit as smash-hit musical production The Elvis Years brings its very special seasonal twist to theatres across t…
Swedish metal band, Clawfinger are returning to the UK for an exclusive headline show this December, where they'll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Dea…
Take That are proud to present their new musical with a beautiful story written by the Olivier Award winning writer Tim Firth, The Band which is for anyone who grew up with a boyba…
Following on from his highly-acclaimed reunion concerts in the USA with Billy Joel’s original touring band and now in its fifth, hugely-successful year, Elio Pace …
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The Spirit & Sound of Steely Dan.
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Direct from a SELL OUT worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance.
Apollo Theatre Company in association with Spike Milligan Productions Ltd presentsThe Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his BandBy Spike MilliganFrom the producers…
Southern-rock phenomenon Zac Brown Band and Grammy-nominated Californian vocalist Beth Hart are the latest acts to be announced for this year’s BluesFest, which returns to Th…
Sweet finish this year’s well-curated Brighton HorrorFest with the interesting Father of Lies, written and originally performed by Sasha Roberts and Tom Worsley.
It was with some trepidation that I entered the auditorium to see Unburied, presented by Hermetic Arts – not least because their website states, amongst other things, that 'H…
Join acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Nick Sharratt to find out how he creates his picture books.
You know you’re guaranteed to learn something watching David Hare.
“Racist comments don’t belong in a play about mothers and shit.
Danse Macabre Productions consists of a trio of graduates of the University of York with a weakness for the horror genre.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Shakespeare will always be Theatre Marmite.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Following the huge success of Michael’s previous visits to The U.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Alongside Pinter One – nine individual texts that together create something that is as exciting as it is dark – is the altogether different, though not surprisingly named Pinte…
Jamie Lloyd must be excreting pheromones of cool right now.
Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band are delighted to be debuting at this year’s Fringe! The band, renowned for its vast repertoire covering everything from jazz standards to c…
Two shows only! Award-winning jazz vocalist, washboarder and early jazz historian Ali resurrects the original outspoken blues and jazz divas who shaped today’s music via their pass…
Returning to the Fringe for its fourth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of exciting jazz and swing.
Back at the Fringe for a third year, the SLJO bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of big band and beyond.
Relive the era when swing was king, with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals from Scotland’s popular record-breaking big swing band – everything from Basie to Bublé.
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist, Daniel Smith and band, with John Burgess.
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Toxic masculinity is blamed for everything from the #MeToo movement to rates of male suicide.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Programme for Fringe participants.
Oh no, Eliza the explorer has been kicked out of her kingdom! She needs to go on an adventure to prove she is the best explorer and make it back in time for the summer celebration.
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
Newtongrange Silver Band (established 1892) is a traditional mining village brass band but their repertoire is far from traditional.
A one woman play about looking for love, loneliness in London and accidentally going viral.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, rhythmic New Orleans piano, hard bop classics with searing guitar evoking the good-time speakeasy atmosphere.
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
Beautiful heart-wrenching songs, lively cello tunes and lots of laughter from Edinburgh’s own bubbly queen of folk Wendy Weatherby and her all-star band, featuring Fiona Cuthill on…
David Alacey, Des Coleman and Paul Drakeley star as Frank, Sammy and Dean in the original Rat Pack show, now celebrating its 21st record-breaking year.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
A bit of fun and a trip down memory lane.
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale and Sandy Tweeddale featuring guests Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, On The Wagon, Mad Ferret Band, Edgehill, Kevin Gore and …
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Winner of the UK Perrier Jazz Vocal Award, Scottish Style Award and Spirit Of Scotland Music Medal, Niki King has released five albums and performed in leading jazz venues includin…
The whole thing’s a mess and only one person can sort it out.
One man’s intimate story of escape from religion, to love, loss and triumph.
Catriona Morison Mezzo sopranoSimon Lepper Piano Songs by Brahms, Schumann and Mahler.
Following sell-out shows in 2017, Bruce returns with more Dylan, Paxton, Seeger, Simon, etc.
It is very hard to describe the almost endless amalgam of different influences in Claude’s playing, all melting into each other as he moves from classical openings, across a whole …
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…
With original evocative songs, Avocet explore folk over blues.
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
The music of great halls, cathedrals and servants’ quarters is brought to life by the group who have been delighting Fringe audiences since 1973.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Take a journey with Imperial College London’s premiere mixed a cappella group through a spectrum of genres and themes in their debut Fringe show!
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Big Love – Charles Mee’s adaption of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality.
Hosted by Susan Calman in her only Fringe appearance this year.
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
The Edinburgh Renaissance Band are joined by Polyhymnia Dancers in the ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the…
Safe House are back for a fifth year playing their highly acclaimed Allmans Brothers set including classics from the Fillmore East album Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,…
Welcome to the big band era and beyond! The Sound of Seventeen is a jazz orchestra line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a four-piece rhythm section bringing you swing, ja…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Lonesome Highway are delighted to bring Sam back to Edinburgh with his wonderful band for their only Scottish show of the year.
Ilker Arcayürek TenorSimon Lepper Piano Songs by Schubert and Wolf Winner of 2016’s International Lieder Competition in Stuttgart, Ilker Arcayürek has been compared to Ian Bo…
Join us for a two-hour comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, whilst previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
The show they couldn’t stop.
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure…
Discussions about drug use and drug policy often involve stories – personal experience combined with knowledge gleamed from the media and other sources.
If the thought of watching a one woman play about a Kurdish refugee turned lawyer helping to broker a major arms deal for a Swedish law firm doesn’t thrill you then think again, …
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Exciting Scottish acoustic blues trio featuring three acclaimed Scottish blues musicians.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
Last year, Chris was finally feeling happy and well-adjusted.
Let the ‘Queen of silliness (***** BroadwayBaby.
After electrifying US audiences for 25 years, America’s ‘coolest show on earth’ (Newsweek) comes to the UK for the first time.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
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…
Stunning, skilful magic from Caspar Thomas.
The wild man of Scottish accordion is back with his tip-top tunes, frighteningly fast fingering and hilarious hi-jinks and humour, accompanied by his groovin’ five-piece band.
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.
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Tommy is four-and-a-quarter years old, and a hard-boiled private investigator on the mean streets of Little Monkey’s Daycare.
Caring for kids with a curious craze for karaoke? Then look no further than The Big Balloon Singalong! Fun for all the family and featuring all the greatest hits (.
A unique concert, which celebrates the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe’s best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCA have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman a…
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
On any given afternoon in the Fringe, you’re likely to find Simon Munnery gracing the stage of The Stand comedy club.
Our eyes locked.
A boozy history of Scotland held on the most unique of venue – on board The Lochrin Belle canal boat.
A return visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their own brand of acoustic blues and roots music played on acoustic guitar and double bass w…
‘Five stars! Infectious fun’ (FringeReview.
An entirely un-erotic journey that begins in a public toilet, then takes strange diversions via a sexy tomato plant and a clap clinic.
This is the five-piece band’s second consecutive appearance at the Fringe.
Join Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, on a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired each other.
One hundred years of blues, 60 minutes to play it.
John Lennon spent his Scottish boyhood holidays in Durness, Sutherland: not fake news! This thoughtful, comic fable of modern Scotland, adapted from the novel by Scottish Governmen…
After winning the Edinburgh Panel Prize in 2014 with Funz and Gamez, Phil’s ready to bring his unique, anarchic and unreliable comedy to the masses.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
After a sell-out world tour and best-selling book Gobsmacked, former dentist turned comedy giant Michael Hackett is back.
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
Oliver Harris digs deeper into his journey through Elvis Presley’s great songs with a different show and an evening twist! From Love Me Tender, The Wonder of You, Are You Lonesome …
Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women with only a postcode in common.
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price. Hand selected from our year-round auditions, this show is quality talent in its prime.
At the centre of its big, warm heart, The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It is a story about a non-activist boy and his activist mother, and by extension a story about all of us and our…
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
Scotland’s landowners were in retreat.
It’s time for the Big Shop, not to be confused with your ‘bits shop’ (which you might do at the little Tesco) or your ‘big wash’ (which is like the Big Shop but that’s not what we’…
Ever tried to order a curry with all ten members of the Wu Tang Clan? Ever thought about what it all means (love/life/lager) mid downward-dog? Ever scored the winning goal in the l…
Olivier Award-winning Simon Callow performs Oscar Wilde’s searing meditation on his life, in the form of a devastating letter of reproach to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas – ‘…
20 years of Fringe shows, 20 years of touring and so many stories.
Following previous five-star reviews, this unique talent returns to perform thought-provoking, evocative, original songs in a wonderfully intimate setting.
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price.
Vladimir McTavish became a full-time stand-up comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences worldwide and gigged with some of the biggest names in the business.
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
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.
See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr…
After sell-out shows in 2016 and 2017 Gareth Mutch returns with a bucket list to help fix his tragic life.
Some years ago, comedian Lucy Frederick appeared in a reality TV show in which she had to get naked.
This is an intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable window into the relationship of two sisters at the toughest point of their lives so far.
Last year, Simon Evans earned rave reviews for Genius, his howl of despair at our declining national appetite for intelligent conversation, let alone public figures of exceptional …
An exquisitely detailed design of a picture box façade-free house.
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.
Total sell-out 2015, 2016 and 2017! One of the best-known, longest-running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Fringe First winner 2017.
By Magne van den Berg, UK premiere.
The latest Edinburgh Fringe fun from the award-winning and best-selling author Stuart Reid.
Hold onto your shades as the smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for rhythm’n’blues to remember.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Three funny, thought-provoking “menus” of ten-minute plays.
American figure skating champion turned comedian Roman Fraden invites you to take a cosmic journey Back in the Closet – his uproarious personal odyssey through motel rooms with T…
After an absence of two years, the Perthshire farmer returns to Edinburgh with another trailer load of tales of rural life and how country people view the outside world.
“I went to a funeral the other day.
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
Caspar brings to York his stand up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of hand magic and mentalism - no suspicious looking boxes, no camera tricks, no stooges! &…
One of the early factors that contributed to the massive success of the Lehman Brothers – the power they had in the US, their huge business growth and its eventual demise – was…
Statistics show that last year the most common reason cited in UK divorce papers was "irreconcilable bathroom habits”.
Written by award-winning writer Tim Firth, The Band is a beautiful story for anyone who grew up with a boyband and how those songs became the soundtrack of their lives.
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
The Big Fat Running show is about .
Heard of a play within a play? What about three hour-long, critically-acclaimed comedy shows in one three-hour-long comedy show (with two humane intervals).
“I went to a funeral the other day.
It can’t be easy creating a programme that justifies the term National given to the theatres on London’s South Bank, when you know that your most frequent visitors of critics a…
Lloyd presents a sort of, work in progress, stand-up comedy show that he hopes to be rough but charming, like an old-timey hobo.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
We see homeless people every day in Brighton, on the street and in our parks, trying to build a ‘home’ out of the small number of possessions with which they surround themselve…
There is a bit of a buzz around BOY.
Spiegeltent presents: ‘Brighton Big Drag Pagent’ Kings, Queens, and Inbetweens! Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Probably William Shakespeare’s most famous play and possibly his greatest, Hamlet has long been a target for comedy.
The Ealing Inheritance is a comic tale of intrigue, gold-digging and dastardly dissimulation reminiscent of many an Ealing comedy - hence the double meaning of the play’s witty t…
Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers have their finger on the pulse with this delightful double bill of comedy plays, interspersed with a few shorter sketches.
Scottish comedy-award-winner and BAFTA nominee Vladimir McTavish celebrates a quarter-century in the business with an hour-long show featuring some brand-new topical gags, some old…
Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest magicians of the last 120 years) stand-up, interactive, before your very eyes sleight o…
History; Comedy; Songs.
RUNNING CAN BE FUN[NY].
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Little do we know just what might emerge in this festivity of two hearts coming together as one.
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.
I’ve always been partial to a bit of prestidigitation.
We all want to look good, don’t we? Everybody likes to feel attractive.
The opening premise of Twilight Theatre’s Waiting for Curry, written and directed by Susanne Crosby, runs thus: Rob and his wife Chris have invited their friends Phil and Sue ove…
Two word texts, a cat with no name, blood where it shouldn’t be and a fashion show to die for.
Eleanor Westbrook embodies what I love about the Fringe.
An extremely funny yet entirely unerotic journey that begins in a public toilet.
French cabaret star Oriana Curls, acclaimed 5-star ‘Piaf remembered’ (Edfringe 2017) and singing judge on BBC TV show ‘All together now’, contemplates the future with ex-Dexy…
The Lord of the Rings (known as LOTR to the mega-fans) is one of my favourite books.
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…
Last time I looked, drag was a minority sport in gay bars, performed by men in frocks belting out mediocre ballads, lip-synching to pop songs, and generally being misogynistic.
There’s little to evoke more anxiety and dread than the phrase ‘Traditional Family Christmas’.
For the first time at Brighton Fringe, Martin brings you ‘BIG FAT GAY’.
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
Cognitive dysfunction does not, perhaps, naturally strike us as a rich vein of humour.
One of a series of seven one-night-stands of experimental theatre, How Disabled Are You? is curated by theatre co-operative Spun Glass Theatre under the heading of The Spark Factor…
70s themed Cabaret with saucy, sexy live original music.
About five minutes in to the therapy session cum comedy gig cum This Morning Celeb Interview that tonally is The Prudes, late 30s couple Jess and Jimmy inform the audience as their…
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Walk Right Back tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
Are you ready to be part of Justin’s Band? Because BAFTA Award-winning actor Justin Fletcher is going on a Musical Adventure and we would love you to come and play along wi…
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West’s marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable,…
If The Royal Court’s reputation for producing work that’s a little ahem, “arty” has put you off making a visit recently for fear of Death by Pretension, then the enjoyable …
Five Star Awarded West End Actor & Singer Harry Kit Lee (Hair The Musical.
Analysing sickness, health and what it really means to recover, Helen Seymour admits you into a surreal hospital to create a funny, unique and powerful theatrical experience.
Dave Kirby (Lost Soul, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Reds & Blues, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, Brick Up 2 the wrath of Ann Twacky) is back with his smas…
Two bands; two different collections and styles of eclectic, acoustic-driven blues and roots music.
Send off Adelaide Fringe 2018 with RCC at Big River Motel with headline act Booka Shade Check in. Unpack & forget about a good nights sleep #BigRiverMotel
Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe.
As seen on The Project, CRAM & Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network TEN).
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
The Incredible BLACKHAWKS present an evening of fabulous New Orleans Rhythm & Blues and Roots music, coupled with a sumptuous , fully catered dinner, and bar service, at the beaut…
The blues exists in Adelaide in all of its glorious variations.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Come along and experience Janet’s “Cultural Journey” at The Red Rhino Room! There will be a variety of Aboriginal artworks on show, including Janet’s “Emu Dreaming”painting which…
Ragtime, Chicago Blues and classical concert pianist Tim Barton performs: Toccata by J.
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
Award winning Irish Comedian Andrew Stanley returns to this years fringe after an explosive season last year selling out his solo show in Fringe World Perth and the Edinburgh Fring…
This original work, written specifically for DTC with the approval of the book’s creators – Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.
Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew (aka Double Denim) combine forces with DJ Juan Vesuvius to bring you a big party for little humans! Through games, sketches, and music your favourit…
An explosive night of work-in-progress for the theatrically adventurous.
★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened.
Recently, Simon was told he was going to be a dad.
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you multi award winning family friendly cabaret acts from Edinburgh.
Peter Combe is back with the fast furious and fabulous Juicy Juicy Green Band with songs from his latest ARIA nominated LIve It Up album plus the old favs.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
How do you condense ten years of music into just one show? Short answer: you don’t.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
There’s a moral sense of the inevitable in Macbeth.
An evening of rapturous dark jazz alternative music from renown artist Jennifer DeGrassi and her band .
Fresh off a successful sold out season at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe, Harry Baulderstone and Marcus Ryan return with: Feelin’ Groovy - The Songs of Simon & Garfunkel.
Multi-award-winning blues guitarist Cal Williams Jr, double-bass virtuoso Kory Horwood and Canadian harp maestro Will Kallinderis will guide you through the songs and stories of ea…
Are you a fan of Trivia? Stand-up? Karaoke? Well this is the show for you.
Following tours through the United States and Europe, come see the Australian premiere of “Years to the Day.
Dance, theatre and comedy are fused into a great big hilarious wonderland that you can’t resist! Take a wild ride on this rollicking adventure that unleashes the untamed inner w…
Join Adelaide-based blues collective The Furball Express as they stomp, strum and croon their way through an hour of swampy blues classics interspersed with a modern bluesy numbers…
Amy Winehouse wowed the world with her hit ‘Back To Black’ album, setting the blueprint for modern soul & reviving retro cool from the smoky, sultry ‘60s.
2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe.
Born out of Montreal’s vibrant sketch comedy scene, two JUST FOR LAUGHS Award winning idiots; Al Lafrance (I Think I’m Dead) and Shane Adamczak (The Ballad Of Frank Allen, Sound & …
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…
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Following on from last year’s smashing success, the 2018 show will be themed around the favourite rock decades.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
IN GOOD COMPANY – a fabulous 40 voice acapella group will sing original arrangements of many of Paul Simon’s hits such as “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes”, “Cecilia�…
An honest tale of one man’s modern escape from the prison of belief.
Diamonds and the Blues are creating a sultry and potent cocktail of Jazz and Blues performances in some of Victorias most iconic Venues and Festivals.
The most awesome, exciting and inspirational author event EVER! as award-winning Scottish author Stuart Reid brings his best-selling books to life.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
With seats at the back reserved for the adults, the children are encouraged to sit on the floor right up against the stage for this lovely show that aims to educate and entertain i…
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Open for good time, not a long time, we’re kicking off the opening night of Adelaide Fringe 2018 with our biggest party yet.
UK theatregoers may be playing catch-up when it comes to playwright Annie Baker.
“So we went for a walk.
Welcome to another theatrical dimension, beyond which there may be no clear sense of purpose.
At times I question The Royal Court for programming plays aimed solely are the pretentious and the seasoned theatre critic.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Ukrainian playwright, Natal’ya Vorozhbit may be one of the few global voices for a conflict many of us seem to have ‘forgotten’, as though the Russian intervention happened…
Happily Never After - Created from a single audience suggestion, The Maydays weave a playful tale, full of black comedy and haunting songs.
Here we have a play, based on a film, about television, with heavy use of video (live, recorded and even outside broadcasting), incorporating social media, onstage DJs and audie…
What is it to really know your own father? Meet Edward Bloom, played by Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe award-winner Kelsey Grammer.
Pippa Evans Presents… – Join Pippa Evans (founder member of Showstoppers) and some of her favourite improvisers as they explore the world through your eyes and theirs.
For those who don’t know much about mid-20th century Russian literature – I’m sure there must be one or two – satirical playwright Evgeny Schwartz’s 1943 play, Drakon …
As “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles’ discography live onstage, including the most comp…
The year for the National Theatre so far has been beset by the dramas over the dramas on its programme – depending on your viewpoint, it either doesn’t contain enough classics o…
The challenge with any dramatisation of an historic moment is in trying to appeal to the people for whom the event just ‘rings a bell’ right up to those whose lives were dire…
Direct from a SELL OUT Worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives in London’s West End! Using huge projection photos a…
Following last year’s popular success with The Magic of MGM, Fife’s leading operatic concert group, Ensemble (ensembleinfife.
Returning after a second highly successful gig in 2016, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
Follow Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.
G and Ste are Fringe fanatics who felt that becoming part of the Fringe was the perfect way to celebrate their nuptials.
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that bring together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material.
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band, with another night of toe-tapping music from the era when swing was king.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
Celebrate 60 years of EGO with highlights from much-loved operas by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Bizet.
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The award winning & brilliantly imaginative Paul F Taylor is BACK.
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
This workshop is suitable for anyone looking for a fun afternoon of unfamiliar dances, while still providing challenges for experienced dancers.
Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest and best mixed bill magic night! The best illusion, magic and cabaret acts from the Fringe have assembled for one night only at Gilded Balloon’s biggest …
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
yt2 return with Birdland by the Olivier and Tony award-winning Simon Stephens.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and Yard of Ale featuring guests Bedford Falls, Mike Whellans, Delacroix, Coaltown Daisies, Hot Tin Roof, On the…
Whimsical, surreal, truly inspirational: psychedelic pioneers The Incredible String Band entranced listeners in the late 1960s and early 1970s with their visionary, dream-like so…
A trip down memory lane, hear again 50s to 70s pop and folk hits like Putting on the Style, Amazing Grace, My Old Man’s a Dustman, Wild Rover, Hello Mary Lou, Nobody’s Child, Singi…
The contribution of travelling composers and performers to the music of Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group in the vibrant …
Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead collaborates with Dundee indie-pop band The Hazey Janes centering on the poem The Optimistic Sound that Lochhead composed in memory of her…
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
Big Cat Small Flap – the unique observations from a giant talking cat called Mr Nibbles on the state of humans and the world today, from Trump to Brexit to Instagram, and why the…
Can Hamlet please come into the diary room? You’ve had regular Big Brother.
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
Simon Currie’s 6plus1 is a band of seven musicians playing New Orleans jazz, mixing in funk, rock and ska styles with two saxes, two trumpets, trombone, tuba and drums.
We’ve all had the question.
This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptio…
Safehouse are back at the Edinburgh Festival for a third consecutive year playing their highly acclaimed Allman Brothers set including classics from the At Fillmore East album: Whi…
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Dramatised reading of letters exchanged between the British, Palestinian and Zionist parties 100 years ago sheds more light on the events that led to the present geopolitical relat…
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Extra shows – later, ruder, sillier and absolutely full-on.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join us for a bumper-length comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Harri Soinila is a Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World, 2016 semi-finalist, headliner of shows in a bunch of countries and the godfather (or baby daddy) of English comedy …
Much-loved Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill is a powerful Wagnerian with a voice that can fill the Met or Covent Garden.
After sell-out shows at last year’s Fringe and Celtic Connections festivals, Bwani Junction return with their joyful rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland album.
The king of Celtic ‘ccordion, Sandy Brechin, brings his lightning-fast fingers to the Fringe once again, along with his mad-cap humour, featuring hits from his many albums plus som…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Lucy and Jim are on their own.
New show for this year at the award winning Jazz Bar from Scottish duo Colorblind Slim.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Award-winning vocalist Ali – ‘stunningly expressive’ (San Diego Union-Tribune) – celebrates the powerful songs of the bold women who laid the ground for today’s music.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
“Scotland’s ‘queen of Vintage Blues and Jazz’ (OCWeekly.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
Beautiful heart-wrenching songs, lively cello tunes and lots of laughter from Edinburgh’s own bubbly queen of folk Wendy Weatherby and her all-star band, featuring Fiona Cuthill on…
With the overwhelming amount of options at the Fringe, Bite-Size allows one to see several short and sweet plays in the space of an hour.
The band feature multi-stringed instrumentalists playing original music and songs in the folk/country rock genre.
‘Boogie-woogie.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
Big Brother Hamlet takes the subjects of the all-powerful found in Shakespeare’s script – the King, the Ghost, the Church – and connects them with one of today’s most all-p…
A special stripped-down lineup of The Blueswater play an upbeat swampy set of blues songs decided in advance by fans on social media.
It was an inauspicious beginning for Martin J Dixon’s new stand-up show, with only 11 audience members, some of whom were loud and rowdy throughout the show.
Join award-winning Irish comic Andrew Stanley as he returns with more messing, more questions and more mayhem.
Hot Tin Roof regularly pack The Jazz Bar playing classics and originals, earning a reputation for playing excellent music while creating a relaxing atmosphere.
The Bluebelles return to take Edinburgh for the third year running! Following sold-out performances and 5-star reviews, this year expect a night of vintage cabaret, as you are whis…
20 years ago, Simon Morley had an idea.
We all want to meet people from history.
Taking its title from critic Waldemar Januszczak’s rundown of the 2016 Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy – ‘there is not enough emotion in our art any mo…
Rock’n’roll in all its facets.
Think Less, Feel More is the second solo exhibition in Edinburgh by up-and-coming abstract artist Alice Boyle.
A blend of incredibly accurate live performance and multimedia, returning to the Festival after sell-out runs in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Children should work more.
Led by superb vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unr…
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired eac…
One hundred years of blues, one hour to play it.
Captain Zarg and Williamina Foxx are Guardians of the Universe.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
Is this Romanian guy supposed to be the future of stand-up comedy? Bold, brash and a total smartass, Victor Pãtrãscan wings it in this one-man show and tries to get away with it.
The 23rd year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
A bittersweet tale of political awakening.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. Four comedians, different to the early show. Two hours with tomorrow’s comedy stars. ‘Top value, top comedy’ (List).
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
‘One of the most tirelessly silly stalwarts of the Fringe’ (Time Out) provides tales of plumbing woes and his attempts at under-tent heating, and ridicules the insanity of capitali…
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
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…
Award-winning author Stuart Reid will be sharing his books, including his latest release Gorgeous George and His Stupid Stinky Stories, and the audience will be expected to bring t…
Following 2016 five-star reviews, this unique talent returns to perform thought-provoking, evocative original songs in a wonderfully intimate setting.
It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …
The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries.
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
Master songwriter and Fringe favourite returns with more of his trademark smart and funny story songs (plus new gems).
This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever.
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
I have never seen anyone manage to create humour from pessimism and snobbery as well as Simon Evans does and oh my, we were in for quite a helping of it in this hour long show.
It’s time to think outside the box, go crazy, go skydiving or just go to a different pub this Friday.
Gillian has concerns about the future.
From the Bronze Age to Brexit, get ready to laugh and learn with More or Less Theatre as they present to you a whistle-stop tour through European history that can be enjoyed by bot…
Hold onto your shades as this smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for a night of rhythm and blues to remember.
Bigger, bolder and more brilliant than before! Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand-new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young…
Prepare to have your joy levels optimised by “the finest female character comic around” (Time Out) as Pippa Evans presents Joy Provision! Plus BIG NOW and improvisers seen on B…
In 1966, Frank Sinatra performed at the Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel & Casino, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Let’s get something out of the way - Olivia Colman is darn good at this acting malarkey isn’t she? It might actually even be illegal to use her name without the prefix ‘Natio…
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald once famously stated, “The only thing better than singing is more singing”.
Bad times make for good drama.
You’re late twenties and you’re in a visa marriage.
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in City Impro’s debut Edinburgh Fringe show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketch…
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in a special Edinburgh Fringe preview show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketches …
Killology (by Gary Owen, writer of last year’s award-winning play, Iphigenia in Splott) follows in a similar ilk to the likes of recent pieces Upstairs at The Royal Court, Yen an…
Within the first five or so minutes of Common, a large chorus of people wearing shrubs, trees and animal heads over their faces chant menacingly, a woman in her fineries introduc…
First things first: if you’ve ever worried about how a history of depression or suicide in your family could affect you or your children, DO NOT go and watch Anatomy of a Suicid…
Children’s poet and spoken word theatre maker Justin Coe (‘Big Wow’, ‘Small Wonder’, ‘The Dictionary of Dads’, ‘The Jumble Book’) leads a workshop for adult writers/performers inte…
Following its 2016 sell-out Belgian tour, the SLJO is back with an all-new set featuring tunes from the golden era of Big Band.
Go on an award-winning, magical, musical, multi-sensory adventure in the Kalahari desert with Little Meekat and her friends Elephant and Wise Monkey to find out all about Calm and …
In this workshop we will use the basic technique of puppetry and combine that with acting and dancing.
Join Covent Garden’s cheekiest street performer, award-winning magician Tony Roberts for mind-blowing card magic and more! There’ll be laughs, mayhem and classic conjuring for …
After last year’s sell-out run, the Blues and Burlesque are back with a new show.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected…
“Incredibly Funny!” (SG Fringe), “Redefining Comedy Hypnotism” (British Comedy Guide).
Jazz and Poetry Layer Cake A delicious serving of modern original Jazz and poetry created by the award-winning author John Harvey (author of the bestselling Charlie Resnick series…
In a time of pre-war political tension, gone are the days of frothy fashion journalism for Pamela More, a feisty and glamorous Times journalist who stubbornly prioritises haute-c…
In this two-hander from the American creative team behind last year’s ‘Crazy Horse: A Dream of Thunder’, Lucy Turner, an ambitious young woman, begins displaying bizarre symptoms o…
Straight No Chaser Big Band combine with JATS swing dance aces Sam and Gabi for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
“Anyone else a massive fan of the divine Miss Vogue and her ukulele? Thought so.
The critically acclaimed Edinburgh sell-out comes to Brighton Fringe.
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 …
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
My life is a constant search for emotional and electrical outlets.
“There is no language for what happened that night,” states Salome in narration as her older self shortly after beginning this new, happily more feminist, retelling of the myth s…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Fat 45 is a blistering 11-piece big band bringing back the Jump Jive, Rock & Roll and Rhythm & Blues of the 1940s and 50s.
Following successful runs at Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more close-up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of …
Twig the Pixie has lost his marbles! Help him find them in this hit stand-up comedy spectacular for all generations of the family.
Mrs H and the Sing-Along Band bring their unique family music to Brighton Fringe for the first time.
We are a group of young people concerned about our future in the UK, with such dramatic changes happening all around us.
8 horns, 2 drummers, scratch-DJ and MC.
There’s no doubt that when Tony Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” first came to the stage in the early nineties, it was like little that had been seen before – both i…
If populism breeds cynicism, then there’s a high quota of cheap shots that could be made towards the Royal Court’s latest offering.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Decouple any romantic notion of sex as being the physical demonstration of love and what is it other than just an act to satiate a desire for power, ownership, closeness, or to m…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
What’s real, what’s imagined and what’s the cause - or effect - of madness are the questions most of us know to be raised but rarely consistently answered in Shakespeare’s most (…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
It’s said that one first eats with one’s eyes.
It’s great to see new writing being performed at one of the National’s bigger spaces and there are big themes at play here in writer Lindsey Ferrentino’s National Theatre and UK …
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
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…
Mark Gatiss stars in this strictly limited West End transfer of the first major revival of this iconic play in two decades.
Multi award nominated comedian and BBC/Virgin Radio Star Inel Tomlinson is relaunching his sell out live roadshow Kinetic Comedy.
I have an inherent discomfort with theatre that requires a certain knowledge or level of intelligence in order to appreciate it (reference my ongoing debate with the current Royal …
God life can be a depressing old thing can’t it? When, through no fault of your own, you find yourself struggling to just exist from one long unfulfilling day to the next – kno…
you thought Gleb was sizzling in the Master Chef kitchen and Kristina was stunning on Strictly then imagine how spicy it will be when you see the…
Following sell-out seasons in 2011/12 and critical and audience acclaim, Simon Callow returns in this much-lauded production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing at the Arts Theatre for a…
Justin is the smallest boy in the whole town.
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, starring Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey.
Invisible Flash Theatre presents Maddy and the Invisible Band of Groovers Full of audience participation and using storytelling, puppetry and songs to celebrate difference and frie…
Taking place over the five years in the seventies that turned out to be the last Labour Government for nearly 20 years and that led to the Thatcher era, the politics being manage…
If the purpose of life is to continue its perpetuity, the implication is that those of us who spawn children are naturally superior to those who don’t.
There must be little more that can raise the spirits of young or old than the idea of flying free through the skies.
Combining theatre, technology and a cinematic soundtrack, Give Me Back My Broken Night takes you on a walk through the city streets, inviting you to imagine the future of your area…
Whilst this latest in a long line of Chichester transfers may be a new reworking of the classic Tommy Steele vehicle – with new songs, music and deeper characterisation added �…
After numerous Off-Broadway and international productions as well as a film adaptation starring Pitch Perfect’s Anna Kendrick, The Last Five Years finally arrives on the West…
“Why is Opera important? Because it’s real-er than any play”.
The opening minute or so of School of Rock immediately sets the stall for what to expect and what to accept in order to enjoy the rollicking fun show ahead.
When the voice of Bryony Kimmings - writer and director of this piece and “performance artist by trade” - asks at the start “how could you make a show about illness and death wit…
It’s not just the eponymous seldom heard, often bullied, fragile young girl LV who struggles to be heard in Jim Cartwright’s classic tragicomedy The Rise and Fall – finding he…
Much can be understood by words that aren’t spoken.
There are a number of uses for the word ‘epic’ and this production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly stylised play clearly sets out to be defined by them all.
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We encounter the Workcenter’s deepening of an exploration of the human being in action, as Mr Richards guides us through the phases of the Workcenter’s performing arts research…
We encounter the Workcenter’s deepening of an exploration of the human being in action, as Mr Richards guides us through the phases of the Workcenter’s performing arts research…
Returning after a sell-out gig in 2015, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
A guitar and organ driven blues trio, the band was formed in 2014 by Dundee-born guitarist Simon Kennedy.
If you’ve ever cursed Human Resources for making you work with such unreasonable people, you should see what Thomas has to put up with! Mike Bartlett’s 2013 tale of Darwinian c…
There’s a very British way of how we process learning about atrocities going on in the world that many of us know little about - first humour, then guilt, a desire to somehow “fi…
Back at the Fringe again for another trip down memory lane.
Wild man of the accordion and frontman of Burach and the Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums, Out of his Box and Out…
A scintillating 13-piece live band, featuring percussion and brass sections and fronted by Stu Goodall pay reverence to the songs of Paul Simon with an explosive show.
Knowing Smirk return to the Fringe, where BroadwayBaby.
Plastics harm our world, right? Costing us energy, using up resources and polluting? Wrong.
Procrastination may confound human progress and productivity, but it also provides the inspiration for Brick by Brick’s fantastic, multimedia clown show.
Performed by a company of young actors, this is a credible adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely performed King John that revels in the high stakes of its historical narrative.
Simon Munnery marks his 30th year of Fringe shows with an unmissable, one-off gala.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
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.
Improvisation is the one word that can strike fear into the heart of any actor no matter what their experience.
There aren’t many plays with a cast of teenagers that are this slick.
It’s hard to imagine a more emotionally-gruelling hour of theatre: three women held prisoner by an abusive patriarch finally free themselves from his clutches by shooting him in …
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
The Spelling Bee is a beloved American pastime, encouraging good sportsmanship and the pleasure of taking part; however, deep down it becomes clear every contestant has a thirst fo…
They’re back! For seven nights only, with a selection of hot favourites from over 648 years of song, satire and hilarity.
Married multi-instrumentalists from South Africa: that’s what this folk duo define themselves as and it describes them perfectly.
I’ve finally found it: the Fringiest show at the Fringe! Hyena is a free-wheeling, difficult, often uncomfortable and sometime revelatory experience.
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a fourth year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
You’ve seen the film, now here’s the musical.
In a world where it’s possible to trade time off your life to change your body into society’s definition of perfection, how much time would you spare? 5 Years is a very eye ope…
The Alex MacDonald Band plays a unique brand of Scottish folk-rock that has been acclaimed in venues large and small across the country.
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
Steeped in the funk, soul and jazz traditions, The Groove Band have selected some great classic tunes and given them new life, injecting their own brand of groove, infused with exc…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From sets at the Olympic Closing Ceremony and Brit, MOBO and Mercury awards to live sessions on BBC Two, Sky Arts, BBC Radio 2 and Jazz FM, from collaborations with the likes of Am…
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings a night of music and song from the golden age of the crooners.
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.
The music, song and dance of the Medieval and Renaissance worlds is brought to life by the city’s famous early music group.
Dan Offen (Amused Moose semi-finalist) and Jonny Gillam bring you this slice of alternative comedy.
Festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and FCUKulele featuring guests like Hot Tin Roof, Mike Whellans, Heidrum, Mud in Your Ear, Coaltown Daises, Chilli D…
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Ross and Tom return to the Fringe with a new show after their sell-out performances in 2013 and 2014.
Ian Bruce and Ian Walker combined have been producing songs for 80 years! Their creative partnership is unique in current Scottish folk music, both for the quality and worldwide re…
Gamers all over the world spend weeks, months and in some cases years creating in game content but is stays just that; in-game.
David Payne, having already portrayed C.
In the summer of 1990, four lads from Liverpool were working on renovating and decorating the palace of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when they were taken hostage by Saddam and his…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Satellite images now cover every inch of the world.
Rarely performed and more or less unknown to all but the most hardcore of Shakespeare addicts, Troilus and Cressida explores star-crossed love and political machinations in the mid…
With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing.
Safehouse return to the festival playing their highly acclaimed Allman Brothers set, including classics from the At the Fillmore East album, Whipping Post, In Memory of Elizabeth R…
A story of ambition and love, Big Shot captivates with a blend of energy and poignance infused in its music and its characters.
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
If you’re expecting an uncomfortable exploration of mental health issues and the stigmas associated with them, the tone of Happy Yet? might catch you off-guard.
Glasgow’s big darling brings her distinct brand of magic to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A music and projection performance through the prism of blues with live music by Justin Lavash and projections by Darrell Jónsson.
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together for the fourth year in a row to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the Americ…
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
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…
Combining the bawdy naughtiness of St Trinian’s, the desire to escape sobriety, language and depiction of true Scottishness of Trainspotting, with beautiful choral harmonies and …
‘Simply outstanding jazz musicianship’ (Turin International Jazz Festival).
Weird cabaret. At the end of the day does it matter? Comedy pioneers Nina Conti and Simon Munnery bring their playful best, plus oddball guests from across the Fringe.
Blues and Roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist-vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Simon David is the next big music sensation but what makes him unique? He’s a virgin! Co-written by Fringe First Winner Chris Larner, Simon & his live band tell the story of his di…
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
Dying is a universal human activity, and it shows no sign of abating.
New for this year: Main Street Blues have created a fully acoustic blues and roots show with a powerful set of original material plus blues classics.
Blues – the base root of modern music – presented by popular, in demand Edinburgh four-piece, playing lovable, timeless standards plus some driving originals.
Fat Head and the Big Dog is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Ireland’s fast-rising comedians Aaron McCann and Dave Elliott.
A mixed bill of northern dance theatre our kid (close sibling) would be proud of! Bit brassic (short of cash)? Fear not! Grab yourself a ticket and get two shows for the price of o…
Fringe royalty Ali McGregor takes the helm of this reimagining of the Big Comedy Gala in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, with special guest Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cummin…
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band with a powerful set of up-tempo original material plus new and old blues classics.
The American High School Theatre Festival presents Little Shop of Horrors, a wacky musical journey downtown to Skid Row, a poor run-down neighbourhood where all its residents want …
Real DJs, in real clubs playing real music, free glow sticks and transfer tattoos.
In a sitcom-esque black comedy, three bohemian students lazily speculate about the end of the world, until they begin to suspect that one of them might have taken drastic action ag…
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
VICE contributor/NY comedian, Harmon Leon has made a career infiltrating extremist hate groups in America.
The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not the only force of nature that ripped families apart.
Big Bite is celebrating it’s 10-year Fringe anniversary with a ‘best of’ showcase: although an enjoyable selection of short pieces - effectively boiling down to long sketches…
Renaissance tragedies are rarely as enjoyably silly as Wanton Theatre’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
A Free Fringe double bill of stand-up with no particular theme, Irish comedians Keith Fox and Ger Staunton underwhelm with their unassuming stage presence and only mildly amusing h…
Why do we stop playing? What might make us start again? All those guitars propped up in bedrooms.
Harriet Dyer is accidentally alternative.
Celebrate good times! Come on! The Geordie Giant brings an upbeat hour of observational and joke-filled stand-up about our drinking culture and nights out.
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
A sure contender for Best Title for a Comedy Show at this year’s Fringe, George Zacharopoulos’s riches-to-rags tale is just as entertaining as it sounds.
In the setting of voice, bass and guitar, Sophie Bancroft and Tom Lyne create a dynamic, entertaining and intimate interpretation of beautiful songs.
In an hour that mixes spoken word and storytelling, Zöe Murtagh explores the symptoms and stigmas faced by anxiety sufferers in a show co-written with Victoria Copeland.
100 years of blues, one hour to play it.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
Following the story of an Irish emigrant’s relationship with her father, Remember to Breathe is quietly affecting rather than arresting; assured and well-rounded rather than boun…
Java Dance Theatre have somewhat sworn myself and the rest of the audience to silence after the triumph that is Back of the Bus so as not to ruin the wonderful surprises in store f…
Simon and Garfunkel: Through the Years is a blend of incredibly accurate live performance and multimedia, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after sell-out runs in both 2014 and 201…
You are about to be transported to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas where you have the opportunity to be the star of the show! This is the UK’s first and only full production int…
Vesna Tominac Matacic’s adaptation of the works of Croatian poet Vesna Parun is an impassioned and beautiful spectacle that somehow still manages to feel lacking in substance.
Spiders by Night is one of the more intimate Fringe shows: two monologues about spiders and mental health difficulties.
A three-piece version of award-winning band The Blueswater plays a mix of original songs and arranged covers, with a raucous sound reminiscent of Mississippi Hill Country blues.
One of the things I’ve noticed about this year’s Fringe is the number of stellar one-woman shows, and Prime Cut Productions’ Scorch is the best so far.
In a single dining room revisited over the course of the 20th Century, a series of family dramas show the decline of the American upper-middle class.
An improvised Jane Austen novel was always going to be a lot of fun, and Austentatious’s talented cast certainly delivered an amusing hour of comedy.
Steam lives up to its name, delivering a staggeringly intense hour of physical theatre.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents his personal history of early blues and roots music in an intimate solo show.
Rare chance to enjoy this unique talent performing thought-provoking, evocative original songs in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
There is always plenty of political comedy at the Fringe, but rarely as passionate and earnest as James Meehan’s Class Act.
Imagination and reality collide in the world of Simon Slack.
Manchild autocorrect nightmare Feilder returns after his ‘delightful debut hour’ **** (Metro), with another hot batch of jokes, films, sounds and stupidity.
What do you do when your singing partner vanishes? For twee Scottish children’s entertainer, Gerald Wee Gerry Hoots Galbraith, he grew a beard and went full art folk.
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…
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
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…
Peter White made a controversial decision to write a stand-up show about the problems faced by straight, white men, and it’s unclear whether this is quite brave or a terrible mis…
Simon Munnery performs for his 30th year at the Fringe.
BBC Radio 4‘s multi award-winner Viv Groskop presents Be More Margo, the follow-up to her sold-out five-star 2015 debut.
Perhaps one of the most entertaining shows I have seen on the Free Fringe, Lovehard consists of comedians Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (see what they did there?), who in what is …
Pete Otway takes the opportunity in his first Edinburgh solo show to get audiences up to speed with what’s been happening in his life up to now.
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe.
Twenty second year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
This is the forgotten story of a controversial gang that robbed the streets of London for over a hundred years.
Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Alternative comedy duo Siân and Zoë are taking a ship (theatre) full of lucky cosmonauts on a relaxing mindfulness retreat.
Push to Shove Theatre Company have devised a simplified version of Dracula giving it the justice it deserves without taking anything away from Bram Stoker’s original concept.
Femmetamorphosis is an easy going play that explores the relationships of five very different characters as they help one of their own through a nasty break up.
What is love? In an immersive clown show with an interesting lyrical vein, Sean Kempton (of Cirque du Soleil) attempts to find out.
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
Dressed like a hip hop stereotype and with an accent he describes as “Forrest Gump on crack”, LJ Da Funk is the brainchild of stand-up Zac Splijt.
Susie McCabe’s worst fears are coming true: she’s slowly turning into her parents.
Despite coming across as likeable and charming, Romina Puma’s stand-up set doesn’t provoke too many laughs.
If you’re looking for some genuinely funny political comedy, Rahul Kohli is your man.
An adaptation of Jan Guillou’s semi-autobiographical novel, which went on to become an Oscar-nominated film in 2003, Evil tells the story of systematic bullying and brutality at …
Join Danny as he goes through a year that has seen him dumped by his girlfriend on the set of a BBC drama, nearly get beaten up by his dad, discover internet dating, have a health …
Returning to a bigger room after last year’s sell-outs, MC Andy Stedman hosts a mash-up of some of the top comedians at the Fringe together with up-and-coming newer faces.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
Matty Finlayson, noun – A hard-hitting action-packed gigolo, not dissimilar to a high-class call girl.
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
As soon as Stuart Mitchell entered the room, I knew I was in a safe pair of hands.
Part monologue, part stand-up show, Lana Schwarcz (writer, actor, puppeteer and comedian) shares her experience of breast cancer with honest emotion and cheesy one-liners.
I should declare an interest here.
On top of the breakfast (croissant, coffee and strawberries), there is a handful of ten-minute theatre pieces that are eccentric, funny and outrageous.
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…
Smart may seem innovative in putting Facebook and Tinder at the heart of a drama, but this cannot compensate for boring and one-dimensional characters and a tedious plot.
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
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…
There are a fair number of improvised comedies this year, but Degrees of Error’s Murder She Didn’t Write is causing a particular buzz.
The incoming audience is met by a tall man resplendent in shorts, M&S shirt buttoned to the collar and white joke shop beard.
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.
Jamie MacDonald comes from a tradition of endearingly grumpy comics, ranting affably about all of life’s niggles, from racist taxi drivers to obnoxious ramblers.
Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle.
Like a family-friendly version of Sin City with hand puppets, The Toyland Murders follows the adventures of Inspector McGraw (Becca Jones) and her deputy as they attempt to track d…
Delivered with buckets of energy and enthusiasm, Felicity Ward’s new show is lively, facetious and a little erratic.
It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue than the Demonstration Room at Summerhall for Nick Cassenbaum’s coming of age tale.
Come for an immersive ‘clubbing’ atmosphere and free face paint; stay for perceptive political dilemmas and great naturalistic performances.
It’s a pretty short drive to Stockbridge, I’ve got a full tank of gas, no cigarettes whatsoever, it’s dark.
After Mafia? and Western? at previous Fringes, comedy trio Sleeping Trees now turn their gaze to the stars.
Anyone looking for important and assured new writing would be well-advised to give Ecce Theatre’s Crazed a look.
During thirty years of exhibitions programming Inverleith House has originated and presented some of the most memorable exhibitions ever staged in the UK, and achieved an internati…
Spending a full day (11 hours from first curtain up to last curtain call) watching three of Chekhov’s early plays (hence the ‘Young’ of the title) may not sound like the most fun…
Sean O’Casey may not himself have fought during the infamous Easter Rising of 1916 but, nonetheless, his play is still borne of personal knowledge and first-hand involvement.
With its clipped accents, simmering tension, undulating music and themes of mental anguish and sexual tension, Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is quintessentially old-school…
Calling the run-down Greek shack that acts as the entire setting of this play a ‘Villa’ and then naming it after Thalia (representing comedy as the Greek Goddess of Festivity), A…
With Into The Woods – possibly one of Sondheim’s most accessible musicals – known fairy tales are twisted into an allegory for today’s times; stripping away Red Riding Hood, …
Whilst always a welcome promoter of new writing and new experiments in theatre, more recently The Royal Court’s choice of programme has been called divisive at best and pretentio…
George Orwell’s 1984 still resonates today because for all the disturbingly dark ways that the events of the story unfold, his key themes of conspiracy, class and governmental an…
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
Masculinity meets Artificial Intelligence in jukebox sci-fi ‘The Daddy Blues’.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind, and reconnect with the world.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind; and reconnect with the world.
Marilyn Carino’s torchy, existential electro-soul has been likened to “Nina Simone coming back from the dead to front Morcheeba”; her latest album, ‘Leaves, Sadness, Science’ deeme…
As I’ve said before, whilst important times in history demand to be explored in theatre and film – and often bring raw emotion with them the more recent the history is – subj…
‘Now I’m a Big Boy!’ is written, produced and performed by young people, tackling issues of growing up and the problems surrounding sexual consent.
An exploration into award-winning playwright, Simon Stephen’s work.
A pair of comedic short plays simultaneously celebrating and condemning modern life, sandwiched in sketches: A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, and a contemporary fa…
Internationally-acclaimed proponent of the steel pan (steel drum) Rachel Hayward returns to the Fringe with a solo recital in the beautiful setting of Brighton’s oldest building, p…
Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show.
A twisted, tender comedy about dealing with your dark side.
If like me you find an Irish accent a wondrous tool capable, in a single crank, of spinning the very stars in the gutter, and if, like me also, you enjoy nothing better than a bi…
In January 2015, topical comedian Alistair Barrie’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, which gave him some perspective on what really constitutes bad news.
Like gags? Want a proper laugh? AGM, last year’s runners-up of the Fringe Guru 2015 Audience Choice award, are ‘Back In Business’ with Adams, Galletly and Murph returning once mo…
A brand new work-in-progress about snobbery, class, Britishness and The Good Life, fuelled entirely by gin.
Orkestra del Sol’s explosive reinvention of global brass band music has captured imaginations and left a trail of pummeled dance floors across continents.
A common preconception of Brecht’s work is that his political views, his ‘anti-theatre’ style and the didactic tag that precedes any conversation about it, creates theatre that s…
A “Bold, subversive and very funny” clown cookery show about searching for self worth in a cheesecake.
Pulling up a stool in front of the intimate, softly lit stage down in the basement of Komedia, reminiscent of so many NYC music venues, the audience and I settled in to enjoy the…
Brighton & Hove is a city of contrasts.
Eva is often drawn to paint the pathways through the chalky hills of Sussex and loves the challenge of capturing its contours and shifting colours and light.
Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
The Blues Corporation returns! New material, new show.
Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.
Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed…
This clever infusion of comedy and burlesque from Dexys’ former piano man Pete Saunders proved to be a treat.
Everything you ever wanted to know about everything .
It’s not that unusual to see something that sweeps you up, makes you believe in the characters and feel their emotional pain, throws energy at you with hard guitar riffs and make…
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
The trumpet in the history of jazz featuring compositions and arrangements by the kings of jazz as well as new works.
An intimate, audience-collaborative theatre show with projected imagery and text messaging, exploring love, desire and dating with your clothes on.
Another week, another example of storytelling to be seen at Greenwich Theatre, with The Flanagan Collective’s gently soporific tale of the strive for idealism in today’s frenetic…
The fantastical, magical stories created by Roald Dahl have proven themselves to have the potential to inspire family shows that enthral rather than patronise with the award-winn…
Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman’s original script for The Suicide was seen as such a strong satirical attack on the Communist Russian Government that it was branded ‘dangero…
Over three hours into Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comment on the everyday existence of the everyman, The Flick, one of the characters says that (his) “life may be depr…
Ashley Austin Morris hosts this solid evening of stand-up, with sets from Dan Soder, Subhah Agarwal, Michael Brigante and Guilio Gallarotti.
You don’t need to have read any of the Arthur Conan Doyle novels in order to feel that you know a great deal about Sherlock Holmes.
Fanny Brice’s prowess and fame were arguably due to her impeccable comic timing and clown-like performances, combined with a powerful singing voice that could both move you with …
For some strange and unknown reason, the idea of witches and witchcraft tends not to carry the darkness or horror that other (possibly) mythical demons do – even though there w…
For all we may use the platitude that “life is too short”, the harsh reality is that for most of us, it is anything but – and we fill the many minutes, hours and days bemoa…
It’s difficult for many people today – and not just those whose lives weren’t directly impacted – to really understand the common sense background to what my Mum (and the BBC…
The legendary pair of James Levine and Plácido Domingo have defined Verdi’s art for more than four decades.
If someone was to lose their grip on the concept of time as being linear, then the accepted psychological structure of how things happen, when, where and with whom, may break dow…
If you believe ‘youth is wasted on the young’, then just for a second imagine it was lived by the not-so-young.
Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination.
Everybody lies; small lies, big lies, white lies and lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to start what some may say is an illegal war.
With the current societal hatred for bankers and their sky high bonuses, we may put aside any thought for the young individuals who throw away any chance for a personal life, wit…
Families eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t legally murder them for feeling that you have no more in common than a bloodline.
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…
I’m lucky that I’ve had no first hand experience of the impact of the disease looked at in The Father so my knowledge is only general rather than personal.
Seemingly wanting to be judged as the output of an experiment rather than a ‘proper show’, Beyond The Fence is the result of Sky Arts TV documentary Computer Says Show, which…
Tim FitzHigham has spent many years investigating – and replaying – the bizarre pastime of making bets for the sake of making bets.
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…
A mixed troupe of lost souls find comfort in each other in the enjoyment of telling “silly little stories about silly little things” that are extensions and exaggerations of the…
Those of a certain age (likely to be over 40) who took Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds double LP record to their hearts - and those who found it on one of its many re-releases…
We find the notion of the waste of anything in life shameful, if not sinful – removing, as it does, any idea of success or achievement by focusing instead on what could or shou…
A story of how the roots of religion generally – and Deep South American Christianity specifically – may be preached, but is little more than a series of made-up stories and …
Come on a journey back to Christmas Eve, 1904, and the dramatic events of the Coliseum’s opening night.
There have been a lot of Simon Munneries over the years.
Marty Feldman’s style of comedy - and indeed his story - is of a very specific time in the annals of British entertainment.
When your life is borne of problems, pain and lies, the longer you don’t – or can’t – do anything to improve it, the more you may take an almost masochistic solace (from the …
Caryl Churchill rarely does interviews and never discusses the meanings behind her plays (even her stage directions are scant) - so I would be building myself up for a fall if I …
When faced with the knowledge that one has a high risk of a potentially terminal illness such as cancer, there are many different ways of dealing with the news.
Hartshorn - Hook Productions presents The Blues Brothers XMAS Special, the most electric rock'n'roll party of the year.
To ring in the new year, Jenn Welch and Jay Malsky host this “evening of comedy, song and unsolicited advice,” featuring live performances, a dance party, prizes and an…
The special New Year’s Eve edition of Peggy O’Leary and Lucas Connolly’s regular show, which mixes drinking games and stand-up, includes performances by Nick Turn…
One the eve of New Year’s Eve, the comedian Jo Firestone and a crew of amateur dancers will paint their faces in the colors of the rainbow and improvise synchronized dances t…
“Gallows humour” probably lives in the same area as sarcasm, self-deprecation and the “stiff upper lip” as stereotypically British ways of how to deal with difficult or challengi…
The People’s Improv Theater presents ‘Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic’, the story of a boy’s coming of age as a member of the Puff…
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…
Through the Mill is a new play about the life of Judy Garland by Ray Rackman, currently playing at the London Theatre Workshop.
We Grew Up in the Back of a Van is a fun and energetic show with a big heart.
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
Panto is the season for daytime TV stars and sportsmen past their fighting prime to don outrageous costumes and deliver hackneyed dialogue.
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…
With stage musicals being turned into movies, books into plays, and singers’ back catalogues into flimsy show storylines, it’s becoming rare these days to see a piece of theatre (o…
It’s a somewhat hackneyed saying - favoured by many a High School teacher of English Literature - that if Shakespeare were alive today then he would likely be writing for soap op…
Even if you don’t know the whole story of F.
Walking into the Donmar with the seating closed in, the stage set with a circle of wooden school chairs and the colour drained from a metallic coloured set and cold lighting, you…
Friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, this popular circus takes travel as its theme this year, with its performers cavorting as Jazz Age sailors, aviators and sightseers.
The Thirty Years Tour is a brand new stage show in which Michael Palin, aided and abetted by a rich and often rare archive of film, video, photos and recordings, looks back over th…
Join Fife’s biggest, most fabulous big band for a sumptuous afternoon of classic tunes from Count Basie to Maynard Ferguson.
Settle back and enjoy another big night in with the Silver Darlings.
A toe-tapping evening of music from the era when swing was king with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals – everything from Basie to Bublé.
Rock’n’roll spectacle! What are you looking for in an American rock band? Energy? Passion? General shenanigans? TMSB is coming to EdFringe! Guitars, keys, harmonies, drums, bass, a…
Back after a year off, Die Roten Punkte take the helm of this fundraiser for Macmillan.
Lili la Scala (AFVS) hosts this family-friendly variety show in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
The iconic sound of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons recreated in this feel-good concert.
Back at the Fringe again after a gap of a few years, for another trip down memory lane.
How different is Scotland in 2015, to Scotland in 1835? As good education is increasingly costly and inaccessible to the poor, are we seeing our modern ‘lords and gentlemen’ believ…
London’s brass juggernaut makes its Fringe debut for three shows only, fresh from floor-filling gigs across Europe.
Pressure.
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a third year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
Tearing it up with his own raucous interpretation of traditional blues, Pistol Pete Wearn is a renowned vocalist, slide guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter.
Following their 2014 sell-out Fringe performance, the SLJO are back with an all new set featuring the finest tunes from the golden era of Big Band.
Join Sue Perkins for BBC Two’s Festival highlights show, with live music, discussions, performance and comedy.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band and guests: Sandy Tweeddale, Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, Maria Barham, and On The Wag…
Heady musical cocktail of Fitkin, Nyman, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos served by master mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, S…
It isn’t just through watching the plays of the Bard that you can get a taste of culture here at the Fringe; the Edinburgh Renaissance Band are bards of a different sort.
Mark Dean Quinn returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fifth year running attempting to win the best newcomer award.
A bumper-length show giving you the chance to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows, courtesy of some of your favourite…
Wild man of the accordion and front man of Burach and The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums Out Of His Box and Out…
Simon Mayo broadcasts live from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue. Join us for a mix of live music, in-depth interviews, and a daily dose of the Radio 2 Book Club.
If there was a drop of water for every play ever staged about how money won’t bring you happiness during the Fringe, then Edinburgh would experience major flooding.
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee with the final part of this year’s solo show trilogy.
Vanity Bites Back is a clown show about anorexia.
Celtabilly meets country, with a doff of the cap to the Man in Black.
Twelfth year at the Fringe! From Billie Holiday to Ray Charles, Lisa sings with passion and humour, with ease and sophistication.
Scotland’s visionary guitarist/composer returns with an astonishingly powerful new trio line-up of his award-winning Indo-Western ensemble, with Raju das Baul, mesmerising exponent…
The Rising – A Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band.
The David Latto Band bring their brand of celtic-tinged Americana to AMC@St Bride’s and the Fringe for the first time.
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul jazz from dynamic pianist and vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar.
Fun for all the family – a hugely popular, inspirational hour.
How often is your creative practice playful? Is fun the thing we’re scared to have? Amid the pressures of the Fringe, Poorboy/The Bell Rock Co.
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Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Local songwriter Allan Grant.
This acclaimed big band return to the Fringe for the third time, having previously sold out.
In Poker Night Blues, Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire is undone – dismantled and distilled to its essential elements.
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
This double bill of new writing by Tom Coash brings us to Cairo, where we’re welcomed with dates and hookah pipes.
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
Daniel Smith Blues Piano.
Alistair Barrie (‘Excellent’ Independent) is one of the most widely respected topical comics on the international circuit.
Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show.
Five teenagers wake up in a void, neither knowing each other, or how they got there.
‘Boogie-woogie.
Toby Mottershead presents an excellent selection of blues tracks in a 50 minute display of musical talent in the SpaceTriplex venue on Nicolson Square.
The title of this show refers to the three core acts, Gary Sansome (all Scots like haggis, right?), Irishman Andrew Gilmore (the booze, of course), and Israeli standup Daphna Baram…
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…
Created by the wonderful Pete Saunders and his lovely ladies Miss Vicious Delicious and the delightful Scarlet Belle, Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour offers an enchanting evening o…
Uncover the linguistic layers of a Russian doll! Hear yourself in Nastya Rybachuk’s contemporary, provocative and witty verses.
Big Silly Midnight Mash-Up: Hot prospects, special guests and host Andy Stedman. Laugh, drink and get your party hat on.
Fancy watching a comedian perform their club set during the world’s largest arts festival? You’re in luck.
100 years of blues, 55 minutes to play it.
Named after New Orleans’ historic red-light district, Blues! Storyville features the raunchiest, smuttiest blues songs ever written, guest burlesque performers, and the band behind…
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
Dan Haynes and Pete Richards of Bookends have returned to the Fringe to once again give us their mesmerising renditions of some of Simon and Garfunkel’s most beloved songs.
Rare chance to enjoy this unique, individual talent performing his thought-provoking, evocative original songs in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
Boogie on down with sassylicious Vicious Delicious and divatastic Scarlett Belle for a late night disco-cabaret at the historic Caledonian Hotel.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
Our pick of the best new shows opening at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015. Line-up TBC.
Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’.
Dave Callan, Irish born Australian based comedian brings the sequel to last years must see comedy dance spectacular to Edinburgh.
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
If you’re living right, this could happen to you.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
Simon Munnery believes that the camera should be used more in live performance, and the result is the fantastical world of his Fylm School.
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
Great Scott! 2015, still no hoverboards.
Simon returns once again to what he does, being himself for an hour.
Juliet Meyers, comedian, comedy writer (Sarah Millican Television Programme, Mock the Week, News Quiz) and natural outsider doesn’t belong.
Die-hard fans of classic BBC Sitcom Dad’s Army will particularly enjoy this panel discussion, Q&A and selection of nostalgic clips from Ian Lavender, aka Private Pike, and fellow…
Take a punt at lunchtime.
John R.
Our 21st year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Henry Ginsberg is a true outsider; never popular enough to be accepted into the mainstream, but never quite anti-establishment enough to be accepted into any ‘alternative’ tribes.
For me, beginning any show with Huey Lewis And The News is a good omen, particularly when their hit single The Power of Love featured prominently in the eponymous sci-fi trilogy so…
Mike Wozniak’s probably best known for playing moustachioed misfit Brian in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down.
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe. Four different comedians to the earlier show. Two hours, four acts for £10 or less. ‘Top comedy, top value’ (List).
In short, we’ll let others speak! ‘Doing it his way, the ghost of Sinatra lives on’ (Times).
American smart ass showcases the wit that got him described as ‘a mix between Jack Dee and Dennis Leary’ (BroadwayBaby.
Let Michael Hill entertain you with his misadventures living in Japan’s capital – battling cultural differences and language barriers, braving earthquakes, teaching English poo…
As featured on Live at the Apollo (BBC One), The Royal Variety Show (ITV), Wild Things (Sky), Snaptastic (TV3), the Sony Radio Gold Award-winning The Jason Byrne Show (BBC Radio 2)…
Fight Back at 50 is the ultimate antidote to the mid-life crisis.
If your life had a sequel, would it be better, or would you waste that second chance on a story with no soul? Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show winner Buxton Fringe 2014 p…
There’s a very fine line between watching an actual, heart-in-mouth onstage breakdown and one that’s convincingly feigned.
As the bombastic theme tune starts playing, waves of nostalgia roll across the audience.
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s much-loved Young Adult novel Back to Blackbrick is adapted in a technically ambitious production from Patch of Blue.
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 nervous Barry Twyford (from Crackwhore and Mingpiece Market Research) takes to the stage and explains that he has accidentally booked himself to do a show at the Edinburgh Frin…
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
If you’re planning on making the trip to see Baby Wants Candy, get your title suggestions ready now! The audience for his fully improvised musical comedy has barely taken their s…
When you’ve a mouth this big, is it any wonder you get into trouble? The Fringe’s favourite comedian, broadcaster, journalist and chef explains all in a brand new show.
If you’re looking for an enjoyable, happy-go-lucky hour of rhythm and blues entertainment, then look no further than this show.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
Patrick Monahan likes to boogie.
Big Shot is subtitled, “This is not The Godfather”.
A Scotsman, an Irishman and a Jew are back for a second year upon popular demand – the 2 Celts and a Cougar – Andrew Gilmore, Gary Sansome and Daphna Baram, are hosting a late-…
The publicity for this new revival of Tommy at Greenwich Theatre talks a lot about it marking 40 years since the original film was released of The Who’s 1969 concept album - and …
Serial Innovator Simon Munnery returns with a preview of a brand new show.
(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…
We will discover how our individual clown works, how to accept and play with the audience, making them laugh and in turn, love us! Whether you are a performer or not, being free an…
The Last Five Years, by the darling of the Contemporary musical theatre world Jason Robert Brown, is about struggling actress Cathy and successful novelist Jamie’s five year rela…
Grammy winner Tom Paxton’s ‘50 Years On UK Tour’ with special guest Robin Bullock.
Stand-up comedian from the Netherlands, Arna Spek is trying to blend in with the English! Will she succeed? Join Arna for an epic story, full of dangerously awkward moments.
Work in progress.
Soak up the swing.
It’s 2015, and still no hoverboards.
Hebden Bridge Blues Festival: “This was a quite breath-taking performance by a phenomenal musician who brought the clamouring audience to its feet on more than one occasion and had…
The legendary Brighton based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
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…
Wyrd-O! Tales From The Absurdicon Go-Anywhere theatre that recklessly pulls at the threads of reality.
Have you ever had an earth-shatteringly good idea? Phil Buckley hasn’t.
‘Bookends’ perform the most authentic sounding tribute to the unforgettable music of Simon and Garfunkel.
‘Flamenco Blues’ arrives with a tender tribute to blues and flamenco.
Since 2007, award-winning a cappella sensation In the Smoke has been bringing the cream of London’s vocal talent to audiences across the UK.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman… Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family.
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…
Sy Thomas is a nice guy.
Brighton’s most legendary walking tour introduces you to an intriguing labyrinth of hidden byways, some unfamiliar even to local residents.
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show Winner at the Buxton Fringe 2014.
Guns! Gags! Gizmos! Be shaken, stirred and seduced by the heady cocktail that is the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they go back to the Bond Age.
(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 colorful production, by the directors Todd Twala and Thembi Nyandeni, celebrates the culture and history of South Africa through dance, song and storytelling performed by a ca…
Emmy Blotnick invites two headlining comics to perform 30-minute sets. This month’s guests are Adam Newman and Gary Gulman.
Expect high-octane energy at the New York debut of this Venezuelan quartet made up of principals of the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra.
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
“Metamorphosis” is the theme of the latest edition of the Big Apple Circus, now nested at Lincoln Center for the holidays.
In this two-man show, the Australian actor John R.
Pyramid and Parr Hall: 5th Sep 6pm.
Familiar to many thousands of music fans as the front man in the Scottish rock band Idlewild, Roddy Woomble is also a celebrated solo songwriter and performer.
Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within.
Come and join us for a show of classic big band music played by this popular band.
The EClub, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host Simon as part of our Fringe series.
Settle back and enjoy ‘a big night in with the Silver Darlings’.
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
A young woman sits on the floor in a bright upper room in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, a large rucksack with a sleeping roll dumped by her side.
An original musical based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; a grotesque allegory of the American Dream.
Inspired by the public performances of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the less decorated but more alive writer and actor B.
I gave up studying all forms of science at the age of 15, so on the surface, I would not be the natural choice for Jim Al-Khalili’s Quantum – Still Crazy After All These Yea…
Simon Mayo broadcasts live from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue.
Inspired by Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Back Door is the story of Tabitha Montgomery, a ballsy British reporter who has recently broken her leg, and John, her American houseboy, who d…
We’re back with another bumper-length show for a fantastic cause! Hosted by Jo Caulfield, this comedy extravaganza gives you a chance to preview a selection of this year’s top …
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
The Edinburgh Fringe is brimming with acts from Down Under, but you probably won’t witness any more authentic than Susie and Mel in their storytelling show Back Out From The Outb…
Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe.
One of the great institutions of Scottish traditional music.
Led by the visionary Scottish guitar virtuoso, Simon Thacker’s Ritmata play exhilaratingly direct new music combining sounds from every corner of the globe with the incredible musi…
With Fringe sell-out show awards and an appearance in the Guinness Book of Records to their name, Jon Ritchie’s Swing Sensation Big Band makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Fri…
A set of rocking Chicago blues, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Direct from Melbourne, Australia, The Perch Creek Family Jugband are a band of five energetic multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, four of whom happen to be siblings.
The festival’s best free music event, 20th year hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk ‘n’ fun band and guests - Sandy Tweeddale, FCUkulele, Bedford Falls, Gallo Rojo, an…
Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically trained.
Dancing in the Streets continues bringing dance outdoors with this festival tailored to three green spaces in the Bronx.
From the band behind award-winning show Blues! comes a selection of not quite family friendly blues songs that couldn’t be picked for the show.
Like most men of his age and delusion, Simon Evans dreams of striking out into The Wild and slipping the surly bonds of suburbia.
Three women, three generations, tied together not only by blood but also by the magic of the river that runs through their remote Finnish town.
Wild man of the accordion and frontman of Burach and The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience, Sandy Brechin plays fast and funky favourites from his albums Out of His Box and Out …
Leo finds hope in the eyes of a girl.
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
In the Pink are a young all female 10-piece a capella group who perform variations of hit pop and hip hop.
Passing Through is a show-case of Kingston University student playwrights and comes in 2 parts.
39 years is the average age of death for someone on the streets.
‘I like to have a martini, two at the very most.
Alex Rossi and friends roll a mash-up of traditional blues, the swagger of hip-hop and the high energy of rock’n’roll into three funky hours of music. Special Fringe guests!
In John O’Farrell’s 25 Years of Writing Stupid Jokes, he tells the story of his comedy career: first as a writer on the likes of Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You a…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Journey into the hearts of the people on the home front.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues! They will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar, one of Edinburgh’s best live music venues.
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Sumptuously celebrating the golden age of shipboard romance, while forging full steam into the future, Scotland’s premier swing sensation The Loveboat Big Band invite you aboard …
Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns with its ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
In a world where World War Two never took place, an Austrian politician by the name of Adolf Hitler enters the Big Brother house.
Set on a vintage red bus, this delightful dance piece oozes charm and captures the imagination.
Shirley Lauro’s drama All Through the Night opens badly, but it gets better.
In the 1970s, 9,000 people were employed at the Linwood car factory near Paisley.
Down-home blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano/vocals, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
A celebration of human flaws.
‘Boogie-woogie.
A unique blend of nonsense, magic, mayhem, physical comedy and wit.
Ghostbusters turns 30 this year.
Have you ever heard of the law of attraction? Have you ever heard of manifestation? Believe and you will receive! Motivational speaker Anthony Dobbins will show you how dreams real…
Struan Logan and John Sheppard are funny, charming and handsome (on average) comedians.
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle…
As seen on Russell Howard’s Good News, the award-winning, Perrier-nominated, Amused Moose Top 10 Comedy Show 2013, ‘gifted comic’ (Sunday Times) returns with a new show about l…
Clean lines, natural materials and twisted forms are found in the works of the five Danish artists who have interpreted their feelings and reverence for the Scottish wilderness wit…
Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour is an enjoyable, if not particularly spectacular, way to spend an hour.
Hurt & Anderson are bringing sketchy back.
Thankfully, there was no combination of singing and acupuncture.
With an enviable variety of excellent voices and a real commitment to his physicality, Simon Jay skilfully portrays the various characters crammed into the tragic life story of his…
Rick Kiesewetter talks about being Asian (not Oriental), being raised on the Jersey Shore and how living in the UK for 18 years has made him wonderfully British.
In coming to write this show I believed my job would be as easy as pie.
A rare chance to see award-winning Scottish songwriter and leading fingerstyle guitarist in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
This is a sketch comedy show, suitable for all those that enjoy great jokes and a storyline to go with it.
This is a show about seeing patterns in the random; about time’s ability to change perception; about coming to terms with death and working through depression.
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
When did kissing and cuddling become vanilla? When did it become cool to be a geek? Are all failed artists doomed to work in Kwik Fit? What if Jesus Christ was a republican? Self-d…
David Bowie said ‘Scotland, stay with us’.
Our pick of the best new shows and breakthrough performances from the Edinburgh Festivals 2014.
Seven years with Ray Charles, Barbara Morrison demonstrates her full range of musicality and fun.
Ole! Babies, toddlers and mummies gather together to tap, clap and shake to a delightful mixture of flamenco, puppets, storytelling and song.
Aiming to cover ninety years of Blues in sixty minutes is a mightily ambitious endeavour.
Folk duo Bookends, made up of David Haynes and Pete Richards, pay homage to one of the greatest pairings in modern folk music with this heartfelt, competent and surprisingly mult…
Big Value Comedy Show (Early) promises two hours of comedy gold with four young stars of tomorrow.
Come and join us for lunchtime laughs at a special Big Value bargain sized ticket price.
Juvenal is most likely a familiar name to many people and yet very few would claim to know much about him.
Established as one of the most exciting shows at the Fringe, Big Value brings you the best of the breakthrough talent.
Blues and Burlesque, featuring sexy Scarlett Belle, sassy and silly Vicious Delicious and their smooth accompanist, Pete Saunders, is a good value 50 minutes of raunchy entertainme…
Rachael Clerke is Scot-ish (a category whose ambivalence, being Jew-ish, I totally get), as she demonstrates by wearing kilt hose with knackered trainers.
Adapted from the popular children’s book of the same name, Big Red Bath is Full House’s offering for younger children at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe (The Snow Dog is their show f…
Welcome to Jill’s cookery show! Well, technically it’s a pilot, but let’s be honest, it’s going to be a sure-fire hit.
Kudos to any improv troupe for even attempting the month-long exercise in uphill walking and sleep-deprivation that is the Fringe.
Japanese Terminatol Hiroshi Shimizu is back to the Fringe! He breaks the national and language border of British comedy and creates the new borderless world of comedy that is heard…
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues is a fabulously facetious musical comedy produced by New Zealand’s Cuba Creative.
Before comedy Robert did 67 jobs in seven years, went to prison for a practical joke and wrote symphonies for his sock-puppet.
The title and poster of this show - a photo of Rob Rouse’s face literally looking through the legs of a naked bottom - are somewhat misleading about the nature of this show.
Danny O’Brien is genial stand-up, although the standard for geniality in comedians is pretty low.
Little tent.
For those who run at the mere mention of the phrase ‘musical comedy’, this sketch show is for you.
“Heard of Simon Munnery?” asks the blurb in the Fringe programme.
If you are someone that enjoys magic in its more basic, “no frills” form, like sleight-of-hand tricks and close-up magic, you can’t go wrong with this show.
These Blues Brothers take a cliché and put their own mark on it.
Two men in their forties meet for a coffee to catch up after four years of not meeting up in person.
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
This is a show about poo.
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
Rachel Lincolns’ latest production gives the brutally honest lesson in Sexual Education that Britain needs.
One of a stampede of comedians making the London-Edinburgh journey for the festival, Feilder knows his Fringe conventions well and isn’t afraid to use them to meta-comic effect.
Hosted by some occasionally fallible blues band members and housed in “deepest, darkest Dorset”, Inheritance Blues is a tale of three sons as they meet to mourn their father (o…
Fresh from proudly posting on Twitter news of his firing from “Saturday Night Live,” Mr. Wheelan will kick off this makeshift stand-up tour in Brooklyn.
This nationwide programme, developed in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life, and supported by Creative Scotland, will be one of the most ambitious cele…
This nationwide programme, developed in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life, and supported by Creative Scotland, will be one of the most ambitious cele…
GENERATION is perhaps the most ambitious exhibition in this year’s Fringe and one that extends beyond the confines of this festival.
Like many men of his generation, Simon Feilder talks about his insecurities about being a single man, but unlike a lot of them he spices his show up with multi-media presentation…
Ray Shell is a delight, as ever.
Boat, an inventive and extremely funny sketch group comprising Amos Vernon, Mike Lane and Nunzio Randazzo, returns with a new show.
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
The legendary,Brighton-based,nine-piece blues and soul band are back for one of their rare appearances. Frequently a sell-out so book ahead and don’t miss out!
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
I’ll try not to crack ‘What the Dickens?’ jokes, but this show left me feeling like a slug on tranquilizers.
This was by far one of the most outstandingly bizarre pieces of theatre I have ever seen; I am still not entirely sure what I actually witnessed, but I know that I liked it.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Jason Stampe is Kind of a big deal.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Love talking about books? Writing your own? For writers: come along to the morning session to seek advice and share experiences with fellow aspiring novelists and a panel of indust…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Way Back follows Carol, a member of the Beachy Head Chaplaincy Squad, as she goes to desperate and ridiculous measures to bring two men back from the verge of despair.
Ben, aged 7, got upset one evening and drew dots on some kitchen towel instead of going to bed.
Hear the thrilling big band sound of 18-piece jazz ensemble Straight No Chaser as they perform original music from their latest CD: Navigation alongside a new piece commissioned fo…
Work in progress stand-up comedy from Asian-American comedian Rick Kiesewetter, getting ready for Edinburgh 2014.
Ronnie Rialto, Lounge Singer Extraordinaire, entertains at the Cubar Chill-Out Lounge Bar in Preston Street, Brighton.
I’ve never actually met Simon Jay.
Playwright Werner Schwab was just 35 when he died from what must have been quite a drinking spree after a New Year’s Eve party in 1994.
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.
Join us for a Late Breakfast of international award-winning new plays.
Sketch group Clever Peter (BBC Radio 4) return with brand-new sketches and old favourites in a fun-packed hour of comedy.
Following a sell-out run at last years Brighton Fringe and described as “one of the highlights of The Brunswick’s Fringe programme for the 2013 Festival”, TPTPC are back with more …
Trace the story of Brighton’s secret river, flowing from the source’s solo in the attic to the sea-bound chorus in the cellar, then enjoy a feast of foods foraged en route! Thur/…
Brighton’s most legendary walking tour introduces you to an intriguing labyrinth of hidden byways, some unfamiliar even to local residents.
Copperdollar are an award- winning performance company known for their cutting-edge and mixed-media immersive theatre productions inspired by Mexico’s Day Of The Dead.
Do you have any regrets about your life? Celebrating ten years as a company, The Maydays pose questions to the audience about the last ten years of their own life: whether you have…
An Exhibition of First World War photographs of limbless soldiers from the Pavilion Hospital engaged in specialist vocational training; along with photographs and cartoons from the…
“Blues in the Night” is a compilation revue, a tribute to the black performers and music of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s.
Big Jay Oakerson brings his crowd-work show to the Comedy Cellar’s second room, with appearances by Dave Attell, Dan Soder, Luis J. Gomez and others.
From the team that brought you the huge success that is Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me will take you back through the “music and magic” of the e…
We don’t hear about it often, but George Balanchine had a life before New York City Ballet and this hybrid performance and reading focuses on his early career in Russia.
Max Silvestri hosts this long-running and incredibly popular stand-up show, which always has a well-curated mix of up-and-comers and established headliners.
Take a 2004 Swedish vampire novel that was made into a subtitled horror film as your starting point.
In his hugely popular free show Think Big, Yianni sets out his ambition to sell-out the biggest venue at the Fringe, have Michael ‘HackIntyre’ open for him and to enter the stage ‘…
Big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing.
The Rising: a dynamic group of talented musicians who play tribute to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band. An absolute must for fans of the Boss.
Edinburgh’s favourite blues / rock combo play Heat, Feat and much more.
A musical journey from haunting Spanish moods, ethereal eastern influences and strains of western folk.
Nighttime.
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 …
If you are easily swayed into buying a ticket based on a show’s title, though you may be enticed into seeing the All-Nude College Girl Revue, you may be rather disappointed.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
Accompanied by Rona Wilkie (fiddle), Marit Fält (Låtmandola), Kirsty brings Scots traditional material to life and performs her own thought-provoking songs.
A driving mix of celtic, jazz, folk and blues.
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
Nuala Kennedy has a beautiful lilting voice that suits her ‘cheerful-sounding murder ballad’ songs perfectly.
Festival’s best free pub music event, 19th year hosted by Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band Yard Of Ale and guests - Sandy Tweedale, Bedford Falls, FC Ukulele, Eddie Walker, The…
Folk stalwarts Yard of Ale are in residence at the Guildford Arms for the duration of the 18th Caledonian Folk and Blues Festival and they play with the confidence and verve of old…
A soul-grasping musical road trip from this Glasgow roots and bluesman.
Raph ‘n’ Simon: two gangsta-rap loving slackers can’t leave the coatroom of a hotel party until they prove they’re not killers. A one-act comedy play.
Come on in! Share in a musical feast of Scots tunes, old and new, from local band Shindiggery.
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
Frontman and songwriter Sandy Brechin played traditional accordion from his albums ‘Out of his Head’ and ‘Out of his Tree’, with backing from cajon, guitar, bass guitar, an…
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
The Boy with Tape on his Face - ‘Amazing’ (Scotsman), hosts pick-of-the-fringe 2011 and 2012 show.
Hosted by Roy Walker (ITV’s Catchphrase).
Fans of Marty and Doc beware; the similar title should not make you think that this has any link to the classic sci-fi movies.
Wild man of the accordion, Sandy Brechin, plays fast and funky sets from his albums Out of His Box and Out of His Tree, accompanied by bass, guitar and percussion.
Arriving at Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge early was a good decision, as there is plenty to observe even before the talk starts.
Chance to see award-winning songwriter and leading fingerstyle guitarist in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Performing under the simple show title ‘Blues,’ the Dana Dixon Blues Band want to be perfectly clear about what kind of music they’re performing.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar.
One of the Guardian’s top sketch writers at Westminster, will give a hilarious talk about the politicians, prime ministers, poseurs, poltroons and pratfalls he has seen.
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country.
Music, alternately exhilarating and tender, by Edinburgh’s famous 13-strong early music group.
The Les Clochards combine high-jinx, cheeky-chappy, faux-Francais, ‘Allo ‘Allo, theatrics with a level of musical inventiveness and professionalism that can only have come from…
Edinburgh’s up and coming New Orleans Dixieland jazz band means business.
Must see Australian artist.
The Blues Band are acknowledged throughout the world as being the finest and most entertaining purveyors of rhythm and blues.
How much do you know about the history of the Traverse Theatre? If the answer is ‘very little’, don’t expect to leave enlightened.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan…
The Pleasance in association with The Scotsman celebrates the Fringe First Awards with four readings, one from each decade.
Andy McKay-Challen and Gavin Jack are the ‘Blues Guitar Duo’ you’re likely to find listed in your Fringe guide.
John Osbourne’s classic Look Back in Anger is one of those plays which should probably come with a health warning for people with high blood pressure and a family history of hear…
Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�…
With a nation wallowing in a wave of nostalgia, this affectionate look back to the war years is a chance to experience the greatest hits of the 30’s and 40’s in an intimate musical…
Back by popular demand.
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
Musical theatre that takes us into the hearts of people on the home front, through original diary extracts and songs from the war years.
Yianni’s optimism and trademark nerdiness combine for a show that is refreshingly devoid of cynicism.
Rowena Haley’s show has a simple, yet entertaining foundation: what is it like to grow up with a 93-year-old as your best friend? Through wittily penned songs, anecdotes and lar…
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
Early afternoon gigs are generally seen as low-profile, low-quality slots in the hierarchy of festival scheduling, but sometimes they can hide events that definitely shouldn’t be…
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
There is a huge difference between having obvious musical talent and putting on an entertaining, engaging show.
2012 reviews: ‘Loaded with energy’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
Are you a big spoon or more of a little spoon type of person? Come see this stand-up show from two spoon enthusiasts.
The age old question whether a white man can sing the blues was answered fairly conclusively at the Space on Niddry Street last night.
***** ‘Blues and Burlesque is a thoroughly engaging show that gives burlesque a range most other shows aren’t even aware of’ (ThisIsCabaret.com).
The best allegories can stand on their own two feet.
‘Very, very, very, very funny, literally rib shattering, deeply profound and seemingly inane - also overwhelmingly pink.
Beachy Head in East Sussex has the tallest chalk sea cliffs in Britain, offering some fabulous views along the south east coast and across the English Channel.
It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’…
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.
John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is brought back to life by The Lincoln Company, proving that nearly sixty years on the play still has the power to perturb.
An early afternoon, discount show with another four of the hottest unknown acts on the first step of the ladder to success.
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way first: this show is certainly value for money.
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons and countless more world-wide were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men - S…
The first truly laugh-out-loud-funny show I have seen at The Fringe, The Big Value Comedy Show is definitely worth the ticket price.
Our 18th year as the recognised launchpad for future legends, featuring four top comedians.
Consisting of four different acts each night, Big Value Comedy Late seeks to bring its audience variety and humour in equal measure whilst also giving them a sample of some of the …
From the moment I sat down, I knew this was a quality production.
If you are over 35 or simply want to hear how middle-aged life is a going to be a blood-stained nightmare, then this is the show for you; for anyone else, sit tight for an uncomfor…
Most of us remember our early teenage years with a mixture of mortification and despair, but then again, most of us don’t have the ability to translate our stories into devilishl…
Simon Donald is clearly a funny man.
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
The year is 2108, World War Seven has just ended and in this post-apocalyptic world only Scotland survives, governed by a supreme leader: a man obsessed with wind turbines, a man w…
Does My Face Look Big In This is a one-woman show with Caroline Hardie, a relatable, witty and energetic comedian.
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Simon Evans is an agitated Englishman who has come to serve up some scorn and air his collection of grievances at this Edinburgh Fringe.
This delightfully daft and silly send-up of ‘50s film noir is gleefully performed in one of the oddest venue spaces I’ve come across.
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.
I have a confession to make.
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.
Advertised as a five star crowd-pleaser from Fringe’s past, this show might be expected to drum up a frenzy.
Don’t come for the breakfast.
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory’s Family Creatures may seem an impenetrable sort of name but early into watching this show it became apparent that this was a sketch show intended …
Previous visitors to the Scottish National Gallery will be familiar with Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls from the American Side, the only major work by this American artist featu…
The Edinburgh Festival has some unusual venues – that is a well-known fact amongst regular Fringe-goers, as avid audience members hop from university building to converted wareho…
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
The challenge with this musical has always been that, with only one actor on stage for most of the play, he or she must always be acting and can never take refuge in reacting or in…
‘Simon Evans: Friendly Fire’ is a misnomer.
There’s no better way to start a busy day at the Fringe than with coffee, a croissant, a strawberry and a host of well performed, highly amusing short plays.
Bishops Diocesan College, an independent boys’ school in Cape Town, brings this ambitious production of Biloxi Blues to Edinburgh after their run of Master Harold.
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
The experience of watching the blue girl in Tretchikoff’s masterpiece The Chinese Girl break out of her frame to entertain an audience was exactly what I was waiting for in this …
The setting is a construction site outside a café on a day like any other.
What do you get if you mix Gogol Bordello with Bob Dylan, but without Dylan’s lyrical genius? The New Gondoliers.
Phill Jupitus in association with Free Fringe is a coup.
One man’s Skrillex is another’s alien communique; one woman’s James Blunt is another’s coffee table garbage.
It should be no surprise that I am not the only unaccompanied adult at Little Howard’s Big Show.
Hello Sailor.
I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
Who doesnt want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is …
Same old story, remarks Lucille Goldberg as she discusses her familys past.
An hour long performance constructed out of the colourful and controversial life, ambitions and writings of Oscar Wilde was always going to be an evening well spent.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Bossa Nova and More is a Hungarian guitar duo that aims to play authentic Bossa Nova combined with less traditional numbers to create an entirely enjoyable experience.
Two puppets, Lucia and Scot, both love Flamenco dancing, but Scot just can’t find his flamenco rhythm.
I approached “Big Boys Don’t Dance” with trepidation.
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
For most people, their wedding is the happiest day of their life.
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…
In this one-off show, Andi Neate’s band was small and intimate.
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
In the second floor of a pub off Grassmarket, a sweaty singer belts out peculiar variations on show tunes from Oliver! This is Oliver Pissed, as presented by The Sensational Alex S…
Reminiscent of a Rihanna concert, the Tiffin Swing Band starts their set late.
There is much to commend in Bob Karpers new one-man show at Zoo.
Daphne Pena returns to Edinburgh with a new show for 2007, adding more tales and dances from Cairo, following up her 2006 Bellydance Diaries.
Pink pants, Doris Day and Spider Man trainers.
Early afternoon jazz runs the risk of coinciding with an early afternoon sugar crash; it’s possible that mellow blues might prove more soporific than scintillating.
The focus in this studio production is on the music and on the actors voices: Jason Robert Browns jazz pop score and our double-star combo can hardly fail to please! Every son…
If there’s a book you’re guaranteed to come across in a literature degree, it’s Beowulf.
Lisa Scott was introduced by her venue manager as having ‘been here for many, many a Fringe’, and Scott is indeed showing her age as a performer.
‘An oasis in the Fringe… with bagpipes’ is how piper and most talkative Battlefield Band member Alasdair White described their show.
Make sure you are on time for this show: youll get enough exercise during this hour-long musical romp without sprinting down Nicholson Street beforehand.
My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a …
An evening of music, song and dance from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance period is probably unlikely to set the pulse racing for most and yet while not exhilarating, the e…
Spanning an impressive 90 years of blues, from its roots and founders to 21st Century contemporaries, The Blueswater Collective are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring…
Callow has a strong and long relationship with Dickens including a hugely successful performance as the author himself in The Mystery of Charles Dickens, and appearing as the m…
A gloriously British summer afternoon, sipping tea and eating scones; the perfect setting for The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party.
Musical comedy is a risky business.
There is definitely a reason why Simon Callow has his name at the beginning of the title of this beautifully performed monologue.
26-song set divided into two parts in the tall St Cuthbert’s church (which included tea and biscuits at the interval) provided a nostalgic throwback to the 1920s, 30s and early …
Two Brits, one Yank, one Arab and few laughs.
The Gillis Centre, situated in the leafy Grange, is far away from the hustle and bustle of the Fringe and its blizzard of proffered leaflets.
The Night of the Big Wind is an innovative puppetry performance inspired by the book of the same title, written by Peter Carr.
The hour-long musical and cultural immersion created by the Blueswater Collective would have received a perfect five stars if they had started as strongly as they finished.
In Any More Legroom?, Liverpool John Moores University showcases its recent graduates’ dissertation dance pieces.
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.
This is the European debut of Anthony J.
If you want to see one of the best and most entertaining shows at the Fringe, look no further than Up & Over It, a fantastic subversive reinvention of Irish step dancing to electro…
Shrouded in fans of red, showgirl feathers, our French prostitute heroine Isobel slinked across the stage for the big reveal.
Tom Craine is such a polite young man its hard to imagine that he was ever addicted to anything.
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…
This comedy a cappella troupe is fast becoming one of the biggest sellers of this year’s festival.
For those of us with a palette for traditional and contemporary Scottish folk music, Alistair Ogilvy and Band are here with a special treat.
When Look Back in Anger by John Osborne was first performed it sparked outrage.
Let’s make this clear from the start, that this is not the sugary-coated vision of Alice popularised by Disney’s 1951 classic, but the darker, more nightmarish view closer to Lewis…
The action is set in and around William Ocean High School during the 1980s.
The concept behind this production was brilliant and ingenious: Take one group of 20-somethings and send them back to school.
A travel writer returns to Scotland after twenty years travelling the world.
We file in crocodile formation from the Pleasance, clutching a collective length of rope to keep together.
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years is one of those musicals whose fanbase has crept up despite seldom being treated to professional productions, but it deserves every fan it can…
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Big Project’s children’s choir returns for its third year at the Fringe, and if you’ve got children who love nothing more than to sing-a-long to chart toppers this is the…
‘Makar’ is a medieval Scots word for poet.
After last year’s storming Edinburgh performance in All of Me, Stephen K Amos returns with another great comedy outing in More of Me.
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
And No More Shall We Part at the Traverse Theatre is the European premiere for Tom Holloway’s new play that oozes brilliance and subtlety as it gently explores what it means to b…
Everyone knows Alice in Wonderland from their childhood at some level - but not everyone agrees what the story is really about.
Packed into a crowded, stuffy room in the turrets of Teviot, Ruaraidh Murray gives a schizophrenic performance in a production that’s somewhere between a play and stand-up comedy.
I hope I get this good a eulogy at my own funeral.
Shuffling grooves, wailing guitar solos and growling, whiskey-drenched vocals: This is Main Street Blues, who for one hour brought a slice of America to Scotland.
Mervyn looks back on two decades of performing at the Fringe in this one-man-and-his-guitar show, playing some of his favourite comic songs from previous years, mulling over change…
Returning from deepest darkest 1998 are Canadian comedians Craig Campbell, Glenn Wool and Stewart Francis with a showcase of their comic abilities.
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
Join Jake, Elwood and the band as they roar their way through the classics from Soul Man to Jailhouse Rock.
Ray Shell’s cabaret debut is a rollicking, gossipy, exuberant affair, zooming through musicals and pop hits from his glittery career.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
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…
When your lineup is three unheard-of comedians, and your venue is the Gilded Balloon’s tiny “Wee Room”, calling your show ‘The Big Comedy Showcase’ is actually a pretty s…
A man in the front row at Bec Hill’s show accuses her of being the worst comedian he’s ever seen.
Warning: this show will put you in a permanent state of happiness, fill your head with music and make you want to dance all day long.
Sometimes music does more than simply entertain you – sometimes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck and makes you sit up and listen.
Frenchman Claude Bourbon’s one-off evening of Medieval and Spanish blues opened with what at first seemed to be a lengthy instrumental number: as fine a demonstration of Bourbon’s …
It’s rare to come out of a sketch show and have no problem recalling the premise of every sketch.
Simon Munnery has prepared a cuisine that’s perfect for carnivores, herbivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike.
In Ancient China the Emperor places his hand upon death’s door.
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
Dana Alexander is the best known black female Canadian comedian but has moved to Tottenham in London.
“This show is family friendly, apart from your grandma, so she can f*ck off!”Thus opens the foul-mouthed Simon Donald, donning typical private school headmaster robes and morta…
If you are looking for something fun and free with a few laughs at this year’s Fringe, then head on up the stairs of The Laughing Horse for a drink and some Blues and Burlesque i…
A combined talk and jazzy musical performance of all-time favourite songs from the 1920s to present day.
I originally held out much hope for this production from How to Deal with Rude and Unruly Women, however being there was like serving a prison sentence.
Director and singer/songwriter Sarah McGuinness presents Back To Blacks, the eclectic live music and chat show streaming regularly from Blacks Club in Soho.
One of the biggest comedy stars in Denmark, Simon Talbot comes to the Fringe with some work-in-progress shows.
Comedy, circus, storytelling, poetry and stupid science.
Simon Ximenez chatted to Luke Bayer, the Offie Award-winning star of DIVA: Live From Hell about the show’s return to London before heading up to Edinburgh this summer.
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
Maimuna Memon was one of the stars of the extraordinary new musical, Standing at the Sky’s Edge.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
If you thought Cinderella was just for panto season, as the team behind Greenwich Theatre’s new production tells Simon Ximenez, “Oh no it’s not.”
With multiple shows celebrating first and last nights every night, alcohol plays a big part in creating the fun, celebratory atmosphere of the Fringe.
Simon Ximenez "feelz the noise" as he talks with punk legend Ed Banger about bringing the glam to the Edinburgh Festival this year.
Simon Ximenez talked to the coordinator of this year’s Edinburgh Deaf Festival, Jamie Rea.
Simon Ximenez talks to comedian Ibrahem Al Hajjaj about his journey From Riyadh to Edinburgh.
Simon Ximenez speaks to Nalini Sharma about bringing lightness to dark in Until Death, ahead of its opening in Edinburgh this year.
Simon Ximenez is considering a life on the ocean wave after talking to Max Norman about his Edinburgh show, A Pirate’s Life for Me.
Simon Ximenez gets an unusual insight into parenting, with Kiwi comedy group Femme Natale.
Simon Ximenez looks into the sordid side of fandom as he talks to Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey about their new show, Slash.
Edinburgh woudn't be Edinburgh without a mention of bumholes. Simon Ximenez ticked that one off the list when he spoke with Benjamin Salmon about his show Blowhole.
Simon Ximenez talks with Alistair Hall, whose success with his gripping one-man play Declan, was one of the few positive outcomes of lockdown.
Part animation, part-visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, Everything That’s Me is Falling Apart promises to be a unique comedy show at Edinburgh this year.
James Macfarlane chats with the one and only Paul Merton about 20 years of Impro Chums, how to succeed in improvisational comedy and some of his favourite on-stage moments.
Simon Ximenez talks with writer and director Emilie Biason about her new play, I Killed My Ex and is relieved to discover this dark comedy about love, friendship, and male dismembe...
Four women.
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‘There are very few things that are universal.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Broadway Baby's Senior Critic Simon Smith looks back over 2016, a year in which we took what we've learned for more than a decade as the biggest reviewer on the Fringe and turned o...
The internationally celebrated dance company BalletBoyz have announced that they will be taking part in ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge’ from noon on Tuesday 29 November to n...
Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More is the story of a high-society fashion journalist recruited by MI5 to facilitate the abdication of King Edward VIII.
Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world.
Natasha Granger and Kerrie Thompson wrote, produced and star in 90s girl-band musical 2 Become 1, a story about romance, speed dating and the ideal post-night-out meal.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
Ever wondered who works behind the scenes at Brighton Fringe? We've been talking to sound designer and technician Daniel Stevens to find out what he's been up to this festival.
A well seasoned Brighton-Fringer, Rosie Blackwell-Sutton certianly has her hands full this year producing her own show as well as marketing three interestnig performances.
Dan Haynes & Pete Richards boast consecutive EdFringe sellouts with Simon & Garfunkel: Through The Years! We get to know Pete a little better...
Final casting is announced today for the return of the multi award-winning production of the Broadway musical Titanic, first seen at Southwark Playhouse, which is coming back to Lo...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
The international hit musical The Bodyguard will return to the West End for a limited six month run with Beverley Knight playing the title role of Oscar-nominated superstar Rachel ...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Broadway Baby publisher Pete Shaw wraps up his Edinburgh experience via his iPhone photo stream.
It’s the iconic Edinburgh film and book - and now nearly 21 years since the film opened - a young theatre company brings Trainspotting to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Broadway Baby is talking to Chris Haigh of the The Jäger Maestros, an oompah band that promises to have crowds laughing, drinking and bouncing.
Broadway Baby doesn't often discuss movies, but when the film in question is one of the most hotly anticipated stage musical adaptations of all time (and when the good folk at Disn...