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.
Nobody does it better than Q The Music.
Prom to after-party via generational identity crisis – what if the best night of your life turns into the rest of it? Set to an original score combining pop, funk, jazz and of co…
Imagine an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman finally in the same bar as a therapist.
In this work-in-progress show, Baby Belle’s slightly less glamorous sibling Jax Braithwaite will unwrap the experience of Dealing with Tricky Feelings.
One family, one condition, one hell of a hairy baby.
A whimsical, musical exploration of social versus personal identity from the perspective of a late-identified and diagnosed non-binary autistic person.
Each summer, young Jamie comes to the same spot on the same beach and speaks with a mysterious figure – the king of a magical realm far, far away.
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
Cast ranging in age that give you the very best journey through the landscape of London’s West End hits and Broadway’s masterpieces.
Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul.
Join Edinburgh Music Theatre as they bring Broadway to the Edinburgh stage! Performing your favourite musical hits, the talented cast make this a must-see show for all fans of musi…
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is both beautifully simple and yet complex to convey.
Join Monski Mouse, and her super-talented friends, for a live musical sing-a-long cabaret of nursery classics, song, puppetry and bonkers fun for 0-5s and their parents/carers.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
A coincidence or an act of a god? Are the children who created a god as a game truly responsible for the unexplained events unfolding around them? Ten years after their last plea, …
Real-life dating, brimming with possibilities for passion, romance, or smashing a stranger in the back of your Toyota Camry while they moan a name you don’t recognise.
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this award-winning, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
Remember childhood-favourite Guess Who? It’s that, but based on vibes and played with you, the lovely audience.
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…
Joe and his wife want to have a baby.
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
From Frankenstein to The Invisible Man, James Whale directed some of the greatest movies of all time.
Enjoy an evening of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
As chilling as if Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock wrote for the theatre, Hush-a-bye Baby unfolds the enigmatic narrative of a spinster whose dark deeds involve the inexplicabl…
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Anger is a perfectly normal emotion, but when Rage, Anger’s bitchier sister, enters the chat, suddenly everyone becomes a Buddhist monk.
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
There are three rules every housewife knows: never return a dish empty, always have dinner ready by the time he gets home, and some things are best kept under the table.
Are you eccentric? Take the test as Quentin Crisp introduces Emily Dickinson, Spike Milligan, Screaming Lord Sutch, Patricia Highsmith and a cast of legendary Outsiders.
It’s almost Mother’s Day.
The average C-section in the USA costs £25-40K, but you can just squat one out in the back like a feral cat for FREE! Comedian and skinflint Leah Renee returns to Fringe with a ne…
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Ring-a-ding-ding, you’ve got the King! Master of the crowd and slave to the laugh, Kyle Legacy is back with more riffs and less hair.
Join Essex’s cheekiest chap for his debut hour of stand-up.
What would you do with an hour? What if it was your last hour ever? For James the answer is easy: he wants to tell you a story.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
After Endgame masterfully combines the strategic nuances of chess with the uproarious comedy of life.
James Gardner: Journeyman.
‘A genuine laugh every ten seconds.
Grace Mulvey wants to be a human adult who has fun.
After a complete sell-out run in 2023, the Scottish comedian and viral sensation who has 50+million views online is back with a brand-new show or even a brand-new Joe.
Join Fiddlefox and Baby Shark as they travel to different lands around the world around the world seeking a lost friend, while experiencing the sights and sounds of each culture re…
A bilingual children’s musical in English and Spanish, Baby Rock is the story of Anastasia, a young girl who explores the world and learns how to make a new friend regardless of …
This is an admission of ‘holy sh*t.
100 years of television in one hour.
What actually matters in life? What should we really care about? And what do these questions have to do with a breakfast chocolate rice pudding? New Zealand-Filipino comedy veteran…
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out six years running.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
In the summer of ‘99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
James Barr fearlessly tackles the aftermath of an abusive relationship in an hour of trailblazing stand-up.
‘American labour icon!? Ridiculous.
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 …
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard.
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
One King. One Kingdom. And literally no time to rule. Based on historical events, House of the Onion debuts the untold story of the world’s shortest reigning monarch.
If entrepreneurship tickles your taste buds, then this is the event for you.
This brand-new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway musical tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s rise to stardom.
An exploration of the power boat-racer, war hero and one of 20th century’s boldest queer figure.
Rebecka Vilhonen has crafted a well-structured show surrounding her sexscapades following her breakup with her boyfriend.
Richard Watkins has been touring his show Happily Ever Poofter for over six years now and the fact it still delivers is a testament of how good the writing is.
King John - Terrible King, Even Worse Play? Well, that’s not the view of Rendered Retina theatre company who, in their own words, have cut two hours, added plenty of songs, and t…
On 26 May 2024, Rob Madge should have been performing on Broadway.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Hypothetical and a number of apps on your phone.
RAVE BABY is a neon-soaked family clubbing experience where kids get to bring their grown-ups along for the ride! Expect an hour of soul-inspiring fun, dancing together to the ecle…
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* An hour of fearless stand up comedy from James Barr.
Dave Bibby, ‘“madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BroadwayWorld), set out to create a theatrical masterpiece: A one-man Jurassic Park.
Jacob is about to have a baby.
Naomi Wattis is a stand up comic from London.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Finlay and Joe are tired.
What does non-binary sound like? A group of trans, non-binary and queer theatre-makers have made a whole show exploring what it means to be non-binary and trans in today’s world,…
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…
In the summer of ’99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
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.
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
Before Tom Cruise, Cary Grant or Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks was the King Of Hollywood! Now virtually forgotten, Doug was a remarkable actor and gifted visionary.
A brilliant gem, witty, gallus (cheeky) James V: KATHERINE by Rona Munro (a Raw Material and Capital Theatres Production) pulls no punches.
At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play.
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
Reclaiming identity, finding voice, asserting strength.
Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre.
Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre.
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
Junior, a queer sex worker in Hastings is suffering from PTSD.
Junior is a queer sex worker in Hastings suffering from PTSD.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Now in its 14th year.
In April 2005, writer Joe Nawaz and his family travelled from Belfast to the wilds of Pakistan on the trail of a mystery.
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents a brand-new production of the award-winning Calendar Girls the Musical, written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, featuring a re-imagined book and new music…
Under new director Timothy Coleman Cadenza performs music of three women composers: a new commission for choir by Janet Wheeler dedicated to our former Director Jenny Sumerling, Th…
Enjoy a relaxing hour away from Fringe frenzy with Scotland’s popular Hume Saxophone Quartet.
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
Winner: Critics Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023.
A true story.
There are three rules every housewife knows: never return a dish empty, always have dinner ready by the time he gets home, and some things are best kept under the table.
An exceptionally enthusiastic and talented youth theatre put on a revival of the 2013 version of Pippin.
Forty years after their last album.
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
New Zealand classical and jazz pianist Charles Whitehead returns to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Piano Masterworks Recital: La Valse, featuring works by Mozart, Bartok, …
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
After a five-star, sell-out run at Edinburgh 2022, James is popping to the Free Fringe for an out-of-control hour of jokes.
Michael Harris, Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with a programme including Kenneth Leighton’s Introduction, …
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
World premiere of JaruJaru’s original sketch format, Two-Person Ensemble Piece Seamlessly playing Different Characters, which they have been experimenting since 2018.
All new and all Jew.
We learned together, we laughed together and now we are doing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe together.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
No use crying over spilt milk is a very commonly used proverb, and its familiarity and any possible connection to it is at the forefront of our minds as we watch this show.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Theatre Travels and Olivia Ruggiero Productions present Broadway Diva.
There’s something really unsettling about 1950s suburbia, and What If They Ate The Baby? really taps into that feeling as it plunges deeply into the aesthetic of a stereotypical …
A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker.
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…
This is a little treasure, the sort of performance that is easy to overlook but which enriches those who root it out.
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
Edinburgh Youth Orchestra performs an exciting programme of orchestral music to celebrate its summer season.
The show that turns smack talk into an art form.
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
Winner: Critics Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023.
Jordan English, Assistant Organist of St Giles’, puts the magnificent world-renowned Rieger organ through its paces in Vierne’s 2nd Symphony, Alcock’s Introduction and Passac…
Join Monski Mouse and her super talented friends, for a live musical sing-a-long cabaret of nursery classics, song, puppetry and bonkers fun for 0-5s and their parents.
Join us in a fabulous retelling of Roald Dahl’s classic peachy tale. Join James as he ventures into the wonderful world of whimsy and see if you can catch the ladybird.
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
A stupid stand-up comedy show from Dickie Richards, the Polish-Cockney comedian, arguably the most handsome man in showbiz (you decide).
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows Legs, Logs and Jeremy Segway) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
Award-winner George Zacharopoulos is back with a brand-new show about trying to be less of a garbage human being.
Over 10 years, Chris Cook has brought magical, thought-provoking comedy shows to the Fringe.
The World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
Dave Bibby, ‘madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer’ (BroadwayWorld.
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
Let’s take the party into 2023 and come join our Party Queens tour with 16 of the world’s most glamorous and beautiful showgirls.
A vibrant show of contemporary ceramics by our resident and guest artists celebrating the versatility of clay.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this multi award-nominated, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
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…
Straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rosie May Riot has lured a cast of burlesque and cabaret performers away from the land of haggis and shortbread, grabbed a few more fri…
Jesse James, the famous outlaw, finds himself in hot water with the authorities and the rest of his crew.
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity.
Riot Reveals is back! After a successful run at the Camden Fringe in 2022 and a sell out show at the Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms, Riot Reveals returns to Camden for two nights only! …
One of the biggest television comedy names of the 1980s and 1990s makes his Fringe debut.
A comedy show where your little one won’t derail everything, in fact, you’ll be hoping they’ll do all the things that normally embarrass you, loudly and proudly.
There is secret connection among all of us.
James Allen and Annabelle Devey invite you to an hour of exhilarating and chucklesome stand-up; fresh from the North West comedy circuit.
Nearly-national treasure James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) plays Camden with a show that’s so far a masterpiece, but he’s …
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Beyond Broadway, a spectacular revue show presented by CRE8IV THEATRE CO.
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…
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
From emerging talent Charles Edward Pipe comes an anthology of five dynamic, new, short plays.
Nearly-national treasure James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) plays Camden with a show that’s so far a masterpiece, but he’s …
The internationally renowned classical pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver makes a welcome return to Edinburgh for a dazzling piano recital of great pianistic masterpieces, including the g…
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
The only stand up comedy show at the Fringe with jokes, stories and a definitive list of my favourite smells from last year.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
Join rising stand-up chart-toppers James (Chortle Student runner-up, BBC New Comedy Award shortlist, Amused Moose New Comedian runner-up) and Sam (Komedia New Act nominee, West End…
An electric, joyful hour packed with fun and skewering takes on society, Right About Now is the brand-new show from the award-winning James Nokise.
Returning for another year, God Damn Fancy Man is the critically acclaimed show from internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping for air.
With such an emotionally heavy title as An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People, I was a little worried what to expect from this comedy show.
The Blundabus is absolutely packed for Amelia Bayler’s I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star.
Following the sell-out success of his 2022 show The Beginning Of The End, McTavish, described as ‘one of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit’ (Guardian), presents anothe…
Fresh from a TV appearance two years ago, Joe Sutherland returns with a brand-new PR strategy.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
Phil Ellis.
A huge amount of fun and laughs are to be had with James Cook’s new stand-up show, Anonymously Viral.
Quentin Crisp! Florence Jenkins! Einstein! Patricia Highsmith! William McGonagall! Through the centuries, secret Neurodivergent or Autistic people have found respect and love in th…
James has been touring his storytelling theatre shows for half his adult life.
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for eight years now, and it’s time for that to change! So he’s attempting to do something he’s never done before.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
This is a brilliant show.
Winner of Best Comedy Weekly Award four years in a row at Fringe World, and Perth Critics Choice award, Joe was also selected as one of the top six comedy shows to watch with Ameri…
It’s a little dark and drab as the audience politely waits in Bunker Two at the Pleasance.
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Finlay and Joe are tired.
When Cirque du Soleil offer you a Las Vegas residency as the first comedian to perform with them, you don’t say no.
A microphone stand and a metal pole await a grinning Jay Lafferty as she takes to the stage.
Following the Scottish premiere of Howard Skempton’s 50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ, Book One, during the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at St Giles’ Cathedral, Matthew Owens…
As Robin Tran walks on stage, she greets us with a warm smile and soft voice.
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture.
A collection of excerpts from the Performing Arts class of 2023. An evening of song, dance and scenes from an array of musicals and plays.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for 8 years now, and it’s time for that to change! Join him as he attempts to do something he’s never done before.
A collection of excerpts from the Performing Arts class of 2023. An evening of song, dance and scenes from an array of musicals and plays.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for 8 years now, and it’s time for that to change! Join him as he attempts to do something he’s never done before.
Debut 2023: A showcase presented by the graduating students from the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance programme at University of Chichester Conservatoire.
About the show Celebrate the opening of the 15th festival with an exhilarating night of music and dance including two special guest performances from companies AXIOM and…
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Irish folk music act Hibsen pay homage to James Joyce with performances of their debut album ‘The Stern Task of Living’ under the aegis of the Bloomsday fest…
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
It’s 1956 and the Susan B.
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe festival for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in th…
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Award-winning comedian Lara A King brings her unique brand of clever observational comedy, uplifting melodies and lyrical wordsmithery, to her spiritual home of Brighton with this …
We’re immensely proud to announce Pride is returning to Chichester on the 27th of May 2023 - get your tickets below.
2023 - THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END - VLADIMIR McTAVISH (Work In Progress) Following the critical and box office success at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe of his show The Beginni…
Award-winning theatre troupe Improbotics presents Artificial Intelligence Improvisation, a tech-infused improv and science comedy show.
2023 - THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END - VLADIMIR McTAVISH (Work In Progress) Following the critical and box office success at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe of his show The Beginni…
James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) returns to Brighton Fringe with a show that’s so far a masterpiece but he’s not ready fo…
James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) returns to Brighton Fringe with a show that’s so far a masterpiece but he’s not ready fo…
Showcase Start Time - 13:00 To attend this Industry Showcase please email actingshowcase@lipa.
Joe Orton’s Last Laugh is a fresh take on the fraught relationship between the celebrated writer Joe Orton and his aggrieved partner Kenneth Halliwell.
For his brand new stand-up show, Phil Wang’s chatting race, family, nipples and everything else that’s been going on in his Philly little life.
Join us once again for our annual Open Studios and explore the workspaces of the artists who work inside Phoenix Art Space.
Whatever you think Phil Wang’s Wang In There, Baby! Is going to be like, the reality of the show far surpasses it.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Join us once again for our annual Open Studios and explore the workspaces of the artists who work inside Phoenix Art Space.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman teams up with acclaimed musician and singer, Joe Stilgoe, in a vibrant and entertaining potpourri of classic songs and wit, highlighting Joe…
MAY 13th (Saturday, 5.
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
May 13th - THE COPPER FAMILY May 20th - THE AMITY SINGERS May 27th - BELLADONNA, Sue Mileham, Soprano, Jane Plessner, Clarinet and Nicola Grunberg, Piano
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain was first published in 1997, and a hit film was made in 2005.
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
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…
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
It’s 1936.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts.
Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts.
It’s 1936.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and…
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back on VICTORIA GARDENS in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
Music and lyrics by Matthew Strachan, Book by Bernie Gaughan 1950’s Dublin and two families living in adjoining terraced houses, become locked in a bitter matriarchal feud abo…
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
Kevin James Thornton is a rising TikTok/IG star with over 1 million followers and 500 million video views.
Kevin James Thornton is a rising TikTok/IG star with over 1 million followers and 500 million video views.
As the audience enter the auditorium at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, the four storytellers are already on stage: poet Janette Ayachi, powerhouse crime author Val McDermid, bur…
With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country.
The Totally Football Show returns to the Leicester Square Theatre just in time for the Premier League run-in.
Filthy, fun and downright delicious.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian.
Comedy Bloomers returns in 2023 with a lovely lineup of comedy talents.
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
A leading actress in the Spanish theatre scene, Magüi Mira plays Molly Bloom plainly and transparently.
In 2011, five fishermen on the Isle of Wight (Jamie Green, Jon Beere, Daniel Payne, Scott Birtwistle & Zoran Dresic) were sentenced to a total of 104 years for conspiracy to import…
A character comedy show in this world.
Don’t miss a night of comedy, cabaret and music to celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe 2023.
This is the story of the greatest Black Briton to have ever been forgotten.
Kelly wants change.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Join Tik Tok’s GK Barry for some absolutely outrageous conversations with some very special guests!
Jorge and Ricardo's comedy show, two Peruvian comedians who will take their humour to Europe.
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
The annual Ballet Icons Gala is one of the world’s ballet highlights.
This is a solo show about femininity and trauma.
Willy Russell’s iconic one-woman play Shirley Valentine premiered on the stage in 1986.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
Heads up all you wannabe drag kings scattered all over the globe - we are kicking off the Year Of the King by bringing back our most popular online workshop, Drag King 101 with Dor…
Let’s give straight people a chance! The UK comedy industry is saturated with queer acts leaving many heterosexual comedians with nowhere to go besides All Bar One.
Off Broadway Comedy Club by Giggle GaggleThe Off Broadway Comedy Club is Brightons newest comedy night.
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
Dominic Cooke’s new production of Good was due to arrive in October 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Alice is drowning under misguided medical advice, chirpy Insta-announcements and yet another fucking miscarriage.
A compelling, humorous and emotion-filled solo show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor…
It is not easy for two performers to keep an audience engaged and enthusiastic throughout a 90+ minute show with no interval.
In front of a live audience, James and guests will be exploring the spectrum of food and the stories that blossom from culinary experiences, from filthy-delicious takeaw…
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
Are you outraged by the double standards at the UK border and in Western media’s single-minded reporting on refugees? If so, this show is for you.
Join the Bohemians in their return to the Fringe and hear an eclectic selection of their favourite Broadway songs.
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel 4), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, Jamali …
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Practically Perfect! takes a light-hearted and affectionate look at the many aspects of Julie Andrews’ career and personal life, exploring the contrast between the public face of…
Tim performs songs he composed for Frederick McKinnon’s musical about Captain James Cook, and tells the story of the 18th-century explorer.
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
Come watch the live show of the hit comedy podcast The Year Is where every episode Red and Bobby go back to a year in history and talk about the weirdest and strangest events from …
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Quintet of sketch comedians seeking fun-loving and friendly audience, interested in a short, passionate fling, and maybe more.
James Yorkston is a singer/songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Come and hear an EdFringe podcast recorded live and listen to the backstage chat and meet the Edinburgh legend/veteran/star.
Central London has been deprived of a venue that regularly hosts nights filled with Cabaret and Magic for some time.
If you’re not convinced by the title I have no idea what this is going to do.
A mesmerising concert of West End musical theatre favourites starring Leona Marie.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
The world has faced many disasters.
Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’s just a nicer word for different.
This show brings the comedian who played one of Father Ted’s most loved characters Father Damien Lennon (Father Damo) to the stage with stand-up and musical comedy, interspersed …
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Featuring former West End performers, this 2for1 tribute brings you two of the most iconic musicals of all time.
Enjoy some adult comedy entertainment with Shogun Joe and The Vagabonds as they complete their 2022 summer touring schedule at the Edinburgh Fringe.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
Join Monski Mouse, special guest cabaret superstar Dusty Limits, and friends for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and fun for 0-5s.
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
As I take my seat in Mono Restaurant for Drag Queen Wine Tasting, I’m immediately struck by how professional everything looks.
Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz.
Chortle Student Comedy Award winner Joe Kent-Walters and runner-up Sam Williams join forces to bring you an absolute home run of a comedy show, covering two bases: stand-up and cha…
Joe is not a “person with comedy”; he’s a comedian.
Zany music and a psychedelic multimedia screen await the audience as we take our seats for Sam Nicoresti’s show Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for an epic session of bonkers, bopping, beautiful fun.
At the beginning of 2020 Joe Bates (BBC Radio 4Extra, Chorts 2021 finalist) started taking anti-depressants to check if things in the world were as bleak as they seemed or whether …
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
High energy, observational stand-up with ‘fast-fire expert jokiness’ (BathEcho.
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
How do clowns get pregnant? There is no obvious punch line for Little Parts, a clown who has always been pregnant, yet who is not sure if she’ll ever give birth.
After a girls night out, three friends wind down in the local chippy.
After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway after their five-star sell-out run in 2019.
This cast of professional performers is excited to return for their fifth year with the Best of Broadway! After sell-out performances and rave reviews, this show is sure to be a ho…
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Do you feel successful? Then this is your show.
Watch in amazement as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device: the Perpetual Hype Machine.
“Excuse me sir, would you mind if I gave this gentleman the free seat beside you?” says a keen and kind Aliya Kanani before the beginning of her sold-out show.
For the fraction of the cost of a fixed penalty notice, pose your question to our fearless leader at this chat-show-cum-Question-Time-cum-work-event (wine/cheese/cake/wallpaper ava…
For the eighth year of this universally unique, neurodiversifying, audience-participatory solo show, Paul Wady has changed the name to Guerilla Autistics and wants to take you all …
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.
After moving to Switzerland, a wayward Aussie finds out he’ll be a father and so he does the obvious: Leaves everyone to embark on an acting career (AKA cocaine addiction) and accr…
It’s a loud and rowdy Saturday night at Monkey Barrel.
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
There’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo has risen from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land.
As the audience arrives for Morgan Rees’ show at the Pleasance, there’s a pair of shoes sticking out behind the curtain.
Dealing with grief is something that is very difficult because it’s so personal and particular to the individual.
Sexy Brain is Tiff Stevenson’s tenth Edinburgh show – a mighty feat for any comedian.
People keep telling James he’s “too gay”.
There’s not really any way to describe how much I enjoyed Glenn Moore’s show other than to say that by the halfway point, I had put my notepad away and was just enjoying the ri…
As we all know, COVID was invented to stop people from enjoying live music, but now Two Hearts are here to help us recover from two years of silence.
Hi, my name is Ray and I’m an Australian stand-up comedian who lives in London.
When Finlay Christie won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2019, it seemed like his next year would be filled with preparation for his first Edinburgh sho…
Never Let Go is a thrilling, hilarious one-man show the New York Times calls ‘a feat of ingenuity’.
Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
A favourite on the New Zealand comedy scene for the last 10 years, Kiwi-Filipino James Roque makes his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Pleasance Attic on a sunny afternoon is hot, especially sitting in a sold-out crowd.
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
Cockroach is an hour of dark, gut-wrenching stand-up from one of the best comedians in the country.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
Experience the best upcoming talent from the North of England as one cast stage two of Shakespeare’s least known plays… What comes to mind when you thi…
In 2017 I last saw Briefs in a Spiegeltent on the Southbank.
There has been much said in books and films about the life and times of Harvey Milk.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Joe is not a ‘person with comedy’, he’s a comedian.
Touring productions of West End musicals can often feel like a poor shadow of their original run as they usually require considerable downscaling to easily fit into a multitude of …
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of extreme, unadulterated nonsense featuring trains, brains and babies.
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of extreme, unadulterated nonsense featuring trains, brains and babies.
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
Come and join some of the biggest stars Broadway has ever birthed as they present to you a glitter bedazzled cabaret to preview the upcoming webseries ‘The Real Housewives of Bro…
Daniel Craig has abandoned the James Bond franchise.
Daniel Craig has abandoned the James Bond franchise.
I had been looking forward to seeing The Lion for a long time.
What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a…
What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a…
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a …
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Join nearly national treasure, comedian and all-round hun James Barr as he returns to Brighton Fringe in 2022.
Join nearly national treasure, comedian and all-round hun James Barr as he returns to Brighton Fringe in 2022.
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in the decaden…
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
Wanna find out how it ends? 3 stand-up comedians, 3 turbulent years and 3 hilarious stories, 3 lives rebuild? James OD(Angel Comedy London), Arna Spek (99 Comedy Club bursary)and C…
Wanna find out how it ends? 3 stand-up comedians, 3 turbulent years and 3 hilarious stories, 3 lives rebuild? James OD(Angel Comedy London), Arna Spek (99 Comedy Club bursary)and C…
“I am young, I am naive, I am filled with .
A comedy show 165 million years in the makingMulti-award-winning comedian, Dave Bibby, is back with a show about parenthood through the eyes of a complete manchild.
Bye Bye Baby are a jaw-dropping tribute to the musical phenomenon ‘Jersey Boys’ and the timeless, iconic music of ‘Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons…
“MOVING, ORIGINAL, DECISIVE THEATRE” - Broadway BabyMeet Billie.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make S…
James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make Some Noise.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make S…
Join us!Join us for an evening of Talent at West Five Bar - You can just turn up on the night as this event is free entry! Want to be a contestant?If you wish to be a contesta…
An exploration of the senses, sung to a mesmerising soundtrack, Baby Bear is a playful, interactive puppetry adventure for babies, toddlers and their families.
An exploration of the senses, sung to a mesmerising soundtrack, Baby Bear is a playful, interactive puppetry adventure for babies, toddlers and their families.
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre continues its tradition of being non-traditional this Christmas season.
Celebrating the musical numbers of the finest villains, evil doers, baddies and the downright despicable.
Performing live on stage - Billie Gold at 8pmTicket link
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Pour le mois d’ octobre je vous propose Frank’s, en dessous de la Maison Franois.
Performing live on stage - Miles Elliot, Soul Man at 8pmTicket link
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
Performing live on stage - Paul Middleton at 8pmTicket link
Performing live on stage - Liam Joseph at 8pmTicket link
SIMPLY THE BREAST - Drag King Fundraiser The m*n, the myth, the legend, Jamie Fuxx, is undergoing some gender affirming surgery this October.
As director Dominic Hill welcomes us to the Tron theatre for this triumphant double bill, the audience cheers midway through his announcement at his mention of the return of live t…
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Performing live on stage - Ed Parry AKA Snow White Trash at 8pmTicket link
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Performing live on stage - Wain Kara Douglas at 8pmTicket link
Performing live on stage - Jamie Hedward at 8pmTicket link
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…
By James ColeBen battles to overcome his addiction while a ghost of his past seeks to destroy his future.
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Flock is East London’s newst LGBTQI friendly venue in South Woodford near the station, Central Line.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! It’s the show that NOBODY asked for Baby Lame sings Shit! Join punk horror drag superstar Baby Lame as she takes over the Glory intimate soire filled with …
BANK HOLIDAYS are Back! DJ Steve James from 9pmSelected Drinks 1.
Find your place on the path to The Clapham Grand for our LION KING MOVIE NIGHT Weve already given you Mamma Mia, but were roaring back to full capacity Movie Nights here at T…
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself.
Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself.
James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
There was a comment made in an article in the Edinburgh Evening News just before the Fringe began about how, after the amount of time comedians have had to prepare for the 2021 Fri…
Join ‘Selfish’ Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King to to better understand yourself and events in your life!Workshop overviewSo, this workshop will be all about how to use w…
Cockroach is an hour of dark, gut-wrenching stand-up from one of the best comedians in the country.
One of the Gals is completely packed.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
A brand new work-in-progress hour from former BBC Comedy staff writer and very old baby Charlie Dinkin.
One of the strangest Fringe shows of recent memory is A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for 56 Minutes and Then Leaves – a sh…
Join two of Scotland’s finest comedians for an hour of energetic stand-up with unique observations and hilarious stories.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
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.
On February 7th 1991, James Casey was found guilty of murder.
A writer enters his studio and is visited by five eccentric and imposing characters with the purpose of creating a play that defines the 21st century.
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
A hyper-reality show portraying the daily life of a cam girl in a Barbie-land gone wrong.
Cambridge-based theatre company, The Two Jays, present five short Zoom plays; some funny and some tragic, in which truths are spilled.
There is an incredible sense of comfort that I feel upon entering the Dining Room at Gilded Balloon to see Jay Lafferty’s Blether.
Joe Stilgoe is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter.
Is there a ‘right’ way to be in a gay relationship in the modern world? In this play, written by BAFTA Racliffe-winning, Offie-nominated writer Shaun Kitchener, two gay couples…
Three couples have signed up for private antenatal classes.
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.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Jonathan Booth steps into the heels of legendary diva, Bette Midler, as she explores the key moments in her life and career.
Jonathan Booth steps into the heels of legendary diva, Bette Midler, as she explores the key moments in her life and career.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
A baby rolls into their lives, literally, and it belongs to none of them.
A baby rolls into their lives, literally, and it belongs to none of them.
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Let’s admit it – Zoom calls are not ideal for stand-up comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Digital assistants predict Pete’s every move - is he a deepfake, does he exist? An AI buddy comedy exploring how human experience is being transformed by technology.
Digital assistants predict Pete’s every move - is he a deepfake, does he exist? An AI buddy comedy exploring how human experience is being transformed by technology.
On February 9th 1964 four young men were on their way to perform their first major concert as ‘Forever Plaid’.
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Show And Tell in association with United Agents present RHYS JAMES: SNITCH Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his fir…
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
The topic of death is so incredibly subjective, with reactions ranging from resignation and acceptance to angst and fearfulness.
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
Show And Tell in association with United Agents present RHYS JAMES: SNITCH Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his fir…
On the 27th May something remarkable happened.
In July 2000 we found ourselves glued to our screens as series one of UK’s Big Brother aired for the first time and proved to be a major hit.
“Donor Conceived Person? Honestly I think I prefer Test Tube Baby” Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’…
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
A deliciously twisted and tender comedy about inner gremlins and awkward romance.
The world has faced many disasters.
“Drama King” is a compelling new one-man show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which tells the story of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
Charlotte Green, writer of Lest We Forget, and James Robert Moore, writer of POSTERBOY, join us for a chat about the process of developing their plays and their ambitions…
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
A live-from-home reading of a twenty minute section of brand new play POSTERBOY based on the autobiography OUT IN THE ARMY by James Wharton – telling the insp…
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
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…
Smokey Joe’s Cafe celebrates many of the greatest hits of the golden age of rock’n’roll in America.
Conceived, written and acted by Timothy Quinlan, this short film features some of the better acting on offer at the Fringe, and like so many others, is inspired by the strange real…
American Performing Arts International is excited to return for the fifth year with the Best of Broadway! After sold-out performances and rave reviews, this show is sure to be a ho…
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.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Come see 30 plays in 60 minutes! Created by Greg Allen of the Neo-Futurists Theatre and performed by students from The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Brush off your tiara and unleash your inner princess with Broadway’s original Cinderella, Belle and Jasmine in this hit concert, direct from NYC! Two-time Tony-nom…
Brush off your tiara and unleash your inner princess with Broadway’s original Cinderella, Belle and Jasmine in this hit concert, direct from NYC! Two-time Tony-nom…
The lockdown goes on and theatre will likely not return anytime soon.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to the Lichfield Garrick Theatre and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
When award-winning comedian Richard Gadd offers a stranger a free cup of tea, he has no sense of the nightmare to come.
Get ready for an absurd explosion of trash-tactic song, interactive comedy, twisted film and furious balls-out performance from renowned drag sensation Baby Lame.
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Q The Music Show James Bond Concert Spectacular has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
Linda, Brian and Nelly are new to the neighbourhood, everything seems perfect.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Don’t miss John Kani’s highly acclaimed play Kunene and the King marking the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid with a strictly limited London run, following its …
Panto season is upon us (Oh Yes it is!) and Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch have repackaged the classic tale of Robin Hood and bought it to the stage in a wonderful way.
Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
While browsing some of the more risqué websites you may discover some titillating videos of various people trying to get each other to laugh, moan and groan simply by tickling.
KING OF POP - THE LEGEND CONTINUES showcases the extraordinary talent of an impersonator who has performed for 28 years in over 350 international shows, 62 different cou…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Mental health.
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
James Grant is one of the most renowned and respected performers Scotland has ever produced.
A new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First award winner Emily Jenkins.
Edinburgh-based promoter The Soundhouse Organisation presents Three Times Five, featuring Moishe’s Bagel, Kinnaris Quintet and John Goldie and the High Plains.
Join today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of performed readings and interviews with presenter Shereen Nanjiani.
‘When did no become a turn on? No.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Natalie’s stunning soprano voice will enchant you as she takes you on a musical journey.
BBD Productions make their debut at the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway.
"I kind of want to die – but I’d really like to get into publishing, too," says Billie (performed by Grainne Dromgoole), as she explains the story of her first real l…
In this amazing hour of comedy, Joe will distill what he’s learned about the history of everything and the future of everything, and what it all means.
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, one of the most successful partnerships in the 30s and 40s, (dead now unfortunately.
Almost a concert, kind of a stand-up comedy show, maybe a musical, The Bald-Faced Truth is a thrilling collision of song and satire.
Fringe sell-out ten years running! The original family dance party is back, bigger and better than ever.
The Alexandria Harmonizers are an award-winning men’s choir of 75 voices from Alexandria, Virginia.
A couple of years ago James’ best friends, Sarah and Emma, asked him for his sperm.
An evening of musical theatre anthems from the shows you know and love, with songs from We Will Rock You, Matilda, Hairspray, Singing in the Rain and other classics.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and cabaret superstar Dusty Limits for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and fun for …
Join Mia, Jacus, Twinkle and their nursery rhyme friends at the world premiere of a brand new live show.
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
In Moment of Truth, James Freedman opens with an air of mystery.
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh 2018 (Comedy.
Five years ago, at his best friends Sarah and Emma’s engagement party, James met the love the love his life.
The news is too horrible to joke about, so Joe’s looking for a new shtick.
The perfect appetiser for your early evening on the Fringe.
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world; come find out why.
Eight years ago, James’ best friend Tom was diagnosed with heart cancer and told he had three months to live.
Time is ticking for Kate to have a baby.
Bumper Blyton features a bumper cast of improv experts who give assured performances throughout, but too many bells and whistles lead to a muddled production.
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2016, 2017, and 2018 we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this new revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the Best …
Following two consecutive years of sell-outs and critical acclaim, the James Taylor and Joni Mitchell stories combine into one exciting show to take you on a journey through the in…
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Following sell-out runs in 2016 and 2018 Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show! As a child Mason always dreamt of mastering the art of sleight of hand.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Following sell-out shows and standing ovations in 2017/18, The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy Award winner and…
Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories.
Joe Jacobs is back like he left his car keys.
James Barr is single.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned town planner Walter Bor) and his grandad’s best friend (world-renowned comedy…
James returns with his most ambitious show to date – an epic, thought-provoking stage spectacular celebrating the 1000 great lives that shaped history.
Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house…
Delightfully deranged and beautifully berserk, Ukrainian group Misanthrope Theatre re-ignite the flames of rebellion and fervour that saw Alfred Jarry’s play close upon its openi…
Award-winning comedian and UK board-gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage. Buckaroo, Guess Who, Hungry Hippos and more, played like never before.
The fifth year of the world unique audience autism conversion show faces new issues.
He’s survived adoption, both his moms dying, mental breakdowns, addiction and getting diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Technology is making life easier, but at what cost? Join James Bran on a comedic exploration of phone addiction, privacy paranoia and his take on the “disruption” of democracy by a…
The award-winning co-creators of smash-hit Fringe comedies Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy, top…
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.
Character comedy is a difficult discipline at the best of times and, with a trope as thoroughly picked-over as the oblivious action-hero, it asks at lot from a performer to find so…
How am I doing? Never Better.
You can never be entirely sure if the material a comedian is sharing is true, based in truth, or completely fabricated.
Daniel Craig has pulled out of the next James Bond film.
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
For most of 2017 I received taunting messages from a fake Facebook account.
Join two of Scotland’s fastest rising comics for a fun hour of stand-up comedy.
If you love sitting on a chair and watching stand-up comedy then this is the show for you! Joe is an up-and-coming comedian based in Edinburgh.
Ray Bradshaw made waves at last year's Fringe for performing stand-up in sign language and English at the same time, a gesture inspired by his own upbringing with deaf parents …
For the first time James performs his multi award-winning trilogy of storytelling shows, Team Viking, A Hundred Different Words for Love and Revelations back-to-back in one evening…
Debut show from Saskia Preston, writer for Radio 4’s The Now Show and News Quiz, and 4 Extra’s Newsjack.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
To say that Murder She Didn’t Write, from Degrees of Error, is a slick production is an understatement.
The boy from Mock the Week (BBC Two), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), The News Quiz and star of Rhys James Is.
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
The brainchild of comedians Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson, That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother! is unlike any other show at the Fringe.
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.
Nobel Prize-winning comedian JJ Whitehead returns with a show about lying.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Spontaneous Potter, from the eponymous Spontaneous Players, is just another improvised twist on a cultural classic.
Since their explosive debut a few years ago, Waiting For The Call Improv (WTFC) and their signature show, Notflix, have been tipped as rising stars.
Helen Bauer hits the Fringe hard with this compelling comedy debut which is slick, sassy and super satisfying.
On a bare stage at Pleasance Upstairs, Bobby & Amy promises storytelling in its purest form.
"Poor Fellow.
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘Extraordinary’ (Mirror).
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically-acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
James’ grandad, Terry Downes, became world middleweight champion in 1961.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Jonathan Booth steps into the heels of legendary Diva, Bette Midler, as she explores the key moments in her life and career.
After over a decade running events across the globe, including 10 consecutive sell-out seasons at Edinburgh Fringe and 3 hugely successful appearances at Great Yorkshire…
Friends are often made under unusual circumstances.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and London cabaret superstar, Dusty Limits, for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and…
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh Fringe 2018 (comedy.
Step into the magical and colourful world of LITTLE BABY BUM.
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.
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen Buchanan brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe…
Above the Stag is – now that has two separate performance spaces – able to put on a dance production for the first time in its history.
Fraternity.
In 2005, at The Lincoln Center Theater, The Light in the Piazza premiered on Broadway.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to Lighthouse and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham.
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
James’ grandad was world middleweight champion.
After successfully bribing the Edinburgh Festival 2018 for a four star review, the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’ cruises into Brighton Fringe for three nights.
Technology is making life easier, but at what cost? Join James Bran on a comedic exploration of convenience addiction; a sidesplitting look at the value of personal data, and a hil…
Whilst training at drama school all performers undertake something called ‘Animal Studies’ where they learn to mimic those who have different motivations to humans.
A combination of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay that gives the audience the opportunity to create the ultimate relationship ‘to do list’.
The current offering at The Space’s Foreword Festival, which champions new and upcoming playwrights, is Sink, by Tobias Graham.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
James’ grandad was World Middleweight Champion.
The Space is currently running its Foreword Festival, a wonderful scheme giving playwrights the chance to submit early drafts of scripts.
The Joni Mitchell & James Taylor Story played to a packed out audience at the Komedia.
Joe used to do political comedy but recently the news has become so horrible that he can’t bear to do it any more.
Perth Fringe World Best Comedy nominee Odette is the fun, feisty, incredibly fertile cleaning lady everybody loves to love! Join her for an hour of soap opera silliness as she sha…
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
New parent? You’re probably in need of a laugh.
A pole-esque tale, telling the story of one woman’s journey through pole, from the seedy underworld of Brighton, to her respectable reinvention as a drag king.
Infamous cabaret misfit and drag miscreant Joe Black invites you to indulge in a gloriously raucous gin soaked musical cabaret extravaganza.
The latest offering in Above The Stag’s main auditorium takes us back in time to a Victorian Working Men’s Club in Bermondsey.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
Lambert Jackson Productions are proud to present a new series of intimate concerts called ‘Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace’.
Family fun dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
May is here, so we are now in one of the highlights of the homosexual calendar – Eurovision.
The award-winning co-creators of smash hit fringe comedies ‘Vampire Hospital Waiting Room’ and ‘Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair’ bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy …
12-year-old Annie has hit the big time – but she’s no idea how hard it is going to be.
A gentle and immersive multisensory experience.
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
Rebound Productions brings back their sell-out show FLIGHTS OF FANCY for three more nights at The Hen & Chickens Theatre.
The popular Q The Music Orchestra is bringing its James Bond Concert Spectacular to the Adelphi Theatre.
The Broadway BrawlLondon ABA presents London v Kent An Amateur boxing championship
Cult genius famed for the 1977 "Rhythm of Life" LP and club classic "Sweet Power, Your Embrace" which Norman Jay MBE proclaimed to be "One of the most infl…
In Karyn Kusama’s riveting new crime thriller Destroyer, the receipt of an ink-marked bill in the office mail propels veteran LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidm…
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned architect Walter Bor) and his grandad's best friend (also wor…
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
"Bring Your Own Baby Comedy have transformed parental leave" i paper "Guaranteed to leave at least one of you crying with laughter" Mother and Baby M…
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman stars as the charismatic politician Gary Hart for Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman in the new thrilling drama The Front Run…
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
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All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Dating in 2018 is a total disaster! MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK's leading LGBTQ+ award-nominated podcast A Gay And A NonGay, and tragically single…
Mary, Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart.
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Starring Steve Coogan and John C.
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
Upon collecting my tickets for The Dip I was also given a pair of earplugs.
James Cary wonders what Christians think they’re trying to achieve.
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Unconventional country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette has married a charismatic egomaniacal man of letters, 14 years her senior, known by the single name, Willy.
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND EXTRA SCREENING ADDED - TUESDAY 22 JANUARY @ 10:30AM Winner of 10 Best British Independent Film Awards 2018 including - Best British Independent Fi…
Extra Virgin tells the story of the awkward minutes after a Grindr hook-up.
Deep in the remote snowy forest an icy wind blows and snowflakes fall from the sky.
James O'Brien’s giving you the chance to join him for an exclusive stage show to raise money for LBC's charity Global's Make Some Noise - get your t…
James O'Brien’s giving you the chance to join him for an exclusive stage show to raise money for LBC's charity Global's Make Some Noise - get your t…
Join Zoo Keeper Sue and mischievous Little Monkey on Christmas Eve, and discover numbers are all around us.
In BOLSTOFF: A Modern Actor’s Introduction to Advanced Contemporary Performance the lads from Wicker Socks (Fionn Foley, Michael-David McKernan and Ronan Carey) help guide us thr…
To have an audience hanging on every word you say, for an hour, is a difficult feat indeed.
Set in a Mother and Baby Home in December 1964, Be My Baby follows Mary Adams who is unmarried and seven months pregnant.
1964, Mary Adams, unmarried and seven months pregnant, is forcibly sent to a Mother and Baby Home by a mother, intent on keeping up appearances.
TV and recording star Joe Longthorne returns to Leicester Square Theatre in 2018 as part of his 50th Anniversary Tour.
Mikhail Lermentov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been newly adapted for the stage by Oliver Bennett, who also plays the lead - Pechorin, and Vladimir Shcherban.
At the exact same time that Theresa May’s cabinet is in turmoil over the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, Golden Age Theatre Company has set up camp in the Museum of Come…
With three drummers, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey, as well as the return of multi-instrumentalist Bill Rieflin on keyboards, guitarist and original founding mem…
From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes an explosive standalone thriller that will grip you and won’t let go until the very last page.
James Acaster reflects on the best year of his life and the worst year of his life and does stand-up comedy about them while throwing a strop.
Doktor James loves Halloween, it’s the one night he doesn’t try to take over the world.
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
Authentic Indian & Slightly Racist Deported into the West with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
James Ehnes Violin Steven Osborne Piano Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1 Debussy Violin Sonata Prokofiev Five Melodies Ravel Tzigane, rapsodie de conce…
Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’.
In a controversial move to promote classic children’s novels, publishers have released all the stories far too filthy for the page! The Infamous Five is an hour-long sketch show …
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…
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
Sam wants to tell you about five encounters he had on Craigslist.
Britain’s most popular magicians and amateur bounty hunters, Joe and Ryan, perform an hour of classical music and salsa dance, with Claire Sweeney on banjo.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, returns to the International Festival three years after he performed his glorious soundtrack to the nostalgia-soaked film, From Scotland With Lov…
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2017, we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the best of Broadway to the …
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
The talented performers of Edinburgh Music Theatre return with an unmissable evening of musical theatre classics you will know and love.
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
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…
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Choosing to adapt a fairly obscure Greek text like The Battle of Frogs and Mice (also known as the Batrachomyomachia) as a storytelling show for children would be a bold choice for…
Following a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, mind control artist Mason King returns for another journey into the inner depths of the human mind.
Sell-out nine years running! The original family dance party is back, bigger and better than ever, celebrating our tenth anniversary on the Fringe.
James Farmer (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Last Leg) is back for an hour of jokes about being a big scaredy cat.
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Posturous Productions and the writer of the critically acclaimed Glass Slippers and Silver Bullets and the sell out shows The Haunted Hunt and Build-Up And Climax pr…
‘I think it’s high time women let themselves just be women for a change.
Everything else may have dried up but not their wit! The grande dames of Scottish comedy triumphantly return, just as funny and feisty as ever.
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2017, we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the best of Broadway to the …
Brenda’s Got a Baby was birthed from a concept created by Molly Rumford, financed via Crowdfunder and the culmination of interviews and news stories from real people.
The James Taylor Story returns with the addition of Carly Simon to take you through Taylor’s career as he embarks on a journey into superstardom and his turbulent relationship wi…
After a sell-out run in 2017 The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of this six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit mak…
The 2018 International Festival season bursts into life with a spectacular free outdoor digital performance celebrating Scotland’s Year of Young People and reflecting on the cent…
Cam Cahoon is a brilliant and accomplished tenor with a gift for enchanting his audience and creating fast fans with every show! Your favorite Broadway hits, including popular song…
The scores are in.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Why toddle when you can dance!? Sell-out shows around the world, come find out why DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with under fives and their parents/carers.
The perfect appetiser for your early evening on the Fringe.
There are times when a particular title will jump out at you and niggle in the back of your brain.
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
Award-winning comedian and UK board-gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
To make James Veitch better for you, he brings regular updates to improve speed and reliability.
For a fourth killer year, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang! Armed with your suggestions, they weave together a brand-new film in the style of Britain’s favourite …
‘The day I’ve been dreading arrives.
Despite the world being on the brink of collapse, its fair to say James is the happiest he’s ever been.
Though now a household name thanks to a semi-final place in last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, singing impressionist Jess Robinson is a familiar face of the Fringe.
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
Joe Foster (Winner of South Coast Comedian of the year 2015) presents his eagerly anticipated debut stand-up show.
‘A top class comic’ (Birmingham Mail).
Do you have the heart of an athlete, but the skills of a toddler? Then this is the show for you! James Hancox is rubbish at sports.
2017.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Power? Sex? Control? Part One: Meet Baby, a prostitute willing to entertain you with Barbie dolls… Experience a bizarre underworld of desire and oppression.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
James Farmer (Writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Last Leg) is back for an hour of jokes about being a big sc…
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal.
Sex.
Masculinity – isn’t it, like, over? Or are there new ways to model manliness? Growing up Joe felt less like a boy, more like a Spice Girl.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
Total sell-out 2015, 2016 and 2017! One of the best-known, longest-running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff is tough.
Home is a powerful concept.
If there’s one thing the majority of people at the Fringe can empathise with, it’s how hard the life of a jobbing actor can be.
“Have you ever fantasised about someone like me?” Katy Dye asks the audience, not as an adult woman, not as a performance artist, but as a 15-year-old school girl.
An enigmatic title is the hallmark of many Fringe shows – I’m sure no one knows quite what to expect from Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples or Lights Over Tesc…
Power? Sex? Control? Part Two: Baby, the Barbie doll-playing prostitute, becomes more and more a doll herself.
Join Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy for lashings of ginger beer and some of the most memorable moments of Enid Blyton’s beloved stories.
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.
Trump.
Toxic is a collection of laugh-out-loud stories from Joe Sutherland’s life in Coventry, London and (briefly) a town in France which, when pieced together, create an intimately ho…
Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal.
King Courgette is an old-time vegetable string band Featuring Wild Zucchini Bill from international trash-bashing phenomenon STOMP! Expect a righteous mix of fiddles, ba…
After over a decade of family dayclubbing events across the globe, including 9 consecutive sell-out seasons at Edinburgh Fringe and 2 hugely successful appearances at Great Yorks…
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
This all singing, all dancing energetic new musical revue will take you on an exciting journey down the ‘Great White Way’! Featuring some of the greatest melodies and lyrics wr…
This frantic, manic, family friendly, energy filled show features an explosive combination of cutting edge juggling, variety, technology and audience involvement.
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and…
James Acaster tries new material for an hour.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and London cabaret superstar, Dusty Limits, for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, originals, puppetry and fun…
A rare chance to see a uniquely talented pianist/composer.
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
James Dean.
2018 dating is a disaster so it’s time to let the crazy out! MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ award-nominated podcast ‘A Gay and a NonGay’, J…
‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ and ‘Amused Moose Laugh Off’ finalist AJ Roberts debuts his solo show.
Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy, the Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as a cop who moonlights as a killer-for-hire in the multi-award-winning…
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.
Joe Wells returns with his unique brand of acerbic political humour about how we all grow increasingly right wing as we age.
Following our completely sold out Fringe 2017 season, ‘Baby Loves Disco’ returns to the funkiest bar on the beachfront with the best sea views in Brighton for 2018! Club DJs spin f…
‘The Boo Hoo Baby’ Inspired by the board book by Cressida Cowell Boo is a baby who needs something but what it is nobody knows.
John 3:16 is the verse to end all verses apparently.
Let’s get the review part over and done with; this was going to be a five star review from the moment I saw the title Joe Black - Touch of Evil: A Celebration of Villainy in Song…
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join our resident dj-mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for an hour of bopping family fun.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Poet Andrew James Brown loves pubs.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in the friendliest of discos.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with an inter-dimensional, work in progress stand-up comedy show.
Growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
Remember when Nazis were only found in Germany, Austria, and Clacton-on-Sea? Well now they’re in the White House, Downing Street, and Clacton-on-Sea.
Eagerly anticipated debut show from the South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015.
A different show each day. The best of Brighton’s cabaret, opera, comedy all under Broadway Lounge. See our website for the daily schedule.
All the King’s Men bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Catch the sexiest couple to come from BBC’S Strictly Come Dancing in an incredible show, packed full of high-energy dance routines and steamy scenes.
Five Star Awarded West End Actor & Singer Harry Kit Lee (Hair The Musical.
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tour, ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again with a brand new show.
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the …
Peter Hart has nice manners and always will.
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world, come find out why Adelaide’s own, DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with the under fives and their parents/carers.
★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened.
Should dogs be allowed sex changes? Is it okay to punch a Nazi puncher? Can refugees get gay married? James Donald Forbes McCann (hit107, The Project, Adelaide Comedy’s ‘Best A…
Babies, toddlers, stressed new parents swilling bottles of wine and some top Fringe comedians.
Suspicious emails, unclaimed bonds, Nigerian princes; standard procedure is to delete on sight.
“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
Having “hiccuped” his way to fame in 2015 with the Australian National Anthem at a baseball game, 9 year old Ethan Hall will perform a solo event to showcase his singing abilities …
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
‘If you’re unfamiliar with Marmalade 5, sort that out - you’re missing out on what would have to be one of the most musically-talented families in Adelaide’ The Advertiser.
As seen on The Project.
Personally selected by Chris Rock to be a special guest on his Total Blackout arena tour, James is one of only four Australian comedians ever to perform on CONAN and the only Austr…
Broadway Sessions is Adelaide’s monthly musical theatre performance and open-mic night.
Cameron is one of the most exciting & hilarious rising comedy stars in Australia.
Back to SA by popular demand for ONE SHOW ONLY! Featuring one of Australia’s most sort after entertainers, Paul Hogan.
While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te…
Be entertained by the talented kids from our January Broadway Bootcamp as they perform a showcase of the skills they have developed over our two week award winning program.
‘Everybody just stared at them and loved them and wanted to be them – but nobody was.
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
Christmas is the time to embrace your inner child and Doktor James’ Kristmas Karol provides the perfect excuse.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Loosely inspired by Twin Peaks, The Owls Are Not What They Seem will chart a brand new hidden mystery with each fully improvised performance.
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play on the spot, inspired by audience suggestion.
In the Science of Cringe, BBC comedy writer Maria Peters explores what cringe is, why we do it and how the world would be without it.
A musical by Clarke Peters, featuring Louis Jordan’s greatest hits presented by Underbelly in association with Cameron Mackintosh.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
After five Fringe successes, celebrated vocalist James Lambeth returns with pianist Steve Hamilton.
Two DJs live on stage and on the mics.
I was born to two of the most clueless parents.
Join the Bohemians on a whistle stop tour of all your favourite musicals from stage and screen! Featuring songs from shows ranging from Mamma Mia to Kiss Me Kate and Calamity Jane …
Join host Joe Lycett (as seen on TV giving Lorraine Kelly a quiche lorraine) and a bunch of special guest comedy friends (to be announced because I didn’t have a chance to book t…
The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar,…
EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale.
Back for another year, Adam Meggido and Sean McCann of Showstoppers! fame return to wow us with what is possibly the most impressive improvisational feat at the Fringe.
All-female Australian group Essential Theatre present their own gender-swapped take on Shakespeare’s classic.
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
We’ve all had the question.
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
With sell-out shows in 2017 at an all-time high, Kit and McConnel return to the bang-central G&V Hotel with their latest collection: Pheasant Laughter.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Runaway hit of Fringe 2016, the Pop Bingo Disco gameshow is back and this time it’s all about the kids! Forget smelly bingo halls with OAPs telling you to be quiet.
Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year 2016, Top Joe, has invented a new word.
Take a first-class big band with leading West End star Kate Graham (Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
Received opinion says that we become more right-wing as we get older.
You would be forgiven for thinking that a production of The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck performed in a circus tent might involve people dressed up as the character…
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
Eric, ‘intriguing and amusing’ (Chortle.
Why toddle when you can dance?! It’s time to get heads, shoulders, knees and toes bopping along to lashings of swing, pop, rock, latin and more! Selling out shows around the world,…
After an hour of a narcissistic one man show, we were left with the dilemma of whether to applaud the honesty of Sam, or be totally appalled by the stark exposure of his personalit…
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
Disturbing the peace.
American Performing Arts International return to Edinburgh with their musical theatre revue American Broadway Hits.
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
Undercover cops.
The James Taylor Story is one of a series of shows at the Fringe under the Night Owl Shows, the company created by Dan Clews.
Magician Paul Nathan returns to Edinburgh once more with The I Hate Children Children’s Show for an hour of interactive magic, name-calling and the occasional glass of champagne.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
The Carole King Story premiers at the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit-maker.
Sugar Baby satirised the food industry with one eyebrow firmly raised, mocking both the trend of ‘clean eating’ for which vegan titans like ‘Deliciously Ella’ are increasin…
Both faithful and frantic, young company Flying Pig Theatre have produced a very satisfying version of Euripides’ Bacchae with a deft touch.
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub, except in this place regulars include a New Age traveller, an old skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met Police chief.
In Ripe, Jacobs takes us through the stages of a banana corresponding to the stages of life; through stand-up and rap.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
Undercover cops.
Let’s chat about your race relations issue.
Raised a devout Christian, Kevin knew sex was meant for marriage only.
Following killer runs in 2015 and 2016, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang! Armed with your suggestions, they weave together a brand-new film in the style of Brit…
Phineas Wakenshaw is a consummately confident performer, effortlessly charming packed out audiences with a sweet smile and immense stage presence.
James Bennison.
This jump-cutting adaptation of Shelagh Stephenson’s drama following two generations of domestic abuse is a decent attempt at a school-level production.
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…
Gentle and well-meaning, The Wonderful World of Lapin is a good attempt to introduce young children to the French language.
Despite the world being on the brink of collapse, it’s fair to say James is the happiest he’s ever been.
London.
Incognito Theatre’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a solid, if predictable, production which ticks all of the necessary First World War boxes.
Immersive Joe’s NYC Bar returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with two shows a day at Assembly Underground.
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
Canadian Comedy Award winners, 16-time Best of Fest winners and 3-time London Impresario Award winners.
James Acaster is a comedian who, for many, requires no introduction.
Pernilla is a Norwegian on a journey through her past.
Undercover cops.
Powerful and demanding, Red Ladder Theatre Company’s production of The Damned United is every bit as belligerent and uncompromising as the protagonist of its story.
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
Much as it is a pleasure to discover a hidden gem amongst the mass of shows in Edinburgh, there’s also something very reassuring about having a list of reliable prospects.
Sofie Hagen won an award ages ago and she’s still banging on about it.
New interactive video game show from Joe Hart (SYTYF? Finalist and Tickled Pig Winner)! Nerd out, level up and just maybe live to respawn another day.
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Thought-provoking theatre and assured acting are on offer at this show, which is split into two plays, both written by the late playwright James Saunders, a one-time mentor to Tom …
I’ve never seen an hour of stand-up with such a high density of laughter points.
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Take a trip into the mind of James Adomian, where his many celebrated characters and impressions vie with his real voice as he explores the twin nightmares of politics and pop cult…
From the team behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs comes a brand new adaptation of David Walliam’s children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon.
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Tall Stories return to Edinburgh for their 20th birthday with an updated version of Future Perfect.
At a college songwriting class in Chicago, an end-of-year competition involves the students performing each other’s anonymous submissions for a celebrity guest judge.
A site specific, immersive play invites the audience into Danni’s student flat for pre-drinks and Ring of Fire with her best friend, Jack.
Three hilarious shows all made up on the spot by some of London’s top improvisers! This week we have Leave To Remain, Clusterfox & James And I.
Religion, rap, Pogs, sexism, Gaviscon, mental illness, success, commitment and coffee coasters.
A stand-up show for children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
“Cake-mixing, baking and eating fuel, this zingy, high-energy story as a restless baby sets about a night-time adventure.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a supervillain.
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Responsible for the most popular TED Talk of 2016, James Veitch brings his hilarious new show ‘Game Face’, with more geeky comedy about life, love and enabling Bluetooth.
If the clients play nice, male escorting can be a pretty sweet gig.
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Voted ‘One To Watch’ at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 and nominated for Amused Moose Best Show 2016 at the Edinburgh Fringe, James is back with another hour of hilarious st…
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 …
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub except, in this place, regulars include a new-age traveller, an old-skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met police chief.
Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being on a section of the Mental Health Act and distinctly upset about being …
A double bill from: Joe Hart (SYTYF finalist, Tickled Pig winner, as seen on BBC Trending) and Liam Webber (Best New Act nominee, Midlands Comedy Awards).
Come and enjoy some of the South Coast’s finest comedy talent, in Junkyard Five, as five hilarious women do comedy in Kemptown.
In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Following our legendary Brighton Fringe 2016 appearance, the original family dance party returns for more day-clubbing, this time at the funkiest bar on the beachfront with the bes…
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
James Bennison.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Returning for their third year.
Following Tabac Rouge in 2014, Thierree returns with his latest critically acclaimed creation, featuring a seamless mix of mechanical marvels, music, surreal humour and acrobatic f…
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…
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting musi…
The Voice Factor [X] is the playwriting debut of Michael-David McKernan, an hour of sharp satire and musings on the nature of fame for those that are unprepared for it.
Are you ready? Grab a spoon! Because it’s Pat-a-cake time! Pitter-patter – get the butter! Glitzy-glossy – whisk in sugar! Jokey-yolky – add the eggs! Long Nose Puppets off…
Following their sell-out run in the Welsh Millennium Centre’s 10th Anniversary production Broadway to the Bay, The Novello Orchestra comes to the London Palladium for a night…
Written and performed by Donal Courtney, God Has No Country is the story of Hugh O’Flaherty a priest from Killarney that saved 6,500 lives in Rome during World War 2.
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…
Money For The Sun’s production of The Quare Fellow is an astounding bit of theatre.
With the London production now spanning over 25,000 performances, it is clear that Agatha Christie’s play—set in the secluded, snow-bound Monkswell Manor Guest House where a …
Rapture Theatre Company’s production of Michael Frayn’s Democracy is a far cry from their rendition of the Bay City Rollers musical, Shang-a-Lang which they performed i…
Not jazz, nor a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and G…
Fife’s Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote, has become one of Scotland’s most acclaimed and prolific singer-songwriters: a squeezebox Casanova and a seafaring pop heart-breaker who…
Final special performances of this critically acclaimed 2015 sell-out show following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Drunk History.
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.
Join us for this special event, presented by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and the Traverse Theatre.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper.
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 …
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
James Acaster finds himself with something to look forward to.
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company.
Famous as Father Damo from Father Ted.
Most will only know Colin Hay from his time as the frontman for Men at Work and appearing in an episode of Scrubs.
It’s quite a bold group that brings a show about life-failing drug users in post Thatcher Britain to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
The force of nature that is named Henry Rollins graces the Edinburgh Fringe once again, bringing with him another hour of profound advice and big laughs.
Billed as a “psychological drama conflating classical Greek mystery with jazzical profanity”, Medea: Greece Meets West contains very little Medea and not much more jazz.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.
Currently cabaret in residence at London’s glamorous Crazy Coqs (recently voted best UK cabaret venue), Kit and McConnel return to the bang central G&V Hotel with their latest sh…
Though there are plenty of shows designed for children at the Fringe, finding shows aimed at the youngest can always be tricky.
Cinema screening of live performance.
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
Madeline and Joe want to have a baby.
UCLU Runaground’s James and the Giant Peach is a fresh, fun and frantic adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic.
School group Centaurs of Attention have an excellent company name and a rather good Fringe show to boot.
Bablake Theatre’s take on the character of Sherlock delivers a few laughs, though it offers nothing new to the already long list of pastiches and homages the detective has receiv…
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Globetrotting comedian Wool is back for a limited time with the first glimpse of his new show.
Ossining High School have delivered a solid and enjoyable, if somewhat flawed, production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
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…
James Christopher looks back in anger at a government driven by greed, for the benefit of the privileged few.
World champion slam poet Harry Baker returns to the Fringe, accompanied by his talented friend Chris Read on guitar for a spoken word/acoustic fusion set.
Almost twenty years ago, Guy Ritchie changed the landscape of British cinema with his love letter to the charismatic psychopaths of the East End underbelly Lock, Stock and Two Smok…
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
Always a sell-out, the original family dance party returns to Edinburgh’s funkiest nightclub for its eighth Fringe run.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
Irons the new play from writer Colin Chaston certainly pushes the envelope of believability.
This production of Mary Poppins draws heavily from Disney’s 1964 film, but fails to conjure the same magic.
Opera Mouse is a pleasant Canadian import presented as a one-woman puppet show by Melanie Gall.
Tom Taylor has produced a show so funny at one point I thought my lungs were going to burst.
Interactive theatre is a tricky beast.
This educational, charming piece on an American folk-rock visionary is fittingly presented by an up-and-coming sensation of the same genre, Dan Clews.
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
‘My job as a comedian’, Tommy Tiernan clarifies at the beginning of his set, ‘is to undermine reality’.
I grew up on a hippy commune thinking my dad was a Spanish sailor called Manuel Sanchez Gomez, but I smelt a rat.
The genius of the Romantic poets was their ability to bring emotion to the forefront in a world where faux-rationality reigned.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
ShakeShakeTheatre present the tale of a man named Bumblegrum in a quirky and enjoyable puppet show for children.
Why toddle when you can dance? Get glam and get dancing at this international hit, retro-fabulous vintage disco for under-5s (babies under 6 months can go free).
Johnny and Paddy return with another hour of rip roaring music based satire.
In a previous show, we witnessed Robert Newman intellectually tear down Dawkin’s view of evolution.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
Towards the beginning of Image - Selfie with Eggs, gymnast Natalie Reckert describes herself as a ‘handstand machine’ and calmly guides us through the component ‘stability points’ …
Award-winning stand-up from Birmingham’s 248th most influential tweeter.
An actual baby, just.
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.
This year Mark Steel aims to give a brief overview of the cities and sights of Scotland.
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
James once has sex in a cage, whilst a stranger’s rabbit watched him from an ironing board.
US writer, actor and stand-up Joe DeRosa makes his highly anticipated UK debut.
“You awaken to find yourself in a dark room”, it’s a phrase shouted many times during The Dark Room.
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…
After a blockbuster 2015, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang.
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
This year Les Enfants Terribles are gracing us with a show that’s fun but is a hotchpotch of great performers, boring music, missed opportunities and laughs.
Who is that strange Frenchman signalling from the island? What’s in Aunt Fanny’s famous fish pie? Has anyone actually seen Timmy? The Famous Five are back! Shedload presents Robert…
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
James once has sex in a cage, whilst a stranger’s rabbit watched him from an ironing board.
When Bex is told she has to visit her uncle Angus in Edinburgh, she is not best pleased.
John Robertson claims that comedy is a sick industry (and he should know).
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
James & Seaburn are back with a brand new show featuring their unique mix of sketch, stand-up, songs and general silliness.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
The Satirists for Hire returns to the fringe with another hour of bizarre similes, half baked ideas, and desire for a better world.
Liberated from sketch group WitTank, English-Turkish comedian and Naz Osmanoglu (a self-monikered ‘posh twat’) airs his own dirty linen in a no-holds-barred solo show around th…
With the ascendance of circus being one of the great success stories of the Fringe in the past few years, there is no shortage of breathtaking physical feats taking place all over …
Champs Mêlés’ production of Iphigenia in Tauris is a two hour, French language translation of J.
“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie…
Some shows stick in your head even if they are flawed.
For many Rab Florence and Ian Connell are the unsung heroes of Scottish comedy.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
Triple Threat is a gloriously transgressive flurry of punky, feminist mayhem.
Russian Company Derevo’s Once takes place early in the morning by Fringe standards and many of the audience members at the George Square Theatre might have been wondering whether…
The internet seems to have triggered a new dawn for conspiracy nuts everywhere.
Useless former gang member James Nokise takes a light-hearted look at the way we see each other, examining how people end up in gangs and what happens when you’re kicked out.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
The proper teaching of sex education remains a rather thorny topic, and this one-woman comedy-drama with songs positions itself to probe some of the more profound issues of this fi…
Almost every review of Spencer Jones takes the lazy route of saying he’s like Mr Bean meets something/someone wacky.
Joe Hart (SYTYF? 3rd Place 2014, Tickled Pig Winner 2014) has a brand new show all about the digital world.
Princes of Main return with another sketch show chock-a-block with odd characters, witty one liners and silliness.
Too often, successful American comedians make their way to the UK assuming that audiences are as easy to please as they are back home.
There comes a time in most good plays when you realise you’ve become completely lost in a moment due to its sheer brilliance.
Power yourself up with a cult Edinburgh favourite.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Everyone wants to rule the world but Will Seaward actually has a list of ways to achieve this.
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
The MMORPG show is a good idea but lacks the slick execution required to fully succeed.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
Swapping her musical trappings for the theatre, Horse McDonald takes to the stage to present an undeniably intriguing and raw, if occasionally sensational, biopic of her own life.
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
Mungo Park proved that any true Scotsman would do almost anything to avoid spending another bloody day in Selkirk.
This is Manual Cinema’s first visit to the Fringe and they have brought with them a technical and awe-inspiring show that combines live music and shadow puppets.
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
Intergalactic Nemesis was like being trapped in a lift that wouldn’t stop going up or down, it made me angry on so many levels.
Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate.
Joyous in every way, The Snail and the Whale by Tall Stories is a textbook example of how to do theatre for children right.
Always the bridesmaid never the bride is perhaps a somber way to sum up James Acaster’s Fringe experience to date, having been nominated for more Edinburgh Comedy Awards than any…
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Life has given Australian performance artist Bron Batten what she calls ‘theatrical lemons’.
We’ve all been irritated by unfair traffic fines and generic email newsletters.
If a panto and a Sarah Kane play had an unimaginably grotesque love-child it would look a lot like this.
When he wasn’t writing the books that have captivated children for fifty years, Roald Dahl wrote a collection of gleefully macabre short stories for adults, published in various …
Sell-out hit returns! Singer, pianist and entertainer Joe Stilgoe pays tribute to much-loved movies.
Wrong ‘Uns is aptly titled because there is plenty of them packed into this hour of sketch comedy.
Puppet pioneers Flabbergast Theatre have made an interesting move this year, establishing their own dedicated performance space, The Omnitorium, within the confines of Assembly Ge…
Ribbet Ribbet Croak is a gentle and successful piece of theatre for younger children, as well as being very suitable for PMLD and ASD family groups.
Nish Kumar has provided a wily hour of satire as some people could sit for the entire show and not realise it’s really a show about politics.
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
It is a rare treat to see surrealist comedy this good.
For many like me Knightmare was watched with a religious fever back in the 90s.
Don’t worry about it.
Australian musical trio Doug Anthony All-Stars were the anarchic kings of the alternative comedy scene in the late 80s and early 90s, achieving considerable success with such sleep…
Trundling into view as part of C Theatre’s 25th anniversary is The Snow Queen.
Unsurprisingly Darren Walsh’s S’Pun is an hour of puns.
An insight into the weird worlds of three up-and-coming local comics, with three very distinct voices: Joe Foster, Graeme Collard and Dave Fensome.
For children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
The Tiger Lillies are a band that everyone should experience at least once in their life times.
Fringe veterans Max and Ivan bring their show Unstoppable to The Warren for this year’s Brighton Fringe.
Off the Cuff, the Brighton based improvisation troupe, bring their show Crime and Funishment to the Fringe.
Beautifully-crafted comedy from one of the country’s masters of anecdote and timing.
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
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…
A new play by James Aden.
The Bookbinder is Trick of the Light’s enchanting fairy tale of a young apprentice bookbinder’s encounter with an old woman and her mysterious book.
Winner! 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical! Tony Award® winner Kelli O’Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific) and Jose Llana (Here Lies Love) star in a magni…
Multi award-winning creator of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Casual Violence’ (“Leading the new wave of sketch comedy” - The Sunday Times) and staff writer for Cartoon Network’s ‘The Amazing Worl…
Brighton’s very own Joe Foster (Winner of Foster’s South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015) presents his debut full length stand-up show.
For those of you who have yet to encounter the fringe phenomenon that is Shit-Faced Shakespeare, this is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin.
The story of Macbeth’s tragic demise has been told many times by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre makers.
Comedian, impressionist, actor and reality star Bobby Davro has announced a 16-date UK for 2016 starting on 17TH May at Epsom Playhouse and culminating on 26th June at Chesterfield…
Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of the Hitchcock film of the John Buchan novel is certainly an impressive feat of theatre.
When little in your life seems to be easy then perhaps, for some, the only way to take control is to adopt a persona.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe.
Alan Felton and Tim Roycroft will give an insight into Skiffle, a form of entertainment influenced by American and British folk and jazz music that encouraged do-it-yourself music …
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding …
Life-sized animal puppets with fully articulated limbs come to life in front of your eyes in a cacophony of singing, dancing and plenty of audience participation.
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic, early 20th century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
The original family dance party returns for more afternoon dayclubbing fun.
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic early 20th-century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
Award-winning comedian James Bennison has had enough and has decided to take over the world.
WANTED: Small minions to join Doktor James’ army of evil.
The Marked follows Jack’s crusade against the haunting demons that follow his life living rough on the streets of London.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Thematically loose, structurally tenuous.
An inconspicuous townhouse in Fiveways plays host to the promenade performance Dancing in the Dark.
It’s happening again.
A Musical Mash Up: West End and Broadway in under 50 minutes. A different show each week.
This is the second time Michael Pennington has donned the crown of Lear and this time it’s a Lear clearly made for a 21st Century audience; cut down and pacey.
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…
A classic piece of American literature and a popular text for study in education, Of Mice and Men was John Steinbeck’s first venture into writing a novella aimed for the stage.
For those who patiently wait through musical theater ballads to get to the show stopping dance numbers, 92Y’s Dig Dance series presents “Broadway Takes Two,” reim…
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
Some people claim that the 1960s and 1970s were the golden age of British comedy.
I am Thomas is an economic show bound together with a fantastic cast.
Turning up to a Box Office and asking for “A Threesome” is always a great way to start the evening.
Griffin Newman and Joe Garden return with another holiday-themed show, this one to celebrate “this most sacred Irish holiday.
This excellent long-running stand-up show, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould, has found a new home at this Williamsburg distillery.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
As ambitious as it is stiff and silly, Peter Mills and Cara Reichel’s new musical for Prospect Theater Company concentrates on the real-life Renaissance composer and multiple…
At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a …
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
Hairspray is a breath of fresh from the normal Broadway musicals that trudge their way through the British stages.
Mike Bartlett’s beautifully worded imagining of a constitutional crisis without a constitution invites us to witness the starkness of the Royal Family stripped bare whilst presen…
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…
One-man show The Tailor of Inverness first hit Edinburgh stages eight years ago and has been touring ever since.
The Marx Brothers greatest failing is at the circus.
Like the first, the final play in Rona Munro’s James Plays is part family saga, part love story.
Day of the Innocents takes place on the same set as the first James play, but it feels somewhat different thanks to subtle changes of dressing and lighting.
There’s the feel of a gladiatorial arena to the staging of Rona Munro’s trilogy of James Plays, not least because some audience members seated on a raised area above the sta…
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Len Cariou’s odd but engaging solo show combines classic Shakespearean monologues (and one sonnet) and Broadway show tunes.
Horsecross’s production of Beauty and the Beast holds a debt to the Disney version of the tale, and it never quite gets out from under its shadow.
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
Gil Faizon and George St.
It’s that magic time of year when we theatre critics stop watching plays about middle class people and their problems, and get to watch a man in a dress tell dirty jokes to ki…
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
Beneath St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, on Remembrance Day, a man named Aatif Nawaz is performing a show about Muslims.
After disappearing from New York theaters, these prestidigitators are back to dazzle us anew.
The Construction Company, a 45-year-old arts organization, presents an evening of new and revivified works by the veteran choreographers Sally Silvers and Kenneth King, as well as …
The York Shakespeare Project return to Upstage Theatre, marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt with an all-female production of Henry V.
Beasty Baby at Polka Theatre is great fun for all the family and a fantastic show to introduce the little ones to the world of theatre.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
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In “Tabac Rouge,” a mischievous dance-theater work that is part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the unpredictable artist James Thiérr&…
Back by popular demand, Songs on Film – The Sequel sees pianist, singer, songwriter and film nerd Joe Stilgoe pay tribute to 100 years of music that aided and abetted the legenda…
Best known for the indie classics Sit Down and Come Home, James’ latest studio album La Petite Mort bristles with upbeat defiance and illustrates just why they remain one of Britai…
‘Be my little baby,’ intone The Ronettes as the Swinging Sixties unleash a wave of sexual liberation for women.
Lancaster Offshoots have created an enjoyable and surprisingly funny offering with their take on Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and Other Tales.
The link between Greek myth and a deprived district of Cardiff is not an obvious one, and Iphigenia in Splott raises this intriguing question tantalisingly.
An hour of hilarious true stories from an exciting young stand-up comedian/loveable idiot, James Loveridge brings his 2014 show back to the Fringe for a limited run.
Rowan is a hip hop and punk-inspired poet diagnosed with a specific learning difficulty and speech impediment, often disabled by other people’s perceptions.
Squirrel, Panther, Bobs, Pussy and the Lamb were five young men wishing they’d never have to grow up.
Mr. Horner and Mr. Zimmerman, both up-and-coming favorites in the city, each present a half-hour of their best material.
In Silver Darlings, celebrated writer Alexander McCall Smith has joined forces with innovative Scottish composer James Ross, to write a song cycle about Scotland and the sea.
Get up if you want to get down! Creamy, full-fat, calorie-laden funk from Edinburgh’s premier groove machine, JBiA.
Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions.
Setting the evening’s tone from the outset, the audience take their seats while the actors prep onstage, cycling through an exaggerated array of warmup exercises that any perform…
The perfect appetizer for your evening on the Fringe.
If you are looking for some respite from hackneyed scripts and dodgy accents, you are not going to find it in Sanctuary.
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
The Graduation Show is where BWC’s Fringe Improv Intensive Workshop students strut their stuff in a showcase performance having learnt long-form improv from the finest! Find out …
Award-winning Fringe favourite musical improvisers present an evening of spontaneous music, monologues, mayhem and hilariously insane fun.
Ferdinand from Tasty Monster Productions is genuinely one of the nicest productions I have seen.
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
The critically acclaimed classical concert for baby, tot and you returns to Edinburgh! Children can dance, roam about and listen to music while you take a moment for yourself and e…
Learn musical improv from the best! Internationally renowned award-winning Chicago troupe, the ‘entertainment phenomenon’ (Scotsman) Baby Wants Candy invites you to learn to improv…
The sweet and earnestly acted production of Tom Wells’ The Kitchen Sink at The Space @Surgeons’ Hall depicts a young Hull family whose emotions run hot and cold.
How can you review Barry Cryer? He’s a British comedy legend, practically an institution.
There is only one bar in Edinburgh that is fit for a man possessing such talent like James Lambeth: the Jazz Bar.
Low fidelity musical based on the horror-romantic comic saga by Davide Toffolo with the songs of Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, the popular indie band with the skull masks.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Stories old and new for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words from the man who invented the genre.
Seated and ready for some late night entertainment in the Pleasance Dome, Best of HUB brings the best of the best from the Fringe arena, providing a mixture of stand-up comedians a…
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat play their only Edinburgh gig in support of their acclaimed second album together, The Most Important Place in the World.
An evening of musical theatre classics brought to you by some of Edinburgh’s finest vocal talent.
More and more people don’t want children.
Antiwords is a piece inspired by Václav Havel’s play Audience, featuring an awkward dialogue between a dissident playwright and a drunken brew master.
“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer.
Once the show begins and the lights come up, the lighting designer (or so we thought) walks away from the desk and takes to the stage in silence, before introducing himself as our …
Having ventured far away from the Fringe into a tucked away little village hall in a particularly small auditorium, the first thing that you clasp your eyes on is the absolutely re…
‘A thoroughly enjoyable and funny experience.
Moribund: a show about death and the afterlife that fails to get a rise out of the audience.
One of the biggest names in crime writing, McDermid’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Anything is possible.
The Letter J’s production of Grandad and Me is simple, moving and effective.
The Glass Menagerie is a hard play to get wrong.
Since Nick Doody’s first fringe show Before He Kills Again I would have expected him to have achieved more success than he seems to as he is simply one of the best gimmick-free sta…
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
A stand-up poetry show about dreams from 2014 AAA star and BBC New Comedy Award London runner-up.
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Join James (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You) as he worries about worrying too much, about worrying too much.
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
High-energy, left field stand-up for people who’ve read a book, without pictures, and enjoyed it.
Delving into the short life of 20th century photographer Francesca Woodman, Francesca, Francesca.
The hotly anticipated solo debut of a multi award-winning sketch comedian is probably happening elsewhere.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2014.
This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.
Come and sit in a cinema and watch two dogs show you their tricks.
Known for his deadpan delivery of pun-filled one-liners, Milton Jones returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his latest show, The Temple of Daft.
Who knew that a Dusty Springfield favourite could provide such an effective description of man’s descent into unspeakable evil? Ewan Downie and Jonathan Peck from Company of Wolv…
Dolls is about our relationships with toys, but there is nothing wooden about this show.
Part of the American High School Festival, Antigone Now is nothing if not endearing in its attempts to impress.
Napier University Drama Society presents a musical retelling of the Trojan War as their offering to the gods this festival.
Thrown together by quirk of fate and sticking together though necessity, Nicola James and Ian Seaburn present Piano Chocolat, a fun-filled journey through modern life, touching on …
Car chases, fan fiction and Westlife are all stories that Danish comedian Sofie Hagen brings to her set with a bubbly personality and fills the room with life with tales of the bes…
Counter Culture is a very clever show; so clever that it took me halfway through it to realise that the title is quite a good joke.
Consumption is a somewhat-successful commentary on the state of 21st century society, one obsessed with technology, appearances and consumerism, navigated by the central story of S…
After a quick introduction to the performers, a few improvisational examples, such as a Lonely Hearts Ad from a toilet and a first date at the Battle of Waterloo, we were introduce…
New York Times best-selling author and subject of a major Hollywood film starring Ted Danson, James Van Praagh demonstrates his unique talent and psychic abilities in a demonstrati…
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall.
A belated denouement to his lauded 2005 work The Factory, award-winning performer Al Seed returns to the subject of war with striking psychological rigour.
No Strings tells the unoriginal tale of two, middle-aged married people hooking up for one night of meaningless, pure sex, with Shona looking to get back at her cheating husband an…
The Dream Sequentialists is a show about dream goblins.
This one-woman musical show sets out with a pleasant and watchable enough idea.
Johnny has accidentally told his niece that he can single-handedly stop climate change and so he embarks on a musical adventure with his bandmate Paddy to save the world.
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers is a witty and intelligent black comedy with psychopathic humour that will chill and charm you in the same sitting.
A bare stage, obscured by low lighting and backed by an eerie sinister soundtrack set the tone for this gripping retelling of the classic children’s fairy-tale, but this telling …
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
A stand-up poetry show about dreams from 2014 AAA star and BBC New Comedy Award London runner-up.
Working within the rather large shadow of the National Theatre’s verbatim triumph London Road, new Leeds-based company 203 Theatre have hopped on this particular niche musical ba…
From Georgia State University comes a wonderful reimagining of the Medea myth, reset in the colourful trappings of Trinidad’s carnival.
Persuader.
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer Floe-Joe invites you to indulge in his wacky world of sketc…
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
Trick of the Light presents a charming and an enjoyable addition to your afternoon in the form of The Bookbinder.
George Orwell wrote an essay on the perfect pub.
Having been turned away from a packed venue on the day I was originally scheduled to attend, I was anticipating great things on my return the next day.
It’s amazing how much you can get out of the word ‘Ak’ – the only word in the troll language.
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
Of the two offerings of Julius Caesar that the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School are offering this year, this review concerns the all-male version: a show brimming with great ideas ye…
Despite being one of Jack London’s more obscure works, his 1915 novel The Star Rover or The Jacket is one that feels oddly contemporary.
The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world.
Bob Monkhouse was a complicated and enigmatic man.
Chris Martin is trying something a little different this year by having his show underpinned with a musical soundtrack.
Abnormally Funny People showcases some of the best and brightest comedians living with disabilities on the circuit, oh and a token “normal”.
Arrangements is about death and depression but doesn’t leave the audience down in the mouth.
Bobby Mair delivers a dark, honest and hilarious hour of pure stand-up.
Sunset Five puts a quirky British twist on a thrilling heist drama.
Fight Back at 50 is the ultimate antidote to the mid-life crisis.
James Veitch appears, at first, a bit like a protagonist in a young adult novel (probably one by John Green), in the way he combines a bildungsroman with popular culture, or sees m…
Will Seaward Has a Really Good Go at Alchemy is probably unlike anything you will have ever seen.
Rhys James does not make it easy for his audience to get a handle on him.
Who Do I Think I Am? is an hour long rip roaring stand up performance.
Like some much of our interaction with the wider world, it starts with a button.
I’m going to start by dismissing the notion that we’re due something entirely new from Joseph Morpurgo, because such thinking ignores the staggeringly high standards to which t…
Gein’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe once again to showcase their brand of dark sketches.
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…
Parading onto the stage to a gangster soundtrack and with the threatening stance of a dormouse, Hal Cruttenden jumps in with his first gag and the laughs just keep rolling with thi…
Hijinks and flying kicks abound in this piece of non-verbal physical comedy from the Hong Kong-based Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, last unleashed on an unsuspecting Fringe in 2012.
Returning for their fourth Fringe, Sparkle and Dark bring their own fascinating and fantastical take on experiences of death and loss.
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…
When you see a comedian get a laugh from taking a sip of water you know they’ve got good timing.
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
Greeting the guests on the door with a bubbly personality in an attempt to brighten up the dark, underground bunker that would play host to his stage, Stephen Bailey set the mood f…
The self-proclaimed absolute lad returns, following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and a wine tour of the French Riviera.
Jetting in from Toronto come clown sisters Morro and Jasp, masters of their craft and hilarious to boot.
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…
Jetting in from Dublin, Pilgrim is a unique exploration of the maturity in valuing what you possess rather than clinging onto vain dreams of the future.
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
Amelia Ryan is accustomed to accidents, inclined to insult, prone to gaffs, whoopsies, and boobies.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.
The legend of Faustus, the man who sold his soul for knowledge, wealth and power is one which has been in the public consciousness for over 500 years.
The Secret Garden from Not Cricket Productions is a faithful and on-the-whole, effective, adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale.
This year, Squint presents Molly – a show investigating the mindset of a sociopath with eerie echoes of the things you might see in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
Haste Theatre’s new take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one full of charm and humour.
“Good girls should be seen and not heard”.
Apples are the most important fruit in the world: think the Garden of Eden, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers! Join Joe Hart (So You Think You’re Funny? finalist 20…
‘I know why you’re here’, James Acaster begins, ‘for the celebrity gossip’.
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Tar Baby is a show caught between two worlds, comedy and drama, poignant and silly, white and black.
‘One-man Titus Andronicus for Kids’ sounds like one of those joke titles you suggest to late-night improv troupes.
What would the word be like if homosexuality was the norm? Zanna Don’t is here to answer that question and bleed the concept dry, long after the amusement has left the building.
Holding the attention of a room full of six to eleven year olds armed with nothing more than a microphone is quite some feat, but for James Campbell – widely acknowledged as t…
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
An all-new, all-female production of Shakespeare’s war play, King Henry V follows Henry and her band of brothers as they face the challenges of life on the front line, exploring …
(performances start on Saturday) The playwright Howard L.
(previews start on July 13; opens on July 27) The career of a sport agent is a high-testosterone avocation, but Liz Rico does it a as well or much better than her male colleagues.
(previews start on July 7; opens on July 12) Do you believe in magic? Well, do you believe in a duo comprised of some of contemporary magic’s greatest practitioners and most …
“Shakespeare’s R&J” is an exciting and refreshing new adaptation of Shakespeare’s original love story.
Jinkx Monsoon is back with a drag show that’s a follow-up to “The Vaudevillians” of 2013.
(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…
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…
For children over six, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer, Floe-Joe, invites you to indulge in his wacky world of ske…
Peak into this perfect postcard of a play, following the McLeavy family deep in mourning.
Through movement and play participants will identify their own Fools and Kings to explore the beautiful, ridiculous and poignant conflict of this unlikely alliance.
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…
James Veitch feels the same way about adulthood as he does about Woody Allen movies; we all keep going in the hope that one day it’ll be as good as it was.
Following a successful run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, quirky and exciting rising comedy talent James Bran brings his solo show to Brighton Fringe.
Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati…
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 pianist Martin James Bartlett plays Mozart Concerto No.
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…
If you like loud musical comedy, this is the place to be Wednesday night, as James McDonnell stomps through an hour of high energy, surreal music and hilarity.
Enjoy the best cabaret around Brighton every lunchtime during Brighton Fringe.
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
James has hit a lot of stumbling blocks in his life, and maybe, just maybe, food is something he just can’t get past! Join James for his first solo hour (work in progress), as h…
Brighton Fringe’s number one free family event will entertain both you and your little ones.
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
Get digging for neon-jellycakes, fight mad mosquito armies, put a clothes peg on your nose visiting Café Burp [the smelliest cafe in the world] and help row our boat across shark …
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
James Bennison has spent the last year going to extraordinarily dangerous lengths to gain superpowers so that you don’t have to.
Joe Foster and Mike Cox team up again for another JAM Comedy! After a successful run in Edinburgh ‘13 and a short run in Camden ‘14, JAM Comedy returns offering the ultimate combin…
Apples are the most important fruit in the world; from the dawn of man, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers and the medieval crusades.
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
(previews start on March 12; opens on April 16) Fans of the midcentury musical are most likely whistling a happy tune as Lincoln Center revives this Rodgers and Hammerstein show fr…
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 friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
This sweet, silly, semi-unwieldy Off Off Broadway play, written by Michael Mitnick and starring the excellent Will Connolly as Kyle, is a coming-of-age comedy about a Colorado dram…
This Long Island native and actor (“The King of Queens,” “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”) brings his national stand-up tour to the majestic Beacon Theater.
Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould present this reliable weekly show, with stand-up from Mark Normand, Rob Cantrell and Giulia Rozzi.
These informal weekly gatherings feature film screenings, performances and discussions at the SoHo loft of the choreographer and video artist Cathy Weis.
Until a few weeks ago, Mr.
Pyramid and Parr Hall: 5th Sep 6pm.
A reading in English and Arabic by poets Tessa Ransford and Iyad Hayatleh, inspired by the Five Pillars of Islam.
Bach to Baby is the critically-acclaimed classical concert series for babies and their carers to enjoy together.
Using his trademark stand-up style, insights and anecdotes on classical music, maverick pianist James Rhodes makes his fringe debut.
The point of a thought-experiment is to provide a way of exploring the consequences of an idea, not through a metaphorical prism, but through a literal imagining of what might happ…
The Rite of Spring lends itself extremely well to jazz interpretations: those wild off-beats and dissonances must be a jazz artist’s wet dream.
Hungry Wolf presents an energetic and enthusiastic offering for children at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of…
James Lambeth returns to the Fringe for the third year running with companions Steve Hamilton on piano and Mario Caribe on the double bass.
In this production of Nikolai Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, Sedos, ‘The City of London’s premier amateur theatre company,’ have forwarded the action a hundred years to 1…
Really Broadway Baby? You want me to review a one-off stand up show in which the venue description literally reads “On Top of Arthur’s Seat” (Venue 354)? Really? I got into c…
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
This offering of Peter Pan from the American High School Theatre Festival never reaches the heights of the Second Star to the Right.
In January 2014, Mercury Music Award nominee Kenny Anderson (AKA King Creosote) completed his first ever film soundtrack for Virginia Heath’s poetic documentary, From Scotland With…
You feel a certain apprehension going into a Miranda Sings live show.
Youth Music Theatre Scotland return for another successful year at the Fringe, this time with a remarkably professional and well-executed production of West Side Story, perhaps t…
The California Musical Theatre Ensemble’s abridged version of A Chorus Line feels like a high school production.
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Despite a fun-sounding premise, A Race of Robots unfortunately does not live up to its name.
Harry Buckoke’s Occupied is an intelligent and refreshingly light-hearted dissection of the 2011 occupation of Lady Margaret Hall by students of Cambridge University.
With such an intriguing name, the cynical part of me was almost prepared to be let down.
Joseph is wiling away his days in a tea shop looking for inspiration.
Combining an interesting program with an intimate setting and impressive technique, this concert of classical guitar music will be of interest to specialists and those who will enj…
This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions.
We don’t see one of the most important events in the life of James II, just its immediate consequences; a hurried, chaotic, almost dream-like explosion of fear and movement fo…
If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture…
Updating Greek myths and tinkering with texts is a finicky process; how to maintain the spirit of the original while providing an audience with something new? Yet this new produc…
I really hope there wasn’t an adult in charge of this.
James jokes about booze.
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
Cambridge Shortlegs and Pembroke Players return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their production of The Penelopiad, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novella.
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society have brought their leisurely afternoon stroll Sunday in the Park with George to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
American improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy are among the most familiar veterans of the Fringe.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
More merriment for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words.
A series of vocal and instrumental recitals from YMTS’s gifted performers.
George Galloway is best known as the fiercely pro-Palestinian Respect Party MP for West Bradford.
Described by TS Elliott as ‘the greatest Scots poet since Burns’, Joe Corrie was a Fife miner who influenced and inspired thousands through his plays and poems.
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host James McVeigh as part of our Fringe serie…
Before this show, I had not heard of Patsy Cline.
I’ve often wondered how Edinburgh locals truly feel about the Fringe - is it a huge party or just a massive disruption? Given the wealth of subjects from around the world being d…
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
With such a wonderful title, it’s a shame that The Bee-Man of Orn is not as thrilling as it sounds.
Uncommon Productions Staffordshire should be commended for their bravery in presenting their debut effort at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The big issue with Bristol Improv’s horror-comedy offering is sadly a brutal one: the show simply wasn’t funny enough.
Airbourne Theatre Leeds’ original piece is a live-action cartoon, bursting with energy, colour, and child-like enthusiasm.
A celebration of human flaws.
Before Phill Jupitus was a panel show staple (but in a good way) he was a performance poet.
It’s always a delight to see a Free Fringe show doing well and, on arriving at the venue for this show, the queue is stretching into the distance.
There’s a sort of delicious irony to queuing for a show about rationing whilst watching one of the cast frantically stuffing their face with crisps.
Hang on.
Newton’s Cauldron is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
Sunshine on Leith really is a daft musical.
The word ‘rap-dragon’ might simultaneously spark intrigue and a sense of unease, but fear not.
There’s nothing I would like to do more than go for a pint with Giacinto Palmieri and discuss Wagner.
After a lifetime studying hustlers, conmen and other thieves, ‘the world’s number one pickpocket’ (Time Out) is still an honest man.
Jay Rayner is a real presence, a big guy with a big voice who is very comfortable with addressing an audience.
About halfway through this performance, a mobile rings in the audience.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2013.
James Loveridge’s Funny Because It’s True is indeed funny and is presumably also true.
Madonna is the queen of pop.
Flying High Theatre Company’s adaptation of The Jungle Book is a charming lunchtime production, faithfully recreating its source material and providing entertaining moments of ph…
Patch of Blue return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their scrumptious offering of Beans on Toast: a triumph of simplicity which still captures the imagination and the heart.
Watching Sister Amnesia’s Country and Western Nunsense Jamboree brought me right back to a long-forgotten primary school experience.
When American girl Bex is told she has to visit her uncle Angus in Edinburgh, she is not best pleased.
Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up.
Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance.
Fighting a giggle fit is not what an audience member should be doing during the first half of Julius Caesar.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; so quotes or paraphrases every production of Medea ever made.
Kurt Weill, a musical genius.
Sometimes we’re too afraid of looking like an eejit to fully embrace life: whether it’s not standing up for something you believe in, or being too shy to ask out the handsome…
Who was first unfaithful: woman or man? A scientific experiment designed to recreate the garden of Eden and answer this question “once and for all” is the premise of this he…
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
The perfect appetiser for your evening on the Fringe.
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
Oh, boy.
It’s a rare show that can successfully entertain children of all ages.
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
A self-declared homeless lookalike, Bobby Mair performs to a packed out Laughing Horse, deftly interacting with the audience, whom he suspends somewhere between hilarity and awkwar…
My first clue should have been the warmup.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! Parents and under fives are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
An intense, poetic study of loneliness, cruelty and rural isolation, Kitty in the Lane is a mesmeric continuation of the Irish literary tradition, a reminder that our cousins over …
I think it’s fair to say that there are issues with your sketch show when the funniest thing that happens is that a man fingers a swiss roll.
Three Shot Mockery is a fine way to spend an hour of precious festival time.
Joe Stilgoe and his excellent band create a wonderful atmosphere with their musical stylings, charming personalities, and atmospheric lighting.
Al Donegan is a terrible human being who should be alone forever.
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
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.
You can sense when an audience is tense even without turning around.
Intelligent motherluvin’ comedy.
Symphony promises to blend a live gig environment with the best of contemporary British theatre.
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has been running in various iterations since 1988, with an ever-changing roster of extremely short “plays.
A new stand-up show from Jewish Comedian of the Year, and the TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week. As seen on Dave.
Cabaret Nova has undergone a transformation since last year.
It’s the question on everyone’s lips.
I didn’t expect to be hearing hard-hitting political satire this afternoon, but wow, that was actually quite a good Tibet joke.
The Fringe is absolutely saturated with wonderful improvised comedy.
Even though this isn’t Baby Wants Candy’s headline show at the Fringe, you would still expect much more from such a highly regarded group.
Chris is on the precipice of an existential crisis.
Plays by leading contemporary playwrights are becoming more common at the Fringe.
Ali James, George Kemp and John Oakes comprise Giraffe, a hysterical sketch comedy trio bent on filling an hour of your lives with their own brand of hilarious original comedy.
Billed as ‘Comedy (mime, physical theatre)’ I was a little unsure about what to expect from Kraken, but whatever it was that I had been expected was soon proven to be way out.
Mike Belgrave is a brave man.
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
Rachel Stubbings gave me a Maoam.
Not be confused with the Milton epic, Leodo: Paradise Lost follows the story of a young girl lost at sea and transported to a magical island beyond the horizon, Leodo.
It takes a brave soul to attempt to tackle ancient Greek comedy with a modern audience.
One of the best things about the Fringe is the energy and ingenuity of the young companies performing here and these are both words that apply perfectly to Double Edge Drama, creat…
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
The Jest feels TV-ready and in more ways than one.
With a free croissant and tea in hand, Shakespeare for Breakfast almost had me sold before kick-off.
Triumphantly sailing into Edinburgh come Audacious Productions with their frankly magnificent production The Odyssey: An Epic Musical Epic.
This is a show about poo.
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
Acaster strides onto the stage with purpose; his floppy fringe and corduroy jacket giving him the mild air of an English schoolboy.
Tensions are building north of the border.
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
Bouncing into Edinburgh from Australia, No Mate Productions have arrived with their enjoyably infectious offering Jungle Bungle.
James’ appropriately named debut show at the Festival is fast paced, anecdotal and comfortably funny throughout.
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
Oddball alert! A guy wearing headphones sits strangely close to me and asks whether I like “communist romcoms.
You wake up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Edinburgh stalwarts Dan and Jeff are back for another energetic hour and, following Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto, it’s the turn of Baker Street’s own Sherlock…
The Rules of Engagement, Tony Jameson’s latest Fringe hour, has the feel of bumping into a charming acquaintance that you haven’t seen in a while on the street.
60% of emails sent are spam, and James Veitch turns this cyber curse into a comic blessing.
After the success of ‘League of St George’ last year, Bricks and Mortar Theatre are back with their second Edinburgh Fringe production Barge Baby.
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
As a recipient of the Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny? Award Demi Lardner belongs to an elite group of comedy talent.
A master of impressions, Mr.
This weekly stand-up showcase, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera, and Charles Gould, features Wyatt Cenac, Sue Smith and Matt Ruby.
The up-and-coming favorites Sam Morril and Joe Machi host this weekly stand-up show, with performances from Josh Gondelman, Nick Vatterott, Anthony DeVito and Seaton Smith.
As the audience takes their seats, they see a man hunched over an easel, drawing pictures on a large sheet of paper with feverish intensity.
This internationally renowned Chicago troupe performs a completely improvised, hourlong musical.
Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente, the husband-and-wife playwrights behind this supple production about the towering comic book artist Jack Kirby, deftly compressing much informa…
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Exploding drag, gender, queer shame and otherness, La Bouche is a human barely understood, born into a universe where conformity is key.
When author Edward Packard created the Choose Your Own Adventure genre in 1979, he probably didn’t expect their huge success.
Imagine you’re a sausage.
‘The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show’ is fun, interactive, educational, relevant, accessible and also great for mumosaurus and daddydactyl too.
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Awarded Best Children’s Show of Brighton Fringe 2006, ‘Shoe Baby’ is a magical puppet show! A fantastical sing-a-long adventure with a baby who takes to the sea, the air and the zo…
Kurt Weill was a musical genius, born near Berlin 1900, died in New York, 1950.
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
The Heath Quartet feature Roxanna Panufnik’s setting of Private Joe Wood’s letters from the Front, sung by his great-nephew Royal Opera House baritone Nigel Cliffe.
After winning Best New Comedy at last year’s Brighton Fringe, the puppet-based sketch comedy group Stickyback returns this year with new show Puppetgeist.
This one-woman show is compelling, moving and funny.
This musical represents a massive achievement in many senses.
Do you like family? Do you like values? Then get ready to see a comedian with no awards to his name break your disappointment hymen.
Comedian Joe Munrow takes you on a well-structured meander through his stupid brain.
Fringe sell-out 2012/13.
Canadian stand-up comic Bobby Mair has appeared on Channel 4’s ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’, BBC3’s ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’, BBC3’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’ and BBC3’s ‘Seann Walsh’s La…
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.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! DJ Monski Mouse and her team bring high energy smiling in a fabulous retro music and dance event for parents and children under 5.
As the house lights dim and the small projector set up on stage starts flashing the words, ‘Turps is here!’, you know you are in for something a little bit different than your …
The term ‘live-action video game’ is usually reserved for disappointing Hollywood adaptations of your favourite computer games (Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, the list could go on).
A solid night of stand-up is sure to be had at this showcase, with sets from Mr. Hanley, Mr. DiStefano, Mr. List, Dave Smith, Maddog Mattern and Paul Virzi.
‘Above the Stag’ (ATS) is one of the most distinctive and necessary production houses in London.
‘BABY/LON’, the second work by Hackney-based theatre company The Big House, is a big story; one of homelessness, violence, motherhood on the lowest rungs of society and the strug…
Pointy-faced comedian Rhys James writes jokes, poems, stories, ideas and tweets.
When you go undercover remember one thing, who you are… The film was I.
Paula Vogel’s 1984 play gets a high-spirited but numbing revival, with its central conceit — grown-ups loudly mimicking three imaginary children before a real one arriv…
(in previews; opens on April 10) Fresh from steering Cate Blanchett to an Oscar win in “Blue Jasmine,” Woody Allen has written the book for this musical adaptation of h…
(in previews; opens on May 4) Whether it’s the treadmill in “Kinky Boots” or the trapeze in “Pippin,” it’s hard not to see certain sequences on …
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
After an unassuming entrance where he wanders onstage in jeans and a checked shirt, Jason Manford thrust aside his microphone stand and quipped “Alright chairs in here, aren’t …
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (from here on mercifully abbreviated to APCSP) follows the trials and tribulations of six young spellers, along with some extremely fortu…
Someone once wrote of the novel Vernon God Little that it ‘was a work of unutterably tedious nastiness and vulgarity’, and its author DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre ‘a man with…
Based on David Hare’s knowledge of 1960’s private school politics from the position of a boy attending on a scholarship, South Downs is an excellent play: funny, intelligent an…
Ironic isn’t it? A show about a psychopath and it made me want to kill someone.
Ragweed, a ‘scuzzy rock trio’ from Brighton, appreciate the importance of being immersed in live music.
Flanders and Swann’s songs occupy a strange position in British consciousness: some are well renowned and regularly emerge on adverts, whilst others are forgotten gems only known…
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play has big themes: the morality of art; the morality of love.
Hailing originally from East Anglia (“the sticky out bit of Britain… that isn’t Wales”, as it was helpfully described), Jake Morrell and his Magnificent Band’s musical ex…
The beginning of The Beginning does in fact begin before you realise it.
I don’t think I’ve felt as privileged to be in a performer’s company at a Fringe show as I felt when watching Keith Jarrett.
It can’t have been more than fifteen minutes into James Lambeth’s hour long set that I decided I had already had enough.
The fifth concert of the Astrid String Quintet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
The Edinburgh Academy makes for a spacious yet slightly odd choice of venue for music and comedy due Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel.
The fourth concert of the Astrid String Quartet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
Double act comedy is very difficult.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
Hannah Nicklin is a remarkably unpretentious, simple, intelligent theatre-maker.
A one-man show scheduled for over an hour and a half can be a daunting prospect for both performer and audience.
For many people, a date in August had been looming.
Star of Fringe favourite The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly, Siôn James, ‘utterly charming .
The third concert of the Astrid String Quartet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
On the first night I tried to go to Vanity the tiny room was completely full: I couldn’t even see past people hanging around at the door.
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
To choose Seneca over Euripides (thus making this a Roman rather than a Greek tragedy) is a brave decision by Kudos and one that occasionally backfires.
The 27 Club as a concept is comprised of a much revered collection of musicians who died aged 27.
Any venue that gives out wine on entry is likely to endear itself to the audience, but ROSL on Princes Street is endearing even without such generosities; a delightful space lined …
The second concert of the Astrid String Quartet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
The Mad Hatter Bum Party confers a false and fairly nauseating dignity on being without a home.
The funniest piece in this collection of performed poems isn’t about the human body.
UK’s No.
I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
Buried deep under Edinburgh, accessible only via a side street and past an inconveniently parked white van, Paradise in the Vault is the perfect venue for this chilling chamber ope…
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
It’s the old romcom cliché: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl marries into the suffocating institution to which boy belongs, girl divorces boy.
The first concert of the Astrid String Quartet’s Five by Five series, part of Made in Scotland 2013.
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom is a new musical based around the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus and it’s one hell of an ambitious undertaking.
Discussing the topic of abortion in a church venue may seem like a controversial and edgy thing to do.
It’s a well-worn formula: Man-child isn’t ready to completely give himself over to his relationships, ensnared as he is in a mentality of self-interest and a fear of commitment…
Roddy Hart and his band, the Lonesome Fire, appear on the stage dressed as dapper as anything.
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
Kourtney Kardashian.
Students of Baby Wants Candy’s Improv Fringe Intensive strut their stuff in this showcase performance! To find out more or register for the award-winning BWC’s 4-day Improv Intensi…
If the fringe has a competition for ‘the most cool stuff a director can think of and put into a show’, Junk is a shoe-in.
It’s difficult not to enjoy yourself watching Pirates of Penzance and this production from Durham is no exception, although it does occasionally feel like it’s trying to undo i…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Rachel Sermanni comes onto the stage and blithely announces that she has made a new instrument – out of spoons that she bought in a charity shop.
One night only! Award-winning songwriter and blues picker Eddie Walker together with legendary acoustic guitarist John James present a grand reunion concert in one of the most exci…
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
Kids’ comedy is harder than you’d think.
Watching James Campbell launch into his family friendly stand-up routine makes one wonder why there are not more stand-ups for children around.
Doogie Paul may not be the most familiar name in music, but amongst those who know him, both directly and indirectly, he is spoken of with a great deal of admiration.
Dean Friedman is a personable guy.
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
James Morton, Great British Bake Off finalist 2012, with historian Susan Morrison, performs extreme baking - can James really raise dough in 60 minutes whilst explaining the scienc…
Hosted at the Edinburgh Christadelphian Church by the local community group there, Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ purportedly sets out to examine evidence …
Find Me manages to reveal simultaneously how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in our attitudes to mental illness.
A series of vignettes dedicated to ‘modern-day café culture and the problems that come with it’ doesn’t scream mirth, so I think the success of Kaffa! pays hearty testament …
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning does three things: it tells the story of Manning’s life; it calls into question the ethics of the army culture in which he found himself; an…
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
Phildel’s story is poignant and it is one to which she subtly but frankly alludes with explanations as to how each song came to be written.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s Romeo and Juliet is just the sort of production that can give Shakespeare a bad name.
Folk is a big deal at the moment, with bands such as Mumford and Sons bringing English traditional music to the stadium stage, while American artists such as Alison Krauss enjoy a …
What would you do to avoid eternity in hell? David Mamet’s wonderful one-act comedy explores one man’s struggle to do just that.
Jamie Hamilton is an energetic and inventive sketch writer, with an unusual ability to take conventions from other genres and spin them until they become surreal.
Ethics and morality aren’t typically seen as trendy when it comes to comedy, poetry and performance; they are often seen as unfun and old-hat.
Bursting onstage in a blaze of colour, noise and applause at half past midnight in Bedlam, the Improverts return once more to the Fringe.
Events like The Bear Goes Walkabout are premonitions of the future of British classical music.
What are you doing here? Although he says it’s a show which may answer some of the big questions of being, I expect James Christopher doesn’t really mean this in an existential…
The nature of the Spoken Word Showcase is such that each night is an entirely different affair, as Fay Roberts proudly announces at the beginning of the show.
It’s the worst kept secret at this year’s Fringe that the UK debut of little-known alternative 80s comedian Baconface is in fact enormously well-known alternative comedian Stew…
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
No in-depth knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons lore is required to appreciate the excellent comedy this show provides.
Of all the ukulele workshops I’ve ever been to, this was by far the best, and let me tell you, I’ve uked a fair bit in my time.
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
A plane crash; tanks stopped on Tiananmen Square; a ruler standing on a palatial balcony; the interrogation of the perpetrator of a mass shooting.
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
Paper Birds’ On the One Hand looks and feels a lot like a John Lewis advert.
Matt Panesh is Monkey Poet: A poet who runs out of poems after half an hour.
That’s an awfully good-looking prop, I think to myself as a character takes a knife to an apparent rabbit carcass.
In Static, a man in his early twenties describes growing up.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
George Galloway arrives on stage chewing gum and wearing a military style jacket.
Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist.
It’s the 1930’s and a few years have passed since Carl Dunham, the fabled showman brought King Kong from the jungle to New York.
It was strange returning from Tejas Verdes.
Four Walls playfully follows the story of Sara, a girl who wakes up to her slippers farting, her mirror talking back to her and her kettle boiling at the brim.
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
S/He is Nancy Joe is more than just an exuberant dance performance.
Ron Butlin is the Edinburgh Makar (poet laureate) and he is a skilled and sensitive writer.
Our bodies are not challenged in the way our ancestors would have been used to.
Watching Americans do sketch comedy can be painful for the British.
Another outing for put-upon mother-of-three Ruth Rich, Something Fishy charts an ill-fated school trip to Marrakech.
Last time someone ‘breathed new life’ into Beckett they were issued an injunction.
John Wills, guitarist of Pumajaw, the musical pairing behind Song Noir, entered the room and crossed the stage, barely acknowledging the audience as he picked up his electric guita…
Tea at Five is a wonderfully detailed, informative and enjoyable monologue that delves into the career of the late, great Katharine Hepburn; the memorably boisterous, hard skinned …
Knee-high boots, a wayward German accent and a toothbrush moustache – major alarm bells for any production, but even more so for a one-man show.
Hush Theatre is on a mission ‘to deliver a comparable experience to both deaf and able hearing audiences.
The big problem with A Circus Affair is that its performers, Sarita and Mr Kiko, spend too little time doing what they are good at (circus) and far too much time filling out the sh…
Who is Duvet Dave? I’m not really allowed to say exactly who, but I can describe him.
In a spoken word account – I would assume non-fictional, though this is never made clear – Laurel Lockhart tells us of her time in New York as she tries to hit it big in the gr…
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
Our host Bob Starrett is a cartoonist, writer, trade unionist and political activist heavily involved personally and politically with the history of the Glasgow shipyards.
SWEARING?! LESBIANS?! DRUG ABUSE?! HOW TERRIBLY AVANT-GARDE! Apologies for the shouting but Facehunters seems keen to stress that if you have a message of any kind, you’re best o…
PhD student Carrie leads us through several case studies of female mental illness, spanning centuries and hitting quite close to home.
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
Rhys will tell some brilliant jokes, do some incredible poems and then leave.
Held in one of Edinburgh’s most vibrant and dynamic nightclubs, Electric Circus, Baby Loves Disco is no ordinary disco and describing it as such would be a huge disservice.
Director Matt Dann writes that his production of Macbeth is ‘informed, not by an imposed concept, but by the texture of the text itself: lean, taut, bristling with muscular tensi…
The best allegories can stand on their own two feet.
“I wuv you” murmured a girl on the dance floor as she collapsed into a boy’s arms.
To give these enthusiastic students credit, it is not easy to pull off a pantomime.
Who doesn’t love a good meta-play? One of three Fourth Monkey plays up this year, San Salome has two parallel storylines: Oscar Wilde attempting to stage his controversial late w…
Alice Mary Cooper ushers us into a tiny black room, onstage are a cup, saucer and red cork cricket ball resting on a cardboard box.
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
My favourite thing about the Edinburgh Fringe is the sheer concentration of talent in creates in the city, an array of people with skills that I can only dream of having.
It is perhaps embarrassing how long into Colin Hoult’s The Real Horror Show it took me, until I realised what I was watching.
This darkly comedic two-hander plunges us straight into the aftermath of a murder in the Scottish Highlands.
I forget where comic duo Damn Danes are from, but their comedy is in any case a welcome presence at this year’s Fringe.
Grounded is the tale of a female fighter pilot (Lucy Ellinson) who loves the freedom of the blue sky.
Ruth Rich’s madcap scheming to avoid a diary clash fills this hour of light comedy at the Pleasance Courtyard.
Some good friends snubbed the opportunity to see this with me: I was made to see my first cabaret all alone.
Having lived in Edinburgh all my life, I wondered how much Saints and Sinners Walking Tours could really tell me about my city.
Hirsch is a well written and brilliantly performed biographical account of the turbulent life of Hungarian director John Hirsch from the perspective of an actor, Alon Nashman, who …
Sketch comedy group Graham present an hour long show based around a boy trapped in an underground bunker, following an apocalyptic badger invasion.
We really don’t know much about beer.
Music, video, comedy and theatre? A physical performance and an eBook? Attempting to tackle the subject of the apocalypse? From reading the show description of ‘The Flood’, you…
At times contemporary dance and physical theatre is dismissed by new audiences as pretentious, shut off, or incomprehensible; Tangram is the opposite.
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.
To spend one’s afternoon in the company of Raymond Considine is a relaxed and amusing affair.
Traverse Theatre is the central hub of Scottish new writing.
There is much about Stephen King’s novella The Shawshank Redemption that is suited to a stage adaptation, the action taking place in the claustrophobic rooms of a prison, its nar…
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
The Islanders tells the simple tale of a young Dorset couple, Amy and Eddie; the beginnings of their love, the slow disaster of their living together and the titanic struggle of or…
Setlist is just a bloody good idea.
Pressing the right pedal records, pressing the left pedal replays.
Just before the start of his set, a pre-recorded message by Bobby Mair warns ‘everyone easily offended’ to leave the premises immediately.
Sing, muse, of three sweaty men, dressed all in white; James Dunnell-Smith, Joshua George Smith and John Woodburn are The Sleeping Trees and their Odyssey is lively, loud and ebull…
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been framed and is now forced to share a cell with a prostitute and possible murderer, Lina.
Often high marks are awarded to those companies who create a new world in the theatre through their use of advanced set, puppetry, props or movement so it is good to sometimes be r…
A poignant adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s tale, The King and Queen of the Universe, produced by Slippers and Rum, tells a story of adulation and bereavement set in the depths of t…
The absurdist mantle is an invaluable crutch for this play.
Satisfying energetic children can be a task for even the most patient of adults, but CeilidhKids seem to have found a simple but effective solution to combine family bonding with c…
We see a lot of Rich Hall on panel shows these days: QI, Have I Got News For You?, Eight out of Ten Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
The onstage rapport of the three actors of Panto-Monium is nothing to be sniffed at.
Broadway Enchanté is a delightful piece of entertainment.
I’m going to start simply: Liam Mullone is funny – much more so than his association with Russell Howard’s Good News would suggest.
Plays based on historical and significant conflicts often tend toward the bombast and spectacle: either exploring the actions and feelings of the major players in positions of powe…
Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales immerses children and parents alike into a world of wonder.
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
‘You can tell the bits, but can never complete the picture.
Joe Munrow takes you on a hilarious ramble as the stand-up details his quest to find, from the observational to the surreal, his true comedy voice.
Ellie Taylor’s bold and vibrant style of stand up comedy makes her a pleasure to watch.
It’s likely that, when you think of France at its coolest, there are certain figures who spring to mind –Francois Truffaut, Jean-Paul Satre, Brigitte Bardot.
I’ve got a lot of time for people who don’t perform at the Fringe for any reason other than to exhibit a hobby.
McEwan Hall is one of the vastest spaces at the Fringe.
This show consisted of political satire.
The name Ontroerend Goed packs a punch.
Try it at least thrice and you’re bound to get a laugh: so goes the philosophy of sketch duo Toby – consisting of siblings Sarah and Lizzy Daykin – and Nathan Dean Williams.
Despite the many celebrations for Drum Struck that have been quoted on its posters, I went in ready to be critical: I’m not impressed so easily, thought I.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
Thünderbards present a two man sketch show that leaves the audience in stitches.
After two years dominating the Fringe with critically acclaimed Translunar Paradise, Theatre Ad Infinitum are back with a brand new show.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, charting the dual-natured existence of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is well-trodden turf, having seen adaptations aplenty on television, radio, film and…
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
A show title that implies a comparison between Bob Dylan and a minor comedian is clearly a rather ambitious, even presumptuous one.
Alan Conway spent several years pretending to be Stanley Kubrick, a man he knew very little about – and people believed him.
I’m sure any fringe veteran worth their salt has had the experience of seeing a famous face from their childhood appearing out of an Edinburgh side-street to bring back a flood o…
‘New writing? New wronging!’ proudly exclaims production company Kill The Beast’s website.
It can be annoying when someone points out that being schizophrenic has nothing to do with split personalities, but they would be right.
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 concept sketch show has been gaining prevalence at the Fringe in recent years, and key proponents of this must be Betamales.
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
Back at the Fringe for the twentieth year in a row from his native San Francisco, Greg Proops is a veteran who has spent years on the comedy circuit in a variety of roles and an ev…
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
I’ve little doubt that I’d have a lot of fun with a pony who knows one-trick but it’s safe to say that it would eventually get tiresome.
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
The Cambridge University team behind Oresteia have achieved many things I would have considered impossible with Aeschylus’ source material.
A cynic would suggest that a one-man show written and performed by an acclaimed director is one likely to fall into certain pitfalls; history is littered with those who have steppe…
For those not in the know, James Acaster is a nice man from Kettering who will happily tell you that all of his clothes are from Marks and Spencer.
The Man in the Moone, by the clearly passionate Rhum and Clay Theatre company, tells the story of Man’s fascination with the moon and his struggle to reach it.
Sotho Sounds in the band’s current form is four men: cheerful front-man Khuti, guitarist Tankiso, string-player Josepha and frowning powerhouse percussionist Paseka.
Lead Pencil deliver a wacky, ‘90s themed sketch show, with nostalgic throwbacks and two dimensional, completely hand drawn set and props.
“You can leave, if you want to,” Laura Jane Dean tells her audience – a simple statement of fact about the freedom afforded to an individual untouched by obsessive-compulsive…
Though a wayward arachnid hanging from the ceiling threatened to steal Walsh’s show on the night I was there, his genuine reaction to it – ‘HOLY SHIT’ – turned into ten m…
People who have seen Squidboy will be competing to find the best way to describe it.
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
Breaking the Silence follows the story of a Jewish grandmother, mother and daughter.
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
Fresh from the Namat Theatre in Cairo, Human and Other Things offers a select glimpse of Egypt, albeit in a rather frustrating manner.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
Joe Fairbrother has talent in abundance.
Recast in a WWI bunker, claustrophobia is the order of the day as you watch events unfold in a very small room from an even smaller bench.
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
As he confesses in the opening lines of his show, Alex Horne ‘hates stand-up’.
The title is probably the most interesting thing about this adaptation of Lysistrata, but any potential that it implies is sadly missed by the show itself.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
One complaint reserved by many locals is that the Festival attracts a lot of sorts born with silver spoons in their mouths, or, as Joe Bor’s climber creation puts it, the sort wh…
The Kings Head Theatre is once again offering multiple seasonal shows for their audiences to enjoy.
Suspicious Package is an interactive film in which the audience of five play the main characters.
Tick…Tick…Boom! is a show created by Jonathan Larson (of RENT fame) centred around a promising musical theatre writer ‘Jon’, who is running out of time.
Flamenco dancing is perhaps not the first thing I would associate with the legend of the Minotaur and indeed neither is the idea that the conflict between the monster and Theseus h…
At the beginning of the The Consort of Voices, the Edinburgh-based choir providing the music for this concert, strode in dramatically from the back of the church led by their bashf…
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…
If the title has somehow not given it away already, a warning should be given to the unenlightened.
Dinner and a show: a winning combination.
Singer-songwriters such as James Grant are tasked with the difficult job of keeping an audience entertained with merely a voice and a guitar, but James Grant proves in this hour-pl…
We are in the American Deep South.
Set in Oyo, Nigeria in the middle of World War II, Wole Soyinkas Death and the Kings Horseman centres around the battle between British colonialist views and the local traditio…
Bobby Carroll has perhaps been doing stand up so long that he’s become a bit bitter.
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
With a budget that suggests they spent more in the lighting rig than most in Edinburgh spend on their whole show, the production values on Five Guys Named Moe are ridiculously high…
‘This is much more than just a tale of physical erosion off the coast’, promises the flyer for newly written play On the Edge.
With Belle Du Jour a literary phenomenon and more and more women modelling themselves on the porn industrys feminine ideal, it is the perfect moment for a play about the lives an…
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale about a boy finding friendship and adventure with a bunch of idiosyncratic insects astride a giant peach is translated faithfully to the stage …
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
Who am I? What price, fame? What is reality? These are just some of the inane issues dredged up to validate this otherwise empty narrative.
Welcome to Skid Row, a New York slum where only those who dont have any choice would go.
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
The self-proclaimed professors of ‘pop hermeneutics’ return in stunning form to the Udderbelly, revealing their miraculous insights into the world of music and mass-culture, li…
At some point in the creation of this production, somebody decided that they were better at writing than Euripides.
Although dangerously like an extended Russian Eurovision entry, Above the Clear Blue Skys stadium rock surrealist take on the standard a capella ensemble is an entertaining and i…
In this North London retelling of Bizet’s opera, our feisty titular heroine is caught between two men in a world of crime, sleaze, and skinny black jeans.
If you are a fan of hilarious songs and impeccable singing then this is the show for you.
‘Andrew and the Pony’ is, oddly enough, the story of how performer Andrew Bridges has always, since early childhood, desperately wanted a pony and of all the bizarre situations…
Right, listen here.
James Lambeth has a gorgeous voice and has selected a good list of Duke Ellington standards for his tribute ‘Drop Me Off in Harlem.
Weirdly, the house lights come on as the show begins and by house lights, I mean the ordinary light-switch for the room.
Joe Wilkinson comments wryly that the convention is for a stand-up’s debut show to focus on what’s happened in their life so far, but unfortunately nothing interesting has ever hap…
The Sears Basset Glee Club is looking for a soloist for its London debut, and we - the audience - get to vote on who it will be.
The title here is very much self-explanatory.
Even in the death throes of the Fringe, it seems nobody is prepared to sleep at a sane hour.
Bette/Cavett is a hilarious re-enactment of the 1971 chatshow encounter of Bette Davis and Dick Cavett.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Stand Up Hero and The World Stand-Up’s performer Andrew Watts is angry.
Like tightrope walking over the Niagara Falls, Baby Wants Candy is an ambitious concept: either it works or it ends up six miles downstream.
Five new students arrive at university for a year of alcohol-fueled partying.
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
In this energetic operetta, The Tabard’s own in-house company Pulling Focus give us a bizarre romp through a blood-thirsty country club.
Lili la Scala leads us through an hour of song from the world wars.
Adelmo Guidarelli fills the space with his rich baritone, and with impressive poise for such an energetic act.
Neither hilarious nor haunting, the claim this play makes to such titles falls as flat as the claim that it is a comedy.
A scream offstage and Laura enters covered in blood.
This picture-book musical follows a young orphan girl who casts off her mourning clothes and warms the hearts of those around her.
Congratulations to Byteback Theatre for presenting a splendid physical show and going some way to alleviating my, not-uncommon, instinctive scepticism for the genre.
It is generally accepted that the best facet of Shakespeare’s work and what has made him stand the test of time is his verse.
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…
35MM is subtitled ‘a musical exhibition’.
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
This musical is about adolescent sex.
The authors mother is responsible for the above quote.
James Acaster claims to be very excitable, but this claim is not borne out by his laid back delivery and mundane choice of topics.
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
‘I haven’t played original stuff for a while’ was Austen George’s mumbled apology to the Acoustic Music Centre audience after encountering difficulty remembering his chords…
Geoff Paine (from Neighbours) leads a team of experienced improvisers in this never-before performed musical based on audience suggestion.
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…
Greeted by the eccentric theatre owner and a glamorous showgirl, the audience wander into a Pleasance Dome transformed especially for this one-off show into the elegant Empire Thea…
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
Before the lights had barely dimmed, the main actor confidently strode on stage and began the central monologue of how his life in Hull was bad.
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
It’s hard to go wrong with a big band and the Broadway songs everyone knows.
Everyone remembers storytime – that happy time at the end of the day when the hard work of colouring in and sticking bits of paper to other bits of paper could be safely put behi…
There’s no one quite like Roald Dahl for children.
Hildegard of Bingen is a twelfth-century German abbess now famed for her extraordinary writings and music.
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
‘Be my, be my baby’ - since seeing Stagecraft Productions’ performance of this Amanda Whittington play these lyrics have been in my head on a permanent loop.
Imagine Richard and Judy.
When strangers Bill and Jim get stuck in a lift, it’s pretty inevitable that they should end up reflecting on life and end up best of friends.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Meet Mr Clart, the drunken and prurient tour guide of the famous Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour.
After the bustle of Princes Street and the Royal Mile with their American Indian/Celtic/Oriental drumming combos and hundreds of flyers, the last thing I expected in the middle of …
Imagine if Frank Sinatra and David Walliams put on a film noir parody with Deano Wicks from Eastenders.
Dont let the Edinburgh Academy theatre and the audience of grandmas put you off the scent: this is a professional production of an off-Broadway show.
In this offering from the American High School Musical Theatre Festival, Shakespeare’s text is revamped into a slick news room in a specially commissioned work from Chris Wynters…
For all the excellent performances and wonderfully controlled aesthetic, this production amounts to nothing more than average; because it’s Belt Up, that’s disappointing.
James Smiley, Public School Twat is described as ‘One young man.
After striding into the Assembly Ballroom to tumultuous applause, guitarist Ewan Robertson’s wry remark was, ‘Hope you enjoyed the dramatic entrance there.
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Misdirected sexual attraction is the plate of the day from the Cambridge University Opera Society.
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…
Nominative determinism is a theory that someone’s name will influence or even dictate their life.
The Tony Award winning musical revue Smokey Joe’s comes to the Fringe care of Tempo Productions, a native Amateur company with a long history of presenting musicals.
This play is set in England, but in some kind of frightening, futuristic police state.
Thank goodness they didn’t call it Greenday: The Musical, because if they had, they wouldn’t have got half the audience they did.
Maybe it was lack of sleep.
‘Improv Comedy’, for a genre whose very definition implies limitless scope, seems to be becoming an increasingly tired medium.
Call me strange, but watching this show twice (in English and in Japanese) has been my most fascinating theatre experience in a long time.
This gal can play the piano.
Let me start by suggesting that people of a nervous disposition need not read this review, since you sure as anything won’t enjoy the show.
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
A gaggle of children charged into Paradise at the Vault for Scotch Broth, promised sing-a-long fun with long-time Fringe performer Dennis Alexander.
Not another comedy about nuns! I cried, being one of those people who dont find nuns intrinsically amusing, but I must confess I found it difficult to suppress a giggle when the …
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
The marketing for Auntie Myra’s Fun Show misleadingly promises something pretty outrageous.
In a blank-canvas office, the corporate machine squeezes one last drop of inspiration from two ad-men at the end of their tether.
‘An oasis in the Fringe… with bagpipes’ is how piper and most talkative Battlefield Band member Alasdair White described their show.
‘Ooh, he were good, that Mercutio! Shame he had to die, really.
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
Very soon after Joe Sutherland took to the stage, it was clear we were in good company: here was someone personable and inclusive, rude and funny with a penchant for great one-line…
This show is very much a stage version of Five Go Mad In Dorset, the first Comic Strip production on Channel 4, except that much of the action is transferred to Scotland.
Chris Corcoran and Elis James aka Mr Chairman and Rex Jones, the Caretaker, invite you to join them (and the third mystery comedian who remains un-credited) at the committee meetin…
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
I must confess to having felt more than a little embarrassed at turning up at a childrens show in the middle of the day; we had a heated debate in the queue on the way in as to w…
Zennor is not, as it turns out, a distant alien empire, but a small fishing village in Cornwall.
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
This new adaptation of Dracula plays slightly with the order of the original; the voluptuous vampire orgies of Dracula’s castle take place in the second half as opposed to the firs…
Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable ent…
This was the grand opening of a new show which will happen regularly through this years Fringe, hosted by Joe Simmons at Symposium Hall.
A stellar performance from an all-singing, all-dancing cast of miscreants and their formidable opponents from the local neighbourhood watch, Asbo: the Musical is the story of Darre…
Sovereign debt, bad credit, riots and scandals – the Euro, and the sky, is falling.
Do you remember the days of yore? Of gum detentions, boredom pure? Deep in the Smirnoff Underbelly, a group of Scottish students are putting on a play in memory of those school day…
Sordid Lives is the story of the overwhelming weirdness of small-town American life and the empowerment of its women, through the discovery of pink sequins and two-barrelled shotgu…
There’s a difference between absurdist theatre and ridiculous theatre.
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
In three short years, All the King’s Men have gone from a little-known university a cappella group to the third best collegiate group in the world, and from the simply phenomenal…
I had never been to a strip club before.
Ellis James is a natural stand-up comedian.
Pam Lawson has a crush.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
Alone in a sixth-floor storeroom, will Lee Harvey Oswald use his gun to kill John F.
A huge final number, full cast on stage, twiddly runs over the final note.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
Sadly displaced from their usual venue, the St Andrew’s and St George’s West festival-within-the-festival have set themselves up in Royal Overseas House.
A musical theatre fan (á la Wayne Koestenbaum) shows the audience one of his favourite records to find respite from his non-specific sadness.
Deep in the bowels of the Barbican lies a show which defies categorisation.
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
The Governor and his wife are forced to flee in the wake of a peasant uprising, but neglect to take their newborn baby with them.
Combine the Tellytubbies with a political agenda and you wouldnt be too far off this exuberant adaption of the story of the double-helix hypothesis.
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
‘Colour and light’ exclaims Georges, and this production takes that seriously.
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.
There’s basically no-one who doesn’t like Roald Dahl – he’s been a cornerstone of kids’ literature for 50 years and with good reason.
Kieran and Joe may have gone from a trio to a duo since their last trip to the Fringe but fans can rest easy: the loss of a man doesn’t mean a loss of laughs.
Its easy to lie into a computer keyboard, isnt it? Its also frighteningly easy to tell the truth more of the truth that perhaps you should.
When extremely enthusiastic New York comic Abigoliah Schamaunn bounded in “from the back of the room to the front of the room!”, her iPod stopped dead as she arrived onstage.
It is a great honour for any composer to have their work cherry-picked by fans and turned into a revue.
This high-school production of the Broadway classic hits the ground running with its tale of big-name theatre-star Margo Channing gradually usurped by the devious and considerably …
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
The A-level drama students of St Marylebone CE School in London give this frothy oldie a new lease of life.
The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway…
Naturalism, at its best, carefully communicates the subtle stories behind the realistically portrayed events on stage.
Delamere Mortal is a stand-up show with a difference.
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
Jean Paul Jones is an eighteenth-century US naval commander with Scottish roots; and this is the musical of his life.
The “romantic and provocative” Remember Me, while initially a little obtuse, strikes a neat balance between art installation, audible sensation and theatrical performance.
Lewis Barlow is an old-school parlour magician working within the great close-up tradition of tricks with coins, cards, ropes and money borrowed from the audience.
Jonny & Joe are couple of young lads with an inventive and interesting series of sketches.
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
Never before has a kazoo been blown with such gusto; so far so good as the two performers began the show with a confident song.
Fat Joe’s Chicken Shack is a play about a football advertising company in London and its impact on the developing world.
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Jons pre-life crisis takes the form of a musical monologue with supporting cast.
Here was the biggest audience yet.
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
The audience quietly filed in to see Tim Key pacing the stage like a panther, brandishing a rose like an inept but enthusiastic fencer and weaving around his microphone stand, a la…
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
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…
When I was little I had a Jackanory audio tape which I would listen to as I fell asleep.
What happened in this hour long show is still not quite clear; there was singing, nudity, drag, and a large cupboard to be sure.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Have you seen that Jason Robert Brown musical where the smart Jewish guy falls for the neurotic Irish Catholic girl? Despite being the premise of three of his shows to my mind, in …
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
This show suffers from a major conceptual problem.
Tight collars and tighter dialogue were on display as Charlotte Productions continued their ‘adaptations of forgotten literature’ with Miss Marchbanks, a delightful romp of a V…
Brendon Burns is forty-one.
This show, says its author and performer Daniel Cainer, has been catalogued under theatre because its neither particularly funny or particularly musical.
Sat atop a hill in Highgate town, beneath the clouds but throned over London’s starry spread sits a gem of Fringe theatre and a pleasure unrestrained.
I knew three things about the show before it started; that there are horror stories, that there are three of them and that they are presumably related to Poe.
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
It’s rare for a Fringe stand-up show to devote a significant stretch of time to the correct pronunciation of Kettering Town F.
This was my first venture over to C eca, a venue with a reputation amongst some as being out of the way.
Burst is a highly ambitious set of interlinked character portraits set in 20s England and Sudan.
When is a musical not a musical? When it’s a sung play, of course.
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
Five students meet for the first time in the flat they are to share for their first year of university.
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
I’ve no idea why this show is called Flame and Frost, but I don’t really mind.
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
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…
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
Zanna is a match-making fairy at Heartsville High, where the school Chess club rule the school and being gay is normal.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, with its ancient monuments, imposing churches and symmetrical townhouses.
You might think that a visual gag involving a woman with hair not dissimilar to that of King Charles II, dressed up as King Charles II might get old after a time.
The songs of Belgian-born chanteur Jacques Brel are renowned for their colourful imagery and dramatic storytelling.
The black man and the white man find themselves in a children’s playground, telling each other their tragic stories.
Jonathan Storeys beautiful paper theatre is the setting for the tale of Jack Pratchard, the falling-piano casualty who discovers the City of the Dead under a drunk mans hat.
Were I a paying customer in the audience of The Madness of King Lear, I would have walked out when Lear - Leofric Kingford-Smith – began his imitation of Rammstein using Shakespe…
A common adage given to budding creative writers is “Write what you know” to allow for the honesty and candour that makes your output more accessible.
I have faint memories of being taken to a children’s dance and movement class when I was about two.
How much do you know about obscure mid 90s Britpop band Wilby? Not much? Evidently anyone with a real niche interest in obscure Britpop bands should make it their business to find …
Searching for words to describe Fabled is difficult, which is appropriate as Lois Tucker does not utter a single one for the entire hour she is on stage.
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
Are you back for more Dick, or are you inexperienced in these areas? Of course I’m referring to the madcap world of adult panto at the Leicester Square Theatre.
You may recognise these two from TV.
Lara A.
What a charming narrative – a mountain man cons a young lady into marital servitude, at which point his six younger brothers steal six other women, holding them captive over wint…
We all live our lives within walls.
This bitter-sweet musical errs self-consciously on the side of the sweet, providing a Rom Com where everything seems to go right.
One Rogue Reporter describes its presenter Rich Peppiatt’s progression from Daily Star lackey to vehement tabloid terror.
A wonderful farsical musical romp in the tradition of Mapp and Lucia, Glee and The Stepford Wives, Swing! is the story of a lower-class family who move to wealthy suburban Wafthead…
Baby is Malty & Shires 1983 musical set on a college campus following nine months of three different couples attempting to have a child.
I love Lili.
What can a reviewer say about a musical that’s different every night? By extension, what can a reviewer say about any show, since surely no two performances are the same? If you�…
The Baby Diary, a new comic play by Emily Watson Howes first seen on BBC Online, seems to have a lot going for it at first.
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
This all-female cast often talk of their men, the ones who knocked them up or cast them out, and yet not much depends on them and no responsibility is placed at their feet.
The outstanding young performers of the National Youth Choir of Scotland are joined by Whitburn Band for Sir James MacMillan’s poignant oratorio All the Hills and Vales Along, w…
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Comedy Editor and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with RuPaul's Drag Race royalty Monét X Change to discuss her debut Fringe show Life Be Lifein', why audiences today a...
James Macfarlane sits down with André De Freitas to discuss his Edinburgh debut What If, some of the best advice he's received from his peers and the unexpected moment that got hi...
James Macfarlane chats with Phil Ellis about his new show Phil Ellis' Excellent Comedy Show, celebrating 10 years at Edinburgh and his biggest achievements outside of comedy
James Macfarlane chats with Dominique Salerno about her debut Fringe show The Box Show, the relationship between creativity and constraint and just what she gets up to in that box.
James Macfarlane interviews Sid Singh about his new Fringe show Table For One, the differences between UK and American audiences and standing up to the government.
We've seen from shows such as Fleabag in 2013 that success at your Edinburgh debut show can lead to worldwide success.
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.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
James Macfarlane chats with comedian Robin Tran about her Fringe debut, how she deals with praise from big comedy names and her favourite way to control her audiences.
James Macfarlane chats with Tania Lacy about returning to the Fringe after 29 years with her show Everything's Coming Up Roses, her love of home crowds and her illustrious showbiz ...
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with magician and mentalist Colin Cloud to discuss his new Edinburgh Fringe show After Dark, adjusting to Zoom life and why he...
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with MC Hammersmith to discuss raps, rhymes and his new Edinburgh show Straight Outta Brompton.
James Macfarlane sits down with the one and only Danny Beard to discuss their debut Fringe show Danny Beard and Their Band, life since winning RuPaul's Drag Race UK and why the art...
theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme: Over 360 Exciting Shows Await Theatre Enthusiasts at the Edinburgh Fringe
With alumni including Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Jeremy Vine, the Durham Revue are celebrating their 50th year with sketch show comedy Death on the Mile at this year’s Durham Frin...
In its 15th anniversary, the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY) returns to the Sondheim Theatre where 12 finalists and 2 reserves from drama schools ...
After a year of excellent shows, picking the winner was harder than ever.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
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The relationship between poetry and alcohol is renowned and Joseph J Clark continues in this tradition with his show, Drunk With A Pen (Sweet Werks 2, 5th-13th May, 19:00).
Some years ago I wrote an article about the best strategies for getting Broadway Baby to review your show.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And...
Daphne is a coming-of-age movie about a 28, sorry, 31-year-old woman who witnesses a stabbing in a corner shop.
Rehearsal photos released of Julian Clary and James Nelson-Joyce in the world première of the two-handed black comedy, Le Grand Mort.
Mutterings about star ratings are as much a part of the Fringe as plastic pint glasses.
Ever since their debut in 2015 with Weekend Rockstars Middle Child Theatre have been rewriting what musical theatre can be with their distinctive gig-theatre genre.
The second Bobby of EdFringe 2017 has been scooped by Middle Child for All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.
In 2005 it was revealed that author JT LeRoy was in fact a hoax – written by Laura Albert but played in person by her sister in law Savannah Knoop.
Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil.
Writer and actor Milly Thomas is best known in the theatre world for her 2016 play Clickbait and for writing an episode of Clique on BBC Three.
Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.
When Matthew Shepard was brutally tied to a fence, beaten, and abandoned outside Laramie, Wyoming, members of Tectonic Theatre Group came to ask questions.
Glenn Chandler, creator of the legendary Taggart, has become known at the Fringe for his plays exploring different facets of gay life.
As the Edinburgh International Festival and its Fringe celebrate their 70th anniversaries, Broadway Baby’s James T.
West End and Broadway sensation Rachel Tucker makes her debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in two intimate concerts at the Pleasance.
Modern Life Is Rubbish is romantic comedy about a couple whose love of music brings them together as well as revealing their differences.
Let Me Go is a feature film based on the true life of Helga Schneider (Juliet Stevenson) - whose mother was a Nazi war criminal.
When it was first staged in 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s prison-set Julius Caesar was called “gimmicky, humourless and slow” by the Telegraph and “witty, liberating and inventive...
Another stellar year of entertainment at Brighton Fringe has once again made choosing the winner of the coveted Broadway Bobby incredibly difficult.
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.
Are you excited about Brighton Fringe yet? We are! And with 988 Brighton Fringe shows and events now listed on Broadway Baby you've found the right place for the best coverage of t...
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
We don’t know quite how big the 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be this year quite yet – the final number’s a closely guarded secret until the official press launch in Ju...
At the largest arts festival in the world, it's easy to forget that theatre wasn't always welcome in Britain.
Macabre comedy company Kill The Beast (Peter Brook and Manchester Theatre Award winners) return to the Fringe with their 70s werewolf spectacular He Had Hairy Hands and a new 80s f...
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.
How To Win Against History has been awarded the prestigious Bobby Award, Broadway Baby’s sixth star awarded to the very cream of Fringe performances.
Alice Munro’s short-story collection The View from Castle Rock fictionalises the real-life history of her ancestors’ economic migration from Scotland to Canada.
How to Win Against History is a new musical about Henry Cyril Paget, an eccentric, cross-dressing marquis who was written out of history by his family.
Poet Rupert Brooke is known for the patriotic poetry he wrote as World War One got under way, but most know little about the trail of broken hearts he left through Edwardian counte...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
Love for Sale a theatrical cabaret celebration of the music of Kurt Weill set in 1930s Paris.
Based on it’s performers’ real-life stand-up material, Jailmates is a love story about an unlikely couple who meet on a pen-pal website jailmates.
The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng...
The elderly residents of a care home just off the A1 are waiting to die, some of them less quietly than others.
Our exclusive Bobby Award has found its first EdFringe home, in the hands on Pepperdine Scotland for their 5-star show Interference at C venues.
Does a prophesy merely predict the future, or does it help to make it happen? New comedy drama In Tents and Purposes at the Assembly aims to find out, via time travel, Brechtian al...
Meet the Media is an annual pitch-fest run by the Fringe Society, giving Edinburgh shows the chance to meet the Broadway Baby team.
It’s the late 80s.
Comic Russell Hicks has seen them all, and provides some advice for audience members tempted to join in with the show how not to be 'that guy'.
Multi award-winning comedian James Meehan wonders where all the working class comedians have gone.
Screenwriter, producer and director Tom Kinninmont’s latest feature film, The Carer, starring Brian Cox, made its European premiere at 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Kids in Love made its world premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
After hundreds of shows, thousands of performers and a month of the most exciting shows from around the corner and around the world, Brighton Fringe is almost over.
Fringe folk, I’ve been where you are.
Ever needed a guide to be a man? Perhaps you've read books, looked on the internet and searched for answers.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
Broadway Baby, one of the longest-established theatre sites on the internet, has named Bethan Troakes as its Brighton Editor.
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
Rona Munro is an award-winning Scottish writer for theatre, television and radio.
After its phenomenal run on and off Broadway, the critically acclaimed five times Tony award nominated play Hand to God (including Best New Play and Best Director) is making its wa...
Following a successful run at Brighton Fringe in 2015 and two previous sold-out and critically acclaimed runs at the King's Head Theatre, 5 Guys Chillin' returns this February.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe...
Congratulations to Tap Tap Theatre's Captain Morgan series, which has bagged our second Bobby Award of 2015.
Matt Tedford’s drag incarnation as Margaret Thatcher started life as a simple Halloween joke but has since taken on a bit of a life of her own, winning him Best Male Performer at...
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
Our first Bobby Award of the year goes to the inimitable Luke McQueen, whose playful and genre-breaking show Double Act wowed our comedy editor, Martin Walker, and t...
Special guest Pete Shaw, Publisher of Broadway Baby, joins James T Harding and Grace Knight for ice cream and the second episode of Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Join Broadway Baby Features Team James T Harding and Grace C Knight for the very first ever of all time Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Sophia Walker posted a message to Facebook as encouragement to her fellow Fringe performers. We liked it, and with her permission are re-publishing it here.
Well-travelled poet Carys ‘Matic’ Jones brings Professional Nomad: What Happens When a Gap Year Becomes a Gap Decade? to Clerk's Bar this August.
Poet and performer Harry Giles, of former Guardian Best-of-the-Fringe fame, is bringing his new show Drone to Summerhall with the SHIFT/ collective this August.
Poet Stan Skinny brings Love Poems For The Feint Hearted to the PBH Free Frnge this year.
In the first of Broadway Baby's The Poets are Coming series, Ben Norris tells us about his one-man show The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Family, a look at fathers and sons thro...
Ali Maloney of the SHIFT/ collective tells us about HYDRONOMICON, his tentacle-related spoken-word show at Summerhall this August.
Andrew Blair gives Broadway Baby a taste of his spoken-word show This is Poetry with Ross McCleary, an exploration of fictional Edinburgh not at all based on the film Troll 2.
TED talk-giver Agnes Török gives us a tantalising preview of her spoken-word show If You're Happy and You Know It – Take This Survey, which is set to premiere&nb...
Matthew Harvey is bringing his stand-up poetry show Matthew Havey is... Dangerman! to the Fringe all the way from New Zealand.
Slam champion and Fringe veteran Tina Sederholm is bringing The Good Delusion to the Banshee Labyrinth this August.
Broadway Baby favourite Sophia Walker has won Best Spoken Word Show for two years running.
Scientist Mike Galsworthy is doing something rather different at Clerk's Bar this Fringe...
Fig leaves, female figures and chocolate cake will feature heavily in poet Alex Marsh's Fringe.
Dan Simpson is doing six shows at the Fringe this year. Six. Did I mention he's doing SIX SHOWS?
Six months after his first poetry collection is published, world slam champion Harry Baker is heading to the Fringe with Harry Baker - The Sunshine Kid.
Edinburgh man Matthew Macdonald brings Something Wicked This Way Comes to the Fringe this August, following his debut with Who Are Your People? last year.
Hairy poet and impro pianist Colin Bramwell brings his debut solo show Scale to the Pilgrim this Fringe. Expect Highlands kitsch without the kitsch.
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
Loud Poet Sara Hirsch is bringing her debut spoken-word show, How Was It For You?, up to Clerk's Bar this August.
Poet Max Scratchmann will star alongside Alec Beattie in Edinburgh in the Shadows this August.
Scottish poet Rachel Amey is set to perform Peacock Blue as part of the SHIFT/ collective at Summerhall this August.
Gerard Logan will be performing in three spoken-word shows this Fringe, two based on the work of Oscar Wilde and one on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece".
Glaswegian-born poet Colin McGuire is set to debut his first solo show, The Wake Up Call, themed around sleep and sexuiality.
Kitty's bound for Broadway, baby! We chat to Kerry Miller, the woman behind this one-woman show. It promises to be lighthearted, entertaining and musical. We find out more!
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Director Alexandra Spencer-Jones of Action to the Word made her name with her all-male production A Clockwork Orange, currently touring with Glynis Henderson Productions.
Comedian Lucy Porter’s first foray into theatre, The Fair Intellectual Club, plays at the Assembly Rooms this August.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was the first show to win a coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award this Fringe.
Miles Allen is the star of One Man Breaking Bad, a solo show which ambitiously retells all of Breaking Bad in sixty minutes - that's just under one minute per episode.
Chris Dolan is a Fringe First-winning writer, whose Scottish Independence-themed play The Pitiless Storm runs at the Assembly Rooms until the end of August starring David Hayman.
Oliver Lansley (artistic director) and James Seager (associate producer) are the masterminds behind Les Enfants Terribles, a theatre company now in its thirteenth year at the Fring...
withWings Theatre Company's The Duck Pond, a music and physical theatre-heavy adaptation of Swan Lake, has enjoyed a sell-out run at the Bedlam Theatre so far this August.
Stephanie Dale is a playwright with work produced by BBC Radio 4 and Birmingham REP among others.
Sophia Walker is the reigning BBC Slam champion and winner of multiple awards for her spoken-word show Around the World in Eight Mistakes.
Casual Violence are a five-man comedy sketch troupe who have been performing sketch comedy at the Fringe since 2010, this year bringing the comedy play The Great Fire of Nostril to...
Dag Andersson and Tove Sahlin are a real-life couple and the artistic directors of Shake it Collaborations, a Swedish performance company examining body and identity politics.
Steve Green is the artistic director of Fourth Monkey Theatre company, which this year brings five productions to the Fringe including Alice, a site-specific adaptation of the Lewi...
The musical based on the 1924 'thrill killers' Leopold and Loeb, Thrill Me, has been named as the first Broadway Baby 'Bobby Award' winner for 2014.
2013 Performance Poetry World Cup Champion Scott Wings, part of the Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company in Brisbane, is performing his one-man spoken word/physical theatre Icarus F...
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Alex Brockie is a midlands-based theatre maker whose play about a Mexican-wrestling star fallen on hard times, El Británico, is coming to theSpace this August.
Lewis Ironside is the director of Shit-faced Shakespeare, everyone's favourite inebriated classical theatre series, returning to the Fringe for the fifth year with a run at the Und...
Sam O’Rourke is co-writer and co-director of Much Ado About Zombies, a play coming to theSpace this August that.
Andrew J Davies is the writer and producer of What A Gay Play, a shamelessly raunchy play about a group of gay friends playing at C venues this August.
Patrick Wilde is a writer and director who's been a formative influence in British gay theatre since his What’s Wrong With Angry? was first mounted in 90s London.
Comedian David O'Doherty will host a one-off gig tomorrow to pay the temporary theatre license fee for his friend’s site-specific comedy horror show in a six-seater caravan.
Best known for playing Albert in the National Theatre's War Horse, actor Jack Holden is about to star in Awkward Conversations With Animals I've F*cked, Rob Hayes's new play about ...
Laura Witz founded the Edinburgh-based Charlotte Productions in 2009 and has since brought numerous plays about female history to the Fringe, including 2012’s Miss Marchbanks.
MargOH! Channing and MAN-ee Champagne are two delightful queens bringing fermented realness from New York to Edinburgh this August for a late-night run at The Laughing Horse.
A finalist at the Windsor Fringe Drama Festival, Julie Ford is preparing to premiere her new play, Totally Devoted, at theSpace this Fringe.
Musician, comedian and actor Ben Fairey, known for his acting roles in Channel 4’s Random Acts and M.
It's time once again for the EdFringe Top Ten Lists - but not just any list.
Broadway Baby are thrilled to introduce a new regular date for West End Wendys and Dagenham Divas.
Broadway Baby's Twitter account has moved to the shorter, more appropriate home of @broadwaybaby - if you were already following us, you don't need to re-follow as you'll auto...
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