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Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 21st Aug 2024
New York Times Critic’s Pick (2024).
Go to the Glass House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 21st - 22nd Aug 2024
The Glass House, where beauty thrives, where night ends and light begins.
ScotlandsFest: The Queen’s Bahookie, and Other Tales From Scotland’s Castles – Robin Laing
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gladstone’s Land
- 20th Aug 2024
Who saw the Queen’s Bahookie? Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose? Which maiden was most feared by Scottish aristocrats? Which job is worse – turnbrochie or pigeon-…
This Side of the House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 19th - 24th Aug 2024
It’s the early 80s at Cambridge.
Rat House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 14th - 24th Aug 2024
Welcome to Hackton! Cyclists can’t get to Hackton library, literacy rates are dropping, cyclists can barely name a single book, library membership is dwindling and Hackton counci…
The Sun King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 24th Aug 2024
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.
ScotlandsFest: Meet Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie – Barbara Henderson
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Columba’s by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
- 12th Aug 2024
Well, hello there, Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie! With award-winning author, storyteller and drama teacher Barbara Henderson, the Stuarts leap from the page in this…
Mary, Jack and Jane – The Queer Adventure
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 11th - 18th Aug 2024
Queer northern comedians Mary Cross, Jack Horsefield and Jane Postlethwaite bring you a hilarious three-way split bill of stand-up comedy.
Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 11th - 20th Aug 2024
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.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ministry of Camp @ Monboddo
- 7th - 25th Aug 2024
Get ready for mischief with this campatious event fuelled by three delicious wines, low tone, a scrumptious pairing and a big fat singalong.
The Stuff of Legends: The Sequel – Music of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 7th - 24th Aug 2024
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Rat King Gospel
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 24th Aug 2024
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, …
One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Dave Reubens – Freaky Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
The crazy magic show packed with comedy, story and danger.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
Jack Goes to Therapy: A (Somewhat) Romantic Comedy
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Jack is a 29-year-old Kindergarten teacher and a hopeless romantic.
Jack Docherty in The Chief – No Apologies
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2024
The BAFTA-winning star of Scot Squad and cult classic Absolutely, returns to the Fringe as Scotland’s favourite cop.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Riddles Court
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
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…
Jack Holmes: Round Man, Square Hole
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2024
A laugh-filled journey about finding every group you belong to insufferable.
Mary, Queen of Rock!
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
You think you know the story of Mary, Queen of Scots? Think again.
You're SO F**king Croydon!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
King of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 1st - 13th Aug 2024
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.
Ventriloquist Queen: A True African Queen
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 1st - 18th Aug 2024
Ventriloquist Queen: a true African Queen.
Dragon Shows for Babies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- LifeCare Centre
- 1st - 20th Aug 2024
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The only Empress Queen, a model for the modern monarchy, Victoria is a prism through which the entire Crown can be seen.
Dave Durkom: Durkin' 9 to 5 (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 1st - 11th Aug 2024
He has over 150 million views on social media.
Jack Kelly and Jimmy Shirley: Pool's Gold
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 15th Aug 2024
Start your day off with a split hour of stand-up from two award-entering comedians! Jack’s from Blackpool, Jimmy’s from Liverpool.
6 Steps To Success From The "Award Winning" Dave Chawner
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Last year Dave won an award who’s title felt like a back-handed compliment.
House of Life
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
House of Life is a place of worship with one goal: happiness for all, at any cost.
Dave Ahdoot: Ethnically Ambiguous
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Dave Ahdoot’s enigmatic shade of brown has helped him land parts in over 40 TV ads for huge brands like Ford and McDonald’s.
Jack Skipper: Skint
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Carpet-fitter turned comedian Jack Skipper delivers his debut stand-up hour with a show about how he went from a tradesman with no qualifications to a full-time comedian (with no q…
Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Eleanor Morton: Haunted House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Have you ever seen a ghost? Comedian Eleanor Morton hasn’t.
The Old Queen's Head
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square
- 31st Jul - 22nd Aug 2024
Who’s your go to? Your ride or die? Your best friend? Your mum? Not David.
Guy Williams: This Glass House Makes It Easy to See All the Cowards I'm Throwing Stones At
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Star of New Zealand Today and last-place finisher on Taskmaster NZ, Guy Williams makes his Edinburgh debut! Nominated for Best Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2023.
The Queen's Head
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Enter the flamboyant depths of a Victorian Music Hall… When Albert Baggley, the founder of The Queen’s Head, mysteriously disappears, two burlesque numbers, devastated dames, a g…
Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
The Lion King in Concert
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Albert Hall
- 5th - 6th Jul 2024
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
THE ILLUSTRIOUS REIGN OF KING LOUIS XIX (IN ITS ENTIRETY)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 11th - 15th Jun 2024
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.
Tina, Queen of Rhythm
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 31st May 2024
Tina, The Queen of Rhythm brings you a showcase of Tina Turner’s incredible vocal journey from the early 1960s to the greatest hits of her solo career.
Jack Hester: I am Napoleon!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 26th May 2024
An hour of great stand up.
6 Steps To Success From The 'Award Winning' Dave Chawner
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 25th May - 2nd Jun 2024
Last year Dave won an award who’s title felt like a back-handed compliment.
DAVE BIBBY: Baby Dinosaur
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 25th May 2024
Dave Bibby, ‘“madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BroadwayWorld), set out to create a theatrical masterpiece: A one-man Jurassic Park.
The House We Inherit
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st May - 1st Jun 2024
In a small town in America the Wrights reside.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th May 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Jack Clay Am I A Going Out Guy?
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 18th May 2024
“I’ve always had a passion for stand-up comedy, and I’m thrilled to be gearing up for my first solo show.
Boudica: Warrior Queen
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 18th - 31st May 2024
The award-winning DoDo DRAMATICS returns with its newest Iron Age adventure.
And I'll Blow Your House Down
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 16th May - 1st Jun 2024
The 2023 Brighton Fringe award-winning show returns! Disability in society: fairytale or pigging nightmare? It seems the Big Bad Wolf’s blown your house down: with two life-cha…
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th - 24th May 2024
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th - 24th May 2024
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
The Nine-Day Queen
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 14th - 19th May 2024
In the aftermath of an attack which puts her best friend in a coma, a teenage girl learns to cope with the help of the ghost of Lady Jane Grey.
A Girl is a Haunted House
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 13th - 27th May 2024
We’re all a little haunted, aren’t we? Being a woman is complicated.
Marty and Roger in The Night House
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 10th - 12th May 2024
Award-winning Irish comedians, Marty Gleeson and Roger O’ Sullivan (BBC New Comedy Awards nominees, Leicester Square New Comedian Finalist & Unexplained Legends Podcast) invite you…
King of More: #FOMO Clinic
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds)
- 10th May 2024
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…
The Queen, Shakespeare and Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th May 2023 - 15th May 2024
Affectionate musical comedy tribute to the world’s longest-serving monarch - a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model who headed up a country & united a commonwealt…
Dave Fensome: ADHDad (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 3rd - 25th May 2024
Acclaimed Brightonian comedian Dave Fensome has ADHD (as documented in his previous sell out show ADHDave), he’s now also a dad.
Smiley Dave Browne Presents: No Cap
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds)
- 3rd - 18th May 2024
Online viral comedian, takes to the stage for his new show of stories from a life of a dreamer with odd ways of handling what life had to throw and an obscure view of the world tha…
The King of Hollywood
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 28th - 29th Apr 2024
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.
The Bridge House Theatre: Three Years and Counting
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Apr 2024
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Dave Chappelle: The Process
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th - 19th Apr 2024
Dave Chappelle is recognized as one of the greatest comedians of all time, Chappelle is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Apr 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Apr 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
The Queen is Mad
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- The Lion & Unicorn Theatre
- 19th - 23rd Mar 2024
The Queen is Mad is a musical psychodrama inspired by the true story of Joanna la Loca.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Mar 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
West End Sessions @ Brooks Mews Wine House
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Brooks Mews Wine House
- 23rd Feb - 20th Dec 2024
West End Sessions a captivating new live music show in an intimate, cabaret style setting located in the heart of Mayfair.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Feb 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Shortland
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 25th Feb, 2024
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
The King and I
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Dominion Theatre
- 20th Jan - 2nd Mar 2024
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Jan 2024
CHRISTMAS DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE with a FESTIVE SPECIAL!!! THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! Alright balls, fine…
Jack & The Beanstalk
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 27th - 30th Dec 2023
OUR AWARD NOMINATED FAMILY PANTOMIME IS BACK!Once again written and directed by Luke Adamson and choreographed by Brendan Matthew, this Christmas it’s Jack & The Beanstalk!Jack Tro…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Dec 2023
CHRISTMAS DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE with a FESTIVE SPECIAL!!! THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! Alright balls, fine…
Hansel and Gretel - Royal Opera House
- Listing
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 16th Dec 2023 - 7th Jan 2024
A great family opera sung in English – Antony McDonald’s exquisite production of Humperdinck’s fairytale masterpiece returns in time for Christmas.
The House with the Chicken Legs
- Review
- ★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- London Fringe
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- 29th Dec, 2023
There’s a famous quote by Winston Churchill that says that Russia “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma”.
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Lyttelton Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2023
Looking out at you from the poster for the National Theatre’s latest version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Harriet Walter cuts an imperious figure.
Cinderella - Brixton House
- Listing
- West End
- Brixton House
- 30th Nov - 31st Dec 2023
A Brixton House Production.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- Joy Watters
- Edinburgh
- Lyceum Theatre
- 28th Nov, 2023
This new version sees Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale transported to Scotland with a race against time covering the length of the land to vanquish the evil Snow Quee…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Nov 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
Killing Jack
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Queen’s Theatre
- 26th Oct - 11th Nov 2023
Illuminating the unheard stories of the real victims of Jack the Ripper in a darkly thrilling plunge into a world where women return to take back their stories
House of Hysteria
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Vanguard, Camden
- 20th - 22nd Oct 2023
What happened last night? The girls turn up to perform their show as usual, but something is wrong.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 16th Oct 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
Trevor Ashley – Queen of the Moment
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 9th Oct 2023
Australian drag diva and cabaret legend Trevor Ashley makes his triumphant return to the Lyric, with a brand new show.
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 17th Oct, 2023
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Whitney - Queen of the Night
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Palladium / Royal Albert Hall
- 25th Sep 2023 - 14th Feb 2024
Direct from the West End, and the iconic London Palladium, Whitney – Queen of the Night is a celebration of the music and life of one of the greatest singers of all time: Whi…
The Old Queen's Head
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Lion And Unicorn
- 22nd Sep, 2023
A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Sep 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
And I’ll Blow Your House Down
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Old Fire Station
- 17th Sep 2023
What if the Big Bad Wolf blew your house down? What if you had to start building your life all over again? Award-winning show about family disability and being an accidental carer…
Niki King
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rose Theatre
- 25th Aug 2023
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
The Freddie and Queen Experience
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 23rd Aug 2023
The Freddie and Queen Experience is the UK’s premier Queen and Freddie Mercury tribute band.
The Queen of England (A Staged Reading)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 22nd - 26th Aug 2023
The UK premiere of a new and uniquely contemporary American comedy for all of us searching for the essentials in life: adventure, friendship, and a boy who’s kind of like Hugh Gr…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st Aug 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
Jack Whitehall: Settle Down
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 20th - 21st Aug 2023
International comedy superstar Jack Whitehall returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new live show.
Jack Whitehall and Friends
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 20th Aug 2023
Join Jack Whitehall as he returns to the Pleasance to host a special late-night stand-up show with some of his friends from around the Fringe.
King of the Table
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 18th - 25th Aug 2023
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th - 27th Aug 2023
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 14th - 27th Aug 2023
New York City based cult comedian Dave Hill combines stand-up, storytelling, music and occasional ill-advised feats of strength into a face-melting hour that explores life, death, …
In Conversation with… Jack Monroe
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 14th Aug 2023
Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner.
Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th - 20th Aug 2023
Winner: Comedian’s Comedian, Chortle Awards (2020).
King of More: #FOMO Clinic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 13th - 17th Aug 2023
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…
King Kandoro’s Family Meeting
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 13th Aug 2023
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
The Stuff of Legends: The Songs of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 10th - 26th Aug 2023
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Edinburgh City Centre
- 9th - 27th Aug 2023
Get ready for mischief with this campatious event fuelled by quality wine, low tone, a scrumptious pairing and a big fat singalong.
Dave Cerwonka: Sex, Lies and Dog Walking
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Little White Pig
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
The American comedian’s sophomore Fringe effort is a raw, unfiltered dive into sex, dating, relationships and his career as a professional dog walker.
Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 5th - 20th Aug 2023
Dave Bibby, ‘madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer’ (BroadwayWorld.
Joe Wells: King of the Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
Elle Fire: Queen of the O-Rings
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 4th - 7th Aug 2023
Let the Queen of the O-rings take you on an epic quest! In the face of mortal danger from repressive forces she must engage in a cosmic battle to fight for the survival & freedom o…
The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors.
Queen and Sober
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 17th Aug 2023
A raw and unfiltered musical comedy show, tackling difficult and often taboo subjects.
Packed House
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kafe Kweer
- 4th - 8th Aug 2023
A cocksure and impassioned performance.
A Snake in the House Means the Family Will Never Want
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 4th Aug 2023
Opening with a voice note of the artist’s mother reflecting on overwork, xenophobia and cultural invisibility through the semiotics of the snake and the ingrained tendency of Hek…
The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
The tragicomic tale of two rhyming pirates scuttled on a desert island – sans captain, sans crew, lots of sand.
King of More: Veza
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
There is secret connection among all of us.
Queen of the New Year
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
Alan doesn’t understand Carol after they met via a dating app which was organised by bestie Karen, but now Carol has met Tony to complicate matters as she becomes the Queen Of T…
KING
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly @ Dance Base
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
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…
Skye Scraper: The Life and Times of a Drag Queen Accountant
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Australia’s campest drag queen bares all in this chaotic cabaret about her double life as a drag queen accountant.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
Ross Leslie: Unfit for a King
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
International House of Vape: Redefining Theatre Experience
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2023
It’s time.
House of Life
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Isabella Thompson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 26th Aug, 2023
In what could be crowned the most uplifting show of the Fringe, The House of Life aka Ben Welch and Laurence Cole from Sheep Soup combine preaching, live music, comedy and all roun…
24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Drag Queen Story Hour
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Drag Queen Story Hour: the theatrical experience is here! (Oh no they aren’t?) Oh yes they are! What do you get when you cross fabulously inclusive stories and fabulously dressed d…
Angus Coutts – Short King
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
Jack Traynor and Daniel Petrie: Introducing Two of Scotland's Most Exciting New Stand-up Comedians
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Shared hour with two absolute stars of the future.
Dave Chawner: Freelosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The history of Western philosophy but fun! Think Horrible Histories for philosophy.
Lara A King – Midlife at the Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
The Kinsey Sicks: Drag Queen Storytime Gone Wild!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
America’s most potty-mouthed and politically outspoken drag a cappella quartet escaped the morality police in the US.
Mystery House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
In 1886, following the death of her husband and child, Sarah Winchester purchased an unfinished farmhouse near San Francisco.
Chatham House Rules
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2023
The Chatham House Rule is an agreement which allows those in power to share ideas with impunity: the discussion itself can be reported upon, but names are protected.
It's a Motherf**king Pleasure
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 7th Aug, 2023
This is a brilliant show.
Jack Docherty in David Bowie and Me: Parallel Lives
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Jack’s love of Bowie is the jumping off point for an hour of comedy about his teenage years, first love, hedonism, families, AI, culture wars, mortality and why you should always m…
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
From award-winning writer Raymond Friel, Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots) is a one-woman play with a cast of thousands! Join citizen historian and proud Shetlander Mary Fraser …
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 24th Jul 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Dave Landau
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 4th Jul 2023
Nationally touring comedian and third chair of LOUDER WITH CROWDER. As seen on COMEDY CENTRAL, NBC and numerous television networks throughout the world.
Dave Landau
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 4th Jul 2023
Nationally touring comedian and third chair of LOUDER WITH CROWDER. As seen on COMEDY CENTRAL, NBC and numerous television networks throughout the world.
Queen of The East
- Listing Children’s Shows
- FUSE International
- Rose Theatre
- 2nd - 2nd Jul 2023
About the show The year is 32 BCE.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Jun 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Alasdair Beckett-King - The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Jun 2023
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Alasdair Beckett-King - The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Jun 2023
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting @ Leith Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh
- The Granary
- 14th Jun 2023
A Scottish Drag Queen and an Irish Sommelier walk into a bar in Leith.
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Queen of the O-Rings
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 1st - 4th Jun 2023
Join the Queen of the O-rings on an epic quest to save her village from the tyranny of the Hateful Pistons of Thrust.
Queen Mab: The Witching Hour
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2023
Welcome to the Court of Queen Mab: The witching hour has descended, ushering in a phantasmagorical feast for the senses as this musical monarch takes to the stage.
Queen of the O-Rings
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 1st - 4th Jun 2023
Elle Fire: Queen of the O-Rings.
Queen Mab: The Witching Hour
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2023
Welcome to the Court of Queen Mab: The witching hour has descended, ushering in a phantasmagorical feast for the senses as this musical monarch takes to the stage.
Queen of The East
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 29th - 29th May 2023
The year is 32 BCE.
Lara A King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Lara A King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Lara A. King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
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 …
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 22nd May 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Joe Wells: King Of The Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th May 2023
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Joe Wells: King Of The Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th May 2023
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Redroaster
- 18th - 28th May 2023
Join us for not 1, not 2, but 3 delicious glasses of carefully selected wines for a campatious evening at Redroaster Café on St James St; fuelled by low tone, audience interaction…
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Review
- ★★★★
- Johanna Makelainen
- Brighton Fringe
- Redroaster
- 19th May, 2023
Wine tasting and drag queens go together like milk and cookies.
Nora: A Doll's House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 16th - 17th May 2023
1918.
Nora: A Doll's House
- Review
- ★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 18th May, 2023
Brighton Fringe seems to be going through an interesting trend at the moment giving characters from well known plays a voice, so they can finally have their say.
Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th - 20th May 2023
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th - 20th May 2023
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
And I'll Blow Your House Down
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 11th - 14th May 2023
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
And I'll Blow Your House Down
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 11th - 14th May 2023
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
The Queen, Shakespeare and Me
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 31st May 2023
Affectionate musical comedy tribute to the world’s longest-serving monarch - a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model who headed up a country & united a commonwealt…
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 8th May 2023
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May 2022 - 8th May 2023
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Having the craic with Jack Hester
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 7th May 2023
Having the craic with Jack Hester.
Having the craic with Jack Hester
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 7th May 2023
Having the craic with Jack Hester.
The King's Speech
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 6th - 13th May 2023
It’s 1936.
Dave Chawner: Freelosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2023
The history of Western philosophy.
Dave Chawner: Freelosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2023
The history of Western philosophy.
The King's Speech
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 6th - 13th May 2023
It’s 1936.
Alfie Ordinary's House Of Fun
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Alfie Ordinary's House Of Fun
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May 2022 - 5th May 2023
Six time Fringe Award winner Alfie Ordinary welcomes you to the House Of Fun! Opening the iconic Brighton Spiegeltent with a conga line of the UK’s most outrageous acts, Alfie retu…
Queen of Roses
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- London Cabaret Club
- 11th - 27th May 2023
Queen of Roses is an immersive cabaret featuring majestic live performances, exquisite dining and quintessentially British cocktails.
F★★king Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Waterloo East Theatre
- 28th Apr, 2023
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
F**king Men
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Waterloo East Theatre
- 20th Apr 2023 - 26th May 2024
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 17th Apr 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Auntie's House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 3rd - 9th Apr 2023
Notting Hill.
The Dry House
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Marylebone Theatre
- 31st Mar - 6th May 2023
On the Irish border town of Newry, Chrissy promises her sister Claire that after one final drink she will go to The Dry House to get sober.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Mar 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Stag King
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Studio
- 17th - 18th Mar 2023
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Fern Brady - Autistic Bikini Queen
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Mar 2023
One of the UK’s most exciting comedians, Fern Brady is adding extra tour dates of her fifth solo show Autistic Bikini Queen.
Fern Brady - Autistic Bikini Queen
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Mar 2023
One of the UK’s most exciting comedians, Fern Brady is adding extra tour dates of her fifth solo show Autistic Bikini Queen.
House of Burlesque: Divine
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 15th - 16th Mar 2023
Behold - It’s time for the Rise of the Feminine Divine.
Ira Sylvester: Someone Save the King (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 9th Mar 2023
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…
Jack Barry: (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 8th Mar 2023
Hey you, reading this.
Auntie's House by Paul Stone: A Muslim woman’s fight to protect her gay loved ones from persecution in 1950s London.
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Kings Head Theatre
- 3rd - 9th Mar 2023
Tamina was from Pakistan but living in London’s Notting Hill area during the 1950s, in the times before the decriminalisation of homosexuality came in 1967.
RAT KING
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Leake Street Arches
- 28th Feb - 5th Mar 2023
Kelly wants change.
A Doll's House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Questors Theatre
- 24th Feb - 4th Mar 2023
This striking reimaging of Ibsen’s classic play is set in Calcutta during British colonialist rule.
Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 23rd - 26th Feb 2023
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
It's a Motherf**king Pleasure
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 21st - 26th Feb 2023
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
House of Burlesque: Glitter Ball
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground Lates
- 18th Feb 2023
Come and party with the UK’s top burlesque diva’s in an epic carnival of costumes, cocktails, glitter encrusted chaos.
The Wholly Divided Trinity Conspiracy of Queen Elizabeth (Near Dublin) - Act 1 of 2
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 16th Feb 2023
We Wrote This Before She Died Disco Trolley Productions A story of two friends, two timelines, one all-powerful wizard, one magical trolley, six Anne Hathaways, and as m…
House of Burlesque: PoliTITS
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 14th - 19th Feb 2023
Holding up a glitter encrusted mirror to the crazy times we are currently living in, top UK trailblaizers House of Burlesque bring you PoliTITs - a sizzling, showgirl satire of con…
Professor Slug's House of Bugs
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 12th Feb 2023
Professor Slug’s House of Bugs is a show all about bugs.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 10th - 11th Feb 2023
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
Henry Moss: Henry Queen of Squats
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 7th - 8th Feb 2023
Nominated for Best Comedy at the 2019 Brighton Fringe, queer Australian comedian Henry Moss brings HENRY: QUEEN OF SQUATS to VAULT.
The House Of Naked
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground Lates
- 3rd Feb 2023
In NAKEDpresents hedonistic utopia expect a cabaret that fuses drag icons, cabaret greats & circus legends into one queer spellbinding show.
God Save the Queen
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 30th Jan - 27th Mar 2023
A night of Drag from the sweetest Drag Queen in London the beautiful Topsie RedfernTicket price includes a complimentary glass of bubbles & line of white or black snuff.
The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 26th Jan 2023
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, …
Drag King 101 [online] - a Zoom workshop with Dorian T. Fisk
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Online Event
- 17th Jan 2023
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…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 16th Jan 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 3rd - 28th Jan 2023
The Royal Court Christmas show is back baby and it's deffo not for kids!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I’d go every night this week if I could" Liverpool Ech…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Dec 2022
FESTIVE DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! And they drop at 8!(I’ve tried make it festive, basically we’re pl…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Pantomime
- London Fringe
- Applecart Arts
- 16th Dec 2022 - 2nd Jan 2023
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, there’s some GIANT fun coming to East London this December! Join Jack, Jill and a whole host of their hilarious friends as they climb up the beanstalk to Applecart…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Palladium
- 10th Dec 2022 - 15th Jan 2023
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum A GIANT panto comes to The London Palladium! This Christmas join comedy superstars Dawn French and Julian Clary as they lead the cast of a brand-new production of Jac…
Jack and the Beanstalk - Lyric Hammersmith
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 2nd Dec 2022 - 7th Jan 2023
Join us in 2022 for the gigantic return of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 28th Nov 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Scottish Ballet - The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh
- Multiple Venues
- 26th Nov, 2022
Magic, glitter, snowflake fairies, Jack Frosts, snow wolves and innocent love winning out, what more could you want? Circus acts, Romani travellers? A revival of its 2019 productio…
The Scouse Jack & The Beanstalk
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 11th Nov 2022 - 21st Jan 2023
The Royal Court Christmas show is back baby! You want stupid jokes? We’ve got ’em.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 31st Oct 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
One Night of Queen - Gary Mullen & The Works
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 28th Oct 2022
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN Performed by GARY MULLEN AND THE WORKS In 2000, Gary Mullen won ITV’s “Stars In Their Eyes” Live Grand Final, with the larges…
Stage Write Open House
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Oct 2022
Are you a writer who is interested in having your work produced? Join us for Stage Write Open House where producers, writers and course participants will be giving …
SUGGS What a King Cnut – A Life in The Realm Of Madness
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 10th Oct 2022
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.
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- 22 Hope St / Watford Museum
- 2nd Oct 2022 - 3rd Mar 2023
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…
House of Flamenka
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Peacock Theatre London
- 27th Sep 2022 - 28th Oct 2023
House of Flamenka is lavish, extravagant and sexy.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Sep 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
On A House Like A Fire
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 5th - 6th Sep 2022
On A House Like A Fire is a powerful story told through fragments and glimpses - an immersive experience about the nature of memory and the way we remember.
King of More: A Divination
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 27th - 28th Aug 2022
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
Jamali Maddix: King Crud
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th - 27th Aug 2022
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 …
Kitti + Support From Hope City House Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hope City
- 25th Aug 2022
Glaswegian singer/songwriter with soaring vocals and unique lyrics.
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kate Nora
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 27th Aug, 2022
Fern Brady is here to speak for autistic women who happen to be hot – selflessly giving a voice to the voiceless (or just a very specific group that might not have thought to ide…
Death of an Author
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
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…
Riss Obolensky: Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2022
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Ghost Quartet by Dave Malloy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 22nd Aug, 2022
Smashing Cabinets Theatre’s adaptation of Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet is ghost-like and haunting, confusing at times, but generally falls somewhere between the mysteriousness o…
Dave Johns: A Comic's Tale
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 16th - 27th Aug 2022
Spending well over half his life as a much-loved stand-up comic, the award-winning star of Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake returns to Edinburgh for one last time with the show he’s alw…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Aug 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Mason King – Mind Games
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
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…
Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th - 28th Aug 2022
Winner: Comedian’s Comedian, Chortle Awards (2020).
Will Nuclear War Affect House Prices?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 12th Aug 2022
In 1983 schoolboy Michael delivered a petition on a homemade cruise missile to Mrs Thatcher.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 28th Aug 2022
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Jack Badcock
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 11th Aug 2022
Veteran performer, singer and guitarist, Jack Badcock, toured extensively on four continents, predominantly as frontman and founding member of renowned world-folk band Dallahan.
Dream of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 10th - 26th Aug 2022
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
Neil Frost: Nan's House of Fun
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 9th - 13th Aug 2022
What’s just happened in the corridor? A comedy inspired by childhood dreams and final goodbyes.
Jack Absolute Flies Again
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Olivier Theatre
- 15th Aug - 3rd Sep 2022
July 1940.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macfarlane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Mono Restaurant
- 13th Aug, 2022
As I take my seat in Mono Restaurant for Drag Queen Wine Tasting, I’m immediately struck by how professional everything looks.
Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 23rd Aug 2022
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.
Escape from the House of Mercy
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Arthur Conan Doyle Centre / Stockbridge Church
- 7th - 8th Aug 2022
Escape from the House of Mercy is a dance/theatre work which looks at institutions which have compromised the rights of women in the past and the present through the buried stories…
Queen Killers – The We Will Rock You Tribute Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 5th - 24th Aug 2022
A celebration of Queen songs performed by four of the UK’s most talented singers and dancers in a tribute to the musical We Will Rock You.
Gayatri: The Royal Queen Consort of the Majapahit Kingdom
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 5th Aug 2022
Princess Gayatri seeks to preserve her father’s legacy and the survival of her people.
Queen of Fishtown
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
A character comedy set in Philadelphia about struggling to maintain one’s authenticity while facing inevitable change.
Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
Have you ever wondered where the divas go, in between getting married or getting killed, night after night at the opera house? Madame Chandelier’s Opera House Party, of course.
The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 5th Aug 2022
France 1789.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
BOLD HOUSE Productions presents The Wasp
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Tom Henry, Jack Hester: Tom and Jack Having the Craic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Two rising stars of the UK stand-up circuit banging out jokes and stories on topics as diverse as relationships, religion, politics, health and the human condition.
Dave Chawner: Underdog
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A timely show about dogs, defeat and determination by award-winning comedian, best-selling author and underdog, Dave Chawner.
Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide to Life
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She.
Make Me Your Queen
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Game changer of an act Sam Serrano showcases their trademark self-deprecating and dark style in their debut show, Make Me Your Queen.
Jack Gleadow: Jack's Entertainment
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
The Leicester Mercury Champion and multi award-winner, Jack Gleadow returns to the Fringe with more old-school comedy for the modern age.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A show about mental health, not just mental illness.
Drag Queen Wine Tasting
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Mono Restaurant
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Start your day with a campatious event fuelled by quality wine, a tasty snack and some low tone.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A show about mental health, not just mental illness.
Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Teacher-by-trade Jack’s guide to everything the classroom may throw at you.
BOLD HOUSE Productions presents The Wasp
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2022
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Dave Cerwonka: FFS
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
It’s comedian, idiot, writer and voice actor Cerwonka’s Fringe debut.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 18th Aug, 2022
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
Ciarán Dowd: King Rodolfo
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
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.
Nightlands by Jack MacGregor
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 14th Aug 2022
Nightlands is a play about how authoritarianism weaponises nostalgia, about Russia today.
Jack Barry: Don't Happy Be Worry
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandemic to heal your soul like a hearty dose of medicinal magic mushrooms.
Jack Docherty: Nothing But
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 3rd - 19th Aug 2022
Jack Docherty, BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, returns to the festival with a tender, playful, darkly comic tale, where he grapples with lost youth, love, fa…
Jeena Bloom: The Homecoming Queen
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
This is the funny and sad story store of one transgender woman’s journey through America from both sides of the gender line.
The Queen's Cartoonists
- Review
- ★★★
- Scott Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 7th Aug, 2022
Six Players.
Willy’s Lil Virgin Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C digital
- 1st - 5th Aug 2022
Award-winning actress and playwright Terra Taylor Knudson uses wit, anecdotes, and creative conjecture to weave Shakespeare’s works into her own coming-of-age story, and illustra…
Apocalypse Live with Professor Jack Darcy
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- The Assembly Rooms Theatre
- 27th Jul 2022
‘An x-rated musical-comedy TED talk about the end of human civilisation’.
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 27th - 29th Jul 2022
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…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Jul 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
House Of Chavis
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The Flea Theater
- 13th Jul - 6th Aug 2022
A man confronts his notions of masculinity and fatherhood as he decides to record a video message to his estranged son, who is competing in a reality TV show… for drag queens! In…
HEATWAVE HOUSE PARTY: Penge Festival Closing Event
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 9th Jul 2022
Celebrate the closing of the 2022 Penge Festival with the Heatwave House Party at The Bridge House!An all day party downstairs in the pub with special live music sets in our theatr…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 27th Jun 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
A Doll's House, Part 2
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Donmar Warehouse
- 10th - 15th Jun 2022
By Lucas Hnath There's a knock at the door.
Blue House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Blue Elephant Theatre
- 7th - 25th Jun 2022
“Have you ever felt so sad you thought you’d never be happy again?” Charles, Billie and Alex live in the same house but they never see each other.
Disney’s The Lion King (UK Tour)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 9th Jun, 2022
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 …
The Last King of Porn
- Review
- ★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 5th Jun, 2022
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
The Last King of Porn
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2022
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.
For Queen And Country
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th May 2022
For Queen And Country tells the remarkable true story of Major Denis Rake MC, as seen on the BBC2 programme, “Secret Agent Selection: WW2”.
For Queen And Country
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th May 2022
For Queen And Country tells the remarkable true story of Major Denis Rake MC, as seen on the BBC2 programme, “Secret Agent Selection: WW2”.
Killer Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 27th - 29th May 2022
Killer Queen is a dark, psychological drama, set against a backdrop of political upheaval, civil unrest and the fight for equality in late twentieth-century Britain.
Killer Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 27th - 29th May 2022
Killer Queen is a dark, psychological drama, set against a backdrop of political upheaval, civil unrest and the fight for equality in late twentieth-century Britain.
Jack Barry: Sexy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandem to heal your soul.
Jack Barry: Sexy (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandem to heal your soul.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 22nd May, 2022
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 21st - 22nd May 2022
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: Lizard King
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 20th - 21st May 2022
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
King of the Swingers
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 20th May 2022
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.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May 2022
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 8th - 29th May 2022
Teacher by trade Jack Harris brings his guide on how to deal with everything the classroom throws at you.
Jack Harris: Teaching Teachers How To Teach (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 8th - 29th May 2022
Teacher by trade Jack Harris brings his guide on how to deal with everything the classroom throws at you.
Jack the Ripper: My Life as a Suspect
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 19th Jun 2021 - 5th Jun 2022
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Jack the Ripper: My Life as a Suspect
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 8th May 2022
Get out of the opera house and into the ‘Opera House Party’ with Madame Chandelier! She’s got jokes, party games, and she’s invited all her favourite opera characters.
Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 7th - 8th May 2022
Get out of the opera house and into the ‘Opera House Party’ with Madame Chandelier! She’s got jokes, party games, and she’s invited all her favourite opera characters.
Dave Chawner: Underdog
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th May 2021 - 5th Jun 2022
A timely show about dogs, defeat and determination by award-winning comedian, best-selling author, presenter and underdog Dave Chawner.
Dave Chawner: Underdog
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
A timely show about dogs, defeat and determination by award-winning comedian, best-selling author, presenter and underdog Dave Chawner.
Alfie Ordinary's House Of Fun
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May 2022
Brighton’s award winning Drag Prince Alfie Ordinary presents a night of glittering chaos as he welcomes the silliest Spiegeltent stage.
Dave Fensome: Dog Eat Dog (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2022
After his sell-out run here last year with his debut show ‘ADHDave’, local comedian Dave Fensome returns to Caroline of Brunswick with his latest work ‘Dog Eat Dog’.
Dave Fensome: Dog Eat Dog (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2022
After his sell-out run here last year with his debut show ‘ADHDave’, local comedian Dave Fensome returns to Caroline of Brunswick with his latest work ‘Dog Eat Dog’.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 25th Apr 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Vault Unlocked: Dave Bibby Remakes Jurassic Park While Trying To Bring Up A Baby
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 16th Apr 2022
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.
Abi’s House Party
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Watford Palace Theatre
- 6th - 7th Apr 2022
With mum Sue across the road at the neighbour’s 70s themed soiree, rebellious teenage daughter Abi is left to host a party of her own.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st Mar 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th Feb 2022
Following a sold out tour across Europe and Australia in 2019 and her most recent BBC stand up special Power & Chaos, Fern Brady brings her fifth solo show Brain o…
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 18th Feb 2022
Following a sold out tour across Europe and Australia in 2019 and her most recent BBC stand up special Power & Chaos, Fern Brady brings her fifth solo show Brain o…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Theatre
- West End
We are full of beans to announce that the “the doyen of dames” (The Times) Clive Rowe returns to Hackney Empire this year for a sparkling new panto adventure! When happ…
The Queen of Hearts
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 27th Nov, 2021
When Mark Twain said the only two certainties in life were death and taxes, he clearly hadn’t accounted for Andrew Pollard and the Greenwich team knocking out a cracking panto.
For Queen And Country
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 8th Nov, 2021
Writer/Director Paul Stone has unearthed a gem of World War II history and transformed it into a delightful monologue, now on stage at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington.
Queen’s County
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 29th Oct 2021
Queen’s County is the work on offer from Crooked House’s young Irish ensemble in Kildare Youth Theatre.
The Sugar House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Finborough Theatre
- 15th Nov, 2021
Australian playwright Alana Valentine makes her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre with The Sugar House, in its first production outside of her home country, where it was nominat…
Simply The Breast - Drag King Fundraiser
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Old Nuns Head
- 8th Oct 2021
SIMPLY THE BREAST - Drag King Fundraiser The m*n, the myth, the legend, Jamie Fuxx, is undergoing some gender affirming surgery this October.
Rat King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2021
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Online Event
- 1st Oct 2021
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…
Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- Phoenix Arts Club
- 26th Sep 2021
Whether you love opera, or need to know more so you can pretend you do, Madame Chandelier’s OPERA HOUSE PARTY is the place for you.
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Half Moon Theatre
- 25th - 25th Sep 2021
Fee Fi Fo Fum! It’s a giant of a show, we’d love you to come! This classic fairytale now gets the Lyngo Theatre treatment so expect lots of surprises and beautiful images as…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Earls Court
- 25th Sep 2021
Maggie returns in her smash hit drag extravaganza! Following four sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Iron Lady is back and more fabulous than ever.
Sunday Social with Dave Lynn and Karla Bear
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- 19th Sep 2021
SUNDAY SOCIAL WITH DAVE LYNN AND KARLA BEAR PLUS LIMITED FREE TICKETS FOR RVT MEMBERSThis Sunday we welcome to The RVT the drag legend that is Dave Lynn and the amazing Karla Bear,…
Garage Vs. House - RM Events x Aquum (Pre-Pride Party)
- Listing
- London Fringe
- Aquum
- 10th Sep 2021
RM Events is proud to announce our new collaboration with Aquum Bar Clapham! Do you like house? Do you like garage? Or do you just want an excuse to party before pride?RM Even…
Queer House Party: URL/IRL ft. Bitten Peach and Nite Dykez
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Garage
- 10th Sep 2021
WE’RE LIVE, WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE SO READDDDDY.
Online Tickets: Queer House Party: URL/IRL ft. Bitten Peach and Nite Dykez
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Online Event
- 10th Sep 2021
WE’RE LIVE, WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE SO READDDDDY.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- TriBeCa Manchester
- 7th Sep - 5th Oct 2021
As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- TriBeCa Manchester
- 7th Sep - 5th Oct 2021
As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- TriBeCa Manchester
- 7th Sep - 5th Oct 2021
As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- TriBeCa Manchester
- 7th Sep - 5th Oct 2021
As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s.
Dreamgun Film Reads Kids: The Lion King
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Earls Court
- 5th Sep 2021
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Jack Dee: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 27th - 29th Aug 2021
Join Jack Dee as he takes to the road to warm up ahead of continuing his UK tour.
The Lion King Movie Night
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Clapham Grand
- 26th Aug 2021
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…
#Dave Alnwick: Super Chill Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider
- 25th - 29th Aug 2021
The perfect afternoon show.
Wellness Workshop with Jordan Jack Turner
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Friends House
- 24th Aug 2021
Workshop overview:Jordans aim is to offer all-inclusive mindful approach to health and wellness that take into account your mental health, your physical health, your emotional heal…
Karine Polwart with Dave Milligan
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Old College Quad
- 22nd Aug 2021
Legendary singer-songwriter Karine Polwart returns to the International Festival in a special performance with jazz pianist and composer Dave Milligan.
House of Hundred
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 20th Aug 2021
A unique take on the transition from the Ottoman Empire’s period to the Republican era through the story of an old mansion and its demolition.
Lonely House
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Old College Quad
- 20th - 21st Aug 2021
Join Barrie Kosky and Katharine Mehrling in an intimate soirée and discover the songs of German composer Kurt Weill.
HENRY: QUEEN OF SQUATS
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 19th - 20th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe, renaissance man, “Mr Henry Moss takes you into his world of deluded celebrity and he does it with charm and talent” (The Latest �…
HENRY: QUEEN OF SQUATS
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 19th - 20th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe, renaissance man, “Mr Henry Moss takes you into his world of deluded celebrity and he does it with charm and talent” The Latest ★…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Garrick Theatre
- 19th - 21st Aug 2021
James Seabright by arrangement with Áine Flanagan presents Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho.
'Selfish' Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King!
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Friends House
- 17th Aug 2021
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…
My House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hilton Carlton (Edinburgh)
- 16th - 20th Aug 2021
What secret did the Chaplins, Carole Lombard, William Powell and a host of other film stars from the last century share? Witness the mystery unravel in one of the most notorious ho…
Jim And Dave Have Lost The Dressing Room
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
Jim And Dave Have Lost The Dressing Room
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
Jim And Dave Have Lost The Dressing Room
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, "Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bibby (Comedy Central, BBC Radio 4, &ldq…
Margaret Thatcher Queen Of Soho
- Review
- ★★★★
- Isla Whateley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 14th Aug, 2021
Perfect for fans of disco, politics, and drag (this Venn diagram overlaps more than you'd think), Margaret Thatcher becomes transformed into a cabaret Soho star in this hilario…
Jack Docherty – Nothing But
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 11th - 29th Aug 2021
Jack Docherty, the BAFTA award-winning star of Scot Squad and Absolutely, and one of Scotland’s favourite comic performers, returns to the festival with a tender, playful, darkly c…
Bard Heads: The Queen's Speech and Happy as Larry
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Georgian House
- 10th - 14th Aug 2021
The Queen’s Speech: Miranda’s revels now are ending, but island life looks such fun! 35 years after Miranda and her father Prospero left their island at the end of The Tempest, the…
#Dave Alnwick: Exceptional Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait
- 9th - 29th Aug 2021
Fringe legend Dave Alnwick performs exceptional magic.
#Dave Alnwick: Super Chill Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Pilgrim
- 9th - 24th Aug 2021
The perfect afternoon show.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Caba-Cray! With Crayola the Queen
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 7th Aug - 17th Sep 2021
She’s baaaaack! Join Crayola, London’s Queen of Colour, for another turn in The Glorys Cabaret Lounge with an evening of feel good songs, lots of LOLs, and all that trademark Cray-…
Jack the Ripper: My Life as a Suspect
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House / Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 7th - 23rd Aug 2021
In this show, I Robert Inston(is), narrate as informatively as I am able, on the mythology that surrounds the murders in Whitechapel in 1888.
Gayatri the Royal Queen Consort of the Majapahit Kingdom
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 6th Aug 2021
Follow Princess Gayatri from the Singhasari Kingdom evolve and blossom as she strives to attain her youthful dreams alongside preserving the long-time legacy of her deceased father…
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 6th - 28th Aug 2021
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
King John: A Theatrical Film
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Online@theSpaceUK
- 6th - 9th Aug 2021
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside The Conan Doyle Pub
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 13th Aug 2021
France 1789.
My House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 6th Aug 2021
What secret did the Chaplins, Carole Lombard, William Powell and a host of other film stars from the last century share? Witness the mystery unravel in one of the most notorious ho…
Drag Queen Story Hour
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 4th - 8th Aug 2021
Let’s get fabulous! An interactive and inclusive storytime like no other storytime you will ever be involved with! Are you sitting comfortably? Why? Get on your feet and let’s read…
Jack Hoosie and the Leisuregroan
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre / The Water Rats
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2021
Meet Jack Hoosie, manager of South Yorkshire’s 3rd Most Hygenic Gay Sauna (1997).
Jack Hoosie and the Leisure Groan
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Water Rats
- 2nd - 4th Aug 2021
Meet Jack Hoosie, manager of South Yorkshire’s 3rd Most Hygenic Sauna (1997).
Jack Hoosie and the Leisure Groan
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Water Rats
- 2nd - 4th Aug 2021
Meet Jack Hoosie, manager of South Yorkshire’s 3rd Most Hygenic Sauna (1997).
Groovie Thursdays with Lucien Jack
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Grove Bar & Restaurant
- 15th Jul - 30th Sep 2021
Every Thursday, from 7.
Elf Lyons's House of Horrors
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 5th Jul 2021
Join the bloody funny Elf Lyons for an evening of ghouls, ghosts and gruesome tales of terror as we celebrate all things terrifying, Comedians, drag artists, poets, live artists.
EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 25th - 26th Jun 2021
Nine-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winner.
EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 25th - 26th Jun 2021
Nine-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winner.
Elf Lyons's House of Horrors
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 20th Jun 2021
Join the bloody funny Elf Lyons for an evening of ghouls, ghosts and gruesome tales of terror as we celebrate all things terrifying, Comedians, drag artists, poets, live artists.
Jack the Ripper: My Life as a Suspect
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 22nd Jun, 2021
Whenever we think of Jack the Ripper, immediately we think back to Whitechapel and his gruesome victims.
Alfie Ordinary's House of Fun
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 16th Jun 2021
Brighton’s award winning Drag Prince Alfie Ordinary presents an hour of glittering chaos as he welcomes the silliest Spiegeltent stage.
Alfie Ordinary's House of Fun
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 16th Jun 2021
Brighton’s award winning Drag Prince Alfie Ordinary presents an hour of glittering chaos as he welcomes the silliest Spiegeltent stage.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Miller
- 15th Jun 2021
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
The Secrets of Jack Roulette
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 15th - 17th Jun 2021
A mysterious package, a private investigator, and a night club performer trapped in a hell of his own making.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
The Secrets of Jack Roulette
- Review
- ★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 17th Jun, 2021
Imagine the setting.
Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 11th - 13th Jun 2021
How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 11th - 14th Jun 2021
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…
Charmian Hughes: She! Immortal Horror Queen's Guide To Love
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 11th - 13th Jun 2021
How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 11th - 14th Jun 2021
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…
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 15th Jun, 2021
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Bruce: Death of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 7th - 13th Jun 2021
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 …
Bruce: Death of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 7th - 13th Jun 2021
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 …
Alyssa, Memoirs of a Queen!
- Listing Theatre
- West End
London, are you prepared? For one week only, experience the magic of Alyssa Edwards as she sashays her way into London’s glittering West End from 7 – 13 June! From youn…
Dave The Bear: The Big Hairy Growler
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th Jun 2021
The Man.
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 6th - 13th Jun 2021
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.
Drama King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 8th Jun, 2021
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
Dave The Bear: The Big Hairy Growler
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th Jun 2021
The Man.
King Jamsheed: Lonely Piano
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 30th May - 12th Jul 2021
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Drag Queen Bingo & Cabaret every Saturday afternoon
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 29th May - 20th Nov 2021
Bingo to dream about & prizes from your worst nightmare with Wilma Ballsdrop, Topsie Redfern, Ruby Violet & Paul CosmicTicket link
Saturday Night Diva - Drag Queen DJs with attitude
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 29th May - 18th Dec 2021
The West End’s only sit down disco with London’s best drag diva DJs playing camp classics all nightTicket link
King Jamsheed: Lonely Piano
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming / St George’s Church
- 29th May - 28th Jun 2021
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
The Old House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
Memory, loss, mother-daughter relationships and the hokey-cokey.
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
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…
The Old House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Memory, loss, mother-daughter relationships and the hokey-cokey.
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
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…
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
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…
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
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…
There's A Ghost In My House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 28th May - 3rd Jun 2021
TV paranormal shows are misleading at best, fake at worst.
There's A Ghost In My House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 31st May, 2021
Reality and fiction fuse in this interesting piece focusing on the paranormal world, as a TV editor called Sam struggles to accept where the lines of reality lie when asked to chan…
Dave Chawner: Underdog
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 28th May - 20th Jun 2021
A timely show about dogs, defeat and determination by award-winning comedian, best-selling author, presenter and underdog Dave Chawner.
On A House Like A Fire
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 21st May 2021
On A House Like a Fire by Michelle Read and Brian Keegan, presented by Age & Opportunity/BEALTAINE in association with Smock Alley Theatre and Droichead Arts Centre…
House Mother Normal
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- 6 Dukes Lane
- 17th - 31st May 2021
Ron, Rosetta, Ivy, Charlie, Gloria, Sarah, Sioned and George.
House Mother Normal
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- 6 Dukes Lane
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2021
A digital installation inspired by BS Johnson’s celebrated novel, directed by Tim Crouch.
House Mother Normal
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
Ron, Rosetta, Ivy, Charlie, Sioned and George.
SUGGS: KING CNUT, A LIFE IN THE REALM OF MADNESS
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 23rd Apr 2021
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
Create your own wooden house sign
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 19th Mar 2021
£7510am-3pmSuitable for ages 18+This workshop is all about signage onto rustic wooden planks that will be prepared for you.
The House Never Wins
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- Harrow Arts Centre
- 12th - 13th Mar 2021
We could all do with a distraction.
The House Never Wins
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- Cambridge Junction / The Place Theatre
- 11th - 25th Mar 2021
Kill The Cat Theatre invites you to play what seems to be a simple game of blackjack in the “The House”.
Royal Opera House: Macbeth
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 9th - 9th Feb 2021
This event has been rescheduled from Tue 17 November 2020.
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: THE NUTCRACKER (ENCORE)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 29th Dec 2020
This film is a socially distanced film.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2020
What is magic, really? Is it an evil enchantress who can freeze a person in ice? Is it a crow who can talk? Or is it seeing dozens of little faces light up with joy? The Snow Queen…
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Pump House Theatre
- 8th - 9th Oct 2020
“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…
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 1st - 7th Sep 2020
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
The House Is on Fire
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
It’s 2086.
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Mason King – Mind Reader: Sleight of Time
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall / theSpace on North Bridge
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
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…
Coburg House Festival Exhibition
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Coburg House Art Studios
- 8th - 30th Aug 2020
A showcase exhibition from the 70+ residents of the buzzing Coburg House studio complex.
Jack the Ripper: Mary Kelly
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 8th - 14th Aug 2020
August 1888, London sees the first of five brutal murders, the callous cruelty of which sends shock waves far and wide and etches the name of the most infamous serial killer into t…
The Little Glass Slipper as Performed by the Queen of France and Her Friends
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 7th - 31st Aug 2020
France 1789.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Drag Queen Story Hour
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Are you sitting comfortably kids? It’s time for Drag Queen Story Hour – an interactive storytime like no other! Join in on the interactive fun with sing songs, stories and lots a…
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
The House Never Wins
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- Electric Dreams Online Festival
- 30th Jul - 15th Aug 2020
A NEW INTERACTIVE GAME THEATRE PIECE THAT YOU CAN PLAY FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME.
The House Never Wins
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- Online on Zoom
- 12th - 23rd May 2020
PLUMMETING INSECT NUMBERS.
All The King’s Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th Feb 2020
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
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th Feb 2020
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
MANDEMIC: A DRAG KING CABARET
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Omnibus
- 28th Feb 2020
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
Boublil and Schonberg's The Pirate Queen - A Charity Concert
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 23rd Feb 2020
Based on the story of Grace O’Malley, the personification of Ireland, The Pirate Queen is a sweeping epic of love, honor, and piracy in Renaissance Ireland.
Dave Chappelle
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 10th - 20th Feb 2020
The internationally recognized stand-up comedian and actor’s trademark wit and sharp, irreverent social commentary explores race, popular culture, sex, drugs, poli…
Kunene and the King
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Ambassadors Theatre.
- 30th Jan - 28th Mar 2020
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 …
MagicFest - Hogmanay House
- Listing Magic
- Edinburgh
- Lauriston Castle
- 2nd - 5th Jan 2020
A charming New Year’s night of music, mischief, tall tales and magic from around the country, brought to life here at Lauriston Castle.
The Snow Queen
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Rose Theatre Kingston
- 20th Dec 2019 - 5th Jan 2020
Tucked away in a long forgotten corner of the city is an orphanage.
Dave Elliott: DAD
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Dec 2019
DAD is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Irish Comedian Dave Elliott.
Scottish Ballet: The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2019
A wintry tale of fire and ice where selfless love wins, The Snow Queen, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, is a dangerous journey encountering bandits and snow creatures.
The Snow Queen
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Albany Theatre
- 9th - 28th Dec 2019
A glittering, seasonal spectacle packed with epic adventure, spell-binding magic, action-packed excitement and heart-warming friendship.
Jack and The Beanstalk
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Theatre Peckham
- 4th - 20th Dec 2019
Olivier-nominated and award-winning playwright Paul Sirett (REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, THE BIG LIFE, RAT PAT CONFIDENTIAL) imagines one of the most treasured and classic children’s …
Whitney - Queen of the Night
- Listing Music
- West End
- Savoy Theatre
- 1st - 15th Dec 2019
Stage sensation Whitney - Queen of the Night will return to London’s Savoy Theatre for two festive special performances – following its sold out West End debut there this year.
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 5th - 9th Nov 2019
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company Presents Liz Lochhead’s 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 1st Nov, 2019
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an intensely Irish play set in the wilds of Connemara, premiered locally by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway in 1996.
Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Duchess Theatre
- 28th Oct 2019
Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards are in the heart of the West End for three shows only.
The House of The Spirits / La Casa de Los Espíritus
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Cervantes Theatre
- 17th Nov, 2019
The mission of the Cervantes Theatre “to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London” is strikingly realised in its closing play of the 2019 season that featur…
Luke Kempner: House of Faces
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 25th Oct 2019
Comedian and Impressionist Luke Kempner hosts an ultimate reality show where no one is off limits.
Luke Kempner: House of Faces
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 25th Oct 2019
Comedian and Impressionist Luke Kempner hosts an ultimate reality show where no one is off limits.
Mercury - Queen The Legend Lives On...2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 18th Oct 2019
Mercury - Queen The Legend Lives On.
King of Pop - The Legend Continues
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 12th Oct 2019
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…
Carole: The Music of Carole King
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Oct 2019
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…
Carole: The Music of Carole King
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Oct 2019
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…
A Doll's House
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith / Playhouse Theatre
- 7th Sep 2019 - 5th Sep 2020
Calcutta.
Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th Aug 2019
The UK’s first and premier award for celebrating live comedy.
Acoustic Queen
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 24th Aug 2019
Returning after three very successful years at Edinburgh Fringe (AMC sell-out award winners in 2016, 2017, 2018), The Boyds premiere their new show, Acoustic Queen, perhaps their m…
Jack Carroll and Friends
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre
- 19th - 25th Aug 2019
Join the star of Live at the Apollo, Sunday Night at the Palladium and Britain’s Got Talent as he and some of his comedian friends try out new material.
Adventures of a Trip Advisor Seaside Guest house keeper
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- The Water Rats
- 18th Aug 2019
A One Woman Comedy show, with a dark twist.
Queen Mary Comedy Society and Friends
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller
- 18th - 25th Aug 2019
Award-winning, rising stars from QM Comedy Society and the London comedy circuit deliver an hour full of social commentary and silliness.
Questions for Quiz Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2019
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Jonathan Hipkiss – At Least We're Out the House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 15th - 26th Aug 2019
Nominated for Best New Show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
Queen of the Mist
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 15th Aug - 5th Oct 2019
Pint of Wine Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen Of The Mist comes to the Charing Cross Theatre for a strictly limited seven-week se…
Jottings from the Queen of Sheba
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Patrick’s Church
- 14th - 25th Aug 2019
Three thousand years ago, the Queen of Sheba travelled with a huge entourage and wealthy gifts to listen to King Solomon’s wisdom.
The First King of England in a Dress
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Shreds – The Jack the Ripper Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 10th - 17th Aug 2019
Whitechapel, 1888.
The Silent House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 10th - 11th Aug 2019
A man and a woman are living in a refugee camp.
Pink House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 10th - 26th Aug 2019
Peri is fifteen when her adopted mother dies.
Anthony Jeannot: I Want To Buy A House (Camden Fringe)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 5th - 7th Aug 2019
I feel ripped off, and frankly you should too.
The King of Ghosts: Zhong Kui
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 5th Aug 2019
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex
- 4th - 24th Aug 2019
Comedian Mary Houlihan tells the true (fake) story of her torrid romance with 82-year-old actor Jack Nicholson.
#Dave Alnwick: Good Morning, Magic.
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
If you’re looking for a fun & overall solid start to your day, this is your show.
Arson in the Queen's Swans
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Free Fringe founder and Comedy Awards Panel Prize winner (2009) PBH returns after illness to serve up waffle, scrud, bilge, tosh and gibbering drivel.
Stunt Magician – Danger Dave Reubens
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bar Bados Complex / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Back with more outrageous stunts, jaw-dropping magic and crazy comedy in a new hour-long show that will have you on the edge of your seat and howling with laughter.
Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y
- Review
- ★★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Globe Bar
- 18th Aug, 2019
Dave Bibby is a multi-talented comedian who crosses into many genres, and his award nominated show (for its poster design) Crazy Cat Lad-y is something of a one-man variety perform…
Jim and Dave Have Lost the Dressing Room
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma
- 3rd - 12th Aug 2019
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim and Dave perform a comedy show about the beautiful game.
Drag Queen Stole My Dress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
This one time I got a pre-emptive divorce.
Jack Barry: Alien
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Your best friend (and acclaimed stand-up) Jack Barry is worried about you.
Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Southsider
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Squeeze in with two talented up-and-coming comedians.
Evil Queen Rules!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
The evil queen usually gets bad press, but not in this show.
#Dave Alnwick: Literally the Best Magician
- Review
- ★★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 10th Aug, 2019
Dave Alnwick, a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe magic circuit, is one of the more visually striking performers you're likely to see here.
#Dave Alnwick: Actual Magic
- Review
- ★★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2019
Dave Alnwick is a true magician’s magician, with many strings to his bow.
Momo and the Inevitable Decay of the House in the Forest
- Review
- ★★★
- Beverly Sproats
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 6th Aug, 2019
Whether you bought a ticket for the slightly unnerving image design or for the sheer length of the title, you would be forgiven for rethinking your choice once you notice a dauntin…
Psycho Drama Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
When he is attacked on the street, drag performer Anthony, aka Theresa Mayhem, has a choice to make; does he repress the trauma and become a reality TV star? Or listen to his best …
Puppet King Richard II
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2019
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
Captain Jake and the Search for the Red Queen
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 18th Aug 2019
Join Captain Jake’s Crew as he takes you on a journey to the high seas in this historic adventure.
The Last King of Porn
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
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.
Mason King – Sleight of Mind
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2019
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.
Dream of a King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 9th Aug, 2019
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
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…
The Snow Queen
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 6th Aug 2019
Kay is playing with Gerda when a tear from the Snow Queen’s mirror becomes lodged in his eye, forcing all the thoughts that make him sad to become magnified.
Ivy Paige – Queen of the Swingers
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
It’s the cocktail hour, its cabaret o’clock! Starring international showgirl Ivy Paige! ‘Real-life Jessica Rabbit’ (Sun), with legendary pianist Pete Saunders (Dexys), she celebrat…
Bondage Queen Sings the Hits!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Join the ultimate mistress of mayhem, JoJo Bellini, as she takes you from the salacious to the sublime.
Ubu the King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 1st - 10th Aug 2019
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…
Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at Marlin’s Wynd
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
Shh! If you’re reading this, then you’ve been invited to Ladylikes Top Secret House Party! With all our friends getting engaged, promoted, pregnant and the odd OBE award, we fe…
Lucy Farrett: Lois
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 8th Aug, 2019
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…
Glamrou: From Quran to Queen
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
Drag sensation Glamrou battles to merge their queer identity and Islamic heritage.
Dave Green: Guest Bed
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he’s trying to find out why.
The House of Influenza: A Spooky Tale of Frighteningness
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Charteris Centre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Dracula can return to his crypt.
She Sells Sea Shells
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th Aug, 2019
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…
Who Is Daniel King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
A show about mental health (rather than mental illness).
Dave Fensome: ADHDave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Highly-tipped comic Dave Fensome makes his debut with a darkly comic journey through his life, re-framed through an ADHD diagnosis aged 42.
Jack Rooke: Love Letters
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
Dear reader, you may know me from such tragedies as Dead Dad (Radio 4’s Good Grief) and Dead Friend (BBC Three’s Happy Man) but this year I’m dead chuffed to perform comedy about s…
Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Following sell-out shows in New York, London and LA, award-winning comedian Zach Zucker returns with a new hour of absurdist stand-up! Important: Jack Tucker is a very funny stand-…
My Mate Dave Died
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 1st - 26th Aug 2019
When Dave dies and is sent back to the living, he is only visible to his best friend Jimmy.
House of Hundred
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 1st - 17th Aug 2019
This multimedia theatrical experience explores an old Istanbul mansion’s transition from Ottoman to modern eras, through video art and traditional Turkish music, live looping and…
Jack and Barney Are in the Background
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Jack Chisnall (BBC Radio 4 writer, ‘one of the best reviewed shows of Fringe 2018’ (Comedy.
Down with the Poetry King!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2019
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Review
- ★★★★
- Isla Whateley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 20th Aug, 2019
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Winner of Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after performing as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve in …
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 31st Jul - 17th Aug 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Dave Green: Guest Bed
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 28th Jul 2019
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he never knew why.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 23rd Jul 2019
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 21st Jul 2019
Winner of Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of The Year, Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after perfor…
Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat LAD-y
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 27th Jun 2019
Multi award-winning idiot, Dave Bibby, brings a brand new show of songs, stand up, characters, sketches and cat stories to The Museum of Comedy before setting sail for s…
Dave Hughes: Live
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th Jun 2019
There is no person more synonymous with the Australian comedy scene than Dave “Hughesy” Hughes.
King of Pop - starring NAVI
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 7th Jun 2019
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
Jack Stark: Tea, Bee, Sea
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2019
Full-time idiot Jack Stark hasn’t written this show.
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 26th - 27th May 2019
Fresh from Edinburgh Festival as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, this multi-award-winning comedian brings his debut show to Brighton Fringe.
Jack Cherry and Friends from the Fruit Bowl
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Crown Kemptown
- 22nd - 27th May 2019
‘Jack Cherry and Friends from the Fruit Bowl’ is a romp of bizarre happenings that explore the completely fabricated lives of the colourful and controversial.
Jack Tucker: Comedy Standup Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 21st - 27th May 2019
WINNER: Best Comedy - Brighton Fringe (Zach & Viggo) Fresh off sold-out shows in New York, London and LA, the bad boy of comedy Zach Zucker returns to Brighton with a brand new ho…
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 20th - 21st May 2019
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Dream of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 20th - 22nd May 2019
4 April 1968.
Bondage Queen Sings the Hits
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 20th - 26th May 2019
A cabaret show that takes you from the salacious to the sublime.
LADYLIKES: Top Secret House Party!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Pipeline
- 18th - 19th May 2019
‘Top Secret House Party!’ is the debut comedy hour from LADYLIKES, the hottest new sketch duo in town.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 17th - 19th May 2019
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
King Hedley II
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Theatre Royal Stratford East
- 17th May - 15th Jun 2019
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
Jack Cray: The Fittest Guy on the Street
- Review
- ★★★
- Sebastian Beaumont
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 18th May, 2019
Jack Cray is The Fittest Man On The Street.
Dave Chawner: The Pursuit of Happiness
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 11th - 27th May 2019
Dave is a number 1 bestselling author, he has presented for BBC, written for the Guardian, The Telegraph, Metro and Cosmopolitan and even got an award at The Houses Of Parliament f…
The Untimely Death Of Jack Chooselove
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 11th - 16th May 2019
Journalist Peyvand Khorsandi never intended to become an obituaries editor at The Independent, nor did he intend to work for the Daily Mail.
KING LEAR
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Lovat
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 12th May, 2019
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
Confessions of a Drag King
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 8th - 24th May 2019
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.
Dave Green: Guest Bed
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Howler
- 8th - 11th May 2019
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he never knew why.
The Evil Queen Rules!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 7th - 9th May 2019
The Evil Queen usually gets a bad press, but not in this show.
The King Of Pop
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th May 2019
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
The King Of Pop
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th May 2019
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
Jack Harris and Rajiv Karia: The Squeeze
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2019
Squeeze in with two talented up-and-coming comedians.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th May - 2nd Jun 2019
After a hugely successful run at last year’s Brighton Fringe, ‘Mental’ returns.
Andrew Pepper: House of Pepper
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 4th - 5th May 2019
Showman, story teller and clown, London cabaret star, Andrew Pepper (“barnstorming, no-holds barred, grab the audience by the goolies and give them everything you’ve got”, Ca…
Dave Chawner: C'est La Vegan
- Review
- ★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 29th May, 2019
Tickets for Dave Chawner: C’est La Vegan apparently went like hot cakes (or should that be like Greggs' vegan sausage rolls?) and as everyone packed into the bijou upstairs r…
Dave Fulton: Adapt, Adopt, Adapt Again
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 2nd - 29th May 2019
If I couldn’t be the father to a kid that came from me, how crazy would it be to have one that didn’t? In a country where I never felt like I belonged, I fou…
The Royal Opera House Live: Faust
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 30th Apr 2019
There are many versions of the story of Faust, who trades his soul with the Devil for youth and power, but Gounod’s opera remains one of the most constantly enthra…
Ultimate Tribute to Queen
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 26th Apr 2019
MAJESTY rose from the ashes of a professional touring Queen tribute band that came off the road in May 2011.
film maltings: The Kid Who Would Be King
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 18th - 18th Apr 2019
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
Jack the Ripper - ENO
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 30th Mar - 12th Apr 2019
The world premiere of Iain Bell’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel, following his critically-acclaimed In Parenthesis.
French Impressions: The House By The Sea (12A)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 16th Mar 2019
This month Jon Davies presents the latest film by Marselle-based Robert Guédugyuabm The House By The Sea, and looks at how French cinema has celebrated France&apo…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Half Moon Theatre
- 9th - 9th Mar 2019
Fee Fi Fo Fum! It’s a giant of a show, we’d love you to come! This classic fairytale now gets the Lyngo treatment so expect lots of surprises and beautiful images as CBeebie…
Queen C*nt Sacred or Profane?
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Watson
- Brighton
- The Marlborough Pub & Theatre
- 11th Mar, 2019
China Blue Fish and Deborah Antoinette first met at Bristol artist’s collective Co-resist where they bonded over a love of feminism, the environment and clowning (the two are bot…
JESSICA | Dancing Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 28th Feb - 2nd Mar 2019
JESSICAIt's hard to get out Dancing QueenI'll choose happiness every damn time JESSICA - WENDY ALICE ROSE CO.
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Secret Cosy Living (Address Revealed 24 Hours Before) / The Horse & Stables
- 23rd Feb - 9th Mar 2019
Sex! Fantasies! Voyeurism! Vacuuming!In the cosy atmosphere of London’s living rooms and untraditional spaces, Ethan is Coming Clean.
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Lee Memphis King 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Mary Queen of Scots (15)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 1st - 14th Feb 2019
Mary, Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart.
Mary Queen of Scots (15) - Parent and Baby
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 6th Feb 2019
Mary, Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart.
A Small House At The Edge Of The World
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 5th - 23rd Feb 2019
A Small House at the Edge of the World is the story of how one location captures and distills two lifetimes worth of love, joy and sorrow.
A Small House At The Edge Of The World
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 5th - 23rd Feb 2019
A Small House at the Edge of the World is the story of how one location captures and distills two lifetimes worth of love, joy and sorrow.
The Silent House - Dumfries Fringe 2019
- Listing Theatre
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 2nd Feb 2019
Something between two refugees gradually changes the shape of their relationship.
The House By The Sea (12A)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Watermans Art Centre
- 1st - 7th Feb 2019
Nominated for César Awards, France 2018 – Best Supporting Actress Winner of two Venice Film Festival Awards 2017 By a little bay near Marseilles lies a pict…
The Royal Opera House Live: The Queen of Spades
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 29th Jan 2019
In Tchaikovsky’s intense opera of obsession and the supernatural, Gherman is caught between the woman he loves and a destructive fixation.
NT ENCORE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 29th Jan 2019
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019
- Listing Puppetry
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 26th Jan 2019
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 18th Dec, 2018
When Jo Clifford ("proud father and grandmother") first performed her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, it attracted bo…
House of Jack Christmas Show
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh
- The Studio
- 4th Dec 2018
House of Jack is excited to present the first House of Jack Christmas Show! This street and urban dance show is jam-packed with dynamic performances from students of House of Jack...
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Pantomime
- USA Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 28th Nov 2018 - 6th Jan 2019
This actor musician version of the popular panto tale is peppered with pop hits from across the decades, bundles of audience participation and hilarious slapstick.
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Pantomime
- UK Regional & Tours
- Queen’s Theatre
- 28th Nov 2018 - 6th Jan 2019
This actor musician version of the popular panto tale is peppered with pop hits from across the decades, bundles of audience participation and hilarious slapstick.
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 11th Dec, 2018
What makes a "traditional" pantomime? It's certainly not just a case of blowing the dust off a 1970s panto script and hoping for the best; here, the Brunton’s now r…
King Crimson
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 3rd Nov 2018
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…
The Worm King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- Sweet Werks 2 - Werks Central
- 23rd Oct 2018
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
Jack Left Town: The Improvised Rockumentary
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Rosemary Branch Theatre
- 30th Sep - 16th Dec 2018
Jack Left Town are the greatest band in the world, the only hitch is that they never existed.
Dave Spikey: Juggling on a Motorbike (Charity Show)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Sep 2018
Dave had been working in the NHS for 19 years as a Biomedical Scientist when in 1988 someone uttered the immortal words, “You’re really funny, you should be …
A Show About Shows About Show Biz
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
My Mate Dave Died
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
When Dave dies and is sent back to the living, he is only visible to his best friend Jimmy.
Fats Waller Meets Dave Brubeck
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 16th - 18th Aug 2018
Award-winning pianist Richard Michael BEM imagines a meeting between two of the greatest pianists in the history of jazz piano – Fats Waller and Dave Brubeck.
Bendy House Improv
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Novotel
- 13th - 26th Aug 2018
Bendy House – an improv duo.
All Hail the Rat King!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
Queen of the Air
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
Born in Kansas, home of the South Wind, in 1897, Amelia Earhart reigned as Queen of the Air until her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific in 1937.
King Lear (Alone)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 12th - 15th Aug 2018
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
Sounds of St Cecilia's – From Virgin to Queen
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cecilia’s Hall
- 11th Aug 2018
Catalina Vicens presents keyboard music for and around women in 16th and 17th-century Italy and England – works by Cara, Tromboncino, Valente, Byrd, Bull, Gibbons and others, usi…
Show And Tell at The Queen's Hall
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 11th - 20th Aug 2018
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Live at the Apollo star, the Lidl Enya, the broken Bublé… DAVID O’DOHERTY headlines.
King Creosote
- Listing Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 9th Aug 2018
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…
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 9th - 11th Aug 2018
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
King Arthur – The Panto
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 8th - 10th Aug 2018
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
Nigel Slater’s Toast
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2018
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Mason King – Game of Chance
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 6th - 18th Aug 2018
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.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
Former PM and cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back.
Queen of the F*cking World: The Second Coming
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Street
- 5th - 25th Aug 2018
Returning with a brand-new kick-ass sequel, Queen’s bass guitar dances across sexual politics.
All Hail the Poetry King!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bourbon Bar
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
#Dave: Literally the Best Magician
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs.
#Dave: Luxury Magic Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs.
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Jack Barry: Tango
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Globe Bar
- 4th - 24th Aug 2018
In the last year, acclaimed stand-up Jack Barry has been appointed by his parents as their couples therapist.
Dave Maher Coma Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bar Bados Complex / Bar Bados, Room 6
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Dave Maher was almost unplugged from life support during a month-long coma.
Parliament House: The Hidden Gem
- Listing Exhibition / Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Parliament House
- 3rd - 31st Aug 2018
Visit the magnificent Parliament Hall, once the seat of Scotland’s politics, and gain a fascinating insight into the history, traditions and ceremonies of the home of Scotland’s Su…
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
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…
Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
The House of Edgar
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
You All Know Me, I'm Jack Ruby!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
November 22nd 1963.
The King and Ol' Blue Eyes
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- McSorley’s Irish Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2018
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
The Cat's Mother
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square / Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2018
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.
Gypsy Queen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 10th Aug, 2018
Hope Theatre Company bring us this brutal and beautiful production exploring sexuality through the lens of two boxers.
Jack and Claire / Free Festival
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
- 2nd - 11th Aug 2018
An American-Scottish duo performs wild long-form improv developed at the renowned iO Theater in Chicago! Jack and Claire is Chicago-based improv comedy duo Claire McFadden and Jack…
The House
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 22nd Aug, 2018
A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
A show about mental health (rather than mental illness).
Jack Evans: Work
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Workers of the world: please stop! Jack Evans, lizard prince of Manchester’s alternative circuit, presents a punchy, out-there hour about work: its history, its present and a futur…
Jess Robinson: No Filter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2018
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.
Phill Jupitus: Sassy Knack
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 12th Aug, 2018
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…
Raymond Mearns Is in the House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
It’s Fringe time again and I’m back at The Beehive.
Dave Green: Melt
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Award-winning Dave Green does his highly anticipated debut hour.
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 1st - 10th Aug 2018
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Blending comedy, drag, song and the grotesque, with absurd character sketches.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
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.
The Lampoons: House on Haunted Hill
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andrew Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 9th Aug, 2018
A late night slot at the Pleasance Dome perfectly suits the latest offering from The Lampoons, a raucous, defiantly silly parody of the creaky well-loved William Castle classic, de…
The Snow Queen
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Greta’s brother, Kay, has been acting strange.
A Fortunate Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2018
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Luke Kempner: House of Faces
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner and his multiple personalities host an ultimate reality show where no one is off limits.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Following four sell-out Fringe runs and marking 30 years of Section 28, the Iron Lady returns in her original 80s drag cabaret extravaganza! On the eve of a crucial vote, Maggie ge…
Sticks and Stones
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In for a Penny
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 8th Aug, 2018
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…
Unsung
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
Home is a powerful concept.
A Broad Abroad
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 8th Aug, 2018
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.
Jack Docherty: Miekelson and McGlashan – Serious Men
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Fresh from filming the fifth series of hit BBC One show Scot Squad, Edinburgh’s Jack Docherty returns to the Fringe for the first time in 25 years.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Review
- ★★
- M Johnson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 13th Aug, 2018
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is the plastic-and-glitter-wearing spiritual sister of shows such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Famous Puppet Death Scenes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 12th Aug, 2018
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…
Irina Titova: Queen of Sand
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 1st - 16th Aug 2018
Making her UK debut, talented sand artist Irina Titova and her audience will travel Around the World in 80 Pictures in the spirit of Jules Verne.
The Sisters of CastleKnock House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Fran, Jo and Ger live in isolation.
Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Scratch
- Listing Theatre
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 29th Jul 2018
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Blink by Phil Porter
- Listing Theatre
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 28th Jul 2018
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
Exit the King
- Review
- ★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Olivier Theatre
- 27th Jul, 2018
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.
LJ Da Funk in... When will these fascist bastards all be lined up and f**king shot?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jul 2018
Trump.
King Courgette
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 22nd Jul 2018
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…
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Duke of Yorks Theatre
- 21st Jul - 20th Oct 2018
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Lead Pencil: LOL’s House Party
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 8th Jul 2018
Imagine the love-child of Saved by the Bell and Art Attack! That’s Lead Pencil and they've made a sketch show, by literally sketching it.
The King and I
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Palladium
- 21st Jun - 29th Sep 2018
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…
Chris Ramsey Live 2018: Just Happy To Get Out Of The House Tour
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th - 16th Jun 2018
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only…
For Queen and Country
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 11th Jun 2018
For Queen and Country is a comedy drama inspired by the recent BBC2 programme, Secret Agent Selection: WW2.
Jack Left Town: The Improvised Rockumentary
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 29th - 31st May 2018
‘Jack Left Town’ tells the story of the greatest band the world has never known.
The Silent House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 1
- 25th - 27th May 2018
Benjamin and Shiva have lived in a refugee camp for two years whilst they work towards completing their citizenship applications.
A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Dave Bailey: Say Something!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs
- 14th - 16th May 2018
Multi-awarding-winning Comedian Dave Bailey has something to say.
House of Burlesque Revue
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 12th May - 27th Sep 2018
Pop the champagne.
Brighton Queen of Slaughtering Places
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton Fringe
- Old Police Cells Museum
- 2nd Jun, 2018
Since the very first tales were told around a fire, it has been human nature to enjoy a good story - especially when the story is full of murder, gore and tabloid-friendly salaciou…
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 9th May, 2018
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Gypsy Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bronte Sandwell-Moore
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 9th May, 2018
Meet ‘Gorgeous’ George O’Connell (Rob Ward) and Dane ‘The Pain’ Samson (John Askew), two hard as nails boxers both raised by their traditionalist fathers to defend themse…
Dave Benson Phillips: Christ, I Thought He Was Dead!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louisa Lord
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 1
- 9th May, 2018
Dave Benson Phillips used to be on children’s TV all the time.
Farleys House Tours
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Farleys House & Gallery
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
Sing-Along Fun with Dave Benson Phillips
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 1 / Sweet Werks 2
- 5th - 11th May 2018
The well-known children’s entertainer and TV presenter Dave Benson Phillips (‘Playdays’, ‘Playhouse Disney’, ‘Fun Song Factory’, ‘Boj!’) performs popular children’s songs on his …
King Charles III
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 5th - 12th May 2018
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Dave Chawner: Mental
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Sweet @ The Welly
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2018
Award-winning comedian Dave Chawner premieres his new show about mental health (rather than mental illness).
Dave: A Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Despite his best intentions, Dave Fensome is getting older.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Full Velvet Jacket (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 6th May 2018
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.
LJ DA FUNK in... When will these fascist bastards be lined up and f**king shot?
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th May - 2nd Jun 2018
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.
All The King’s Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Apr 2018
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…
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Queen’s Theatre
- 27th Apr - 26th May 2018
This uplifting and heart-warming tale by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott has it all – outrageous costumes, flamboyant choreography and plenty of sass.
The Golden F**king Years
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
- 17th - 28th Apr 2018
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Udderbelly
- 13th - 20th Apr 2018
Maggie returns in her smash hit drag extravaganza! Following four sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, the Iron Lady returns to mark the 30th anniversary of the passing of Section 28.
Suggs - What a King Cnut
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 22nd Mar 2018
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.
Bingo Jack's Big Book Magic Show
- Listing Magic
- Adelaide Fringe
- THE GC at The German Club
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe.
Stunt Magician - Danger Dave Reubens
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- THE GC at The German Club
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
Danger Dave Reubens takes you on a crash course in daredevil stunts, jaw-dropping magic and bizarre comedy.
Idris Stanton - The Last King of Vaudeville
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 14th Mar, 2018
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…
Mike and Dave do Cash and Dylan
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Mama Jambo
- 13th - 14th Mar 2018
A tribute show to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash! Over three nights David Lane and Michael O’Flaherty will perform a wide range of songs from the two folk and country giants.
Our House
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 13th - 15th Mar 2018
Running with Scissors is the theatre company of Adelaide High School committed to the creation of returns to the Fringe after a [near] sell out season in 2017 with a brand new show…
'Fowler & Finn' - A Tribute to Crowded House
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Mill
- 13th Mar 2018
Fowler sisters, Erin and Tess from local group Sitara, celebrate the Finn Brothers with a tribute to Crowded House and their catalogue of much loved songs.
Fun House
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
We’re bringing all the eye popping, sugar rushing, heart racing fun to The Garden.
King of Comedy UK - Kyle Legacy
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
Doctor in the House
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
Dr Ahmed, the loveable GP, returns to Adelaide Fringe! After making a totally sold out debut in 2016, he is back with more titillating tales from the consulting room.
Jack Savage - Silly Billy
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Black Bull Hotel
- 8th Mar 2018
Silly Billy (noun; informal) 1.
From The House Of The Dead
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Opera House
- 7th - 24th Mar 2018
From the House of the Dead is Janáček’s final work and arguably his most powerful.
A GREEK TRAGEDY 'OEDIPUS REX-THE KING'
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 24th Feb - 18th Mar 2018
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
Dave Thornton - So What Now?
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 4th Mar 2018
Should you come see my show or not? Tell you what, look up my stand-up comedy on YouTube and if it makes you laugh grab some tickets.
King Jack Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Market Apartment
- 4th - 4th Mar 2018
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
Dave & Kate's Multicultural Kids Concert
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Adelaide Fringe
- Riverbend Cottage Gazebo Clarendon
- 4th Mar 2018
Dave & Kate love to sing for children.
Tommy Little - The Last King Of Stupid
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 3rd Mar 2018
As seen on The Project.
The Truth About Jack Gramenz
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- BASEM3NT
- 3rd Mar 2018
The truth can be a very funny thing.
Dave Hughes – The Snorkeler
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 3rd Mar 2018
Hughesy has left an indelible mark on the Australian Comedy landscape over the last two decades.
The Red Forge Publishing House
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Semaphore Library / The Dockside Tavern
- 22nd - 27th Feb 2018
Marla tries to get The Red Forge Publishing House team to promote the concept of Brenda’s story about Max, an information agent from the Maxden Libary, and his twin sister Charlott…
Queen Cunt: Sacred or Profane?
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Bike Shed
- 9th - 10th Feb 2018
Blending music, comedy, drag, movement, dance, bouffon and the grotesque - Queen Cunt sees all power to the feminine, the wrathful, the sensual! A multi-character melange of opinio…
King Lear Retold
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 5th - 6th Feb 2018
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
A Doll's House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridewell Theatre
- 23rd - 27th Jan 2018
Sedos presents a new production of A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen with an English language version by Simon Stephens, at the Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street, from 23 to 27 Jan…
Queen Cunt: Sacred or Profane?
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Camden People’s Theatre
- 21st - 28th Jan 2018
Blending music, comedy, drag, movement, dance, buffon and the grotesque - Queen Cunt sees all power to the feminine, the wrathful, the sensual! A multi-character melange of opinion…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Pantomime
- West End
- Lyric Hammersmith
- 20th Dec 2017 - 6th Jan 2018
With plenty of magic beans, a loveable cow, an enormous beanstalk, a gigantic giant and a massive adventure, this year’s panto looks set to be the biggest ever.
Side Shows
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- 25th - 26th Nov 2017
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
House of Burlesque: 2.0
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- Christmas in Leicester Square
- 10th Nov 2017 - 5th Jan 2018
The revolution will be crystallised… This innovative and bold show show is like nothing you have seen before.
The House on Poe Street
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The 14th Street Y
- 27th Oct - 12th Nov 2017
When twin sisters inherit the house where Poe composed The Raven, their lives take twisted turns that affect the future of mankind.
The House by Brian Parks
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bread & Roses Theatre
- 19th - 21st Oct 2017
A comedy verging on farce, by Brian Parks.
Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Oresteia: This Restless House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2017
A father’s horrifying sacrifice of his daughter sets in motion a cycle of bloody revenge.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 20th - 27th Aug 2017
Former Prime Minister and global cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back – and this time she’s hosting a club night! There’ll be non-stop 80s hits from a non-st…
Shades of Dave Pell
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 20th Aug 2017
An afternoon of great jazz music with this local octet who recreate the spirit of the legendary Dave Pell Octet – whose soloists included Dave Pell, Jack Shelldon, Art Pepper, Ra…
Who Framed Jack the Ripper?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Silk Nightclub
- 19th - 27th Aug 2017
It’s 1880s Whitechapel is in the grip of Ripper terror.
Mary, Queen of Scots
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 19th Aug, 2017
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
All the King's Women
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 14th - 18th Aug 2017
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,…
Bendy House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 14th - 26th Aug 2017
Let Bendy House take you on a journey – maybe to a Romford kitchen sink or perhaps the weather control arm of the civil service on the planet Zarg.
King Arthur
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 14th - 26th Aug 2017
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
Queen of the F*cking World
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Street
- 12th - 26th Aug 2017
Unleash your inner queen! Via Shakespeare, Chekhov to RuPaul, a kickass theatre-cum-cabaret tour de force exploring sexual politics and identity, revealing how an exotic dancer bec…
Elgar's King Olaf
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Usher Hall
- 11th Aug 2017
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Carry King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 10th Aug 2017
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 10th - 21st Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Live Shows in an Internet Media Age
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 9th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Sink
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Space Triplex / theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 6th Aug, 2017
Sink is a poignant and fascinating drama about one of China’s greatest playwrights, Lao She; a man who wrote for his country and was once honoured as an ‘Artist of the peo…
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 52 Canoes (Grassmarket)
- 6th - 26th Aug 2017
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Queen of the F*cking World
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Street
- 6th - 27th Aug 2017
Unleash your inner queen! Via Shakespeare, Chekhov to RuPaul, a kickass theatre-cum-cabaret tour de force exploring sexual politics and identity, revealing how an exotic dancer bec…
#Dave: Literally the Best Magician
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 5th - 27th Aug 2017
Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs.
The House Always Wins!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Serenity Cafe
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
Returning to the Fringe, Stephen invites you to enter the world of the hustler and enjoy an evening of card tricks, cheats and scams in this intimate and interactive show.
Stunt Magician – Danger Dave Reubens
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 5th - 27th Aug 2017
Back with a brand new show, Danger Dave Reubens takes you on a crash course in daredevil antics, jaw-dropping magic and bizarre comedy.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
- Review
- ★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 9th Aug, 2017
It’s impossible to miss the irony in the name of the production company behind Priscilla: Queen of the Desert – Car Crash Productions.
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 4th - 9th Aug 2017
Finished just two months before the author’s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco’s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca’s great masterpiece of l…
The Room at the Top of the House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
Josh finds the outside world a fascinating and frightening place.
Leaf by Niggle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 15th Aug, 2017
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
The House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Following last year’s successful run of ‘Made in Cumbria’, Jane’s back to Cumbria in The House where you’re invited to meet some new characters and get involved in some sinister …
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
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.
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 4th - 9th Aug 2017
Finished just two months before the author’s murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco’s supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca’s great masterpiece of l…
Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The Last Queen of Scotland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lynn Rusk
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th Aug, 2017
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
Dave Johns: I, Fillum Star
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jonathan Mayo
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 16th Aug, 2017
It is a real privilege to get to spend time with Dave Johns for an hour as he recounts the rollercoaster that he has experienced since being cast as the lead part in Ken Loach’s …
Nick Coyle: Queen of Wolves
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Blackbell House has a new governess: poor, plain, Frances Glass.
Gypsy Queen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 13th Aug, 2017
Despite Hope Theatre Company’s name, this production did not leave me very hopeful about the issue it was raising – that of discrimination against LGBT people in sport.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Jack Barry: High Treason
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
This show is about why we should legalise all the drugs.
Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet and The Laughing Fridge
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Revell makes you laugh and think; a rare and cherishable combination these days’ (Scotsman).
Jack Rooke: Happy Hour
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2017
Jack Rooke won a scholarship to attend Westminster University to study Journalism.
Siri
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2017
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.
Séance
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2017
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
Phil Dunning: The House of Pigs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2017
You are cordially invited to The House of Pigs.
Siblings
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 18th Aug, 2017
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
The Gruffalo's Child
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 24th Aug, 2017
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.
Britney in: John
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 13th Aug, 2017
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Nath Valvo – Not In This House
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Millie Bayswater
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 16th Aug, 2017
The last stand in not-growing-up, Nath Valvo is holding the frontline for all those amongst us who are done shelling out for their brother’s baby monitor, done giving up every we…
All the King’s Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 2nd - 22nd Aug 2017
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 15th Aug, 2017
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Stacey by Jack Thorne
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- THE LONDON THEATRE - New Cross
- 22nd Jul 2017
STACY by Jack Thorne A bleakly funny and disturbing play from Jack Thorne, writer of This Is England ‘86 and the stage adaptations of Let The Right One In and Harry Potter & The …
King Jack Queen
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- 84 Great Bridgewater St
- 7th - 8th Jul 2017
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.
Queen Anne RSC
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- 30th Jun - 30th Sep 2017
Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out season at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Queen Anne transfers to the Theatre Royal …
House of Verse
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marwood Bar & Coffeehouse
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2017
One entertaining community.
The Queen Has Vanished
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh
- The Studio at the Festival Theatre
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2017
A visually stunning and tender story about loss and fate, and the hope that great sadness can pass.
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 29th May 2017
With a coffin full of sympathy snacks, Jack Rooke and his 85-year-old Nan, Sicely, invite you to the happiest town in Britain, where Dad’s dead and the only thing to eat is lasag…
Jack Left Town: The Improvised Rock Documentary
- Review
- ★★★
- Louise Jones
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 31st May, 2017
An improvised rock documentary is a tall order, and Jack Left Town sets out with boundless enthusiasm, a strong absurdity curve and sick air guitar to deliver, even if some areas a…
Dave Benson Phillips: Christ, I Thought He Was Dead!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet St Andrew’s
- 26th - 28th May 2017
Do you remember Dave Benson Phillips? If you were a child in Britain from the 80s to the early 00s, there’s a fair chance you watched him on TV.
King of the Fringe: Best Of
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 26th May 2017
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Jack and I: The Jack the Ripper Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Johanna Makelainen
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 29th May, 2017
On the hottest day of the year, the Warren was worlds apart from the shady alleyways of Victorian London.
Storyland Author Readings
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Library
- 26th May 2017
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Ushers: The Front of House Musical
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Broadway Lounge
- 25th May - 3rd Jun 2017
A preview performance of a new jukebox musical is due to take place.
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 20th May 2017
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
House of Burlesque: Straight Up
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 13th May - 15th Sep 2017
How do you like your Burlesque – sweet, dirty or perfect? In year four of their wildly successful Wonderground residency, multi sell-out House of Burlesque are back with a do…
Jane Postlethwaite: The House
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb @ Nowhere Man
- 12th May - 3rd Jun 2017
Jane Postlethwaite (Funny Women and Squawker Award finalist 2015) brings her multi-character, one-woman show, ‘The House’, to Brighton.
Dave Edwards: Looking for Love!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 12th - 14th May 2017
Join Dave Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- New Steine Hotel, Bar and Bistro
- 12th - 21st May 2017
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner is an immersive theatre show about sexual fantasy- it’s also funny and true and asks us to look at our own vulnerabilities.
Mararet Thatcher Queen of Gameshows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Udderbelly
- 12th May - 2nd Jul 2017
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, games and catchphrases as audien…
Kevin, King of Egypt
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 11th - 12th May 2017
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 …
Children's Sing-Along Fun with Dave Benson Phillips
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 10th - 14th May 2017
The well-known children’s entertainer and TV presenter Dave Benson Phillips (‘Playdays’, ‘Playhouse Disney’, ‘Fun Song Factory’, ‘Boj!’) performs popular children’s songs on his …
House of Alchemy
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- House of Alchemy
- 9th - 15th May 2017
A week long exhibition of visionary art and imaginative Realism in central Brighton.
Tree House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Dog
- 9th - 10th May 2017
‘Tree House’ is an original idea devised by Bloody Nora Theatre exploring the relationship between two sisters estranged after their parents’ death.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 8th - 9th May 2017
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Brodi and Dave: Paranoid
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2017
Just because you’re paranoid, it don’t mean they’re not after you! This is the show for anyone who’s ever been confused or scared by the day-to-day insanity of life.
Farleys House Tours
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Farleys House and Gallery
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2017
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton Fringe
- ONCA
- 15th May, 2017
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Whisper House
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- St James Theatre
- 6th Apr - 27th May 2017
Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik brings his latest musical to the newly rebranded The Other Palace – formerly the St James Theatre for a limited season.
Whisper House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Other Palace
- 6th Apr - 27th May 2017
An eerie lighthouse stands on the sleepy East Coast of America.
The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 19th Feb 2017
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
The Lion King
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyceum Theatre
- 17th Feb 2017 - 19th Oct 2024
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 House of Bernarda Alba
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Exchange Theatre
- 20th Feb, 2017
If politics is about people—specifically the ever-fluctuating power imbalances between people in different situations—then Federico García Lorca was right to focus his “po…
The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Royal Albert Hall / Royal Opera House
- 4th Jan 2017 - 31st Dec 2019
The Nutcracker is classical ballet at its most approachable and visually entrancing – Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without it! A young girl’s enchanted present…
Cinderella - Chiswick House
- Listing Pantomime
- London Fringe
- Chiswick House & Gardens / Royal Albert Hall / Trafalgar Studio 1
- 16th Dec 2016 - 12th Jan 2020
This Christmas Chiswick House plays host to a remarkable event – within a Big Top in the beautiful walled garden will be a spectacular new stage production of Cinderella.
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 3rd Dec, 2016
There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits.
This House
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Garrick Theatre
- 1st Dec, 2016
Taking place over the five years in the seventies that turned out to be the last Labour Government for nearly 20 years and that led to the Thatcher era, the politics being manage…
House and ACE 1-2-1 Sessions
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 26th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
King Creosote
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 25th Aug 2016
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…
A Dave Cohen Show: Music Was My First Love
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Cellar Monkey
- 24th - 28th Aug 2016
Edinburgh Fringe veteran, Perrier nominee, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players, multiple BAFTA-winning Horrible Histories songwriter, inadvertent creator of the phrase ‘comedy i…
King John
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 24th Aug, 2016
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.
Jack Lukeman: King of Soho and Other Stories
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 20th Aug 2016
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 …
Dr Alasdair Raffe Presents James VII: A Misunderstood King?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 19th Aug 2016
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
ONE – The Man Chosen By the Spirit of the Japanese Drum
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 19th Aug, 2016
A masked figure, all in white, carries the biggest drumstick you’ve ever seen and drops it on the biggest drum you’ve ever seen.
Jack Lukeman: King of Soho and Other Stories
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th - 19th Aug 2016
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 …
The Deer Johns: A Journey
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 19th Aug, 2016
A three-man band from Adelaide, Australia, tell an odd and very random story of one man’s travels through spoken word and song.
Simon Lukacs Shows His Range
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 15th - 23rd Aug 2016
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Our House
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
Featuring the music of Madness.
The Hummingbirds A Cappella: Love Is Not Our Forte
- Review
- ★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 18th Aug, 2016
To be fair to the Hummingbirds, I’m not really the right demographic for their show.
Jack & Lou: Agents of Farce
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 15th - 20th Aug 2016
Jack and Louisa stand up so that you can sit down. Or stand up too. Just please stay.
The Man Who Built His House to Heaven
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hayley Sophie Scott
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 19th Aug, 2016
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
Stunt Magician: The Story of Danger Dave Reubens
- Listing Magic
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 14th - 28th Aug 2016
The tale of one daredevil’s quest for glory! This mischievous show will fire up your engines with dangerous feats, epic story and jaw-dropping magic.
Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 12th - 27th Aug 2016
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Cradle King
- Review
- ★★
- Joshua Clarke
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 17th Aug, 2016
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.
Hurricane House
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, First Floor Theatre
- 11th - 14th Aug 2016
A crisis-stricken Southern family within a house “in the eye of the storm” employing a semi-realist dramatic structure.
Shanghai Opera House: Thunderstorm - sponsored by MG
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Coliseum
- 11th - 14th Aug 2016
Thunderstorm is an award-winning modern opera about family, society and corruption in Old Shanghai.
Dive and Summerhall Present... C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 18th Aug, 2016
Sometime in between Jak Soroka cracking eggs on her naked body and Sam Reynolds dry humping someone in the audience, you realise nights at Dive’s C U Next Tuesday cabaret can get…
Mason King – Mind Control
- Review
- ★★★
- Ellie Coote
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2016
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Jim and Dave Have Lost The Dressing Room
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chicken Theatre
- 6th - 7th Aug 2016
A comedy, sketch and game show for football fans that hate the word ‘banter’ and find Alan Shearer boring.
The House Always Wins!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Serenity Cafe
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Returning to the Fringe for the fourth year, Stephen invites you to enter the world of the hustler and enjoy an evening of card tricks, cheats and scams in this intimate and intera…
Rory O'Hanlon – You Are Where You Need to Be
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Opium
- 15th Aug, 2016
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.
Dave Alnwick: The Cult of Dave
- Listing Cabaret and Variety / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Mind wizard.
Not the Horse
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2016
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…
Jack & Karen
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fingers Piano Bar
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Jack & Karen are sick and tired of playing second fiddle to Will & Grace.
Jack Evans: Melancholy Poontang
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Jack Evans’ debut hour.
Live Before You Die by Byron Vincent & Dave McGinn
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilgrim Bar
- 6th - 20th Aug 2016
Byron is a bipolar writer.
Dave Lemkin: The Village Hall
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ciao Roma
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Lower Swell is having its summer festival! Come and be a part of the village as character comedian Dave Lemkin brings to life all the guest speakers: Colin Jackson, a self-employed…
Russian Standard House of Davai presents PingTron
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
Responding to phenomenal demand, Russian Standard are bringing PingTron, a unique and exceptional take on ping pong, to Edinburgh for the very first time.
Parliament House: A Hidden Gem
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Parliament House
- 5th Aug - 2nd Sep 2016
This exhibition within the magnificent Parliament Hall gives a fascinating insight into the history, traditions and ceremonies of the home of Scotland’s Supreme Courts.
The Master and Margarita
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO at St Cuthbert’s
- 14th Aug, 2016
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
Victoria Jeffrey: Dancing With Jack
- Review
- ★★★★
- John Murray
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 22nd Aug, 2016
Previously known for her well received part as a Totally Naff Tart, this is Victoria Jeffrey solo and talking about life.
The House of Edgar
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andrew Forbes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 15th Aug, 2016
Often, the expectation brought to mind by the genre “Musical” means that successfully producing a new and original one at the Fringe Festival is no mean feat.
The Life and Times of Lionel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 12th Aug, 2016
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
Ros & Guil R Dead
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2016
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 -…
Daniel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 14th Aug, 2016
Your best friend from school has been arrested for having a collection of child pornography on his laptop.
Fraxi Queen of the Forest
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 8th Aug, 2016
Some stupid adults, having forgotten what it’s actually like to be children, are often surprised, disturbed and horrified by the serious issues lurking in the heart of the most s…
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 19th Aug, 2016
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
Greater Belfast
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2016
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…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Review
- ★★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2016
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
LoveHard: The House on the Hill
- Review
- ★★★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 18th Aug, 2016
Perhaps one of the most entertaining shows I have seen on the Free Fringe, Lovehard consists of comedians Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (see what they did there?), who in what is …
Tim Renkow: King of the Tramps
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 18th Aug, 2016
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
Nzinga Warrior Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- Oliver Simmonds
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 16th Aug, 2016
When the polyrhythm is heard in Nzinga Warrior Queen’s opening, you know this isn’t a comedy of manners.
Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s 2x4 Tour One-Man Comedy Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 11th Aug, 2016
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 …
Fraser Geesin: Jack of All Polymaths
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Publish the blurb verbatim.
Queen Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Fiona Mossman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 8th Aug, 2016
Queen Lear is a re-telling of Shakespeare’s Lear story from the perspective of his queen, confined in her chamber while pregnant with his expected male heir.
Doctor in the House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 4th - 14th Aug 2016
Spend an intimate evening of insightful and intelligent comedy with this British doctor.
Jack Barry: You Don't Know Jack
- Review
- ★★
- Sophia Charalambous
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 13th Aug, 2016
Jack Barry has the potential to be an electric comic.
House and Amongst the Reeds
- Review
- ★★★★
- Oliver Simmonds
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2016
London-based Clean Break fit two plays into one show: House, a tight family drama set in a British-Nigerian household, and Amongst the Reeds, a nondescript tale of homelessness, fr…
Mr Kingdom's Queen Victoria (Or a Little of What You Fancy)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
The queen who ruled a kingdom (and an empire) as you’ve never dared think of her before.
Here's Some Black for the Union Jack
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
British-Arab Ella has spent the last few years passing as white: National Geographic Explorer, ‘Achingly funny’ (LooseLips.
Letters to Windsor House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug, 2016
Picture the scene: two women in letterbox face paint — a pair of punkish, postmodern clowns — sit on a couple of threadbare armchairs underneath an enormous screen, sipping bee…
lara A king: Not Broken, Just Bent
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fiona Mossman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 14th Aug, 2016
Theatre Anon’s production of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen is a heart-warming family show, complete with a bit of sing-song.
All the King’s Men: The 11 Tour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C scala
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Michael Morpurgo's King Arthur
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 9th Aug, 2016
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
Swansong
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th Aug, 2016
Four strangers survive the end of the world and end up stranded in a swan pedalo.
Boris: World King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 16th Aug, 2016
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
Boris & Sergey: Preposterous Improvisation Experiment
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2016
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
Sooz Kempner – Queen
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Queen has been the soundtrack to Funny Women Variety Award winner Sooz Kempner’s entire life.
Happy Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Oliver Simmonds
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2016
Bloody Happy Dave.
Out of Our Father's House
- Review
- ★★
- Sarah Gough
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 8th Aug, 2016
The self-empowerment of interesting American women from history is a dramatic premise that instantly arrests your attention.
Ushers: The Front of House Musical
- Review
- ★★
- Hannah Lucy Baker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 9th Aug, 2016
I’m a lover of musical theatre but I’m prepared to be really honest here: the genre is crammed with suitable material for a hilarious and even brutal send-up.
Tatterdermalion
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2016
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…
Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 22nd Aug, 2016
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.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C scala
- 4th Aug, 2016
Trundling into view as part of C Theatre’s 25th anniversary is The Snow Queen.
I Still Believe in Miracles: Thirty Years of Inverleith House
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Inverleith House
- 2nd Aug - 4th Sep 2016
During thirty years of exhibitions programming Inverleith House has originated and presented some of the most memorable exhibitions ever staged in the UK, and achieved an internati…
'Damned' by Jack Harrison
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Studio 24 / The Gillygate Shed (Garden of The Gillygate Pub) / The King’s Arms Theatre
- 12th - 31st Jul 2016
A critically-acclaimed and fast-paced piece of theatre exploring manipulation of power, the precariousness of hierarchy, and the change that questions can wreak.
Joe, Graeme & Dave: Mummy, I Don't Like Those Men
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb @ Craft Beer Co.
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2016
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.
The Queen Bee Gets Stung
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Purple Playhouse Theatre
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2016
Lindsay, Kells, Maria and Lee have just got back from Nicky’s funeral.
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 28th May 2016
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical NEW YORK
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Broadway
- Stephen Sondheim Theatre
- 24th May 2016 - 12th Mar 2017
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…
The King and I NEW YORK
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Broadway
- Lincoln Center-Vivian Beaumont
- 21st May - 4th Sep 2016
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…
Doctor in the House
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Nightingale Room
- 20th - 24th May 2016
Having left the UK for sunny Australia, Dr Ahmed returns to share the comical aspects of being a modern day GP.
Dave Bailey: Beige Against The Machine
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb @ Craft Beer Co.
- 12th - 14th May 2016
Escape all that horrible stuff, for about an hour, with comedian Dave Bailey’s debut solo stand-up show: ‘Beige Against The Machine’.
King of the Fringe
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 12th May 2016
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 …
Fraser Geesin: Jack Of All Polymaths
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th May - 2nd Jun 2016
Please ensure you use the right quote: “an imaginative wit that earmarks him as one to watch” with “cracking gags that turn on a smart use of language” (Chortle).
Hetty the King (and Other Women I Have Loved)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 8th - 24th May 2016
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.
Hetty the King (and Other Women I have Loved)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren
- 8th - 24th May 2016
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.
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton
- Theatre Royal Brighton
- 6th May, 2016
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.
Farley Farm House Tours
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Farley Farm House
- 1st May - 5th Jun 2016
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
This Restless House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 3rd May, 2016
Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H…
Locusts Have No King
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Intar Theater
- 31st Mar 2016
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
King of the Fringe: Heat Two
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton
- The Marlborough Pub & Theatre
- 11th Mar 2016
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.
King and Country: Shakespeares Great Cycle of Kings
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- BAM Harvey Theater
- 2nd Mar 2016
(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: …
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Pleasance Theatre
- 6th Mar, 2016
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 …
Good King Richard
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Drayton Arms
- 1st - 12th Mar 2016
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
King Charles III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Julia French
- UK Regional & Tours
- Theatre Royal Brighton
- 11th Feb, 2016
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…
Valentines Shows
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield / Magnet Theater / The Stand
- 9th - 14th Feb 2016
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Aldwych Theatre
- 5th Jan 2016 - 4th Nov 2017
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh
- Greenside Lane
- 17th Dec, 2015
Australia is home to many curious creatures; a place where men are macho, except when they put on a frock, heels and make-up to sing along to disco classics.
We Grew Up in the Back of a Van
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- White Bear Theatre
- 7th Dec, 2015
We Grew Up in the Back of a Van is a fun and energetic show with a big heart.
Gilgamesh
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Rich Mix
- 30th Nov, 2015
The Crick Crack Club’s Gilgamesh is a tour de force piece of storytelling.
Jack and The Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Nicola Masters
- London Fringe
- Hackney Empire
- 27th Nov, 2015
Everybody knows the story of Jack and The Beanstalk.
JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Roulette
- 20th Nov 2015
The American Music Project, a new organization dedicated to fostering performances and commissioning American music, presents its first concert in New York — an enticing prog…
Beauty & The Beast
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Polka Theatre
- 1st Dec, 2015
Beauty & the Beast at Polka is a fun and vibrant production of a classic fairytale that boasts a beautiful set, wonderful costumes and some lovely effects delivering a visual treat…
Sally Gross, Kenneth King and Sally Silvers
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- University Settlement, Speyer Hall
- 1st Nov 2015
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 …
Beasty Baby
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Polka Theatre
- 23rd Oct, 2015
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.
King Charles III
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Music Box Theater
- 1st Oct 2015
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Cherry Lane Theater
- 1st Oct 2015
Mr.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Review
- ★★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 24th Aug, 2015
Margaret Thatcher truly is the Queen of Soho.
Classically Chilled Piano
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 28th Aug, 2015
Rich Batsford’s Classically Chilled Piano is exactly that.
Jack the Ripper: Facts, No Fiction
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 24th - 27th Aug 2015
London, 1888.
Loch Ness Monster Hunter
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 26th Aug, 2015
From the creators of Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and GhostCop comes another cult pop culture theatre comedy show that once again gets its audience in hysterics.
Janis Joplin: Full Tilt
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 26th Aug, 2015
Angie Darcy returns to the fringe with her stellar tribute to and exploration of Janis Joplin.
For Queen and Country
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 27th Aug, 2015
For Queen and Country.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall @ Artspace at St Mark’s
- 23rd Aug 2015
Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual i…
A Haggis Queen Abroad
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 18th - 22nd Aug 2015
Enjoying the perks of self-imposed exile in England, the Haggis Queen finds herself suddenly adrift when the Independence Referendum hits and she must decide on which side of the b…
Late Night Phantasmagoria With Jack Lukeman
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 19th Aug, 2015
The moment Jack Lukeman enters the stage, it’s clear this is going to be a fantastic show.
Maria Stuarda – Mary Queen of Scots
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lauriston Halls
- 18th - 22nd Aug 2015
Bound by blood and only by bloody acts will they be free of one another.
The Wendy House Trilogy: Edmund
- Review
- ★
- M Johnson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 25th Aug, 2015
This is a show I really wanted to enjoy; each part of the production tries very hard to achieve an ambitious vision, but don’t quite make it.
The Wendy House Trilogy: Dorothy
- Review
- ★★
- Dixon Baskerville
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 24th Aug, 2015
Dorothy, part of the Wendy House Trilogy, is a humour-infused adaptation of The Wizard of Oz written by Greg and Joe Allen and directed by Joe Allen.
John Godber's Happy Jack
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Quaker Meeting House
- 17th - 22nd Aug 2015
Drama from the pen of one of the nation’s best loved playwrights.
The King of Monte Cristo
- Review
- ★★★
- J W Close
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 22nd Aug, 2015
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 …
Forever House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 17th - 29th Aug 2015
Richard is plotting his escape to art college, just as lecturer Graham settles in.
The Wendy House Trilogy: Peter
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 23rd Aug, 2015
Peter is the first show in The Wendy House Trilogy produced by Jealous Whale Theatre.
Lisa Scott With the Dave Swanson Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lebowskis Bar
- 15th Aug 2015
Twelfth year at the Fringe! From Billie Holiday to Ray Charles, Lisa sings with passion and humour, with ease and sophistication.
Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 14th - 29th Aug 2015
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
BBC: The Jazz House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 12th Aug 2015
Stephen Duffy presents The Jazz House live from Edinburgh. Join us for two hours of jazz performances from some of the best names in Scottish jazz and beyond.
King Lear with Sheep
- Review
- ★★★
- Laura Cress
- London Fringe
- The Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2015
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
Hula House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dixon Baskerville
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 27th Aug, 2015
Hula House, created by Permanently Visible Productions, is an immersive, semi-interactive look at the life of sex workers.
Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 26th Aug, 2015
A haunting and powerful adaptation of Madame Butterfly, Ramesh Meyyappen’s silent movement piece about love, lust and loss is hauntingly powerful and will stay with you long a…
Jack Heal: Frankenstein's Love Monster
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cabaret Voltaire
- 20th Aug, 2015
This show has a bad title.
Jack Heal: Do Scientists Dream of Synthetic Sheep?
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Silk Nightclub
- 24th Aug, 2015
The answer we get from Jack Heal to the question of his show’s title is that, not only do scientists dream of genetically engineered sheep, but they are actively pursuing how to …
Christine Bovill’s Piaf
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 28th Aug, 2015
Christine Bovill has returned to the Fringe once again to grace us with her incredibly heartfelt renditions of some of Piaf’s greatest songs, on the centenary of the icon’s bir…
The Secret Life of Suitcases
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 22nd Aug, 2015
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Our House
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Broughton High School
- 8th - 15th Aug 2015
Winner of the 2003 Olivier award for Best New Musical.
Fraxi Queen of the Forest
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Fletcher Building
- 19th Aug, 2015
Fraxi Queen of the Forest is a pageant for children about ash dieback.
School House Rock Live!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 11th Aug 2015
Based on the American Emmy Award-winning children’s series, School House uses a wide array of musical styles to teach grammar, math, science and American history while telling the …
Dean Martin and Friends (Christmas Special)
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2015
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
Is This the Best of Jack Campbell?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Jack started comedy in 2010 after he moved from rural Cambridgeshire to Leicester to study Creative Writing at De Montfort University.
Worbey and Farrell's House Party
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sue Denham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2015
Ostensibly, Worbey and Farrell’s show is a piano recital.
Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 25th Aug, 2015
Dan Haynes and Pete Richards of Bookends have returned to the Fringe to once again give us their mesmerising renditions of some of Simon and Garfunkel’s most beloved songs.
The Sons of Pitches
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 14th Aug, 2015
The Sons of Pitches took the Fringe by storm last year.
Mary Queen of Scots – The Edinburgh Story
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside MacDonald Holyrood Hotel
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
There have been many books, films, documentaries, etc on Mary Stuart, giving us many perceptions of Mary, those involved with her, and incidents in her life.
Parliament House: A Hidden Gem – Free
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Parliament House
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
This exhibition in the stunning 17th century Parliament Hall offers insight into the life, history and traditions of Scotland’s Supreme Courts.
The Bastard Queen!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Caitlin Hobbs
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th Aug, 2015
NSDF darlings of 2014 Naughty Corner are back with their winning original play The Bastard Queen! Set at the end of the world, the play sees five young people fight for survival an…
Animal House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 7th - 22nd Aug 2015
Stephen is leaving his little Steph, to go to university and refuses to give her any of his time.
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 22nd Aug, 2015
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.
Underneath
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 27th Aug, 2015
From award-winning and internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company Fishamble: The New Play Company, comes this extravagant one-man show.
Summerhall's Opening Night Party – Prosumer with House of Traps
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 7th Aug 2015
Prosumer aka Achim Brandenburg has a fever for Chicago’s Jack flavour with a vision, passion and knowledge which makes Prosumer a guardian of house music history and one of the f…
Jack Samuel Warner in Jack's Ample Wardrobe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Jack’s Ample Wardrobe is a new stand-up show featuring an old wardrobe.
Dave Callan – A Little Less Conversation 2: A Little More Less Conversation
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Dave Callan, Irish born Australian based comedian brings the sequel to last years must see comedy dance spectacular to Edinburgh.
Dave Griffiths: C U in Court
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
One comedian’s hilarious battle with French Connection (FCUK) for the right to wear his CNUT t-shirt on stage.
Fairly Tales
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 21st Aug, 2015
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
Zoe Coombs Marr: Dave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
What’s the deal with pizza? Single with cats? Finding Nemo’s girlfriend.
Violence of the Lambs
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 25th Aug, 2015
Last year Chris Davis performed brilliantly in Drunk Lion and garnered great reviews.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dixon Baskerville
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 12th Aug, 2015
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens follows the unfolding story of a group of misfits working the infamous den of iniquity – Saucy Jacks space bar.
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lettie Mckie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 13th Aug, 2015
Jack Rooke: Good Grief could probably win a prize for ‘comedy show with the least likely to be funny subject matter ever that actually turns out to be absolutely hilarious�…
The Star Rover
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 15th Aug, 2015
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.
Ste and Dave in Training
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Ste and Dave In Training is a brand new character comedy show, written and performed by Ste Johnston (Channel 4’s No Offence) and Dave Jackson (ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid).
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Fringe sensation, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho, returns after 2014’s total sell-out run (and at London’s Leicester Square Theatre) in the drag comedy musical extravaganza like…
Ushers: The Front of House Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Momentum Venues @ St Stephens
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre – the Front of House staff – and portraying t…
The Underbelly Radio Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 28th Aug 2015
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
All the King's Men Photo Exhibition
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Boris: World King
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2015
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
Bat-Fan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2015
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
USHERS: The Front Of House Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Momentum Venues @ St Stephen’s Centre
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre – the Front of House staff – and portraying t…
The Glorious Damnation of Eddie Small
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2015
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 Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 5th - 30th Aug 2015
Written and performed by legendary trans playwright, performer and poet Jo Clifford, this unique and extraordinary show combines theatre with storytelling, spoken word and ritual i…
Jack and Molly and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 12th Aug, 2015
We all know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk – or at least, think we do.
Lydia King: A Date with Density
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
All the King's Men presents: Radio Gaga
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dan Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 13th Aug, 2015
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Jack Barry: This Title Came to Me in a Dream
- Review
- ★★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 18th Aug, 2015
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
Famous Taste of Scotland at Prestonfield House
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Prestonfield House
- 3rd - 31st Aug 2015
An unmissable evening of traditional Scottish music and performance.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Blackwell
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 2nd Aug, 2015
Ding dong the witch is back and she has landed in the heart of York city centre.
How To Win Against History
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Ovalhouse Theatre
- 9th Jun, 2015
What a cracking show this is! What an utterly hilarious, ridiculous and relentlessly energetic show this is.
King Henry V
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 7th - 18th Jul 2015
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 …
Orson's Shadow
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 8th Jul, 2015
Orson’s shadow looms heavily in Austin Pendleton’s play about the prolific director; not only over the protagonist but over the entire play which whilst fascinating and fait…
King Liz
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- McGinn/Cazale Theater
- 1st Jul 2015
(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.
Pride at the Bell House
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Bell House
- 28th Jun 2015
John Early and Cole Escola team up with the author Isaac Oliver and the drag queen Hamm Samwich to host this benefit for SAGE, a group that provides care for L.
An Evening With the Queen of Mean
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 22nd Jun 2015
Known for her caustic humor and unabashed insult comedy, Lisa Lampanelli talks with the comedian and radio host Ron Bennington about her new outlook on life and her forthcoming sta…
Shows for Days
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
- 31st May 2015
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Boj's Musical Storytime with Dave Benson-Philips
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 27th - 27th May 2015
Join us for an hour of Boj-a-boom fun with Dave Benson-Philips! Read, make and play in this musical themed family event featuring Boj (as seen on CBeebies)!
Greywing House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 22nd - 24th May 2015
A guest house sits precariously on the coast keeping watch over a cruel and tumultuous sea.
The Fool and The King Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- 10 Steine St
- 17th May 2015
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 - Exam Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
- 14th - 15th May 2015
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
A Dolls House by Ibsen
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- THE LONDON THEATRE - New Cross
- 12th - 17th May 2015
Nora has a secret that she needs to keep from her perfect family life, only one person can help her but they want something in return.
House 2
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- 24 Stephens Road
- 9th - 10th May 2015
House, location, value, location, perceptions, location.
King of the Fringe
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 8th May 2015
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…
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 7th - 25th May 2015
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
House
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- 45 Springfield Road
- 7th - 10th May 2015
Have you ever looked through a window into someone else’s world? The house is for sale but after the move, what is left behind? Staged by twelve actors in a Victorian town house …
Kernow King: Minority Rapport
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 4th May 2015
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
Farley Farm House
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Farley Farm House
- 3rd - 31st May 2015
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
Dave Chawner: Normally Abnormal
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hobgoblin
- 2nd - 31st May 2015
Award-winning comedian Dave Chawner premieres his new show about identity.
W.A.F.E & Stray: Open House
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- W.A.F.E. & Stray
- 2nd - 31st May 2015
W.
Jack
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Otherplace at the Basement: Main Space
- 2nd - 4th May 2015
A striking and brutally funny comedy, based on the life and times of Jack McRay.
Jack Grant: I Exist
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Lamb Comedy @ Nowhere Man
- 1st - 2nd May 2015
Jack Grant stands looking back at his receding youth and hairline, exploring why he became a comedian and why he couldn’t do anything else.
Alonzo King Lines Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Joyce Theater
- 30th Apr 2015
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
A Queen for a Day
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Theater at St. Clement’s
- 30th Apr 2015
Michael Ricigliano Jr.
In the Fiddlers House
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
- 31st Mar 2015 - 31st Mar 2016
The tireless star violinist Itzhak Perlman headlines the centennial gala of the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene in a musical extravaganza that features stars from the klezmer s…
The King and I
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center
- 1st Mar 2015
(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…
Comfort Dogs: Live From the Pink House
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- Jack
- 2nd Feb 2015
Short, sweet and still sort of nebulous, William Burke’s play centers on therapy dogs and the people who find solace in their wet-nosed company.
Dave Gormans PowerPoint Presentation
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- SubCulture: Arts Underground
- 28th Jan 2015 - 28th Jan 2016
Mr.
Greywing House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 26th - 28th Jan 2015
After a near sell-out run at the London Horror Festival, award-winning performer Mary Beth Morossa returns with her second solo show, in which she intertwines dark storytelling, po…
JACK Quartet
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Roulette
- 16th Jan 2015
This fearlessly adventurous and virtuosic quartet, known for its exciting performances of envelope-pushing new music, presents a program anchored by Elliott Carter’s bra…
The Improverts - London Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 9th - 10th Jan 2015
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
Dave Attell
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Carolines
- 26th - 27th Dec 2014
Among the most respected comedians in New York, Mr. Attell known for his smart vulgarity and unapologetically aggressive stand-up.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Stephen Sondheim Theater
- 22nd Dec 2014 - 22nd Dec 2015
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…
The King's Kilt
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 2nd Mar, 2015
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 …
Todd Barry and Dave Attell
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Comedy Cellar
- 27th Nov 2014
The Comedy Cellar is offering two strong shows on Thanksgiving night. Along with Mr. Barry and Mr. Attell, expected performers include Mark Normand, Greer Barnes and Godfrey.
The House Is Open
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
- 2nd - 23rd Nov 2014
“What might happen if a performing arts center temporarily reimagined itself as an art museum?” That question is a starting point for this enticing series of installati…
Fabulous! the Queen of New Musical Comedies
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- New Write Act Repertory Theater / Times Square Arts Center
- 2nd Nov 2014 - 1st Feb 2015
This show about two drag queens aboard a cruise ship, pretending to be real women, is a little “Some Like It Hot,” a little “Anything Goes” and a lot of goo…
Greywing House
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 27th - 29th Oct 2014
Award-winning performer Mary Beth Morossa presents her second solo show at the London Horror Festival, in which she intertwines dark storytelling, cabaret and theatrical performanc…
Rime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Stratford Circus
- 2nd Oct, 2014
Most people know at least the odd line from Samuel Taylor’s epic poem from 1798, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Major Tom
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- London Fringe
- Battersea Arts Centre
- 18th Sep, 2014
Told through a journey into the comparable worlds of beauty pageants and dog shows, Victoria Melody’s Major Tom explores how easy it is to become obsessed with personal image and…
Mark Morris Dance Group Open House
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Mark Morris Dance Center
- 6th Sep 2014
In addition to free classes and workshops, this all-day event at the Mark Morris Dance Center features performances by members of Mr.
The Country House
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Samuel J. Friedman Theater
- 31st Aug 2014
(previews start on Sept.
The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Perfomers
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Jam House
- 24th Aug 2014
The Free Fringe invites all Fringe performers, wherever they’ve been performing, to its end of Fringe event. Mingle, wind down, dance, drink and reflect. Second annual event.
The Cuban Brothers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 22nd Aug, 2014
‘I took him to pumpin’ school, for the guys who are not so good with the chicas’ says Cuban Brothers’ frontman Miguel Mantovani of his newest and shyest member of the team,…
Russell Kane: Smallness
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Aug, 2014
He’s not Nick Grimshaw! Russell Kane is a superstar entertainer who often gets confused for the Radio 1 DJ.
Different is Dangerous
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 21st Aug, 2014
Different is Dangerous is a production from double team Nyla Levy and Fadia Qaraman’s group Two’s Company.
House of Tragic She
- Review
- ★★★
- Megan Dalton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 31st Aug, 2014
An incredibly ambitious production, House of Tragic She combines dance, physical theatre, song, electronic music and projection with the words of literary characters and writers.
Dave Hughes: Pointless
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2014
There is no bigger name in Australian comedy and he’s heading to the Fringe.
The Pirates of Penzance
- Review
- ★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
- 22nd Aug, 2014
Campy am-dram with a pre-school aesthetic, Edinburgh theatre company, Cat-Like Tread’s The Pirates of Penzance is likely to have you humming the Gilbert and Sullivan Songs but …
Jarred Christmas and Jack Hobbs: The Christmas and The Hobbit -A Beat Box and Stand-Up Collaboration
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 18th - 20th Aug 2014
Hobbit is an acclaimed beat boxer.
The Bastard Queen
- Review
- ★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 23rd Aug, 2014
My appreciation for the acting in The Bastard Queen was matched by my strong distaste for the actual play.
Jack Gardner and Liberty Hodes On Ice
- Review
- ★★★
- Cara Ballingall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 21st Aug, 2014
“It’s not started.
Jack Dee's Help Desk
- Review
- ★★★
- Kayleigh Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 21st Aug, 2014
Jack Dee’s Help Desk sees Dee and a panel of surprise top comedians address problems that audience members put to them.
Jeremy Hunt and Other Spelling Mistakes
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Wee Red Bar
- 20th Aug, 2014
Jeremy Hunt and Other Spelling Mistakes is a new comedy sketch show from St.
Pianist/Guitarist Dave Stewart
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 16th - 20th Aug 2014
If you’ve been searching and waiting for a concert full of beautiful music - this is it! The show for fans of Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi and lovers of all styles of acoustic…
Heavy Petting: Hammer Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Ryrie’s
- 23rd Aug, 2014
Middlesbrough sketch-pros Heavy Petting put on a wacky and fast-paced comedy sketch show complete with a weird fetish for Batman, hitting people with hammers and totally authentic …
King David's Wives
- Review
- ★★★
- J. A. Sutherland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 20th Aug, 2014
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
King Creosote
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 15th Aug 2014
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…
Dave!
- Review
- ★★★
- Lottie Scaramanga
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2014
Dave! is entirely incomparable with anything else I’ve seen this year.
Jenan Younis: A Masterclass in Anger Management
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 17th Aug, 2014
Jenan Younis is a surgeon with anger management issues.
Let It Fall (After King Lear)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th - 23rd Aug 2014
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Jack
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gryphon@WestEnd
- 12th - 16th Aug 2014
Pilgrimage to Loch Ness and a chance at redemption, Jack is an exciting new work that examines Scotland’s modern identity through the stories of her people.
New Zealand Music Showcase
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 24th Aug, 2014
The New Zealand Music Showcase is a great way to see some of New Zealand’s greatest artists here at the fringe.
In The Pink - Ten Years in Harmony
- Review
- ★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 14th Aug, 2014
In the Pink are a young all female 10-piece a capella group who perform variations of hit pop and hip hop.
Bridge Over Troubled Lager (Volume 2)
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 26th Aug, 2014
Bridge Over Troubled Lager (Volume 2) from Rory McGrath and Philip Pope is an evening of easy listening funny tunes and mild jokes.
Harry the King
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 20th Aug, 2014
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…
The Trial of Chimpanzee Jack
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 10th Aug 2014
You are summoned for jury service.
King Ubu
- Review
- ★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 19th Aug, 2014
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
The Oxford Gargoyles: Jazz a Cappella
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 20th Aug, 2014
Returning to the Fringe for a ninth year running, the Gargoyles are a class act.
Fairy Queen
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- East 13th Street Theater
- 10th - 23rd Aug 2014
The youthful Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble takes on Purcell’s affecting masque in a fully staged and choreographed production.
Napoli Mia! Dinner and Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- VinCaffe Ristorante
- 14th Aug, 2014
In Napoli Mia!, Scottish performer and Naples familiar Phillip Contini sings Italian songs from and about Naples and its people.
Niki King Quintet: The Songs of Duke Ellington
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 10th Aug 2014
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.
The Worm - An Underground Adventure
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2014
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
Dave Griffiths: C U in Court
- Review
- ★★★★
- Hamish Hartnoll
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 14th Aug, 2014
C U In Court is a remarkable tale of Dave Griffiths’ battle against the giant corporation of French Connection.
Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 8th - 23rd Aug 2014
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Lillian Boutté: The Delta Queen
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 8th - 24th Aug 2014
Here she comes again! The Delta Queen.
One Or Two Things About Us
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 8th Aug, 2014
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
Indian Peter's Coffee House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sue Bevan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 9th Aug, 2014
Mike Maran in a consummate storyteller; in this show he’s accompanied by the wonderful Rona Wilkie or Morag Brown on Scottish fiddle.
BBC: The Jazz House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC@POTTERROW
- 6th Aug 2014
Stephen Duffy presents The Jazz House live from the Fringe.
Cat Stevens Reconstructed
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th Aug, 2014
In Cat Stevens Reconstructed, New York vocalist Jess Abrams performs her own interpretations of Stevens’ classic songs, providing a mellow alto tone and interesting variations on…
Dean Friedman In Concert
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 8th Aug, 2014
Dean Friedman shot to fame in the late 70’s with the American hit Ariel in ‘77 and then Lucky Stars which made it to no.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sam Forbes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 11th Aug, 2014
Every evening, the understated sacred space of St.
Hot Chocolate at 10
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 9th Aug, 2014
First things first.
Bloody Trams
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2014
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…
Alan Anderson: Whisky For Dafties
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 12th Aug, 2014
Whisky for Dafties is a mostly derisive overview of Scotch whisky history and appreciation from whisky-swigging Scottish stand up Alan Anderson, complete with whisky tasting, non…
Queen B
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lottie Scaramanga
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 15th Aug, 2014
The older-man-meets-younger-girl premise might have been done - and done well - with An Education, but with its delicate narrative, Nottingham New Theatre’s Queen B shows that …
Fleeced
- Review
- ★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 4th Aug, 2014
Fleeced is an original comedy musical that tells the story of the made-up ancient Greek hero Jersephules; a simple farm boy doted on by his parents.
Gary Colman: ChUNT - The Verb to Grumble
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whistlebinkies
- 5th Aug, 2014
Gary Colman (no not that one) has been a strong force at the free fringe for some time now and he certainly hasn’t dropped the ball this year round.
Nick Hall: Helmet
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- George Next Door
- 11th Aug, 2014
Nick Hall: Helmet is a splice of easy going, bittersweet stand-up from a man in his early thirties re-evaluating his life.
The Queen's Speech
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gryphon@WestEnd
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2014
Finding the Will in association with The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham presents Bard Heads: The Queen’s Speech.
The House Always Wins!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Serenity Cafe
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2014
Stephen invites you to enter the world of the hustler and enjoy an evening of card tricks, cheats and scams in this intimate and interactive show.
National Loaf
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 8th Aug, 2014
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.
Newton's Cauldron
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 7th Aug, 2014
Newton’s Cauldron is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
Stuart Laws When's This Gonna Stop? (1hr Show)
- Review
- ★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 7th Aug, 2014
Irritating stand up from an irritating man.
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey Through the Great American Songbook
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceCabaret @ 54
- 3rd Aug, 2014
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle…
Jazz Bar Music
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 12th Aug, 2014
An afternoon of Jazz from the Jazz Bar’s very own Jazz Trio; Ed Kelly on double bass, David Patrick on piano and Bob Kyle on drums.
Nzinga - Warrior Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- J. A. Sutherland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- just Festival
- 5th Aug, 2014
A powerful tale of resilience and overcoming great obstacles, this production has battled through in the spirit of its eponymous character.
Late Night Dark Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 24th Aug, 2014
It’s the Late Night Dark Show - take that title as a hint.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 11th Aug, 2014
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
Free Historical Walking Tours of the Royal Mile
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh City Chambers (Meeting Point)
- 8th Aug, 2014
This tour is a brilliant way to explore the history of Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.
Katerina Vrana: Feta with the Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 9th Aug, 2014
In the appropriately multi-lingual halls of Espionage is this hidden gem of the Free Festival.
Edinburgh – A Tale of Two Towns
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside Greyfriars Bobby Bar
- 2nd Aug, 2014
A two-hour and fifteen minute walk through Edinburgh’s city centre, with a good coverage of the history of Edinburgh’s Old and New towns.
The Immigration Lottery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th Aug, 2014
It’s July 1st, 2017, precisely twenty years after China took back Hong Kong from the British.
Mary Queen of Scots – The Edinburgh Story
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside MacDonald Holyrood Hotel
- 1st - 31st Aug 2014
There have been many books, films, documentaries etc, on Mary Stuart giving us many perceptions of Mary, those involved with her and incidents in her life.
Luisa Omielan... Am I Right Ladies?!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th Aug, 2014
After the success of her previous show, What Would Beyoncé Do?! Luisa Omielan has returned to Edinburgh with a brand new stand-up act, Am I Right Ladies? It’s a loud and crude t…
The Man Who Would Be King
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Isla VT
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
Darius Davies' HBÖ Special Uncensored
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 5th Aug, 2014
Davies is a dynamo and a wonder to behold on stage.
Jack Samuel Warner and John Pendal: Men and Myths
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
Seriously funny nonsense and painfully revealing true stories as Jack, ‘slightly quirky’ (Chortle.
The Comedy Cow: Prime Cut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 24th Aug, 2014
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
Barbara Morrison: Dinah Washington – Queen of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 1st - 3rd Aug 2014
Seven years with Ray Charles, Barbara Morrison demonstrates her full range of musicality and fun.
A Journey Round My Skull
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2014
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
Ricky and Dave - Gigglelos
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica Innes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dragonfly
- 20th Aug, 2014
Ricky and Dave – Gigglelos is a Free Fringe show and hour of light humour that relaxes you into laughing in a comfortable atmosphere.
Sophie Willan: Novice Detective
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 24th Aug, 2014
Sophie Willian: Novice Detective is a stand up show homage to daytime TV detective programmes like Murder She Wrote and Poirot and when focused on these it’s about as good as you…
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Review
- ★★★★
- Natalia Equihua
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 14th Aug, 2014
Spain during the 1930s.
Short Stories – True Song Tales from the American Edge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2014
Short Stories - True Song Tales from the American Edge is an acoustic solo show from Kiya Heartwood, an award-winning American singer-songwriter.
A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
My first clue should have been the warmup.
Dreams of Peace and Freedom
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C south
- 5th Aug, 2014
Part choral performance, part spoken word, Dreams of Peace and Freedom charts the development of the European Convention of Human Rights, reciting passages from one of its main c…
John Robertson: The Dark Room
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 19th Aug, 2014
Returning to the Fringe for the third year running, this text adventure game-gone-big seems to have more lives than it gives its players.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Review
- ★★★
- Cara Ballingall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 8th Aug, 2014
Billing itself as “The Rocky Horror Show for the new millennium”, this is a raucous, glitter-fuelled ride through a disco universe.
Jim Holland: Shoegazing
- Review
- ★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 7th Aug, 2014
Jim Holland is an introvert who likes hats and two-toned shoes.
Bulletproof
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 10th Aug, 2014
“What happens when you think you’re being hilarious and other people just think you are causing anarchy?” Despite beginning with a gripping premise about censors, sensitivity a…
FanFiction Comedy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2014
Big-time book nerd Lev Grossman once told Time magazine that “fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band…
Bill Clinton Hercules
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 20th Aug, 2014
Bill Clinton was one of America’s glowing presidents, a shining democrat in the fashion of Jimmy Carter and even America’s beloved JFK.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 5th Aug, 2014
Outside, the queue is teeming.
Danny Bhoy: 12 Nights, 12 Charities
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 7th Aug, 2014
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
John Conway Tonight
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd Aug, 2014
The John Conway Tonight show is an oddball comedy night that could be called A Comedian’s Descent into Madness.
Russell Hicks: Unprepared
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 7th Aug, 2014
You’ve got to have a bit of a thick skin to go to Russell Hicks: Unprepared.
Peter Straker Black Magic
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd Aug, 2014
Peter Straker’s arrived in Edinburgh ladies and gentlemen.
Twins
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet
- 1st Aug, 2014
Twins Jack and Annie McGrath have put on a sketch show at the Edinburgh Fringe in a desperate bid to find their third, long lost brother.
Kate Lucas and Dave Green: Well-Adjusted
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
‘Delightfully crude, gleefully nasty’ (Chortle.
No Strings
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 19th Aug, 2014
Not another student sketch show?! Bear with me, this one’s above the rest.
Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2014
The Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show at the Cabaret Bar in the Pleasance Courtyard claims to be the longest running and most successful lunchtime show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sparks
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C cubed
- 6th Aug, 2014
It is either apt or ironic that a show whose set recreates a building site feels a little messy.
Baby Wants Candy present The Improv All Star Explosion!
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 19th Aug, 2014
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.
Kraken
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2014
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.
Glen Matlock: I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 2nd Aug, 2014
One of the founding members of the Sex Pistols and co-writer of most of their iconic songs, Glen Matlock has arrived at the Edinburgh Festival for one week only for an evening that…
Breakfast Baps with Witty Chaps
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 5th Aug, 2014
Gooood Morning! Breakfast Baps with Witty Chaps starts at 9am.
Dave Waller: Where My Folk To?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Wee Pub
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Dave grew up as a rap nerd in a Cornish village.
Big Brass
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 15th Aug, 2014
For those who run at the mere mention of the phrase ‘musical comedy’, this sketch show is for you.
Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2014
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
Lords of Strut: Chaos
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 23rd Aug, 2014
If you were the kind of kid that rocked out in your room with hairbrush in hand (or if you do it to this day), you’ll like Lords of Strut: Chaos.
King Arthur
- Review
- ★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 31st Jul, 2014
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
The Blues Brothers- Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 14th Aug, 2014
These Blues Brothers take a cliché and put their own mark on it.
Dave Callan: A Little Less Conversation
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 9th Aug, 2014
If you fit into the overlappy bit of a Venn diagram of people who like dance, people who like comedy and people who like men who look a bit like Vikings, this show is for you.
Laika: A Space Dogyssey
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 7th Aug, 2014
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…
Jack and I
- Review
- ★★
- Jenny Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 1st Aug, 2014
The unsolved mystery of Jack the Ripper has provided constant fascination for people around the world ever since the grisly murders were committed.
Thünderbards: Seconds
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2014
With a show based around time travel, Thunderbards make a whole hour zip merrily by.
Dan Jones: New Kid
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug, 2014
Dan Jones: New Kid is a character-based stand up show in which Jones’ hopeless characters try desperately to entertain and showcase their talents.
Will Seaward's Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories!
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 20th Aug, 2014
On a dark and stormy night at the Fringe, Will Seaward’s Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories will warm your cockles rather than chill you to the bone.
The Twins Macabre: Small Mediums at Large
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
David O'Doherty Has Checked Everything
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2014
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.
Shellshock! Improv Live!
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 8th Aug, 2014
Shellshock! Improv Live! features a daring band of young performers improvising sketches entirely from audience suggestion.
The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 1st Aug, 2014
Produced by C theatre, The Snow Queen is a charming adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Karina Wilson.
BEASTS: Solo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Potted Sherlock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2014
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…
Knightmare Live - Level 2
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th Aug, 2014
For fans of the original kids’ show, Knightmare Live - Level 2 is a dream come true.
Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2014
“What is it that frightens you?” Tom Neenan asks at the start of this one-man pastiche of an Edwardian ghost story.
Lee Griffiths: Post Traumatic Sketch Disorder
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
Lee Griffiths: Post-Traumatic Sketch Disorder lays out the comic’s psyche by following Freud (just about) through funny family hang-ups by way of kid’s books, cock lengths and cr…
Mark Grist & MC Mixy: Dead Poets' Death Match
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 13th Aug, 2014
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.
Beth Vyse: Get Up With Hands!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2014
Hands down, Get Up With Hands! is the funniest thing I’ve seen at the Fringe this year.
Rachel Parris: Live in Vegas
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
Parliament House: A Hidden Gem - Free
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Parliament House
- 28th Jul - 29th Aug 2014
To celebrate the completion of a five year redevelopment project, this exhibition, within the splendid Parliament Hall, gives an insight into the life, history and traditions of th…
The Original Underground Tour
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meet outside Tron Kirk at Auld Reekie Tours Boards
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Welcome to Edinburgh’s dark and dirty side.
King Kirby
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amanda Miller
- Off Off Broadway
- The Brick
- 29th Jun, 2014
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.
King Kirby
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- Brick Theater
- 1st Jun 2014
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…
King of the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Pitts
- Brighton Fringe
- St James’s Street Pop Up
- 2nd Jun, 2014
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
Children's Shows and Workshops
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Academy of Creative Training / The Old Market
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2014
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
House of Tragic She
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 30th May - 1st Jun 2014
In a blend of physical theatre and contemporary dance, four women explore the effects of loneliness on emotional wellbeing and literature’s constant re-interpretations of madness…
Dave Griffiths: C U in Court
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 23rd - 26th May 2014
‘C U in Court’ is the extraordinary true story of how award-winning comedian Dave Griffiths obsessively fought clothing giant French Connection for his right to wear his CNUT t-shi…
King & Country World War 1 Opera
- Review
- ★★★★
- Duncan Grindall
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 29th May, 2014
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Jazz at the Meeting House
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 21st May 2014
The Brighton based John Lake Trio will be performing an evening of original melodic modern jazz composed by John Lake along with some covers of modern standards from bands such as …
Jack Bull
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Gallery40
- 20th - 25th May 2014
Jack Bull creates mixed media paintings; this is his first solo exhibition showcasing a selection of new and unseen pieces from over the last four years.
The Greatest Shows on Earth
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 17th May 2014
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
The House Project
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amber Gregory
- Brighton Fringe
- 45 Springfield Road
- 26th May, 2014
A house reverberating with the sounds of different generations; different times – joined together by the walls around them.
King Porter Stomp + Kings Mews
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Green Door Store
- 16th May 2014
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
Jack and the Beans... Talk
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 5th - 31st May 2014
You think you know the story? Think again.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Burrow at The Warren
- 5th - 25th May 2014
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Review
- ★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 6th May, 2014
Feathers, glitter, gold lame and The Weather Girls.
Farley Farm House
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Farley Farm House
- 4th - 25th May 2014
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, whose guests included Picasso, Man Ray and Miró.
TJ & Dave
- Listing Comedy
- Off Broadway
- Barrow Street Theater
- 3rd May 2014
The Chicago long-form improvisers TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, the focus of the 2009 documentary “Trust Us, This Is All Made Up,” return to the Barrow Street Theate…
House of Blakewell's House Party
- Review
- ★★★
- Jay Kidd
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 5th May, 2014
Welcome to Alice and Harry’s house party.
BABY/LON
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- Hackney Downs Studios
- 21st Apr, 2014
‘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…
Ushers: The Front Of House Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jules Sanderson
- London Fringe
- The Players Theatre
- 9th Apr, 2014
“No one dreams of becoming an Usher!” Cry the desperate stars of Ushers: The Front Of House Musical, as they face up to yet another night of flogging ice creams and programmes …
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Abigail Lewis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- 13th Aug, 2012
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- 1st Mar 2014
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Performers
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug 2013
Close of Fringe event for all performers no matter what venue or organisation. Come to famous Jam House: mingle, drink, celebrate, wind down, live music. First annual event.
Ross Couper and Tom Oakes
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2013
Hailing from Shetland and Devon respectively, Ross Couper (fiddle) and Tom Oakes (guitar, flute) are a dynamic duo who incorporate many of the elements of traditional Scottish and …
VAMM
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2013
Halfway through their electrifying set at the Assembly Rooms, VAMM paused to tell us that their name is an old Shetlandic word meaning ‘to bewitch or entrance’.
Flamenco for Kids
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Families lined up outside C ECA’s Main Theatre seemed very excited to go to see this show, one girl was even dressed in a flamenco dress already.
Jack, Or the Submission
- Review
- ★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2013
When it comes to absurdity there are not many names more famous than Eugene Ionesco.
CineFringe Film Festival 2013
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
CineFringe is a small affair, yet its efforts to fly the filmic flag at the Fringe are admirable.
A Career in Theatre Management
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien…
Slap and Giggle: Recharged
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Double act comedy is very difficult.
Dave Callan: The Psychology of Laughter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th - 26th Aug 2013
Dave read a book called the Psychology of Laughter, from 1913.
Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
A variety show isn’t just a very pleasant smattering of tasters, but a study in miniature of what comedians are finding funny these days.
Our Glass House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
Wester Hailes, a suburb of Edinburgh, is about as much of a potential tourist destination as the moon.
Who Runs the World?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
Murder, She Didn't Write
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
The Odyssey of Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Agnes Chambre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
The incredibly talented team that comprises the Paper Crane Company has hit the Fringe this year with a new and original piece of theatre.
The Jive Aces - King of the Swingers Tour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 13th Aug 2013
UK’s No.
Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
All the King's Men - Knight Fever!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Justin McCarthy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
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…
All the King's Men Presents
- Review
- ★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
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.
Dinner with the King of the Swingers
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th - 25th Aug 2013
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
In the Pink - Fabulous Female a Cappella!
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Kourtney Kardashian.
Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th - 24th Aug 2013
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Foodies Festival
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
The Foodies Festival largely delivers what it promises: ‘Artisan producers’ - check; ‘Michelin-starred chefs cooking live’ - check; ‘the best in fine food and drink’ �…
Get Conceptual
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
The concept of a conceptual art discussion, held in a faux-Victorian salon-style parlour is the epitome of metaphorical marmite: some people would love a chance to languidly wax ly…
Reginald D Hunter: In the Midst of Crackers
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
In his new show, Reginald D Hunter carves a far more introspective figure than the jovial presence we are accustomed to seeing on TV.
Simon Hoggart: House Of Fun - Twenty Glorious Years in Parliament
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug 2013
One of the Guardian’s top sketch writers at Westminster, will give a hilarious talk about the politicians, prime ministers, poseurs, poltroons and pratfalls he has seen.
The Hour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Littered with pickled brains and collectible little curios, Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge feels as much an absinthe-addled emporium of wonders as it does a gin-slinging sales …
Edinburgh: A Literary City
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
It is difficult to discuss Allan Foster’s talk, Edinburgh: A Literary City, in division from its glorious venue: the ostentatiously oddball Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge.
BBC: Jazz House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug 2013
Stephen Duffy presents The Jazz House on BBC Radio Scotland.
King of the Swingers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th - 26th Aug 2013
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Alaska's King Island Christmas
- Review
- ★★
- Agnes Chambre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
Zombie Prom
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Given the title, you could be forgiven for assuming this was a show that relied on wackiness for its own sake, à la Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Dave Bailey and Friends Comedy Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 26th Aug 2013
Comedian Dave Bailey ‘definitely funny and loads of good gags’ (BAFTA) performs 30 minutes of stand-up and is supported by two top comedians from the circuit doing 15 minute se…
Danny the Champion of the World - Plays for Children
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
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.
BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 24th Aug 2013
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Jack and Jill and the Red Postbox
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 11th Aug 2013
Sensitive, humorous and challenging theatre performance using projection, nursery rhymes, live and recorded sound/music which encourages us to think about how we live and work alon…
Nitekirk - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Setting up within the whitewashed walls of Greyfriars Church, Nitekirk is a gentle affair.
Oh My Darling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
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 …
Casual Violence Presents: House of Nostril
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Jamie Hamilton is an energetic and inventive sketch writer, with an unusual ability to take conventions from other genres and spin them until they become surreal.
Rory and Tim: On the House
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Completing a hat trick of free Fringe shows, confusingly-named trio Rory and Tim return with a new hour of sketch comedy.
If the Queen Can Have an Official Birthday, So Can I, and These 22 Days Are It
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2013
I’m trying to give up cake. Everything else is optional. Perhaps PBH’s final one-man show at the Fringe. Or not.
Jack Jerome
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
SYTYF semi-finalist and Max Turner New Act finalist Will Cooper presents his comic creation Jack Jerome who will educate you on how life should be lived, not in a patronising way, …
Dick Lee's Swingtet featuring Ali Affleck
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Late Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2013
For its 12th year Comedy Zoo’s Late Show moves to the Cabaret Bar, providing Pleasance Courtyard with a dose of raucous late-night stand-up.
Uncle Henry's Happy Hour
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Claiming to have made millions with an 80s boomtime business in the corrugated iron industry (before subsequently nose-diving into bankruptcy), Uncle Henry is certainly rather rich…
Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
King Creosote
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Blacksell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
The Full Bronte! Literary Cabaret
- Review
- ★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
“Faster than pen can set it down, came panic, rushing, crushing—a blind, selfish, cruel chaos.
Indian Peter’s Coffee House
- Review
- ★★★
- Alice Longhurst
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
‘The Canty Hole’ might sound a bit rude to modern ears but it’s actually the title of a Robert Fergusson poem about Edinburgh.
The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
King Kong the Musical!
- Review
- ★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
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.
Adam Buxton: Kernel Panic
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Give Me a Tune
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Away from the bustle of the festival’s main late-night venues in the attic room of The Outhouse, Chris Clark and his band provide a relaxing evening with tunes from the Great Ame…
Katerina Vrana: Feta With The Queen
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lucy Hoggan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2013
Katerina Vrana’s multinational show is the kind of comedy gold that makes the Free Fringe all the more worthwhile.
Duvet Dave
- Review
- ★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
Who is Duvet Dave? I’m not really allowed to say exactly who, but I can describe him.
The Tom Show: The Grand Tour
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
The Suicidal Tendencies of Sheep and a Dog Called the Hoff
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2013
In this new play from the Just Like The Precipitation Theatre Company, Declan drags his childhood friends JJ, Alistair and Robbie to a decidedly grotty hotel in Edinburgh during th…
Sam Rose in the Shadows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
You All Know Me - I'm Jack Ruby!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
This powerful and intense one man show tells the story of Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald just days after Oswald himself as…
Superhero Snail Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 6th Aug, 2013
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.
Superbard: The Flood
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
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…
The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
The art of kamishibai - a Japanese form of ‘paper play’ in which tales are told with illustrated slides drawn one by one through a central frame both physical and fictional - i…
Tim Renkow and Dave Millett Are Meandering With Purpose
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 26th Aug 2013
The world is all puddles and night buses, and these two North American comics aren’t certain to succeed without a specific goal or precise vision for the future.
Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2013
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
Ellis & Rose: Big in Denmark
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
The Islanders
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
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…
The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Bonanza / Free Festival
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
A mad mish-mash of absurdism and warped nostalgia, encountering the Bob Blackman Appreciation Society felt more akin to my psyche bleeding out into the back room of an old boozer t…
Bangalore Rock
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Indian trio Thermal And A Quarter arrive in Edinburgh on their Bangalore Rock tour to brighten up the Fringe with their impressive brand of funky rock music.
Esio Trot
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
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…
The King and Queen of the Universe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Justin McCarthy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
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…
Dave Griffiths: C U In Court
- Review
- ★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Dave Griffiths is clearly a determined man.
Rich Hall's Hoedown
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
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.
For the Trumpets Shall Sound
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
If Siegfried Sassoon had written Brideshead Revisited, the result would likely resemble Another Company’s original piece, For The Trumpets Shall Sound.
Alistair Green Is Jack Spencer: Sex Addict
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Edwards
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Sex, heroine and general debauchery - Alistair Green and his alter-ego Jack Spencer want to change the world, three steps at a time.
Rik n Mix
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
Micheline Sings Brel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
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.
Multi-Levelled Morons - Free
- Review
- ★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
To give a show this title, considering the easy barbs that could be made at its expense, is perhaps brave.
Will Seaward: Socialist Fairytales!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
This Was the World and I Was King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Nicole Adam
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
Knightmare Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
- 7th Aug, 2013
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…
Jay Foreman: No More Colours
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
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…
Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Review
- ★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
AAA Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Perhaps a case of mis-selling the show at Pleasance Courtyard, the audience for AAA Stand Up was of a distinctly middle age and much of the material used by three comedians in the …
Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2013
‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist…
Don't Drop the Egg
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Comedy troupe GibbensMagnusJones’ YouTube mockumentary Don’t Drop The Egg, following the lives of three members of the fictional Clapham Falcons RFC, provided an effective and …
Chris Fitchew in Jack of All Trades
- Review
- ★★
- Melissa Lawford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Jack of All Trades is full of energy and will sometimes entertain its audience, but it doesn’t really have enough wit to qualify as comedy.
WitTank presents The School
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
‘Bastardi Sumus Absolutam’ (‘We Are Absolute Bastards’) reads the school motto beneath the crest that welcomes the audience on arrival to WitTank’s The School.
Sotho Sounds: Junk Funk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
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.
John Robins - Where Is My Mind?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Blackfriar’s Basement
- 1st Aug, 2013
For most of this show, Robins’ mind is on the 24th of August, 2001, the greatest day of his life.
Seann Walsh: The Lie-in King
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
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…
Katie Goodman: I Didn't F*ck It Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
My Brother the Robot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
Pajama Men - Just the Two of Each of Us
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
Chris Dugdale - Magic and Mischief!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
The Horne Section Live in a Cow
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Skelton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Fringe favourite Alex Horne returns with his accomplished band to entertain the late-night crowds, this time in an inflatable cow.
Phill Jupitus and Deborah Frances-White: Voices in Your Head - The Phill Jupitus Experiment
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
Mary, Queen of Scots
- Review
- ★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
In precisely the same manner as is the sumptuously propagandist portrait that opens it, this exhibition is one transparently motivated by an effort at pure populism.
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
A few hours spent interrogating From Death to Death and Other Small Tales - the Scottish National Gallery’s brilliant new exhibition - feels as much like a psychic regression ses…
Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
The title ‘Coming into Fashion’ proves incredibly appropriate for this exhibition.
Art of Alison Kinnaird - Luminesce
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Aptly for an exhibition of graphite and glasswork, Alison Kinnaird’s Luminesce is a gentle and delicate affair.
City of the Dead Haunted Graveyard Tour
- Review
- ★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
It could be deemed ironic that our group was thrice threatened with murder before our tour had kicked off.
Terror Tour
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
The name Auld Reekie Tours, our intrepid tour guide informs us, is taken from an old affectionate nickname for Edinburgh herself; it refers to the stench and smoke of olden-day roa…
The House Of Edgar
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- New Wimbledon Theatre / The Playground Theatre
- 4th - 6th Jul 2018
Edgar Allan Poe is dead.
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Review
- ★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2006
It is one month before Federico Garcia Lorcas death and he has just completed his latest play, The House of Bernarda Alba.
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)
- Review
- ★★★
- Heather Doughty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Part of the American High School Theatre Festival, Scarlett High School from Canada present Platus’ 200 B.
Once in a House on Fire
- Review
- ★★★
- Catherine Bryer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
From Manchester’s Monkeywood Theatre comes a drama set in 1970s-80s Manchester.
La Clique Royale - The Queen’s Selection
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lynne Marie Martens
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
La Clique Royale is possibly the least family friendly circus extravaganza you’ll find in Edinburgh and it’s not to be missed.
Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2011
Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work.
Hairdresser in the House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Fritzie Andrade
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2006
I have to admit, I had no idea what to expect upon entering Barabbas production of Hairdresser in the House.
Death and the King's Horseman
- Review
- ★★★★
- John C Kennedy
- London Fringe
- 14th Apr, 2009
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…
Red Riding Hood and the Wolves
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
The Alchemystorium
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
The Shaman's Dream
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
In the gardens of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly known as the Dean Gallery), a combined cast of Scottish performers and the Norwegian company Stella Polaris put o…
Joe Bor: In Search of the Six Pack
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Hamlet House of Horror
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ashleigh Wheeler
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2011
Forget reimaginings and modernisations - Hamlet House of Horror takes the bad Quarto in a vicelike grip and shakes it until there’s nothing left but life, noise, and fun.
Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Likely the most enjoyable corporate seminar you’ll see at the Fringe, Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines is warm and entertaining from the start.
Pool of Blood
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Presented at first by a set of large barrels and some odds and ends - a keyboard player, percussionist, and bass guitarist, as well as some well made-up actors - it was easy to mak…
Best in the World
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
The Northern Stage at St Stephen’s is a rather wonderful room, and the Unfolding Theatre Company’s Best in the World – directed by Annie Rigby, written by Carina Rodney and p…
Andrew and the Pony
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
‘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…
Sex Money Death
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
The tiny room in the Shack Comedy Club on Rose Street was a fitting venue for an intimate, surprisingly generous and occasionally bleak comedy set from Stuart Black, which often fe…
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2011
Right, listen here.
Superbard Starts to Save the World
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
George Lewkowicz’s Superbard Starts to Save the World never quite finds its feet despite game attempts by the show’s creator to inject life into its rather confused narrative.
Painters
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave West
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2006
Set on a building site, Next On Theatres show is an acrobatic, exciting and occasionally funny trip into the world of three northern painters and decorators.
The House of Shadows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Michael Tansini
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Within the House of Shadows, there is an explanation for cultural popularity that I found rather endearing.
Iron Brew
- Review
- ★
- Dave West
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2006
A can of Iron Bru, a sugary gas-filled concoction known across the land as fizzy pop, is presented to theatre goers as they take their seats for Roar Productions Edinburgh offeri…
Ha Ha Yum! Maeve Does Stand-up while Lilly makes Cakes
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave West
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2006
This does largely what it says on the tin, though tinned goods would be beyond the pale for these two sisters as they long for the simple pleasures of the 1950s: baking and pr…
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Brighton Fringe
- 3rd May, 2009
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Newland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
From the start it was clear that this show was going to be a very professional one.
Dave Gorman's Power Point Presentation
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2011
Dave Gorman has formed a double act - with a projection screen.
Growing Growing ... Gone! The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2007
Panto usually involves a cast of thousands, huge sets and the theatrical magic supplied by trap doors, smoke machines and flying apparatus.
This is Who I Am!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
The lights go up on a simple but effective set - a mirror, two chairs, and a coat-stand in the corner - a sparseness that serves to foreground the characters and their idiosyncrati…
Circus of the Orient
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
Dave Gibson and Charlie Talbot - Battle of Britain: North vs South
- Review
- ★★
- Stephanie Bartlett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…
House of Mirrors and Hearts
- Review
- ★★★★★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2010
A scream offstage and Laura enters covered in blood.
Major Jack Union's Victorian Monster-Hunting Tea
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Gross
- Brighton Fringe
- 28th May, 2012
Entering a room full of trays of sandwiches, scones, cakes and ‘tea’ which turned out to be minty cocktails in tea-cups (it is sponsored by Hendricks after all) held a whole lo…
Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Jack Barry and Patrick Turpin: Your New Mild Friends
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Bartlett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
This pair of independent comedians is sure to evoke a titter from even the stoniest of critics.
Time for the Good Looking Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
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.
Stitches: Stand-up. Slightly Strangely - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Hackett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
You’d be hard pressed to find a free hour of comedy at the Fringe as well-structured and thoughtful as ‘Stitches’.
King Creosote
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2012
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 21st Nov, 2012
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
Grimaldi: King of the Clowns
- Review
- ★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
Brilliant Books for Kids
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
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…
Dream or Not?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
This is easily the most unusual thing I have ever seen at the Fringe.
The Fabulous Chopin Boys
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
This show marks the 164th anniversary of the visit Chopin made, beleaguered by illness, to Edinburgh in 1848.
Brotherly Love - Free
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2011
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
Art House
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Damian Sandys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2009
In this world premiere from Rachael Coopes, Daniel Goldman’s superb direction reveals a taut piece of drama that is utterly captivating to watch.
Monsters Got Talent
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
First things first, every ticket for this show costs a fiver, which is far better value than so many other children’s productions on in Edinburgh during August and for this £5, …
Wee Andy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Jack The Lad
- Review
- ★★★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2006
The poster for Perfume Productions presentation of this new play by Matt Harris is one of the most eye-catching and provocative, asking Have You Been To A Male Prostitute? I…
Seann Walsh: Seann to be Wild
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Seann Walsh appeared in front of a sold-out, 336-strong crowd at Pleasance Courtyard’s Beyond, and despite a lot of energy and bravado in his performance, this is a case of a sho…
Springboard
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
The Performing Arts Studio Scotland hosts Springboard, a triple-bill of original dance pieces that gives young and emerging dancers, students and graduates the chance to perform.
Cu*ts
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
Clooney, Cowell, Pitt and Me: Amusing Encounters with the A-List
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Sandro Monetti’s show Clooney, Cowell, Pitt and Me: Amusing Encounters With the A-List does more or less what it says on its somewhat over-titled tin.
The Summer House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Clarissa Widya
- London Fringe
- 2nd Mar, 2012
The stag night: one of the last remaining bastions of masculinity.
A Christmas Carol
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 8th Dec, 2012
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
Mr B's Chap-Hop Hoorah!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
There were clearly some diehard fans in this audience - they began to mime along and dance as soon as Mr B, heralded by his butler, graced the Ballroom stage of the Voodoo Rooms wi…
Moment House
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2010
In this collaboration between American and Hungarian theatre companies, a poignant story unfolds about the turning points and decisive moments that can change a life forever.
Tim FitzHigham: Gambler
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
Author
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2010
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…
Squirrel Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2007
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…
Dracula
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2007
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…
This is an insult to Beckett and Fo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2007
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…
ASBO! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
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…
Chris Difford and Norman Lovett: It's All About Me!
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
It always helps a performance when the audience is packed, in tune with the performers and ready for a good laugh.
Truant TV
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
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
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
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…
King Lear: The Pantomime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2008
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
An Audience with the King
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
Ben Hustwayte & Jack Campbell: Get It On
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Straight out of Cambridgeshire and truly embracing the spirit of the fringe, Get It On is a stand-up comedy show that showcases two up and coming performers called Ben Hustwayte an…
Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ruth Atkinson
- Brighton Fringe
- 21st May, 2012
Most famous for her role as Dobby in Peep Show, Isy Suttie’s ‘Pearl and Dave’ proved a truly enjoyable and uplifting evening.
All the King's Men - It's Reigning Men!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
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…
Sean Hughes - Life Becomes Noises
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Fringe mainstay Sean Hughes is performing two shows at this year’s festival and has perhaps bravely decided to make his earlier show, Life Becomes Noises, an extended discourse o…
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
The Cactus Gulch Opry House
- Review
- ★★
- Michael Wilkinson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
The wacky trio from The Thistle Creek Thespian Society roll into the old saloon at Cactus Gulch, New Mexico, in 1889 to entertain Mayor Maynot and the apparently simple folk of the…
Carnival of Crows
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
By the end of her one woman gothic horror show, Molly Beth White has gathered all of her spooky accoutrements and the previous 50 minutes’ themes into one rather triumphant macab…
The Gambler
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Theatre Re’s production, The Gambler, is a remarkable piece of theatre: slick, imaginative, engaging and flawlessly executed.
Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
Will You Hold My Hand?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
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.
Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2009
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Revolting Rhymes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
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.
Wuthering Heights
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
This production of Wuthering Heights, adapted from the original novel by Emily Brontë, started well.
Protest Moans and Megaphones
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Henry Raby’s fifty minutes in Bashee Labyrinth is expressly presented as a place to try new material and get a breather from his regular show, Letter to the Man (from the Boy), i…
Take Desire Away by Mansel David
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
Too Cool To Care
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
The Submarine Show
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Fifty minutes of pure immersion.
Stick Stock Stone Dead
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Stick Stock Stone Dead is a piece written and performed entirely by the under 18-year-olds of the CrazySchemeTheatre company, and while the show is a decent first attempt at physic…
An Edam Odyssey
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
The Picture House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Choc-a-block with catchy tunes and feel-good fun, The Picture House tells the story of Penny and Oscar, a sweet couple torn apart by the Second World War.
All the King's Men - Putting It Together Again
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Priestnall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Aug, 2011
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
Scales of the Unexpected
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2012
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
Back to School's Disco
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The concept behind this production was brilliant and ingenious: Take one group of 20-somethings and send them back to school.
One Man and His Masks - Boudicca: Britain's Dreaming
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
McNeil and Pamphilon
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Three-time Fringe veterans Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon treat the Pleasance Baby Grand with an energetic and slightly delirious hour of comedy that manages to acknowledge its deb…
Call Me!
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
The show is based on a simple concept: three women leave horrendously awkward voicemails on the phones of their male love interests, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Peter Pan - Learn to Fly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
Pretty When I'm Drunk
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
Palimpsest One
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Pistol & Jack – Smash.Glam.Sex.Music.
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
Jack Foster and Carolyn Anona Scott
- Review
- ★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Sitting on the edge of the stage, this adept duo quite literally comes down to the level of the audience.
Pete Firman: Jiggery Pokery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
Shane Koyczan - Talk Rocker
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
Canadian spoken word artist Shane Koyczan is an intense young man whose poems explore some thoroughly emotional ground regarding his childhood, his grandparents, his early relation…
The Red Bus Puppet Shows
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Barwell Prophecy
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
This show has a strong concept from the outset, but the performance lets this concept down by rendering it uninteresting.
The King's Got Donkey's Ears!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ian Billings
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
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…
Mr Benn: The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Man
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
Jack Whitehall - Nearly Rebellious
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2009
Last week, after a particularly late night out getting my major organs in training for the month that is simply referred to as Edinburgh, I had my first Festival encounter of J…
Nick Hodder: Insert Comedy Here!
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
Dante
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Adapting Dante’s Inferno for the stage would be a tall order at the best of times, but the Louisiana State University Theatre company set themselves an exceedingly difficult task…
Robin Hood Queen Of Thieves
- Review
- ★★★★
- David Scott
- London Fringe
- 3rd Dec, 2010
Theyre sold out until the end of time (well, the end of the run anyway) so its pretty academic if I say that this is the funniest, silliest, campest, rudest, coarsest, most pre…
Splitting the Bill – Michael Workman & Tommy Little
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
In the Gilded Balloon’s Dining Room the twinned stand up sets of Australian comics Michael Workman and Tommy Little provided some wonderfully imaginative laughs, a pleasing contr…
Much Ado About Nothing
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 7th Sep, 2012
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.
King of Scotland
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
Matt Tiller's Musical Messaround
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
The Lost Child
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
This production began with a cute song that went on for a little too long with an inartistic, uninteresting cartoon world displayed on a huge screen at the back of the stage.
The Cider House Rules
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2005
John Irving is a unique modern storyteller who creates rich plots inhabited with vivid characters, much in the same style as Dickens.
It's A Puppet Life
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Hans Christian Andersen’s stories continue to enchant children and adults alike and ‘The Snow Queen’ remains a popular favourite on stage.
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
- Review
- ★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2010
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is a glam-rock musical that returns to its spiritual home in Edinburgh.
Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his…
The Phoenix: A Failure On a Mission
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Dave McNeill: Canoe Ride 3000
- Review
- ★★★
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Dave McNeill oozes conviction.
All the King's Men - Picking Up the Pieces
- Review
- ★★★
- Amy Crothers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
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 …
Full Stage Splash: A Comic Look at the Comic Book
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
The Dead Memory House
- Review
- ★★★
- Mary Chapman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Theatre Corsair opens its doors to a space that is transformed seamlessly into an apartment where the lives of three women collide in this site-specific performance of The Dead Mem…
All the Queen's Children
- Review
- ★★★★
- Robin T. Barton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2010
This young company have taken on a huge and emotive subject here; the plight of young children who arrive in this country as refugees, unaccompanied by adults.
Bridget Christie - The Court Of King Charles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2007
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.
Jack Whitehall: Learning Difficulties
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rob Hayward
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2010
Jack Whitehall is a man on top of his game.
Jack the Ripper: Facts, No Fiction
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dale Phoenix
- Brighton Fringe
- 17th May, 2013
Jack the Ripper is undoubtedly acknowledged as a tall figure in a top hat, creeping through the foggy streets of London’s East End and pouncing on lascivious ladies of the night.
Crab House - A Bloody Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
Musicals bring me out in a rash.
Jack the Knife
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tony Challis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2010
Jack Klaff was outside chatting to audience members for some time before the show, and shook our hands as we entered.
Jack Pratchard
- Review
- ★★★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2010
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.
Ben Moor: Not Everything is Significant
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2008
As I left Ben Moors new show, Not Everything is Significant, I was accosted by a fellow audience member who noticed my I thought carefully concealed press pass.
66a Church Road: A Lament Made of Memories and Kept in Suitcases
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2008
Home is where Daniel Kitsons heart is.
The Madness of King Lear
- Review
- ★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
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…
Patterson and Ranganathan
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
In a really charming and comfortable little room at the back of the White Horse on Canongate, Jason Patterson and Romesh Ranganathan put on an hour of pretty charming stand up.
The Space Between My Head and My Body
- Review
- ★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2008
A new theatre company created in 2007, Gin in the Teas first production The Space Between My Head and My Body shows promise for the future but lacks narrative drive and clarity.
Jamie Kilstein - There Is No God and That's Okay
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2008
You have your Fringe Picks, your Comedy Highlights, the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, all intended to direct you to the big names that you should see.
Jack Heal's Murderthon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Jack Heal’s Murderthon is as ecstatically funny as the man himself.
Crocosmia
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2008
It is always exciting to find a young company at the Fringe who demonstrate real and tangible potential to create vibrant, vivid and affecting new work.
Paul Kelly
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly played to a packed Queen’s Hall with his own brand of low-key folk-rock, featuring only him and his nephew Dan Kelly, who played guitar an…
Alun Cochrane. Owner of a Shed. And a Son. Thinks the World is Wonky.
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2008
Alun Cochrane is the owner of a shed and a son and holds these as signs that he is growing up.
By the Way
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2008
Two friends embark upon a road trip through France, their surreal journey accompanied by an over-zealous and unconventional Sat Nav commentary, voiced by the marvellously monotonou…
Deep Cut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2008
Between June 1995 and March 2002, four young soldiers four young people were killed at Deep Cut barracks.
Architecting
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2008
Our World is dying think The TEAM, and we need to put it down.
Nocturne
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2008
Nocturne is that rarest most precious piece of theatre, the one for which you feel privileged at having it shared with you, the one where you do not want it to end so that you may …
Aeneas Faversham Forever
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2008
Whoever thought a Victorian sketch show would work? Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck The Penny Dreadfuls thats who, and they should be applauded for their ingenui…
Phoenix
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 30th Nov, 2013
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
Coitophobia
- Review
- ★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2007
Maria Roberts Coitophobia doesnt know what its about.
Tir Nan Og
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2007
Tir Nan Og is Paradise, the land of eternal youth.
Iszi Lawrence's Wotnot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Iszi Lawrence’s stand-up show Wotnot, a word that also doubles as her go-to euphemism for her vagina, is delightfully tricky to describe with concision.
Trippplicates Timetripppers!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2007
Trippplicate should be playing to full houses.
Lara A King - People Pleaser
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alasdair Richardson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Lara A.
Princess Pyunggang
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
This production looks wonderful: a funeral casket, flanked by beautifully painted Korean drums, sits centre stage.
Kieran and The Joes: Teampowered
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jack Hackett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
If there’s one thing that Kieran and the Joes know, it’s that if you want to inspire, you have to perspire.
Stoopud Fucken Animals
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2007
Stoopud Fucken Animals is very fucken impressive.
An Audience With Adrienne
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2007
Adrienne is the perfect host.
Yellow Moon
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2007
Following fairly significant fanfare David Greigs new play, Yellow Moon, tells a familiar story of adolescent confusion and discovery via a fresh and distinct mode of storytellin…
Hugh Hughes in ... Story of a Rabbit
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2007
Life is spectacular.
The Cagebirds
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
We all live our lives within walls.
Exits and Entrances - Athol Fugard
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dave London
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2007
I left Athol Fugards new play shaking, with tears in my eyes, as if I had just been party to some holy experience.
The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave Spencer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The pseudo-auditorium boxes in the theatre immediately made sure that there was a distinct ‘stage show’ feel to the performance, meaning that the audience knew from the start t…
Tea with the Old Queen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Adam Bloodworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Graham Woolnough’s lusciously bizarre backstage peek at the lives of royalty is a theatrical treat for those with any political disposition.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part II
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 5th Apr, 2012
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…
My House
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
What secret did the Chaplins, Carole Lombard, William Powell and a host of other film stars from the last century share? Witness the mystery unravel in one of the most notorious ho…
Ready, Set, Read: Jack and the Beanstalk
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
Join in with Jack and his friends in this interactive solo show adaptation with music by award-winning Front Room Theatre.
Death Is A Friend of Mine: Interview with Jack Avison
- Feature
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd May, 2024
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after a sold-out Scottish tour and an OFFFest win for Best Musical/Circus at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, writer and musical director of 'Godfath...
Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2023
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
The Queen's Court with Monét X Change
- Feature
- James Macfarlane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2023
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...
Dominique Salerno - I'm what would happen if Jack Black and Tina Fey had a baby.
- Feature
- James Macfarlane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Jul, 2023
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.
Wendy Weiner Brings Cursed House to Life
- Feature
- Elaine C
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Jul, 2023
We take a look at the intriguing and slightly macabre story of Wendy Weiner's Mystery House at the Edinburgh Fringe.
4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 16th Feb, 2019
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 11th Dec, 2018
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 17th Oct, 2018
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Black Friday Deals on West End Shows
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 23rd Nov, 2017
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
The King And I - On Sale Now
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 17th Nov, 2017
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...
Jack Rooke Opens Up about Mental Health
- Feature
- Henry St Leger
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2017
Jack Rooke's career was launched by his 2015 Fringe meditation on loss and mourning, Good Grief, which took him on a national tour, sold out at the Soho Theatre in London, and saw ...
Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Brighton Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2017
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 11th Apr, 2017
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Romola Garai And Emma Cunniffe To Star In The West End Transfer Of Queen Anne
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 2nd Feb, 2017
Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne.
The Counting House returns to the Laughing Horse’s Free Festival
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Jan, 2017
For the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe free shows will return to The Counting House venue on West Nicolson Street, following a one year hiatus with the venue being programmed under a paid s...
Dave Chawner’s Late-life Circumcision
- Feature
- Adrian Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2016
What do you do if you have to have a circumcision at age 27? Well if you’re Dave Chawner, you write an Edinburgh show about it.
Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th Mar, 2016
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
No joke. The Counting House goes Gilded Balloon [Updated]
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Feb, 2016
One of the Free Festival’s flagship Edinburgh venues, The Counting House, will be operated by The Gilded Balloon at this year’s Fringe it was revealed today.
King's Head show highlights growing Chemsex crisis
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 16th Jan, 2016
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.
Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- London Fringe
- 20th Dec, 2015
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
‘You can get away with anything dressed as Thatcher’ - Matt Tedford on inhabiting the Iron Lady for Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Feature
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 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...
Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe
- Feature
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2015
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
Going To Space: The King of Monte Cristo
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Mar, 2015
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.
The John Conway Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2014
John Conway is a wacky comedian all the way from Australia.
The Kiya Heartwood Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2014
Kiya Heartwood is an award-winning American singer-songwriter who writes smart, funny and poignant songs about the famous and not-so-famous legends of America.
The Cathy SK Lam Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2014
Cathy SK Lam is a writer, actor and director from Hong Kong.
The Jack Holden Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2014
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 ...
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