Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
The best of the sounds of the 60s, covering all genres of music and top-class musicians, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and more!
Meet Kim McVicar, the Canadian comedian who was listed among the Top 9 Female Comedians to Watch in 2023 by Incluvie.
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.
It’s been a bumpy few years in UK politics, and one story is particularly comical: Liz Truss’s stint as prime minister.
The Bristol Suspensions take you on a journey through their 10th year as a group – their triumphs, their pressures and everything in between.
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.
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Join Professor Alan Riach, author of Scottish Literature: An Introduction (‘magisterial’ (Times)), for a dynamic encounter with literary luminaries! Explore creativity, unravelling…
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, …
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…
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
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…
A fun family-friendly show! As Oxford Brookes University’s premier a cappella group, we are a talented, dynamic and experienced mixed gender musical ensemble.
It’s an Edinburgh debut for viral comedian Tom Hearn! This Canadian Comedy Award winner brings his comedic prowess to the Fringe stage, with jaw-dropping musical performances and…
All aboard for a musical adventure with Oxford University’s finest mixed a cappella group! A Fringe favourite for over 15 years that promises laughter and stunning vocal harmonies.
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Ring-a-ding-ding, you’ve got the King! Master of the crowd and slave to the laugh, Kyle Legacy is back with more riffs and less hair.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
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 …
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
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.
Better get your tickets quick because this is going to be one big hit once word gets around.
King John - Terrible King, Even Worse Play? Well, that’s not the view of Rendered Retina theatre company who, in their own words, have cut two hours, added plenty of songs, and t…
‘Hamilton’ meets ‘Pitch Perfect’: spontaneously Improvised! Imagine a new kind of musical: beatboxers, rappers, actors, singers, dancers and body percussionists - coming together …
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
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…
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton and Hove has always attracted women …
The Hove version of the Brighton tour! An animal rights champion, a rogue policewoman, a doctor who changed the way we thought about mental health are just a few of the woman who h…
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.
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
What exactly is acting your age? And who decides? These are the questions Alan Cumming has been grappling with for a very long time.
This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing.
Celebrating 50 years since the release of the iconic album The Dark Side of The Moon, UK Pink Floyd Experience recreate the sights and sounds of the legendary band in concert.
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.
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
Maddie Carpenter, a pop Americana artist deeply inspired by the sun-soaked landscapes of California, brings her own enchanting songwriting to the forefront alongside a tribute to f…
There’s nothing like the power of unaccompanied human voices singing together.
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
Two flatmates languish in the squalor of their living room.
Two flatmates languish in the squalor of their living room.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
Alan Bennett reminisces about his life.
Where Friends meets Pitch Perfect! The Bristol Suspensions tell a story of friendship and scandal using chart-topping hits, familiar characters, and funky choreography… not to me…
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…
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
Aca-Pocalypse and RadioOctave, two of the UK’s top 10 collegiate a cappella groups combine for the first time to bring you A Cappella: Double Treble.
Falkirk’s hardest woman faces her greatest challenge yet: surviving a pandemic with only vodka, fags and her BFF Babs on Zoom.
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a new script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing.
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
Moira’s back in this Fringe First-winning sequel.
Everyone knows about the code-breaking genius of Alan Turing, but behind the mathematical genius lay a man of great passion.
Join writer-performer Bissett as Moira: cleaner, single mum and the hardest woman in Falkirk, as she protects her wee Pepe from a neighbour’s dug, seduces a teacher in the school…
There is secret connection among all of us.
You’re invited! Renowned for their slick choreography, tight harmonies and unique arrangements, Durham University’s top a cappella group is back at the Edinburgh Fringe to celebr…
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…
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
Alright bab!? Debut stand-up hour from one of the most exciting voices to come out of Brum in recent years.
This is a brilliant show.
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Released in 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon is an album that transcends time, appealing as much today as it did in the days of experimental prog rock.
You’re invited! Renowned for their slick choreography, tight harmonies and unique arrangements, Durham University’s top a cappella group debuts at the Durham Fringe Festival to c…
You’re invited! Renowned for their slick choreography, tight harmonies and unique arrangements, Durham University’s top a cappella group debuts at the Durham Fringe Festival to c…
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Join Iva Hardie, Mistress of the Brioche, renowned homosexual and failed WWE wrestler, as he takes on a journey through the world of Musical Theatre and Stand up comedy.
Join Iva Hardie, Mistress of the Brioche, renowned homosexual and failed WWE wrestler, as he takes on a journey through the world of Musical Theatre and Stand up comedy.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Award-winning comedian Lara A King brings her unique brand of clever observational comedy, uplifting melodies and lyrical wordsmithery, to her spiritual home of Brighton with this …
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
An hour of stand-up comedy with up and coming comedian Cressida Wetton.
An hour of stand-up comedy with up and coming comedian Cressida Wetton.
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
It’s 1936.
‘Hamilton’ meets ‘Pitch Perfect’: spontaneously Improvised! Imagine a new kind of musical: beatboxers, rappers, actors, singers, dancers and body percussionists, come together as …
It’s 1936.
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
Kelly wants change.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
Heads up all you wannabe drag kings scattered all over the globe - we are kicking off the Year Of the King by bringing back our most popular online workshop, Drag King 101 with Dor…
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.
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…
"Maybe there's something wrong with both of us.
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
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 …
Theodora van der Beek’s Arts Council funded film telling the darkly comedic tale of a YouTuber princess trapped in a tower in a world of only pink.
One of The Guardian’s top five shows of 2021 returns for a limited run! Join The Duchess of Canvey on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart…
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…
Durham University Northern Lights are back in Edinburgh after a hugely successful run at the Fringe last year.
‘Blue Balloons Pink’ is an exciting piece of new writing which made it’s debut at Brighton Fringe in May.
‘Blue Balloons Pink’ is an exciting piece of new writing which made it’s debut at Brighton Fringe in May.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Quintet of sketch comedians seeking fun-loving and friendly audience, interested in a short, passionate fling, and maybe more.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Featuring former West End performers, this 2for1 tribute brings you two of the most iconic musicals of all time.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
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.
Durham Dynamics are on the move! We’ve hit the road to bring you 45 minutes of breath-taking a cappella.
Alan Turing – A Musical Biography.
Diane Chorley brings you her chart-topping podcast Chatting with Chorley live from the glamour of her cult 1980s nightclub The Flick.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Join cult songstress Diane Chorley, and sidekick Milky, as they bring back their iconic 80s nightclub The Flick, where the dancing doesn’t stop, the band keeps playing and the Baby…
Father Lee has left the confines of your TikTok For You Page and is alive and, well.
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
There’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo has risen from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land.
Internationally renowned jazz a cappella group The Oxford Gargoyles make their return to the Fringe.
Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World celebrates the life and work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014).
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…
A wonderful journey of song, celebrating some of the most iconic female singers and songwriters of the 60s-90s.
A wonderful journey of song, celebrating some of the most iconic female singers and songwriters of the 60s-90s.
‘Hamilton’ meets ‘Pitch Perfect’: spontaneously Improvised! Imagine a new kind of musical: beatboxers, rappers, actors, singers, dancers and body percussionists, come together as …
Touring productions of West End musicals can often feel like a poor shadow of their original run as they usually require considerable downscaling to easily fit into a multitude of …
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
‘Blue Balloons Pink’ by Daisy Roe is an exciting piece of new writing making its debut at Brighton Fringe.
‘Blue Balloons Pink’ by Daisy Roe is an exciting piece of new writing making its debut at Brighton Fringe.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, racing drivers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton & Hove has always at…
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, racing drivers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton & Hove has always at…
Hove has been home to women who have shaken our world.
Hove has been home to women who have shaken our world.
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 at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
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…
WE’RE BACK!After an AMAZING first night there, your favourite queer indie disco for common people heads back to the fabulously scuzzy Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club!Join us for a…
Evelyn Carnate Presents FILTHY IN PINK Featuring a cabaret dreamhouse of DIRTY BURLESQUE, FILTHY FANTASIES & HOT n HILARIOUS NIGHTMARES Plus a Filthy in Pink PARTY…
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Alan Cumming employs his usual charm and wit through story and song in a wickedly memorable performance.
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…
After a string of sell-out Fringe shows, Durham University’s award-winning mixed a cappella group are back with their most impressive show yet.
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
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…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
An ill-advised spectacle for the digital stage.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
When a fire rips through Serbia, Peter’s Instagram posts of the dramatic wilderness abruptly stop.
Celebrating over 50 Years of one of rock music’s most influential bands, UK Pink Floyd Experience recreate the sights and sounds of the legendary band in co…
When two alien women wash up on the shores of earth in their seashell spaceship all the way from Venus to lose their virginity, they are in for a shock to discover what lies before…
Hayley May Muirhead and Molly Dooner under the company name of Pink Mango Comedy, bring a show that is zany, bizzare, upbeat and sexually empowering for any females watching.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
From Ladies to ladies, scientists to sportswomen, Kemptown has inspired some incredible women.
From Ladies to ladies, scientists to sportswomen, Kemptown has inspired some incredible women.
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
“Drama King” is a compelling new one-man show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which tells the story of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
Miss Ruddock writes letters — not, unfortunately, social communications filled with harmless news — but letters of complaint, comment and, occasionally, officious praise to var…
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
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…
Steelworks present their debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Silver Linings, an exploration of the boundless possibilities of a cappella.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Who actually are we? Not on social media or when showing off? The real us? And why is there a difference? We have so much to deal with.
A night to remember our daughter, sister and friend Janine Benecke and all the other victims of drunk drivers.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
Come for a double at the Pilot Club! Two brand new sitcom pilots, read by the best comedy actors in Britain.
Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.
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 …
It's 2050 and in a galaxy not too far from our own, Planet Trash is the most dangerous place in the solar system - the dumping ground for the universe.
KING OF POP - THE LEGEND CONTINUES showcases the extraordinary talent of an impersonator who has performed for 28 years in over 350 international shows, 62 different cou…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
Care for a double at the Female Pilot Club? Two brand-new sitcom scripts are taken up for a spin.
There are quite a few variations on the Romeo & Juliet theme at this year’s Fringe, but few have as many puns as AcadePitch Presents - Romeo and Juliet: An A Capella Tragedy.
After their sell-out success last year with three Alan Bennett plays, BCP return with two of Ayckbourn’s short comedies performed back to back.
After their sell-out success last year with three Alan Bennett plays, BCP return with one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most recent tragi-comedies.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Aberdeen A Cappella.
The Songsmiths are pitching you the honest truth of what it’s really like to be in an a cappella group.
Cadenza is Cambridge University’s premier a cappella group.
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Craig Ferguson, the Grammy-nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning star of CBS’ The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and SiriusXM’s The Craig Ferguson Show, brings the wildly s…
Join seven of the UK’s top a cappella groups as we come together to share a selection of our best repertoire for one night only at Greyfriars Kirk in the heart of Edinburgh! Feat…
Peri is fifteen when her adopted mother dies.
A concert of close harmony, classical numbers and pop songs arranged for men’s voices and sung by St Mary’s Cathedral lay clerks.
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Join Diane as she recuts the red ribbon on her iconic 80s nightclub The Flick.
Using only their voices and innovative live looping techniques, international vocal sensation FreePlay sings you around the world without leaving your seat.
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.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Following sell-out runs in 2016 and 2018 Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show! As a child Mason always dreamt of mastering the art of sleight of hand.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Following sell-out shows and standing ovations in 2017/18, The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy Award winner and…
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
The Duchess of Canvey returns with a new show and new songs! Join her on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart of a divided Britain.
Writer and performer Mika Johnson delivers a powerful, poignant and relatable queer narrative, which voices the story of a masculine-identifying lesbian, navigating life and love t…
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…
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…
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
The Female Role Model Project is just that, a project.
If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim.
Ejaculation - Discussions of Female Sexuality is a raw, visceral exploration of female pleasure, boldly confronting the many themes which act as barriers to this rarely discussed t…
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
There’s a delightful pantomime-esque quality to Alfie Ordinary, who welcomes us into his world for this hour of song, dance, puppetry and even a spot of gymnastics.
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
The UK’s longest-running student a cappella group are back for their tenth year at the Fringe.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy.
Alan Bennett is an institution in Britain - he can encapsulate a world of voices within a single monologue.
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
How about a double at the Pilots' Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
How about a double at the Pilot’s Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
Male gorillas are called “Silverbacks”.
Girl and Gorilla live, handcuffed, in a world of patriarchal gaze.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion football manager and now club Ambassador, discusses his life and the major incidents that have helped shape a successful playing career for England, T…
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with ‘Talking Heads’, his award-winning series of 12 monologues.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
Ernie Fraser is a dreamer with a difference.
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
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.
Back-to-back performances of two of Alan Ayckbourn’s shortest plays.
One of Ayckbourn’s newest plays, only previously performed in Scarborough.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Tickets: £23Duration: approx 2hrs with an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
A Very Female WomanA Lecture.
A brand new comedy show about being a man and being a woman.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Alan Carr: Work In Progress (plus support)
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…
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
Bill Bailey and Alan Davies trialling new material.
Club Cumming began in Alan’s Studio 54 dressing room after performances of Cabaret on Broadway in 2015, where pals like Sting, Gareth Pugh and Monica Lewinsky would come backst…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
An Alan Bennett one act play originally written for TV in 1978.
Alan Bennett is a national treasure, and his writings are justly well respected.
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…
Highly acclaimed but rarely performed hilarious Ayckbourn double bill.
An Alan Bennett one act originally written for TV in the late 1970s.
The University of St Andrews\\\' all-female a cappella group present Voices.
An Alan Bennett one act play-originally written for TV in 1982.
Compared by many to Dudley Moore and Victoria Wood, The Fabulous TT will captivate you with true stories about her life with Robert Burns, David Gest, Michael Jackson and her ambit…
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
Cadenza is Cambridge University’s premier a cappella group.
The Voice Festival UK once again returns to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy.
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, returns to the International Festival three years after he performed his glorious soundtrack to the nostalgia-soaked film, From Scotland With Lov…
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
In a cramped cell aboard a ship, six prisoners are being shipped to a life of hard labour.
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.
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Oxford’s internationally renowned jazz a cappella group are back! Having toured internationally and competed across the UK as finalists in BBC Choir of the Year 2012 and 2014, th…
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…
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall. Travel back in time to 1979 with this progressive rock album enhanced with spectacular wrap-around immersive dome visuals.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Returning for its fifth year, the smash-hit, sell-out show returns to Edinburgh! Written and directed by award-winning playwright Liam Rudden and featuring the hit Bay City Rollers…
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
Walking into the dark depths of the Big Belly at Underbelly, my expectations are low as I take my seat and note there’s a leak in the roof above my chair.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Though now a household name thanks to a semi-final place in last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, singing impressionist Jess Robinson is a familiar face of the Fringe.
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
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.
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff is tough.
Home is a powerful concept.
If there’s one thing the majority of people at the Fringe can empathise with, it’s how hard the life of a jobbing actor can be.
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…
The Oxford Alternotives are back for their ninth consecutive year at the Fringe.
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
Trump.
Alan Bennett is something of an institution in Britain, known for the way in which he can encapsulate a world of voices within a single monologue.
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…
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Recreating the sights and sounds of the legendary Pink Floyd live in concert, this highly authentic show features over 50 years of hits by this iconic band.
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…
UK premiere of the Finnish international musical-comedy hit, combining opera, pin-sharp musical variety and stomach-crampingly funny physical comedy, directed by Spymonkey’s Toby…
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.
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…
Join us on the absurdly grotesque killing spree/sex-capades of one man.
The bench seating in the Bosco theatre fills up very quickly around me; it’s obvious that word has got out about Alfie Ordinary and his award winning show.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
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.
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 bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
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.
Trapped halfway in another dimension.
After the sell-out success of their 2017 Fringe performance, the all-star cast of musicians that are ‘Eclipse’ are coming together once again to perform one show only for the 2…
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…
Fronted by Ireland’s piano accordion maestro and with four critically acclaimed masters of their craft in tow, the Alan Kelly Gang sit firmly at the cutting edge of the tradition…
Sylvia Brécko presents “MYTH – the lives and songs of Dietrich, Piaf, Monroe and other female legends!” An Encore! After last year’s great success Sylvia, German TV host & …
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
With confetti cannons, puppets and sequins, this “Side-splittingly funny, extraordinary and of course, fabulous” camp show sees UK Drag Prince Alfie Ordinary - the son of a dra…
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
As seen on The Project.
NZ based Irish comedian Alan McElroy brings his new show “Wingin’ It” to Adelaide Fringe! As a busy MC, Alan relies on his quick wit and improvised banter with the crowd, whi…
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
The Great War: while millions of men struggle and fight in the mud and hell of the trenches, one woman’s story begs to be told.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The award-winning choir the Aberdeen Chorus of Sweet Adelines presents It’s Showtime! a varied, lively and light-hearted performance of show songs sung in four-part close harmony.
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,…
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
The Voice Festival UK once again return to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy.
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cell Block Soweto: An A Cappella Gang Show by After Freedom is a new a cappella show telling stories of five prisoners confined in one of Johannesburg’s prisons.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Oxford’s internationally-renowned jazz a cappella group.
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
Direct from a sold-out appearance in Toronto, the 2014/15/16 smash-hit sell-out show returns.
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.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
This award-winning, fourteen-strong ensemble brings you innovative a cappella, reimagining songs from a whole host of genres, from 90s R&B, to indie rock, jazz and current chart to…
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…
Meet Diane Chorley, legendary 80s superstar, part-time piccalilli representative and full-time diva.
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
Stagger me sideways! King Ubu, usurper to the throne of Baloney, carries a mop instead of a sceptre and dreams of his pâté de dog.
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
Much as it is a pleasure to discover a hidden gem amongst the mass of shows in Edinburgh, there’s also something very reassuring about having a list of reliable prospects.
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Alan Bennett’s Bed Amongst the Lentils is one of the great observational pieces from the master wordsmith’s influential Talking Heads series.
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.
This semi-staged professional show is set in the same form as Christ’s Passion.
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
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 …
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 …
Graham Whittaker is a middle-aged bachelor who still lives at home with his mother.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
It shouldn’t take long for you to notice that despite his name, Alfie Ordinary is as far from the boy next door as you’re likely to get.
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…
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting musi…
A (not so) absurdist take on Trump.
On top of his myriad accomplishments and accolades, Alan Cumming has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most fun people in show business! This October UK audiences will hav…
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…
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.
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 …
Moira Bell – single mum, cleaner, hardest woman in Falkirk, and the alter ego of writer/performer Alan Bissett – is back at the Fringe for a limited run after six years’ abse…
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 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 …
Ayesha Hazarika spent eight years as political adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Reminiscent of an Irish Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Howie the Rookie is a two-hander exploring the journeys of Howie (Tom Taplin) and the Rookie (Ed Limb) as they become i…
Oxford’s internationally renowned jazz a cappella group.
Ayesha Hazarika spent eight years as political adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband.
To be fair to the Hummingbirds, I’m not really the right demographic for their show.
Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers.
When reading the marketing blurb for Luna Park, I must confess I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Global sell-out show 2010-2015.
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.
Here is a play with an interesting premise: what would Shakespeare’s female characters say if they had the chance to address their playwright? Would they be unhappy with the trea…
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
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.
Meet Frankie.
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…
Alan Bennett has a problem: he can’t stop talking to himself.
This world premiere by Chicago’s award-winning Wego Drama is a family friendly show! The audience gets to choose what adventure Alan will take.
Now in its third year at the Fringe, I Ran With The Gang written by Liam Rudden for his company LR Stageworks returns this year to the cosy yet lavish surroundings of Le Monde in u…
Ubu assumes the role of Faust in this raucous, rapid-fire puppet comedy.
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
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…
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…
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
“This shit definitely passes the Bechdel test,” is a statement that can be found emblazoned on the show’s marketing material.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
A production without any set or props is a risky move.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Being both a chronic worrier and a huge fan of television from the 1990s, I had high hopes for Don’t Panic! It’s Challenge Anneka: a one woman show that uses the programme, Challen…
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
Mix together a dollop of Alan Partridge, a squirt of Bear Grylls and a spoonful of Stephen Toast and what do you get? Celebrity explorer, Stackard Banks! Stack is a hilarious comed…
The award-winning Alternotives are back for their seventh consecutive Edinburgh Fringe! Full of sass and infectious charm this mixed a cappella ensemble from the University of Oxfo…
If a panto and a Sarah Kane play had an unimaginably grotesque love-child it would look a lot like this.
Rowena Hutson owes her feminist outlook on life to action heroes of the 1980s.
I can count on one hand the number of plays that have sent shivers down my spine: Us/Them is one such show.
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…
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.
We Live by the Sea is a feel-good tale, exploring the day-to-day life of an autistic teenager in Filey.
La Pire Espèce have been rummaging in the cupboards: in Ubu on the Table coffee pots, cutlery, a glass jug and drawers full of unassuming objects populate the cast in an energetic…
A Moment in Time, new works by Tom White and associates from Clifton Fine Art, Bristol and Chroma, paintings by Jackie Higgs and Alan Chapman and jewellery by Eleanor Symms.
‘Filled almost to excess with cheesy-rom-com-buckets-of-feel-good, this act put a smile on every face’ **** (TheTab.
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
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…
For Little Alan comes to London’s Lyric Theatre, with Al Murray, Stewart Lee, Tim Vine, Gayle Tuesday, Harry Hill and Stouffer The Cat.
With his unique take on drag, Alfie has become a stand-out act in the UK cabaret scene.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a …
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
Mike Bartlett’s beautifully worded imagining of a constitutional crisis without a constitution invites us to witness the starkness of the Royal Family stripped bare whilst presen…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Mr. Zweibel and Mr. Short, both prolific comedians and writers, will discuss their new books and reflect on their decadeslong careers.
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 …
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
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Bristol University’s award-winning close harmony a cappella society present their debut fringe show! From classic rock to the latest pop, West End musicals to Disney’s finest, expe…
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Professor Chris Carter talks to the Rt Hon Alan Johnson about his career in the trade unions, Labour party politics, and his time as a government minister and author.
Monochrome make-up, over-sized cigars and manic choral singing are only a few features you’ll find in the stylised theatre of the Dead Iconics.
Oxford University’s finest all female a Cappella group takes on University Challenge.
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 …
Set aboard a convict ship on its way to Australia, Steve Gooch’s stark, hard-hitting drama tells the story of six female convicts on their six-month journey and their determination…
A new satirical comedy that asks what it really means to be a female and have a personality.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
For one week only Alan will try to sift through the frazzled hollow mass of his head for new stories and jokes.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
The Great War: while millions of men struggle and fight in the mud and hell of the trenches, one woman’s story begs to be told.
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
The 2014 smash-hit sell-out show returns, starring Alan Longmuir.
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.
Runway model turned stand-up comic, De Swarte gives her unique, honest stories from a childhood spent on London council estates, to jet-setting as a New York City fashion model, an…
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
The Alleycats make a triumphant return to invite you on an audiovisual journey through the technological era.
PDA: Public Displays of A Cappella is the debut show for Bath’s premier mixed a cappella group, Aquapella.
Punch and Judy has been a long running stalwart of beachside entertainment for the whole family – but whatever you do, don’t bring the kids to this live-action adaptation.
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.
Despite the fact that it’s 2015, there’s still much debate and handwringing about cross-gender casting in Shakespeare.
During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug…
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…
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have subverted the original performance conditions of Shakespeare’s plays, which were all-male productions, and have tackled his bloodiest tragedy, Titus A…
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
Join Diane, former owner of 80s Essex nightclub The Flick, and her band, The Buffet, for a showbiz, late-night musical spectacular, with comic tales of her troubled and infamous pa…
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.
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
The award-winning Alternotives are back for their sixth consecutive Edinburgh Fringe! Full of sass and infectious charm this mixed a cappella ensemble from the University of Oxford…
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Oxford Gargoyles have delighted Fringe audiences for nine years.
More than a dozen comedians take part in this chaotic, hilarious parody of a daytime talk show, with each of 14 “co-hosts” bringing her own strong personality and point…
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 …
(previews start on July 13; opens on July 27) The career of a sport agent is a high-testosterone avocation, but Liz Rico does it a as well or much better than her male colleagues.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
When Alan discovers a mysterious young woman lying amongst the seals, their lives become irreversibly entwined.
Through movement and play participants will identify their own Fools and Kings to explore the beautiful, ridiculous and poignant conflict of this unlikely alliance.
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
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…
When people come together to share their voices in harmony something magical happens! In the magnificent setting of All Saints Church, sing spirit-raising gospels, meditative Taize…
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…
More than a dozen comedians take part in this parody of the daytime talk show, with each of 14 “co-hosts” bringing her own strong personality and point of view to the i…
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
(previews start on March 12; opens on April 16) Fans of the midcentury musical are most likely whistling a happy tune as Lincoln Center revives this Rodgers and Hammerstein show fr…
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.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
This 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…
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This is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut of Durham University a Cappella Choir and we couldn’t be more excited to share our show with the people of Edinburgh and beyond.
The fallen 80s icon and Canvey Island nightclub owner, has chosen Edinburgh to reclaim her crown of stardom.
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
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…
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
The Alleycats say that they love the Edinburgh Festival so much that they create an entirely new show of material just for coming here each year.
In the Pink are a young all female 10-piece a capella group who perform variations of hit pop and hip hop.
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
Returning to the Fringe for a ninth year running, the Gargoyles are a class act.
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Led by Barrowland Ballet’s Artistic Director Natasha Gilmore and playwright Robert Alan Evans (Pondlife McGurk, Sleeping Beauties), a lively workshop on adapting ideas for differ…
MacFloyd return to The Brunton with a new show looking back over the career of Pink Floyd.
Much lauded as resident dunderhead on QI or the charming but reticent crime solver Jonathan Creek, Davies virtuosic story-telling and whip-smart funny bones combine to make this a …
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…
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…
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 is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
My first clue should have been the warmup.
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
Irish comedian Alan Irwin has transformed himself into a man who parties hard and he can transform you too! Well, sort of.
The first original musical from The Ruby Dolls is a triumph.
(in previews; opens on May 1) The first play in Ed Bullins’s “Musical Structures” trilogy, this drama mirrors the bebop rhythms and syncopations of a jazz co…
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.
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…
The award-winning Alternotives are back for their fifth consecutive Edinburgh Fringe! Full of sass and infectious charm this mixed a cappella ensemble from the University of Oxford…
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
Magic, funnies and audience participation from one of UK’s best comedy conjurers.
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…
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
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.
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Edinburgh stalwarts Dan and Jeff are back for another energetic hour and, following Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto, it’s the turn of Baker Street’s own Sherlock…
Lorraine and Alan adapts an Orkney folktale about selkies - seals who shed their skin to become human - and places it in the contemporary world.
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
Buddy is the story of the last three years of Buddy Hollys life, from when he made his first record at the age of 19 to his death, at 22, in a plane crash.
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.
Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente, the husband-and-wife playwrights behind this supple production about the towering comic book artist Jack Kirby, deftly compressing much informa…
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Megan Gray, Magnet Theater’s artistic director, hosts this night of all-lady improv comedy.
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
This production of Hamlet is greatly abridged in order to fit Shakespeares longest play into a seventy-five minute slot.
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.
‘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…
Greshams school is performing at the Fringe for the 13th consecutive year.
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
A real treat of 60s and 70s psychedelia, progressive rock with some of Pink Floyd’s greatest tracks including all of The Dark Side of the Moon supported by stunning lights and lase…
HomewoodRose Theatre produce two short plays, both of which challenge our preconceptions but which approach the issue from starkly different directions.
Arcadia is set in one location, a country house named Sidley Park, but in two different times, the early nineteenth century and the late twentieth, with two sets of characters who …
Forget ‘Pitch Perfect’, the Aberdeen Chorus of sweet adelines are the real deal, putting on a great show in beautiful barbershop harmony at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Chu…
Supported by ScotRail, award-winning Edinburgh artist Leo du Feu captures the breathtaking views from Scotland’s Railways.
Double act comedy is very difficult.
London-based comedy group The Spider Blues make a splash with their brand new adventure comedy show, Captain Alan of Canary Wharf, in association with PBH’s Free Fringe.
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
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I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
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…
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom is a new musical based around the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus and it’s one hell of an ambitious undertaking.
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
Kourtney Kardashian.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
Adapted from a book of interviews with American workers by Studs Terkel and first performed in 1978, Working explores American working life through the actual words of those interv…
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.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Top South African comedian shares his madness, abseiling the absurd, bouncing between the surreal and cereal! Fully Committied shows why contemporary dance is the answer, how 50 Sh…
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 …
3BUGS Fringe Theatre presents a rare production of Tennessee Williams’ one-act play The Pink Bedroom as part of their Morning After Season with fairly limited success.
Andy Warhol said we would all be famous for 15 minutes.
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
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.
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Lionel Barts Oliver! does not, in my opinion, get all the credit it deserves.
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
Vive is a six-part a cappella jazz vocal ensemble from London that creates original songs and reworks old favourites.
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have put together a production of Titus Andronicus that rather beautifully captures the double-edged nature of George Peele and William Shakespeare’s play …
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
My favourite thing about the Edinburgh Fringe is the sheer concentration of talent in creates in the city, an array of people with skills that I can only dream of having.
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…
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.
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
The Islanders tells the simple tale of a young Dorset couple, Amy and Eddie; the beginnings of their love, the slow disaster of their living together and the titanic struggle of or…
Alan is surrounded by idiots; fortunately, he’s one of them.
Super strength, X-ray vision and lightning fast speed can be fantastic fun if used for personal gain, without saving the world.
Often high marks are awarded to those companies who create a new world in the theatre through their use of advanced set, puppetry, props or movement so it is good to sometimes be r…
A poignant adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s tale, The King and Queen of the Universe, produced by Slippers and Rum, tells a story of adulation and bereavement set in the depths of t…
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.
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
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.
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The beautifully black-tied Gargoyles return with an unmissable show, performing an eclectic mix of jazz, pop, soul and Disney! ‘Stand-out a cappella group of the Fringe’ ***** (Fr…
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
You’d be forgiven for assuming that the top British universities these days offer a BA (Hons) course in A Cappella Singing and you’d also be forgiven for assuming that that mea…
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…
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…
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
There seems to be an alarming number of a cappella groups at this year’s Fringe, so standing out as something rather special is all the harder.
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.
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…
Perfectly passable vocal jazz group The Oxford Gargoyles are becoming something of a Fringe institution, celebrating their eighth Festival and fifteenth anniversary this year.
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
It seemed very strange to be watching something called ‘An Adult Evening’ at 9.
Pythonesque is a tribute to Monty Pythons Flying Circus, forty years after it first appeared on television.
Greshams is a private school in Norfolk which has been in existence for well over four hundred years, with notable alumni including WH Auden and Benjamin Britten.
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…
Alan Hudson tries something a little different with this magic show, choosing to weave his tricks around a story of how he came to be at the Fringe in the first place.
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
Dames At Sea is a parody of the 1930 Hollywood movie musicals.
Patience is a virtue: this proverb was particularly fitting during this afternoon of a cappella hosted by all-female a cappella group In The Pink from the University of Oxford.
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Precarious is a young, Bristol-based company which seamlessly combines physical theatre and contemporary dance with modern technology.
The star of Jonathan Creek and QI returns to the stage in his first foray into the world of stand-up since 2001.
‘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…
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Guys and Dolls is well known both as a Hollywood film and a stage musical.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
2Faced Dance Company has been one of the major successes of the Fringe over the last few years, with several critically-acclaimed sold-out shows.
An Ofsted Inspector Calls is set in the Sir Christopher Woodhead Memorial Secondary school just prior to, and during, the visit of three inspectors from Ofsted.
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
In this free one-woman show, Clara Lilly shares a string of stories collected from ten years of hitchhiking.
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…
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.
Amadeus tells the story of the last years of Mozarts life, when he was living in Vienna, and of his death, possibly at the hands of his rival composer Salieri.
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
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…
Alan Bennetts play, The History Boys, is about a group of eight history pupils in a Sheffield grammar school who are preparing to take their Oxbridge entrance examinations.
All In The Timing is a collection of one act plays by David Ives, each lasting around ten minutes.
This show marks the 164th anniversary of the visit Chopin made, beleaguered by illness, to Edinburgh in 1848.
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
Next to The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance is probably the best known and most loved Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, with songs that everyone knows and can sing along with such a �…
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Bang Bang Youre Dead is largely based on a shooting in Oregon in 1998, in which a fifteen-year old boy killed his parents and then two of his fellow high school pupils, injuring …
This musical is based on the old B movie, The Forbidden Planet, which was itself loosely based on Shakespeares The Tempest.
Monsters is set in Livingston in 2022, four years into a civil war taking place in Scotland.
This version of Hamlet is set in a high school classroom, where a group of schoolchildren decide to act out the play, partly to prove to their more sceptical colleagues that plays …
Davie and Geordie are two teenage boys, the best of friends, just getting to the point in their lives where they begin to establish relationships with girls.
Harrys father is the chief executive of a cardboard box factory and he expects Harry to join the family firm and do a proper job, but Harry is a dreamer who is more interested in…
This play is set in England, but in some kind of frightening, futuristic police state.
Youth Music Theatre make a welcome return to George Square, where their last production was the brilliant Goblin Market in 2005.
Viva Youth Theatre have an excellent record of success at the Fringe.
Broadway Baby gave 2FaCeD DaNcE Company five stars for each of their last two Edinburgh productions, in 2005, for Acetylene, and in 2007 for State Of Matter.
Archie Stringweed has just reached his tenth birthday.
Seymour Krelborn, a florists assistant, has his life turned around when he comes across an unusual plant after an eclipse of the sun.
After Magritte is a very short, surreal comedy by Tom Stoppard, inspired by the paintings of Rene Magritte.
This play, which is an updated version of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing, is set amongst the staff in a modern secondary school, Hazel Valley.
This production is from the Denver School of the Arts.
UT Serveris Seges Theatre Company is a community drama group which has evolved from Sandbach School Theatre.
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
The two plays can be seen as complete plays in their own right or as two parts of a whole.
The play opens with four American boarding school boys preparing for the start of their day and we are then taken briefly through it, from church through their daily classes.
This play explores the events leading up to and during the day of 20th April 1999, when two teenagers murdered thirteen of their fellow students at Columbine High School and then k…
This is a very abbreviated, comic production of the eighteenth century novel by Henry Fielding.
This play is about the battle of Agincourt, but from an unusual perspective, that of the boys who were employed to haul the Kings baggage.
Paul Merton introduces a selection of silent film classics, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy.
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
A highly challenging story which draws on the Arthurian story of Gawain and the Green Knight, and references many others.
This production is a set of four or five unconnected stories about love, enjoyed, gained, lost and destroyed.
Hamlet! The Musical has been around for a few years now, since being first introduced to the Fringe in 2001.
This production is directed by Jeremy James Taylor, founder of the National Youth Music Theatre and is an adaptation by Michael Bogdanov of Henry Longfellows epic poem .
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
Chekhovs play, The Cherry Orchard, is about changing times and how people adapt, or fail to do so.
This show is loosely based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson.
This show is very much a stage version of Five Go Mad In Dorset, the first Comic Strip production on Channel 4, except that much of the action is transferred to Scotland.
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…
Forth Childrens Theatre have been performing at the Fringe for many years and this is their 30th production.
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
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…
Mort is a young man whose father is trying to find him an apprenticeship at the apprentices hiring fair.
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…
Andrew Lawrence is a young, talented stand-up comedian who has already had two successive if.
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…
Dorian Gray is probably Oscar Wildes most well-known work.
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…
This is a play about Hal, who climbs without ropes.
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…
Rich Hall is familiar to most of us mainly through his work as a comedian on TV, particularly on panel shows.
Flowers For Algernon is based on a short story by Daniel Keyes.
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…
Opera Shorts was created in late 2007 with the objective of creating a platform for young up-and-coming composers in Scotland.
Guys and Dolls is based on the well known Hollywood film and stage musical.
Show Down is a contemporary dance show based upon Irving Berlins Annie Get Your Gun.
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
This short play deals with the issue of teenage suicide and is in support of Childline.
Titus Andronicus is Shakespeares earliest tragedy and one of his most bloodthirsty plays.
This production starts off with a bang.
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…
The play is about twins separated at birth and brought up in very different environments.
Academy Of Death is one of two musicals at this years Fringe in which the major theme is body-snatching in Edinburgh in the 1820s, the other being Burke And Hare A Musical P…
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
Danton was one of the architects of the French Revolution and was instrumental in the execution of the King, his family and other aristocratic leaders.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
This is the fifteenth successive year that Youth Arts Leicestershire have been performing at the Fringe.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
Gilbert & Sullivans opera The Mikado was written over a hundred and twenty years ago but still entertains all around the world and particularly in North America.
This is a production about the modern phenomenon of text messaging on mobile phones.
This play is about a couple, Tom and Amy, whose lives have been disrupted by a hit and run accident which has left their daughter, Patricia, in a coma.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
An amnesiac is being interrogated.
Two years ago Youth Music Theatre: UK performed the acclaimed Goblin Market, a big-budget musical with stunning scenery and costumes, which had a long run in a large theatre.
The Oxford Belles are a small set of seven, performing upon a dauntingly massive black stage but as soon as they burst into song they fill the entire space with life.
This fun production satirises Agatha Christie type murder mysteries, The Love Boat and even Titanic (an iceberg does appear at the end).
This production is set in a museum.
Two hit men are in a dismal basement in Birmingham, waiting for instructions from Wilson, their mysterious and unseen boss, about their next hit.
Shakespeare Shattered is performed by the Mainstage Theatre, Washington, as part of the American Highschool Theatre Festival.
This is a cut-down, updated version of Purcells Dido & Aeneas, created by Howard Goodall in 1986 for the South Bank Show.
The play is set entirely in the middle of the night in the caretakers storeroom of a school in the North of England.
This fun musical is set in a 1950s American High School and shows how true live can survive, even after death!The action takes place in 1958 at Enrico Fermi High School.
Jigsaw is a play about a youth theatre group which has decided to put on a play at the Edinburgh Festival.
The central premise of the play is that there is an afterlife which everyone goes to after they die.
This is the story of Jason and the golden fleece.
This play is inspired by Sophocles Antigone but has been updated to 1970s Belfast at the height of The Troubles.
This play is set in a penal colony in eighteenth century Australia.
This play, written and directed by Kevin Holladay, makes broad fun of politicians, reporters, TV presenters and others.
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
John Fords seventeenth century play is still controversial even today, with its central element being incestuous love between brother and sister.
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.
Nottingham Youth Dance was created to provide young dancers from the East Midlands with additional training and performance opportunities and to develop the level and quality of da…
This is a very unusual and enjoyable production.
This performance is by a group of students from Stanford University in California.
This play is a newly written sequel to Eugene ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra.
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.
Daniel Cainer plays keyboard and guitar, sings and tells stories about the beginning of Judaism, Jewish migration and his childhood experiences.
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.
Fahrenheit 451 is based on the book of the same name by Ray Bradbury and is set in a future time when all books are banned.
The Liars is set in a near future where homosexuality has become the norm.
Twin bothers Pyrrhus and Tol are extremely close but their mothers death causes them to take different paths, ultimately leading to betrayal and death.
This is the story of the women of Troy, the day after the Greeks have captured the city using their Trojan horse.
The musical is based upon the life of Jesus as described in the Gospel according to St Matthew, with parables from St Lukes Gospel also included.
This brilliant one man show covers the entire, short life of Tommo Peaceful, from starting school until his execution by firing squad in the First World War, at the age of around s…
The play looks at an incident in Los Angeles, starting from a minor accident with a football and ending in mass murder.
Burke and Hare A Musical Play is based on the true story of Edinburghs notorious murderers William Burke and William Hare.
This production is split into two parts of thirty minutes each.
Student a cappella groups are not exactly a rarity at the Fringe, so often it can be difficult to decide which of the varied assortment of groups is actually worth going to see.
This show was written by Adam Long, a founder member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Tamsin Shasha, the artistic director and co-founder of Actors of Dionysus, is the sole performer in this play.
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
For this production the songs of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are stripped of their high-energy content and reinvented as cabaret or musical theatre.
Former Blue Peter presenter Stuart Miles gives us this three-woman show in which he plays all of the parts, in their full cross-dressed finery.
The play is set largely in and around a hotel, part of the Global Hotel chain.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are stranded alone on a small desert island.
In this play by Caryl Churchill a hospital discovers the long-lost records of twenty male clones made thirty-five years earlier.
Reflex Action is a quick-fire send-up of theatrical conventions, traditions, and techniques.
Musical Of Musicals (The Musical) is performed by the Woodlands High School Theatre, Texas, as part of the American High Schools Theatre Festival.
There was a moment during In The Pink’s performance of Think Pink tonight when everyone in the audience collectively knew they were watching a new pop idol.
This is Lawrence Dance Academys second time at the Fringe, having previously performed Town in 2003.
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
A recreation, by David Benson, of scenes from Kenneth Williams life, together with episodes from his own childhood.
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
This musical tells the story of Mary Shelley, her marriage to Percy Shelley and the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein.
Youth Arts Leicestershire has been coming to the Fringe for thirteen years.
A modern interpretation of Macbeth, with atmospheric effects, bright lights and the songs of Frank Sinatra.
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
The action is set in the Emerald Shitty nightclub somewhere in Australia, hosted by drag queen Patty OFurniture.
The action is set in and around William Ocean High School during the 1980s.
The story is set in 1860s Italy, in and near Milan.
The Oxford Gargoyles are making their debut appearance at the Fringe this year, in their show which, as the title suggests, brings Jazz and a-cappella together.
This production condenses the entire story of Macbeth into a frantic hour, beginning with Macbeth and Banquo coming across the heath and meeting the witches, and ending with Macbe…
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
Youve got plenty of selection for Oxford based A Cappella groups at the fringe, all of whom seem to converge en masse at C venues.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is based upon the two characters who appear sporadically in Hamlet.
Walk up and down the Royal Mile and, should your legs not buckle and splinter beneath the glut of flyers somehow in your hand, chances are you walked past two or three a cappella g…
Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Suki Webster, Richard Vranch and Jim Sweeney improvise for an hour using suggestions from the audience.
What lengths would you go to just to taste a dram of whisky? Would you beg for it? Steal for it? Endure an hour of atrocious comedy for it?These are the questions you must ponder b…
The Hired Man is set during the first quarter of the Twentieth Century when many country people worked on the land or in the pits.
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
It can be difficult, in a festival crammed with a cappella acts, to tell the talented from the dross.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
The Fall Of Man is a reinvention of Miltons Paradise Lost, set in a bedsit in 2006.
A travel writer returns to Scotland after twenty years travelling the world.
The Young Pleasance company celebrates its tenth birthday with the return of this award-winning show, its first revival since it won a Fringe First Award in 1994.
Blonde twins Pablo and Pierre Caesar performs athletic stunts and physical feats, usually wearing as few clothes as possible.
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
The careers of all 43 Presidents of the USA, from George Washington to George Bush, covered in an hour and a half.
The writer and main performer, Richard Sandling, has appeared once before at the Fringe.
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the…
This is the first visit to the Fringe for this young company from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
The performance begins in what appears to be a prison camp.
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
This is a one-man show covering the life and death of Eric Morecambe, still regarded as Britains funniest comedian twenty-five years after his death.
The Old Gaol Theatre Company was created in 1978 in Abingdons Old Gaol building.
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and tortured to death near Laramie.
Norfolk Youth Music Theatre has a history of successful Fringe productions, including The Enchanted Lovers A New Dido, based on Purcells Dido & Aeneas and Little Shop Of Horro…
Paul Robeson was a great singer and actor and, throughout his whole life, a political activist on behalf of black, poor and working-class people everywhere.
In this UK premiere of Streetlife, French choreographer Lorca Renoux works with an eclectic ensemble of dancers representing the various hip hop dance styles in Germany today.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Royal Holloway Music Theatre returns for its ninth consecutive year.
More than forty talented and enthusiastic performers sing and dance a medley of Broadway show tunes, on and off the stage.
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
This production, of songs by David Shire and Richard Maltby, takes an unconventional look at various kinds of relationships, including love, family, obsession, friendship and rejec…
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
The show is set entirely to parodies of songs from well-known musicals and classic 80s pop hits.
This is a production of the well-known story of Aladdin, performed by the Burklyn Youth Ballet from New Jersey, who have been coming to Edinburgh for five years.
Harry Shearer and Judith Owens are fascinated by Americas obsession with democracy, free markets and cosmetic surgery.
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.
Stephen Sondheims musical Into The Woods is updated to an urban setting, telling the story of two children lost in the hood.
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
Jesus Christ Superstar is based on the last week of Jesus life as documented in St.
An Australian and an American talk about what they like about living in Britain (drinking and sex) and about what they dislike (almost everything else).
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
This musical does not have a linear narrative, but presents a series of scenes and songs showing events that take place during the last year of high school.
The Road is an original modern dance piece from the Andover Dance Group that explores a fast-paced digital world as foil to the world of dreams and possibilities.
It is the school year 2506-7 at Apple Valley Preparatory School.
This is a new, all-male company making its first visit to the Fringe.
This production, a one person show by Lisa Turner, tells the story of Iphigenia, using Glucks music and dance.
In his second appearance in Edinburgh, Nick Mohammed brings an all-new set of characters to his one-man show.
Is The Daily Mail Dead Yet? is a stand up comedy show which is intended to be a hilariously liberal attack against the Mail and other similar voices of outdated, emasculated racist…
This play is from the book of the same name by Herman Meville, about life and death on a British warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
Mervyn looks back on two decades of performing at the Fringe in this one-man-and-his-guitar show, playing some of his favourite comic songs from previous years, mulling over change…
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
‘My darling, you were wonderful tonight,’ sings Ali Livesey in one of the most sublime numbers of the Oxford Alternotives concert and the same should be said to the Oxford Alt…
Shrewsbury School has a reputation for successfully staging ambitious, new musicals at the Fringe.
The Alleycats present an energetic fun-filled show with popular music.
Ill admit that a cappella isnt usually a genre that fills me with ebullience.
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
Female Gothic is a treat of a show for anyone as macabre-minded as myself; but then again I compulsively watch plane crash documentaries.
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.
Because Of Reginald D Hunters greater exposure on television, particularly on Have I Got News For You, there are large, sell-out crowds for his show at Udderbelly s Pasture.
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…
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
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‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th…
Terry Pratchetts Lords And Ladies is part of his hugely successful Discworld series.
We all live our lives within walls.
Ragtime is a musical set in the USA in the early years of the 20th Century, when racism was more blatant than it is today and civil rights movements were barely under way.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
This is a difficult play to review as it is very clever and well-acted but also hard to understand.
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
James Macfarlane sits down with the one and only Danny Beard to discuss their debut Fringe show Danny Beard and Their Band, life since winning RuPaul's Drag Race UK and why the art...
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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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...
It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill.
When it was first staged in 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s prison-set Julius Caesar was called “gimmicky, humourless and slow” by the Telegraph and “witty, liberating and inventive...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Canadian a-cappella group Countermeasure are stopping off to perform their show 14 Characters at the Fringe as part of a European tour.
A protégé of David Hoyle and Dickie Beau, Alfie Ordinary is about to dive in head first with his inaugural solo performance Help! I think I Might Be Fabulous.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
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.
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Huws tackles the life and times of Alan Turing.
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.