Jazz Emu is the viral comedy character sensation from award-winning writer, actor, musician Archie Henderson.
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.
Remember the Kids from Fame? It’s time to meet the Kids with Nae Hame.
Award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Austen’s Women) return with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
A family-friendly quick-fire improvised sketch show, chock full of fast-paced performing and silly short comedy sketches.
From the brain of Gary John Miller who was once described as a ‘mad genius’ by a former teacher comes a solo comedy show about growing up and the urge to refuse to do so.
The Katet – Edinburgh’s eight-piece jazz-funk superband, famed for their infamous treatment of Stevie Wonder’s back-catalogue – invite you to join them on the dance floor a…
Sell-out event with a new line-up! On the outskirts of Edinburgh, hidden away at the end of a winding driveway, lies one of Edinburgh’s secret treasures – Lauriston Castle.
The chilling words of HG Wells are brought to life in this one-woman storytelling show.
Guided Tours.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi…
A unique space hosted by Hope City Church nestled in the South Gyle Industrial Estate.
You’re cordially invited to learn dark, blue secrets and experiences from the life and perspective of a Muslim(ish), British, Pakistani female straddling two cultures, two lives an…
John Wayne Gacy was one of the worst serial killers in US history: responsible for the rape, torture and murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s.
Mom’s Room: the place you go to play, dress up, and find treasures while the parents are away.
The world’s only theatrical escape room! You are the crew of a time-travelling robot and everything has gone wrong.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
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…
Lorraine has found a new box to put herself in.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Upon entering the Waiting Room, a mundane space resembling a governmental institution, attendees will soon discover its concealed magical powers and underlying secrets.
Did you know that salmon always go back to where they came from? It’s written in their DNA.
How is it possible: we all watch this, we all agree, we all shake our heads, yet we all get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again? Matteo and Reggie, fuelled by John’s sugge…
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
The kids of Little Stars Youth Theatre are excited to bring you their production of Macbeth.
Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo, the interactive extravaganza event of the Fringe.
Boiler Room Six tells the impossible true survival story of Titanic stoker Frederick Barrett.
How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do.
Since 2005, Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged…
The awe-inspiring journey of one of the all-time musical greats delivered by one of the UK’s finest Angus Munro and Night Owl Shows.
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
A regular in Edinburgh, Jason John Whitehead has been touring his brand of social and confessional comedy around the world for 20 years now.
Warning: Dark comedy zone! Enter at your own risk! Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping…
Join comedian John Oakes for 50 minutes of improvised hilarity! Featuring entirely extemporized Shakespearean style sonnets, raucous unrehearsed rap recitals and guest appearances …
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Following a sold out WIP in NYC, Viv Ford makes her Fringe debut.
The title of the show says it all.
The Late Night Party Boyz, have messed up.
Sobriety, sex and profound stupidity.
Beloved UK comic and kids comedian Nik Coppin returns to the Fringe with his show full of jokes, interaction, chaos, mayhem, his own hand-drawn cartoons and special guests.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe, for all the family to enjoy together.
Welcome to the dark side of laughter, where our comics don’t give a damn about your comfort zone.
‘Superbly written and acted play.
After their sell-out sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Insane Magic are back.
For over 30 years Hegley has brought a show to the Fringe with a spattering of favourites, alongside new work, to present to festival-goers.
Elaine is famous.
Fun for the whole family, but especially fun for the little ones! Top UK stand-up Ollie Horn – ‘Ollie Horn is a gifted storyteller’ (TheWeeReview.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
John-Luke Roberts does every solo comedy show he’s ever done in a row, and then goes back to the first one and does them again until the Fringe runs out.
The audience is trapped in a retro video game with a sadistic, end-of-level boss.
Musical supernova Jazz Emu (Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) is back with a brand-new show, with a full live band, The Cosmique Perfectión.
A knight pulls a sword from a stone and, as the prophecy foretold – becomes king.
Got an opinion? Got a story? Seen a show you liked or didn’t? Want to pop content into the brain of the UK’s most manic comic? Grab a seat and play along with the new interacti…
Invisible illnesses.
Sixty minutes of hilarious fast-paced interactive science theatre for the whole family featuring real robots, AI, and laughs.
In the 19th century, the original stories of the Brothers Grimm were scarier, more bloodthirsty and disturbing.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Last year, John Tothill was visited by a series of terrible plagues.
Tired of grown-ups being know-it-alls? Do you want to win prizes? Kids Always Win is a game show where the kids always win.
After a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe, host of Radio 4’s The Divil’s Own John Meagher makes his debut at The Gilded Balloon with his debut show Big Year.
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 …
There will be blood.
Daring and experimental, this fast-paced comedy mask show, featuring live original music, physical theatre, puppetry and foley, follows characters as they attempt to navigate their…
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
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…
PRE SCHOOL YOGA (2-5 year olds) 1PM Come and learn yoga poses, play yoga games, read stories and get creative with mindfulness before that all important relaxation time.
Award-winning theatre troupe Improbotics presents A.
Fun for the whole family, but especially fun for the little ones! Top UK stand-up Ollie Horn (“Ollie Horn is a gifted storyteller” Wee Review) attempts to tell the same clean comed…
Step right up and prepare for pandemonium at the Kids Khaos Carnival Family Show, starring the one and only Logy Logan from Circus Sonas! Get ready to be swept away in a tornado of…
Balthazar Dark is still the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
The Max Miller Appreciation Society presents John Mann, Britain’s No.
Seeing the word ‘immersive’ before ‘theatre’ will make as many people run for the hills as to the box office.
“We’re part of a culture that’s unique as f*** mate” The Stylish Kids in the Riot explores the subculture of football hooliganism and its potential toll on men’s mental health.
Sometimes serious, sometimes somewhat sillier, songs on a suite of subjects syphoned from the synapses of a celebrated semi-Swedish science singer-songwriter.
A girl called Lemon is looking for her lover, Cactus.
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Following on from the great success at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, beloved comic and kids entertainer Nik Coppin brings his new show to the Brighton Fringe full of…
Does your kid want to have awesome skills! Do they love the circus? Well this is the class for them! An hour long workshop learning all the foundations of circus skills taught b…
Join Father John in “Father John’s Evening Mess” for a night of unapologetically filthy fun that proves sometimes salvation comes with a side of sinful laughter.
Donegal singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, John Doherty, first entered the Irish music scene as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the band, Little H…
Cold Dark Matters is the story of a writer.
Happen/Chance Honestly.
A festive improvised musical show for kids of all ages, from Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers.
The Elephant In The Room is the latest play from acclaimed writer Peter Hamilton.
To some fans, he’s the Tony Award-winning revolutionary from Evita who grew into a bonafide Broadway star in Sunday in the Park with George.
A brand new ghost story for Penge.
You will be lead through the haunted Tudor mansion to take your seat at the séance.
A quest that goes wrong.
Following a sell out run at The Black-E, The Incident Room is back by popular demand! 1970s Leeds.
Avant-garde and provocative, John Cale inspires and amazes with his innovative and radical album, Mercy.
A debut solo show by Rowan Walker comprised of physical sculpture and digital works that explore the fragility of the human body, through an investigation of our relationship to th…
The Dark Arts used by politicians and their advisors, speechwriters, and spin doctors are mired in mystery and their own mythology.
Blanket of the Dark performed by Applause Theatre Group.
Written and performed by singer songwriter Michaela Betts, Dark Nature is a personal exploration of childhood trauma, transformation, dis-ease and beauty.
Singer songwriter Michaela Betts leads you through her theatrical folk journey of narrative songs about the Dark Nature in all of us.
The Twat out of Hell returns with an exciting new hour to get your day started.
The Katet – Edinburgh’s eight-piece jazz-funk superband, famed for their infamous treatment of Stevie Wonder’s back catalogue – invite you to join them on the dance floor a…
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
Beloved comic and kids entertainer Nik Coppin brings his new show to the Fringe full of jokes, silliness, his own drawn cartoons, competitions based around Disney and superheroes, …
An English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona.
Elton John tribute Rikki Morgan takes you on a rollercoaster ride through four decades of Elton classics.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
Songs of Displacement.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Has represented Ochil and South Perthshire as an SNP MP since 2019.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life.
Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University), authority on British music from the 19th century, reflects on the life of Sir John Stainer and his most famous work, The Crucifixion.
Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington in West London since 1997.
John Cambo Cambridge lived with David Bowie at Haddon Hall when he had his first hit-record Space Oddity and toured Scotland with him in Junior’s Eyes.
Brian Kellock is one of the UK’s finest and most in-demand jazz pianists, acclaimed for a distinctive, swinging style of playing with classic jazz piano influences at its heart but…
“Blurring the lines between music and artistic performance, John’s use of visuals and costumes [pushes] the set to another level.
“Blurring the lines between music and artistic performance, John’s use of visuals and costumes [pushes] the set to another level.
Step straight into the magic kingdom in this interactive character brunch experience the whole family will enjoy! Join your favourite fairy tale heroes, heroines (and the occasiona…
‘The perfect way to introduce your kids to the world of stand-up’ **** (KidsInAdelaide.
Join comedian John Oakes for 50 minutes of improvised hilarity! Featuring entirely extemporized Shakespearean-style sonnets, raucous unrehearsed rap recitals and guest appearances …
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
A beautifully hilarious stand-up about the memories of his dad’s best stories, Netflix star John Franklin intends to keep you laughing as he weaves tales of his father’s life advic…
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
The face of warfare has changed again.
Escape rooms: everyone’s favourite activity to do when you’re going to a birthday party hosted by a virgin or when your company is forcing you to go under the threat of contract te…
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
Time.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
Still screaming after all these years.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
The world’s only theatrical escape room! You are the crew of a robot and everything has gone wrong! Help! The stunning visual effects and immersive interactive technology mean kids…
Hey kids and kidults, cool cats and dancing dogs, Jarred and Hobbit are back with an all-new action-packed hoopla! Guaranteed LOLs and interactive fun for the entire family (OK, ma…
A late night version of the sell-out unique show.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Back for our 18th Fringe, we remain adamant that just because you’re six, you shouldn’t miss out on the festival’s best stand-ups and sketch acts! And just because you’re an adult …
Ever wonder what it’s like to see a show… without actually seeing it? This piece plunges the audience into darkness, allowing them to step into the shoes of their hosts, VICS, …
I know you’re reading this, look at your eyes darting about.
The night is dark and full of laughs with Black Widows, where the boldest female comedians come to push boundaries and tackle taboo topics.
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
Notes on stage? Tick! Breath-taking riff-scenarios? Tick! Bits that don’t work? Tick! Progress not perfection, people! Witness some progress from Edinburgh Comedy Award winner / fa…
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action videogame! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An interac…
Returning for its eleventh year at the Edinburgh Fringe, this cult favorite show has lost none of its energy and atmosphere.
***** It’s brilliant, dynamic, explosive! (UngtTeaterblod.
Award-winning ‘brilliant.
Includes a guided tasting of three small batch spirits and a tour of our Still Room.
Imagine two lonely children who have no one to talk to until the Winds of Fate make them next-door neighbours.
Dazzling divas.
The Last Living Libertine is the debut hour from John Tothill as he tries to dissect our attitude to life and prove that techno music is the true expression of human spirit and the…
Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids’ comedy show that’s fun for all the family! Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness.
Documenting the stories of care-experienced people, this show embraces all aspects of their life within the care system and the effects of being part of this under-represented comm…
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
Attending John Kearns' show, The Varnishing Days, was an absolute treat that demands to be seen! Right from his entrance, he had us hooked with his distinctive and uproarious p…
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.
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian are at The Hope Theatre to present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters! The show’s prot…
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian are at The Hope Theatre to present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters! The show’s prot…
Ole John Hastings here, God’s favourite comedian, Fringe regular and public urinator (by circumstance and never choice) has returned with a maximum nonsense and mega-lols show.
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters!The show's protagonist, a boy called …
The Brothers Grimm are the most famous collectors of fairy tales, but back in the 19th century, stories for children were a lot scarier, blood thirsty and disturbing.
The Brothers Grimm are the most famous collectors of fairy tales, but back in the 19th century, stories for children were a lot scarier, blood thirsty and disturbing.
Ten Men is a gritty, funny, one man play based on the infamous life story of the actor, gangster, ladies’ man and alleged lover of Princess Margaret - John ‘Biffo’ Bindon.
Ten Men - The Lives of John Bindon by Franklyn McCabe “London’s nothing more than a million doors, the trick is to walk through the right one.
“An hour in a room, not just with Barry Ferns but also a whole load of other people you don’t know.
“An hour in a room, not just with Barry Ferns but also a whole load of other people you don’t know.
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under…
Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under…
Presented in a blues / folk style with tight sibling harmonies, this Irish duo performs songs around a story of the influence, envy and respect that each artist had for the other.
Brothers Broke bring their popular and well-reviewed 2021 Edinburgh Fringe “in-person” show to debut at this years Brighton Fringe.
Cult History Karaoke show! Commie crooner Des (winner: ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’, winner: ‘New Faces in the Central Committee’, Runner Up: ‘Made in Chernobyl’), the pop st…
Cult History Karaoke show! Commie crooner Des (winner: ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’, winner: ‘New Faces in the Central Committee’, Runner Up: ‘Made in Chernobyl’), the pop st…
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
A quick-fire improvised sketch show chock full of death-defying improv, fast-paced performing and silly short comedy sketches.
Leamprov, the premier Improvised Comedy troupe in Leamington Spa brings you ‘The Elephant in the Room’; a quick-fire improvised sketch show in the style of ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway…
Head Replacement (they/them) is a poet amongst clowns and a clown amongst poets who not so long ago decided to venture outside of the confines of their dark liar and re-enter the s…
Head Replacement (they/them) is a poet amongst clowns and a clown amongst poets who not so long ago decided to venture outside of the confines of their dark liar and re-enter the s…
Fun for the whole family, but especially fun for the little ones! Top UK stand-up Ollie Horn (“Ollie Horn is a gifted storyteller” Wee Review) attempts to tell the same clean comed…
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Balthazar Dark is the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
Balthazar Dark is the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Calling the courageous, faithless, devoted and broken Inner Children to a Ceremony of the Dark Mother hosted by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess Lucy Hopkins.
“If you want to put your brain in the blender, have a listen - it’s a bit like if Aphex Twin wrote British music hall songs.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus present their annual Fringe Festival show - After Dark.
UPDATE: Tickets for tonight’s performance are no longer available through the Fringe Box Office.
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the world’s only live-action, text-based adventure game.
Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under…
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fi…
In an elaborately cosmic attempt to reignite the connection to her ancestral inheritance, Takura blends western ideas of quantum physics and astrology with zimbabwean myth to recon…
Prince of accessible content and OFFIE Award winning ‘brilliant.
Star of Saturday night's The John Bishop Show (ITV1) and Doctor Who (BBC1), multi-award winning stand-up comedian John Bishop is road testing some new material for …
Star of Saturday nights the John Bishop Show (ITV1) and Doctor Who (BBC1), multi award-winning stand-up comedian John Bishop is road testing some new material for 4 nigh…
The award-winning musical improvisers will make all your kids’ Christmas stories come to life!
The ONLY Elton John ShowThe ONLY Elton John Show is the UKs newest and most exciting Elton John tribute show to hit the Brighton scene.
AboutFACE is delighted to present its 10th annual NEWvember Festival of New Plays! Come and join us for a weekend of rehearsed readings of the most exciting new plays fr…
The intimate and sensual Tango After Dark delves into the world of authentic Argentine tango.
John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud.
Join John Tothill – writer, comedian, former Footlight and London’s Last Libertine, actually – for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and assorted chat.
Join John Tothill – writer, comedian, former Footlight and London’s Last Libertine, actually – for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and assorted chat.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
After four years of their infamous Stevie Wonder show, the eight-piece Edinburgh superband completely sold-out its 2019 follow up, tackling their next legendary artist.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns and critically acclaimed nonsense merchant Pat Cahill present their messy, loving, self-flagellant Off-Broadway show.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns and critically acclaimed nonsense merchant Pat Cahill present their messy, loving, self-flagellant Off-Broadway show.
This is a one-man play about the infamous life of the actor, criminal, alleged lover of Princess Margaret and possessor of a 12-inch appendage, John Bindon.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
Were you irreversibly damaged by Zooey Deschanel’s bangs at a young age? Were you devastated by the odd contents of your dad’s fridge after he got divorced? Were you consistent…
A new comedy with a backstage pass to the magic and mayhem of music performance.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
Join the creator of The Room Next Door in this final run at the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful sell-out tour as he talks about making comedy under the radar and the dangers of…
Surrealist stand-up comedian George Bricher will take you on a path of bizarre thought experiments, strange rants and lessons in how to stay optimistic in the face of middle-class …
Matt and Rosa with John Hurt as the Voice of the Dragon is the debut sketch show of Bristol Revunions alumni Matthew Wilson and Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist Rosa Richards.
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Spend a relaxed hour with Australian living legend John Bell, as he rummages through his swag of favourite things, fishing out poems, stories, backstage gossip: things he finds ins…
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
World-renowned songsmith and pianist extraordinaire, John Thorn, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a sublime collection of new original songs exploring the meaning of life and t…
Swiss artist James Thierrée returns to the International Festival with an unmissable spectacle from his physical theatre company.
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970s.
Interminable, intellectually pretentious and self-indulgent, former circus performer James Thiérrée’s Room produced by his own Swiss Compagnie du Hanneton, is presented as phys…
Following three culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs, this bafflingly entertaining late-night comedy extravaganza returns to the Fringe for a fourth hammer blow.
Elton John tribute Rikki Morgan takes you on a rollercoaster ride through four decades of Elton classics.
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Where are the knights of yesteryear? A masterclass in barebones storytelling, Debbie Cannon’s one-woman Green Knight has us spellbound.
Just one of the many questions the producer of QI, Blackadder, Spitting Image, The News Quiz, Not the Nine O’Clock News is hoping to answer over eleven harrowing teatimes.
Dark Vanilla Jungle.
Author/actor Stephanie Vlahos gives a performance that blurs author with character, thought with creation, fear with love as she embodies the character John K Mercury, an accidenta…
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
The Kids of Canada is a stand-up comedy show featuring three of Canada’s best young comedians! After two long years of pandemic restrictions, these three 20-somethings from the f…
The new award-nominated show from the lively double act – Kieran and Tom bring you the most unimportant hour of your life.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Unapologetically Indian, irreverently American.
A heady mixture of ropey material and competent crowd work from one of the greats. Extra show added: as part of Just the Tonic’s Hot Ticket Lucky Dip. Tuesday 23rd at 5.45pm.
Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then grab your pet adult and join us! Award-winning c…
A Romantic (Stand-Up) Comedy (Show).
Knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is bad, Adele is good.
Shetland comedian Marjolein is back with her brand-new hour.
Calling the courageous, the devoted, the faithless and the broken to a brand new, unquantifiable, ceremonial experience by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
‘A festival mainstay, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
A Dark Place by Boreas Productions at Pleasance Courtyard is an insight into the relationship between friends, Ash and Sam, and how Sam’s mental health struggles have twisted the…
World record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo makes mad music with his mouth and has performed around the world with legends like Bjork, Ed Sheeran and Rudimental.
John Hegley’s Biscuit of Destiny.
Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks.
‘Watching audiences tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it’ (Daily Telegraph).
How do you cause a shipwreck or conjure goddesses at will? Tricksy spirit Ariel has you covered.
Magician Kevin Quantum, trained by Penn & Teller, presents a fast-paced, jaw-dropping show, that guarantees to blow your mind.
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An intera…
Follow the adventures of Corry the Coronavirus who causes chaos and misery until controlled by the Science Superheroes.
Three Performers.
John Hastings has had to deal with the shit life has thrown at him since 2019… He got a divorce during Covid, his best friend got a terminal diagnosis, he got bed bugs, he nearly…
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
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…
Based on the much-loved book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Join us for the return of our popular Poetry Room at the fabulous Ironworks Studios for an evening of poetry, music and conversation.
Brothers Broke bring their popular and well-reviewed 2021 Edinburgh Fringe “in-person” show to debut at this years Brighton Fringe.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Heather Alexander lit up the stage as she portrayed one of the most fearless female writers in history - Virginia Woolf.
(In addition to this online show, John Callaghan will be performing LIVE at the Spiegeltent on 14th June 2021!) https://www.
Leamprov, the premier Improvised Comedy troupe in Leamington Spa brings you ‘The Elephant in the Room’; a quick-fire improvised sketch show in the style of ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway…
BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist Ricky Balshaw is a former Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist, and sports pundit, with a penchant for dar…
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
The Museum of Secrets has been robbed! Join a mysterious secret agent to help investigate the murder of Mr.
The Museum of Secrets has been robbed! Join a mysterious secret agent to help investigate the murder of Mr.
In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli…
In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli…
Watching the projected opening credits to Dark Sublime it would be easy to mistake it for an actual British sci-fi TV show of the 1980s.
Would you like to live again?Marian is dead.
It is 1929.
The story follows a brave young boy on his journey to meet the darkness in his basement, and watches as he eventually learns to befriend it.
Fresh from music directing in Mandarin for Nederlander Worldwide in China, Juilliard grad Matthew Liu makes the leap from orchestra pit to the spotlight with a concert of original …
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
Welcome Back is a Romantic (Stand Up) Comedy (show).
The headline findings from In The Picture under a public policy spotlightNO ROOM AT THE INN?Place-based policy at the intersectionsIF COMMUNITIES ARE UNDERSTOOD ONLY AS NEIGHBOURHO…
John Darwin’s Happy Hour is a poetic celebration of the journey from childhood to middle age.
John Darwin’s Happy Hour is a poetic celebration of the journey from childhood to middle age.
John Darwin’s Happy Hour is a poetic celebration of the journey from childhood to middle age.
John Darwin’s Happy Hour is a poetic celebration of the journey from childhood to middle age.
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Calling kids aged 5 to 100, join our MIGHTY gang! A sensational interactive show, where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide with electrifying results.
Film Reads Kids takes your favourite childhood movies and completely rewrites with jokes and nonsense.
Time Out and Funny Women Awards nominee Celia Byrne in “A Glimpse of Gingham” a joyful one-woman show that’s a unique blend of music, humour and expressive dance.
Time Out and Funny Women Awards nominee Celia Byrne in “A Glimpse of Gingham” a joyful one-woman show that’s a unique blend of music, humour and expressive dance.
For just three special shows, newly created for 2021, together again to celebrate the return of the Fringe.
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a bluesy fusion of songs by both artists.
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, "Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bibby (Comedy Central, BBC Radio 4, &ldq…
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to dazzle children (aged 6+) and their families.
Drawings of Dromedaries (and Other Creatures).
Join Miss Carmen Aurora for ‘An Hour With The After Dark Cabaret & Burlesque’, offering a glamorous evening right in the heart of Camden.
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.
InHouse Theatre and Assembly invite you back to your favourite haunt for a strong drink and a stranger-than-fiction ghost story.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
Grumms doesn’t see themselves in the Barbies or GI Joes they play with.
Brand new show In The Dark sees Adele Cliff discuss the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Brass players Ida, Ally and Clara have just a 30-minute rehearsal to fix the fallout from post-show drinks the night before.
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.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
Following two culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs in 2018 and 2019, this mind-bogglingly awful (and disquietingly successful) idea for a comedy extravaganza retur…
Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires).
Tom Greenwald and Andrew Lippa’s John and Jen is a true masterpiece on what it means to be a family.
The Showstoppers’ Kids Show takes kids’ ideas and turns them into marvellous, musical adventures from scratch, right away and in front of your very noses.
The true story of Joseph Carey Merrick, aka The Elephant Man, told in song.
The true story of Joseph Carey Merrick, aka The Elephant Man, told using songs to express how he felt and perceived the world around him.
Our regular scratch programme, where dynamic and talented theatre makers present daring, new work in the first stages of development.
Time Out and Funny Women Awards nominee Celia Byrne in a joyful one-woman show that’s a unique blend of music, humour, and expressive dance.
Time Out and Funny Women Awards nominee Celia Byrne in a joyful one-woman show that’s a unique blend of music, humour, and expressive dance.
Another chance to see this exceptional, acclaimed storytelling hit.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
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.
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
A runaway hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this family fun quiz is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
A runaway hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this family fun quiz is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
How have ways of seeing and being seen reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown? Three film vignettes released throughout the year explore the subjective relationships…
How have ways of seeing and being seen reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown? Three film vignettes released throughout the year explore the subjective relationships…
‘Virtual X-Caper’, winner of five escape room industry awards in the last year.
The latest mission in “Project Pandora”, the epic escape game quest to bring an evil genius to justice.
Oh no, Agent November is captured and held prisoner by the evil mastermind Marty Orri.
The latest mission in “Project Pandora”, the epic escape game quest to bring an evil genius to justice.
Spiegeltent regular John Callaghan has performed his thoughtful and spiky electronica for record labels like Warp and as one half of comedy duo Eccentronic.
JIMI HENDRIX, ERIC CLAPTON & CREAM Paying tribute to these legends of rock are VOODOO ROOM.
This event has been rescheduled from Fri 20 March 2020.
A night of new works explored by emerging & mid-career Asian diaspora artists in partnership with Omnibus Theatre.
Suitable for: ages 3-8yrs and their familiesDuration: 60 mins, no interval IGGETY ZIGGETY ZAGGETY ZOOM! Jump on board the broom with the witch and her cat in T…
A show about sex and sexuality that laughs in the face of shame and guilt.
Two shows only! Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them instantly into interactive musical adventures.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a bluesy fusion of songs by Bob Dylan and The Beatles.
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970’s. Performed by ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
In 2019, after four years of their hit Stevie Wonder show, the eight-piece Edinburgh superband tackled their next legendary artist and sold-out every show.
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform selected songs by Bob Dylan and John Lennon, portraying their like-minded viewpoints and highlighting some of their influences.
The Boom Room is a sweet little radio play that captures the ennui and idiosyncratic Englishness of lockdown – cleaning out spice racks, a sudden urge to plant potatoes – and p…
Unapologetically Indian.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness? Grab your pet adult and join us! Direct from a UK tour and last year’s sell-out run; we’re back …
‘Mesmerising!’ (Primary Times).
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: a) Find the light switch? b) Go north? c) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An in…
‘Watching audiences tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it’ (Daily Telegraph).
What’s it like to play the flute while hanging upside down? How loud is the trombone? Jazz accordion?!? Music, theatre, and dance collide in this madcap variety show, and YOU cho…
Continuing the classic theme is Olivier and Tony Award-winner, Lea Salonga.
Enjoy the freshest fringe theatre, performance art, dance, music and art classes from the comfort of your own living room, as part of WAF In Your Living Room.
This online, live, interactive family show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic, theatrical twist on the traditional kids’ show.
Due to the phenomenal success of the first two seasons of Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace, Lambert Jackson are thrilled to present the star-filled line-up of their third seas…
Rising Irish stand up star John Meagher presents a showcase of the top Irish Stand-up comedians working today.
Rising Irish stand up star John Meagher presents a showcase of the top Irish Stand-up comedians working today.
‘John Shuttleworth's Back’.
‘John Shuttleworth's Back’.
Calling kids aged 5 to 100: join our mighty gang for an interactive show where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide – with electrifying results.
Dynamic and talented theatre makers and writers present daring, new work in the first stages of development.
Untapped and Edinburgh Stage Award winners, Nouveau Riché will hand pick a mix of emerging artists and theatre makers to present daring new work in front of an audience for the ve…
Amanda is an actor, singer, writer and comedian.
Nightmares and phantom legends form the backdrop of this new interactive séance show presented in one of London’s most haunting venues.
Dynamic and talented theatre makers and writers present daring, new work in the first stages of development.
Dr John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s.
Here at The Showstoppers’ Kids Show we take your ideas and turn them into marvellous, musical interactive adventures.
Using dark humour and a good dose of brain power, three scientists reveal their stories: what is it like to do research in everyday life? Between anecdotes of late nights in the la…
Direct from Australia, John Rowe brings his sofa-based entertainment show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now, John Goldie, is joined by his brand-new backing band, the High Plains.
Nick is 14 years old.
Much has been written about the psychology of millennials, but what about their successors, Generation Z? Mental health issues are a constant of public debate and there is a percei…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Edinburgh after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
An evening of poetry and music given by John Coutts and Ayman Jarjour.
Back to Broadway: returning for their fourth annual evening of (decidedly secular) cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir head Back to Broadway with a glittering progr…
Mark Knight had the honour of performing to a packed-out room, clearly up for a fun Friday night of Mind Reading and Hypnosis – any Edinburgh performer’s dream scenario.
The multi award-winning Welsh comedian is back with a brand-new live show.
Speaking Out: A Conversation with John Bercow.
Almost 40 and totally single, Mandy takes us on a hilarious, raw 55-minute rollercoaster ride unearthing the magic elixir for her unmarried soul.
Adam, a hyper-intelligent AI, is cold, awkward and doesn’t make sense.
Introducing Carol Ann Duffy to the stage with a trumpet call, indicating a rally of the troops, seems befitting for the hour with the world-renowned poet.
Sell-out event with a new line-up! On the outskirts of Edinburgh, hidden away at the end of a winding driveway, lies one of Edinburgh’s secret treasures – Lauriston Castle.
Following a surprising (and culturally deeply unsettling) smash-hit, sell-out run at last year’s Fringe, this mind-bogglingly awful, disquietingly successful idea for a late-night …
After four years of their sell-out Stevie Wonder show, the eight-piece Edinburgh superband tackles their next legendary artist.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970s. Performed by ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Shadow Chancellor since 2015 and MP for Hayes and Harlington since 1997, McDonnell has campaigned against the Iraq war and argued for curbs in bankers bonuses, decent pensions, fre…
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
Gemma Bedeau is a writer, costume designer and graphic novelist.
I, John Kearns, and I, Pat Cahill, join hands to present our messy, loving, self-flagellant off-Broadway show, 110%.
Scottish Jazz Award-winners Rose Room present ‘a dazzling night of classy vintage swing and gypsy jazz played by a band that combines brilliant musicianship and warm personality’ (…
Join our curators, conservator and volunteers on special highlight tours of St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home of the University of Edinburgh’s world renown…
The World premiere of a breathtaking new Cuban dance show, created in Havana.
It’s 1816, and Mary Shelley is about to recite the words that would be Frankenstein.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s and today.
Writer, theatre-maker and creator of cult Edinburgh hit John Peel’s Shed, John Osborne has a new storytelling show about music and dementia.
Returning for 2019, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment.
A unique opportunity for your child to be part of a Fringe show! Fringe sell-out returns to Edinburgh.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim and Dave perform a comedy show about the beautiful game.
X is a prisoner confined to the walls of their cell, placed there for a crime they refuse to discuss.
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
The Room.
Should unbreakable data security be made widely available? If so, can it be used for malicious purposes, as well as keeping us secure? Cracking the Enigma codes during World War II…
The brand-new tribute show from Liquid Lunch Productions, Elton John: Rocket Man Live! showcases the very best of the eclectic songbook of the legendary Elton John and Bernie Taupi…
Colt Cabana Is a world-famous wrestler who has wrestled around the world from Dundee to Japan and back including a short, not so successful, run in the WWE as Scotty Goldman.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner presents his fourth show.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Celebrating the 275th anniversary of the original rules of golf, this exhibition will show John Rattray’s involvement in shaping the modern golf game and golfing artefacts, clubs…
What’s more mundane than death? What’s more absurd? In a slice of often brave, often very funny, and occasionally extremely poignant clowning, Amritha Dhaliwal and Gemma Soldat…
Calling kids aged 5 to 100, join our mighty gang! A sensational interactive show, where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide with electrifying results.
Jeneane Morris is here to tell you some shit about life: buckle up.
Jamie, affable dweeb but viciously misanthropic cyclist, will explain how a head-on collision with a car and his first year teaching completely changed his opinion on humans.
John Hastings is back at the Fringe and has moved out of his regular haunt, the Pleasance Courtyard, to a more homely Monkey Barrel.
The global gap between rich and poor grows.
The world-renowned Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for the children and their parents.
Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen are stand-ups who have been inappropriately funny in public and have been told to get a room.
John Robertson first premiered his maniacal game show The Dark Room back in 2012.
Just cos you’re a kid doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show doesn’t mean you can’t also hav…
B-movies typically have negative connotations.
Meddlin’ Kids, the beloved kids show about four mystery-solving teens and their infamous dog, has run for 26 seasons.
Shetland comedian Marjolein, as seen on BBC, wants to transport you to her home with tales and truths of what life is really like 60° north.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An intera…
In the late 1960s three women were murdered by an Old Testament quoting serial killer by the name of Bible John.
True crime obsession has reached new heights in the past few years with a seemingly endless stream of documentaries, books and podcasts available to armchair sleuths everywhere.
You want to know how the tricks work, but this show will reveal how a magician thinks! John Accardo may be one of America’s rising young talents, but he’s been performing for over …
Hopefully, you know the kind of show you’re in for, with a deliciously meaningless title like this, and crafted surrealism is exactly what is in store.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
The smash hit of last year’s festival is back! Join the Kafkateers for their ‘riotously cheerful’ (Chortle.
Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them on the spot into interactive musical adventures.
As Mandy Muden inexplicably emerges from a tiny suitcase on stage, clad in a leopard print ensemble, she is anything but invisible.
Fire emoji.
A perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s beloved clowns.
Known better for his kink-based comedy, John Pendal returns this year to the Fringe with a different angle to a similar style he employs, one that combines his witty sexual quips w…
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, digital DJ, vibe-magnet, yells into a well.
SK Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic.
From the award wining creators of fringe comedy sensations Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair and Ghost Cop, comes the original blood curdling B-Musical for the stage.
WINNER: BEST KIDS SHOW Leicester Comedy Festival 2018You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in …
"Watching audiences attempt to tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it.
“AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER…FRINGE BRILLIANCE” - ★★★★★ Broadway Baby Storyteller and stand-up comic John Pendal returns to the Great Yorkshire…
Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with their jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying…
“AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER…FRINGE BRILLIANCE” - ★★★★★ Broadway Baby Storyteller and stand-up comic John Pendal returns to the Museum of Comed…
This magnetic bond still holds after more than 40 years of attempted escapes and still loved for their total in-yer-face originality, the contrast between the dea…
Oli arrives at the door of Marianne, a now-forgotten sci-fi TV icon, impatient to make an impression, to make a friend.
“A renaissance man in a suitcase.
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
This new play from Brighton Arts Lab (the edge-dwellers that brought you The Brexorcist) takes the transcript of a public confrontation in Christchurch, streamed live on Facebook, …
Join us for our popular monthly Kids Club; a creative couple of hours, hosted by an artrepublic artist on one Saturday each month and centred around one theme or activity.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s to today.
You awake to find yourself in a dark room.
Dynamic and talented theatre makers and writers present daring, new work in the first stages of development.
After a drug and alcohol-fuelled night of mistakes, three friends become embroiled in a love triangle that makes them question the nature of love and friendship.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
The Museum of Secrets has been robbed! Join Agent November to investigate this unusual crime.
John Lodge, legendary bass player, songwriter and vocalist of The Moody Blues and recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is bringing his ’10,000 Light Years&rsq…
The Kids Are Alright is a surreal and confronting new work combining dance and new writing, participation and performance, children and adults.
Here at The Showstoppers’ Kids Show we take your ideas and turn them into marvellous, musical interactive adventures.
Something’s wrong.
A surreal tragicomedy about the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love.
Friday 22nd March, 1.
Singer/Songwriter John Adams draws influences from the likes of James Morrison, Sam Smith, David Gray and James Blunt.
Back by popular demand, this is your chance to join the sonic superhero that is Shlomo.
Back by popular demand, this is your chance to join the sonic superhero that is Shlomo.
Twenty-six animal songs, one for each letter of the alphabet.
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Comedy Club 4 Kids It's a comedy club, right, but for kids.
George Mann and Nir Paldi are a real-life couple trying to answer a question many of us face.
John Wilson’s 70 piece superstar orchestra returns with their brand new show ‘At The Movies’.
Harold Pinter’s first play, The Room, features in a triple-bill directed by Pinter’s colleague and friend, Patrick Marber.
Britain’s best loved poet Dr John Cooper Clarke is heading to the London Palladium on Sat 24 November 2018.
IGGETY ZIGGETY ZAGGETY ZOOM! Join the Witch and her cat on their mission to defeat the dragon in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Juli…
Free but booking essential A unique workshop for anyone interested in the world of forensics or Crime Scene Investigation, this interactive event is brought to you by i…
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
One night in her attic writing room with her housekeeper and a mysterious guest she reads them a story, not one of her cherished children’s tales, but one of her terrifying early…
Playwright Philip Meeks brings E.
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews.
Britain and Canada’s first and only woman to have a worldwide Netflix special, Katherine Ryan brings her acclaimed, total sell-out 2017/18 nation-wide tour show&nbs…
What’s the life that lies under the lab coat? Researchers from all across Europe will accompany you on a journey through their research, sharing their most embarrassing and hilario…
Dr Amy Davies (Heriot-Watt University) invites you to delve into the deep oceans and dark forests where enchanting fluorescent creatures such as jellyfish and fireflies live.
‘A dazzling night of classy vintage swing and gypsy jazz played by a band that combines brilliant musicianship and warm personality’ (JazzScotland.
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…
Michigan-born, now Reykjavik-based, US singer-songwriter John Grant creates music that can be agonisingly sad, painfully funny – or often both, but never less than breathtaking …
Returning for this their third annual evening of cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir shirk their choir robes once more to perform a sparkling cocktail of (decidedly…
Blimey! It’s 1958, the Cold War is heating up, and Her Majesty’s finest assassins have gathered to celebrate topping off their prime target.
Childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back after their smash-hit Fringe debut, serving up their dirtiest, most disturbing and patently misguided VHS finds from 25 year…
Featuring musicians from the internationally acclaimed Complete Songs of Robert Burns (Linn Records). ‘Great voices, great songs… Who could ask for more?’ (fRoots).
An evening of intimate magic (and comedy) with a master, in a late-night venue, restricted to a small audience – book early to avoid disappointment! John Lenahan has performed ar…
A stand-up comedy show featuring two outstanding comedians; one has over 100 million YouTube views, the other has a famous dad.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
You do not often look around an audience during a show and see barely any unsmiling faces; scarcer still, there is unanimous overheard praise afterwards.
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a bluesy fusion of songs by both artists.
When three sisters come together on their autistic brother’s 30th birthday, they can’t help but mull over their childhood with him, which was shaped by his insistence that he w…
Set in October of 1978, eight women end up together in an abandoned house where Lenora Stark supposedly murdered her parents 13 years ago.
Returning for 2018, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment.
As a reviewer I'm fortunate enough to get free tickets to many shows.
Start to End return with a live band interpretation of John Martyn’s classic fourth solo studio album Solid Air, following a sold-out appearance at Celtic Connections 2018.
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
Old friends John Kearns and Pat Cahill have gathered together 110% of their very best talking points, bloopers, songs and fighting talks to discuss at the Blundabus.
A space for artists, producers and makers to come together as collaborators, friends or individuals to meet and think, chill out and create some headspace during the world’s busi…
On the outskirts of Edinburgh, hidden away at the end of a winding driveway, lies one of Edinburgh’s secret treasures – Lauriston Castle.
A larger-than-life, theatrical celebration of the life and works of Gwyn Thomas.
Night time.
He came to our home with my Grandmother.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Mandy Knight has never had a birthday party.
Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson weaves through time with jokes, anecdotes and storytelling.
An improvised comedy where a one-word audience suggestion inspires rapidly unfolding scenes.
Join the morning chorus of clappy, clippy, cloppy, floppy, flappy sing-song and poem pong.
Dana’s 39, happy, comfortable.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Misha Rachlevsky and Russia’s finest string players engage, educate and entertain youngsters of all ages in a musical journey full of fun, interaction and surprises.
These miniature comedians will have you rolling in the aisles! Eight brave mini comedians will don the iconic Stand stage to dazzle you with their comic timing, reduce you to tears…
With a friendship that has endured numerous governments, several economic downturns and expanding waist sizes, these two stand-ups join together to bring you a one-hour show which …
John Lynn is not a drug fiend.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
‘An original way with words and a talent for one-liners and short stories.
Just ‘cos you’re a kid, doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just ‘cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show, doesn’t mean you can’t also…
Clif Knight is a trainwreck and he’s bringing comedy, music and mistaken world outlooks to make you feel better about yourselves.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
This is the five-piece band’s second consecutive appearance at the Fringe.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Suited and booted Australian improv god unleashes pure comedy chaos in a basement with a live blues band.
Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
Is it your kid’s birthday? Well it is today! Sit in on a 40-minute birthday party for all the kids in the room! Kids get to play games, win prizes and they even get to blow out the…
Prepare for loud and get ready for louder with some shouty thrown in for good measure.
In an affectionate tribute, leading impressionist Julian Dutton of BBC One’s The Big Impression brings to life one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
Nicoletta Wylde Is Afraid of the Dark is a semi-autobiographical, storytelling, spoken word show about living with night terrors.
You awake to find yourself in The Dark Room! You (the audience) must choose an option – will you A) Find the light switch? B) Cry for help? C) Go north? Come and play a live-acti…
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Meet William Shakespeare and some of his fabulous friends on a mission to change the world! Adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
The Fun Kids Radio presenters need your help to keep the station on-air and to make the best radio roadshow ever.
Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them on the spot into interactive musical adventures.
Stripped is a new beginning.
The only winner of the Best Show and Best Newcomer Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns for an encore of his 2017 critically acclaimed hit.
Should we have kids? It’s a difficult question, but one that becomes even more complex when you’re a gay couple, and have to grapple with a whole cavalcade of unique problems c…
Kafka for kids? Karter thinks it’s a brilliant idea.
Storyteller and stand-up comedian John Pendal explores his family tree and discovers mutinies in the 1800s, arson in the 1900s and autism in the 2000s.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in this fun, fear-filled interactive adventure.
Last year, John Hastings was hit by a car and broke his arm.
The final resting place of the work and artefacts of Scotland’s most creative writers: Robert Burns, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for children and their parents.
Superheroes for Kids 3 is the newest version of the hit show.
If the main attraction doesn’t show up, the kids still want to see a comedy show! So Pete’s gonna make one up and have the kids (and adults) help write, direct, and design it.
Popular comic John Pendal returns to Great Yorkshire Fringe for a third consecutive year.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying, mind-frying, spirit-lifting, paradigm-shiftin…
Blue Jeans Management Proudly Presents - Jarred Christmas & Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Show Hey kids, grab your parents, parents grab your cash and come do…
Featuring 3 acts from the comedy circuit performing jokes that are suitable for children, but funny enough to get everyone laughing.
‘Write what you know!’ they say.
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC, now see Nottingham-born rising star Sarah Keyworth’s debut hour.
“AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER…FRINGE BRILLIANCE” ★★★★★ - Broadway Baby John Pendal is proud to announce his third full-length solo show: “…
Time travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw dropping, heart stopping, brain busting, opinion adjusting, death defying, mind frying, spirit lifting, paradigm shifting,…
Prepare for loud and get ready for louder with some shouty thrown in for good measure.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in this fun, fear-filled, text-based interactive adventure game.
Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella does what all modern adaptations of traditional stories should do: it turns it into something new, something pulsing with relevance for the new settin…
The Collaborative Artists Company presents Lady Na Master and the Synaptic Room.
Writer and storyteller John Osborne is back with a trio of shows across the final weekend of the Fringe.
Empty Room is a one-woman show which explores how music - listening to it, writing it, performing it - can grant us the freedom to reveal what is in our depths.
A renaissance man in a suitcase.
The very best variety acts from all around the world do their awe inspiring and death defying performances for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families…but witho…
Cult sketch-comedy cowboys ‘Good Kids’ descend on Brighton Fringe for another hour of wicked-ass mayhem.
‘Dark Side of the Mime’ explores the grotesque like nothing else.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
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.
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
John 3:16 is the verse to end all verses apparently.
A cross-disciplinary piece combines dance, live music and conceptual arts.
Set in a Magritte-styled surreal 3-wall room, this performance installation explores how isolated individuals, who have experienced childhood trauma, overcome many difficulties i…
What happens to our minds when the lights go out? ‘Nicoletta Wylde is Afraid of the Dark’ is a semi-autobiographical storytelling spoken word show about living with night terrors.
John Pendal returns with a preview of his new solo stand-up comedy show ‘Family’.
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…
Rising star Sarah Keyworth, tour support for Stewart Francis and Kerry Godliman, brings an hour of brand new stand-up that shines a light on the relationship between a little girl …
7 May: Guest DJ Krafty Kuts ‘Intergalactic Space and Star Wars’ fancy dress (0-10yrs) 28 May: Guest DJ Russ Cuban (Cuban Brothers fame) ‘Gangsters and Hippies’ fancy dress (0-…
A new storytelling show about finding a pile of old copies of the Radio Times and piecing together someone’s life by the programmes they had circled.
An hour of stand-up from award-winning comedian and Jewish Comedian of the Year, Joe Bor.
Legally Blonde (based on the movie of the same name) tells the story of Elle Woods, a party girl who decides to go to Harvard Law School to convince her ex-boyfriend that she can b…
You awake to find yourself in a Dark Room! You, the audience must choose an option.
Our fab disco for under 7s returns! Wee witches and sapling sorcerers, grab your broomsticks and fly on down to the Albany for a magical dance party with themed video, live perform…
Mark Cortale Presents Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre:JOHN BARROWMAN MBEwith SETH RUDETSKY as pianist & host.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West’s marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable,…
Be entertained by the talented kids from the award winning Parks Youth Theatre.
Best Kids Show runner up 2015.
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you award winning family friendly comedy acts from Edinburgh.
The incredible life story of Marie Curie, arguably the most important woman in science, who discovered two chemical elements, won two Nobel Prizes, and made breakthroughs that have…
Since 2002 the locally produced, original Rhino Room Late Show has been a ‘must see’ late night Fringe event for comedy fans and Fringe artists alike.
Escape Room Treasure Hunt returns for its 3rd year, with a brand new room: You and your team work in a 1920s prohibition-era speakeasy - but the cops will be raiding it! You have 4…
Join Albert, the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science, for a lecture like no other.
In this international smash-hit musical comedy, Charles Darwin tells the remarkable story of how he came up with the idea that shook the world, and why it took him 20 years to publ…
It’s party time! Dance to the latest tunes with other 5-12 year olds and feel like the star of your own pop video.
With comedy, cabaret & fun for all the family to enjoy Huggers returns to Adelaide with enough variety to entertain all ages.
Do you want to see a show but can’t get a babysitter? Worry no more.
Come and enjoy our family friendly afternoons where the adults can enjoy a wine tasting while the kids are entertained by our wonderful children shows! Need we say more? One gla…
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you multi award winning family friendly cabaret acts from Edinburgh.
From a creator of “Best of Fringe Variety”.
Want to be Instagram famous? Or want to know what’s really happening on social media? Get inside the head of an out of control ‘influencer’ and her perfectly curated life throu…
BBC Three’s John Hastings, the funniest white comedian from Canada, was briefly vegan and is currently in love.
In Room 21C Port Adelaide-based artist Michael Hocking undertakes a far-ranging investigation of underlying ties and tensions in visual art: drawing-painting, surface-content, line…
Born under the train tracks in New York City, Dickinson’s Room is a site-specific theatrical experiment, dedicated to the mind and art of the poet Emily Dickinson.
Dave & Kate love to sing for children.
South Australian-born John Kauffmann (1864-1942) discovered photography as art while living in Europe in the 1890s.
When the night falls, the tango is revealed in its most authentic and pure form.
Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths and acclaimed cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen for one night only.
The Flaming Sambucas (extended band), with Terry Nicholas at the White Grand Piano, bring to life the timeless songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Awarded Broadway composer & pianist, John Bucchino, will be performing for the S.
Experience the sublime harmonies of Adelaide’s acclaimed a cappella group Allegria, in the intimate surrounds of a unique underground venue - Adelaide’s Treasury Tunnels.
At Home Records presents The Dark Space Performances.
Growing up with the music of Nick Cave resonating in their bones, it seemed only fitting to put together a tribute to the Bad Seed himself.
Sit back, close your eyes and enjoy the symphonic sounds of Fusion Pops Orchestra & Choir as they take you to the underworld, outer space and somewhere in between.
Comedy superstar John Bishop is extending his sell out UK tour and coming to the London Palladium in Feb 2018 with his brand new live show, Winging It.
Our fab disco for Under 7s returns! Grab your pink leg warmers, don your ankle boots and make you hair as big as can be! It’s our retro disco for the digital generation to party …
UK theatregoers may be playing catch-up when it comes to playwright Annie Baker.
The Sound of Music is a beautiful, uncomplicated musical about courage, love and doing the right thing, and this production is a beautiful, uncomplicated rendition that stays true …
The Showstoppers are here to make your kids’ Christmas story wishes come true! Welcome to our Christmas grotto where the The Showstoppers are here to make your kids’ Ch…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Following the release of last year’s acclaimed Top 10 album Soulsville, singer songwriter and actress Beverley Knight announces a new UK Tour for 2017.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Do you believe in ghosts? What if a room could tell you the life stories of the people that have inhabited it? Better still – what if it could sing you those stories? In this bra…
Introduced by Jacquie Storey – who once successfully auditioned for the group that later became Hot Gossip (and turned them down) – we first see a short video from The Kenny Ev…
People say your whole life flashes in front of your eyes before you die but what happens when you have dementia? Where does the brain go before we die? Dark Matter is a devised and…
Degrees Of Error, best known for Murder, She Didn’t Write, present to you their latest creation.
England, 1823: the Industrial Revolution and a changing world.
It is really reassuring to see an honest piece about the hard work of being a teacher, whilst also avoiding a bland generic sanctifying of all teachers.
Delve into an hour of real Locker Room Talk, a term made infamous by Donald Trump, and allow yourself to be immersed into the murky and dark world of everyday sexism that society d…
Hugo Alastor has gone missing.
The Mantles have issues that probably need to be addressed, only problem being none of them talk to each other, not properly anyway.
Returning after their first immensely popular After Dark outing last year, the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers return with another sparkling cocktail of decidedly non-sacred…
John Prescott, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after his sell-out performance last year.
John Sampson (trumpet and recorder) joins the orchestra for performances of Vivaldi’s recorder concerto in C minor and Handel’s trumpet suite in D.
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
The beardy babes are back, baby! Atop broomstick horses we ride, offering up unto you Fandango! – an hour of surreal, stupid, knee-slappin’ sketches that’ll make you scream Y…
Under the direction of Brian Feigenbaum, Lawrence Academy Dance returns for its fifth Fringe.
We’ve all had the question.
The title of Hegley’s show refers to his latest book, Peace, Love and Potatoes, a perfect example of the juxtaposition between the common and the conceptual found throughout his …
Comedy superstar John Bishop is returning to Fringe with a brand new work in progress show Winging It.
‘Punch the air to character comedy.
Shadow Chancellor since 2015 and MP for Hayes and Harlington since 1997, McDonnell has campaigned against the Iraq war, and argued for curbs in bankers’ bonuses, decent pensions,…
Returning for a fifth year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. Hosted by Bec Hill, full line up at forthone.com
Scottish Jazz Awards finalists Rose Room have become one of Scotland’s leading ensembles influenced by gypsy jazz.
The In Conversation series at New Town Theatre in George Street is an hour of chat with a celebrity guest each day.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
Inspired by August Strindberg’s groundbreaking 1888 naturalistic drama, Miss Julie, the action is relocated to a Reconstruction Era Virginia plantation.
A one-woman dramatic monologue performed with great storytelling skills, Green Knight is an enthralling show.
Our play Black and White Tea Room was first performed in 2014.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
There’s only two chances to see the Fringe’s favourite bluesman stand up and sing swing with Campbell Normand on piano and Ed Kelly on double bass.
The band feature multi-stringed instrumentalists playing original music and songs in the folk/country rock genre.
Shetland comedian Marjolein, as seen on BBC The Social, explores relations from all types, including familial, political and sexual (rude).
‘Boogie-woogie.
Hey kids, grab your parents, parents grab your cash and get on down to the best game show in town.
TV has a special place in our hearts, for comforting us on a very personal level, and for giving us the communal experience of watching and talking about it.
Feel that southern Spanish energy! Fringe sell-out returns to Edinburgh, bringing the opportunity for your child to come on stage and learn some rhythms, some steps and even do a s…
Most bankers walked free after the bubble burst – but not John Gabriel Borkman.
theSpace at Symposium Hall is an ideal setting for music appreciation.
The Dark Room is both a literal and moral description.
Sit back and relax for a cinematic treat! Double Dome Nights is showing a combination of two films from Dynamic Earth’s spectacular bank of out of this world 360-degree immersive…
Josh finds the outside world a fascinating and frightening place.
The only winner of the Best Show and Best Newcomer Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns for the first time.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy teams up with incredibly talented musician John Sampson to bring a unique blend of reading with live music.
Following on from his hugely successful tour in the south of England, Tomfoolery has revamped and re-toasted his action-packed Beans on Toast show for his Edinburgh Fringe debut! B…
The James Taylor Story is one of a series of shows at the Fringe under the Night Owl Shows, the company created by Dan Clews.
Sam is scared of the dark.
The Symposium Hall is an ideal venue for an acoustic music show with great views from the whole of the theatre.
Napier University Drama Society returns to the musical stage after selling out last year.
To say Nicholas Parsons is a legend, and this being his sixteenth season at the Fringe I imagine he must see this like his own version of an annual end of the pier summer show wher…
‘Nish Kumar, James Acaster, Tom Allen and Bec Hill are among the big-name comics giving up an hour of their time to bring comedy to the juvenile masses; an inspired idea, and it’s …
Most bankers walked free after the bubble burst – but not John Gabriel Borkman.
John Scott Delusions.
Meet William Shakespeare, and some of his fabulous friends for a truly magical experience.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The sell-out unique comedy experience returns.
Inspired by the Indian myth of the Elephant God - Ganesha; this is a coming of age story about a boy in search of his head, wandering through a forest where creatures fret over a p…
There are many different kinds of video games: roleplaying, shoot-em-up, strategy, the list is endless.
Looking for John.
Anything Can Be a Podcast! Podcast! John Hastings improvises an hour of comedy based on suggestions from the Fringe’s top comedians, his teenage blog, and his friend Paul Stanley H…
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…
The cult-favourite alternative comic humbly invites you to his brand-new, absolutely brilliant hour of extraordinary-absurdist-character-comedy-nonsense-sort-of-stand-up and hubris…
Sir Dickie Benson, king of anarchy, the last of the Hollywood hell-raisers writ large, invites you to a riotous afternoon of heavy drinking, hilarious anecdotes and scandalous cele…
More unstructured stand-up from the Cardinal of Chaos, the Ayatollah of Abuse, the Duke of Puke, John Robertson.
‘Divine’ (Rolling Stone, Germany).
Having developed a strong reputation at the Fringe in previous years, John Robins remains a safe bet for sarcastic, pithy self-loathing, although he seems to have a lost a little o…
The fantastically fun family quiz hosted by one of the UK’s favourite stand-ups is back after last year’s triumphant silliness and mayhem.
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
Seeing The Showstoppers’ Kids Show is like watching a new improvised episode of Horrible Histories.
Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room is a thoroughly enjoyable one-man show, mixing sketches of various different formats in a bizarre outpouring from the brain of comedian Charl…
John Hastings is back at the Fringe and this time he’s in love - for real.
John Lynn was on top of the world.
John’s beautifully candid 2016 show, International Man of Leather, won the hearts of audiences and critics alike and went on to tour the world.
Bigger, bolder and more brilliant than before! Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand-new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young…
Superheroes for Kids is a silly celebration of comic book superheroes.
Before John became a comedian he spent ten years as an amateur escape artist.
Dark Matter is a Devised and Puppetry Performance.
Arthur Millers most-performed, and perhaps most popular, play, The Crucible, is set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
An end of life comedy, exploring themes of status, dynamics, and changing relationships in the light of parental loss.
The latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre, was devised by the company at the Bristol Old Vic, led by Sally Cookson.
Two striking and contrasting puppetry shows form a double bill that explores the journey of dementia patients at the end of their life.
Join Covent Garden’s cheekiest street performer, award-winning magician Tony Roberts for mind-blowing card magic and more! There’ll be laughs, mayhem and classic conjuring for …
“Blurring the lines between music and artistic performance, John’s use of visuals and costumes pushing the set to another level.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected…
Brighton’s no.
Fandango, the Kids with Beards allege, means party.
Who doesn’t want to make their kids really happy? Come and join us for a great day out.
“amazing!” Guardian.
Jazz and Poetry Layer Cake A delicious serving of modern original Jazz and poetry created by the award-winning author John Harvey (author of the bestselling Charlie Resnick series…
John Hastings is a fence-sitting former drag queen.
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 …
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Before John became a comedian he spent ten years as an amateur escape artist.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
This provocative comedy begins with two young men struggling to come up with ideas for a show they are performing the following week.
Kids, bring your folks to see the international circuit's best comedians, sketch acts and cabaret stars.
Two time Grammy-award winner, John Prine, is a singer songwriter who, from his eponymously titled first LP release in 1971, has continued to write and perform songs that have becom…
Dark Vanilla Jungle is a beautiful, breathtaking drama by Philip Ridley about a young girl’s quest for perfect family & home revealing a biting commentary on abuses of power in a p…
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…
Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic that brought us endlessly popular tunes such as “Suddenly Seymour” and “Somewhere that’s Green” tells the story of Seymour and…
Wait until Dark is a claustrophobic thriller which finds increasingly clever ways to complicate the limited single setting of a basement apartment.
Pandemonium Performance return to the Abney Park with their new show ‘Fear in the Dark’.
Peaceful Lion Productions presents Orion and the Dark Based on the book by Emma Yarlett, this is a heart-warming tale of friendship, adventure and overcoming your fears.
Sister Act, the ever-popular stage musical based on the successful Whoopie Goldberg film, is a feel-good delight, and this latest production starring X-Factor winner Alexandra Bu…
World-famous musical Chicago follows the lives of two women in a Chicago prison in the 1920s, both awaiting trial for murder.
Calling all fishy friends to the dance floor! Disco Kids presents an underwater adventure for your little sea monsters.
An end of life comedy.
Scottish Jazz Awards finalists Rose Room have become one of Scotland’s leading ensembles, influenced by the gypsy jazz genre.
Lord John Prescott discusses his career in the public eye.
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.
In six years of bible storytelling, Yorick has built a reputation for delivering John’s Gospel with a gripping performance storytelling style that is authentic and accessible.
Experience the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers as you’ve never heard them before in this decidedly non-sacred cabaret programme.
The Living Room takes us home, to a place in which we welcome another.
The Living Room takes us home, to a place in which we welcome another.
Coro Edina return to the Fringe following previous years’ acclaimed performances of Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Handel’s Messiah.
Directed by Patrick Sandford.
A university dorm room. Three people. One wants justice. One wants to be popular. One wants to be left alone. They each get what another one wants.
The Brighton-based beardy babes are back, baby.
Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Waiting is frustrating – more frustrating when you don’t know what you’re waiting for.
Bringing together leading experts, writers and narrative designers across multiple entertainment verticals, the VR Writers Room focuses on the cross sector knowledge sharing opport…
Breezing in as part of the Made In Adelaide initiative after a sold out run there, I had high expectations of this presentation.
If you want to see a show that constructs John Knox as a talking point for oversimplified political views, may I suggest Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off? It’s not on…
The descriptor for this Fringe production should appeal to anyone involved in theatre.
The best undiscovered songwriter of his generation? Born to celebrity parents when Elvis topped the charts, immediately given away to strangers.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Returning for a fourth year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. Hosted by Bec Hill, full line-up at forthone.com/kidsdo.
A late-night spectacular of this Fringe favourite! Acts and audiences are plunged into darkness to create one of the most unique and unforgettable comedy experiences.
Only two chances to see the Fringe’s favourite bluesman stand up and sing swing with Campbell Normand’s outstanding Trio.
When they go out at all, they terrorise our streets and are a nuisance in our neighbourhoods.
Basking in the success of his movie, the two-hit wonder returns to Edinburgh.
John Porter always wanted an interesting life.
From street musician to concert artist and back again, the man who was Marvin Hanglider is celebrating his 60th birthday by becoming a fundraiser for Children in Need.
The much-loved and highly respected UK Poet Laureate and her accomplished and entertaining musical collaborator return following sell-out shows in 2015.
‘Truth hurts, don’t it?’ On a dark and stormy night, Betty, a married, successful dean of the local college, has called upon her resentful, blue-collar brother, Bobby, to help he…
A comedy, sketch and game show for football fans that hate the word ‘banter’ and find Alan Shearer boring.
Marjolein Robertson: single, twenty-something, once professional, female, who lives with her Mam, Dad, Sister, Brother-In-Law and Niece under one roof in Shetland.
Feel that southern Spanish energy! Fringe sell-out returns to Edinburgh, bringing the opportunity for your child to come on stage and learn some rhythms, some steps and even do a s…
Our play Black and White Tea Room was first performed in 2014.
A thoughtful idiot builds a monstrous show for your entertainment.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Improv Comedy where audience suggestions inspire rapidly unfolding scenes.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Fringe after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
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…
A supernatural romance between John, a strange witch boy, and human girl Barbara Allen.
Previously known for her well received part as a Totally Naff Tart, this is Victoria Jeffrey solo and talking about life.
Comedian Paul Johnson guides his two sons through first loves, playground fights, youth sports and the timeless longing to fit in and be one of the cool kids – an urge Paul still…
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
Suddenly, five adults find themselves in a room somewhere; a room with no windows, no doors and only the vastness of space where the ceiling ought to be.
‘A festival mainstay for 10 years now, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
In a single dining room revisited over the course of the 20th Century, a series of family dramas show the decline of the American upper-middle class.
There are certain shows at the Fringe that build a reputation even during a short run and this one easily falls into that category.
Pete Sinclair returns with a brand new show titled after an Andy Williams hit.
Winner – Best Comedy, Moors Theatre Awards! Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off finalists! Sketch comedy duo, frequent enemies and occasional friends Cook and Davies find themsel…
“You awaken to find yourself in a dark room”, it’s a phrase shouted many times during The Dark Room.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
If you think you have seen and done it all, try John Pendal on for size.
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
William Shakespeare is back for his 400th anniversary, but he needs your help with his newest play.
How Is Uncle John? is a story about the relationship of mother and daughter: of protector and protected, and of victim and survivor.
SuZanna GonZo had to abandon cruise ship stardom after she almost murdered the man she had fallen deeply in lust with.
Something’s happened to John’s porridge bowl and Marny Godden has crafted an hour of surreal, very physical comedy to find out exactly what.
As Underbelly at George Square grows arms and legs, an expansion into the Meadows was inevitable.
John Robertson claims that comedy is a sick industry (and he should know).
Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A stand-up comedy show in which John promises to rip up the room for the full hour, or you can leave throughout.
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West return to unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
Good Kids are back, and this time they’ve had a few.
The strength of this production primarily sits with the intensely provocative script written by Philip Ridley.
Here in their very own story factory, Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them into marvellous, musical adventures, …
Grant Stott is well known around the Edinburgh area.
If you have kids, take them to this show.
Unbelievably clever, deftly executed and outrageously funny, John Hasting returns once again to the Fringe with his new show Integrity.
Battle the Sith Pirates with real lightsabers! Blast the Dark Side’s droids! Master the Force with Jedi Knight Crusoe! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don’t just want…
It’s the kids’ turn for some superhero fun.
Kids With Beards is a six person-strong sketch comedy group from Brighton.
Shakespeare’s much performed, much studied and much loved “Scottish Play”, Macbeth, is the third in this year’s “Vaulting Ambition” season of Bard in the Botanics.
Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play, Doctor Faustus, tells the story of a man who, having learned everything it is possible to learn, is tempted to seek greater knowledge b…
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus tells the story of the Roman General Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Twelfth Night, the opening show in this season’s Bard in the Botanics, takes place outdoors in Glasgow’s beautiful Botanic Gardens.
This ground-breaking stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th annual ‘Inter…
Shlomo is a world record-breaking beatboxer who makes all kinds of music using just his mouth and a mic.
For children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
Brighton’s no.
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
John Hastings, your great friend, is back to work on new jokes about his moral compass and probably masturbation.
Beverley Knight, the ‘Queen of UK Soul’, and now doyenne of the West End, is back with a brand new album and UK tour for 2016.
Quirky, wistful, witty, jubilant songs; dynamic performance; unique arrangements; ingenious costumes.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart.
Bombastic sketch duo Cook and Davies find themselves trapped in a mysterious room.
Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed…
“Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up sets from grown-up, high-quality acts who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bits,” says The Independent.
You awake to find yourself in a Dark Room! Choose an option: A) Find The Light Switch.
This solo stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th annual ‘International …
Edinburgh Comedy award-winner (2013/14) John Kearns delivers non-sequiturs, surreal digressions and bizarre lunacy alongside stand-up, sketch, and character comedian Mat Ewins.
Pleasing an audience is difficult at the best of times, when they’re on your side you can read the room, and you’re in safe hands if tech and logistics all go to plan.
An inconspicuous townhouse in Fiveways plays host to the promenade performance Dancing in the Dark.
Orion is scared of more or less everything.
Lady Chastity’s Reserve is a night out like no other - described as ‘The Crystal Maze on crystal meth’, this team game (for 2-6 players) takes place in a secret room at Brighton’…
The Legendary UB40 Live! UB40, featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, are back on tour and ready to wow British audiences following a massive series of shows stateside…
Get the party started with Maclemore & Ryan Lewis! Head downtown to see hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis live at the O2 Arena, and enjoy a delicious international mea…
Ashley Austin Morris hosts this solid evening of stand-up, with sets from Dan Soder, Subhah Agarwal, Michael Brigante and Guilio Gallarotti.
Aussie heartthrobs and breakout pop-punk superstars 5 Seconds of Summer are setting off on a UK tour, headed to the UK in spring 2016.
Desdemona is dead.
Writer-performer Amy Conway’s new piece takes the form of a verbatim performance of three interviews: one with her mother, one with her grandmother, and one with herself.
With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and …
The Citizens’ Theatre’s new production of David Harrower’s Olivier Award Winning 2005 play Blackbird is an engaging and thought-provoking piece of theatre.
Do not miss The Maestro live! With over 500 films and television scores with his name on them, the Italian composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Ennio Morricone (born 1…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour! 2015 is finally here Actress Georgia May Foote, Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and TV presenter Anita Rani are the next celebrity contestan…
This ground-breaking debut solo stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th an…
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…
Be there as the phenomenal Jason Derulo culminates his UK arena tour in suitably show-stopping style at London’s O2 Arena on Friday 5 February 2016.
Valda Setterfield has been a groundbreaker and a muse for more than half a century, notably as an early member of Merce Cunningham’s company.
Only a few weeks before their sold-out Off Broadway run of “Oh, Hello” begins, Mr.
JB Priestly’s much beloved, taught-in-schools play, An Inspector Calls, is a perennial favourite with British theatre-goers.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Nov.
Megan Barker’s courageous new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts follows the story of Helen Alving as she attempts to arrange funding for a children’s home.
‘The Waiting Room’ is a brand new comedy about three strangers who find themselves stuck in a room.
The composer John Luther Adams’s shimmering sonic landscapes are inspired by nature, including the beautiful panoramas of Alaska, where he lived for decades before moving to …
While this troupe normally presents acts based on stories written by and for children, “After Dark” draws from the same material for an adults-only performance.
Bobby Nitro hosts After Dark, a comedy chat show and showcase.
Beardman production Time At The Bar was written and directed by Kieran Mellish and follows the story of The Duck’s Beak pub, whose future is uncertain.
The title looked like something from a Victorian sideshow.
The Silver Moon Poetry Collection gives voice to the unspoken voices of the Feminine.
In this exciting collaboration, award-winning vocalist and performer, Jungr, and Grammy and Emmy Award winner McDaniel investigate The Beatles; celebrating Paul, John, George and R…
The Gospel of John is the most interesting of all the New Testament gospels.
It’s been a big year for Kids With Beards.
Drama from the pen of one of the nation’s best loved playwrights.
Traveling Showcase from California bring their musical cabaret to the Fringe for the first time as Lydia Trueblood The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast takes centre stage at the t…
The third play in the Denial Trilogy.
The Troubles play 21st-century jazz and are New Zealand’s leading contemporary jazz group.
Returning for a third year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents a morning of some of the best names in children’s entertainment.
Metaphorically, if our afternoon Comedy Club 4 Kids shows are Doctor Who, then this is the Torchwood spin-off.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Stories old and new for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words from the man who invented the genre.
The Rt Hon John Bercow is one of the best known modern British parliamentarians, gaining great praise for his role as the Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Wedding Reception is billed as an immersive comedy.
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
Bring your plastic spoons and enjoy a Sunday night screening of the cult phenomenon that is The Room.
Based upon the life of the influential and acerbic comedian, Bill Hicks: Dark Poet is a fusion between traditional storytelling monodrama and modern stand-up.
Edith Nesbit, author of scary stories for children, jumps from the page to the stage in Edith in the Dark, a story fitting of her preferred genre.
Trevor is back with another late night show.
Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of only two to win British journalism’s highest award twice.
Bartlett talks about his experience immersed in the internet’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures, from buying cannabis on the Amazon of drugs to hanging with Bitcoin anarchi…
An idiotic comedy show about having and then not having a father, and how stupid you need to make yourself look to get away with speaking ill of the dead.
New material in preparation for the next series of BBC Two’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
A political satire and a dark comedy revealing an uncompromised view of our political world from behind the scenes.
A daily challenge to realise the best marketing scheme on the Fringe.
Radio 4 poet and author John Osbourne presents his first poetry set at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Why wait to celebrate? Australian comedian Sean Murphy’s throwing the ultimate kids’ party at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Kids’ Party Confidential is your ticket to all the hi…
‘Boogie-woogie.
John Lennon was not only a Beatle, but also a skilled short fiction writer, poet and doodler.
Oh, hai audience! We’ve got something for youuu! An original parody musical of the funniest disaster in cinematic history, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, adapted by a BBC-award nomin…
In a typically idiosyncratic twist Carol-Ann Duffy is collaborating with her ‘favourite’ court musician John Sampson for a reading of work from across her gargantuan oeuvre.
UK premiere of this unique and hilarious fusion of world-class circus, film noir and physical theatre.
The critically acclaimed ‘stealth hit’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Sacred Room of Desire, written and directed by Carola Benedetto tells the story of the Hindu pantheon family of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha.
“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot.
Get ready for a perfect afternoon of musical fun! Johnny and the Raindrops are a sensational family friendly live band who play jump up and down, rocking and rolling, can’t sit d…
‘Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up from grown-up, high-quality acts like John Robins, Stu Goldsmith and Nish Kumar, who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bi…
On top of talent and comic-timing, McKeever has charm by the bucket-load.
‘Brilliant’ (Mail on Sunday).
Come to the Globe Playhouse and meet William Shakespeare himself! An enchanting journey through Shakespeare’s most famous characters will start a love for his work that will last a…
Dissent: noun, def.
The show returns after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
John Robertson’s send up of classic text based video games succeeds in being an hilarious evening of retro fun.
Bobby Mair, Tim Renkow and Dylan Gott roll out some of the darkest jokes at the Fringe.
Tom Dowling and Kieran Ahern are current members of the Oxford Revue, but they’re also bloody good kids.
John Lloyd: Emperor of the Prawns is billed as an hour of comedy, but turns out to be so much more.
After Flipper Committed Suicide! Giada comes back to Edinburgh with a brand new hour of fun, dark material, from sex to fairy tales.
Expectations were high in a crowded Dining Room at the old Gilded Balloon, with a profusion of Scottish media lending support or checking out the latest and most challenging new wo…
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
John is a premature born, twitchy, nervous yet confident, agnostic, coddled, only grandson in his family.
I think I’ve found my new favourite musical, thanks to Tangram Theatre and their amazing piece on one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.
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…
Oh What A Lovely War (musical), Oh Calcutta (nude theatre) – but what is Oh Gumtree? The title says nothing of the play behind the poster really but deserves further investigatio…
Australian comedian John Robertson has become a well-known Fringe regular with his hit interactive gameshow, The Dark Room.
An audacious, dark and dirty romp that will have Marcel Marceau turning in his grave.
Tom Binns has a huge reputation to protect.
Feel that southern Spanish energy! Fringe sell-out returns to Edinburgh, bringing the opportunity for your child to come on stage and learn some rhythms, some steps and even do a s…
Burgeoning Fringe comedy legend and self-professed borderline alcoholic John Robins indulges his audience with a startlingly self-referential hour of stand-up comedy.
Celebrated children’s author Edith Nesbit retreats to her attic writing room to escape her husband’s annual Christmas party.
Inverleith House will present the first ever exhibition in a UK public gallery by the late John Chamberlain (born 1927, Rochester, United States, died 2011).
This late night special one hour tour takes you on a journey into the darker side of Edinburgh’s underground history.
Direct from Australia.
Kevin MacLeod’s Call To Adventure is entirely appropriate as the walk-in soundtrack to Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids.
The Room is widely acknowledged to be one of the worst movies ever made.
Holding the attention of a room full of six to eleven year olds armed with nothing more than a microphone is quite some feat, but for James Campbell – widely acknowledged as t…
Shakespeare’s popular play Richard II recounts the fate of the famously decadent king as he spends his father’s fortune, places punitive taxes onto the poor, and spends his no…
(Sunday) This spring the prolific avant-garde composer John Zorn, whose music draws from modernist, jazz, rock and klezmer styles and more, wrote some 300 short melodies that he ca…
(previews start on July 22; opens on Aug 11) In Annie Baker’s new play, directed by Sam Gold, a quarreling couple (Christopher Abbott and Hong Chau) alight at a Gettsysburg, …
Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the fortunes of King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends, who have made a vow that they will eschew women (among other things) for three years…
Bach lovers owe much to Mendelssohn, who was instrumental in reviving interest in the baroque master’s music.
Puttin’ on the Ritz is an all-singing, all-dancing tour of the highlights of the 1920s music scene, with occasional forays into the 30s and 40s.
(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…
“Meta, self-referential bullshit” – the play’s words, not mine.
For children over six, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
Saturday May 23rd All Saints Church, Hove, 7:30pm.
Hebden Bridge Blues Festival: “This was a quite breath-taking performance by a phenomenal musician who brought the clamouring audience to its feet on more than one occasion and had…
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Franz Stangl oversaw the deaths of almost a million people during the fourteen months he was Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Multi award-winning improvised comedy for families.
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…
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Writer and performer John Osborne (John Peel’s Shed, Sky 1’s After Hours) performs his first ever hour long poetry show.
French-Mexican acoustic guitar duo JP & Leonardo bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
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…
Joyelle Johnson hosts this stand-up showcase at the Knitting Factory’s front bar; the excellent lineup includes Seaton Smith, Aparna Nancherla, Yassir Lester, Will Winner, Bl…
An A to Z of poems about people, pets and other creatures.
Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh Fe…
On an island off the coast of Maine, a little band of nouveau-agrarian homesteaders is threatened by rising surf in Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady’s semi-fantastical dystopian c…
Cassandra Bick is your average London girl who happens to run a dating agency for vampires, and suddenly finds herself getting an awful lot of attention when someone starts killing…
Like no other act on the comedy circuit, Josh’s self-deprecating, edgy humour covers life as a disabled person - from everyday reality to dating and sex.
Huntsville Prison, Texas 1959.
Vitriolic political satire meets manic depravity.
Stand-up comedy from the original dork knight. Rob Deb returns as the Duke of Dorkdom as he brings comedy and jokes about a world that hates and fears him.
All five original members of the influential Canadian sketch troupe reunite for a night of live sketch comedy.
Richard Crane’s latest play takes as its subject the life of Vlad the Impaler, famous Romanian prince and the inspiration behind Dracula, blending folk songs, the recreation of …
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
John Early and Hamm Samwich team up again for another night of music and comedy “in a shameless ploy for visibility.”
Peter Pan Goes Wrong invites you to watch the latest show by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a production of Peter Pan which starts badly and ends in a medley of perfectly…
Glasgow based playwright Stef Smith’s latest play, The Beat Goes On, ushers us into the lives of Lily and Peter, a couple of Sonny and Cher tribute artists who practice in their …
Acclaimed playwright Alison Carr’s latest offering, Fat Alice, opens on a familiar scene.
Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha is the first of three plays in this season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Russia and Ukraine, curated by playwright Nicola McCartney who also direct…
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche du Bois, a beautiful Southern Belle whose husband commits suicide after she catches him with another m…
After a very strong debut with Squash in last season’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint, playwright Martin McCormick returns with his second play, The Day the Pope Emptied Croy.
Leviathan, produced in association with Sherman Cymru and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, is among the best plays to appear on the Òran Mór stage this season or last.
Rum and Vodka, the 1992 debut play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson, is a simple and effective one man show.
Lifesaving is an entertaining and surreal hour of theatre which focuses on the lives of two teenage siblings, Sandra and Jamie.
Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon is an account of what happens when “our man” (Òran Mór veteran Billy Mack) spends four weeks in Japan.
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
(previews start on Feb.
As an ongoing celebration of –and opportunity for –new playwriting talent, A Play, a Pie and a Pint – originated at the Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End – has decided to m…
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…
John Lutz and Scott Adsit, “30 Rock” alumni, reunite for an evening of long-form improv.
This year is the 30th anniversary of John Zorn’s “Cobra,” one of his improvisatory “Game Pieces,” in which musicians follow a set of cues and rules.
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 …
The 30th anniversary of John Zorn’s “Cobra” — an unpublished, improvisatory “game piece” based on a complex set of rules instead of a score R…
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Bridge opens with a woman sitting on an isolated bridge being harassed by a stranger who won’t let her be.
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar…
‘John and Mark’ is a new play about a musical legend and his killer that sees prisoner Mark David Chapman visited by John Lennon, the man he shot dead years earlier.
Andy Duffy’s new one-man play is a psychological drama following the life of a stock market trader during the economic crash.
Flying with Swans focuses on three women, all now well into retirement, who reignite their old tradition of taking the ferry to watch the arrival of the whooper swans as they mig…
Squash is the third play in this Autumn’s “A Play, A Pie and a Pint”season at Òran Mór produced in association with Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—following on from Flame…
Mrs Barbour’s Daughters centres around Mary, an elderly blind woman who refuses to move out of her tenement flat and into her niece’s home.
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work…
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
It’s Only Words tells the story of Mrs Moore, an old woman who has locked herself in a public bathroom while she thinks about her life and the choices she has made.
Director Dominic Hill’s new production of Shakespeare’s most popular play takes the radical step of giving us a Hamlet who is essentially the villain.
The third play in Oran Mor’s Autumn/Winter Season is a breath of fresh air, a nuanced and enjoyable picture of a thoroughly likeable character.
A thorough, measured account of a key moment in the history of Ireland, this opening production in the new run of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West En…
The groundbreaking ensemble Dark Inventions returns to St Mary’s with a typically eclectic mix of contemporary and earlier works, including a Scottish premiere of Philip Cashian …
This intelligent piece of theatre focuses on the religious faith of the famous Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell and his trainer, Tom McKerchar.
You, the audience, become the friends and family of this psychotic gangster’s victims.
Verbatopolis is the name an ageing anthropologist has given to his series of lectures, delivered for you by a talented group of actors who illustrate the scenes he has studied.
The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator.
The show uses a mixture of devised and traditional songs, short sketches, narration, and pantomime versions of figures from recent history to recount some of the most important e…
John Bird started The Big Issue magazine. His story is achingly funny and powerfully inspiring. It will make you want to rush out and start making changes in your own life.
Superfluous is a show with plenty of energy, enthusiasm and warmth, but a lack of more fundamental theatrical skills means it falls flat.
A rare treat of the Fringe is being able to speak your mind in a venue without having the talent shout you down.
Following his sell-out fringe debut, John and curator Dan Schreiber host a live version of the BBC Radio 4 hit in which guests donate their favourite items to an infinitely large a…
The future is beardless, a group negotiate a quest to find the meaning of beards.
Septuagenarian guitar folk legends John Renbourn and Wizz Jones deliver a night of folk and blues, with varying degrees of success.
Madame Lozatska’s musical seance is getting out of hand.
Raymondo is a piece of magical realist storytelling which combines an evocative musical accompaniment with an endlessly strange and beautiful script.
This is a heartfelt piece of theatre which demonstrates just how far passion and enthusiasm can get you.
The Membranes and Goldblade frontman.
With over two million YouTube views for their wicked takes on Atomic Kitten, Kylie, Girls Aloud, Steps and Taylor Swift among others, Queens of Pop take over stylish Edinburgh nigh…
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…
This is a surprisingly intimate glimpse into the inner world of multimedia artist Nathan Penlington, with plenty of exciting decisions along the way.
University theatre group Gone Rogue Productions brings us a genuinely funny hour’s entertainment with this production of a beloved classic.
There are some very charming elements to this show, but for me I felt there was not enough actual dancing for the children.
In John O’Farrell’s 25 Years of Writing Stupid Jokes, he tells the story of his comedy career: first as a writer on the likes of Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You a…
Returning for a second year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents a morning of some of the best names in children’s entertainment from this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
More merriment for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words.
A new play by Mike Maran explores the Sierra Nevada and Alaska with the Scottish naturalist and celebrates his deep understanding of the need to preserve the wilderness for the spi…
A darkly humorous one-woman physical theatre piece with an elaborate costume made of black bin bags.
My Rabbi follows the story of two best friends: an atheist man (whose family are mostly Muslim) and a Jewish man.
This piece of surrealist theatre successfully dramatises the issues it sets out to explore and uses neat theatrical devices to do it.
The Room is the worst film ever made.
America, 1947.
This comedy workshop will get your kids writing their own jokes and performing them onstage - all within an hour! Course leader Paul B Edwards is a hugely experienced professional …
Yet another show from the winner of last year’s Foster’s Best Newcomer Award.
‘Boogie-woogie.
‘A deeply-felt and virtuosic shout in the darkness’ (John Cameron Mitchell, Creator/Director, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus).
John-Luke Roberts delivered his usual off-the-wall comic offerings in this enjoyable hour at the Voodoo Rooms.
‘Remains one of the best stand-ups in the country’ **** (Metro).
The latest offering from the award winning Sh!t Theatre is an all singing, all dancing critique of the pharmaceutical industry which is at all points informative and entertaining.
It is almost worth going to see The Initiate for the theatre space alone.
The Secret Wives of Andy Williams is an enjoyable hour of theatre that is occasionally funny and often moving, with plenty of eccentricity to keep things interesting.
It’s the Late Night Dark Show - take that title as a hint.
If the Umbilical Brothers were part of your upbringing, you probably would have repressed it.
Claustrophobia conjures the atmosphere of being trapped extremely effectively, as well as delving into the idea that we are all, in a way, trapped in prisons of our own making.
The Tulip Tree is a very intelligent piece of theatre that crams a lot of subtlety into a short period of time.
It’s back with a twist for 2014! After rave reviews and sell out performances, The Dark Truth Tour returns for 2014, with a new spin looking into the dark tales of death and deca…
Seriously funny nonsense and painfully revealing true stories as Jack, ‘slightly quirky’ (Chortle.
Despite extremely promising material, Giulietta manages to ultimately be prosaic and, frankly, a bit boring.
Please Don’t Cry (At My Funeral) isn’t exactly the show advertised.
The latest offering from acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau is an ensemble piece in every sense of the word.
Nottingham’s favourite under-fives’ music workshop duo make their Edinburgh debut.
Returning to the Fringe for the third year running, this text adventure game-gone-big seems to have more lives than it gives its players.
The best of family Fringe fun is delivered in an hour of madcap antics in this exceptional, something for everyone variety show.
John Early, endearingly honest and absurdly funny, presents his hourlong show of stand-up, short films and music.
The John Conway Tonight show is an oddball comedy night that could be called A Comedian’s Descent into Madness.
If you’re bored of the type of magic that always produces the same old tropes (predictable card tricks, dull magician banter in matching suits, tired efforts to build an air of m…
A new stand-up show from Jewish Comedian of the Year, and the TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week. As seen on Dave.
If Dr.
True Brits is an unusually subtle and warm one man show.
If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore.
I didn’t expect to be hearing hard-hitting political satire this afternoon, but wow, that was actually quite a good Tibet joke.
What would you do if everyone in the world hated you? Would you run? Would you fight? Or would you try to make them laugh? Donald Robertson has got no mates and he isn’t funny.
The first original musical from The Ruby Dolls is a triumph.
An Audience With Shurl is a highly intimate, moving picture of the inner life of a very lonely woman.
Comedy in the Dark is exactly what it sounds like.
First Class takes the form of three intercutting monologues which follow the lives of three different people.
In addition to coming back to the fringe with last year’s critically acclaimed The Dark Room, John Robertson is also performing a more traditional stand up show, A Nifty History …
Capturing the singular Richard Pryor in a staged bio-play is a challenge and this limp, rote production is nowhere near up to it (1:30).
An original multi-media performance, this could be one of the oddest hours of your life. Come with an open mind, leave with a broken one. @electricdada
Michael Puzzo’s popular play is a solid piece of theatre—it knows exactly what it wants to achieve and pulls it off.
On paper, this looks like a good show: everyone involved has pretty impressive credits to their name and the concept is the sort of thing that’s fantastic when it’s done well.
Brian K.
It is a rare and precious thing to find a show which is not only brilliant, but which is brilliant in such a wide range of ways.
John Robins has written a show about love.
If you want to know what it felt like to be part of one of the most disastrous free concerts of the ’60s, this atmospheric show is a good place to start.
Canadian standup John Hastings peddles an incredibly original show that could easily be a contender for Fringe Festival Awards.
Zoe McDonald’s one-woman show is a masterpiece of characterisation, and a very successful piece of comedy.
The Match Game creates a fantastical dystopia and uses it to consider our notions of romance, and the existence of ‘the one’.
The intriguing central premise of The Curing Room is based upon a terrifying true story.
‘Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty’ declared John Ruskin ‘if only we have eyes to see it’.
(performance on July 28) The motor-mouthed monologuist John Leguizamo brings this autobiographical solo show, his fifth, to Central Park’s SummerStage.
John Byrne, who was born in Paisley, is one of Scotland’s most versatile and accomplished artists and writers.
With its heady mix of lyricism and rigor, Ms.
As part of the Comedy Central Corporate Retreat series, Ms. Berlant and Mr. Early revive their variety show.
Turn off the lights, and the world suddenly becomes a very foreign place.
The choreographer Eliot Feld directs this charming, dynamic student ensemble.
An A-Z of poems about people, pets and other creatures.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh F…
Imagine you’re a sausage.
Comedy Club 4 Kids is a first-rate comedy show for children and adults alike.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
A recital of favourites of the ‘Palm Court Era’ performed by Aspidistra, praised for its lively interpretation of the music that so delighted our (great) grandparents.
Acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
In the past two years John moved to the United Kingdom which led him to sleeping with a married woman, making his parents proud, deciding to buy a falcon and dealing with the death…
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.
Joining the extensive queue at Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure … For Kids! I realised that I had just done my bit to up the average age of the audience quite considerably.
A dance party for kids and social event for adults too.
This is not your typical childish ghost walk filled with tales of ghouls, beasties and ghostly little girls in their pyjamas.
What was originally billed as John Robertson’s A Nifty History of Evil became a show of improvised comedy at the Caroline of Brunswick, with Robertson creating an entirely new e…
(in previews; opens on June 10) After producing Nick Jones’s terrific “Trevor,” Lesser America returns with a new play by Lucas Kavner.
The term ‘live-action video game’ is usually reserved for disappointing Hollywood adaptations of your favourite computer games (Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, the list could go on).
French-American acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
An experienced early-music specialist, Masaaki Suzuki leads forces drawn from Juilliard415, the Yale Baroque Ensemble and the Yale Schola Cantorum in Bach’s crushing mas…
Families lined up outside C ECA’s Main Theatre seemed very excited to go to see this show, one girl was even dressed in a flamenco dress already.
There are many things about Flamenco for Kids which I had to consider; firstly the question of what was it, exactly? This program is a weird amalgamation of a performance and a wor…
I was warned that Vampire Hospital Waiting Room was wonderful and weird but that you had to embrace it - I would encourage any potential audience member to apply this mantra to the…
Hottest Fringe comedy acts chat with John Fleming, ‘the Boswell of the alternative comedy scene’ (Chortle.
A driving mix of celtic, jazz, folk and blues.
CoroEdina, a Scottish chamber choir was formed in 2008.
Dark Matter is a piece of theatre that breaks many of its rules and moulds new ones.
Written by celebrated folk musician Alan Reid, storytelling and songs relate the tale of this controversial and extraordinary 18th-century Scots mariner.
Come on in! Share in a musical feast of Scots tunes, old and new, from local band Shindiggery.
In a Fringe where one man shows are ten a penny, there’s a reason why the queue for John Renbourn snakes all the way up the street and round the corner from the St.
A hungover girl wakes up in a stranger’s house and things start to get a bit weird.
Basking in the success of his movie, the two-hit wonder returns to Edinburgh.
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…
The Superhero Club provides an audience with humour, style and ease.
Hungarian virtuoso Tamas Fejes is a delight to listen to.
Explore the folklore and magical properties linked with common cocktail ingredients, with recipes from the most influential occultist of all time, Aleister Crowley.
This show offers a wide variety of acts that are sure to excite and amuse all the family.
With great loop pedal power, comes great loop pedal responsibility.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
One night only! Award-winning songwriter and blues picker Eddie Walker together with legendary acoustic guitarist John James present a grand reunion concert in one of the most exci…
Vanessa Knight is the most glamorous thing to come out of Birmingham since Duran Duran.
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
Kids’ comedy is harder than you’d think.
Watching James Campbell launch into his family friendly stand-up routine makes one wonder why there are not more stand-ups for children around.
Must see Australian artist.
Down a long, winding staircase, far beneath the bustling streets of Edinburgh stands a city frozen in time.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Much like karaoke or clubbing, The Room is not an event that should be experienced either alone or sober.
Whispers in the Dark is a harrowing play.
Luke Toulson is very ambivalent about his children.
To refer to If Room Enough as an adaptation of the Tempest is risky.
I was absolutely delighted by this truly ingenious comedian.
At the start of the show I heard some people remark that they had seen Beth Vyse last year and had come back.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
Unlike history’s megalomaniacs, Gary is too distracted by X Factor, I’m A Celebrity, Facebook and YouTube, to actually take over the world, but it doesn’t stop him expressing a ra…
This was the most confusing performance I have seen this Fringe.
The Bongo Club is more accustomed to hosting face-chewing ravers than sweet-chewing kiddies, but this evening the kindergarten has taken over.
A fairytale for grown-ups … don’t let truth get in the way of magic! Join commuter Sam on his unexpected quest to help The Knight find his voice and rescue The Lady.
Where can you get an hour of stand-up that includes routines about farts, worms and Charles Darwin? The Comedy Club 4 Kids, that’s where.
The hilarious story of a young girl’s tragic past and terrifying future. On in the morning, we don’t like the dark. ‘A funny and enjoyable show’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
You awaken to find yourself in a dark room: so begins John Robertson’s interactive comedy hour of live text-based gaming that is so much more fun than it sounds.
Everyday society accepts woman who wear jeans, trainers and a t shirt as normal, yet if a man walked down the street in stockings, skirt and high heels that is seen as abnormal.
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.
For his second solo show, Silky sweetly sings and softly swears.
Pointing his target at corporations, appealing to the lowest common denominator and anthropomorphism, John Gordillo’s Cheap shots at the Defenceless is a satirical look at aspects …
John Williams isn’t just a comedian.
One of the beautiful things about the Fringe is the way in which so many shows can be supported simultaneously.
Four people silently enter a room.
A girl appears on a blank stage in a white shirt and jeans and with a flower clip pinning back one side of her hair.
Davey Connor is a charming, unimposing performer whose style washes over the audience and wins them over seemingly without effort.
Several years ago, John Osborne got a job teaching at a summer school in the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset.
Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.
For most of this show, Robins’ mind is on the 24th of August, 2001, the greatest day of his life.
With the much publicised and ongoing arguments concerning the American death penalty and justice system, it would be easy to write a play concerning the issue which stank of lofty …
The acclaimed trio, Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaac are back in Edinburgh with their latest collaborative project.
As a child, William/Billy plays Cowboys and Indians, takes great pride in his cowboy hat, and wants to grow up to become a cowboy like John Wayne, partly because his father nicknam…
This is already a popular show: the queue outside the venue stretched halfway down the street; once inside, the less punctual audience members were scanning the crowd for a single …
John Lloyd has worked with some of this country’s most plaudit burdened comedians, many of whom cut their teeth on the mile and were discovered performing in the dingy venues of …
Racist belly buttons.
The Edinburgh Festival has some unusual venues – that is a well-known fact amongst regular Fringe-goers, as avid audience members hop from university building to converted wareho…
Welcome to The Powder Room, a burlesque night club where you will be surrounded by the world of the erotic and a plethora of tassel-clad women.
Ian Watt’s one-man show pays tribute to the acclaimed Scottish actor John Laurie.
Kafkas Trial is, in many respects, a very daring piece of work to choose to put on at the Edinburgh Fringe.
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
I walk out of the Globe theatre at 10.
Locally born John Scott is back at the very club where he made his start in comedy in the late 90’s, now with his second full-length Fringe show.
One of Britains most recognised playwrights; David Hares recent credits include Gethsemane at the National, as well as the screenplays for Stephen Daldrys films, The Hours�…
Nelly the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus.
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…
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
For all those who have been crying out for a gripping, controversial, and energising new musical, the wait is over.
Ian McDiarmids adaption of Andrew OHargans book for the stage revolves around a gay priests relocation to a small town in Scotland and a major scandal which unfolds whilst …
Samuel Adamsons adaption of Henrik Ibsens great classic Little Eyolf is transported to the 1950s, a period which was renowned for stagnation, post war restructure and a pro…
Having enjoyed a couple of drinks before Jason John Whitehead’s show, I became acutely aware within five minutes that I was desperate for a pee.
Titan Knight sure knows how to put on a show.
Bob and Jim are a self-proclaimed neo-vaudeville phenomenon.
Annie’s Room purports to be a biographical show about jazz singer Annie Ross, but there is very little biography in this apart from a bald statement of a few facts which could ha…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
An individual walks onto the stage.
Britain is in a bad way.
John Hastings’ Edinburgh preview is nowhere near as unrelenting as the title suggests at first glance.
Port Dover, a Canadian High School, brings a simple and charming cod Arthurian fable to Church Hill.
Comic actor and character comedian Lee Fenwick brings his latest created personality to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Geoff, the loveable tramp.
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…
With 20 million YouTube hits and three number one albums in the iTunes comedy charts, Adam Kay is going from strength to strength.
This one woman sketch show features strangely sinister characters who are both entertaining and unnerving.
Join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they take on a new recruit and set out to rescue the King’s golden plums!In this wonderfully camp late-night operetta jokes fly and genders bend…
George in the Dragons Den is an odd mix of child and adult humour; a two hander, it markets itself as a topical tour de force where pantomime meets Monty Python, however desp…
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…
Paul Ricketts is a natural storyteller.
Im sitting there, innocently enjoying the show, when John-Luke Roberts points at me and declares that no-one really likes having conversations with me, they only do it so they ca…
The Room is one of the worst films ever made.
I cannot praise this show highly enough.
If I were choosing subject matter for a kids show, Greek Mythology wouldn’t be where I started; kids don’t have the best lot in these stories, being abandoned and even being se…
Scottish jazz singer Pam Lawson is joined by pianist Tom Finlay and double-bassist Ed Kelly for a musical celebration of the infamous partnership that was Fred Astaire and Ginger R…
The blurb describes this performance as a ‘sobering, gloriously juvenile collision between foresight and hindsight’.
The word Macbeth originally became unlucky in theatres as it was such a guaranteed hit at its time, that if the current production was running badly, the theatre would simply r…
Michael Morpurgos hugely moving, and very successful novel Private Peaceful made its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year as a one man show.
Who could not admire Nadira Murray? Born into an under-privileged background in Uzbeckistan, she faced the torment of watching her father, an unqualified but talented director and …
In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd.
Lynda Bruce and Sandy Burns new play confronts the issues of privacy, manipulation, and perhaps most importantly love and the willingness to embrace that by putting aside differe…
Back again, the world’s longest running comedy show has returned to sell out audiences once more.
Reginald D Hunter is back at the Fringe this year with his latest show No Country for Grown Men.
Property Rites is, in its simplest terms, the story of a patron desperate to get rid of a set of singing dolls he bought and subsequently regretted.
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
From the moment she wheels on stage on a blue plastic tricycle Cariad Lloyd lights up the room, fizzing with an infectious and vivacious energy.
‘There’s some room down here if you fancy a dance,’ fiddler John McCusker encouraged vainly during last night’s one-night-only concert of traditional and new Irish music, h…
CS Lewis magical novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is perhaps the greatest ever written for children.
This performance was never going to be a side-splitter.
How does God decide who gets which body? What is it that dictates whether someone is considered normal or abnormal? Indeed, how is it that someone comes to consider themselves as n…
Mil’s Trills, starring a very bubbly Amelia Robinson on the ukulele, has travelled all the way from New York City to introduce the little ones of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fri…
With the curtain going up at 10am, Shakespeare for Breakfast is certainly one for the early birds, but is full of all the right ingredients to wake you up, cure a bad hangover and …
Camille OSullivan seemed, at one point, set to become an architect.
Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order.
This is a very unusual and enjoyable production.
Bringing his YouTube sensation to the Fringe, Australian comic John Robertson’s show The Dark Room is basically a ‘choose your own adventure’ computer game in which selected …
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.
Molly Naylor is a storyteller and accomplished writer who has written programmes for Radio 4 before her foray into Fringe.
I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute…
Coming on the the strains of the Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’, Jason John Whitehead confesses that only a few day’s into his run, it’s already beginning to piss him off.
Jean Paul Jones is an eighteenth-century US naval commander with Scottish roots; and this is the musical of his life.
Take a dead Monday night bar, add a couple of lost souls, short skirts and a good doseof Bronx-side rage.
The Unexpected Items come with great credentials: they are the team responsible for the famous ‘Gap Yah’ videos on YouTube and have a poster covered in recent reviews decrying …
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
A soundscape of a woman’s voice layered over itself plays while a woman sits in a red light.
It is Bobs first date in 2 years.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Patrick Monahans show is a great piece of interactive storytelling that has children standing on chairs waving their arms wildly to be picked to help Monahan tell the story of a …
Tall Stories is a company that has made a name for entertaining children and family shows.
The Magnets are, in their own words, ‘a six-man sound machine’.
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…
Three characters from The Seagull are in a CND meeting.
Kerry Gilbert describes her show as ‘a low-budget one-woman sitcom in a damp smelly cave’.
Fran Moulds is a chameleon.
John Peel’s Shed by novelist and storyteller John Osborne is an invitation to the heart and soul of a man whose life was transformed by radio.
Across the time span of two hour-long performances, Lance Pierson performs a selection of Betjemans poetry.
A cappella can be a difficult genre for all-female groups: often they suffer for want of bass notes and decent vocal percussion.
Grapple Theatre Company, starring a cast from Bristol Grammar School, take to the stage in this adaptation of two Gothic stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
This dance project from Taiwan is entirely improvised by its two performers in a style similar to Western contemporary dance.
These are three astonishingly talented musicians; the acclaim surrounding them all is justified.
It might have been running on and off for nearly 18 years now, but Stephen Daldrys groundbreaking production of JB Priestleys classic is still as poignant, relevant and fresh a…
The collaboration of John Dempseys story and Dana P Rowes composition leads to almost everything you expect musical comedy to be cheesy, American, high octane and cringe wor…
Anthony Biggs production of Stewart Permutts play flicks between several interconnecting storylines and manages to effectively analyse the development and breakdown of relation…
Despite being named after an album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band famed for its extravagant tendencies, John Robins’ show of the same name is comforting and familiar.
Join us for a very special Edinburgh Festival Fringe event – an afternoon with John Cleese and his daughter Camilla, hosted by comedian Fred MacAulay.
Hand-picked work for children and families from our award-winning digital performance and our critically acclaimed short film programme.
Ed Saunders-Lee writes about the research and background to creating his solo show, I Am Yours Sincerely, on the life of his step-grandfather, Major John Cox MC.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
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.
Do you ever find yourself singing The Bare Necessities? Or breathily repeating David Attenborough’s iconic narration? If so, the Ensonglopedia of Animals is the show for you.
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Richard didn't stumble far from yesterday's bar, Foundry 39, as just a few yards up Charlotte Lane he fell into Sygn, a trendy retro-style cocktail bar & diner where Edinburgh Bars...
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.
Former International Mr Leather, John Pendal compares organised religion with the fetish world. And finds plenty of overlap.
Kids in Love made its world premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Need something to keep the kids occupied this half-term? Looking for shows that suit parents and kids alike? We’ve trawled Brighton Fringe and discovered some perfect shows for 4...
Ben Richards will join previously announced Beverley Knight in the international hit musical The Bodyguard when it returns to the West End for a limited six month run in July this ...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Sue MacLaine’s play Can I Start Again Please combines her writing with her other profession as a sign language translator, and uses these two very different languages as a starti...
Stand Up Steffan Alun has a fair few things to say about stepping up to stand up at the Free Fringe.
Deputy Features Editor Grace Knight interviews two artists from opposite ends of the Jane Austen-adaptation spectrum.
Join Broadway Baby Features Team James T Harding and Grace C Knight for the very first ever of all time Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Church Night is a Washington based production company bringing a show of the same name to Edinburgh. But this isn't your average service..
John Conway is a wacky comedian all the way from Australia.
Vinay Patel, writer of True Brits, is a young playwright from the Southeast of London who is ashamed to admit he has never lived north of the river Thames.
Anna Girvan is a director who loves the strange and the unique.
Jo Clifford is a writer and actor whose body of work extends to over 70 produced plays, films and radio plays.
Lucy Ayrton made her Fringe debut in 2012 when her first show, Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry, won her a Best Newcomer award at PBH's Free Fringe, along with a host of glowing...