Colin Geddis announces his brand new stand up show G.
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.
Felipe Esparza is not just your average comedian - he's a force of nature on stage, leaving audiences in stitches with his wild stories and real world experiences t…
Ireland's Queens of Comedy are back with their brand new show, Girls World Tour.
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
Join Baga Chipz MBE; actress, singer-songwriter, comedian, ex-Page 3 Model, Ladies Darts Champion, professional shoplifter and MILF, as she embarks on a nationwide theat…
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one” Abraham Lincoln1865.
After sell out shows across Australia and America in 2023, Monty Franklin returns in 2024 with his biggest tour yet.
Olivier nominated Rachel Tucker is famed for her powerhouse performance that “leaves no roof intact!” Her Irish charm will immediately put you at ease as she…
Olivier nominated Rachel Tucker is famed for her powerhouse performance that “leaves no roof intact!” Her Irish charm will immediately put you at ease as she…
Now in our 11th season, Nightpiece has screened over 335+ short films from the UK and across the world since 2014.
In The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women and unmask the brutal misogyny behind male institutions.
A poignant journey, through chequered showbiz career of Eddie Garrity, interspersed with songs from the new album Wild ‘n’ Free and anecdotes from early glam rock, punk to cabaret.
Festival closing service: Vespers.
Nil penna sed usus – not the pen itself, but the skill in using it.
Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise.
La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ.
BEANBAG CONCERT SERIES Find a beanbag and lose yourself in the hypnotic sound of Alexander Grechaninov’s Passion Week.
The Lord is my Shepherd: Sacred song of the English musical renaissance.
Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians on the Fringe at the iconic Biscuit Factory in Leith.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, snowballs and stinky …
Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation.
For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and…
Faure’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms – The Howe Street Singers, directed by Les Shankland, perform Faure’s much loved Requiem and equally beautiful Cantique de Jea…
A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Refuge and the road home.
A three-panel painting depicting 122 texts from the last book in the Bible.
Living stones.
TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth.
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Swing with the Spirit! In this innovative performance of sacred Jazz Schola Cantorum, the Catholic Cathedral’s celebrated choir directed by Michael Ferguson, is joined by Scottish …
Each summer, young Jamie comes to the same spot on the same beach and speaks with a mysterious figure – the king of a magical realm far, far away.
The Ruthwell Cross is Scotland’s oldest Anglo-Saxon Christian monument.
The climate emergency, net zero and soaring energy prices are the driving factors behind the Green Home Festival.
Guided Tours.
Live performance of selections chosen by the editors from the new edition of Scottish Religious Poetry.
Festival at the Fringe 2024.
Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts 2024 opening service, Sunday worship.
Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul.
Chaos Theory specialises in sketch, character and general off-the-wall comedy.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs 12” and 7” singles.
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
Written and performed by comedian Grace Aki, the award-winning solo show makes its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe! She weaves a blend of storytelling and stand-up for …
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
A coincidence or an act of a god? Are the children who created a god as a game truly responsible for the unexplained events unfolding around them? Ten years after their last plea, …
Come and join us for the original free walking tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town and enjoy the stories of the many colourful characters who lived here.
The Ukrainian community has left its cultural mark on Scotland for generations, none more so than the displaced families who have settled temporarily in Scotland since 2022 after R…
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…
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends – Walter Scott, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and others – with Allan Foster, author …
Not for the easily offended, this hilarious brand-new dating show sees the audience play naughty games, five guys compete for a date, and overall chaos.
Wacky German jokemeister Jürgen’s comedy collision is back for a second helping of schnitzel schwitzen! Along with comedy friends and pros! Following a successful Edinburgh Festiv…
Join Alex the Magician for an exciting children’s magic show, back for its fourth year at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
Amelia Bayler (Best Newcomer, Scottish Comedy Awards) is on a ‘one-woman mission to make musical comedy cool again’ (Rolling Stone).
The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch.
While clearing out her family home, Leah discovers a letter her father wrote suggesting she lacked what it takes to become a professional musician.
Sunshine on Leith: Check out Edinburgh’s coolest neighbourhood, which is easily accessible by tram.
After five sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return for an immersive dance-walk adventure through the hi…
Taking a cue from Oscar Wilde’s play, this one-woman piece, written and performed by newcomer Maryam S Holleman, explores the complex untold and ruinous motivations of the tantal…
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships Winner 2022.
The world’s best late show comes to the Fringe for the first time! Altitude Comedy Festival (Winner of Best Overseas Festival) boasts previous performers that include.
Walk on the wild side and go off the beaten track with a witty guided tour packed full of stories from Edinburgh’s past and present music scenes.
A hilarious history tour through the seriously skanky past lurking behind the “posh” New Town facade.
After the success of last year’s inaugural event, we return, bigger and better.
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Ring-a-ding-ding, you’ve got the King! Master of the crowd and slave to the laugh, Kyle Legacy is back with more riffs and less hair.
Designed by best-selling historical author and multi award-winning novelist, Jan-Andrew Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by Francesco Cardina…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Guru Dudu and the team return to Edinburgh with our hilarious, engaging tours.
Prateek’s been on the top comedy stages, from Comedy Cellar in NYC to top clubs across Europe.
Following a host of sell-out shows and hot on the heels of last year’s debut, Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand-new hour…
Exclusive to Fringe 2024! See Edinburgh on two wheels.
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
Beyond the Clouds features new work from Geoff Uglow’s ongoing series inspired by Edinburgh alongside his evocative Italian landscapes, serene seascapes, and lush rose garden.
‘Funny.
Lula Behane, a walking Universe.
When Terence Hartnett found out that his testicular cancer had spread to his lung, he got out his notebook and started writing jokes.
After an encounter with a wildlife enthusiast, the Funny Women Award finalist explores what it means to be a human animal (nightmare, tbh).
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Famous musician Ian Lockwood has accomplished everything he’s ever wanted during his illustrious and extremely successful career, and thus, he’s ready to die! See him in concert fo…
Solo sketch show packed with lovable characters, charisma and inspired spontaneity, from the internationally award-nominated star of The Office (Australia), Netflix’s The Duchess a…
‘The most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) embark on their annual international tour once again! The Cambridge Footlights are back with six of Cambridge’s best stu…
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 …
1999.
Inspired by noughties cartoons such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragonball-Z, Battle Counters! is a sugar rush of a two-hander.
The Irish Youth Dance Festival (IYDF), produced by Dublin Youth Dance Company, offers a national platform to showcase young emerging dancers performing works of leading …
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
One King. One Kingdom. And literally no time to rule. Based on historical events, House of the Onion debuts the untold story of the world’s shortest reigning monarch.
This brand-new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway musical tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s rise to stardom.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
Is that a joy-con in your pocket, or are you pleased to see us? Armed with plasmids, meelee weapons, and enough energy drinks to kill a small dog, Player One and Player Two are on …
Let out your inner child and enjoy The Untold Fable of Fritz by Unsettled Theatre at the Prague Fringe Festival in the Divadlo Inspirace Theatre.
What do Shakespeare, thermodynamics and biochemistry have in common? The somewhat surprising answer is Love.
For fans of Holmes and anyone who enjoys a solid solo show, this performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act at the Prague Fringe by celebrated actor Nigel Miles-Thomas is a must-…
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…
If you’ve never seen Shakespeare performed Aussie style, this is your chance.
Making their international debut, UnErase Poetry, India's biggest spoken-word collective, with over two million followers on social media, provide an hour of delightful tales, …
Who knows what Shakespeare looked like? We might think we do, yet as Pip Utton points out in his solo performance of At Home With Will Shakespeare at the Prague Fringe, the most fa…
The best way to discover your new favourite comedian! We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
A short queer history walking tour (90 mins approximately once we start off) of central Brighton locations featuring a small selection of our past local heroes, villains, interesti…
A Festival of Korean Dance will return to The Place for its seventh year, and for the first time will tour to Scotland followed by its UK tour in Newcastle, London and Bournemouth …
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
Hot on the heels of last year’s debut Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand new hour filled with more guilt-tripped anecdote…
At the end of drunken night out all that Gemma and Jane want is to jump into a taxi, get home and crash into bed.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster.
Actor and writer Benjamin Kelm taps himself repeatedly about the face as he repeats the mantra, “You can do it, you can do it , you can do it.
Playwright Tim Coakley has created an interesting twist on Luigi Pirandello’s groundbreaking play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, with his latest work, Six Characters in …
The European premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre sees a work as mysterious in theatrical categorisation as the book on which it is based is in terms of religious litera…
From the moment you are handed your programme at the Bridewell Theatre you are immersed in the world of SEDOS’s Richard III directed by Dan Edge.
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
‘A born comic.
*SOLD OUT* Exclusive after-hours tour! This a unique opportunity to learn about the remarkable history of the World’s Oldest Operating Aquarium.
After a year of performing worldwide, award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date.
After a year of performing worldwide, award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date.
“Back by popular demand”.
Enjoy a warm welcome to Brighton’s ancient mother church and hear and see some of the 1000-year history, treasures and characters of this beautiful building.
The Guru Dudu team returns to Brighton to bring you play, love and laughter in the city and along the beachfront! Enjoy our hilarious dance-walking tours of spontaneous flash mob …
Clifton Hill, Montpelier and Powis is an area located on the fringe of central Brighton, and a largely untouched 19th century, inner city, “West End” area, with distinctive archite…
London Road is an area of rapid urban change; after many years of decline the area is regenerating with new housing developments, new retail outlets and a vibrant character.
Bribery and corruption, greed and stupidity dominate Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector.
As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl…
Christopher Sainton-Clark, the sole actor in A Year and a Day, founded Raising Cain Productions in 2021 ‘with the aim of producing bold, innovative and cinematic small-scale thea…
This festival concert is a highlight of the year.
Liberation Squares is a comedy about sisterhood, freedom of speech, and dissent in the face of institutionalised Islamophobia.
Returning for a third year, Peckham Fringe are back for 2024! This inclusive and dynamic performing arts festival will take place at Theatre Peckham, showcasing a lineup of over 20…
Before Tom Cruise, Cary Grant or Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks was the King Of Hollywood! Now virtually forgotten, Doug was a remarkable actor and gifted visionary.
Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances.
Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning.
Artistic Director and Founder of London Classic Theatre, Michael Cabot opened the company’s touring production of Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw at the Devonshire Park Theatr…
Character comedian Laura Ramoso invites you over for dinner with German Mom, Italian Dad, and more in this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud, tour de force.
Character comedian Laura Ramoso invites you over for dinner with German Mom, Italian Dad, and more in this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud, tour de force.
Grand Junction has announced its programme for Elixir Festival taking place from 12th April, celebrating Arabic artworks culturally resonant for local communities and wider London …
Stan’s Cafe Theatre, Birmingham, is rooted in the community, so it’s no surprise that they have taken the local story of Trevor Prince, a gospel guitarist and one of the first bl…
What an extraordinary and charming play this is, courtesy of De Insomniis Theatre.
It all starts off so nicely, but it’s not long before Nina Atesh’s drawing-room drama turns into a battleground of conflicts that resurrect the past, fight for the present and …
Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its UK tour, courtesy of the Theatre Nation Partnerships conve…
Catinca Maria Nistor makes her UK stage debut with one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.
Matt Mathews’ live show is nothing short of a bona fide barn burner, guaranteed to provide bountiful belly laughs for all who attend.
Mathews’ live show is nothing short of a bona fide barn burner, guaranteed to provide bountiful belly laughs for all who attend.
To stage Les Misérables is a massive undertaking for any theatre company, but Director Ben Jeffreys has consummately risen to the challenge with a production of the School’s Edi…
Harry McDonald’s Foam, at the Finborough Theatre, is a chronological series of snapshots that capture events in the life of Nicky Crane (1958-1993).
It’s refreshing to see a much-visited subject of bullying and homophobia in a world dominated by social media, given a fresh treatment that is both innovative and extraordinary, …
A topsy-turvy, heroic mis-adventure and retelling of the myths of ancient Greece for families and all.
Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo …
Celebrating the show’s first anniversary, Nicholas Hytner’s sensational, immersive production of Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre with a new lineup of stars, th…
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, has scored a major triumph in securing the services of Sir Trevor Nunn to direct his faithful adaptation of Uncle Vanya in a production that has …
Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre.
Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se…
Second Temple, the Harry Porter Prize 2023 winner, is a dark-ish comedy about family, love, loss and Jewish idiosyncrasies.
Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes.
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester fresh from the conclusion of The Wars of The Roses remains dissatisfied and still ruthlessly ambitious, nothing and no one will stand in his way.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
The Place and Extended Play present: A spontaneous spectacle of dance, improvisation, and elemental joy featuring a guest dancer in each tour location.
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre.
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
Hard Feelings is no ordinary stand-up hour, but then Iliza Shlesinger is no ordinary comedian.
Immerse yourself in belly dance as world-class performers take the stage.
Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G…
Artistic Director Tom Littler, with Francesca Ellis, scores another inspired triumph with his production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.
The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br…
The brief descriptor of Treason the Musical as “a historic tale of division, religious persecution, and brutality” reads like a modern-day newspaper headline.
Josh Wolf is a comedian, actor and NY Times Bestselling author best known for his work as a round table guest and writer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and &…
Kyle is a New York based comedian, actor, writer, songwriter and improviser.
Get ready for a night of non-stop laughter as we bring three legendary Egyptian comedians from all over the world to London.
Memory is a strange thing.
The final days of a sixty-year marriage are turned into a domestic comedy in the latest offering from playwright Richard Bean, of One Man, Two Guvnors fame, in To Have and To Hold,…
Playwright Adam Taub says, “In the era of Google, Amazon and Meta, when our every move is monitored and recorded, there is no more relevant story than 1984”.
Following their hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year Box Tale Soup are now performing Casting the Runes, based on stories by M R James, at the Pleasance…
Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world…
Head to the Bridge House Theatre, Penge for an evening of delightful storytelling and charming performances in Alan Booty's two-hander, The Loaf.
Writer Simon Stephens has taken Max Frisch’s 1953 Biedermann und die Brandstifter, variously translated as The Fireraisers or The Arsonists and given it a heightened absurdist in…
Winston Churchill’s famous expression, “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” could accurately be applied to the subject of The Kaspar Hauser Experiment a…
If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th…
Carly Churchill looks upon Owners, now revived at Jermyn Street Theatre, as a watershed in her life.
Britain’s Funniest Red Head is swinging into town with her most ambitious show yet! ‘When I grow up I want to be La Voix’ - Dawn French This brand-new show promis…
Fresh from the sold out performance of his award-winning play, 'In One Eye, Out The Other' in 2022, Tadhg returns to London with his very first stand-up show.
Fresh from the sold out performance of his award-winning play, 'In One Eye, Out The Other' in 2022, Tadhg Hickey returns to London with his first stand-up show…
There is nothing subtle about Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical attack on the House of Lords in Iolanthe, which premiered in both London and New York on 25th November 1882; the fi…
From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic.
The current transformation of the postage stamp stage of Barons Court Theatre, located in the cellar vaults of The Curtains Up pub, has been wrought by Designer Jane Linz Roberts, …
There is an intriguing opening to The Island at the Cervantes Theatre.
Described as a ‘one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan’ Am I Irish Yet? lays bare her problem as soon as she opens her mouth.
Religious fervour and football fanaticism have much in common, so it seems entirely appropriate that Patrick Marber’s changing-room drama, The Red Lion should open to the sound o…
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Billed as ‘documentary theatre’ Lessons on Revolution at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating excursion into performance and the creative process that challenges the traditional i…
Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge.
A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes…
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
Two lives come together in an unlikely match.
For sale: feet pics, freshly painted.
We’re all familiar with mess in one form or another, but for most of us dealing with it is probably not an all-consuming activity in the way that it is for writer and performer Jen…
The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series.
The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact…
With horrific events occurring around the world, The White Factory at The Marylebone Theatre, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s and directed by Maxim Didenko comes as a poignant rem…
Publicity for Lady With a Dog, written and directed by Mark Giesser, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, promises a version in which ‘Chekhov’s famous short story of romance and infi…
The traditional direction of migrants seeking a better life is turned on its head in Emanuele Aldrovandi’s Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (translated by Marco Young) at the Park Th…
Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th…
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in…
It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out.
Who has not experienced a situation in which a surmountable incident escalates out of all proportion? Then, on the way to resolving it, further baggage accumulates around the subje…
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents a brand-new production of the award-winning Calendar Girls the Musical, written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, featuring a re-imagined book and new music…
Cathartic Party presents Second Life an ecofeminist thriller about vintage clothing, exploring grief, trauma and the possibility of redemption, brought to life by a fusion of dance…
Sir Cliff Richard in conversation with Gloria Hunniford discussing his career.
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
At our pop-up you will be greeted and waited upon by rude waiters who in return are expecting you to give it full Karen.
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
Nightpiece Media, the production company of filmmaker Al Carretta, have been filmmaking disruptors since 2010.
This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy.
Once upon a time, she walked the length of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum presents the 11th annual Scottish Traditional Building Festival by bringing you 12 information-packed shows for those who love, care for, o…
Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful.
An NHS staff room.
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
The Robin Chapel, built in 1950 at the centre of a unique Edinburgh housing complex, The Thistle Foundation, is a memorial to Robin Tudsbury and well known for its excellent choir.
The Art of Ecclesiastical Heraldry.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
Join Deaf Action as we celebrate the end of our second annual Edinburgh Deaf Festival! Get into the groove with renowned deaf DJ John McDevitt (Def Beatz) as he guides you through …
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
Janey Godley is still alive by popular demand at this year’s Festival Fringe for one night only after her record-breaking Scottish tour and can’t wait to be back doing what she…
Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s Window.
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
Basia Mindewicz, Director of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, explains the artistic techniques and spiritual inspiration behind one of the most venerated forms of sacred art.
God’s Craftsmen.
The Art of the Icon.
Absurdocles is the greatest Greek Tragedy never told.
Absurdocles is the greatest Greek Tragedy never told.
The Desert in the Heart of the World is a filmic study of the impact of the Carthusian monastic movement on the French landscape.
Absurdocles is the greatest Greek Tragedy never told.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, snowballs and stinky …
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
Sanctified Royalty: Jacobite Relics and the Divine Right of Kings.
Spirituality, Faith and Belief: Voyages of Discovery.
In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape.
Abishek Kumar and Nirmal Pillai are back on the road with their hugely fun and interactive show that’s guaranteed to leave you cackling.
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
Stand-up comedian and writer Richard Brown (‘A ruthless and angst-fuelled set with clever, impactful writing’ (TheWeeReview.
What if you could experience absolutely anything except who you really were? ‘Welcome to the only travel shop, offering you an all-inclusive to every time and space in the known un…
Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor.
In Robes of White.
The Art of Vestment.
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
The climate emergency, Net-Zero and soaring energy prices are the driving factors behind the Green Home Festival.
A wonderful and varied selection of concert band music from 40 musicians featuring music from stage and screen! A free concert with donations to support Edinburgh Direct Aid.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
Are you ready to Ramble! Take a stroll with Phil for an off-the-cuff on the hoof walking tour.
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
Gilbert Scott’s dramatic architectural landmark, with its three spires prominent in Edinburgh’s distinctive skyline, provides a magnificent setting for the Opening Service of t…
The Mysteries – Reimagined.
Songs of Displacement.
Riddell Fiddles, a Scottish Borders based traditional music group, have spent the past two decades spreading their own particular brand of musical mayhem around Scotland and the re…
Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song…
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s, 00s to present day.
One night only! Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians at the legendary Biscuit Factory in Leith.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
Discover an evening bursting with drama, mysticism and irresistible folk melodies from three great early 19th-century Romantics.
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
Pianist Sir András Schiff and NYCOS National Girls Choir join the orchestra for a folk-influenced, all-Hungarian programme.
Legendary French composer and musician, Yann Tiersen will stop in Edinburgh during his Ninnog Summer Tour to perform at the Edinburgh Liquid Rooms on Tuesday 8th August 2023.
Immerse yourself in Dvořák’s lively Eighth Symphony in this evening of music and conversation, presented in the round.
Join Festival Director Nicola Benedetti in conversation with orchestra founder-conductor Iván Fischer, before a special performance showcasing the orchestra’s warmth, versatilit…
Students from Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex, have arrived in Edinburgh with 14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac, an exciting re-imagining of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 classic tale writt…
If someone tells you they love you, it’s rude to ask why.
Come and join us for the original free walking tour, packed with the rich historical sites and tales of the many colourful characters around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Raymond will lead you on a comedy walking tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Just Festival is Edinburgh’s human rights and social justice festival.
Accidental enemy of Mother Teresa.
The American comedian’s sophomore Fringe effort is a raw, unfiltered dive into sex, dating, relationships and his career as a professional dog walker.
June 2021, I had a stroke.
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends; Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and …
Let’s take the party into 2023 and come join our Party Queens tour with 16 of the world’s most glamorous and beautiful showgirls.
18 nights of the best in folk and acoustic music entertainment showcasing a different act each night. Seating is limited so book early to save disappointment.
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
With over 1,000 five-star sell-out Fringe shows in Edinburgh and around the globe under our kilts, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as she returns for …
Your guide will take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby and the final resting place for many of Edinburgh’s most notorious characters.
A hilarious history tour through the seriously skanky past lurking behind the “posh” New Town façade.
The Merchants Hall will be open for the complete whisky experience with open tastings and talks about this wonderful industry.
Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany.
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022.
The Tragedy That Befalls The Dastardly Crew of The Kakapo is an original theatrical work written and produced by The Dead Parrot Collective, 2022.
After a string of sell out UK dates, NOHUN is back with his BRAND NEW stand up show, The Tequila Tour.
The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office.
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
There is secret connection among all of us.
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
Our guide will enlighten you on the dark history of Old Town Edinburgh’s most extensive haunted underground vaults, dating back to the 1700s.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults, once the haunt of criminals, body snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tell…
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
Dancer and performer Elliot Minogue-Stone presents pop art, contemporary dance and cabaret in his brand-new mish-mash show, Groovicle at Zoo Southside.
Get off the tourist trail and explore Edinburgh’s music scene with irreverent stories of the performers who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city.
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
Sunshine on Leith.
What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha…
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults, once the haunt of criminals, body snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tell…
Stuck in Free Fall is a show about Nothing.
Have you ever wanted to visit a mosque? Do you have any burning questions about Islam? Would you like to discover more about a faith which is often misunderstood? Every year at Fri…
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
‘Funny.
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
Ed Byrne breaks the five-star rating system to the point where multiples of stars could be added to this review and it will still not be close enough to what he deserves for this s…
Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla (established 1934), with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by F…
I’d been enjoying the Edinburgh Fringe for about two weeks, and had occasionally spotted these large groups wearing headphones being led around the city by a very colourful chara…
If you’re the kind of person that likes irreverent smart comedy and doesn’t mind peeing a little from laughter then bring your incontinent self over here.
A mad mix of characters apply to a dating show for over 35s and end up in a trash-reality nightmare! This hysterical show is guaranteed to give you the feel-good vibes.
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
Embark on a delightful journey with a timid Romanian lad as he stumbles into a vortex of awkward situations.
Returning for another year, Free Footlights brings the group for an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and more.
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
In October 2022, Richard Cobb was on honeymoon in Cuba.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
A debut show from an established act on the UK circuit.
A split-bill comedy hour from two rapidly rising stars of the UK comedy scene.
It’s just another day in the office when news that a colleague has been sexually assaulted reaches the boardroom.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel.
‘New York downtown legend’ (Time Out) Ruby McCollister (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Search Party) presents Tragedy, her one-woman show exploring her life-long addiction to making her lif…
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
The magic and mystery of midsummer combine with things past and present in Sing, River, written and performed by Nathaniel Jones of Love Song Productions at the Pleasance Courtyard…
For anyone who knows the first thing about the history of Edinburgh Fringe, and indeed, comedy itself, you should already be familiar with Cambridge Footlights and its roster of al…
Following a complete sell-out, extended national tour, star of global hit Live Innit, Taskmaster and the first British-Asian stand-up to sell-out London’s Wembley Arena returns to …
Our distillery is situated in an area once known as the Charmed Circle, named after the abundant underground water supply and the vast collection of breweries and distilleries that…
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
Celya AB’s Second Rodeo is a patchwork quilt of jokes, as she moves on from the subject of hating on England - although since we’re in Scotland, such jokes are more than welcom…
This is a brilliant show.
Martin Urbano spent his long, lucky career talking and saying anything he wanted, until allegations surfaced, he stepped out of the spotlight, promising to take a long time to list…
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B…
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and multi award-winning novelist, J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest hist…
Famous for a reason… Old Town graveyards and underground. Experience them on our unstoppable scare-fest through Edinburgh’s most horrifying secrets. Are you brave enough?
If you think coming out as gay or announcing any change from the heteronormative might be difficult, then try telling your parents and friends that you've just been accepted on…
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Star of Mock the Week, QI and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Olga Koch, got a master’s degree and she won’t shut up about it.
A sticky, spooky horror comedy about gender reveal parties, demons from hell, and above all, a Gay Witch Sex Cult (a sex cult for gay witches)As Kaelan Trough and his husband celeb…
You sense the presence of an Extravaganza.
How to achieve a powerful and radiant sexual allure.
If any staff or patrons see Comedian Sean Morley on the premises of festival grounds please go to red alert.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
An absurdist menagerie of clown, characters and non- sequiturs.
Michael Brunström is a surrealist comedian based in London, a member of Weirdos Comedy Collective and winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
Lulu Popplewell is a recovering addict, failed 'Love Actually' child actor, and hilarious comedian.
Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets.
Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt.
Monopoly is a terrible game.
Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond! Arabs Are Not Funny sees comedians with roots in the Arab world attempt to prove…
After last year’s ENFIN EN SCENE festival succesful edition, which stands as the BIG return to the stage of our Workshop amdram participants, Exchange Theatre re-invites you to dis…
In 70 action-packed minutes, Bones highlights mental health issues in sport, looking at one man’s struggle to reconcile his inner mental turmoil with the physical demands expecte…
Stand-up comedy Sam Morril joins us at Leicester Square Theatre on July 1st as part of his "The Class Act Tour.
Having emerged from a period in which we were exhorted to wash our hands at every opportunity and instructed on how to carry out the ritual, it is strange to go back in time to an …
Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits.
Ottisdotter theatre company’s production of Lady Inger provides a rare opportunity to see one of Henrik Ibsen’s earliest, least performed and less well-known works.
Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion.
From the extraordinary story of Cecilia Giménez (Mary Tillett), writer Joe Wiltshire Smith has created a beautifully crafted play that embraces her innocence and resilience, while…
Jonas (Michael Batten) would ideally like to be in full-time employment as an actor on stage.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
A Scottish Drag Queen and an Irish Sommelier walk into a bar in Leith.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Join us for an exciting behind the scenes look at the film and TV world at the Screen and Film School Brighton’s newest site.
Join us for an exciting behind the scenes look at the film and TV world at Screen and Film School Brighton’s newest site, which is one of the only film lots of its kind on the so…
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Reflecting the politics of the African continent in the 60s/70s, in this seminal documentary William Klein captures the radical atmosphere of the first Pan-African Cultural Festiva…
Reflecting the politics of the African continent in the 60s/70s, in this seminal documentary William Klein captures the radical atmosphere of the first Pan-African Cultural Festiva…
The baddest bitch in the spirit world is back, the legendary Ghost Whisperer Séayoncé! What better way to feel alive again than with a big throbbing res-erection? Ghouls just wa…
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One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Award-winning comedian Lara A King brings her unique brand of clever observational comedy, uplifting melodies and lyrical wordsmithery, to her spiritual home of Brighton with this …
Celebrate the start of the May half term with a family friendly pick of the fringe! Enjoy 10 minute performances of Brighton Fringe shows that will be performing over half term we…
Martin Sherman’s Rose is already an award-winning production that received widespread critical acclaim during its sell-out runs at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and the Park T…
Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be do…
A family-friendly edition of Bom Bane’s Mix.
A family-friendly edition of Bom Bane’s Mix.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Following a complete sell-out 2021 tour and 2022 extension, star of Taskmaster and global smash hit ‘Live Innit’, Paul Chowdhry brings his hit show ‘Fa…
GLOBAL LOCAL FESTIVAL – FREE ENTRYGlobal and UK Artists from all corners of the Global Local Project, and the people behind Shangri La Glastonbury, Caravanserai at Camp Bestival,…
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GLOBAL LOCAL FESTIVAL – FREE ENTRY Global and UK Artists from all corners of the Global Local Project, and the people behind Shangri La Glastonbury, Caravanserai at Camp Bestiva…
Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023.
Philip Ridley’s multi-layered, complex and highly acclaimed story Leaves of Glass is breathtakingly revived by director Max Harrison in collaboration with Lidless Theatre in a mi…
For 30 years now, Guy Masterson has been successfully taking on the monumental challenge of presenting Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show; revelations from the fictional …
Exclusive after-hours tour! This a unique opportunity to learn about the remarkable history of the World’s Oldest Operating Aquarium.
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
Meet Eddie, a successful failed actor, now a rap star in the making - except maybe he’s not as talented as he thinks he is.
Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
Meet Eddie, a successful failed actor, now a rap star in the making - except maybe he’s not as talented as he thinks he is.
It’s 1936.
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
Enjoy a warm welcome to Brighton’s ancient Mother church and hear and see some of the 1000 year history of this beautiful building, including among other treasures the ancient and …
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
“Back by popular demand”, Brighton’s most unusual walking tour.
Come join Boogie Roo as she takes you for the best silent disco dance-walk adventure through the streets and the beaches of Brighton.
We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
It’s 1936.
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party It’s an outrageous outdoor party that will have you dancing and singing in the bracing sea air, as you weave your way through the street…
It’s not only the title of the play; Biscuits For Breakfast is all that some people have to start the day, and that’s if they are lucky.
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
Guru Dudu returns from Australia to Brighton along with his UK team to bring you Play, Love and Laughter in the city and along the beachfront! Enjoy our hilarious dance-walking tou…
The Clifton Hill and Montpelier area is a charming, inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style.
London Road is an area rapidly regenerating after years of inner city decline.
Do you suffer from allergies, anaemia, asthma, bronchitis, cough, fatigue, hypo-/hyper-glycemia, emphysema, COPD, digestive disorders, headaches, high/low blood pressure, insomnia …
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back on VICTORIA GARDENS in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
Do you suffer from allergies, anaemia, asthma, bronchitis, cough, fatigue, hypo-/hyper-glycemia, emphysema, COPD, digestive disorders, headaches, high/low blood pressure, insomnia …
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
The Artistic Director might have changed but the Orange Tree Theatre continues to resurrect plays from eras that many houses might shun.
John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan…
In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
Noah McCreadie has scored a triumph with his debut play Getaway/Runaway and the intimacy of the King’s Head Theatre provides the perfect setting for this intense drama from Shot …
It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they …
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
In a rather surprising debut choice, Stella Powell-Jones has commenced her incumbency as Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s uninspired adapt…
A fast pace and some hilarious banter about their names, how to pronounce and spell them, gets Barry McStay’s Breeding off to an immediately engaging and rip-roaring start that s…
Given the vast repertoire of plays available to theatre companies one often wonders how they decide on what to perform next and why: in this case, the somewhat lesser-known work by…
In an unlikely melding of three disparate stories, Jack Fairey finds common ground in his moving play The Sun, The Mountain, and Me for Bedivere Arts at the Jack Studio Theatre, in…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO.
With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country.
Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage with her first-ever, hour-long special, Quarter-Life Crisis, named “Best of 2020” …
There is an inherent difficulty with plays that seek to tell a well-known story and thus lack a sense of mystery and element of surprise.
Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian.
Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian.
Sort Sol presents their third original theatre production, created by Artistic Director, Elizabeth Huskisson.
Imagine being in a new relationship.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
In this Coronation year, what could be more topical than Shakespeare’s verse-told-tale of coronation, usurpation, coronation and murder? Join Westcliff Boys to experience beautiful…
What do Mother Teresa, Napoleon and Hitler have in common? Well, they all have what Hedda Gabler wants most of all.
There is something peculiar about Polly Tips.
VIRGIN-ia is a one-woman play about a sexually motivated virgin.
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Janey Godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best! Ja…
Janey Godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best! Ja…
The Coronet Theatre is once again hosting The National Theatre of Norway, who have arrived with their take on August Strindberg’s dark matrimonial drama Dance of Death.
Matthew Jameson embarked on a major project ten years ago.
Hilarious, satirical, superbly staged and brilliantly performed, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has hit the Lyric, Hammersmith in an explosion of theatricality following its sens…
Our lives are indebted to many people.
What a joy to see a very simple and equally silly story adapted for the stage and turned into an hour of light-hearted frivolity, full of humour and ingenuity.
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis.
Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis.
A friendly stranger is just another way of saying a new friend you haven’t met yet.
Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev…
Kelly wants change.
There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze.
The setting for Lucy Beresford-Knox’s Burn, could hardly be better.
How it began, where it is now and plans for Scene + Heard's Future.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Join Tik Tok’s GK Barry for some absolutely outrageous conversations with some very special guests!
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
Two main strands are interwoven in Harrison David Rivers’ This Bitter Earth, currently making its UK premiere at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington.
I was invited to see Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal at Brixton House and made it quite clear that it wasn’t my sort of thing, that I would go in order to be supportive, that I almost …
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
What could be more appropriate to mark the opening of the Southwark Playhouse Elephant than Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce.
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A Macbeth that features only the eponymous hero and his wife is an opportunity to define the characters and chart the shifting balance of power between them as the tragedy unfolds.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
Come on in, the water’s fine.
A heteronormative upbringing fights homosexual desire on a battleground that moves from a playful and sometimes argumentative bedroom to the secluded cell of a conversion therapy u…
The Kaleidoscope Festival returns for its second year at the Golden Goose Theatre, showcasing five nights of new writing from recent graduates of the Mountview MA in Acting course.
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has opened its Spring 2023 season with the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice.
Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth.
Walking Cats is an autobiographical performance exploring homesickness and migrant identity using live feed, object theatre, paper collages and soundscape, taking the audience on a…
A man is going through almost a lifetime’s accumulation of important junk in his attic.
A breath of theatrical fresh is often much needed at big fringe-style events and it can currently be found at the Vault Festival in A Manchester Anthem.
A cat walks on Kilburn High Road.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
The ladies with their mugs of tea sitting outside a cottage with a fenced-off lawn would have grown up with the song In An English Country Garden, whose tune introduces George Savo…
Join us for our big brash birthday bash to kick off VAULT Festival 2023 and celebrate a decade of bold and original live performance! This is our chance to raise a toast (and the r…
The debate surrounding refugees, migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political scene both internationally and domestically for decades.
The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season.
Described by its author as a ‘tragi-farce’, Edward Bond’s Have I None at the Golden Goose Theatre is a blunt dystopian nightmare packed into an energetically angry fifty-five…
Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o…
Heads up all you wannabe drag kings scattered all over the globe - we are kicking off the Year Of the King by bringing back our most popular online workshop, Drag King 101 with Dor…
The need to willingly suspend disbelief in order to fully enter into the spirit of a play is sometimes an essential requirement if the potential for enjoyment is not to be lost alt…
If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit…
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those.
Middleton’s hilarious and gory black comedy is often viewed as a parody of Hamlet.
Scheduled over twelve rounds, On the Ropes at the Park Theatre goes from 7.
Do you want to build a snowman ? Because a thick layer of snow has fallen on The Cock Tavern just in time for everyones favourite seasonal Cher-based celebration, CHERMAS.
Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20…
Being dead, the great maestro of late baroque composition has the hope of being raised incorruptible.
The creative team behind Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor at the Park Theatre have done an outstanding job on this production.
Two main strands run through Keeper of the Flame, written and performed by Rob Adams, a play that fits neatly into the confines of the delightful Bridge House Theatre.
A festival celebrating the connections we make throughout our life, an ode to family, friends, and lovers alike.
Fresh off their Netflix worldwide debut and a SOLD-OUT Australian tour, SUPERWOG are heading to the UK for the very first time with their Mad Dogs Tour.
Kae Tempest’s credentials as a poet and lyricist shine through in Wasted at the Jack Studio.
There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man.
Everything about John Nicholson’s adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! at Jermyn Street Theatre has an element of irony to it, but whether tha…
AN EVENING OF TERRORTOME WITH GARTH MARENGHI Garth Marenghi, horror literature’s greatest living author, returns from the darkness (figurative darkness -he&rsqu…
The fabulous Mill at Sonning has revived last year’s Christmas success for another run over the festive season, It’s hard to believe that a full-scale musical like Top Hat, wit…
Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions.
We’ll never know what, if anything, Shakespeare was on when he wrote AMidsummer Night’s Dream, but the team at Intermission Youth Theatre have based their ‘Shakespeare Remix�…
Jamie Patterson (Will) and Charis Murray (Bean) give delightful performances in Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Rees, the debut production for their company, Shot in the Dark Theatre, at t…
There was a more than usual buzz in the air at the Coliseum in anticipation of ENO’s latest foray into the world of Gilbert & Sullivan with The Yeoman of the Guard.
Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) leads a traditional life in rural Ireland.
When the setting for your play is the basement of a London pub, where better to perform than at Barons Court Theatre which is located in the basement of the west London pub aptly n…
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
Douglas Henshall has wasted no time in returning to the stage after his years in Shetland.
An interactive exhibition with an exciting mix of science and creativity at Senate House for three days at the heart of the festival.
Join us on Alfred Place Gardens and Store St as we celebrate the opening of the Bloomsbury Festival 2022.
Jessica Strang’s images of Kings Cross taken during 1987 are a reminder of how Kings Cross looked before being given a new lease of life with its redevelopment around the turn of…
The Bloomsbury Festival has announced the initial lineup of shows, exhibitions, events, concerts, walks and talks in the 2022 programme with the theme ‘Breathe’ encouraging us …
A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t…
The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre.
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
Charlie Berens live at Leicester Square Theatre.
A compelling, humorous and emotion-filled solo show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor…
In marked contrast to the UK’s recent smooth transition from one monarch to another, the story of Dmitry (Tom Byrne), at the new Marylebone Theatre, tells a woeful tale of power-…
Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, where he finished in second place.
Gabriel Byrne on stage.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band from the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional.
The Beyond Borders International Festival is a weekend of discussion, debate, music, art, food and drink with Scottish and international artists, authors, broadcasters, politicians…
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
Emmy and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox arrives in Edinburgh to discuss his life and work, from Dundee Rep and Hannibal Lecktor, via cheeseburger tycoon Bob Servant…
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel 4), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, Jamali …
Irish national treasure Gabriel Byrne weaves a captivating tale that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.
The British harpsichordist and conductor joins brilliant Baroque performers for a journey through the riches of European 17th-century chamber music.
Now in its ninth consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe.
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C…
Stunning, imaginative, inspired, colourful, amusing, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung, this Trial By Jury is Gilbert and Sullivan at its very best.
Immerse yourself in the beauty and romance of Scotland’s old buildings as we celebrate the Festival of Traditional Buildings! To mark our landmark 10th year, we’re bringing you a w…
Come! Welcome to the inaugural Book Festival Fringe.
After sell-out seasons for the last two years, The One Fell Swoop Project returns for its third slightly shorter three-week run this summer.
Les Shankland directs the Chapter House Singers in Choral Evensong.
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
The Art of Illumination.
Rozarina Larsen present, Asian Persuasion: A stand up solo by Rozarina on mistaken identity, managing expectations, surviving clichés and trying to fit in as an Asian living in Sc…
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
Love of Creation: Poetry’s power for the present.
Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing.
Àirigh Orchestra celebrates the amazing depth and variety of the classical piano concerto genre: Bach D minor (BWV1052), Koželuch concerto for piano duet and a recently composed …
Rozarina Larsen present, Asian Persuasion: A stand up solo by Rozarina on mistaken identity, managing expectations, surviving clichés and trying to fit in as an Asian living in Sc…
Rozarina Larsen present, Asian Persuasion: A stand up solo by Rozarina on mistaken identity, managing expectations, surviving clichés and trying to fit in as an Asian living in Sc…
James Yorkston is a singer/songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular.
Exhibition: The Art of Illumination.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19…
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises.
Life is filled with the queerest things, none more so than the machinations of a mind like KC Finn’s.
Painting Heaven on Earth.
The Greeks knew a lot about war and told great tales of heroism, victory and defeat.
Made using hand-dyed linen and quilted with hand embroidery, Christina Rose Brown’s textile works feature drawings of the artist in bed with her two young children, in a liminal …
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
Schola Cantorum sings MacMillan.
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
The rhythm of the tango underpins Los Guardiola - The Comedy of Tango in this superb production from Musique et Toile, but the show is much broader than the one dance form.
Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues …
Scotland’s premier tour guide and famously upbeat man Craig welcomes you to his home town for a one-off tour of Edinburgh in all its deadpan glory.
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Performances of Highland bagpipes and small pipes by the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and guests. Featuring light music and piobaireachd.
It’s a day like any other.
Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees.
Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist…
Painting the Way of the Cross.
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
Comedians Nigel Lovell (twice UK Pun Championship finalist) and Pete Merre (talkSport, SoccerAM) love Wordle and Leyton Orient and so are used to comedy, tragedy and heartbreak.
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Top academics, dangerous ideas and your host comedian Susan Morrison.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
The Year 12 girls from Wycombe Abbey school in High Wycombe under the direction of Phoebe Francis have created a fine production of DNA by Dennis Kelly.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles – 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s to present day.
The America’s Got Talent winner brings his latest smash-hit show to Edinburgh for the first time.
Life is filled with the queerest things, none more so than the machinations of a mind like KC Finn’s.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
You’re born a girl.
Presented by the Barsanti Ensemble and the University of Edinburgh Musical Instrument Collection, this concert highlights a manuscript collection of music in Edinburgh University L…
Saltire Sky Theatre have lived up to all the expectations they raised following 1902, their smash hit of last year’s Fringe that won them the Broadway Baby Bobby Award and Off We…
Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz.
Polly Peculiar, at Greenside Nicholson Square, is a joy from beginning to end: the sort of play that under normal circumstances you might not be tempted to see.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Come join us for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
With a busted knee, a burst eardrum and heroic reveries replaced by painkillers and words like ‘ouch’, ‘pardon’ and ‘I’m down here!’, Todd reckons he has one last chance to reinv…
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Join us for an afternoon of free jazz every Saturday and Sunday during the Fringe at The Grand Cafe.
Bold, glamorous and sassy, your festival favourites are back with their most sensational show yet! A must-see new production for 2022 with plenty of fun-filled comedy and outrageou…
Join us for free music every Saturday night during the Fringe at Southpour with great acoustic artists playing great pop covers.
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival, and this year he’s been thinking about the future.
Islam Festival Edinburgh.
Two contrasting elements combine to make Rebel into a spectacular show ideally suited to the vast tent that is Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows.
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
Comedians Nigel Lovell (twice UK Pun Championship finalist) and Pete Merre (talkSport, SoccerAM) love Wordle and Leyton Orient and so are used to comedy, tragedy and heartbreak.
Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
Join us for a huge selection of free music every Friday and Saturday night during the Fringe at The Golf Tavern with different rock/pop cover bands with a great selection of music …
Drop in daily to enjoy emerging and established artists playing for free at our specially curated lunchtime concerts.
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
Enjoying a guided flavour-forward experience, you will learn how our whisky and spirits are made, and about both the traditions and innovative new methods in craft distilling emplo…
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, Conan Doyle, JK Rowling, McCall Smith and others, wit…
Rhythms of India by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students. Storytelling using complex footwork set to rhythmic music along with facial expressions.
Join us for free music every Friday night during the Fringe at The Granary with our house musician playing great acoustic pop covers.
Join us on these free guided tours of the musical treasures on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh’s Musical …
Festival Folk at the Oak.
Fitry is an intriguing one-man show from Faso Danse Théâtre, Brussels, featuring Serge Aimé Coulibaly as the performer.
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
Burials have been taking place in Greyfriars Kirkyard since the mid-16th century, situated at the southern edge of the Old Town.
A guided walking tour that will take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby and the final resting place for many of Edinburgh’s most notorious characters.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums, explore the dimly lit vaults once the haunt of criminals, body-snatchers and witches alike! Each vault tells…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
Discover the best of Scottish artisanal produce: fantastic Scottish cheeses, single malt whisky, smoked salmon, an Edinburgh gin liqueur cocktail, meat or veggie haggis and a surpr…
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Award-winning Red Bus Bistro and acclaimed comedian Raymond Mearns have teamed up for the duration of the Fringe to offer a unique comedy tour experience travelling round the wonde…
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Pushing the boundaries of the artform to the max for a late night Encore like no other.
Celebrate the return of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at V&C with this relaxed, tutored tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines: Prosecco, Metodo Classico, Spumante and more.
‘Funny.
Stand-up philosophy is like stand-up comedy – except it’s philosophical.
A classic tale of greed and guilt, this visceral and lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy is truly Flabbergast.
Discover new artists from around the world! Come and enjoy the warmth of the world through a hand-picked selection of of bands, singers and instrumentalists, and soak up their soun…
Two internationally touring Canadian comedians, Andrew Packer and Jacob Balshin, perform a blend of stand-up and musical comedy with an emphasis on improvised crowd interaction.
Join us for a huge selection of free music every night of the Fringe at Biddy’s with different rock/folk cover bands and a big selection of music right through the festival.
Gabe Mollica brings New York-style comedy line-ups every night to Bar 50.
The Original Guru Dudu and the team returns to Edinburgh with our hilarious and engaging tours.
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) for an hour of stand-up, sketch, song and much more.
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…
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
There’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo has risen from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land.
Richard Stott returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners.
Join us for free live music every Wednesday to Sunday during the Fringe at Ghillie Dhu with different indie and rock/pop artists with a great selection of music.
Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru.
The highly anticipated world premiere of Irvine Welsh's Porno catches up with the lives of Renton, Sickboy, Begbie & Spud, fifteen years after their appearance in TRAINSPOT…
Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,…
What happens when you train for something your whole life, only to fail at the crucial moment? This question is the stimulus behind False Start, from acclaimed French-German theatr…
Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.
If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same…
A contemporary drama created by Histeria Teatro that pays homage to those rock stars who died young, and in circumstances of suicide or overdose.
Fringe-first award winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels, Monster) is back at the Fringe with his new work Fanboy in which he explores his relationship with his past and future self.
All aboard The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet? Buckle up as we hit the road for a tour of life itself, visiting more sketch-shaped destinations…
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
Richard Brown returns to the Fringe with a new show that promises to be as bleakly brilliant as his previous endeavours.
Multi award-winning podcast returns.
Combining history, humour and horror, this walking tour culminates inside the Covenanter’s Prison – a locked section of a 16th-century walled cemetery.
A one-woman performance about knitting through grief, heartache and depression. All in a pandemic. Knitting or crocheting is encouraged.
It’s getting late.
A fascinating insight into Edinburgh’s past, hear incredible stories of royalty, writers, sieges, battles and plagues.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
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…
Have you had the experience of sitting through a play and thinking, “If I’d known that was how it was going to end I’d have paid far more attention to all the details in the …
Out of the Wings returns to the Omnibus for its annual festival of theatre from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds.
Celebrate the closing of the 2022 Penge Festival with the Heatwave House Party at The Bridge House!An all day party downstairs in the pub with special live music sets in our theatr…
Director Max Lewendel has taken Theatre of the Absurd to a new level in his engrossing production of Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson in a translation by Donald Watson at the Southwa…
Richard Stott as seen on ITV2 Stand Up Sketch Show and runner up in Dave TV’s Jokes of 2019 is back with a new show about your mid 30s.
Set in Chester in 1645 as England was ravaged by the Civil War, Offered Up, at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio Theatre is a commentary on the political and social life of the …
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show.
Stunning from beginning to end The Convert is perhaps the most remarkable piece of theatre ever staged at Above The Stag in Vauxhall and that is no disrespect to the many fine prod…
BE FESTIVAL exists to challenge and turn the notion of theatre upside down, crossing borders, creative disciplines and blurring boundaries between audiences and artists.
Touring productions of West End musicals can often feel like a poor shadow of their original run as they usually require considerable downscaling to easily fit into a multitude of …
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
Howard Brenton’s new play Cancelling Socrates at Jermyn Street Theatre is a fascinating piece that transports us to classical Greece in a consideration of the circumstances that …
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
In Between Spaces centres on five characters who perambulate in a world outside of time.
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
Shakespeare knew what it took to pen a romantic tragedy when he wrote Romeo and Juliet and hence carefully structured all the ingredients to meet the demands of the genre and creat…
Set in an unspecified time and without a location, No Particular Order resonates across the ages, through civilisations and empires, dictatorships and democracies and more, vividly…
The event might fall short of the hype that The Man Behind the Mask would be a ‘confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outr…
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas.
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas at 3pm at Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UF Featuring live music, debate, and poetry on the…
Maggy is a priest, author and broadcaster as well as a comedian - she has a unique and informed perspective on life.
Maggy is a priest, author and broadcaster as well as a comedian - she has a unique and informed perspective on life.
Upcoming performance artist Sofie Kramer searches for female autonomy and physical self-determination in a mind-blowing pole dancing performance based on “Iphigenia in Aulis”, the …
Upcoming performance artist Sofie Kramer searches for female autonomy and physical self-determination in a mind-blowing pole dancing performance based on “Iphigenia in Aulis”, the …
Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly.
Did Alissa Finn choose to perform Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged at the Water Rats in King’s Cross because the stage has a pair of ionic columns framing the stage? No, is the …
Led by Vanessa (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away.
Everything seems normal.
Led by Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away.
Everything seems normal.
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
Enter Frankie Foxstone: whip-smart, diva property tiger and financial guru.
Enter Frankie Foxstone: whip-smart, diva property tiger and financial guru.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
Searchlight Theatre Company returns to the Brighton Fringe with their delightful show Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy at the Rialto Theatre.
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, either in person or online? Come along and virtually meet the team from the Fringe Society and find out wh…
Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year or in the future? Maybe it’s on your bucket list, or a new year’s resolution; perhaps you’ve been bef…
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
Red Dragonfly’s New Writing Festival and nationwide Competition is back! In the fourth season Taking Flight will help new and emerging BESEA playwrights develop their exciting id…
The Dwarfs is a semi-autobiographical work and Harold Pinter's only novel.
The Man In The Shed is a highly amusing and at time hilarious solo rant by actor Alex Dee, co-written as Alex Donald with Tim Connery.
‘Taking Flight’ is Red Dragonfly Productions successful New Writing Programme, where we showcase new work by up and coming writers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Jim Spencer Broadbent is a playwright based in South-East London, so he is delighted to be presenting his play The Recollection of Tony Ward as one of twenty-seven companies contri…
Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also …
Enjoy a warm welcome to Brighton’s ancient Mother church and hear and see some of the 1000 year history of this beautiful building, including among other treasures the ancient and …
“Back by popular demand”.
Expectations can work in many ways and it’s interesting to realise the extent to which we can be influenced by what we have just seen.
Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also …
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
It’s 1965, the world has changed & London is swinging.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
Brecht would have felt at home watching two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood Studio.
Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
The OffFest award-winning hit play of Brighton Fringe 2021, The Tragedy of Dorian Gray, returns with this stunning, black & white filmed version.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party It’s an outrageous outdoor party that will have you dancing and singing in the bracing sea air, as you weave your way through the street…
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back at the Brighton Fringe Festival with their most sensational show yet, SUMMER OF FUN! Let’s make Brighton Fringe a “Summer of Fun” with 16 of t…
Celebrated director Sarah Frankcom makes her debut at Hampstead Theatre in a spartan production of Naomi Wallace’s morality-defying play The Breach.
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back at the Brighton Fringe Festival with their most sensational show yet, SUMMER OF FUN! Let’s make Brighton Fringe a “Summer of Fun” with 16 of t…
The Clifton Hill and Montpelier area is a charming, inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style.
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
London Road is an area rapidly regenerating after years of inner city decline.
Rain didn't dampen our spirits as we found ourselves transported to the Ibizan club scene for an hour during Guru Dudu's Silent Disco Walking Tour, dancing away the weekend…
Both a restaurant and a theatre, The Mill at Sonning, with its beautiful river setting in the countryside near Reading, is currently host to the Busman's Honeymoon, co-written …
Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s amusing challenge to the norms of society, stemmed from her own life and that of her lover Vita Sackville-West, but in her novel, the eponymous hero'…
Dust-sheets cover what little furniture there is in the expansive room of Dr Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden), trusted personal physiotherapist to Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler (Ri…
When Marisha Wallace, who plays Ado Annie, sings “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” we are left in no doubt as to what she means and it gets the ovation it richly deserves…
Sometimes all the elements of a production combine to form something that is stunning and deeply moving.
Absolute Certainty? staged by Qweerdog Theatre revolves around the confused lives of two brothers and a friend.
How It Is (Part 2) being Part 2 of a three-part novel of which Part 1 comes before it and Part 3 follows it after which there is no more being a novel it is not a play yet here at …
After sitting through two acts of around fifty-five minutes each at the Union Theatre, quite why David Lindsey-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five To…
If you are into boxing, and I’m not, Fighting Irish gives you something to latch onto from the outset.
Gilbert & Sullivan have survived the test of time and now seem to have successfully weathered the pandemic.
Two stunningly energetic performances keep Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickyboy, courtesy of Bruiser Theatre Company, rolling along at a cracking pace that provides an hour of action-…
Herman’s Hermits, one of the biggest selling bands of the 60’s, not just in the UK, but around the World.
John Lahr’s Diary of a Somebody makes a return to the stage after an absence of 35 years, this time at Seven Dials Playhouse.
There is deceit in the title of this play.
Wilton’s Music Hall has come a long way since 1885 when Nelly Power sang The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery.
I’ll settle for the company’s own description of Under Electric Candlelight as an ‘existential tragicomedy’, but dont worry about interpreting that.
That irresistible 1970s suburban comedy, Abigail's Party, has been revived again; this time at the Watford Palace Theatre under the direction of Pravesh Kumar.
Dev’s Army, by Stuart D.
Blackpool chip shop heiress Teresa Toti is unlucky in love, to put it mildly.
Bacon, at the Finborough Theatre, showcases the talents of two remarkable young actors in a moving exploration of teenage angst.
Simple acts can often have huge repercussions.
“The Honourable” Tom Houghton has announced his first ever UK tour, the comedian and Tik Tok star will be fresh from supporting Milton Jones when he starts on his own string of…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
For aficionados of Ibsen this is a production not to be missed; nor should those who just like to wallow in the velvety richness of traditional theatre ignore this rare opportunity…
International stand-up comedian Nigel Ng takes to the road with his latest live comedy tour.
Politically, it seems like a highly appropriate time to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II - an exploration of the nature of leadership and egotistical entitlement.
Andy Warhol once declared, 'Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art'.
The University of Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948.
In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a…
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman were joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical for their roles in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at The…
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
After experimenting with a Zoom gig where he got muted by 639 people and a Drive-in gig where Omid witnessed an audience member get out his car, attach a hose pipe to hi…
TEZ ILYAS: THE VICKED TOUR The brand-new stand-up show from brand new author and the star of The Tez O’Clock Show (Channel 4), TEZ Talks (BBC Radio 4) and the mul…
International stand-up comedian Nigel Ng takes to the road with his latest live comedy tour.
Meet some of the shortlisted authors from the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 at this year’s Dublin Book Festival.
Renowned Scottish flautist and new music champion, Richard Craig, closes the festival with a programme of recent works built around Richard Barrett’s “Vale&r…
Banksy’s works pop up in all sorts of places, but seeing them is often a challenge.
Reversed, deconstructed and re-imagined to create a truly remarkable piece of theatre, Juliet & Romeo is the inaugural long-run production at The Chelsea Theatre, following its…
Sam Delaney and Andy Dawson have converted their nonsense podcast into a grand theatrical experience once again, with some of the most popular characters and features fr…
Writer/Director Paul Stone has unearthed a gem of World War II history and transformed it into a delightful monologue, now on stage at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington.
The Tony Awards for comedy must have had a lean year in 2013 when Christopher Durang won Best Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Some people pace up and down, others rock back and forth.
Luke Oldfield’s Accidental Birth of an Anarchist at The Space on the Isle of Dogs tells of two novice activists from The People’s Movement to Protect the Planet who get jobs on…
As W S Gilbert once observed, “Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?” Cal McCrystal provides plenty of material for that in his pro…
New covid-safe version of Brite Theater’s multi award-winning show! The fourth wall has been utterly obliterated, as the audience take on the roles of all the other characters at R…
Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen it! The Exorcist… with puppets!Lachlan Werner (ventriloquist, clown) presents an hour of frights, where demonic voices come from every corner…
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser evokes memories of a bygone age in British theatre and no setting more befits it than that glorious monument to thespian achievement, the Richmond Th…
Australian playwright Alana Valentine makes her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre with The Sugar House, in its first production outside of her home country, where it was nominat…
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
1970 would prove to be a vintage year for music and the start of an era that would change the world.
Bloomsbury Festival is an annual celebration of the area’s pioneering creativity, presenting an inspiring programme of arts, science, literature, performance, discussion and refl…
Huns, we are coming back for another one, presenting to you THE loud, live & brand new cabaret mixtape for the booty-shakin’ generation!What’s Good is BACK, pressing play…
Whos ready for another Eurovision party?After our return from lockdown in August, were delighted to be launching our next event, taking place at Londons Royal Vauxhall Tavern on Fr…
SIMPLY THE BREAST - Drag King Fundraiser The m*n, the myth, the legend, Jamie Fuxx, is undergoing some gender affirming surgery this October.
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
The Salem witch trials are well known, perhaps in large part due to Arthur Miller’s outstanding play The Crucible that put the Massachusetts town on the map.
Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland’s greatest living female voice.
The Brockley Jack Theatre is currently offering the opportunity to see a rarely performed and probably almost unknown operetta by Gustav Holst.
It doesn’t take long to appreciate why Foxes, at Theatre 503, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award.
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Romancero Books con el apoyo de la Oficina de Asuntos Culturales y Cintificos de la Embajada de Espaa en Londres presenta el Festival de Literatura Queer Espaola en Londres - FLQEL…
A little later than now, in the ruins of a theatre, three witches make a prophecy.
The long-awaited Hamlet, directed by Greg Hersov, is finally on stage at the Young Vic and as the young prince Cush Jumbo gives a commanding performance that keeps the whole produc…
The renowned Finborough Theatre is still alive and well as witnessed by its latest production of Jordan Hall’s How To Survive An Apocalypse presented by Proud Haddock.
How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of…
Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma…
Surreys genderless drag artist SemiColon is coming to South London with a BANG with their Alt Pride Festival! Featuring a queer arts fair, live entertainment and food in the commun…
Josh Widdicombe has become one of the most in demand and highly regarded comedians in the UK for both his live stand-up and TV work since his debut gig in 2008.
Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, where he finished in second place.
As the country unlocks and live performance returns to London, Korean dancers will once again make the journey to the UK and take to the stage at The Place.
Shwmae babes!London favourite gaggle of Welshies are back.
Noël Coward described Relatively Speaking as ‘a beautifully constructed and very funny comedy’ and this production at the Jermyn Street Theatre demonstrates how right he was.
JOY Festival is a celebration of local disabled artists, produced by Turtle Key Arts in partnership with HF ArtsFest and the Lyric.
In addition to much discussion of the play itself, Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Omnibus Theatre Clapham had the bar buzzing with anecdotes from people recalling what their mo…
Marcus Hercules, Artistic Director of Hercules Productions, is the one-man wonder behind Prison Games, currently live on-stage at The Pleasance in north London having previouslybee…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Live show, with full band!TOM ASPAULFoxgluvv support Doors open 6pmALL TICKETS NOW ON SALE!Ticket link
Two people are left standing on opposite sides of the room at the end of a housewarming party in Crouch End: the hostess and a guy who came as the friend of a friend, but on whom s…
The Edinburgh Festival Chorus return in smaller form, with a concert as wide-ranging as in previous years.
This is Paradise, Michael John O'Neill’s new play at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, is a lengthy monologue in which Kate (Amy Molloy) provides a complex interweaving of the…
Find your place on the path to The Clapham Grand for our LION KING MOVIE NIGHT Weve already given you Mamma Mia, but were roaring back to full capacity Movie Nights here at T…
Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band.
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow.
Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors.
Now in its 8th consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe.
Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and stand-up, Paul Dennis brings his music and comedy together for the first time.
Join London-based producer and host Foxi Blue for a saucy night of delectable debauchery, featuring stunning and scintillating new and established burlesque acts from Scotland and …
Still by Frances Poet makes its world premiere courtesy of The Traverse Theatre Company at their theatre.
The 2021 Festival of the Sacred Arts concludes with a service of Choral Evensong.
London’s worst BEST Kept Secret, ZODIAC on Tour lands again on a Saturday in Camden with a host of amazing performers including:Luna Cortez - The Queen with the Mutant Lungs!JVST_T…
Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility.
Lunchtime lecture: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture.
SECOND SHOW ADDED!!The Tartan Temptress is BACK for an intimate evening of song and chat PLUS you the gorgeous members of the general public have the chance to ask Mary you’re most…
Join Gorgie’s first Street Art Sculpture Trail Walking Tour, hosted by contributing artist Mario A Gonzalez Robert.
One-day exhibition: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical.
Set in a near-future, post-global ecological collapse, Quandary Collective’s Richard II is a bloodthirsty outdoor exhibition.
Lunchtime talk: Ms Zoe van Zwanenberg, embroiderer, discusses the art of embroidery. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from the Fringe Box Office.
Join ‘Selfish’ Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King to to better understand yourself and events in your life!Workshop overviewSo, this workshop will be all about how to use w…
It’s Not Rocket Science at theSpace@Surgeons’ Hall is presented by Nottingham New Theatre, England’s only fully student-run theatre venue.
At 41, skinny national treasure Mark Watson is halfway through his days on earth according to his £1.
Lunchtime lecture: The Art of Hymns.
Lemon Squeeze Productions are presenting a new adaptation of Rossetti’s Women at the Space@Surgeons’ Hall, written and directed by Joan Greening, award-winning writer of ITV si…
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
Mass setting: Lassus’ Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ altera.
IRL Queer Meditation Sunday 15th August 1pm Finsbury Park.
Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet…
Workshop : Being of InfluenceDate : Saturday 14th AugustTime : 15:00 - 18:00 UKT / 10am - 1pm ESTLocation : VirtualAudience : LGBTQ+Cost : FREE (Donations accepted) ‘Bei…
ZODIAC on Tour Season 2 - Episode 3Book your tickets now for Episode 3, held in a secret VIP location in SohoYou can expect free shots, great food, drinks, and an incredible line u…
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
The Guru Dudu team returns to Edinburgh with our hilarious and engaging tours.
The avant-garde Northumbrian folk storyteller combines an incredible singing voice, gritty subject matter and dark humour to create his unforgettable style.
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
Jonathan Smeed is making his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Run by Stephen Laughton at Lauriston Halls, courtesy of No Frills Theatre Company.
Richard Stott returns to the Camden Fringe with a show exploring the merits and pitfalls of loyalty.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s and 00s to present day.
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
Re-imagine the New Town’s East Claremont Street as a front line, where the military world meets the civilian, shaped through the eyes, ear and experiences of an army reservist as…
Three lads have certain things in common.
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.
Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company has made a highly successful adaptation of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) at theSpace Triplex as part of the contribution by the graduates of Que…
Choral services sung by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with the tradition of daily services. Full details of music at cathedral.net.
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
The Scottish Gallery presents their Festival Exhibition Programme featuring a major exhibition of Joan Eardley to mark the centenary of her birth alongside further exhibitions; The…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Disco as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
Smile.
For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place.
Paddy the Cope, written and directed by Raymond Ross, makes its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the delightful Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Cen…
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the master of wordplay.
Moonlight on Leith, by Emilie Robson and Laila Noble, at theSpaceTriplex is inspired by the ‘Save Leith Walk’ campaign; a grassroots movement seeking to preserve the historic s…
Chalkhill Theatre Ltd currently has a double debut with the company’s first appearance at the Festival Fringe and the premiere of their new play.
The Manchester Revue are proud to present their new sketch show, Free Shot On Entry! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manchester has to offer, prepare to question eve…
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
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…
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
In 1902 Hibs won the Scottish Cup.
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.
Join local tour guide Hannah Mackay Tait for a 3-hour walk through Scottish LGBTQ+ history.
Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman.
Billed as ‘the future of queer comedy cabaret’ Tropicana is Aidan Sadler’s 80’s solo show of classic queer hits at the suitably late hour of 23:15 at theSpaceTriplex.
Climb aboard for the trip of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous showgirls (who just happen to be men!) send you soaring to spectacular diamante-dipped song and dance destin…
A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it.
The banner proclaims, ‘Congratulations’ as it hangs from the ceiling above the unimaginable mess left by the previous afternoon's party in which inmates and staff seemingly…
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August.
World-famous Greyfriars Graveyard awaits for you to discover its relation to Harry Potter, Greyfriars Bobby, unique historical characters and the infamous Covenanters’ Prison.
First on your journey shall be a visit to our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments of torture and execution from Nuremberg and Bamburg castles in Germany, dating back to …
Is there an issue with capturing plays from the second half of the twentieth century that deal with gay issues of the period? The Southwark Playhouse recently managed a production …
For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T…
Saturday 17th July 2021, 8pmTickets: £26.
Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y…
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
The Space on the Isle of Dogs continues its practice of supporting new talent with Helium, an original work by Grumble Pup Theatre, a fledgling company founded in the Black Country…
A wonderfully entertaining evening of laughter and fine acting is currently to be found in Keith Waterhouse’s Mr and Mrs Nobody, staged by Gabriella Bird in her directorial debut…
Exile at the Southwark Playhouse, by JoMac Productions Limited & Blue Heart Theatre, is an interestingly constructed piece consisting of two life-crisis monologues by individu…
Led by Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away.
The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.
The Southwark Playhouse has been transformed into an authentic 1960’s barbershop for the revival of Charles Dyer’s hit play Staircase, by Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in asso…
Garry Roost’s one-hander, Warhol: Bullet Karma, at the Rialto Theatre, as part of the Brighton Fringe, explores aspects of the artist’s life through encounters with various peo…
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard is 38 years old.
The apologetic opening to Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire, explaining the failure of the actors to turn up, might seem out of place in any standard piece of theatre, but then it wou…
The Soho Theatre launched its post-lockdown summer season this week with Shedding A Skin, written and performed by Amanda Wilkin, the 2020 winner of the Verity Bargate Award.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
The Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley has opened its doors for the first time in fifteen months with a wonderfully heart-warming production of Stewart Pringle’s Trestle.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i…
Diary of an Expat makes a striking impression even before Cecilia Gragnani enters the stage for her solo play at the Rialto Theatre, directed by Katharina Reinthaller.
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is anything but that when played ad nauseam on a loop while you are kept on hold by a robotic voice saying, “All our operators are currently busy.
One day perhaps someone will write a play about a drag queen where, beneath the frock and below the wig, above the high heels and under the layers of slap exists a man who is happy…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
A free, four-day festival celebrating the work of the newly-formed School of Media, Arts and Humanities and local partners.
A free, four-day festival celebrating the work of the newly-formed School of Media, Arts and Humanities and local partners.
The Jermyn Street Theatre continues its Footprints Festival with Lucy Betts’ acclaimed production of Ade Morris’s Lone Flyer, which was first staged at The Watermill Theatre la…
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se…
This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the adaptability of works by Robert Louis Stevenson for the stage, with productions popping up in many quarters.
The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production.
“A great little fringe experience that I can highly recommend” (The Scotsman) ‘Lucky Maclean’s Festival in the Bin’ premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 to delighted audie…
Waiting for Hamlet has itself been waiting for some time.
“A great little fringe experience that I can highly recommend” (The Scotsman) ‘Lucky Maclean’s Festival in the Bin’ premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 to delighted audie…
Juicy Lime Productions presents Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play An Intervention, as part of the Brighton Fringe at the Sweet Room, Old SteineTwo characters, identified in the script on…
Thinking about putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, or already in the process for 2021? Book a one-to-one slot with Alan Gordon (Registration Manager) and Katie Quee…
Thinking about putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, or already in the process for 2021? Book a one-to-one slot with Alan Gordon (Registration Manager) and Katie Quee…
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, either in person or online? Come along and virtually meet the team from the Fringe Society and find out wh…
Discover some of the best current British LGBT+ filmmaking.
How does it feel to grow up believing you’re different to everyone else around you? Suitable for the whole family, these LGBT+ short films explore friendship, crushes and feeling…
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Blue Devil Productions closed the Rialto Theatre’s Brighton Fringe season last week with a two-act production,The Tragedy of Dorian Gray; their first full-length play.
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
Exploring gender in a variety of ways, these LGBT+ short films tell moving stories of self-acceptance, family and discovering the person inside you’ve always dreamed of.
These award-winning films from Iris 2020 tell LGBT+ stories from around the world with humour, heart and honesty.
Need a laugh? Expect comedy of all kinds - from dark and surreal to laugh out loud joy – in this selection of LGBT+ short films guaranteed to get you giggling.
There’s something for everyone in this diverse mix of crowd-pleasers from Iris 2020.
A special virtual tour of Brighton Palace Pier, revealing its amazing history.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
It’s 1965, the world has changed & London is swinging.
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Ellie is a schoolgirl with a very bright future ahead of her.
“Back by popular demand”.
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Brighton got their boogie shoes on as they danced around Brighton with Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party under the guidance of our ship's captain Mama Roo and her shipmat…
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back with their most sassy and outrageous show yet, ‘Flight of Fantasy’! Climb aboard for the holiday of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous L…
The Heart Bus Wellbeing Tour is being launched in Brighton in May 2021.
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
It’s 1965, the world has changed and London is swinging.
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
Between Two Waves by Australian playwright Ian Meadows interweaves an urgent call to recognise the world’s impending climate crisis and the troubled smaller world of a young clim…
The Guru Dudu team have adapted their tours to be Covid-safe with smaller tour size and new routes.
The Clifton Hill and Montpelier area is a charming, inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style.
London Road is an area rapidly regenerating after years of inner city decline.
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back with their most sassy and outrageous show yet, ‘Flight of Fantasy’! Climb aboard for the holiday of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous L…
A special virtual tour of Brighton Palace Pier, revealing its amazing history.
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
The Heart Bus Wellbeing Tour is being launched in Brighton in May 2021.
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online…
1970 would see Steeleye Span mark a major milestone with the release of their debut album Hark The Village Wait.
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
NEWS ALERT……Janey Godley and her soup pot are on tour.
The greater mouse-eared bat belongs to the family Vespertilionidae of the genus Myotis.
Andrew Lawrence: The Pale, Male & Stale Tour A BRAND-NEW SHOW Despicably white, horrendously middle-aged and most appalling of all- a man, Li…
Andrew Lawrence: The Pale, Male & Stale Tour A BRAND-NEW SHOW Despicably white, horrendously middle-aged and most appalling of all- a man, Live at the Apol…
£74 Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children)£23 Adult £20.
Hot in the heels of the debut Living Record Festival in January-February 2021, the Living Roots Festival launches this April.
Presenting the Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s latest project: The Scottish Online Student Drama Festival, in aid of Acting For Others.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
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Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Welcome to the first season of Make It Beautiful Theatre Company’s festival of new-writing: SHORTS.
The Scottish Play is a solo performance written by Victoria Gartner, founder and artistic director of Will & Co which produces plays about Shakespear, under the umbrella title …
This film is a socially distanced film.
“Drama King” is a compelling new one-man show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which tells the story of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the…
Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, where he finished in second place.
Drew Lynch captured the hearts of America with his Golden Buzzer performance on Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, where he finished in second place.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
Brad Tassell and Steve Goodie describe themselves as a pair who have been ‘all-around nutty goofballs for more than 30 years’; and it shows.
It’s either a mid-conversation pick-up or a recording error that opens Jane Martin’s monologue, Lockdown Drag-Out, in which she appears as the plummy and plumpy Audrey Stanton …
A showcase exhibition from the 70+ residents of the buzzing Coburg House studio complex.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by hellfire clubs, witches, body snatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequente…
If you’ve been feasting on BBC iPlayer during lockdown and enjoying the delights of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, it’s worth taking six minutes out of your social isolation t…
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and ‘the best celeb interviewer in Britain’ (Guardian), probably best known for his role of Percy in Servants, brings his multi-award-winning podca…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, informal relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and other fine fizz.
Horror in all it’s forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
From Dave’s Funniest Jokes 2019 runner-up comes a comedic journey of self-discovery exploring the benefits and pitfalls of both fitting in and standing out.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions where disease and death were commonplace.
Dark as the devil’s heart, our haunted underground network of vaults from the 1700s will stimulate and excite your senses as the sinister history of these former slum dwellings, on…
A guided walking tour that will visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany dating back to the late 1500s and early 1…
A guided walk in a lush, green valley with a focus on key Scottish architectural features.
August 2nd-30th.
“Café Named Desire” is a musical about love, sexuality, and self discovery.
Oscar Wilde’s classic tale moves to the 1960s where the world has changed and London is swinging.
Focusing on the work and lives of older women - both in front and behind the camera - this year’s line-up includes Japanese animation Mix, eco-comedy The Last Mermaid starring Jane…
Jonathan Pie returns to the road to warm-up ahead of his Fake News tour 2020. He’ll be berating the people in power - and the journalists apparently holding them to account.
A guided walking tour, conducted by Ian Townson, concentrating on the radical gay community and gay squats in Brixton from the mid 1970s to 1981, the year of the Brixton uprising.
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
We’re back! This time with 3 new short plays by female identifying playwrights. Prepare to see plays with female driven narrative and none of those boring archetypal forms!
NEWS ALERT……Janey Godley and her soup pot are on tour.
Laquaya (15 - hip-hop, feminism, Peperami) has broken into Elyot’s house.
NEWS ALERT……Janey Godley and her soup pot are on tour.
Join Instagram Star Arron as he steps out from behind the camera and onto the stage, testing new material for his 2020 UK tour along with his partner in crime, ‘Th…
Join Instagram Star Arron as he steps out from behind the camera and onto the stage, testing new material for his 2020 UK tour along with his partner in crime, ‘Th…
Don’t miss John Kani’s highly acclaimed play Kunene and the King marking the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid with a strictly limited London run, following its …
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because the Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for…
Nick Kroll has established himself as one of today’s most sought-after creators, writers, producers, and actors in film and television.
There is something wonderfully seasonal about Wind of Heaven at the Finborough Theatre.
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is.
Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation.
Performing a play in a cathedral about an archbishop assassinated in a cathedral might sound like a match made in heaven.
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teen-agers, a young girl, and an immortal cat …
Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an intensely Irish play set in the wilds of Connemara, premiered locally by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway in 1996.
The prospect of a two-act monologue that lasts around two and a quarter, an interval, is perhaps daunting for both the actor and aficionados of the genre alike.
The decade might be set in history as ‘Swinging’, but for many of us who lived through the ‘60’s the appellation has only a marginal connection with the realities of life.
The mission of the Cervantes Theatre “to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London” is strikingly realised in its closing play of the 2019 season that featur…
Gaslight has stood the test of time in the canon of British theatre.
In a rare proscenium-style presentation at the Almeida Theatre, director Tinuke Craig offers Maxim Gorky’s Vassa as her debut production for the venue in a new adaptation by Mike…
‘Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart’s blood should run cold.
KING OF POP - THE LEGEND CONTINUES showcases the extraordinary talent of an impersonator who has performed for 28 years in over 350 international shows, 62 different cou…
It’s only two years until the face of Alan Turing appears on the new £50 note.
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
To compile his one-man show, Velvet, Tom Ratcliffe combined personal experience and the disturbing revelations that emerged as the #MeToo movement gathered momentum.
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler all stand out in the history of the twentieth century.
Dr John Cooper Clarke shot to prominence in the 1970s.
‘Mercy’ is a dark comedy with a spiritual twist, centring on a headstrong matriarch of a Persian family and her unyielding decision to break tradition.
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Anti Nowhere League released their debut single "Streets of London" b/w "So What" in 1981.
Star Shaped Festival returns for its fourth year! Having become known by fans and artists of the Britpop era as the must-see event of the year, it’s back for another all-day …
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In the late 1920s Frederico García Lorca allegedly read about a bride who fled her wedding to elope with a former amor.
Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir…
Youth Without God at the Coronet Theatre is heralded as ‘a dark fable about the individual conscience in a time of social uncertainty’ and the 1937 novel by Ödön von Horváth…
Luke Norris's Southend-based play and winner of the Bruntwood Prize, So Here We Are, finally comes to Essex in a delightful production that fits perfectly into the Queen’s Th…
Four iconic acts will appear on the smoothest line-up of the year at The O2 on Saturday 7 September 2019, in what will be THE key date in the calendar for funk and soul fans, the i…
Rock Icons are returning to the UK in October 2019.
The world premiere of Sadie Hasler’s Stiletto Beach has burst onto the stage at the dynamic Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in a bold, brave, fearless and funny exploration of what…
Falsettos has been around since 1992, but it’s UK premier has only just opened at The Other Palace, London.
Comedian, actor and host of Adult Swim’s top-rated and most anarchic programme The Eric Andre Show comes to the (true) final night of Fringe to tear sh*t the f*ck up.
Beyond Borders International Festival returns to the tranquil setting of Traquair House for its 10th year, bringing together world-renowned broadcasters, writers, thinkers, artists…
Be spellbound by our magical musical tour conducted by Edinburgh’s very own Capital Concert Band.
In cahoots with Deborah Frances-White (Guilty Feminist), Amnesty International’s revered Secret Policeman’s Tour comes to Edinburgh.
Legendary singer-songwriter Donovan performs an acoustic set in this very special event showcasing the documentary film Donovan and The Beatles in India.
The cruelties of social media could have broken a girl’s spirit.
The creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids brings his perspective on the global television and film landscape in this special one-off event.
Join us for a unique tour of Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, lead by the British Geological Survey, and learn more about the stones that were used to build Edinburgh! Walk with us …
The neon sign above the stage at the new Turbine Theatre, Battersea, hints at the lights of New York City, but it also reminds us of the history behind director Drew McOnie’s pro…
A comedy special featuring a feast of worldwide laughter from some of the brightest, newest and best comics around the globe, recorded in the BBC’s big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh…
The Annual General Meeting of the Fringe Society where activity is reviewed, accounts are presented and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard.
The self-proclaimed loser of America’s Got Talent breaks from his Vegas residency and US tour for a limited Fringe run.
Russell T Davies is the man behind classic and acclaimed TV series Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Torchwood and Cucumber, among many others.
Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago.
This award-winning writer’s powerful one-man show tears through the curtain of manners to reveal the wildlife of neo-liberal Britain.
As the saying goes, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".
There are quite a few variations on the Romeo & Juliet theme at this year’s Fringe, but few have as many puns as AcadePitch Presents - Romeo and Juliet: An A Capella Tragedy.
‘I ate the divorce papers, Charles.
A bold new adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s most blood soaked plays.
This show follows the journey of a team of podcasters setting out to investigate the disappearance of an iconic infomercial grifter.
Hosted by director Al Carretta and now in its sixth year, if you love independent film, then Nightpiece is the event to attend.
Would everything be better if piratical misanthrope Chris Kehoe was in charge? Maybe.
Islam Festival Edinburgh is open to everyone, old or young, with any faith or none.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record review).
In a world where we see some form of video footage every day – on small and big screens, down on our phones, around us on animated billboards – and where we can tumble headfirs…
Internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Michael performs a wide-ranging programme of standards looking back on a distinguished career, whilst looking forward to new possibilities…
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
Festival Strings is a unique collaboration between two outstanding youth music string organisations.
Name a Second World War poet.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
Get your rig in to shape and your salad sorted, because the Grade Cricketer lads are heading to the UK for a very special run of LIVE performances to coincide with this …
Anərkē Shakespeare, a new, innovative theatre company, creates raw, fast-paced Shakespeare, bringing you the multifaceted text by a diverse, gender-blind, actor-led ensemble with…
With a highly experienced team behind this production it is no wonder that Identity by CTC COMPANY at Greenside, Infirmary St.
This comedy is about the crazy antics of an American cast bringing their show Tea for Three to a theatre in Ireland.
The Italia Conti Ensemble changes its membership every year as another cohort passes through the famous drama school.
Rarely does the stage premiere of a work take place twenty-three years after it was written, but Out Of Bounds Theatre has claimed the honour with their gritty production of 44 Inc…
AW King and Paul Vitty have written an entertaining and poignant theatre piece, enhanced with live music, which digs under the skin of a rock star’s ego and internal drive, as tw…
Join West End Producer as he auditions special guests for his Free Willy musical.
Karl Theobald (Hang Ups, Plebs, GameFace, Green Wing) is back in his element, making his long-awaited return to the live comedy arena.
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Best of magic, dance, comedy, singing and more.
Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR.
Revd Richard Coles is on a fortnight’s leave from his country parish and has been excused from his co-presenting duties of Saturday Live (BBC Radio 4) to bring to Edinburgh this hi…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Join us for a magical, marvellous hour of songs from your favourite movie musicals including Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and some Disney classics.
Behold, beware, behave! A brand-new sketch show from some comedians you don’t know! Join the Sheffield Revue in an adventure in time and sketch comedy.
Hey, you! Don’t watch that! Watch this! Another stand-up show from some comedians you don’t know! Featuring an amalgam of stand-ups from diverse backgrounds and influences and an M…
Showcase includes: In Mist and Rain by Arts of China, Letter from An Unknown Woman by The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Hear of The Lights by Ningbo Municipal Culture &…
One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure.
One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure.
An exciting and engaging art workshop that children really enjoy.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
A hearty meal with a helping of folk.
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s, 00s to present day.
The 2010s.
The 2010s.
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de…
Pianist and educator Richard Michael BEM celebrates his 70th birthday by appearing with family members, Paul Michael (bass), Hilary Michael (violin and sax) and Joanna Duncan (viol…
“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv…
Aged just 16 and 17, Harrison Sharpe (Matt) and Archie Stevens (Mikey) make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Real Eyes, an intensely moving story of brothers growing up t…
"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de…
It’s a new millennium.
Therapists from our treatment rooms will show you how to stay healthy during the Fringe using herbs, with a series of free evening workshops mixing herbal teas and essential oil bl…
Craig and Darren are some nice boys who hit the jackpot when their venue agreed to let them give away free nachos at every performance they do.
Pianist John Bryden, joined for one of the performances by St Mary’s Cathedral Assistant Master of the Music Joseph Beech, plays music by Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart…
After the success of 2018 Brewhemia is returning with our platter of showstopping acts from this year’s festival favourites and our very own Creative Clique.
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Enjoy a relaxed walk through the historic Old Town with a bona fide Scottish Historian.
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
Choral services sung by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. Full details of music at cathedral.net.
Interactive story telling, plus Riddling Competition! Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure.
Tom signs up as a driver for Eduardo Dorado, gold-hunter, on a trek that takes him up a ziggurat and a volcano, where he encounters an Aztec god of fire called Xiuhtecuh…
Tom signs on as a ships cook on the good ship Sinkfast, bound from Japan to Mexico, falls foul of the Genie of Chilli Sauce, El Roja The Sweat-head, meets a mermaid call…
A sensory experience, teaching you how to nose and taste whisky, helping to discover the perfect dram for your palate.
Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Organists Duncan Ferguson, Joseph Beech and John Kitchen perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father’ Willis organ.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Alex…
A hilarious street cleaner sweeps you off on an outdoor journey into the unknown festival, uncovering its secrets and making an ingenious show out of rubbish with his extraordinary…
A taste of the Fringe comes to Bruntsfield in true Black Ivy style.
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
Ever been to a really well-run comedy club? Watch an hour of pro comedy for free instead of the £10 charge outside of the Fringe.
Dear Mother Moon is one of four works presented by CalArts this year in what has become the Institute’s Edinburgh home, Venue 13.
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Join us for a huge selection of free acoustic music, duos, bands, singers and more through the day and night on this launch day of Fringe Music on the Grassmarket.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival – and this year, he’s been trying to escape.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by hellfire clubs, witches, body snatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequente…
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
What’s better than one stand-up comedian for free? That’s right, two stand-up comedians for free.
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret…
Absurdism runs amok in Well That’s Oz, one of four plays in this year’s programme from CalArts at Venue 13.
Free Fringe Music.
Writer Jack Fairey has taken on a huge task in adapting the substance of Homer’s Iliad into a modern story still firmly embedded in the Trojan War with a running time just short …
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
International touring songwriter Dan Haynes comes to Edinburgh as part of his Had Some Falls tour.
Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room.
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
‘Off you go then and best of luck.
Free Love is the latest manifestation of the Scottish experimental pop duo formerly known as Happy Meals, known for their extraordinary sensual live ceremonies.
Dark as the devil’s heart, our haunted underground network of vaults from the 1700s will stimulate and excite your senses as the sinister history of these former slum dwellings, on…
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Step behind the old horse stable doors and discover Summerhall’s very own brewery: Barney’s Beer.
‘The Podfather’ (Guardian) and ‘King of Edinburgh’ (List), probably best known for playing a policeman on Ant and Dec Unleashed, brings his multi award-winning podcast to Edinburgh…
In Bed With My Brother spend the largest portion of this, notably their third Edinburgh show, conducting a kind of aural warfare on their audience.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
The Words Are There is a moving and innovative piece of physical theatre that appeals both for its approach to male domestic abuse, and for its style of performance.
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
For an incomplete play, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck has nevertheless managed to secure enduring interest.
Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity.
This chat show is the perfect guide to what comedy you should see at the Fringe as host Vladimir McTavish, one of Scotland’s finest stand-ups, introduces this intimate and hilariou…
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Following sell-out runs in 2016 and 2018 Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show! As a child Mason always dreamt of mastering the art of sleight of hand.
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Following sell-out shows and standing ovations in 2017/18, The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy Award winner and…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco as we return to our Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
What do you do when life comes to a crossroads? Write a show about it, of course! At 19 years old, Andrew White can’t help but question his next steps: should he keep slogging it…
Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn.
Those dazzling divas are back, ready to party, celebrating being 21 with The Greatest Show Girls Tour! So let’s hear it for the boys as they transform into 16 of the world’s mo…
The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre.
The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink.
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
John Doe is having a bad day.
Four top-quality, fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival.
Set in an Ayrshire guest house in the 1960s, this hilarious comedy follows a week in the life of Mr and Mrs McIlroy who have chosen to revisit where they had spent their honeymoon …
See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly lunchtime stand-up showcase, from the people behind…
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
The tour is regarded by many as a pioneer in its field and a must-see cultural attraction in guide books throughout the world.
It’s fifty years since the Stonewall riots sparked off the movement that became known as gay liberation.
Delightfully deranged and beautifully berserk, Ukrainian group Misanthrope Theatre re-ignite the flames of rebellion and fervour that saw Alfred Jarry’s play close upon its openi…
Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful authors.
Discover a world of flavour on an expert-led guided tour at Edinburgh’s only single malt whisky distillery, the first in the capital for nearly 100 years.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, where disease and death were commonplace.
See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different line-up of top comedians at every show.
The Ghillie Dhu’s very own local artists performing every night of the week with a mixture of traditional and popular classics. Come and join us for drams, jigs and reels!
“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed…
A bone-chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
What an honour to have New Zealand’s self-proclaimed ‘only popstars’ at our humble festival.
Phoebe Traquair’s vivid arts and crafts murals (painted 1888-1892) include allegorical and religious images, portraits of leading figures, choir and clergy of the day and images of…
This tour will take you into parts of Edinburgh that you did not know existed, off the tourist trail.
Written on an arch, Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life by Grayson Perry, gives the sense of entering a house, secret garden or place of habitation.
Expect a fun night of sharp, well-crafted and mischievous stand-up that will tickle your fancy and your heart if you have one.
Let one of Edinburgh’s most infamous sons or daughters lead you round the dark side of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Character comedy is a difficult discipline at the best of times and, with a trope as thoroughly picked-over as the oblivious action-hero, it asks at lot from a performer to find so…
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Jasmine is a saxophone-led from Leeds, performing music composed by saxophonist Jasmine Whalley.
First you’ll be taken to our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany, dating back to the late 1500s and early 1600s.
The world is going to sh*t! Or so it seems.
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
‘A total highlight’ (Audience review, HighTide Festival 2018).
2018 sell-out; a small group walk in a green valley with a focus on key Scottish architectural features.
Extreme Paranormal Ghost Tour is only for those that consider themselves to be very brave, those who are not afraid to venture into some of Edinburgh’s most haunted locations bot…
What would you do if you could go back in time and hand-pick who you would become? One day a man encounters a strange spirit and is offered the opportunity to become someone else, …
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s best comedy newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
Croydon’s sixth leading conspiracy theorist attempts to debunk the big myths: JFK, Twin Towers, why British Bake Off went to Channel 4.
An hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more, from the Cambridge Footlights – alumni include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Mitchell, Emma Thompson, Richard Ayoade, the ca…
London Bermondsey’s beloved local comedy show comes to Edinburgh! Hosted by a podgy gay comic from the remote island of Taiwan, this comedy show has, for month after month, enterta…
Join Those Big Bois for the award-submitted, The Human Show – a journey inside the mind of one confused specimen and the two voices in his head as they navigate a day in this wei…
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
Horror in all its forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
The original and the best! We now have two starting venues (McSorley’s and Grassmarket) with extra tours for the final weekend.
We are the top-rated walking tour company for English tours in Edinburgh on TripAdvisor and we have put together a special festival friendly walking tour of the Old Town for you to…
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
It’s August, and we know what has lured all of you to Edinburgh—the neoclassical architecture!Whether you’re a regular tourist, Fringe-goer or resident, Cobble Tales' Arc…
Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and fine fizz.
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August. Wide range of music from classical to contemporary, traditional Scots and jazz. Full details at cathedral.net
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome, regardless of age or ability.
Lewis Schaffer is a New York Jewish comic.
‘Funny.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Following an epiphany in the Van Gogh Museum, Fry takes a twisted wander through art history.
Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 people across two continents.
Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y…
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y…
Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says.
Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham return to Edinburgh with their latest libation, The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch, in Underbel…
This innovative piece by Cut The Chord Theatre is a fresh perspective on sexual violence, consent and how to open conversations that empower both men and women.
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
Daily diet of live highlights from across the festivals.
Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity.
During this two hour sketching workshop, you will have the opportunity to be supported to explore your surroundings and views from the arts barge with artist Pennie Lord…
Another chance to see the films by Italian artist Marinella Senatore for her York Symphony piece, created through a series of workshops and conversations, collecting ind…
Returning for its 14th season, C’s critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day.
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Join this lively and entertaining guided walking tour and enjoy decades of thrilling Fringe stories from today to Edinburgh’s first festivals in 1947.
Family Yoga on the Arts Barge! This is an informal yoga session that brings together elements of traditional yoga practice, play and discovery.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK.
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK.
Out of the Wings presents its fourth annual festival, exploring untapped theatre from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.
Twenty-nine nights of the best local and international folk music showcasing a different artist each night. There are only 30 seats so book early to save disappointment.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Theatre @DraperHall and Founding Fall Theatre kindly invite you to the Summer edition of their fantastic and unique scratch Theatre evening: Free FallLive music, improvisation arou…
This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad.
A magical multi-media tale of a life saved by music.
Richard Haslam is a Derbyshire-born classical guitarist currently based in Manchester.
Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts.
Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear.
Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear.
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Four cups of Apple Sauce.
Four cups of Apple Sauce.
Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos…
Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos…
Come and learn shape note singing with Tim Eriksen! We are delighted to welcome Tim to York to lead a workshop and a singing on the Arts Barge in advance of his evening …
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand.
Two days of Jazz and Manouche as part of The Arts Barge Riverside Festival.
OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Award-winning saxophonist Alex Hitchcock returns to York, with his powerhouse quintet that combines a compelli…
A two day Jazz and Manouche Festival of performances, workshops and open sessions.
Many strange things occur in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but in this production, by Oxford’s Creation Theatre, there are more surprises than even Prospero might have conjured up…
Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel…
Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Alistair to play for the opening of York’s Arts Barge.
Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful au…
The Queen's of Lovers Rock announce an exclusive London concert as part of the 2019 Innervisions Festival.
After sell out shows at the Electric Ballroom, 229 and The British Library, the Innervisions Festival is Saluting the Black President himself, Fela Kuti, tonight with the Dele Sosi…
Iconic American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, Maceo Parker is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960’s as well as George Clinton's&nbs…
Rare Groove Legends RAMP announce an exclusive European Concert.
Mavis Staples' recording career spans from the 1950s to the current day.
American rapper, singer-songwriter, poet, actor Saul Williams is coming to London to appear as part of the breath-taking Innervisions Festival line up between 3…
Aloe Blacc is best known for his UK No.
Relax and enjoy the welcome extended to guests at the local infants’ school which Michele Austin delivers with considerable warmth and obvious delight.
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…
Tuesday 18th June, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsDuration: 165minsSuitable for: no age guide has been given about this screening yet…
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
After it’s sell-out debut, Stripped is back and more revealing than ever!!! Succour Punch Theatre are proud to be baring all once again for this ‘stripped back’ performance o…
Can words still pack a punch in the reign of Twitter? Have the carriers of thought, the deliverers of argument, the elements of poetry, the sounds that make us human – lost t…
Following an inaugural year enjoyed by audiences and critics alike, A Festival of Korean Dance will return in 2019.
“Bodies on the move: on screen and in the street” This event will involve responding collectively to a variety of audio-visual material, exploring movement and migration, shift…
“Refugees and migration in anthropological cinema” ‘Travel’ (63 mins).
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
Presented by Root Experience, Hidden Stories is back in its hometown of Brighton for an informative and uplifting day at the Jubilee Library.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 10 mins The UK’s longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour features past principal performers from Les Miserables.
Brighton’s much-loved, resident satirists with their legendary mix of bang up to date topical sketches and songs, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s f…
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre is offering a free meditation on the beach with Buddhist monk, Gen Thekchen.
Join Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics).
A free two day interactive arts festival suitable for all ages.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
One man.
Musicians appearing in the 8th Lewes Chamber Music Festival in June 2019 will perform chamber music by Mozart, Faure and the little-known Lekeu in this special Festival Launch conc…
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos has had pet cats for the last 20 years, from the early days of Mittens to his new cat Mitzy, come watch him as he deals with problems of adopti…
Irish four-piece, Walking On Cars came striding into 2019 following the release of single, ‘Monsters’, the first to be taken from their new album, Colours.
Follow in the steps of the Victorians in a stroll along the pier, a pleasure that has been enjoyed by generations.
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for a tour of Brighton focusing on 20 objects with links to stories from Greek mythology.
Parry ‘I was Glad’.
In this, the 60th Anniversary of one of the worlds most iconic music venues, the Ronnie Scotts All Stars take to the road to celebrate the Ronnie Scotts Story.
Fresh from debut runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and 2018, and unveiling his new show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, Richard is now looking to make his mark on the seafron…
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
A workshop with Richard Skinner—novelist and director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy.
A pole-esque tale, telling the story of one woman’s journey through pole, from the seedy underworld of Brighton, to her respectable reinvention as a drag king.
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early ‘70s, inspired by the children he taught in his primary school class in Kent.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Sussex Masonic Center Tours Come and visit the headquarters of Sussex Masonry. Everyone welcome .
A festival oasis in the heart of Kemptown, an atmospheric bar stocked by the best local suppliers where you can discover experimental art, unusual performances and out of the ordin…
Sleeping Trees have been travelling around the world! They’ve been scuba-diving at the Great Barrier Reef, trekking the ancient Inca trails of Peru and gone dogging in Blackpool.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
Born in 1972, Bitty’s earliest memories were punctuated by the music he would hear courtesy of his father’s sound system, where at the tender age of ten h…
Award-winning, 90 minute city tour.
Join the award-winning V.
There are some predictable events in Brighton and Hove; a seagull swooping down on your lunchtime sandwich, sequins on the beach after Pride, and the Ladyboys of Bangkok strutting …
Iris Prize brings outstanding LGBT+ film from around the world to Brighton.
The Hired Man has been doing the rounds since 1984 and now finds a home at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.
A rousing overture, with blasting brass and pounding percussion raises hopes at the Coliseum for the first London production of Man Of La Mancha for over fifty years.
Despite occasional complaints, audiences over the centuries have generally become well-behaved.
Saturday 20th April, 5pm Tickets: £22, £20 concessions or £79 for a Family Ticket (4 people, including at least 1 child)Duration: 2 hour…
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida.
It’s not just a dead body that can be the subject of a post mortem.
A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy.
Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down.
Court rooms can often make for high drama, but unfortunately in this case the transcript of ‘the trial of the century, proves to be less than gripping.
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
Saturday 30th March, 8pmTickets: £24Suitable for: most ages, but aimed at an adult audienceDuration: 2hrs including an intervalSpace Oddity&rsq…
The Absolute Eagles, Europe’s premier tribute to American rock band The Eagles are delighted to perform their debut show in The Civic theatre .
Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert II The second of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musi…
Farnham Festival 2019: Madrigals to Musicals This concert opens with students from Farnham Music and Drama performing excerpts from their upcoming show Our House, f…
Farnham Festival 2019: Ensembles Together Our KS2 choir will recount the story of the first lunar landings, through song and narration, followed by performances from a v…
Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert I The first of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musical adventur…
There is plenty of barking in the street during Tom Coash’s Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre.
The tragedy of World War II is remembered in many ways, but The Conductor, at The Space, takes a highly focussed look at just one small event in Russia’s window on the west in 19…
Farnham Festival 2019: Rock and Pop A new inclusion in this year’s Festival; Tuesday’s concert will involve rock and pop groups, as well as singer-songwriter…
Farnham Festival 2019: Symphony and Song Our second concert of the day will feature musicians from More House School and Lord Wandsworth College, as well as a full orche…
Farnham Festival 2019: Young Voices This exciting concert will include performances from pupils at the Ridgeway School, plus Surrey Arts’ Just So Singers and the A…
Farnham Festival 2019: Jazz Café The exciting opening to this year’s Festival is an informal late afternoon concert, featuring jazz groups from the local ar…
Miro JAROŠ Live UK Tour The first UK tour of favourite singer Miro Jaroš.
Miro JAROŠ Live UK Tour The first UK tour of favourite singer Miro Jaroš.
OOPS is a movement to be different, to stand up and make bold choices.
There are times when a production comes along that is a powerful reminder of the beauty and eloquence of Shakespeare’s writing, his clarity of exposition and ingenuity of plot, e…
We might still be in the age of Aquarius, or we may not yet have entered it, depending on whose calculations you prefer, but it is now over fifty years since Hair opened on Broadwa…
Welcome to Anatevka! The Playhouse Theatre has been transformed to create this ‘dear little village’ for Trevor Nunn’s penetrating production of Fiddler on the Roof.
The need for ‘a willing suspension of disbelief’ traditionally associated with an appreciation of Shakespeare’s Othello reaches a new level necessity in director Phil Willmot…
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
The palatial ceiling aloft the shattered plaster and exposed brick walls of the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre are aptly suited to Headlong’s powerful production of Shak…
Second ChanceAn experiment on a different sort of love story Our Wee Gerry Gerry and Arlene, cross-communitied lovers Second Chance - Idir Mná / LakedaemonThey sa…
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast to cinemas.
OOPS is a movement to be different, to stand up and make bold choices.
Since its launch in 2009, unravel has become one of the leading independent events for knitting and crochet enthusiasts.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Tragedy is for Tall People How (not) To Write For Television Starship Valentine SPACE JUST GOT A LOT SEXIER Tragedy is for Tall People - Charisma CheckTune i…
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" That is probably not most women’s favourite line from Shakespeare and could not be further from the truth when applied to Emma Bentley.
I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself…
In the sad world of factory farming the horrors of animals trapped in cages for the duration of their painful lives is well-documented and visually familiar.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Thursday 7th February, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsDuration: 2hrs, 30minsSuitable for: ages 12+ Mad Max meets Ancient Greece in Sh…
Just because you’ve committed a crime doesn’t mean you have to be caught; at least, not if you can devise a clever cover-up.
The are more "sounds" than "sweet airs" in Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest at the Greenwich Theatre and while some elements of the perform…
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
The Ronan Collins Showband Show Reeling In the Showband Years has been a smash hit for the past 9 years, and we are delighted to say it returns once again to the Civic T…
The programme notes aptly describe The Orchestra at the Omnibus Theatre, which might be regarded as one of Jean Anouilh’s more incidental pieces.
Eric Bell The 50th Anniversary Tour In 1969 Eric Bell walked into a bar in Dublin, ordered a pint and settled down to watch a band play.
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019 From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebr…
Free Public Launch Event and Gallery Tour with the Artists: Thursday 24 January, 6.
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the famous fated couple.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Swedish metal band, Clawfinger are returning to the UK for an exclusive headline show this December, where they'll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Dea…
The third annual Fireball - Fuelling the Fire Tour begins in December, featuring some of punk's finest names including The Bronx, Flogging Molly, Face to Face and Lost in Stere…
From the people behind the sell-out Pride Improv Festival comes another Loud And Queer: Free Improv Comedy Night showcasing the most exciting improvised comedy from the city's top…
The Almeida Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, boldly and sensitively directed by Rebecca Frecknall, is now playing at the Duke of Y…
A family on the verge of a momentous decision forms the focus of Don DeLillo’s Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet in a stark production by director Jack McNamara…
In her article for the British Library on Restorations Comedy Diane Maybankobserves that “little can be gained from removing the plays from their historical settings”.
Actor/scriptwriter Charlie Ryall leads an entertaining troupe of actors from Mercurius Theatre Company in her play Indebted to Chance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
With three drummers, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey, as well as the return of multi-instrumentalist Bill Rieflin on keyboards, guitarist and original founding mem…
After Alan Ayckbourn had seen The Woman in Black and the film The Haunting he was inspired to depart from his usual comedic tales of middle class life and try his hand at a ghost s…
Brass, Benjamin Till’s winner of the ‘Best Musical’ in the 2014 UK Theatre Awards, fills the stage at the Union Theatre, Southwark, in its professional London première.
The Orange Tree Theatre in a co-production with English Touring Theatre could hardly have expected that renewed police investigations into the mysterious disappearance of estate ag…
Darwen is probably not the most well-known town in England, but it holds a very special place in the history of football.
Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at Greenwich Theatre.
There are several peaks and notable features in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye that rise above the lengthy exposition of her themes that otherwise dominate this new work.
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has reconfigured it’s stage and auditorium to house writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s production of Love.
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
A brightly lit auditorium and bare stage, with its exposed brick walls, look all set for a rehearsal.
A little-known theatre hosts a lesser-known play and the result is a theatrical triumph.
The Rebels’ Season continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre with Bathsheba Doran’s Parents’ Evening.
To Have To Shoot Irishmen opens the Irish Theatre Season at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham.
Quietly is set in a pub in Belfast.
“It’s only people up there with guitars and other instruments telling and singing their way through an everyday love story.
It is time to laugh out loud as Winchester Comedy Festival rolls back in to Winchester with a stellar line-up of homegrown talent performing at various venues across the city from …
The autumn/winter season at the Space on the Isle of Dogs got off to a punchy start this week with Little Fools.
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews.
Gordon Brown once observed how Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a National Health Service was unimaginable in its day, yet it has withstood the test of time.
"I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!" Although never spoken in Revelation 1:18 these words from the last book in the bible capture the aspirational i…
Wine makes a return to the Tristan Bates Theatre following its successful run earlier in the year.
Albert Camus’ The Outsider (L’Étranger), is starkly brought to the stage in an adaptation by Ben Okri, Winner of the Man Booker Prize, commissioned by The Print Room at The C…
Shakespeare created ‘the vastly fields of France’ in a cramped ‘cockpit’ and crammed within his ‘wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt’ all c…
Perhaps as a five-part radio serial Prairie Flower might provide some particular interest to crime enthusiasts, but as a two-hour monologue in the Upstairs at the Gatehouse, even w…
Despite its title, we know very little of what actually happened at Abigail’s party.
About Leo is the first offering in The Rebels Season at Jermyn Street Theatre; an autumn programme that focuses on ‘people who dared to be different’.
It’s a mark of how well a play is rooted in a particular era that the mere mention of Estée Lauder’s Youth Dew perfume can send ripples of mirth throughout the auditorium to a…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Appearing for the 28th successive year in the magnificent setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Fife vocal concert group Ensemble (www.
Join authors, politicians, artists, diplomats and international cultural leaders for a weekend of panel debates, music, performing and visual arts, storytelling, poetry, walks and …
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Nick Keir, the Edinburgh folksinger and songwriter, left us too early in 2013.
Special additional show featuring former Zappa Plays Zappa vocalist/instrumentalist Ben Thomas, who will be opening the show with his own material and then joining the band for.
Wacky songs exploring the Third Age, performed by a bunch of accomplished musicians and fronted by singer/songwriter Anna Durkacz.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Premium Scottish gin and piano music delivered by two equally premium Scottish people! So sit back and let hospitality blogger Amanda Currie (The Bonnie Bartender) and pianist Fras…
The Annual General Meeting of the Fringe Society where activity is reviewed, accounts are presented and directors elected.
COMMON is an arts organisation which exists to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, and help working-class artists build sustainable caree…
Since 2014 we’ve platformed over 200 films giving premieres to shorts that have gone onto much bigger things in festivals across the world.
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…
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene.
Celebrated pianist, composer and broadcaster Richard Michael BEM pays homage to the song-writing talents of another Richard in a programme of his best known tunes – song-writing …
Old bones ache before a storm.
A proud socialist and trade unionist, elected Scottish Labour Party leader in 2017 on a radical programme of change.
Edinburgh International Marketing Festival.
Fresh new band from London bring their summer 2018 tour to Edinburgh, with members having performed at Love Supreme Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Cambridge Folk Festival.
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…
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Prepare for the gay and straight worlds to come together, as unlikely friends James Barr and Dan Hudson bring their hugely successful podcast to Edinburgh – live! James will expl…
The Regional Medical Draft Board has strict guidelines for the classification of recruits and their suitability for deployment.
COMMON: GROUND is an initiative developed by COMMON, an arts organisation who exist to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, delivered with…
Off-the-wall stand-up with sausage.
Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
Mis(s)treated – a dark and twisted comedy about human trafficking and prostitution.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
Join former 80s pop star turned vicar and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles – co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and BBC One’s The Big Painting Challenge, star of Strictly C…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore.
Boogie back into the silent era with this glorious mash-up of Charlie Chaplin meets Bee Gees meets Donald Where’s Your Troosers in this interactive tale of love and laughter.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Malones Irish Bars Edinburgh hosts a large variety of live musical acts all day every day throughout the fringe. This begins at 12pm and continues until late at night!
We’re hosting drop-in screenings of Festival in Edinburgh (1955) and Edinburgh on Parade (1970).
Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured.
Some plays lend themselves to radical reinterpretations and stagings while others need handling with more care.
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
The Voice Festival UK once again returns to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy.
Forget Me Nots is a new piece of ‘queer theatre’ from Rokkur Friggjar, a collective of theatre makers based in Iceland and the UK, who are contributors to this year’s Army@Su…
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
With the theme ‘the starting point of love, silk road and art’, our festival has a variety of performances and art from countries on the One Belt One Road.
Ollie has chronic insomnia, a mental and physical illness that affects 10% of people in the UK.
Colin’s life has been a series of well-meaning mishaps and misunderstandings.
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri’s iconic Hindi short story Usne Kaha Tha, The Troth is about one soldier, Sardar Lehna Singh, and the sacrifice he makes to keep his secret pro…
When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C…
Mediocre magic.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, returns to the International Festival three years after he performed his glorious soundtrack to the nostalgia-soaked film, From Scotland With Lov…
Allander Record Fairs bring a great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s to present day (even the odd 78).
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits Ariel, Lucky Stars, L…
When midnight strikes join Broken Bones Matilda in The Vaults.
Pianist John Bryden plays music by Ravel, Scriabin, Bach and Schubert on the Cathedral Steinway.
Brewhemia are presenting some of the finest acts of this year’s festival.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Step back in time to the 18th century – visit Outlander film locations in Edinburgh Old town pubs, closes, jails, churches and print shops visited by Claire and Jamie! Your tour …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Following a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, mind control artist Mason King returns for another journey into the inner depths of the human mind.
Bucket Men takes place in a small basement studio at C Royale where two men coincidentally have jobs in a small basement of a faceless government building.
Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Gabriel Jackson, William Byrd and Antonín D…
Returning with a brand-new kick-ass sequel, Queen’s bass guitar dances across sexual politics.
Organists Daniel Cook (Durham Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father…
Come and listen to uplifting music performed in its liturgical context by one of Edinburgh’s best church choirs in the glorious setting of this church.
If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs.
Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh.
The hilarious Welsh optimist returns to the Fringe, working through his latest identity crisis the only way he knows how – with 40 minutes of excellent free comedy.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best young contemporary music talents perform an exciting blend of Scottish pop, traditional Scottish songs and instrumental s…
This worldwide hit show for geeks and non-geeks everywhere returns with a changing line-up of hilarious comedians with a mixture of stand-up comedy and interactive debate to find o…
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
Hi! I’m American comedian Chris Laker.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos returns with his sequel to his solo show 2015 Walking the Cat.
Escape the crowds and explore Leith with a local through its beer scene, past and present.
In association with PBH’s Free Fringe, veteran chanteuse Woodstock Taylor and her band of aging gits, Dai Lowe, Bev Wright and Max Scratchmann, bring their mixed bag of songs, poem…
Weaving through courtyards, kirkyards and vennels, hear poems about Edinburgh past and present written by residents, tourists and those who visited only in imagination, including R…
After the success of the First Annual Black Comedy Showcase, we’re back – bigger, better and blacker.
Come to discover the story of Edinburgh Beer Factory, born out of a passion for lager and Scotland equally.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by Hellfire clubs, witches, body snatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequente…
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Improviser Mara Joy (TBC Improv, The Spontaneous Players) is joined by a different special guest every day to create an entirely unique two-person show based off one word from the …
Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe.
Red and Boiling is an entertaining cabaret-style show with some serious undertones.
In the May 1979 issue of Sounds magazine the term ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’ was used to describe a second wave of heavy metal bands that emerged in the late 1970’s.
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
The first point to make clear is that My Name is Dorothy has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz.
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Alex…
After a sell-out run in 2017 The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of this six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit mak…
In the 18th century the Royal Mile had 117 brothels! This tour is led by a lady of the night (a guide, not a lady of negotiable virtues).
Four top-quality fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Simon David bursts onto the stage in a bout of eccentricity that boldly asserts his dominance over the evening.
Touch and feel Chinese arts and culture by attending CACF 2018.
A raucous late night show offering a fabulous selection of the most outrageous queer performers from across the Fringe.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco on an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
Dark as the devil’s heart, our haunted underground network of vaults from the 1700s will stimulate and excite your senses as the sinister history of these former slum dwellings, on…
Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway.
Who is the real Sherlock Holmes? Join us on this 90-minute magical mystery walking tour as we take a step back in time to Victorian Edinburgh and discover the hidden history and fo…
Guru Dudu returns to Edinburgh with some extra tours by his Village People tour guides.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, where disease and death were commonplace.
A small group walk in a lush valley with a focus on key Scottish architectural features.
A young man waited outside the Greenside Royal Terrace Venue for Éowyn Emerald & Dancers to appear after their performance.
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
Uncork the champagne! Dress to kill! Party like there’s no tomorrow! Celebrating 20 diamante-decorated years, The Lady Boys of Bangkok Wonder Women Tour will take the Fringe’s nu…
Curious Pheasant Theatre reinvents the Bard’s most famous tale of ‘star-cross’d’ lovers in a bare-bones, twisted production that will have purists running for shelter and a…
Following on from last year’s successful stand-up show of the same name, Bruce Fummey will take a small group in a people carrier to hear the real story of this much maligned Sco…
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Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a different selection each day of four of the best comics at the Fringe.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe day, as you spend an hour in the company of one of the finest stand-ups on the Scottish comedy circuit.
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
“Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
After touring the world with internationally-received show, Getting Away Scott Free.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself.
An American-Scottish duo performs wild long-form improv developed at the renowned iO Theater in Chicago! Jack and Claire is Chicago-based improv comedy duo Claire McFadden and Jack…
Experience catchy AF original bangers*, too much confetti and distractingly sexy dance moves as NZ’s hottest new comedy duo take on all the most ridiculous trends in the world of p…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with different line-ups at every show and four performances daily.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers from around the UK, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day.
Ursine stand-up Richard Hanrahan finally gets his act together, or at least tries to.
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices.
Though now a household name thanks to a semi-final place in last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, singing impressionist Jess Robinson is a familiar face of the Fringe.
After a sell-out global pop tour that came to an earth-shattering finale in Edinburgh last year – Denim broke up.
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
Who runs the world? Not this bitch.
Puns! Lots of puns! Spoken puns, visual puns, musical puns, contrived puns and a lot of props.
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres worldwide, this hit show returns with a changing line-up of various comedians with hilarious material based on sex and relat…
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
Richard Wright is a virgin.
The Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more.
North London’s “finest” comedy duo bring their final show to Edinburgh’s acclaimed arts festival.
For the 4th year, American atheist Bronston Jones reacts to the chaos of his country with a prayer: God Bless ‘Merica, because it’ll take a miracle to fix it.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
They say ‘don’t cry over spilt milk’.
Hailing from the Isle of Skye, the legendary Scottish trailblazers have created a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dance floor grooves that have been embraced worldwide.
A massive whale escapes from prison with the help of a small child.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist JA Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
Have you met Clart and McBrain? Performed in and out of Edinburgh’s famous – and infamous – taverns and howfs, the tour takes the form of an impassioned debate between two fict…
Join a local guide for a fun and informative introduction to Edinburgh’s Old Town.
One man.
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around historic closes and wynds, then take a visit down into our underground vaults.
Richard is Britain’s leading blind theoretical physicist turned stand-up comedian with a Blue Peter badge… well, definitely in the top three.
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Edinburgh is undoubtedly the most haunted city in the world.
The Free Association – London’s leading improv comedy theatre and school – returns with their smash-hit show Jacuzii.
See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr…
Wasabeats Crew present the European premiere of Break Free featuring champion break dancers, each with world titles, who are ready to carve up the floor to reach dizzying new heigh…
Help us find out which ghosts haunt our famous underground.
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
An artist draws the same image repeatedly with indomitable zeal.
An immersive, downloadable, free, 45-minute audio tour of the Festival Fringe – featuring interviews about its history with many Fringe comedy legends as you walk through the cha…
Brand-new sketch show from stars of award-winning Fringe favourites BattleActs (BBC Radio 1).
For the first time Little Fish Tours is running our Festival Friendly Tour.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
Returning for its 13th season, C’s critically-acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day.
Traquair’s vivid murals (painted 1888-1892) include religious and allegorical images, portraits of leading figures, the choir and clergy of the day, and images of the natural world…
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Home is a powerful concept.
Nominated Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe.
If there’s one thing the majority of people at the Fringe can empathise with, it’s how hard the life of a jobbing actor can be.
Sleeping Trees have been travelling around the world! They've been scuba-diving at the Great Barrier Reef, trekking the ancient Inca trails of Peru and gone dogging in Blackpool.
Daily diet of live highlights from across the festivals.
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
An enigmatic title is the hallmark of many Fringe shows – I’m sure no one knows quite what to expect from Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples or Lights Over Tesc…
Experience the world’s most haunted city on a ghost tour of Edinburgh and be spooked by one of the city’s most infamous sons as they lead you around the dark side of the Old To…
Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another world tour.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
A bone-chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
Thirty nights of the best local and international folk music showcasing a different artist each night. There’s only 30 seats, so book early to save disappointment.
During the Shoreline project, locals have been exploring the heritage of Edinburgh’s coast.
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
Following more successful shows at festivals worldwide, the popular show returns with a revolving line-up of acts selected from the best comedians, cabaret acts, children’s ente…
As an aficionado of all things Olde Edinburgh, there are a few basics I've come to expect from an underground tour.
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Trump.
“I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee once observed that ‘the House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days’.
King Courgette is an old-time vegetable string band Featuring Wild Zucchini Bill from international trash-bashing phenomenon STOMP! Expect a righteous mix of fiddles, ba…
Viral sensation Rachel Parris, star of BBC’s The Mash Report, presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch, and inevitably a sideways swipe at society…
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Ealing Comedy Festival is back for its 25th consecutive year with a stellar line up of internationally renowned comedians and homegrown talent to keep you entertained throughout Ju…
Love is a many-splendored thing, or so the soundtrack maintains as it heralds a fifty-minute romp through teenage troubles, acting aspirations and romantic realities.
Seen by over 9 million people in more than 250 cities around the world, Walking with Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular, is back.
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
Billy Roche, playwright (Tumbling Down, The Wexford Trilogy, The Cavalcaders etc) returns to his musical roots with his own brand of psychedelic folk.
Music fans will get the chance to go One Step Beyond this summer as Madness announce an exclusive four-date tour of UK stately homes and a castle! The British pop icons, who have b…
Music fans will get the chance to go One Step Beyond this summer as Madness announce an exclusive four-date tour of UK stately homes and a castle! The British pop icons, who have b…
Ernst Krenek, Erich Korngold, Frank Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff and Mischa Spoliansky were not household names in the late 1940s when a young Barry Humphries in Melbourne, Australia …
In a lengthy whirlwind of staccato scenes with lento, adagio and presto interludes, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London combines political intrigue, corporate corruption, perso…
Dublin Youth Dance Company are thrilled to present an evening of dance at the Smock Alley Theatre as part of the 18th Irish Youth Dance Festival.
Music fans will get the chance to go One Step Beyond this summer as Madness announce an exclusive four-date tour of UK stately homes and a castle! The British pop icons, who have b…
Music fans will get the chance to go One Step Beyond this summer as Madness announce an exclusive four-date tour of UK stately homes and a castle! The British pop icons, who have b…
A spectacular musical celebration of the West End to close the Arts Festival, featuring the very best of musicianship from across the College and concluding with a masse…
This is a new collaboration with a local drama company that will see an external director working collaboratively with members of the local community and our own student…
Good morning, Baltimore! It’s 1962 and change is in the air.
"Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon" (II Samuel 1:20) is a line that does not appear in Knights of the Rose.
The Junior School pupils of St Dunstan’s College invite you to attend their annual Summer concert.
Led by Drama Prefect, Beatrice Swordy, and her team, Black Box devising is an improvisation work created by Year 7 - 9 students over the last two terms, drawing inspirat…
This time-limited devising project welcomes the return of Briony O’Callaghan, a professional director, who, working with a select number of Year 10 - 13 student…
Vibe Arts are delighted to be working with the St Dunstan's College Dance Company for their first appearance in this year’s Arts Festival.
According to its author, Loo Killebrew, The Play About My Dad “should feel quick-moving, and hopefully have a rhythm that is similar to the rhythm of a storm.
“Jen Kirkman is back and she’s not afraid to tell it like it is - again.
“Jen Kirkman is back and she’s not afraid to tell it like it is - again.
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and…
Richard Wright is a 35 year old, obese, balding, geeky, adult virgin who still lives at home with his parents.
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only…
Clueless Theatre makes a remarkable company debut with a production of Jim Cartwright’s Two.
The End of History is billed as “a moving and funny site-responsive play with music which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two radically differe…
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt Due to huge demand, and over-priced lawyers, Lee is extending his smash-h…
Located by St Ann’s Well Gardens in Hove, Park Gate is an attractive, low-density development built in 1958 by the celebrated SPAN architectural practice.
Coming off the back of an international tour of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Brighton has long been a home for artists, creators and the alternative.
Come stretch, unwind, strengthen and get to know your body more during a day of yoga, meditation and celebration at Brighton’s newest and most attractive studio.
Global comedy star, Jeff Dunham, is bringing his cast of characters to the UK in 2018 for two dates only.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer award-nominated ‘Story Beast’, “a bearded force of nature” (The Guardian) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), …
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.
The acclaimed Dilemma Girls present their sparkly walking tour of Brighton, complete with treats and interactive regalia.
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for a tour of Brighton focusing on 20 (ish) objects with links to stories from Greek mythology.
So much history, so little time.
Sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2017! Guru Dudu returns with his hilarious dance-walking tours of spontaneous flash mob dancing through the streets, interpretative dancing around loc…
Join Shoreham Port for a unique behind-the-scenes tour from the water, with live commentary and a free ice cream! Shoreham Port is a thriving commercial port.
Brighton’s much-loved resident satirists with their unique brand of topical comedy, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s festival package.
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…
Having spent three months eating only peas, it comes as no surprise that the eponymous central character in Woyzeck appears in a state of both physical frailty and mental instabili…
A living statue watches as a vandal tags her.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Take an interactive tour of the recently completed Brighton Greenway: a green corridor that cuts through the New England Quarter connecting the North of Brighton with the mainline …
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch receives one scant mention towards the end of Patrick Hamilton's Rope, yet it is the driving force that underpins the play.
Brighton’s number one, award-winning traditional city walking tour.
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
Every Saturday during the month we will be providing you with incredible, outstanding and inspiring musicians delivering an energetic array of jazz for all ears.
The UK's biggest Foodies Festival returned to Hove Lawns this sunny bank holiday weekend.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with an inter-dimensional, work in progress stand-up comedy show.
Close to the city centre lies the Victorian suburb of Clifton Hill and Montpelier, a quiet architecturally interesting community with its own geological, geographical and social hi…
London Road is an area rapidly regenerating after years of inner city decline.
Step into Brighton’s most atmospheric bar.
What challenges are refugees facing? And what can we do about it all? MARS is organising a series of events on refugeedom in and out of the UK today.
Celebrating 20 diamante decorated years, the Lady boys ‘Wonder Women’ tour takes the UK’s number one cabaret show to a new level.
Remember when Nazis were only found in Germany, Austria, and Clacton-on-Sea? Well now they’re in the White House, Downing Street, and Clacton-on-Sea.
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Exclusive after hours tours of Brighton’s aquarium! A unique opportunity to go off the public route to learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
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All the King’s Men bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
“I come from a time and country where I was treated like a wrong hushed up.
The Royal Court is a Grade II listed building, a magnificent example of one of the best theatres built in the Art Deco style.
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Variety is back with a capital V as these legendary entertainers swap their golf clubs for a unique night of comedy and music, in the company of talented friends.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
For two days and nights, the Ada Ryan Gardens will come alive with circus, music, cabaret and more for the City of Whyalla’s uneARTh Festival.
The Hodgetwins are taking the show on the road! For years, you have watched them on their various YouTube channels and laughed until your stomachs were in knots.
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
The happy band of players that performs Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare’s Life is reminiscent of the troupes that wandered the country when the Bard was ali…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
The Dancing on Ice Live UK Tour will be skating back across the country next year, starring the legendary Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
After selling out the 2017 leg of his smash hit Coupla Cans Tour in a matter of minutes, online sensation Mo Gilligan is adding a string of new shows for 2018 by massive…
Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat…
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tour, ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again with a brand new show.
From around the world, to the streets of Adelaide.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
The Original and still the BEST “Best of Fringe”.
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
The Lyric Ensemble is a group of 15 actors led by international director Anne Louise Sarks.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
The Hope of Africa: Ras Minano a multi talented drummer, vocalist, & percussionist originates from Ghana West Africa.
Sylvia Brécko presents “MYTH – the lives and songs of Dietrich, Piaf, Monroe and other female legends!” An Encore! After last year’s great success Sylvia, German TV host & …
Fresh from his successful 2017 debut solo performance at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
Sold-out 2013-2017 A unique day out in the countryside with the Fringe’s best comedians performing in 4 mystery locations.
Often we say a lot without actually saying anything at all, but is it possible to express much in fewer words? Laconic is a selection of short films and animations for you to ex…
Join us as we share the colour, the sounds and magic of the Adelaide Fringe - with the world.
Explore brand new works that will erupt with colour and creativity in Adelaide’s CBD, alongside existing artworks throughout the city and Adelaide’s surrounding suburbs, with your …
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
Guru Dudu and his Village People are the modern pied-pipers.
Port Adelaide is one of the oldest suburbs in Adelaide, with a nickname of ‘Port Misery’, it was effectively founded on January the 6th, 1837 and since then, has been home to count…
A day to celebrate and share stories of women and how we contribute to the world we live in.
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
Adelaide’s 2016 Award Winner and 5 Star performer returns to show you why he is widely regarded as one of the funniest magicians on the planet! Dressed to impress and with more th…
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
As seen on The Project.
The Greenstate Summer Garden Festival will be a celebration of art, music, comedy, and amazing physical feats.
After the sucess of Fort Dreamland, Flip Side Up (FSU) is officially launching in 2018 with some quirky events planned for the year.
Soorya India Festival 2018 ” (An Indian Classical Dance event) - Another Soorya team is all ready to mesmerise you with their breathtaking performance.
The Sanctuary Festival invites you to a day of music, yoga and good vibrations! Held at The National Wine Centre as a part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, prepare to be inspired b…
Laziza are hosting a Multicultural Street Festival! Laziza promotes a fantastic day out to enjoy a culturally enriching day for the entire family.
Guilt Free Comedy Roadshow! Featuring Clare Morgan, Richo, Shad Wicka, Caleb Day, Lachlan Gordon and Peter James! A riot of comedic talent from Far North Queensland rolls into Adel…
Flamenco and the lives of female artists from the Spanish Golden Age combine in this show inspired by the hidden voices of Teresa de Jesús, María de Zayas, Marí…
Former dancer with Ballet Nacional de España, Jesús Carmona is a pioneer in flamenco’s evolution.
Traditional Aboriginal Culture Festival at a spectacular waterfront location on the Coorong S.
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL ROSS Michael Ross’s biting satire delivers a piece very much for our times, reflecting on the dignity and many indignities of labour.
Four champions of flamenco puro come together in a homage to La Chana.
In an extraordinary collaboration, avant-garde choreographer and dancer Israel Galván directs classical dancer Isabel Bayón as she reinvents herself, exploring the de…
BILLY ‘T’ (William Snell) & his 5 piece band present the Johnny Cash Tribute Show.
The award winning, iconic Malaysian comedian is coming to Australia to delight audiences with unique take on observational comedy.
The Symbolist painter Julio Romero de Torres is famous for his portrayals of the archetypal ‘Spanish woman’.
Tinpan Orange are one of Australia’s most loved brother-sister outfits.
María Pagés searches for the woman behind the femme fatale of Prosper Mérimée’s novel, a character appropriated by so many generations of men.
Featuring the leading voices in Spain today, revered singer Carmen Linares and brilliant rising stars Arcangel and Marina Heredia perform with Miguel A.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in January …
From a great passion for film, the 3rd FLEURIEU FILM FESTIVAL celebrates Australian filmmaking encouraging filmmakers to interpret the #FFF18 theme, “FIRE”.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
A HILARIOUSLY HONEST AND FAST PACED COMEDY ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH ‘A glorious, farcical conglomeration of a show made up of jokes, hilarious characters, song, science experiments a…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Bomb Happy is a verbatim victory.
A rare chance to see two internationally acclaimed dance artists.
A triple bill of dynamic new talents with international star of bharatanatyam, Mythili Prakash and noted kathak performer Dheerandra Tiwari, plus a music concert by a remarkable …
Akram Khan performs an excerpt from his upcoming solo.
Free Stand-Up comedy show with all donations given to Lady Parts Justice! Come join at Local 138 on Thursday, 11/2 at 8pm.
Lovers of scary stories, unite.
“It is a pitch perfect performance and a beautifully-written, perfectly-paced comedy script.
Critically acclaimed Front Foot Theatre presents Shakespeare’s most charismatic, tour de force villain, Richard III.
Scandal and Gallows theatre company shines as a remarkably talented team in this production of The Overcoat by rising star scriptwriter George Johnston, who has imaginatively tra…
9 days & 42 shows of the finest live comedians in Britain.
Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu…
Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join politicians, authors, artists and international cultural leaders for a weekend of panel debates, tête-à-tête discussions, music and art in the grounds of Scotland’s oldest …
The final anarchic annual two-hour charity variety show celebrating the life and random irresponsibility of the godfather of British alternative comedy, filled with bizarre acts, e…
Support indie film! Now entering its fourth year and including the premiere of event director Al Carretta’s 10th indie feature Precious Little Things, we present a curated selectio…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Wired is one of several productions with a military theme being performed at the Army Reserve Centre, Summerhall’s new venue, army@Fringe.
Jim Everett, AKA Jimmy Francis, is relatively new to comedy.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard.
When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
Peter Gill”s Certain Young Men was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in 1999.
If you like profanity, women and very catchy tunes then Meat Market is for you.
It’s pop in a dazzling new costume.
Katherine O’Neil really knows gin.
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back with a new show for 2017! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland, Tomas is bringing his abilities across the sea to the Edinburgh Frin…
At Gorilla, we’ve always said that Perfume is Art.
It was the race they said Clinton couldn’t lose.
Brahma (Sanskrit Brahama) was founded in early 2011 in Beijing, China.
Sir James MacMillan has a long and fruitful relationship with both the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh International Festival.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show that ‘defined comedy in 2016’ (**** Guardian) and earned a Total Theatre Award nomination for Innovation returns for 10 days only.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
As artists from across the globe descend on this historic city, this special show, hosted by Nikki Bedi, features top actors, filmmakers, comedians and musicians who live in Edinbu…
Talented young string players perform together in a series of concerts at St Giles Cathedral.
Renowned keyboard player and conductor Richard Egarr is one of the UK’s most compelling musicians – and, as music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, also one of the coun…
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
Watch an almighty golfing battle for festival bragging rights and a trophy! Teams representing promoters, venues, the press and locals play nine holes of golf to discover who the g…
John Bryden plays music by Haydn and Schubert in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Mark Watson asked a range of top comedians: ‘what is your bad idea? What show would you like to put on, but never dare?’ Now, one a night, they attempt these projects.
It’s Shakespeare performed in a completely new way: a Shakespeare play condensed to the size of one woman, Emily Carding, and the way she deals with the audience.
The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar,…
If the boys of Semi-Toned ever tire of a cappella they could always take up comedy.
A light-hearted unofficial free walking tour of the Fringe, meeting outside Burgers and Beer Grillhouse at 10:30 – ending in a 15-20 professional magic show in The Newsroom on Le…
Macbeth.
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
In a world full of hatred and ignorance, Simply Surreal, fresh from our sell-out show last year, welcomes you to our exciting play.
Henry’s Show Aaaah The Growing Pains of a Neurotic Jew and Joe’s The Confused Sikh Who Loves Curried Mustard.
This original one-man show entitled Prévert: Piano and Poetry, was created and interpreted by the 20-year-old French concert pianist Alexandre Prévert.
The Voice Festival UK once again return to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Join us for traditional Choral Evensong and Benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Rapidly growing to international stardom after sell out shows in the USA and worldwide, Vir Das embarks on his first ever UK tour alongside the release of his first Netflix comedy …
SCCC will carry on the splendid programme during the second day of the event.
Join Aaron Ayjay as he takes a comedic and sometimes musical journey through dating, marriage, divorce, death and other life experience stuff from his point of view…
SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences.
A free lunchtime showcase of established and up and coming acts offering tasters of their shows. Six acts plus MC Alastair Sadler.
With the combination of classic melody and innovative performing methodology, the concert will demonstrate the charms of traditional Chinese music and dance with the spirits of the…
Join us at our new venue in Leith! Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles and a gaggle of 78s.
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
Elgar songs for solo and trio featuring Judith Gardner Jones and pianist Richard J Lewis, with Madeleine Trépanier, and Alicia Pettit.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Love is blind, broken & beautiful, but this is not a love story.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Powerful, poetic, effortlessly charismatic, Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti is one of today’s most admired and cherished performers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Nominated for best play by the Anti-Trafficking Foundation in 2016.
Shakespeare’s life, in Shakespeare’s words.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
Come and listen to beautiful sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written in the setting of one of Edinburgh’s finest churches.
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Jonathan Dove, Vaughan Williams and Mozart.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Nicholas Wearne (Birmingham Conservatoire) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mi…
Been over a decade since this multi-award winning comedian played the fringe.
“Black lives matter!” Hold it there and let that well-known refrain ring in your head, along with the image it conjures up in your mind.
Life as a Goth is not easy.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best contemporary talents take inspiration from our Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition to perform traditional …
The man who fooled Penn & Teller hits the Edinburgh Festival to assert himself as the pimp among magicians – or so he thinks! With over 20 years of experience as a professional m…
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by Hellfire Clubs, witches, body snatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequente…
Come watch and be part of this interactive, fun mixture of stand-up and interactive comedy debate as a compere and a number of the best comedians from around the Fringe converge in…
Dabek is an old-school showman; his banter is honed to a bleeding edge and you can easily imagine him holding forth on classic Saturday night TV, perhaps as a guest on The Paul Dan…
The soul of Richard Nixon attempts to justify his actions while the audience act as the jury.
The underground hit of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh after sell-out shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Award-winning comedian off telly and radio dabbles in the occult.
We are Edinburgh Skeptics.
For some Fringe performers, their tech gremlins are the cute ones from the movie franchise.
Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh.
Guru Dudu returns to Edinburgh with daily tours of spontaneous flash mobs through the streets, interpretative dance around local landmarks, group singing and lots of fun interactio…
Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro…
After last year’s successful fringe event, celebrity chef, Tommy Miah is running another Street Food Festival experience.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe.
Ian was as attractive to women as a drunk rhino so Channel 4 television handed him over to seduction “gurus” who taught him techniques to find love.
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin…
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe.
Rock’n’roll in all its facets.
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and multi award-winning ‘Podfather’ (Elle) returns with the internet chat show, that all the cool kids who hang around the Omni Centre call RHEFP (RH…
A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JM Barrie, Al…
LEGO artist Warren Elsmore is based in Edinburgh but his studio isn’t open to the public – until now! Come backstage, see their special festival studio, fantastic LEGO sculptur…
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
Dark as the devil’s heart, our haunted underground network of vaults from the 1700s will stimulate and excite your senses as the sinister history of these former slum dwellings, on…
Glamour, glitter and girls - The Lady Boys of Bangkok is a fabulous collection of performers who lip sync and dance to feel good songs opening with Gloria Gaynor’s First Be A Wom…
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford has his choice Phrases Ready, with wordplay, jokes and puns aplenty.
Tragic diva Glenda Campari (Nina Baldini) has travelled the world, searching for her favourite fierce females for this world premiere cabaret.
The Carole King Story premiers at the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit-maker.
Back in the 1960s there were seven of these mobile cinemas made for the Ministry of Technology.
Join an expert local guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
2017 is the 250th anniversary of the adoption of James Craig’s plan for a planned, elite suburb which would eventually separate Edinburgh into ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Towns.
Who is the Real Sherlock Holmes? Take a step back in time to Victorian Edinburgh, and join our very own Holmes on a magical walking tour to discover the hidden history and forgotte…
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s hottest new talent and Edinburgh Fringe newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s hottest new talent and Edinburgh Fringe newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
An immersive audio tour of the Festival Fringe – featuring interviews about its history with many Fringe comedy legends as you walk through the chaos and fun of the 2017 Fringe.
The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year.
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
For the third year, American atheist Bronston Jones sees the state of his nation and mutters ‘God Bless ‘Merica.
What happens when we struggle to do anything? A series of in-development clown and theatre pieces. Themes will include difficulty, struggle, Ludwig Wittgenstein and snakes.
There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well.
The UK-based comedian returns with new and hilarious anecdotes and jokes from his many comedy journeys around the world.
A near-immersive theatre show encompassing and delving into the lives of six recovering addicts.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Join the funniest acts in Edinburgh as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
A selection of five of the hottest up-and-coming comedians at the festival in this stand-up comedy showcase extravaganza, with a different line up daily featuring your headliner Ro…
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
Kevin Dewsbury plays the hapless host in Kev’s Komedy Kitchen, an entertaining parody of a Saturday morning TV cookery show that was thoroughly enjoyable.
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians.
Like a piece of forgotten sellotape stuck on a wall, neurotic ditherer Richard Todd clings to nothing but his place on the earth; may his grip hold for an hour of art therapy, inne…
How board games can change your life and save the world.
Denim, a drag Haus come girl band, are on tour and they’ve finally reached Wembley Arena (actually, the Belly Laugh at Underbelly).
Two world travelled comedians, Dylan Gott (Canada) and Radu Isac (Romania), perform an hour of sort of clean comedy.
A group of actors, desperate for their big break, attend an acting workshop hosted by Andrew – an enigmatic but ever so slightly unhinged former C-lister.
One of the least thought out shows on the Fringe, possibly featuring: alternative facts corner, fake news correspondents, pest of the fest and live guests.
Critically acclaimed one-man show from award-nominated comedian & award-winning storyteller Marcus Ryan! Sold out Perth, Scarborough and Adelaide 2015, Melbourne 2014/15 and toured…
Peter E Davidson is a wine drinking man adrift in a sea of beer drinkers.
Controversial viewpoints and a dismissive attitude to PC culture can work if two criteria are met: good style, and the ability to fully explain the rationale behind an opinion.
One man.
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…
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
‘Funny.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Tom and Daniel are doing an hour of stand-up.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Curating a collection of the most bizarre instances of human behaviour recorded on esoteric VHS tapes, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher do little more throughout the evening than brief…
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe.
Join Dana Alexander in her fifth Edinburgh Show, as she navigates through the matrix of the modern world of dating.
Vicki is done with degrading retail jobs, fed up of waiting around for Mr Wrong and ultimately ready to get out of bed.
It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Join David Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
From out of the future, dissolving himself in fiction, the character of Youness Atbane observes the dynamics of contemporary art in Morocco.
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
Jacuzzi may have been a random title for the Free Association to use for their improvised comedy show, but this hour is indeed relaxed, warm, and bubbly.
The King is back, long live the King.
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
Much as it is a pleasure to discover a hidden gem amongst the mass of shows in Edinburgh, there’s also something very reassuring about having a list of reliable prospects.
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Join a small group tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four Scotch whiskies.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
The greatest comeback concert ever! Featuring all your favorite groups you’ve never heard of from the 80s to the present day, including Familiar County, Simon Never Said and The …
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
A finely-woven, patterned rug hangs from the ceiling, its design typical of the region.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
A former Times critic’s choice.
On this guided walking tour of Edinburgh, an expert guide will show you all the city has to offer.
Weird tales in dark wynds, creepy facts in closes, ghastly details in graveyards and unspeakable truths when we descend underground.
Serán conducidos por el pasado oscuro de Edimburgo y sus alrededores incluyendo el cementerio más encantado del mundo.
Renowned for being an especially haunted city, Edinburgh has many mysterious secrets lurking beneath the cobbled façade of what we wrongly assume to be ground level.
As an appetiser, we take you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets, giving you some very dark historical facts about some of the infamous characters that used to roam Edinb…
A bone-chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, where disease and death were commonplace.
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
Join a local guide for this fun and informative walk through 900 years of Edinburgh’s history.
Join the infamous Clart and McBrain in a brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh.
It’s 35 years since Kevin Elyot’s first play, Coming Clean, premiered at the Bush Theatre and 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around some old streets and wynds, then take a visit down into our Underground Vaults.
Help us find out which ghosts haunt our famous underground vaults.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year.
Returning for its 12th season, this critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day.
With comedy, cabaret and fun for all the family to enjoy, the Huggers show returns to Edinburgh.
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
Present concerts of all kinds of music.
Sid, struggling to become Sue, proclaims, “The great barrier between myself and the outside world is my appearance”.
Two strangers on a bridge in the dead of night, a game of dominoes & a value ready meal – this is a story of humanity, desperation & hope.
Would the world be a better place if piratical misanthrope Chris Kehoe was in charge? Without a shadow of a doubt.
Our closing night extravaganza features PHIL LUNN IS.
A site specific, immersive play invites the audience into Danni’s student flat for pre-drinks and Ring of Fire with her best friend, Jack.
THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS features PAPER PLANES with Imaginarium, an improvised musical, plus THE LEMONADE BRIGADE, an all-gay group assembled for the festival, and RITA SUSZEK with Pa…
Improv legends Maria Peters and Lauren Shearing are BREAKING AND ENTERING a two-person tour-de-force of improvisation! Plus QI: QUEER IMPROV, all-female 20% LESS, IMOGENE and a MIX…
THE BAREBACK KINGS is a new drag king show from Lynsey Bonell, Abbey Kos, Juliet Morrish, Fran Reid, Alice Sanders, Rebecca Schuster and Anne Zander.
MUSIC BOX creates a one-act improvised musical inspired by a title and location from the audience! Plus CITY IMPRO, JESUS LOPEZ, BEYOND THE RIDICULOUS, “RAINBOW SOMETHING” and a M…
An ‘incident in a hotel room’ becomes a life-changing event for Tom Crowe, a rising star of the Labour Party whose past, present and future form the basis of Tremors.
Naughty compare LUKE MEREDITH hops into the jacuzzi at The Free Association as their guest monologist! Prepare for a fast-paced and witty evening of titillating banter and scenes! …
Queers comes with no explanation, but the title alone is enough preparation for an hour of material that is amusing and sad, historical and contemporary.
Friday 23 June, 16:00 - 20:30, Z-arts Our Refugee Week programme culminates with a celebratory event organised in conjunction with Manchester Refugee Support Network.
Richard Alston’s newest creation comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of a triple bill.
Stand up comedy at the Trafalgar tavern, a place that has seen William Gladstone and Charles Dickens dining side-by-side.
Join us for the first program of Orchestra of St.
Saska (Corinne Furlong) decides to hold what which she hopes will be a cosy dinner party for a select group of her closest friends.
Following her success of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Penelope brings her unique combination of stand-up, character comedy and songs in this nationwide tour of ‘I was a penis.
The Brighton Academy of Performing Arts uses its Preston Park studio theatre to showcase the talents of its students.
Ryan was a bright lad at school.
The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito is “presented by BA(Hons) Acting and Creative Performance students, from the University Centre Colchester” who “in their final year of study p…
In under thirty minutes Collapse presents a hauntingly hypnotic exploration of Cassandra’ agony as she prophetically laments the collapse of her city.
The disparity between the promotional material put out by theatre groups and the reality of what they present to audiences is often quite staggering.
Pets come in many forms.
Summer in the south is aggressively hot and stiflingly humid.
Described as “unconventional, quirky, and voyeuristic”, Peppered Wit’s production of Blink by Phil Porter fulfills each of those descriptions.
Brighton Fringe free mindful Ki and Aikido taster sessions, everyone welcome! Brighton Ki Society.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award-nominated ‘Story Beast’ (“a bearded force of nature” (Guardian)) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), Ric…
Come and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles albums: ‘Sgt.
Pardon me, but The Gin Whore Tour may have affected my ability to form coherent sentences.
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
The science comedy phenomenon returns , and this time they're off the chart.
I’m always interested in the extent to which the publicity for a performance matches the reality of the production; how the promise materialises on the stage.
An evening of the incredibly powerful music of Tchaikovsky.
Guru Dudu returns with his hilarious dance-walking tours where everyone wears headphones (supplied) and can hear the fun commentary from Guru Dudu and the dance mix of uplifting fa…
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Richard III.
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
Art projections, feature films, documentaries and accompanying talks including film-makers exploring the experiences of refugees.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being on a section of the Mental Health Act and distinctly upset about being …
No one does satire quite like Brighton’s very own ‘The Treason Show’.
Adam Scott Vincent is a core writer of Channel 4’s award-winning satirical show ‘The Last Leg’.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Shoreham Port is a thriving commercial port.
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Come to the Brighton Bandstand for some inner peace.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Exclusive after hours tours, just on offer as part of the Brighton Fringe in May.
George Egg, the stand-up comedian who cooks onstage using absurd and innovative techniques, returns.
Brighton’s most popular 90 minute traditional city walking tour.
Tour this iconic 20th century Modernist apartment block on Brighton seafront.
Close to the city centre lies the Victorian suburb of Clifton Hill and Montpelier; a quiet architecturally interesting community with its own geological, geographical and social hi…
London Road is an area rapidly regenerating after years of inner city decline.
Hotter, cheekier, funnier than ever: the country’s number one touring cabaret show The Ladyboys of Bangkok return with a Bang in 2017 with their lavish new production ‘Who Runs the…
The utterly hilarious and utterly heartwarming debut hour of stand-up from Robin Morgan (Writer of ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Newzoids’, ‘The News Quiz’ and the ‘Now Show’).
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
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Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
Join us at Foodies Festival, the largest food and drink festival in the UK, returning to Hove Lawns this summer on the bank holiday weekend of April 29th - May 1st.
The A-List queen of the skies, Pam Ann plans to land the Louboutin’s on international turf and hit the tarmac running, with her celebratory 20th anniversary UK tour.
As part of its Around Town series, The Orchestra Now will be performing a free concert of works by Glinka, Messiaen, and Tchaikovsky.
Choreographer, director, and multi award-winning dancer Manuel Liñán returns to Sadler’s Wells with an emotional voyage back to the memories and instincts of ch…
Let me dance for you – this is the caption of this night.
Want to learn the basics of improv comedy in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere? Join Naomi Petersen an actor, comedian, writer and singer, who will introduce participants to the jo…
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…
Closing-off the 2017 Shoreditch Improv Festivals will be Left Foot First (“I laughed so hard I had to apologise to the guy next to me for accidentally hitting him” ***** - Get Re…
Enrol in Balderdash Academy and join your improv professors on a tour de force of this century’s best street art focused in its natural home: Shoreditch.
The Water Poet was easy to spot on Saturday afternoon.
7pm-8pm Kicking-off the evening’s shenanigans will be… Comedy Shenanigans, who are Irish comedians Aislinn (Best Female Improviser – Improvaganza 2015) and Noel (Best Improv…
Across three days, thirty of London’s best comedy improv and sketch groups will be amazing audiences (and themselves) with their spontaneous, quick witted and absurdly funny scen…
Across three days, thirty of London’s best improvised comedy and sketch groups will be amazing audiences with their spontaneous, quick witted and absurdly funny scenes, sketches,…
Flamenco superstar Eva Yerbabuena is renowned internationally as being one of Spain’s leading dancers.
Opening the festival will be City Impro (“Incredibly Good” ****– Arts Award Voice), who make up crazy characters and silly scenes all based on suggestions provided by the aud…
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting musi…
Israel Galván likes nothing more than pushing boundaries and surprising with a know-how fed by the best Flamenco tradition.
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
As Sara Pascoe explains, the peculiarities of a ‘job’ as a comedian, that is more ‘craft’ than job equally applies to describing whether something is funny or not.
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
The Fresh Grind Festival will showcase ten staged readings of plays/ musicals.
Sneak a glimpse of the real drama going on back stage as three stage hands at an Italian opera house are brought to life by the mask theatre masters of Berlin.
The Orchestra Now performs a free concert in the Bronx led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
The Orchestra Now kicks off the 2nd season of its Around Town series with a free concert in Harlem, led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
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Kenny Rogers will perform at London's Palladium in November! The country music legend, known for tracks such as Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town, The Gambler and UK c…
Six outfits, gulp of Echo Falls, a push-up bra and eight cigs.
There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a…
Post Traumatic Stress from a variety of sources is a familiar phenomenon in modern times.
Welcome to The Tempest as Shakespeare and probably most other people never imagined it could be.
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Visit Inside Buckingham Palace See the State Rooms, Used for Official Royal Occasions Walk Through the Picture Gallery Explore the South Garden Enjoy Traditional Afterno…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Rab’s Videogame Empty is coming to Edinburgh! Come and join Rab Florence for a night of videogame weirdness, music, and entertainment.
Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event.
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Something for the entire family! Come along and learn about the science of medieval construction, try stone carving and join our expert guided tours! See website for details: histo…
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert.
It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
See work in progress on a 16th century merchant’s house as the original fabric is revealed and conserved, discover its fascinating past, hear about its future as the Patrick Gedd…
Fife’s Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote, has become one of Scotland’s most acclaimed and prolific singer-songwriters: a squeezebox Casanova and a seafaring pop heart-breaker who…
A condensed version of Shakespeare’s infamous Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest yet most revered works, which charts its tyrannical protagonist’s rise to the English th…
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard.
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.
Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together.
No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers.
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
9/11, as it now succinctly known, is one of those ‘where were you on the day?’ events.
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
There’s always a good smattering of obscure, seldom-performed or minor plays at the Festival Fringe.
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The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions.
It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public.
The Handlebards are a unique group, reinventing the concept of the company of travelling players.
Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour.
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Two ladies who like tea, cake, gin and playing ukulele.
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
LuckyMe Records return with the best party of Edinburgh Festival once again.
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One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
The International Shalom Festival is a celebration of the diverse culture, music, art, dance and food of Israel aiming to build cultural bridges and develop international friendsh…
The dolphin – a remarkably intelligent animal with uncommon sensitivity, full of wonder and curiosity.
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
In Edinburgh as members of Group 64, the cast of The Age of (Distr)action are an inclusive young people’s theatre company from Putney who have created, written and performed this…
Theresa May went to Oxford, but unlike Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, she could never have been invited to become a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, to which Laura Wad…
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
Bildraum is part of the ‘Big in Belgium’ series, featuring six of the country’s many outstanding theatre and performance companies.
With stand-up, character comedy and a sprinkling of original songs, BBC Radio 4 TV critic Penelope (BBC’s Goodnight Sweetheart and Fist of Fun and BBC Radio 2’s Sony nominated King…
Suppose, just suppose, that your mind and body lived separately from each other.
spiked, the radical magazine that fights for your right to offend, returns to the Stand for a night of no-holds-barred comedy.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical.
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
ImmerCity’s stripped back and stylised telling of the ever popular Scottish play is an at times disorienting, nightmarish and incredibly compelling piece of theatre that will giv…
The hilarious tribute to the fictitious husband and wife lounge act duo, Dick and Deloris DelRubio.
There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
It’s Road, but not as we know it.
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t…
The Italia Conti Ensemble returns to the Festival Fringe with their second-year students again split into two groups, each with its own choice of play.
Sherlock Holmes meets a theatrical farce in this intelligently written double act that sparkles like the Blue Carbuncle.
Never judge a play by its title.
Join us for traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival.
Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Tempest, retold by children whose first language isn’t even English.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs 12” and 7” singles and a gaggle of 78s.
In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.
Will the guys be out of bed in time for their lunchtime show? You bet they will.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Tragedy of Two Tuesdays takes place in a restaurant called The Dream Cafe, wherein quiet cooks, sassy servers, a busboy and a menacing manager butt heads about nonsense and whi…
Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da…
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
John Bryden plays music by Bach and his followers, Robert and Clara Schumann and Beethoven, in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Award-winning Badger High School Theater presents Tales from the American Midwest, a series of American folk tales centred around the Midwestern states.
Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s best amateur choirs sing uplifting music in the liturgical context it was written for.
Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Schubert, Victoria and Kodàly.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Organists Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Peter Backhouse (St Giles’ Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘…
Hi, I’m Yianni Agisilaou.
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da…
The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the ‘undisputed buzz comedy of last year’ **** (Guardian), Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell…
Almost twenty years ago, Guy Ritchie changed the landscape of British cinema with his love letter to the charismatic psychopaths of the East End underbelly Lock, Stock and Two Smok…
Experience the joy of live music at the museum with the best contemporary talents from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by Hellfire clubs, witches, bodysnatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequented…
Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh.
There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing.
American cop Frank Law lost his partner two days before retirement.
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
Live music throughout the day and night at Stramash, featuring the best Edinburgh-based and visiting musicians.
In addition to their main show, the Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and more in association with PBH’s Free Fringe.
Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Miranda Hart.
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers, make a welcome return to Edinburgh in their usual Greenside, Royal Terrace location.
Follow the ridiculous antics of social rugby club, Old Fatonians, where foolishness, stupidity and brutal male banter are order of the day.
Many theatre companies oversell their wares with outrageous hyperbole.
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre.
International Collegiate Theatre Festival has put together a delightful programme of both well-known and less familiar works to create this production of 2 By 5.
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards.
The film chronicles the rich and tragic history of the Crimean Tatar people from ancient times to the aftermath of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.
If you missed this show all is not lost.
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day.
Call Mr Robeson is Tayo Aluko’s tribute to one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable singers in terms of looks and voice.
Part of the PBH Free Fringe, Malones will play host to a variety of musicians from across the globe.
We all have our price.
Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that.
Experience the delights of India with a blend of delicious Indian street food and traditional dance.
After cycling 1,500 miles from London to Edinburgh, the four-strong all-male HandleBards present Shakespeare’s play as you’ve never seen it before – fast-paced, irreverent and bi…
Energetic, exotic, eclectic and completely unpredictable; those glamorous Lady Boys are ready with a dazzling new production of the country’s most popular cabaret show.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
Allan Foster, a writer whose name is practically synonymous with Edinburgh literary tourism, is our guide on the Book Lovers’ Tour, which specialises in introducing tourists to t…
The latest craze is literally nothing.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
Breandán de Gallaí, the celebrated ex-Riverdance principal, has devised a biographical series of dances to create Lïnger, which is performed in the generously spacious main thea…
Four top quality foul-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny.
Never before have I had to so strongly caution an audience - if you don’t enjoy having all eyes on you, look away now.
The Royal Oak, an all year round folk music venue, again hosts Festival Folk at the Oak during August, when the Downstairs Lounge becomes the intimate Fringe hub for folk, acoustic…
Start your Fringe day with a laugh-and-learn walk through some of Edinburgh’s weirder backstory.
The British might be renowned for talking and complaining about the weather, but if you come from Fiji there are more heightened concerns than just cold rainy days.
Join a trained festival guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
The redness of Red is not visible.
Celebrated Scottish choreographer Jack Webb has brought his latest, typically idiosyncratic work, The End, for performance at this year’s Festival Fringe as part of the extensive…
Great composers sometimes create a theme that is so captivating or remarkable that other great composers write variations on it.
There is no doubt that Nick Revell is an amusing and witty comic whose capabilities are evident from both long line of positive past reviews and his catalogue on YouTube.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
Adolph Eichmann never personally killed anyone, but he was hanged in 1962, having been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
UK Pun Championships 2016 runner-up Richard Pulsford has phrases ready.
Think you know charades? Think again! Comedy meets game show meets improv, as two teams of Fringe comics hilariously pit their skills and wit against each other, in this hysterical…
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
A very well-structured and well-performed show, delivered from a fantastic up-and-coming comedian.
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
Neil LaBute sets out to upset and disturb audiences and he made a spectacular start with his first play Bash: Latterday Plays.
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Ian appeared on a televised seduction course to find love.
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
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 find it in your heart to forgive the failings of Masai Graham’s previous show, Aaaaah! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes, and stuck around for the follow-up, you�…
Unique comedy double act Brian and Krysstal return to the Fringe.
Devastatingly original character comedy duo Róisín and Chiara are ‘a pair of improvising geniuses’ and Ones to Watch 2016 (Funny Women).
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Intelligent, alternative comedy from one of Scotland’s rising stars.
Masai Graham has assembled an act so far from risky that it is bubble wrapped in woefully predictable innuendos, presumably to retain its innocence.
It’s a stand-up comedy show from a stand-up gal about confidence and self-sabotage.
She’s been described as the best African-Czechoslovakian comic on earth.
Two years ago Matt spent six hours in a car with Hollywood star Harvey Keitel.
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
Classic late show Festival comedy fare.
Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Hosted by award-winning comedian and UK board game champion James Cook, the funniest Fringe performers play classic and new board games.
I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb.
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
Truth is relative, sure, but as far as I’m concerned I’ve got this shit figured out.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians together with headline acts from the comedy circuit.
Ian appeared on a televised seduction course to find love.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
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‘How much happier the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
How board games can change your life and save the world. Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play. Won’t you join him?
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value cabaret money can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best, brightest and most beautiful acts participating at …
Three of Ireland’s best up-and-coming alternative comics.
If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you.
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
Iconic rock star Shayne’s Mom has been crossing the continents on her bike, collecting fans, lovers and badges.
Life behind the scenes at the world’s largest trade show for the arts.
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
If your idea of chillin’ is sitting in the armchair with a cup of cocoa and a novel, you probably won’t feel at ease with this play.
Twisted Edge Comedy presents the participants of their newly founded stand-up workshops.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the …
If you’re expecting a cosy drawing-room comedy about an aging female relative then you have clearly not read the publicity and are in for a big surprise.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Three brilliant, original and hilarious improv acts: DVD Box Set – your new favourite TV show, entirely improvised by a cast of FA players, inspired by an audience suggestion.
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Seeing Care Takers is like watching all the episodes of a fabulous five-part drama series in one sitting.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
There are two very good reasons for going to see Fresher: it is an outstanding play that ingeniously tackles contemporary issues, and the production is also raising money for Young…
What do you do when your mother is murdered for protesting corporate and governmental corruption? In the case of Milagros, you fight for the justice your mother was denied and see…
The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm.
Every night of the Festival, Edinburgh’s famous Monkey Barrel Comedy Club (Winner, Best Small Comedy Club, Scottish Comedy Awards 2016), brings you a cracking showcase of premier s…
In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward.
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
There’s a lot of camouflage in Dropped.
The Cambridge Footlights have such a reputation that their name is practically synonymous with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
The Aussies have a certain way with words and in the case Adam Seymour with his hands also.
This decidedly chaotic event includes some of Edinburgh’s best performance artists, with all entertainment at fifteen minutes or less.
In 2004 Lawrence won a BBC New Comedy Award.
At the end of his show, Mike Ward took a moment to emphasise the importance of free speech, the vital importance that comedians are free to offend; he even handed out badges to hel…
Last year Chris Turner brought a show about his physical wellbeing to the Edinburgh stage, blending stand-up and rapping to explore his brushes with mortality.
Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m…
This Edinburgh Festival phenomena, born in 2003, keeps on giving.
Puppet pioneers Flabbergast Theatre have made an interesting move this year, establishing their own dedicated performance space, The Omnitorium, within the confines of Assembly Ge…
After ‘threatening to be the hottest gang in town’ (List), Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominees, Daphne (Phil Wang, Jason Forbes and George Fouracres) threaten Edinburgh again with new…
The show is a modern adaptation of the famous Arab folk story, in which Aladdin takes his wife Jasmine (her real name is too difficult for a European audience to pronounce) to Gree…
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
The Free Association is London’s leading improv powerhouse, and we’re thrilled to bring you our headline show: JACUZZI.
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
Two large basement rooms in Summerhall have been transformed into a remarkable installation and immersive theatre, musical, video, sound, and light performance area.
This tour is for those who are unafraid to venture into some of Edinburgh’s most haunted locations.
A former Times critic’s choice.
Join a fun and informative walking tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four single malt Scotch whiskies.
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
As an appetiser, we first of all take you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets, giving you some very dark historical facts about some of the infamous characters that used …
A bone-chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, where disease and death were commonplace.
The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Step into an oasis of calm, and escape the hustle and bustle of the festival.
Join the infamous Clart and McBrain in this brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh! Classic award-winning entertainment, performed by…
Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the …
A terrifying journey into the lair of the world famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
Returning for its 12th season, the critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day.
The Fruitmarket Gallery boasts “World class contemporary art at the heart of the city”.
The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year.
UCLU Runaground’s entry to the 2016 Camden Fringe - Encore; Meet Johnny, a drag Queen, the best of the best - and everyone knows it.
Join a fun and informative small group tour through Edinburgh’s historic city centre, led by a knowledgeable and experienced local guide.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
Who better to convey the darkness & danger of Shakespeare’s most compelling villain and his scheming entourage than armed forces veterans-turned-actors? Set in a modern military …
‘Filled almost to excess with cheesy-rom-com-buckets-of-feel-good, this act put a smile on every face’ **** (TheTab.
Crouch End Festival is now the UK’s biggest community arts festival, with over 200 performers, over 160 events, over 10 days in over 70 venues, from cafes to pubs, open spaces to…
A Steampunk fandazzle eruption.
While many artists fit easily into a single category, Steve Vai remains unclassifiable.
Brighton’s biggest monthly performance poetry and open slam event presents a clash of the titans of spoken word: Three-times World Slam Champion Buddy Wakefield v European Slam Cha…
Treason Show: Festival Special.
Hot on the heels of their sell-out Club Tropicana events and Funk The Family festivals, Funk The Format curates a magical, musical shindig.
Our Flower Festival, entitled “LOVE IS .
Arrive 14:15 wearing loose, comfortable clothing for the start of the Shin Shin Toitsu Do (Japanese yoga) session at 14:30, where you’ll learn unification of mind and body and natu…
Funk The Family returns for another magical instalment of fantastical fun for all the family.
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
Winner! 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical! Tony Award® winner Kelli O’Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific) and Jose Llana (Here Lies Love) star in a magni…
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
In this lecture, Danny Dorling considers how the UK, one of the 25 richest countries in the world, has become one of the most unequal and is on course to win the ‘global race’ to b…
With elements that could have made it great, Hardly Still Walking, Not Yet Flying was sadly let down by others that weren’t quite up to par.
“Ever wanted to be more than just a victim of gravity? With verbal percussion, eloquent bodies and original live music, Germany’s celebrated Port in Air takes a disturbing new l…
The story of Macbeth’s tragic demise has been told many times by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre makers.
Fresh air, amazing sea views, forgotten histories, architecture and aquatic entertainment.
Three sisters meet to enact Macbeth’s fate. Their twisted prophecies transform him from a war hero into a paranoid tyrant in this brutal Shakespearean Tragedy.
Comedian, impressionist, actor and reality star Bobby Davro has announced a 16-date UK for 2016 starting on 17TH May at Epsom Playhouse and culminating on 26th June at Chesterfield…
Singing minstrels Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust, lead us in an evening about the re-introduction of pilgrimage to 21st century Britain.
Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
So much history, so little time.
The award-winning Irish duo of original soul/jazz/pop are back with their new album ‘The Art of Happy Accidents’.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding …
A unique opportunity to go off the public route and learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
Join Shoreham port for a unique behind-the-scenes tour from the water.
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic, early 20th century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic early 20th-century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Heritage bus tour of places of historical Jewish interest in the Brighton & Hove area in connection with the 250th Anniversary, ending with a tour of Middle Street Synagogue.
Tour this iconic 20th century Modernist apartment block on Brighton seafront.
Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires.
Hello people of Brighton! I’m bringing my show to you as part of Brighton Fringe.
Award-winning short films from the internationally acclaimed ‘Iris Prize Film Festival’: a collection of the winners and runners-up from the 2015 prize.
Celebrating women in the brewing industry, we’re dedicating three days to the finest brewster stouts, saisons, pilsners and pales.
A work-in-progress of the debut hour from Robin Morgan, star of ‘The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of’ (BBC Radio), writer for ‘The News Quiz’ and Laughing Horse New Act of …
This was my first close encounter with the Lady Boys; I’ve never been to Bangkok, but I’ve seen The Hangover II.
The Clifton Hill and Montpelier area is a charming, inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style.
Having lived at the top end of Brighton’s London Road for the last six years, I’ve witnessed first-hand the rapid and accelerating gentrification taking place in the area, di…
This is the second time Michael Pennington has donned the crown of Lear and this time it’s a Lear clearly made for a 21st Century audience; cut down and pacey.
It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl…
Brighton’s No.
“A fascinating stroll through the city’s association with the occult, packed with detail and entertainingly dodgy conjecture” **** (The Argus).
Brighton’s rich cinema history rediscovered on this acclaimed 90 minute tour.
Enjoy a taste-bud-tickling day out at the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink.
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
His 20’s were a fist of fun, his 30’s spent deciphering the intricacies of Big Cook and Little Cook’s business partnership, and then, oh fuck!, he was 40.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
This March, Sprint returns: London’s biggest and best festival of new, adventurous theatre from across the UK and beyond.
At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a …
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
The 13th iteration of this festival celebrating all things flamenco brings a bright lineup of music and dance to locations throughout the city.
Smoking Hot Comedy is returning to Reading in its new home of RYND. FREE Entry with Lineup: - Thanyia Moore (MC) - Bob Munro - Sam Mitchell - Ed Day - Joel Henderson
“Micro-operas” and monster drone epics share billings in this ambitious new-music festival.
This five-hour percussion marathon curated by Andy Akiho and Ian Rosenbaum features works by Steve Reich, Jason Treuting, Mark Applebaum, Paul Lansky and a premiere by Mr.
Mike Bartlett’s beautifully worded imagining of a constitutional crisis without a constitution invites us to witness the starkness of the Royal Family stripped bare whilst presen…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Come on a journey back to Christmas Eve, 1904, and the dramatic events of the Coliseum’s opening night.
The sketch group the Tenderloins, stars of TruTV’s hit prank show “Impractical Jokers,” presents a night of live comedy, with a mix of stand-up, behind-the-scenes…
This festival of new music, run by VisionIntoArt, is now in its third season.
This is our overview of London's most popular tourist attractions like Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, as well as the working City of London and playful West …
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
This worthy festival showcases an eclectic range of composers, including Steve Mackey, beginning on Jan.
The centenary of the composer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) is celebrated in the Juilliard School’s annual Focus! Festival.
(performances start on Wednesday) A collaboration among a quartet of performance spots — the Silent Barn, the Brick, the Bushwick Starr and Cloud City — this new festiv…
This Brooklyn-based festival alternates between mixed-bill programs featuring the three participating companies, and programs where each gets the stage all to itself.
The annual performance jubilee from Performance Space 122 has always been a boundary buster, but at this year’s festival, borders are an explicit theme: question them, cross …
At the end of her show Margaret Cho pulls onstage a pianist and a guitar player and sings: “I wanna kill my rapist.
This annual festival celebrates dance of the past, promotes dance of today and honors those making significant contributions to the field.
Trinity Church’s annual festival gets under way after Christmas.
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko begins this festival on Monday at Judson Memorial Church, a dance venue that for him raises questions about history, memory and space.
George Zach is a Greek comedian who took this work in progress show, Greek Tragedy, to the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedy Central hosts this annual event, which showcases some of the finest up-and-coming stand-up talent in the country.
Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte…
This annual event — now in its 12th year — showcases the talents of Arab-American comedians, actors, playwrights and filmmakers.
Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers.
The Construction Company, a 45-year-old arts organization, presents an evening of new and revivified works by the veteran choreographers Sally Silvers and Kenneth King, as well as …
A night of comedy, music and horror to celebrate Halloween, this show advertises to “test the extreme horizons of your mind ocean.
Theatrum Vertitatus is very excited to be taking their dark and haunting production of Lanford Wilson’s “Home Free!” to The London Horror Festival this year after 2 successful runs…
Dapper Laughs is a British comedian, actor, presenter, writer and Viner.
Not all live comedy is presented in this way.
Celebrate the 25th anniversary – and impending rebirth – of the cult television series as the Twin Peaks UK Festival returns to the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End in a f…
Friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, this popular circus takes travel as its theme this year, with its performers cavorting as Jazz Age sailors, aviators and sightseers.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
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This adventurous festival of new sounds spreads its wings wide across the city with a presentation on Friday at Brookfield Place in Battery Park City by the American Composer…
The Thirty Years Tour is a brand new stage show in which Michael Palin, aided and abetted by a rich and often rare archive of film, video, photos and recordings, looks back over th…
The Footlights, Cambridge University’s theatrical club, has long produced some of Britain’s finest comedians, from Stephen Fry to John Oliver.
This series, organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum, continues on Friday with Michel Galante conducting the Argento Ensemble and the violinist Hanna Hurwitz in the Violin Concert…
(performances start on Wednesday) The Emerald Isle meets the Big Apple in this festival devoted to work from Irish artists.
This festival — now in it’s second year — gathers some of the city’s finest free stand-up shows under one banner for a week of top-notch comedy at venues in…
Activities for all the family – learn how castles were built, see stone masons in action and hear about the area’s geology.
Marhaba! We invite you to experience the beauty, diversity and richness of the Arab world, right here in Edinburgh! This vibrant two-day cultural festival will provide visitors wit…
Anarchic annual two-hour charity show celebrating the late Godfather of Alternative Comedy.
Comic and tragic.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Like independent film? You’ll love Nightpiece.
Live art every day.
Live art every day.
The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected.
Receiving mildly ecstatic acclaim at home, this musical comedy duo are proud to present their debut Edinburgh Fringe show.
While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men could be seen as a dark comedy or as just dark.
Swingerella used to be Cinderella until her last Prince Charming got her self-harming and she became Swingerella – goddess of fabulousness and high priestess of voodoo.
Piaf opens with a spectacular tableau of the entire cast.
Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist.
A composer a day: John Bryden will play music by Elgar, Mozart and Dvorák in three recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Swingerella used to be Cinderella until her last Prince Charming got her self-harming and she became Swingerella – goddess of fabulousness and high priestess of voodoo.
For Queen and Country.
Party isn’t that sort of party; well, it sort of is, and maybe it should be, but overall it isn’t – though it might be after it’s finished.
Richard III is one of the most fascinating Shakespeare plays I know, and it is always interesting to see new interpretations by different companies.
I Am is the sequel to LCP Dance Theatre’s Am I.
If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
One man (Ben).
There is dance and there is Scottish Dance Theatre.
The Big V comedy competition is the search for a new star across Asia, sponsored by Magners cider. The search is over and Matthew Giffen is here to present the winner, Jim Brewsky.
The renaissance of vinyl continues! Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs and singles from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s to the present day.
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
Edinburgh’s first ever Chinese Arts and Cultural Festival featuring a traditional opera, authentic singers, a spectacular troupe of young drummers and more all set alongside a thre…
ThreeWeeks’ co-editor Chris Cooke always saw free speech as a fundamental right, but then started arguing that Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines should be banned.
A culinary conundrum.
Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change.
Summerhall is proud to present the Sun Ra Arkestra, live in the Dissection Room.
Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change.
With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts.
Here we go again.
Would you quit your high flying sales job to run a radio station from a Portakabin in a high crime area? Will the station get burnt down by the local kids? Will anybody listen to a…
The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex.
‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me.
A Daily Mirror awaits us on our seats announcing the death of a ‘pair of “star-crossed” lovers … in the wake of increasingly violent clashes in the streets’.
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
Think you know charades? Think again! Comedy meets game show meets improv, as two teams of Fringe comics hilariously pit their skills and wit against each other, in this hysterical…
This play within a musical aims to show us what life as part of a touring company is really like.
Uncover the secrets of the dead in this creepy night time tour of Greyfriars, Edinburgh’s most historic graveyard.
In sixteenth-century Germany it was not regarded as irreverant to perform comic puppet shows featuring characters and scenes from the legend of Faust.
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
Richard Wiseman, psychologist and bestselling author of several popular psychology books, returns to the Fringe to talk for an hour about the psychology of perception, touching on …
Undermined was going to be called Shafted, but a guy named Godber had already beaten Danny Mellor to it.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
You are cordially invited to a show that celebrates two of the best things in life: weddings and bingo.
Comedians Daniel Kitson, Mark Steel, Mark Thomas and Ivor Dembina join forces to raise money for IMET2000, a charity bringing front-line medical relief to victims of last year’s bo…
Make Some Noize is Edinburgh’s most anticipated all day music festival featuring some of the world’s biggest music artists.
Free Fringe Music all day at the famous Inn on the Mile, at the crossroads at the heart of the Fringe.
Free morning films for the whole family.
Would you quit your high flying sales job to run a radio station from a Portakabin in a high crime area? Will the station get burnt down by the local kids? Will anybody listen to a…
Like independent film? You’ll love Nightpiece.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
ThreeWeeks’ co-editor Chris Cooke always saw free speech as a fundamental right, but then started arguing that Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines should be banned.
I have seen several performances of Richard III; Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen on film, and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, but Emily Carding’s portrayal of the king who murders…
‘Al has one of the best jokes I’ve ever heard’ (Jerry Seinfeld).
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
The Free Association is proud to present an hour of the finest and funniest improvised comedy on the Fringe.
A common objective for artists participating in the Fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
A place of peace, a sacred space.
This is the seventh year that producer and curator of dance Jodi Kaplan has brought the variety of American dance to the Fringe with this “festival within a festival”.
With this year’s general election behind us and members now in office the return of Posh to the Festival Fringe is timely.
A new one-man show from performance maker Josh Gardner.
Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy started out as two plays in a year-long project by One World Actors Centre (Kuwait) to produce Jean Anouilh’s Antigone in both English and Arabic.
Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history.
The Northern Ar Souls present their farewell tour.
Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
Organists Steven Grahl (Peterborough Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ‘Fath…
BBC Radio’s multi award-winning antidote to panel games returns to the stage in 2015 for a one-off Edinburgh festival performance of its highly acclaimed touring show.
The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our earlier daytime wo…
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting choral eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Stravinsky, Schubert and Martin.
Celebrate the 25th birthday of the magnificent Peter Collins organ at Greyfriars Kirk with festival Sunday worship and a series of classic lunchtime organ recitals, featuring some …
“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute.
Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s finest church choirs perform sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written, in the beautiful setting of this stunning church…
Proud to support the Free Festival, The 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe.
See how radio is made.
I wouldn’t normally mention a show’s venue in a comedy review, but David Mills is performing in a gorgeous space in the Voodoo Rooms.
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
Join West Country comedian Cerys Nelmes as she entertains you and your children for 45 minutes of onesie fun! Wear your onesie, and have some funsie! There will be music, dancing, …
An hour of lunchtime comedy could be worse spent than with this quirky collection of occasionally promising comedians.
‘Al has one of the best jokes I’ve ever heard’ (Jerry Seinfeld).
Download this audio walking tour – any day, any time – and become intimate with Fringe history, even perform yourself if you choose.
The follow up to his debut show, This is Not for You (**** Scotsman), this is an alternative comedy show about hopelessness.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum.
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
All spit no polish, all show no pony, Goldsmith goes back to the source.
Jay Handley’s first show contained ‘.
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
A daily challenge to realise the best marketing scheme on the Fringe.
Fun workshop delivered by experienced media professionals.
Islam Festival Edinburgh invites you to gain a genuine insight into Islam.
Joy Carter’s stand-up centres around a cute theme that works well for its midday slot.
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
West Country comedian and MC extraordinaire, Cerys Nelmes, returns to this year’s Fringe with a full run of her popular show, Pick’n’Mix! Cerys MCs an hour of comedy featuring th…
‘Takes in everything from music to comedy and is characterised by an emphasis on truth’ (Independent).
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Fun workshop delivered by experienced facilitators and media professionals.
The beginner’s guide to surviving the Apocalypse, or at least the months between seasons five and six.
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
Stand-Up Philosophy is a low-key, quirky little Free Fringe show featuring professional philosophers sharing thoughts, answering questions, and trying their hands at comedy.
The hotly anticipated solo debut of a multi award-winning sketch comedian is probably happening elsewhere.
Yet again CalArts pushes forward the frontiers of theatre with an extraordinary, fascinating and labyrinthine work.
The troubled comedian returns to the festival for the third year running (Cheese and Crack Whores, 2013; Breaking Gadd, 2014) having received rave reviews, sell-out crowds, critica…
Music all day at the smallest pub in Scotland or probably anywhere. Visit and enjoy.
Bristol Improv return with their hit format Bristol Improv Steals the Show! Everything on stage is completely improvised based on you, the audience! Expect to have your programmes …
After a poor showing at last year’s Fringe, the Free Footlights return this year on top form.
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
A new human colony, but full of idiots.
Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen.
Matthew Dames is a seasoned performer who migrated to Tasmania, Australia from Cambridge in 2011.
The Celtic Mystery Festival will take place at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
Kooky, french horn-playing, little Miss K from Massachusetts never imagined she’d become a 1950s-style blonde bombshell with shows in New York and Milan, and a residency at Ronni…
We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans.
Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…
The storyline is shallow, the message insubstantial and the script contrived, so you don’t have anything deep to think about.
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl…
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
A compilation of comedic talent from across the Fringe, two shows a day, and all for free – the Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe showcases some of the best comedic talent t…
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
Luc Valvona returns to the Fringe with his third full show, featuring multiple instruments and musical technology, and this time his stand-up and funny songs will be based on all t…
From now until August 31st, visitors can soak in the buzzing atmosphere at Edinburgh’s premiere music venue.
Given our familiarity with Escher’s unmistakable style it’s hard to believe that this is the first major exhibition of his work in the UK and that there is only one print of …
Foodies Festival attendees are welcomed with some free cider, ice-cream, and a range of other delicious freebies to try.
Fans of Rent will love this full length presentation and for those who have never seen it, this is a great opportunity to watch a rip-roaring production.
Our costumed guide will take you into our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults dating back to the 1700s.
The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion is yet another triumph for the phantasmagorically fertile imaginations of the genial geniuses of gin.
Hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in terrible slum conditions, and disease and death were commonplace.
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
This exhibition in the stunning 17th century Parliament Hall offers insight into the life, history and traditions of Scotland’s Supreme Courts.
Everything I love about the Edinburgh Fringe can be summed up by a group of people rocking out to the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody in the middle of the street with little or no…
‘How can I know who I am …feeling with pure energy, / With my heart, my mind, my body, my soul, / This is who and what I am.
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
Following a bad break-up (although is there ever a good break-up?), David somehow gained custody of the cat, Mittens.
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
A fantastically funny show for all the family.
Take part in the Festival’s longest running show at no charge at all.
Book Lovers’ Tour.
Now running for just over 17 years and seen by one million people, the Lady Boys are most certainly back in town and after all these years you would think it would be hard to keep …
Vanessa Smythe has a bit of a ‘downer hobby’: she worries about disappearing.
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value cabaret money can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best, brightest, and most beautiful acts participating at…
The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War.
Seamus O’Rourke’s hilarious look at growing up in rural Ireland in the 70s and 80s with an umbilical cord wrapped tightly around your neck… It follows the life of Padraig Pot…
Lewis Schaffer states that although he normally occupies rooms on one of the free fringes during August, for his 2015 run he’s charging folk a fiver.
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
The games are back in 2015! Different international acts compete for comedy gold.
The Edinburgh Gin Company has left its distillery behind and moved to The Boards in the Edinburgh Playhouse to tell a brief history of the city’s alcohol and gin heritage along w…
Ian Macpherson is perhaps best known for a joke he came up with years ago: ‘They say you play at _____ twice in your career.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
Suitability: 16+ (Restriction).
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
With the accompanying subtitle, this show becomes God Bless ‘Merica, Because It’ll Take A Miracle To Fix It; whilst that’s quite a mouthful, it certainly encompasses the sent…
Cynical Sunshine.
Epic storytelling, synchronised swimming and subversively simple songs from this Fringe First nominated maker of mischief.
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
Despite being one of Jack London’s more obscure works, his 1915 novel The Star Rover or The Jacket is one that feels oddly contemporary.
Taking improv to the next level – we improvise the cast! Now in its third year, the Fringe’s free daily improv jam returns for more comedy scenes and games based entirely on audi…
Forget typewriters, what would happen if you gave an infinite number of monkeys a camera each? **** (BroadwayBaby.co.uk). **** (Comedy.com).
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
Galileo lived in age when the church reigned supreme, faith was more important than fact and dogma denied discovery.
Stand-up from award-winning comedians Alasdair Beckett-King (NATYs 2013) and Nick Elleray (Max Turner 2013).
Storytelling as you’ve never seen it! Join in with Meg Harper’s unique stories! Maybe you’ll be a princess, maybe you’ll be a frog, maybe you’ll even be a giant head louse! Fresh s…
Feast on five of the tastiest up and coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
There is just something about storyteller Callum Lykan.
‘Demitris Deech is a great story-teller’ (BroadwayBaby.
A high-octane hilarity blast right in your daft face, featuring two of the funniest new comedians on the circuit.
Originally a one-act play consisting of five scenes, The International Stud premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1978 and later became the first part of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark work, …
I am not entirely sure why comedians Ben Shannon and Mike Reed decided their set should be forty-eight minutes long, rather than a full hour, but it actually doesn’t really matte…
Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…
Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees).
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand is a bizarre yet beautiful blend of Māori culture, contemporary dance, vocals and music, drag and real life stories.
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Welcome to a world in which West Africa meets Jamaica, meets Cuba: A world of burning desire, or as they say in Yoruba, Itara.
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
Walking the Tightrope was created as a response to the cancellation of three high profile cultural events last summer.
At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea…
A rare opportunity to enjoy exclusive, after-hours access to the Scottish National Gallery’s world-class collection of masterpieces.
The legend of Faustus, the man who sold his soul for knowledge, wealth and power is one which has been in the public consciousness for over 500 years.
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’.
There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot.
In keeping with its history, this latest production of La Ronde by Zebronkeyis controversial.
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank…
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active location? Once used by Hellfire clubs, witches, bodysnatchers, prostitutes, criminals, plague victims and frequented…
Painted 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
This late night special one hour tour takes you on a journey into the darker side of Edinburgh’s underground history.
Established in 1995, and set in the historical former All Saints Parsonage, Cloisters has been a stalwart of the Edinburgh real ale scene for 20 years.
The Royal Oak is one of the most famous hubs of folk music in Edinburgh; the 30-seater downstairs lounge has been dubbed the ‘folk living room’ of Scotland’s capital.
Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel, and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.
As an appetizer, we first of all take you around some of the old town’s cobbled streets giving you some very dark historical facts about some of the infamous characters that used t…
This tour takes you to Edinburgh Old Town’s two most bone-chilling locations.
The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour is exactly what it says on the tin: an exploration of the streets, the sights and, most importantly, the pubs that have all influenced the city’s ri…
New in town? Start your day with a fun and informative walking tour, following a scenic route through Edinburgh’s city centre.
C’s Fringe Film Festival is a smorgasbord of productions shuffled neatly into one come-and-go styled theatre.
Edinburgh’s City of the Dead tour company guide fringe audiences along their graveyard route.
A bone chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
The world-renowned Sandemans Free Tour shows you the best of Edinburgh, with enthusiastic local guides providing tours in English and Spanish every day of the week! Starting on the…
On the water’s edge at the southern tip of Manhattan, this free and popular annual event begins with the Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance to commemorate India’s…
This new indie festival takes over a Southern-style biscuit shop for three nights of stand-up comedy.
The Joyce Theater celebrates the diversity of ballet with a two-week buffet of companies and choreographers who are molding the form in interesting ways.
It’s your last chance to check out some of Britain’s best performers in London before they head north for Edinburgh at the new Barnes Fringe, 28 July - 1 August.
A man walks slowly onto the stage with his back to the audience, he holds himself in a wide stance and begins to strike the taiko drum.
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…
Over 20 plays, some well known pieces, some new writing, some one person plays, some with a massive cast but all performed in 1 hour or less by numerous theatre companies
Stuyvesant Cove Park, which abuts the East River, is home to over 100 native plants and dozens of native birds.
This lively summer festival offers free concerts on Tuesdays on the main stage of Washington Square Park.
An all-new, all-female production of Shakespeare’s war play, King Henry V follows Henry and her band of brothers as they face the challenges of life on the front line, exploring …
We have the best of the Edinburgh Fringe Under One Roof in South London for one special week 6th - 11th July.
In the UK, the hirsute bear of a man that is US comic Rob Delaney is probably better known for being the Comedy King of Twitter (and for starring alongside Sharon Horgan in Chann…
(previews start on July 13; opens on July 27) The career of a sport agent is a high-testosterone avocation, but Liz Rico does it a as well or much better than her male colleagues.
(performances start on Thursday) All the world’s onstage when this internationally engaged summer festival encamps at Lincoln Center.
(performances start on July 7) Villainous ice skaters, superhero pontiffs, a purple platypus and Napoleon congregate at this summer’s incarnation of the New York Musical Thea…
This weeklong celebration by the American Tap Dance Association returns for its 15th year to celebrate the form’s pioneers and innovators with award shows, master classes and…
Each summer this ambitious institute and festival, founded and directed by the pianist Marc Ponthus, brings together exceptional student performers with established artists and com…
With ever more sophisticated technology at their fingertips, composers of electronic music are producing a dizzying array of works that often draw on video and performance art, too…
(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…
Sunday Night: Nerd Night! Two geek/comedy shows for the price of one: [1] Festival of the spoken nerd: Just for graphs.
As part of what Vulture calls its city-wide “pop culture extravaganza,” it presents this jam-packed night of comedy, with performances from Kevin Barnett, Wyatt Cenac, …
Following 2014’s debut, sell-out family festival, FTF return bigger and better! Hove Park is transformed into a musical wonderland.
Grammy winner Tom Paxton’s ‘50 Years On UK Tour’ with special guest Robin Bullock.
Richard Lewis’s long-form, fury-driven stand-up has influenced scores of comedians over the last 40 years.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Meet David Marks, the architect behind Brighton’s most innovative project, and learn why the team behind the London Eye chose the West Pier site to build such an iconic, modern …
A lively evening of newly-written pieces in different genres, performed fresh for Brighton Fringe.
Please arrive by 9:45am wearing loose, comfortable clothing such as a tracksuit or gi for the start of the Shin Shin Toitsu Do (Japanese Yoga) session at 10am where you will learn …
Through movement and play participants will identify their own Fools and Kings to explore the beautiful, ridiculous and poignant conflict of this unlikely alliance.
Swingerella, goddess of fabulousness, used to be Cinderella - until her prince charming got her self-harming.
Join Adam Blampied “Delightful” (British Theatre Guide), Richard Soames “Excellent” (Sunday Times) and The Story Beast “Bearded force of nature” (Guardian) as The Beta Males finall…
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…
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a special historical tour of Founder Mr Herbert Tennent’s café family history dating back over 90 years.
Music, magic, burlesque, piñata smashing, sticker workshops, nacho hats, body-doodling, art battles, and loads more brilliant Brighton kookiness! Check www.
Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati…
This enterprising new-music festival offers a focus on experimental performance and multi-disciplinary works.
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…
Fresh air, amazing sea views, lovely stories, forgotten histories, seaside architecture and aquatic entertainment.
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
This performance takes a critical look at contemporary trends in Western spirituality.
The Upright Citizen Brigade’s finest improvisers are raffling off the chance to improvise with various teams and performers at this show.
The conservation area of 76 acres has no less than 352 listed buildings, many of which the tour will pass.
Discover some of Brighton’s secular heroes and heroines with Valerie Mainstone, local historian and Chair of Brighton Secular Humanists.
Brighton’s No.
Discover what the Illuminati do not want you to know.
Foodies Festival returns to Brighton’s Hove Lawns for another fun Bank Holiday weekend.
New-music royalty including the violinist Miranda Cuckson, So Percussion, and the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler take to art venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan for this wide-ranging festiva…
Montpelier and Clifton Hill is a charming inner-city architectural gem that is the essence of Brighton style and elan.
London Road is a rapidly changing area with much historic detail.
Join our friendly team of eclectic instrument experts in an Aladdins cave of musical instruments! We have a whole range of FREE musical events planned throughout the month of May …
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
Spanish verse is the inspiration for this program, which features music by Shostakovich, Schumann, William Bolcom, Taneyev, Wolf, Peter Lieberson, Xavier Montsalvage and Granados, …
The erotically charged music of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and glittering arias by Handel are the focus of this concert presented by this cele…
This one-night-only affair offers a sampling of 10 dance companies representing a broad swath of contemporary dance in the city.
Four stars of the NBC sitcom “Undateable” — Chris D’Elia, Ron Funches, Rick Glassman and Brent Morin — are exceptionally talented stand-ups in their o…
(previews start on March 12; opens on April 16) Fans of the midcentury musical are most likely whistling a happy tune as Lincoln Center revives this Rodgers and Hammerstein show fr…
The Peoples Improv Theater plays host to this annual event, which features teams from around the country performing over five days.
A highlight of the Ecstatic Music Festival is Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert, which highlights imaginative new works by a range of composers…
It’s always a treat to hear the pianist Richard Goode, here in partnership with young artists he has mentored at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Nick Thune, a charismatic storyteller and musical comedian, headlines this wonderfully titled stand-up tour, with support from Kate Berlant, an absurdist darling of the alt scene, …
To attend this festival, simply tune in on your device of choice.
Scotland’s sexiest cabaret – Le Haggis returns to the Big Burns Supper festival and carnival.
Frank Wedekind’s play of sex, deception and murder is brought to life in this thrilling and darkly humorous new adaption.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This colorful production, by the directors Todd Twala and Thembi Nyandeni, celebrates the culture and history of South Africa through dance, song and storytelling performed by a ca…
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This annual Juilliard School festival, organized by Joel Sachs, is an opportunity to focus, as it were, on a particular place and time, and this year, the theme is “Nippon Ge…
The European premiere of Jerry Herman’s multi Tony Award Nominated Broadway musical - from the same creative team as Titanic, Parade, Mack & Mabel and Victor/Victoria Opening on…
This friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
Brad Zimmerman’s solo show about almost three decades of working in restaurants while not becoming a famous actor and his Jewish mother’s shame is low-key, half-familia…
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 …
Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti…
This popular festival opens its season with an intriguing program, “Art Song on the Couch: Lieder in Freud’s Vienna.
A favorite of the NPR crowd for her regular appearances on “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” Ms.
Carolines again hosts this competition of young local comedians.
This host of Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show” is a fearless, energetic performer known for his unpredictable antics and surreal bits.
At 77, Mr. Cosby continues to perform stand-up, and his clean-cut storytelling is dominated by tales of married and family life.
This rare gem of a comedian is beloved within the comedy community for her heart-wrenchingly honest stand-up and precise, carefully constructed bits.
A bright young comedian seen regularly on TBS’s “Ground Floor,” Ms. Heller was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in 2011.
Mr. Morin, known to some for his turn on the NBC summer sitcom “Undateable,” is a rising star in the Los Angeles comedy scene and an always charming stand-up.
(Friday) A 25-year veteran of the stand-up scene, Ms.
This comedy and music extravaganza is a fund-raiser for the Ally Coalition and New Alternatives, which works to protect and support L.
One of the cleverest young comedians in New York, Mr. Rabinowitz performs an hour of material at Stand Up NY.
Ms. Notaro, whose strikingly candid and piercingly funny “Live” album was nominated for a Grammy, performs her new show, “Boyish Girl Interrupted.”
After supporting Jimmy Fallon on his “Clean Cut Comedy Tour,” Mr.
Mr.
Ari Shaffir hosts this popular storytelling show, which is set to debut on Comedy Central next year.
Robin Montague hosts these stand-up shows featuring some of the top female talents in the business, including Sasheer Zamata, Michelle Wolf, Sara Schaefer, Emmy Blotnick, Aparna Na…
An annual tradition in the New York comedy world, this show, hosted by Matt Ruby and Mark Normand, invites dozens of comedians to perform (in costume) as their favorite comics, fro…
Now in its eighth year, this megastar comedy and music show benefits the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports wounded veterans and their families.
Kevin Barnett, Jen Bartels, Lil Rel Howery and Josh Rabinowitz, stars of the new TruTV sketch show of the same name, perform a night of sketch and improv.
Cristina Cote hosts this variety show, a fund-raiser for the cancer support charity Gilda’s Club.
8 women, three acts, two hours.
Since 1975, when the great Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker died, the foundation initiated in his name has fostered the careers of emerging American singers and brought opera to …
For 20 years, Dancers Responding to AIDS has been producing a popular potpourri of dance on Fire Island to raise money for its myriad services.
This innovative festival, which explores themes of spirituality, continues on Friday with a performance by the Radio Choir Berlin of Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers” at t…
The first program of this frequently sold-out festival features, on Wednesday and Thursday, the San Francisco Ballet; the New Zealand company Black Grace; a premiere by the Mark Mo…
The harpsichordist Avi Stein directs this festival, which features some of New York’s top period instrument players.
Think of it as speed-dating for dance: Over four nights, 40 different artists each get five minutes on Joe’s Pub’s sliver of a stage to win over audiences.
During what is usually a slow week in the classical music season, the New York Chamber Music Festival has been stepping up for several years with an ambitious series of programs.
The Brooklyn Museum is once again the epicenter of this exuberant festival, which inserts dance, theater and music into alternative spaces throughout the borough, including a farme…
This renowned comedian, often considered an heir to Lenny Bruce, is a master of long-form storytelling who turns his endless neurotic energy into brilliant comedy.
Eugene Mirman, a Brooklyn favorite, brings his eponymous festival back to Gowanus and Park Slope for another eclectic weekend of stand-up, music and a bit of science, as Mr.
“Queer” has gained mainstream momentum as an umbrella to capture the ever-shifting terrain of gender identity and sexuality.
As the Met concludes its free screenings of recent HD movie-theater broadcasts in Lincoln Center Plaza, the focus is on the star soprano Anna Netrebko.
The Fringe ain’t over yet! Bob Slayer hosts Bookshop mayhem until the end of August.
Critically acclaimed prolific songwriter, Ivor Novello Award winner, recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of Al…
Wake up to Bach and a little Shostakovich in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
The Free Fringe invites all Fringe performers, wherever they’ve been performing, to its end of Fringe event. Mingle, wind down, dance, drink and reflect. Second annual event.
This will be the most talked about event in Edinburgh history.
Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within.
It seems arbitrary, if not foolish, to award a star rating to something like the Malcolm Hardee Awards Show.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
The EClub, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host Simon as part of our Fringe series.
Scotsman Richard Michael leads his talented family on piano with his daughters Hilary Michael on violin and saxophone, Joanna Duncan on violin and xylophone, and nephew Paul Michae…
A young woman sits on the floor in a bright upper room in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, a large rucksack with a sleeping roll dumped by her side.
Australian comic George Dimarelos’s first full-length show at the Fringe is a solid effort, with his conversational style and obvious talent for observational comedy showing a lo…
The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected.
Nightpiece Film Festival is attempting to do something quite lovely.
One of the confusions in this production, although not without precedent, is the running order of the five interrelated plays that make up the complete work.
Declan Cooke is a physically big guy with a powerful presence: if you saw him standing at the bar you would imagine him to be full of confidence and completely in control of his li…
James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of…
Your chance to see Richard Bacon present his lively and entertaining BBC Radio 5live show from the Edinburgh Festivals with celebrity guests.
Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913) was a minor English writer, artist and photographer and serious eccentric.
The Tories have take control and Michael Gove is Prime Minister.
Koji Takeuchi was born in Japan and began his search for truth in his teens.
Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme, in Edinburgh for cutting-edge debate, conversation and interviews about the ideas shaping our lives today.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the Catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
See two amazing dance companies captivate through rhythm! The Bang Group bangs it full force and (very) out loud with smiles in tow while Antara elegantly counterbalances the hypno…
“Footloose may be a hit, but it’s trash - high powered fodder for the teen market.
The choir was founded by Arthur Sutton in 1994 and has performed in Scotland and Germany and we are proud to perform in Edinburgh as a testimony to his vision of two decades ago.
Club show with special guest DJs.
Who would you rather be: a tap-dancing alien or a singing tomato? Biff! Bash! Bosh! Join comic trio Topsy Turvy for 40 minutes of silliness, slapstick and mayhem - sketch comedy fo…
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
In January 2014, Mercury Music Award nominee Kenny Anderson (AKA King Creosote) completed his first ever film soundtrack for Virginia Heath’s poetic documentary, From Scotland With…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Night School is an odd ‘show’ that seems to hover somewhere between an entertaining lecture and a TED talk.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
In a 1990 interview on Japanese television, Berkoff said, “I believe that you don’t need anything more than just utter simplicity and that everything in my art must be created …
A place of peace, an open sacred space.
One of the best things about dance is that it can transcend the boundaries of language or culture.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Presented with the British Council, this event is for artists and producers interested in touring their shows at an international level.
“I wasn’t cut out to be cursed,” Jill tells us at the start of The Box.
Nevin of Edinburgh and MacKay Decorators Perth Ltd.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings, offering everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build and…
If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again.
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Autistic, severely depressed and with inadequate provision for her, Tess Humphrey left school at the age of thirteen.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Chain smoker and chaplain, poet and padre, furnisher of faith and fags, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy dispensed Woodbines and the word of God on the Western Front during the First Worl…
Caroline Bowditch, Welly O’Brien and Nicole Guarino provide a wonderful evening in a cosy little room at Dance Base: it’s not very often a full house can consist of twelve peop…
Ofsted inspections are generally not much fun.
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
Summerhall’s steeply tiered Demonstration Room gives off the air of an amphitheatre, but its back wall houses very modern projections.
Canterbury may have one of the world’s most famous cathedrals, but Manchester had the Hacienda.
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
Come and hear one of Edinburgh’s best church choirs perform beautiful music in the liturgical setting it was written for.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
The penultimate weekend of this first-rate chamber music festival features works by Beethoven (the Quintet for Piano and Winds), Bartok, and Tchaikovsky (“Souvenir de Florenc…
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for an uplifting service with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Rheinberger, Stravinsky and Mozart.
Choral services sung by the Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Robert Sharpe (York Minster), and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ‘Father…
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
Following more packed houses at Melbourne, Brighton and Adelaide Festivals, the comedy and cabaret show returns to Edinburgh.
The Voice Festival UK returns to Edinburgh Fringe, with a jam-packed a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our workshop h…
Rod Hunter, John Purves and Les Sinclair, three of Scotland’s more mature comedians, return to the Fringe for the third time with their popular Old Men show.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Word Power Books hosts free daily events with writers and activists from around the world in Edinburgh’s only independent and radical bookshop.
Soiled bodies writhe across across a primordial swamp in earthbound exploration, rising from time to time in contorted gestures.
“Schubert and His World” is the most ambitious undertaking of the Bard Music Festival in its 25th anniversary summer season.
Collectors and discerning listeners have long realised the unique quality of music recorded on vinyl; the sleeve, the art, and yes, even the hisses, crackles and pops.
Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling.
Professor Richard Weston’s enchanting images of gemstones from around the world, surrounded by award winning gemmologist Stephen Turner’s examples of mother nature’s most preciou…
“Immersive theatre productions tend to operate in dynamically fluid settings, allowing the audience a more active, voyeuristic, and central role, while also individualizing their…
Bored with Berkoff? Choking on Chekhov? Fed-up with Feydeau? “Don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’, don’t stand in the pouring rain.
A common objective for artists participating in the fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is a visual tribute to Scotland’s global legacy, crafted by volunteer embroiderers in 25 countries across the globe.
A mixed show of contemporary paintings, textiles and jewellery produced by artists and makers based at Coburg House Art Studios in Leith.
Spitfire! is a spiffing new show from the team behind the award-winning multi-five-star BattleActs! Independent on Sunday Top 10 Comedy.
Tom Thumb, a character who is small in stature and status, yet is granted the hand of a princess in marriage.
I’ve often wondered how Edinburgh locals truly feel about the Fringe - is it a huge party or just a massive disruption? Given the wealth of subjects from around the world being d…
If you have 10 minutes to spare and your busy festival schedule has taken you near the Royal Mile, have a look at this exhibition.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
Forget the defendant, it is the cast of this excruciating production who should be in the dock.
The premise for this clever improvised show is to poach from the best of the Fringe.
Come along and join The Ruffitybuffs, Tara Twinkle, Cara Crinkle and all of their friends in their fantastic free show of music song and dance.
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
The Kipple and the Lomax present, in honour of the independence debate, the anarchic, independent spirit of Merseyside and its populace, in word and music.
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 …
“I always had a good experience with nuns,” said Dan Coggins, who wrote the book, music and lyrics we all know as Nunsense to show us what nuns are “really like.
A Sunday more like Saturday! The comedy version of a Mexican stand-off featuring a smorgasbord of classic international Fringe Comedy, with a selection of the very best acts from …
The future.
From bold brass to fabulous fiddlers, soprano soloists to singer/songwriters, enjoy daily live music performances at the museum, showcasing the best contemporary talents from Scotl…
Ben Champion is turning into his dad.
Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe…
Cracker: noun, a thin dry biscuit that is often salty and usually eaten with cheese.
Musical comedy meets character comedy in the debut solo show from stand up and improviser, Jacky Wood.
Immediate, sense engaging theatre.
Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging is a show much more savoury than its name suggests.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin .
A thousand years of roman history in under an hour.
Stand up tragedy is a relation of stand up comedy.
With so much improvised comedy around, every group needs a USP.
No Fringe is complete without the inclusion of the Lady Boys, who return to their Edinburgh home – for what could be the last time – under the Sabai Pavilion on The Meadows for…
There’s a sort of delicious irony to queuing for a show about rationing whilst watching one of the cast frantically stuffing their face with crisps.
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
In the bowels of Banshee Labyrinth lurk the most unlikely of creatures, and none more terrifying nor outlandish as Richard Tyrone.
Newton’s Cauldron is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
The first weekend of the festival kicks off with the pianist Joyce Yang performing in Schumann’s Piano Quartet for a benefit concert on Saturday.
‘By equating the conditions of Depression-era America with those of today, writer/performer Randy Noojin invests his one-man show about Woody Guthrie with topicality and urgency, r…
This young and energetic company have tried to create a sketch show with a storyline.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Dare you visit the world’s most haunted and paranormally active underground location.
The brilliant London comedy club comes to Edinburgh.
The word of God over the ages: from Hernan Cortés to Barack Obama. And skipping three centuries in between.
Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour.
Last year I bought myself a ukulele but I have to confess that most of the time it looks really cute hanging on my wall.
For a free sketch show you can’t go wrong with Oxford Revue’s free accompaniment to its main show.
The boys of Tiffin School are in town and look set to make a huge impact with The Caddington Affair, one of two devised pieces presented by different groups of year 12 A Level st…
This is a rock-solid, totally refreshing naturalist drama performed by outstanding actors.
As seen on Russell Howard’s Good News, the award-winning, Perrier-nominated, Amused Moose Top 10 Comedy Show 2013, ‘gifted comic’ (Sunday Times) returns with a new show about l…
The Cambridge Footlights bring you a daily hour of free stand-up comedy.
If Jay Handley had spent as much time running his business as he did writing this show he wouldn’t be unemployed now and you would have one less thing to see at this year’s Fringe.
How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use.
Join two of the UK’s finest emerging talents, Fern Brady (8 out of 10 Cats – ‘Wicked, close to the bone gags’ Stage, ‘Obnoxious, rude, and utterly brilliant’ ThreeWeeks…
“The Nobel prize, by canonising individuals, disguises the truth that they are all, in Newton’s famous phrase, standing ‘on giants’ shoulders’ and on each other’s as well.
Edinburgh Jews is an exhibition originally compiled by two students at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity.
This tour is a brilliant way to explore the history of Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.
The world-renowned Sandemans Free Tour shows you the best of Edinburgh, with enthusiastic local guides providing tours in English and Spanish every day of the week! Starting on the…
Award-winning comedian James Cook tells the often hilarious, surprising and surreal true story of being the voice between pop records.
Jesper Arin, who performs this one-man play, stood at the exit to the theatre as the audience left.
Celebrating 20 years.
‘Let’s see what comes out of my mouth’ is something Bronston Jones says before almost every show.
With an enviable variety of excellent voices and a real commitment to his physicality, Simon Jay skilfully portrays the various characters crammed into the tragic life story of his…
Free Fall is Luca Cupani’s first stand up show and an hour of comedy similar in its rambled, improvised form to Ross Noble’s earlier work.
A show which does not allow us to forget the contradictions of a civil and democratic society.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance.
Faith is based on the story of Imber, a village which had the misfortune to be located too near to a military base on Salisbury Plain.
Escape the thunderous thrill of the High Street! Unwind and enjoy inspiring music and stunning architecture in the medieval heart of Edinburgh.
“Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.
Every night see our pick of the filthiest acts at the Fringe.
This is the show you’ll be telling people about in five years time.
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers made a successful debut at last year’s Fringe and are back again this year with another varied programme of short dances.
Scotland, a land steeped in myth and legend.
Richard Gadd is a deeply disturbed young man.
Painted in 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
The Royal Oak is one of the most famous hubs of folk music in Edinburgh.
Our costumed guide will take you into our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults dating back to the 1700s.
Dan Willis has been obsessed with zombies for a decade.
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
Sometimes the proof of a great show comes from hints that your body gives you: your face hurts because you’ve been grinning so much, a consistent silent laughter that you are d…
Straight from the Middle East: an energetic, fast paced, improvised play.
Stand-up comedian Clara Electra brings her first ever solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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…
The spoken content of this play, written and directed by Adam Tulloch, is minimal; the direction is bold and brave.
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
A host of top comedians from across the Fringe battle it out for the audience’s approval and such.
Following more packed houses at Melbourne, Brighton and Adelaide Festivals, the comedy and cabaret show returns to Edinburgh.
Luke Benson hosts 99 Club’s pick of the Fringe with a free hour of comedy that shows off the talents (and faults) at this year’s festival.
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
Launching a season of outdoor performances in the courtyard at the Pear Tree with buskers, musicians, cabaret, comedy and much, much more. And it’s all free! www.freefestival.co.uk
Live and let die blares from the speakers as Marc Burrows circles the room, high-fiving everyone in sight.
A terrifying journey into the lair of the world famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
Chris is 18 years old, gay, and in search of fun and attention.
My first clue should have been the warmup.
Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Awkward Hawk, Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) looks at the power of schadenfreude, embarrassment, and how being hi…
In his Edinburgh debut, operatic maverick Oberon White presents a one-man show like no other.
How board games can change your life and save the world.
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comics in this stand-up showcase.
The award-winning sketch group, as heard on their own BBC Radio 4 series, present brand new sketches and old favourites packed into a fun-filled free-for-all show.
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon.
“This is not The Rocky Horror Show stage production” - a significant point of clarification in the Fringe programme lest anyone might think that this is the real thing.
A confessional comedy performance by literary translator and writer Petra Kindler, on the joys and perils of cross-cultural creative work, surviving homemade hurricanes and the cha…
‘A bearded fantasist’ **** (Time Out).
This is one for all the lads who have ever had girlfriends problems, all the lassies who have had to put up with boyfriends, and anyone who likes tea.
This year will be the biggest year ever for Ginger Ale Comedy as we relaunch the show in partnership with some of Scotland’s best emerging promoters, who run both established stand…
Offensive and outrageous comedy.
Everything seemed against this performance from the start.
Laughing Horse Comedy presents a stand-up show featuring the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
The title of Masai Graham’s show gives the impression that it is a grand test of comedic athleticism, hinting at a Tim Vine like mania.
Intelligent comedy with a puerile twist, Scott Jeffery and Matt T Woodward take turns to do 25 minutes stand-up each, daily tossing a coin to decide who goes first.
David Crawford is dressed in HP Lovecraft’s favourite outfit for this one-man storytelling.
Taking improv to the next level, we improvise the cast! A daily impro jam that absolutely anyone can take part in, whether experienced veteran or enthusiastic newcomer.
Billed as ‘Comedy (mime, physical theatre)’ I was a little unsure about what to expect from Kraken, but whatever it was that I had been expected was soon proven to be way out.
Carol Robson is a wonderwoman.
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google.
As featured on BBC Radio Scotland! The number one film event at the Fringe is celebrating its fifth year! Join CineFringe as we proudly present four days of exceptional screenings.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s best newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
‘Funny.
Is Amusia a fantasia of amusement, or does it really mean something quite different? Musical comedian Luc Valvona plays a selection of his songs and then tries to sell you his CDs.
Back for a fourth year at the Fringe - an hour of sharp gags, intelligent observations and blisteringly quick improvised raps from three of the circuit’s best comedians.
Each day different international acts compete for comedy gold.
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
Tom’s an award-winning comedian, thirty-something accountant and big, friendly nerd.
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
One of the best things about the Fringe is the energy and ingenuity of the young companies performing here and these are both words that apply perfectly to Double Edge Drama, creat…
Stepping into some pretty big comedy shoes, Cambridge Footlights have brought a fast-paced sketch and improv show to this year’s Fringe.
What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally…
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Edinburgh stalwarts Dan and Jeff are back for another energetic hour and, following Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto, it’s the turn of Baker Street’s own Sherlock…
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
The big launch night for this years’ Free Festival! See a show with the best of this years’ free Fringe performers, mingle with the acts and VIPs and dance the night away.
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
Only two human activities happen in front of a brick wall.
To celebrate the completion of a five year redevelopment project, this exhibition, within the splendid Parliament Hall, gives an insight into the life, history and traditions of th…
I’ve heard horror stories of people who went on ghostly tours in Edinburgh and were scared by actors hiding in dark places, or who felt nauseous or panicky in the fetid air, so i…
Returning for its tenth season, the critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, everyday.
A guided tour of the underground South Bridge Vaults and the infamous Greyfriars Graveyard.
Join the infamous Clart and McBrain in this brilliant and witty dramatic romp through the wynds, courtyards and pubs of Edinburgh! Classic award-winning entertainment, performed by…
A bone chilling tour as our costumed guide takes you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets dispensing the history of the dark characters that used to roam them and why thei…
Welcome to Edinburgh’s dark and dirty side.
As an appetiser, we first of all take you around some of the Old Town’s cobbled streets giving you some very dark historical facts about some of the infamous characters that used t…
Step into an oasis of calm at Neal’s Yard Remedies Edinburgh, for a cup of herbal tea and a hand massage (subject to availability).
The festivities kick off this year with the premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Sila: The Breath of the World,” a site-specific work inspired by Inuit traditions.
This festival enlightens audiences to the Mediterranean region’s growing contemporary arts scene.
The 23rd edition of this festival celebrates and explores sexuality and gender identity in all forms with humor and compassion.
Rising stars perform with prominent musicians at this prestigious festival, directed by Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, who will perform in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G mino…
In 1995, the Fire Island Dance Festival began as a way to raise funds for those suffering from H.
Located in the heart of the city centre at East Princes Street Gardens, the newest addition to Edinburgh’s Festival season provides unrivalled views of Edinburgh’s Old and New Town…
Suppressed when it was written in Soviet Russia in the late 1960s, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s unsparing Holocaust opera, based on a radio play by Zofia Posmysz and with a libretto…
Dozens of independent improv teams, including favorites like GUS and Austen Family, celebrate the Fourth of July with 12 hours of long-form improvised comedy and a barbecue.
For those who love piano music, this institute and festival at Mannes, now in its 16th season, is a highlight of the summer.
It is always worth the four-hour drive to Cooperstown from New York to attend the summer Glimmerglass Festival.
Last fall, the renowned Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Belgian company was in New York with a pair of new, starkly minimalist works that bore little resem…
“A season of romance, war, and other human follies” is the theme this year of this prominent period-instrument festival.
There may be questions surrounding his historical accuracy, but there can be no denying that Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most fascinating and entertaining of Englis…
In collaboration with IdeasTap, General Gough’s Speakeasy at Earl Haig Hall pub will be showcasing an array of new and exciting work to kick off the Edinburgh Fringe Preview Season…
This international music festival at the bucolic Caramoor Center opens with a gala program featuring, as so many gala festival do, the violinist Joshua Bell, who is appearing with …
As the audience takes their seats, they see a man hunched over an easel, drawing pictures on a large sheet of paper with feverish intensity.
Lifeline is a highly entertaining portrayal of people from all areas of society facing difficulties in their own way.
This smorgasbord of performance, with a different lineup each night, features 32 artists from New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and beyond.
This beloved East Village show celebrates its anniversary with another marathon show — dozens of comedians will perform in the tiny backroom for a night that usually stretche…
One of the most dependable conductor-ensemble pairings in classical music is Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Jolle Greenleaf and Donald Meineke are at the helm of the inaugural Early Music Festival: NYC, which will present 16 concerts featuring first-rate soloists and ensembles at churche…
Each summer, a lush 220-acre swath of the Berkshires transforms into a hotbed of dance.
Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente, the husband-and-wife playwrights behind this supple production about the towering comic book artist Jack Kirby, deftly compressing much informa…
8 hours of funky fun for all the family! Keep the kids happy and the grownups smiling at this seaside festival.
Listen to the Changing Tunes Band and MJ’s Liberty Choir.
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
Brazil and bratwurst, Bach and potatoes are among the unlikely pairings in this festival, which sparkles with invention.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
This new-music festival founded in Iceland in 2012 has since spread internationally.
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
The Accidental Festival returns from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th May at the Roundhouse, Camden, with an eclectic mix of dance, puppetry, physical theatre, cabaret, film, live musi…
Prof Buteyko discovered in the ‘50s that people who develop chronic symptoms breathe more than the physiological optimal norm of 3-4 litres per minute.
Ki Workshop: 10.
Ki Workshop: 10.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Fun for all ages.
Community festival for all the family with live music stage,roller disco,skate park,arts and crafts market,samba band,children’s craft workshops,peaceful retreat,concert band,food …
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
Always rich in young composers, this series has taken on venerable status by this, its 13th season.
The composers’ collective Random Access Music presents a vibrant offering of new music.
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a special historical tour of founder Mr Herbert Tennent’s Cafe family history, dating back over 90 years.
Enjoyed performing at Brighton Fringe and want to take your show elsewhere? Not sure where to go or how to start? Join our panel of experts to find out how far in advance tours are…
A woman with a shaved head takes your hand in the station.
60-minute tour of this iconic 20th Century Modernist apartment block, designed by acclaimed architect Wells Coates.
Get advice on touring your show after the Fringe, both in the UK and internationally.
A 90 minute tour of this iconic modernist block of private apartments on Brighton’s seafront,including access to the roof terrace and behind the scenes areas.
Laughing Horse’s Festival of Oddity is a platform for new work heading to the Edinburgh Fringe by clowns in the ascendant, Cheekykita and Jody Kamali.
The tour, led by two hapless guides, focuses on the more eccentric characters who have lived and worked in Brighton and explores the nature of eccentricity itself.
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.
Brighton’s North Laine is now an essential part of a visit to Brighton, quirky and historic and very Brighton.
Visit another world! Explore history,nature and art,strolling through the Woodvale and Extra-Mural Cemeteries.
A detailed and intriguing tour of what English Heritage describes as “the outstanding conservation area of the city”, covering 76 acres with 351 listed buildings.
Visit another world! Explore history, nature and art: spectacular memorials in dramatic landscaped parkland, with a cast of remarkable characters from Brighton’s past.
Heroes of performance poetry Hammer and Tongue and rap warriors Slip Jam proudly present a spiralling twist on their annual battle (‘A legendary fixture’ Latest 7) Gauntlets thrown…
Brighton’s most imaginative tour.
Foodies Festival returns to Brighton’s Hove Lawns this May Bank Holiday bringing with it the very best in fine food and drink.
The producers of last year’s inaugural Brooklyn Comedy Festival continue their cultivation of the city’s best comedy.
It was a dark and stormy night in Brighton.
Brimming with bold ideas, this festival continues with performances that range from fiercely political to poetically formal.
This superlative pianist is an insightful interpreter of a range of repertory.
The Baltimore arts collective and comedy troupe Wham City, which recently had its Adult Swim debut, swings through Brooklyn on its national tour.
Jim Rodde conducts this choir and the New York City Chamber Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’s 1936 cantata “Dona Nobis Pacem,” in which the composer uses texts by W…
This adventurous series, organized by the composer Victoria Bond, continues with the New York debut of the Blue Streak Ensemble, a chamber group founded by the composer Margaret Br…
The storied festival offers a tantalizing program of teasers from its two-month season, including appearances by the soprano Dawn Upshaw and the conductor-pianist Robert Spano, in …
‘Everything is easier to explain if you use lots of fire.
‘BABY/LON’, the second work by Hackney-based theatre company The Big House, is a big story; one of homelessness, violence, motherhood on the lowest rungs of society and the strug…
At this trusty weekly show, tucked into the tiny back room of a bar in the East Village, the host Chesley Calloway and the booker Rebecca Trent welcome big-name stars and promising…
Dirty Dancing - the classic story on stage.
Ted Shen’s anodyne musical about a widower and a divorcee (the fine Brian and Diane Sutherland) finding midlife love feels like a 90-minute singing commercial for eHarmony.
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
It was once thought that school productions of Shakespeare plays were for the enjoyment of supportive parents and few others.
Fringe is not over yet! Your last chance to see the pick of the Fringe with the most outrageous fringe stories.
Close of Fringe event for all performers no matter what venue or organisation. Come to famous Jam House: mingle, drink, celebrate, wind down, live music. First annual event.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Two hour charity variety show includes presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
This was really quite a wonderful event, although not one I would have necessarily picked for purely entertainment purposes.
New date, time and location.
As anyone who’s ever been involved in any kind of show will know, they’re not easy things to put on.
BBC 5 Live’s Richard Bacon presents his show from the BBC’s venue at the Edinburgh Festivals. Join him for big name guests and topical debate.
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value for money cabaret can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best and brightest cabaret, comedy, circus and burle…
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…
If you thought that ‘Neighbours’ was about as mundane as Australian stereotypes got, then you were wrong.
Manchester’s top improv troupe is back for its fifth Edinburgh outing.
The mischievous musical medic showcases some of the most popular parody songs from the former duo’s fourteen years together (made suitable for a lunchtime audience).
Exquisite, enticing, exhilarating dance from two top USA companies.
CineFringe is a small affair, yet its efforts to fly the filmic flag at the Fringe are admirable.
Exquisite, extraordinary, captivating dance from two top USA companies.
Cash prizes! Top Acts! Bingo! Musical Comedy Awards hosts Horse & Louis present the best of the Fringe and the chance to win a bucket of money in a game of visual bingo!
This show returns after a sell-out 2012 Fringe.
Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group are back with their spookiest show yet.
An event for participants interested in touring their shows at an international level.
Double act comedy is very difficult.
Booking Dance Festival’s annual Fringe show always promises a high-octane hybrid of dance styles, with seven companies participating in one enticing show.
The Booking Dance Festival is a self-titled ‘dance festival within a festival,’ and their annual Fringe showcase certainly offers the opportunity to experience a smorgasbord of…
Star of Fringe favourite The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly, Siôn James, ‘utterly charming .
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
Many readers will be familiar with the experience of almost falling asleep in a lecture theatre; it is probably less common for the urge to arise while a Greek tragedy is in full s…
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
UK’s No.
I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
A break-up sped up by a mythbeast.
As Deidre and Veronica awake on their wedding day, the action of this show takes place in a bedroom with conversation ranging from Deirdre’s love of Julie Andrews to Veronica’s ins…
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom is a new musical based around the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus and it’s one hell of an ambitious undertaking.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Tim Byram-Wigfield (St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on…
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church.
Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for an uplifting Sunday service with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Palestrina (11), Mozart (18) and Kenneth L…
Kourtney Kardashian.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Simon Johnson (St Paul’s Cathedral) and Nicholas Wearne (St Mary’s Cathedral), perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ma…
Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services.
It is barely a week since I reviewed Cathedral Festival Evensongs at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place but these two services are listed separately in the Fringe Programme …
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
The Foodies Festival largely delivers what it promises: ‘Artisan producers’ - check; ‘Michelin-starred chefs cooking live’ - check; ‘the best in fine food and drink’ �…
The renaissance of vinyl continues! This year’s event contains an even greater selection of collectible LPs and singles.
Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs and singles from the 50s to present day.
Foodies Festival moves to Inverleith Park this year, opposite the Botanical Gardens, bringing you the best in fine food and drink.
Develop your show after the Fringe with a focus on touring in the UK. A panel of experts will discuss the benefits, complexities and logistics of touring in the UK.
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
Generally speaking, stand-up showcases are the sorts of show that offer the worst of both worlds, since audiences have to either sit through some desperately unfunny jokes from sta…
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
Down a long, winding staircase, far beneath the bustling streets of Edinburgh stands a city frozen in time.
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Manhattan has The Carlyle, London has Ronnie’s, Edinburgh has Le Monde playing host to the finest jazz singers - Carol Kidd, Gwyneth Herbert, Clare Teal, Joe Stilgoe, Niki King, To…
Setting up within the whitewashed walls of Greyfriars Church, Nitekirk is a gentle affair.
Folk is a big deal at the moment, with bands such as Mumford and Sons bringing English traditional music to the stadium stage, while American artists such as Alison Krauss enjoy a …
Richard Wiseman’s Psychobabble feels like an assembly.
Best-selling author, psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman rummages around in your mind.
Three ethnic minorities also referred to as illegal immigrants by the home office, rejected by their own mothers will try to create laughter before their deported back to Southall,…
Ethics and morality aren’t typically seen as trendy when it comes to comedy, poetry and performance; they are often seen as unfun and old-hat.
Matt set up a new school, and like all good schools this one has a bar.
Two pm - neighbours changed Wi-Fi password.
This downloadable tour invites you into the Fringe’s histories, through intimate anecdotes from veteran performers like Arthur Smith and Simon Munnery.
In addition to their main shows, the Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs and monologues in association with the Free Fringe.
Multi five-star, Time Out Critic’s Choice, Smirnoff Hot Picks.
Head to the magnificent Grand Gallery to celebrate the Museum’s collections through daily live music performances, from Renaissance to the best young contemporary Scottish tal…
Luke Toulson is very ambivalent about his children.
Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb.
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
Reluctant hedonist and professional snowboarder has it all.
An explosive mix of experimental performance, physical theatre, music, and film.
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Time Out Critics’ Choice.
Experience the most haunted 1700s underground location in the world.
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
Gorge yourself silly on the Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Award winner and finalist.
How did two Africans, one Asian and a Mancunian end up at The Espionage Lizard lounge? .
No in-depth knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons lore is required to appreciate the excellent comedy this show provides.
Of all the ukulele workshops I’ve ever been to, this was by far the best, and let me tell you, I’ve uked a fair bit in my time.
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
To seekers of silliness, salutations! Set aside those pesky cognitive processes awhile and join four fully certified adults on a stand-up comedy adventure.
A to Z Improv Comedy, like most shows of its type, includes many of the classic improv games and therefore runs the risk of being too similar to a host of other shows available.
No Edinburgh Fringe is complete without the inclusion of the Lady Boys, who return to their Sabai Pavilion home on The Meadows for another season with a new production, Glamorous A…
If there’s a theme to Free Footlights, a somewhat eclectic collection of stand up bits, monologues and comedy songs from members of the Cambridge Footlights, it’s a streak of self-…
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
Wonderfully dark and disturbing, Richard Gadd has come to Edinburgh’s Free Fringe not only to make his audience cry with laughter, but also to push the boundaries of physical com…
Two girls dressed in leopard print belong in what must be the most boring world possible and for one whole hour let us in on how they pass the time.
A variety show with a somewhat dark twist, Stand-Up Tragedy offers a medley of media and performers, each with very different takes on telling tragedy.
Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the…
Hook up to the intensive comedy unit for revitalising laughter and life saving fun on the Free Fringe’s biggest stage.
In Static, a man in his early twenties describes growing up.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Julian Clary.
Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist.
Prepare to fill a bucket with mighty treasures as four strapping yet amusing Midlands men crack open a case of vintage silliness in a greatest hits show that’s been refined just fo…
It’s the 1930’s and a few years have passed since Carl Dunham, the fabled showman brought King Kong from the jungle to New York.
This show is something of a smorgasbord of family entertainment.
Brothers and sisters of the Fringe, discard your differences and heed the Brethren’s call.
Rape is a crime against humanity, especially when used as a weapon of war.
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Get set for some irreverent fun as Paul Revill returns with his comic selection.
Revill’s Selection is an hour of very friendly comedy, with Paul Revill hosting and three unannounced acts every day.
For those who are not experts in Dickensian literature, Grated Expectations might well prove hard to understand.
In The Principle of Uncertainty we have a physics lecture on Quantum Mechanics containing live music with the premise that the only certainty is that nothing in the universe is cer…
Jen Carnovale will be talking about stuff into a microphone with you watching and she can’t wait! ‘.
Proudly supporting the Free Festival, the 99 Club brings a selection of four different comics every day.
Cheeky late night songs! Luc Valvona sings you a selection of his funny, witty and sometimes downright filthy songs on the ukulele, guitar and mandolin, and then tries to sell you …
French, Australian, Jewish, Arctic comedian Eric Hutton’s 2012 show was selected as one of the ‘best free shows at the Fringe’ by TheScotsman.
You’ve just received the news that the capital has been struck by a horde of flesh-eating limb draggers, with the power to infect and eradicate the human race from existence.
Four comedians.
The hit show returns after more sell-out shows around the world.
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
We Will Be Free is an historical tale beginning in 1834 and is based on the true story of George and Betsy Loveless, prominent members of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Les Labyrinthes’ Adam Smith Le Grand Tour is an interesting and thought-provoking exploration into the life and ideas of Adam Smith – key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Although far from perfect, this is a pleasant and, at times, touching comedy about the stresses and strains of family life.
An hour long comedy show featuring five different acts talking about sex? After a few pints this starts to seem like a great idea and I would recommend the show to any finding them…
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
Rhys will tell some brilliant jokes, do some incredible poems and then leave.
Australian comedians Eric Hutton and Jen Carnovale present a selection of their favourite Fringe acts.
Every day in Edinburgh, a group of children and adults disappear into a haunted layer within South Bridge, enveloped in the crevasses of the city.
Watching Three Women is immensely frustrating.
Maureen Younger presents a solo stand-up show, as part of the Scottish Comedy Festival, which is based around her view of herself as an outsider, both on the comedy circuit and gen…
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
My favourite thing about the Edinburgh Fringe is the sheer concentration of talent in creates in the city, an array of people with skills that I can only dream of having.
An in-depth and correct analysis of man and his obsessions with sex, violence, money, sex, war, breasts and sex.
Thirteen-O’Clock, Parliament Square, London.
Tricity Vogue’s voice has a peculiar tone that suggests everything she says is really an innuendo.
Scottish dancing for all the family.
As humble a turnout as it was, Paul Revill was very grateful and welcomed us warmly.
A selection of the best in new comedy at the Fringe, alongside some top headliners picked from Fringe shows, national competitions and around the world.
The only game show in the world with one contestant. That might not be true, I mean it’s pretty stupid. But anyway…
The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
Recently, in another review, I wrote that La Clique was showing every other cabaret on the Fringe how it should be done.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside the UK’s best newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
Music, video, comedy and theatre? A physical performance and an eBook? Attempting to tackle the subject of the apocalypse? From reading the show description of ‘The Flood’, you…
Cabaret legend and TO&ST finalist Dusty Limits celebrates the crazed pursuit of joy and truth.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
Each night see four exciting new acts performing ten-minute sets.
Powered by the enigmatic personalities of compère Chris Turner, David Elms and Adam Hess, AAA Batteries is a show brimming full of energy, improvised humour and finely tuned routi…
Ian Fox has come up with a fairly novel twist on observational comedy: his show centres on a series of photographs shown on television screens around the room so that the audience …
Step into the world of Frank Von Nippleman.
Tomie James has travelled from Ireland to make a good point: we’re putting an awful lot of rubbish into our bodies.
In just under an hour Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) is made to feel awkward by castles, the French Metro and Ugandan rebels.
Fans of Wedekind’s taboo-breaking original or its cult teen-rock musical spawn beware: this adaptation is never quite as wryly funny or as heart-wrenching.
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.
Jody Kamali is a comedian, a clown and based on his YouTube repertoire, an impressive character actor.
The funniest show (with a saucepan).
Three young talented comics take over with a show full of improvisation, riffing and household observations.
First of all, it’s important that you ignore the title of this show because it has absolutely nothing to do with what you’ll be watching.
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
As refreshing and witty as ever, Spring Day returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show which takes some of the best bits of her 2011 Fringe appearance whilst offering…
The Islanders tells the simple tale of a young Dorset couple, Amy and Eddie; the beginnings of their love, the slow disaster of their living together and the titanic struggle of or…
‘Wicked punch lines have the audience falling over themselves with laughter, thinking: “I can’t believe she said that!” They absolutely loved her, no doubt you will too.
Every twenty years or so, comedy re-vamps itself.
No wires - no script! A completely improvised 50s radio-play adventure, unique every day.
Ever wondered what radio DJs chat about when they’re off-air? No, me neither - but it turns out the topic provides a wealth of material for James Cook’s one-man show about the tria…
Stand-up comedy that fulfils the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s diversity requirements all in one fantastic show.
The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
At the beginning of his show Ant Dewson delivers a short warning to those who don’t appreciate overtly crude humour: leave now.
The Games are back in 2013! Different international acts compete daily for comedy gold.
If you love a good story, then you’ll love this.
Alan is surrounded by idiots; fortunately, he’s one of them.
New solo show from cheeky diva Tricity Vogue with ukulele tunes and salacious anecdotes - a song for every calamitous liaison.
In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours.
For fans of Richard Digance, his twenty-two show run at the Fringe is long overdue.
Character comedy is slowly but surely leeching into stand-up.
A mad mish-mash of absurdism and warped nostalgia, encountering the Bob Blackman Appreciation Society felt more akin to my psyche bleeding out into the back room of an old boozer t…
Addressing race related issues for an hour can potentially be very uncomfortable.
Often high marks are awarded to those companies who create a new world in the theatre through their use of advanced set, puppetry, props or movement so it is good to sometimes be r…
Wild, raucous and full of Fringe spirit.
A poignant adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s tale, The King and Queen of the Universe, produced by Slippers and Rum, tells a story of adulation and bereavement set in the depths of t…
Satisfying energetic children can be a task for even the most patient of adults, but CeilidhKids seem to have found a simple but effective solution to combine family bonding with c…
We see a lot of Rich Hall on panel shows these days: QI, Have I Got News For You?, Eight out of Ten Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Award-winning comics seek comedy geeks, hungry for the new stuff.
The Big Man’s back.
Ian Saville, a self-professed ‘socialist magician’, takes you through the history of money and communism by the medium of magic in a free show that pulls off some rather exquis…
Rarely has there been a version of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything.
Inveterate gagster Ivor Dembina **** (Guardian) chaperones you through an hour of comedy, music, guest and surprises, news and reviews all in collusion with the Orchestra of An…
Tricity Vogue gets her kicks from having somebody strum her ukulele that sits on top of her head.
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
It’s likely that, when you think of France at its coolest, there are certain figures who spring to mind –Francois Truffaut, Jean-Paul Satre, Brigitte Bardot.
To give a show this title, considering the easy barbs that could be made at its expense, is perhaps brave.
One of The Scotsman’s Top Ten free shows of 2012.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
From Eastern Finland comes Mammoth which is most definitely an acquired taste.
‘I invented anger’ bellows Michael Legge, as soon as he comes on stage.
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
I’m sure any fringe veteran worth their salt has had the experience of seeing a famous face from their childhood appearing out of an Edinburgh side-street to bring back a flood o…
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
Warning: Do not attend this show if you do not want to learn something new.
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
Following a dose of the mumps at last year’s festival, expect roaring laughter as Chris brings you on an edge of your seat journey, retelling tales of mishaps and madness.
‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist…
God Bless Liz Lochhead follows three failing actors who attempt to stage an adaptation of Tartuffe, 25 years after a disastrous tour of that production brought chaos to all their l…
Sotho Sounds in the band’s current form is four men: cheerful front-man Khuti, guitarist Tankiso, string-player Josepha and frowning powerhouse percussionist Paseka.
Though a wayward arachnid hanging from the ceiling threatened to steal Walsh’s show on the night I was there, his genuine reaction to it – ‘HOLY SHIT’ – turned into ten m…
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
During the Fringe, a haven for ill equipped hastily prepared venues, it can be reassuring to witness a comedy show at a place dedicated to stand up all year round.
Experienced local guides show you historic places of the Royal Mile, its buildings, narrow closes and secret gardens, describing how its people lived and died, its famous character…
Churches are great: not only is a marvellous acoustic found within those imposing stone walls, but visitors also feel an inherently peaceful atmosphere upon entry.
The Fringe doesn’t offer many opportunities for a bit of a breather, which is why Neal’s Yard Remedies have created a Festival Chill-Out Zone for the duration of the festival.
Escape the thunderous thrill of the High Street! Unwind and enjoy tranquillity, inspiring music and stunning architecture in the medieval heart of Edinburgh.
Explore one of the scariest places in the world.
Three hundred plus years of anecdotes and tales of Scotland’s greatest essayists, novelists and poets, an informative and entertaining evening exploring the streets and pubs of E…
It could be deemed ironic that our group was thrice threatened with murder before our tour had kicked off.
Edinburgh’s famous hub for folk music presents 35 nights of acoustic folk and traditional music, featuring a different singer, musician or group every night, including some of th…
Situated on the historic Royal Mile, open from 9am – 3am every day.
Returning for its ninth season, critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day.
View up close our collection of torture instruments and hear all their gory details before entering the notoriously haunted South Bridge Vaults.
The name Auld Reekie Tours, our intrepid tour guide informs us, is taken from an old affectionate nickname for Edinburgh herself; it refers to the stench and smoke of olden-day roa…
History, horror and a terrifying journey into the lair of the world-famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
A 30 minute tour of the Old Town before visiting our Medieval Torture Exhibition, and entering into our infamous paranormally active underground vaults dating back to the 1700s, wh…
Whistlebinkies really wants you to know they have free live music.
If you find yourself staggering down the Royal Mile at 2am desperately looking for a drink, there is a string of late-night live music bars ready to keep your liver happy and suppl…
Explore our haunted underground vaults dating back to 1700s, where the poor and destitute once lived alongside the criminal underworld, thieves, and witches who practiced there.
Like so many shows at the moment, Om Nom Nominous lures in punters with a ridiculous name.
This gig is a total surprise – just what the Fringe should be.
(performances start on July 7) Summer will become just that much more harmonious when this festival opens its 11th season.
The Black Country Cider Lions’ compere Rob Kemp reminds us near the start of the gig that the room we are in is bespoke.
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…
The Plastic Seat Company’s debut show is a promising mix of comedy sketches, which take great delight in referencing pop culture of today.
Every man in the audience stiffened as a pulsating phallus inflated on the screen in front of us at the start of the show.
Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work.
Early in his set Cuddly Loser Damion Larkin describes himself as ‘five foot seven and made of pies.
‘Simon Evans: Friendly Fire’ is a misnomer.
Jessica Almasy is compulsive viewing, much like the material she delivers in her solo performance, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope).
Advertised in the Fringe guidebook as ‘David Kelly is Shameless’, the show turned out to be rebranded as ‘David Kelly and Laura Carr Have No Shame’.
Sarah Archer’s adorable daughter invites us into the venue and welcomes her mother onto the stage, a fitting introduction for an adorable show.
I have reviewed a number of services in ordinary churches and I am comfortable reviewing them as performances while not covering the worship aspects that are between God and the wo…
Shakespeare can be hard to do at the Fringe, and even harder to do in an hour.
The format for this show is very simple.
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…
Its a hard job to get a small, mostly drunken, late night audience on your side.
Bobby Carroll has perhaps been doing stand up so long that he’s become a bit bitter.
Openly admitting his show was a ‘work in progress’ and should not be judged on the quality of all of the material, there seemed no need for excuses as Damian Kingsley ushered u…
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
‘Success’ is an inventive, endearing and beautifully observed pastiche of self-help seminars.
Located in the small but cosy performance space underneath the main café area of Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, Life or Something Like it sees Mancunian singer-songwriter Claire…
Amrik Virk looks like a laugh to be with.
The subject matter of Fathers Rights has the potential to spark heated debate in an overheated theatre.
Staged by Word Alive and hosted by the congregation at Charlotte Chapel, this exhibition tells you everything you need to know about the Good Book and its influence on Christianity…
This is the second year running that I have seen a Fringe set by Henning Wehn – and although the man is a brilliant stand-up, the common threads running through his material are …
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
Satirical portraits of Adolf Hitler have been around since Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’, through ‘The Producers’, to the Mr T Experience’s ‘Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend’.
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
‘Funny’s funny, except when it’s not’ seems to be the general message of this compilation show.
Doug Segal delivers a perplexing array of mind-blowing, mind-reading tricks modulating gradually to a standing ovation climax.
The title of Wondrous Flitting is a double reference: it stands for both the miraculous appearance in 24-year-old waster Sam’s house of the Holy House of Loreto, a medieval site of…
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
After introducing himself four times Arnie Pie gave a bit about his stage name before launching into the set that can define the rest of his show in two words: racial comedy.
In an interview for the seminal concert movie Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, acting as the interviewer in his own interview asks himself, ‘I don’t think…
One cannot help but feel , when offered lesser-known tales from the Brothers Grimm, that there is probably a reason that they are not so popular.
This year, Richard Herring is resurrecting his first ever one-man Fringe show, Christ On A Bike, which he performed in 2001.
A typical Edinburgh stand-up by Richard Coughlan in the back room of an easily hidden pub, this is truly a gem hidden amongst the Fringe.
War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle…
Straight from The Royal Court, Anupama Chandrasekhars poignant drama about the impact of one girls sex life on the rest of India cant help but provoke.
‘Andrew and the Pony’ is, oddly enough, the story of how performer Andrew Bridges has always, since early childhood, desperately wanted a pony and of all the bizarre situations…
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If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun …
The Free Paint and Play Ukulele Workshop with Tricity Vogue is exactly as described.
What do you get if you cross Jack Dee with Paul Daniels? - Piff the Magic Dragon!Piff-Tacular is a magic show and stand-up gig all in one, which despite featuring a cute puppy, is …
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
Entering the theatre in the midst of a party it was clear that this was going to be an energetic play.
The Yurt Locker is naturally intriguing as a venue and thus when the three performers of Cracking Yolks took to the stage they were playing to an almost full house of casual punter…
Lewis Schaffer’s schtick is that he is an ex New York Jew making his way in this strange foreign land and hating every minute of it.
There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
With a razor-sharp tongue and ever sharper wit – think 1940s American reporter meets cocktail bar swagger – David Mills delivers an hour of comedy that you may mistake for an h…
Kids are a notoriously tough crowd.
Various media have opted for sex as the defining theme of this year’s Fringe, and a number of the shows I’ve been able to see are characterised by a clear-eyed recognition of the d…
The problems started right from the word go.
If you’re looking for a cheeky musical stop to begin your night at the Fringe, then head to the Gothic room in the Three Sisters for the most bizarre Ukulele banter in town.
It’s hard to fault this set by Ed Byrne, although it’s very tempting to do so.
Brutality is hard to sustain onstage.
‘Well Done You’ calls itself a character sketch show, but Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt are in character even when not doing sketches.
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
The premise of Mace and Burton’s show draws quite a crowd into the Medina.
Angus and Cameron have clearly worked hard putting this sketch show together but the results are far from entertaining.
In this free one-woman show, Clara Lilly shares a string of stories collected from ten years of hitchhiking.
For all the atrocities of the Second World War, it was a fertile period for great songs.
With so much free fringe it’s can be a daunting prospect wading through the guide to find what’s worthwhile.
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
The GirlBand Improv was an entirely enjoyable experience but not quite what I expected.
There has always been a fascination in the double-act.
The big songs of stage and screen are being presented at the Laughing Horse Free Festival by the Cabaret Freaks.
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…
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
Devvo, the internet sensation, brings his unique brand of stand-up to the Fringe after a successful string of MC gigs across the UK.
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
Have you ever seen a man sweat through the back of a business suit? If that’s an experience in which your life is lacking, it’s one of many reasons why you might be interested in s…
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
You’d be hard pressed to find a free hour of comedy at the Fringe as well-structured and thoughtful as ‘Stitches’.
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
‘Isn’t memory funny?’, comments Amy, one of the two main characters of DC Jackson’s My Romantic History.
It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood.
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
It’s a tough crowd to play to but Lucy Cox wins them around easily with her charming repertoire of comedy songs and savage black humour during her show Attractive Audience Requir…
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
Everyone remembers storytime – that happy time at the end of the day when the hard work of colouring in and sticking bits of paper to other bits of paper could be safely put behi…
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
French-Canadian drama Bashir Lazhar draws its tension from the point at which two forms of loneliness intersect – that of an Algerian immigrant trying to make his way in a new wo…
The man behind the YouTube ‘smash’ Masturbation Gary Stark is having a funny look at sex, drugs and getting old at his gig in the Laughing Horse Free Festival.
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
When it comes to titles that are guaranteed to draw a crowd Abie Philbin Bowman is gifted with a sparkling ability to always find a something that teeters on the edge of audaciousl…
Thomas Annand and David Day have come all the way from Ireland to prove that there’s far more to African drumming than monotonous banging.
The Birdies Film Festival at the Odeon in Kingston left everyone with a chippering sensation of delight.
Meet Mr Clart, the drunken and prurient tour guide of the famous Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour.
Henning Wehn might be the most bizarre stand-up comedian I have ever seen, but I think that’s intentional.
Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure.
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Comedian Neil Dagley is Flange Krammer; German Olympic skiing sensation and interminable ladies’ man.
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
Having been ushered onto the top deck of a bus, itself a surreal beginning to a show experience, I was unsure what to expect from ‘Stand Up, Woman.
Dating George Orwell is a one woman play that looks at the unhealthy relationship between a teenage girl and the books that she has become engrossed in.
Adapted from a 1990s German play by David Geiselmann, this student production is a thrilling race through the cruelty and aggression underlying social etiquette.
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
In the press blurb for his show Middle-Aged, Useless and Talented Nick Hayman compares himself to Tommy Cooper and Norman Wisdom.
Adam Larter splatters onto his stage like paint from Jackson Pollock’s paintbrush, ungainly and definitely not graceful as he crashes all over the place.
Wet Paint is made up of two magicians, Ben Hart and Neil Kelso, with ‘ideas so fresh they’re still wet’.
Those looking for a dose of the unexpected, who enjoy wandering off the beaten track, will be delighted by Lach’s Antihoot.
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
This free show at the fringe consists very simply of two fairly promising comedians, Mark Diamond and Darren Walsh, alternatively delivering stand up performances.
Picture Chris Addison in your mind for a minute.
I have a confession to make: until recently, I’d never been to the circus.
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
What makes a lot of cash in the Musical Theatre? Juke Box musicals: Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You, Jersey Boys.
Part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival, comedian and photographer Ian Fox delivers an hour of very amusing entertainment through a selection of photos.
Dirty Filthy Rich wants to make you stinking, filthy rich.
Maurice Cock and Belvedere Bagg model their show as a lesson in how to act.
There are 21 Richard Thompsons listed in Wikipedia, including a Conservative baronet, a racing driver and a Warner Bros animator.
Richard Herring returns to Edinburgh with his 21st show in 15 years.
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
Sitting in the dark, cave-like venue of the Hive where the smell of alcohol and sweat still pervades from late-night clubbing and the floors are still just a little bit sticky, it …
David Egan’s Pork is an interesting stab at an interesting topic; set in a future dystopia where pigs live side by side with feral humans in a sinister charitable enclave known onl…
Previous reviewers have compared Lach to Woody Allen and Woody Guthrie, and while these two are good reference points I’d like to start by pointing out just how much he looks, and …
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
You’ve got to bless the Edinburgh audience, they are a godsend for bad comedians.
The gimmick for this showcase show is that it’s meant to be ‘Yorkshire’ comedy, whatever that may be.
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
With so much improvised comedy at the Fringe nowadays it’s difficult to know what to see.
Its all too easy and all too dangerous to dismiss the Free Fringe.
I must confess to having felt more than a little embarrassed at turning up at a childrens show in the middle of the day; we had a heated debate in the queue on the way in as to w…
Sometimes a gig feels like visiting an old friend - the audience have never seen the comedian before, but we have seen comics like him and he’s had audiences like us.
Although his writing is poetry as much as philosophy, there is a danger that any performance of a work by Albert Camus might neglect the more intriguingly human aspects of his lite…
This new adaptation of Dracula plays slightly with the order of the original; the voluptuous vampire orgies of Dracula’s castle take place in the second half as opposed to the firs…
Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable ent…
A stellar performance from an all-singing, all-dancing cast of miscreants and their formidable opponents from the local neighbourhood watch, Asbo: the Musical is the story of Darre…
What is the opposite of subtle? A thesaurus will give you antonyms like ‘obvious’, ‘loud’, ‘lucid’, ‘crass’.
Do you remember the days of yore? Of gum detentions, boredom pure? Deep in the Smirnoff Underbelly, a group of Scottish students are putting on a play in memory of those school day…
Pam Ford presents a friendly and funny stand-up show focussing on her past career as a hairdresser.
Sordid Lives is the story of the overwhelming weirdness of small-town American life and the empowerment of its women, through the discovery of pink sequins and two-barrelled shotgu…
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
Callow has a strong and long relationship with Dickens including a hugely successful performance as the author himself in The Mystery of Charles Dickens, and appearing as the m…
Last year, Wednesday by Ian Winterton was one of my picks of the Fringe.
In three short years, All the King’s Men have gone from a little-known university a cappella group to the third best collegiate group in the world, and from the simply phenomenal…
The title of this particular show may lead you to expect certain things that the final product fails to deliver in every way.
When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes…
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
I’m not convinced there’s still a place for The Lady Boys of Bangkok anymore.
A show entitled 5 Steps To Being German screams of being packed with old stereotypes and heard-it-all-before jokes of Nazis and efficient trains.
It promised to be a fun show.
This one’s a toughie.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
I must start with two clear statements.
Children’s Underground Tour offers families the chance to be guided round Edinburgh’s haunted vaults.
There’s a comedy show at this year’s Fringe entitled All Young People Are C*nts.
I really wanted to like this show.
Stella Graham’s routine is fun and original: she recounts amusing anecdotes of good and bad things she has done and the audience have to decide if she should go to heaven or hell.
This show is comedy flying by the seat of its pants: not exactly improvised, but certainly thrown together.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
Mark Cooper-Jones is a Geography teacher.
Dr Ettrick-Hogg is the very macho compere for this evening of male stand-ups talking about manly things and being generally masculine.
Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order.
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
Lynn Ruth Miller is approaching eighty-years old and she’s on a mission to prove to us all that aging is amazing through a series of real-life stories and a mix of classic pop so…
It is rather difficult to review a tour, because to some extent you are reviewing your own city, the content your town has to offer a tourist who may buy the Edinburgh Comedy Tour …
Downstairs in a night club that makes an awkward bedfellow for performance, youll find seasoned actress & comedienne, Sarah Louise-Young conjuring up three very distinct characte…
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 …
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
Men of Character describes itself as two one-man sketch shows that overlap with one another with an overarching plot line.
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.
Having seen the Janus Theatre Company productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, perhaps my expectations were simply too high for Mephistopheles …
There’s basically no-one who doesn’t like Roald Dahl – he’s been a cornerstone of kids’ literature for 50 years and with good reason.
During this free children’s show in Maggies Chambers at the Three Sisters Pub, Phil the Shepherd introduces himself throughout as he tries to put his sheep, or children, to sleep.
James and Craig - the comedy duo behind Best Days of Our Lives - earn their stars as much through likeability as humour.
It isn’t often as a reviewer that you come across a show with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Jonathan Prager’s performance is a mixture of spoken anecdotes and original songs with both lyrics and score written by himself and performed with accompaniment from Ben, his ver…
This bracingly innovative festival of music theater is only in its third season, but it has already become a point of reference.
Given the perpetual debate concerning the over-commercialisation of the Fringe that has been prominent this year, it is with a great sigh of relief that events such as the Malcolm …
Follow Donna Wannabe and Katherine Withakay (yes, really) through the trials, tribulations and transfers of flying to Las Vegas all performed in astonishing tongue-in-cheek oper…
The infectious enthusiasm of this comedy duo is apparent from the off, their chaotic get-in generating a fair few belly-laughs.
If you’ve ever seen or read JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls you’ll be broadly familiar with the message of UnWish Theatre’s Carnivale, a dinner party with a difference where the …
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
With 101 Comedy Club seeing different up and coming comedians performing every night in four ten minute sets, it is perhaps unfair to form a complete judgement based on one night a…
Holmes is going into retirement, but before he does he convinces Watson, Inspector Lestrade and Mrs Hudson to join him on a farewell tour, to enact some of his more challenging and…
Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
Now making its third appearance on Hove Lawns, the Foodies Festival is steadily becoming an established name on the Fringe circuit.
Adapted from Richard Milward’s 2006 novel, Apples is a slice of teen life in all its grottiness, expanded to cartoonish proportions from a starting point of Northern reality.
‘I thought it was a magic show.
Kunt’s on Daytime TV warns that it’s not for the easily offended.
Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov…
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
Reuben Johnson’s The Meeting commands a strong central performance by Reuben Johnson, speaking the lines of Reuben Johnson under the keen directorial eye of Reuben Johnson.
I actually feel guilty about disliking this play so much.
Panning for Gold is a performance about love: finding love, losing love, and moving on.
From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman.
Would Like to Meet highlights in its description its daily change of acts which apparently brings ‘fresh appeal’ to the show every day.
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
At the beginning of this tour we’re on Lothian Street and Cuth when our guide boldly informs us that we are on Lothian Road.
It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t…
Dance Theater of Harlem is back with its annual block party.
Ideally Edgar Allan Poe’s works should be read in the dead of night, in an armchair by a crackling fire with the slow tap of wintry branches against the window.
Graham Whistler’s show from last year’s Fringe returns, again mainly focusing on his cerebral palsy.
I got pulled into this pure wee gem of a show at almost the last minute.
If you’re scared of clowns look away now.
Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo…
‘I wuv you with the intensity of a thousand suns,’ yells Will (Jack Swain) in Misshapen Theatre’s Phillipa And Will Are Now In A Relationship, a romantic comedy told entirely throu…
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
Welsh-born playwright Owen Thomas’ newest play, Richard Parker, explores coincidence – is our life really a series of coincidences, or are they just products of us over-analysi…
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
The improv group Racing Minds want to tell you a story.
There are places which have unquestionable resonance.
Gordon Ramsey Sex Dwarf eaten by badgers.
A terrifyingly authentic portrayal of the awkwardness and obstacles we all face when sleeping with a new sexual partner for the first time.
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the…
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
Some would say the journey is more important than the destination, but this rule doesn’t apply to 19;29’s Threshold, a choose-your-own-adventure psychodrama presenting the implosio…
Most comedy shows, like most reviews, come with some kind of inbuilt narrative, some trajectory from A to B that allows the performer to hook on their best jokes, anecdotes and obs…
The Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It is utterly bizarre.
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman.
I imagine as a children’s performer you’re probably prepared for a great deal.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Unlike some Shakespeare adaptations doing the rounds, this slimmed-down Titus Andronicus is surprisingly well-cut.
Andrew Lawrence is an angry man with a lot to get off his chest this festival.
Returning for a second year, this excellent festival showcases the best of New York’s comedy scene in several of Brooklyn’s comedy-friendly venues.
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
Oh! Youre too old! Dont let Peter see you! That was gently whispered in my ear as I entered the space for this choppy adaptation of Peter Pan.
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
A Bogan is an Antipodean term for a somewhat uneducated, mullet-wearing, hard-rock loving man.
Sat atop a hill in Highgate town, beneath the clouds but throned over London’s starry spread sits a gem of Fringe theatre and a pleasure unrestrained.
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
If there’s one theatre company that can claim to have built an episodic comedy-of-errors at the Fringe, then it’s The Trap.
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
From what I can gather, this show is set at a wedding reception.
Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.
There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an…
Knot Theory presents a new piece of writing about the decline of a suburban family in a piece of new writing by Niki Orfanou.
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
Sarah-Louise Young channels four very different, equally hilarious and rather odd women in this cabaret spectacular.
In their free hour, Steve N Allen and Ria Lina read extracts from Agony Aunt pages and attempt to provide better advice using songs along with suggestions from the audience.
The perplexingly named One-Eyed Men are the very genial trio of Alex, Sam and Ben.
Yianni, an Australian Greek, describes his show as ‘hyperlogical’.
This summer’s outdoor arts festival in Lower Manhattan continues on June 20 at 7:30 p.
The Scottish National Gallery’s Festival Fun Ceilidh Dinner lives up to its claim of being a ‘truly Scottish experience’.
Prince Philip supposedly coined the word ‘dontopedology’ in describing his talent for ‘opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it’, and in this free show at Espio…
There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them.
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
‘I’m Withered Hand, and these are my friends’, announces Dan Willson as his three-piece backing band join him on the stage of the Electric Circus.
As the Phantom of the Opera music played a cloaked figure appeared, sang along for a few bars before ripping off the cloak to reveal he had a Henry Hoover for a head.
The title of this show hides nothing about its content, as bubbly Northerner Tom Wrigglesworth recounts his tales of woe and confusion on the 10.
In a dystopian future society where all homosexuals are ‘rehabilitated’ by being forced to have straight sex in a sinister hostel, one man and one woman do a lot of shouting in Rib…
Established in 1973, the Edinburgh Folk Club was represented at the Fringe for the first time this year with a showcase at the Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride’s that displayed …
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
The Mandrake charts familiar territory for a Renaissance city comedy cuckoldry, trickery, and professional stereotypes but as might be expected from a play by Machiavelli, th…
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…
As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
Thanks to the vagaries of Lothian Buses I missed the first number in this multi-company showcase of short dance items.
Professor Kaos exclaims truimphantly that he has the ‘most popular show in the Fringe!’ and with good cause.
Somewhere in this show there is a turning point.
Aces High promise a radical, multimedia, re-gendered re-imagination of The Tempest, but deliver a bit of a damp squib, something more like a light drizzle or a power shower when th…
For Free and Easy it pays to be very early at the Stand, or that wont just be the venue name.
You can pretty much sum up Jacobean era Tragedies in three words: “nearly everybody dies”, and the Tragedy of Mariam is no different.
I’m not sure if I agree with Eric Gudmunsen’s sentiment that ‘Cheap laughs are better than no laughs’ after his alternative evening of late night comedy at Captain Taylor�…
Comedy is subjective a cliché the truth of which I’d never truly experienced before seeing Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists.
You might think that a visual gag involving a woman with hair not dissimilar to that of King Charles II, dressed up as King Charles II might get old after a time.
Sameena Zehra, the writer and performer of Tea With Terrorists, has led an extraordinary life and has been raised by an extraordinary family but her collection of stories, no matte…
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
There’s a familiar traditional-northern-comic style about Kevin Dewsbury as he welcomes the audience to the room above the Meadows Bar, mixed with a bit of laddish banter.
A bizarre hybrid of Avid Merrion and Bob Fossil, Mark Davison’s Mr Susan is immature, crude and downright silly.
Were I a paying customer in the audience of The Madness of King Lear, I would have walked out when Lear - Leofric Kingford-Smith – began his imitation of Rammstein using Shakespe…
In the wonderful location of the top deck of a stationary Edinburgh bus, two comedians try to find their feet on the comedy circuit.
This one-woman comedy show takes you to the frustrated post apocalypse world where woman has inherited the Earth.
Mike ‘Dr Blue’ McKeon is a real Blues caricature.
The old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’ is not one that Hannah Ringham subscribes to.
I live in Edinburgh and choose to go to this throughout the year because it is so good week after week.
Guilt and Shame is a sketch show about the failure of a sketch show, or more specifically its utter breakdown.
Lewis Schaffer’s show is called Free Until Famous.
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
In the world of organs, the Frobenius brand is king.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Attending free shows at the Fringe is something of a lottery.
You may recognise these two from TV.
With dark red velvet hanging from the walls, subdued lighting and wooden benches there is a sense of decadent opulence in the Bosco theatre tonight, which even before the acts star…
Lara A.
Kyds Spanish Tragedy is a product of its time socio-political, full of double-entendre, the themes of revenge and retribution and scenes of killing all the more poignant on st…
This comedy show is about the Israel-Palestine conflict and lasts for two hours.
We all live our lives within walls.
Andrianna Smela and her accompanist Maria Dessena are classically trained musicians playing cabaret music, and my main gripe with this programme of the songs of Kurt Weill and othe…
At the start of this show Billy Watson talks about cocks and pubes and soon moves on to describe a tedious pursuit of pussy, which would presumably not be half as tedious if he eve…
Brighton’s Extraordinary Mystical Heritage Tour only partially lived up to its name.
Fans of Garrison Keillor will know the territory covered by this show, the semi-folksy world of Lutheran Minnesota.
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
Three for Free is a fun and friendly showcase of new acts, featuring Alex Kealy and Patrick Morris, plus a special guest every day.
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
‘I was going to have a cucumber down my pants’ says compere Marc Smethurst, removing a cucumber from his pants, ‘but there’s a reviewer in tonight.
The premise is simple: a group of people meet in a park.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
Sören Bergen was just an ordinary guy.
New time and venue due to demand! Comedian, actor and host of Adult Swim’s top-rated and most anarchic programme The Eric Andre Show comes to the (true) final night of Fringe to te…
It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
Old and new beats meet performance poetry paying tribute to South Africa’s legends.
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
ENCORE! - THE SONGS OF STAGE & SCREEN showcases some of the most popular songs from great musicals and screen shows including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Sup…
FESTIVAL HELLENIKA Adelaide’s oldest festival celebrating Hellenic connections in the arts.
Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too
Gabriele Uboldi write about Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about...
Submissions are now open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024
Brendan Shelly talks about Ageless Arts' inaugural production, Porridge Boy at the Greenwich Theatre .
We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play.
Richard Beck met up with Edward Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre.
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
We talk to Ellie Jones and some of the cast about her production of Animal Farm for BYMT.
Barry McStay tells us about his experience of writing and revising his play, Breeding
We talk to Lama Alfard about her career in comedy.
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
We interview the director and cast of Sergio Blanco's When You Pass Over My Tomb at the Arcola Theatre.
EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens
We interview Gareth Watkins about his exciting new play The Gentleman of Shallot.
Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe.
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
St Martin's-in-the-Fields announces it Christmas celebrations.
Argentine dance sensation Malevo perform at the Peacock Thatre.
This week The Loaf by Alan Booty opens at The Bridge House Theatre in Penge, SE20. We spoke to him about his background, the play and its development.
The Bridge House Theatre, Penge announces its autumn/winter programme.
Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2024 is now open for declarations of interest and grant application
VAULT Festival 2024 will not go ahead.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Simon Ximenez talked to the coordinator of this year’s Edinburgh Deaf Festival, Jamie Rea.
We reunited Lithuanian writer, Gintare Parulyte and Croatian-American performer Kristin Winters to talk online about the one-woman show, Lovefool, they have created and are now bri...
Georgie Carroll talks to us about her debut show, Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Claire Woolner, the LA-based absurdist comedian, performance artist and surrealist clown, talks about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe
We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks.
Nell Bailey, Artistic Director of November Theatre talks about the company's new play, Pitch at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We invited playwright Scott Organ to tell us about 17 Minutes at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mervyn Stutter talks to us about his 31st year at the Fringe, how things have changed and his show, Pick of the Fringe
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
We asked Charlotte Anne-Tilley to reflect upon her journey to becoming an actor/writer prior to opening with her show Almost Adult at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Ed Edwards gives some observations loosely connected to his new play England & Son at this year's Edinburgh Fringe
Simon Ximenez talks with Alistair Hall, whose success with his gripping one-man play Declan, was one of the few positive outcomes of lockdown.
Chris Grace is performing in three shows this Fringe: Chris Grace As Scarlett Johannson; Shamilton and Baby Wants Candy all at Assembly George Square.
Paige Wilhide performs for the first time outside of the USA with her show Breakup Addict at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Established spoken word performer Jenny Foulds talks about her show, Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human at the Edinburgh Fringe nd her life so far.
I met up with Playwright/Actor Will Leckie, Director Zoë Morris and the cast to talk about their play, Crash and Burn at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Simon Ximenez talks with writer and director Emilie Biason about her new play, I Killed My Ex and is relieved to discover this dark comedy about love, friendship, and male dismembe...
We talked with Liz Toonkel about her show, Magic for Animals, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Quebec clowns Rémi Jacques and Jean-Félix Bélanger talk about their art ahead of their show, Brotipo, opeining at the Edinburgh Fringe
Anu Vaidyanathan talks about her show, Blimp, at the Edinburgh Fringe and the many influences on her life and achievements.
We talked to Phil Green about his background and his show, Four Weddings & A Breakdown at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks with director Lily Wolff, who is bringing Mrs President to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Richard Beck speaks to Lottie Walker about her Edinburgh Fringe play Chopped Liver and Unions, celebrating one of the early pioneers of women union leaders, the Ukranian Jewish...
Kevin Quantum talks about the science and magic that combine to make his show, Momentum.
John Lampe talks about turning eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski into the subject his musical The TUNEabomber that premiers at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews US comedian Maggie Widdoes about her Tweets and forthcoming show Stay Big & Go Get 'Em at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, heads to Birmingham to meet, football mascot Bordesley (pictured), the newly-elected Leader of the Council and the team who created him for Stan'...
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews Noah McCreadie, director of Getaway/Runaway.
The East London Shakespeare Festival (16 June - 13 Aug) promises a ‘summer of partying and love’ and a production of Romeo and Juliet that is ‘riotous and atmospheric’.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme: Over 360 Exciting Shows Await Theatre Enthusiasts at the Edinburgh Fringe
With alumni including Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Jeremy Vine, the Durham Revue are celebrating their 50th year with sketch show comedy Death on the Mile at this year’s Durham Frin...
Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck
The sixth pub crawl in our series takes place in Leith.
The fifth in our festival pub crawls traverses the New Town.
Unlike its sister crawl, Old Town North, Old Town South traverses more of the South Side’s bars that lie adjacent to many Fringe venues.
The third of our pub crawls, the Old Town North trail has an extensive list of both core and optional bars to choose from.
The first in our series of Fringe Festival pub crawls 2019 takes us from Morningside to the Meadows.
The second crawl in our festival pub crawls 2019 takes you through Newington.
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.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And...
The final day! Richard's alcohol-fueled quest to find Edinburgh's best bar staff ends up at WestRoom, where he found Sam Leishman, a 20 year old Guinness drinker with a passion for...
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...
Tucked on the corner of Queensferry Street and Charlotte Lane you'll find the ultra-hip bar and eatery, Foundry 39.
Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene.
The Army has set up camp for the first time at the Fringe and is stationed with Summerhall in its own premises.
In 2005 it was revealed that author JT LeRoy was in fact a hoax – written by Laura Albert but played in person by her sister in law Savannah Knoop.
In the heart of the Old Town, Cabaret Voltaire is a legendary live music venue in the vaults beneath North Bridge.
Back in 1947 the founders of the Edinburgh International Festival could hardly have imagined what their legacy would be.
The Three Sisters – renamed the Free Sisters during the Fringe – has long been a festival hub and a jewel in the crown of the Free Festival.
Just around the corner from the iconic Greyfriar's Bobby you'll find the Oz Bar, and that's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Erik Stenersen.
Edinburgh is Festival City for good reason, and amongst all the theatre, comedy, books and arts there's even a Scottish Gin Festival.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Formerly a parsonage, Cloisters Bar is a uniquely traditional Edinburgh pub.
Just off the Royal Mile and Cowgate you'll find a craft beer shop and bar called the Salt Horse.
The Heads & Tales bar is the home of Edinburgh Gin, and it's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Tomas Germanavicius, a Lithuanian who's a dab hand at mixing up a c...
Richard's headed over to Leith to the eclectic bar that is The Mousetrap where he finds today's Edinburgh Barstar, Jay Weeks.
Richard is exploring Edinburgh's East End today to discover the Barstar of the Day at The Newsroom, where Glaswegian Molly McCluskey is making plans on photography while sipping a ...
Richard's headed south to Clerk Street where at the unique Dog House bar he's discovered today's Edinburgh Barstar, Montse Pearce, a Spanish-born artist with good taste in whisky.
Just off George Street you'll find the Thistle Street Bar (the TSB as it's affectionally known).
An authentic Tiki bar in the New Town? Richard popped on his hula skirt and hotfooted over to the Auld Reekie Tiki Bar to meet today's Edinburgh Barstar - Donald McGhie, former ban...
Hidden away in the Old Town on Advocates Close you'll find The Devil's Advocate, and if you're lucky today's Edinburgh Barstar will also be on shift.
It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill.
Richard's in one of Edinburgh's most unique bars today to meet Ross Bryant, co-owner of Bryant & Mack Private Detectives on Rose Street North Lane.
Richard is still in New Town, but with great bar staff like Robbie Johnston at Nightcap - why would you want to leave? Nightcap might be a relatively new addition to the Edinburgh...
Could virtual reality and interactive media become a staple of the Fringe programme? Housed in Assembly Rooms on George Street, FuturePlay is an artist-led technology festival that...
Richard's in New Town today to meet our Edinburgh Barstar of the Day, the fabulously hirsute Kyle Jamieson who takes care of his punters at Panda and Sons on Queen Street.
Richard takes us just a few steps from Princes Street today for the discovery of Hoot The Redeemer and the wonderful Sarah Urwin serving cocktails.
Richard ventures over to Broughton Street Lane to the Outhouse where today's EdFringe Barstar is Cordelia Toennies from Germany, who studied drama in Scotland and wants to move to ...
In a sea of celebrities, we chat to the people who really matter - the people serving us a drink. Today we find out a little more about Ben Howard at the Abattoir Bar.
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...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
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.
In the last two years, improv comedy has experienced a surge of popularity around London with great new groups popping up on the scene.
For the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe free shows will return to The Counting House venue on West Nicolson Street, following a one year hiatus with the venue being programmed under a paid s...
Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, sports presenter Ore Oduba and actress Lesley Joseph are the latest celebrities announced to appear on the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour, wh...
Anyone who thinks Edinburgh amounts to the Fringe festival, a castle and a zoo with two Chinese pandas clearly hasn’t discovered its gruesome history: while Jack the Ripper was k...
German theatre isn't well known outside Germany.
Hit musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors is back, and bringing everyone’s favourite carnivorous plant to theatres across the UK in a brand new tour for 2016, opening at Bournemo...
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
A theatre company nominated for an Olivier Award will open the ninth annual Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival at Greenwich Theatre on Good Friday, March 26.
Expectantly waiting for the Brighton Fringe? Then we’ve got the perfect antidote.
Producer Mark Goucher has confirmed that following the phenomenal success of the current UK tour, the new production of Hairspray will return at the end of summer 2017 to once agai...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Summer Days – the UK’s newest boutique music and food festival – has unveiled a trio of post-punk legends to bolster an already incredible and eclectic line-up.
Comedian Norman Pace will be joining the cast of the smash hit musical Rocky Horror Show next month.
Since its inception in 2012 VAULT has hosted over 250 productions, from outrageous comedy acts to hard-hitting political theatre and experimental new work from Britain’s most exc...
Following a successful run at Brighton Fringe in 2015 and two previous sold-out and critically acclaimed runs at the King's Head Theatre, 5 Guys Chillin' returns this February.
Shona McCarthy has been named as Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, filling the post Kath Mainland will vacate in March.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Stand Up Steffan Alun has a fair few things to say about stepping up to stand up at the Free Fringe.
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell’s rock opera, has passionate, protective fans.
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Have a thing for iambic pentameter and ghosts of politician's past? Then this might be the show for you! Broadway Baby finds out more.
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.
Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October.
Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...