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.
On the first night of their two-part gig, beloved orchestral-pop group The Magnetic Fields perform from their landmark concept album 69 Love Songs.
Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
Alastair Savage (fiddle) and Alice Allen (cello) are two of Scotland’s most versatile instrumentalists.
WORLD PREMIERE David Ireland’s latest collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland tells a complex story about men, intimacy and our belief systems.
Award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Austen’s Women) return with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
Back for their second run! An international improv team, each member from a different country, presents the premiere (and last ever performance) of a “movie” inspired by your s…
The true story of my brother’s murder so of course, it’s comedy.
Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together.
Inspired by a Hungarian gangster dad, a Sunday school mother, teenage years with Hell’s Angels, Emma Taylor (NewsRevue producer) takes us on an unforgettable ride.
One of the most celebrated stars in British comedy, Tez Ilyas (Live At the Apollo, Mock The Week, Comedy Central, Comic Relief) and Sunday Times best-selling author (Secret Diary o…
An evening of side-splitting stand-up comedy and impromptu silliness from Fringe veteran Chris Groves.
It’s a one-night stand for the Fannies’ ‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
An hilarious one-hour alphabetical journey in the medium of quick fire One-Liner Jokes.
Not a one woman show.
With oral history passed down over the family generations, Peter gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote ove…
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Edinburgh Live’s number one pick of the Free Fringe is back for a third year! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and…
A marathon of the macabre.
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…
An insect joke? Tick.
Critically acclaimed Quebec City-based circus company, Machine de Cirque, present the award-winning Maxim Laurin (Guinness World Record holder) performing a spectacular duet with G…
Gimme the thrills, gimme the spills, gimme a man with a microphone in his hand and careless abandon in his heart, gimme the winner of the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show, gimm…
Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of traveling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian whi…
Embark on a musical odyssey with One Acchord: That’s Life in Harmony.
A funeral you can’t keep your inappropriate self from laughing through: this one-person show is a love letter to the humiliating experience of becoming a grown up, and the way gr…
This brand-new musical version of the timeless classic takes you down the rabbit hole with the ever-curious Alice to a land of zany adventures where nothing is as it seems.
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death, immerse yourselves in two of Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classics.
Jo’s best jokes and funniest routines from her 2024 tour show.
Jasmine Alice is an internationally acclaimed vocalist who will take you on a thrilling musical journey through the life of the iconic Celine Dion.
A 2017 Capital Fringe Best of the Fringe pick, One in Four is a play about four roommates: each one is an alien, and each one believes the other three to be regular degular humans.
A heart-warming, poignant and, at times funny play about palliative nurse and ex-singer/songwriter Bronwyn, who is commissioned by her patient (Henry) to write an album of music ba…
Can one man recreate live on stage, the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever? Laurence Tuck is that man.
With her notorious gang-leader brother heading off to WW1, Alice Diamond seizes her chance to take his place and stamp her mark on the streets of London.
America is the land of the free, home of the brave and homeland of two of the freest, bravest men to ever live: Mark Henely and Chris Warren.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Ryan Mold returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new debut show.
Reigning Comedian’s Comedian and human rights advocate Sid Singh (BBC, NBC, Comedy Central, iUmor) returns with a new hit show that has sold-out all over Europe and Asia for two ye…
Astute observational humour with an irreverent flair from two of Birmingham’s silliest sausages.
‘This company truly are the best at storytelling’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
An elastic-bodied reimagining of Hamlet, told entirely from the perspective of the Dane.
If you live to 80 years old, you will have lived for about 4,000 weeks.
The comedic prop-pun lunatic Roger Swift shoots out 200 puns in one hour! With his trademark crazy homemade props, audio cues and PowerPoint slides.
One barista, 10 seasons, 70 minutes! All 236 episodes of Friends retold through the eyes of Gunther, Central Perk’s “seventh Friend”.
A fully packed hour of entertainment.
Two award-winning comics deal late-night craic in the mid-afternoon, a wild mix of dark, satirical stand-up and musical comedy.
Gary Lynch is Ireland’s leading mid-life-crisis comedian.
A fruity apocalyptic rom-com from the razor-sharp pen of Fringe First winner David Finnigan.
After years away from stand-up (due to the global pandemic and a lack of interest in being out late), the co-writer and co-director of BBC and HBO’s Starstruck returns with a brand…
Channel 4 Sean Lock Award winner Eric Rushton is a comedian with a chequered past.
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
Award-winning musical comedy duo Flo & Joan present their own original one-man musical about a very renowned gentleman.
BC:AD (Before Children, After Diapers) is a stand-up comedy show and one mad, mommy’s take on how the definitions of words change before and during motherhood.
Or: what not to do when you discover one of the world’s greatest pop duos in a village hall.
Friends, nerds, countrymen! Lend me your cubes! What’s your Roman Empire? The thing you can’t stop thinking about? Tom has collected a few obsessions over the years.
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee) serves up his debut hour.
Begins with the history of dating from dance halls and slow sets to modern ‘apps’.
What does it mean to remember the Holocaust in 2024? How do you bear the legacy of trauma while forging ahead in the 21st century? Jane Elias grapples with these questions through …
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Charlie played by the rules, married the right woman, took the right job.
Maddy is worried that no one is having fun at her party.
Demi Adejuyigbe is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, and, inexplicably, a musician, known for his podcasts Punch Up The Jam and Gilmore Guys, his popular September 21st video series, …
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 …
Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of travelling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian wh…
Brixton House present Written by Tobi King Bakare (previously part of Housemates Festival 2023) ‘Mandem’ A collective noun for a bunch of boys or men, particularly your own …
Join me, Pauline Daniels, for an evening of laughter and song to kick off my birthday celebrations! With 44 years in the business I thought it about time I put a bit of …
“she came from Xinjiang is a play that unfolds the poignant and inspiring narrative of Mila, a young woman from Xinjiang who ventures far from home to pursue her passion for dance …
“she came from Xinjiang is a play that unfolds the poignant and inspiring narrative of Mila, a young woman from Xinjiang who ventures far from home to pursue her passion for dance …
When the time comes to become a parent, you just know…right ? Especially the woman – the maternal instinct is reputedly strong.
Jonathan Oldfield brings an intriguing one man show to the stage: sitting in his living room watching the world go by behind his one way mirror out onto the world, safe in the know…
Returning to Brighton Fringe after a sold-out three-night run in 2022, award-winning performer Paul Diello and his 8-piece ensemble are back with an all-new version of ‘The Great 8…
An interactive solo performance about failure, feeling like an idiot and music, by Rachel Blackman and her creative team.
Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show.
See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”.
Triple Threat is a split bill divided by 3 with Monica, Aisha and Anais making jokes about their experiences living in London as hot immigrant girlies.
Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? One Way Mirror is a story about the art of people watching, built for extroverts, introverts and everyone in-between.
BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up.
For charisma, no other male dancer can beat Carlos Acosta, one of the greatest classical dancers of our times, still spell-binding at fifty.
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‘We can be us, just for one day’ Relive the day music brought the world together.
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
Tania has her heart set on her dream job but has she unwittingly placed a curse on her dating life? Our heroine, ably assisted by her bestie Jayne, comes face to face with the t…
Theatre Lab Company’s new production is an innovative re-telling of the beloved classic story, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland accompanied by an original live musical score…
Join me, Pauline Daniels, for an evening of laughter and song to kick off our festive celebrations! With 43 years in the business I thought it about time I put a bi…
One summer Birdie lost her virginity on the ninth hole of the golf course, to her boss.
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…
'Profoundly moving, bitingly brutal and laugh-out-loud funny!' - Sally CooksonThe Ugly One is a cautionary tale of identity and beauty vibrating with the energy of a pneuma…
Alastair completes his unique and varied festival programme this year alongside one of the country’s foremost talents in the contemporary folk-music scene, featuring music from Sco…
Sing about the opera faces. The age of awakening. Chinese youth traditional repertoire.
Dave’s relationship with art is not going well, in more ways than one.
‘Remember Paris, Remember The Before, Remember Me’ In a place, a couple try to recount memories from a holiday in Paris.
Join author Dina Nayeri and cultural development specialist Fairouz Nishanova in a discussion on listening to different perspectives.
‘Remember Paris, Remember The Before, Remember Me’ In a place, a couple try to recount memories from a holiday in Paris.
Jasmine Alice is an internationally acclaimed vocalist who will take you on a thrilling musical journey through the life of the iconic Celine Dion.
“Actually.
“Actually.
The Brighton Fringe sell-out show is coming to Edinburgh Fringe.
Ageing violinist Alan Gottlieb has long been content to sit at the back desk of the seconds, coasting his way to retirement.
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
A laugh-out-loud, immersive, comedic, heartfelt tribute to Hollywood’s most iconic blonde bombshell.
Sharp, silly and sublime solo character comedy from Luke Manning, formerly one half of veteran Fringe sketch duo, In Cahoots, and a writer-performer for BBC Radio 4’s Sketchtopia a…
10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show.
It’s a one night stand for the Fannies (‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
Toxicity.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Grown-ups are confusing, as are the rules of their world! In this family-friendly reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s enduring tale Alice navigates the topsy-turvy world of wonderland…
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Sex cults with fake feminism, pretend shamans, Burning Man, Lower East Side “nightclub photographers” and Tinder f*ck boys all make an appearance in this educational and hilari…
Toxicity.
Nestled in a dim-lit basement within a stone archway, Paradise in The Vault feels like the perfect venue to indulge in some late evening fairytales, and from the moment the cast co…
Peter gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote over 100 years ago.
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
Lewis Carroll is turning in his grave at Tim Nelson’s Alice in Wonderland.
Edinburgh Live’s number-one pick of the Free Fringe 2022 returns! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and unexpected …
When Edinburgh’s iconic One o’Clock Gun is stolen by shady Glaswegians only our hero Morningside Malcolm, quiet resident of the douce suburbs, can prevent strife and aggro between …
An exciting new version of Miles Tredinnick’s original 1999 show.
The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity.
A young man visits his dying father in the ICU and uncovers a shocking revelation: his father’s secret second family.
A 62-year-old woman in an insane asylum closes her eyes and becomes a 28-year-old, stand-up comedian with everyone in the audience being part of her imagination, including you.
ERA Productions returns to the Fringe this year with a familiar act that sees the lively quartet of Megan (Mia Taylor), Nicole (Catherine Hutchinson), Amy (Abi Price) and Olivia (M…
Buy that Meno-Porsche, bungee-jump with your second family, or dare to try Marmite again! Whatever your age, it’s a great time for a midlife crisis! We’ll share how to ditch pa…
In this multi award-winning show, Kerry Hiles – accompanied by Germaine Gamiet – shines the light on Judy Garland, the undisputed queen of cabaret.
Bold, unapologetic, and certainly unique, Sad-Vents is a really terrific example of innovative theatre that invites its audience into a space which is as unsettling as it is empowe…
Stuck in Free Fall is a show about Nothing.
Queer feminist and bloody lefty Kathleen has fallen into a settled life with a nice boy who can do maths.
A lot of laughs and refreshingly comfortable seating await you at Friend (The One with Gunther), playing at the Gilded Balloon at the Museum.
Winner of the 2023 Edinburgh Untapped Award, One Way Out is a powerful exploration of the injustices suffered by the Windrush generation, through the lens of four boys from South L…
‘A love letter to my mother that I’ll never send.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Do you like musical comedy? Do you like non-musical comedy? Do you not care, as long as it’s good? Then come enjoy either the first half, the second half, or even all of this show,…
Alice-India – 2Northdown New Comedian of the Year finalist, Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian finalist – is just like a regular person.
Award-winning lefty comedian and human rights advocate Sid Singh takes you on a hilarious journey as he figures out how to fight the good fight… as far from home as possible! The…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
If we’re technically speaking, there is one (1) person invited to this show, but you (yes, you) are allowed (and inarguably encouraged) to come to the debut Fringe show from Canadi…
In a world where one man can be one character, Alexander Richmond dares to be twelve of them.
Telling five short tales from the mystical fictional world of Jianghu, Fall and Flow showcases the beauty and physicality of Hong Kong theatrical traditions in combination with Th�…
High on my list of must-see Fringe shows for this year’s festival, Tutu is an explosion of colour, grace, and humour.
Packed into a very small room on Chambers Street, Almost Adult certainly didn’t win the venue lottery, but once settled into your seat Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s protagonist Hope …
Star of Spitting Image (Britbox), Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) impressionist Luke Kempner brings his one-man British Police Drama to Edinburgh.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by …
Gripping and emotionally charged, Forests is an experimental Fringe performance not to be missed.
I showered before I came.
Having never seen Alice Fraser before, I was apprehensive about what to expect from her comedy.
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
One of America’s top comedians, Lynn T.
Bringing the nation’s favourite tea-guzzling tiger to life on stage, this musical slice of teatime mayhem entertains with sing-a-long songs, oodles of magic and interactive fun.
About the show On an ordinary night, in a quiet country village, a series of gift bags appear at carefully selected households.
7 Years after it's first tour, Luke Adamson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama about Alzheimer's is being published.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
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Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes.
Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes.
One-hit wonders are like love affairs – intense, but alas, all-too-brief- so join award-winning performer Paul Diello and his eight-piece ensemble as they resurrect some of the g…
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Featuring writers including Nick Payne, Elinor Cook and (Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer winner) John Patrick Shanley, SHORTS celebrates the beauty and frailty within human connection, an…
Ah, Birthdays.
The author of the bestselling poetry series The Art of a Damaged Soul brings you the hard-hitting , powerful one woman show.
Ah, Birthdays.
Join Ben Carter and Joe Bunn two of the UK’s limpest forces that have been proper melted together for one hour of entertainment.
In A Little Killing Hurts No One, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of an Arab, longing so badly to be part of it, yet confronted with some…
In “A little killing hurts no one”, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of a Libyan Arab, longing so bad to be part of it, yet confronted wit…
CTC Dance Company will unpick the timeless story of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland and reveal an eerie transcendent adaptation, displaying a constantly evolving worl…
Remeber Paris, Remember The Before, Remember Me’In a place, One and Two sit together, trying to remember a holiday they had to Paris when they were younger.
Good things will happen.
After Lloyd’s last tour was interrupted by ‘you know what’ and ended up lasting eight years or so, he’s BACK with a brand-new fresh stand-up tour…
After Lloyd’s last tour was interrupted by ‘you know what’ and ended up lasting eight years or so, he’s BACK with a brand-new fresh stand-up tour…
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
Flinch A play about everyday pain One Hundred Ghost Stories Based on supernatural samurai game Flinch - Rare AnticsThrough playful vignettes, three performers examine ho…
A theatrical comedy meta horror multimedia experience - this show has all the adjectives and more! A desperate actor seeks a friend to be the ‘reader’ for their self tape.
Join me, Pauline Daniels, for an evening of laughter and song.
Celebrate Valentine's Day with an evening of comedy and music in the Royal Court Studio.
One of You Has to DieA post-apocalyptic interactive comedy showHR_final.
What happens when you try to run 26.
Literally what it says on the tin: ‘Six Plays One Day’ offers a wide variety in a short space of time.
‘…one of the most important events I have seen…’ - Damian Todres, Wells Cathedral School‘…it was stunning and has left an incredible impression …
Renowned as The Godfather of Gothic Horror, Edgar Allan Poe has left a timeless mark on the horror genre.
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Edgar Allan Poe has left a timeless mark on the horror genre.
Following sensational critical acclaim One Woman Show played sold out runs at Soho Theatre London and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and was called “the single hottest ticket in …
The hit immersive show returns! The world-renowned Olivier nominated smash hit will once again open at its new home, LABYRINTH Waterloo on Tuesday 15 November.
A festival celebrating the connections we make throughout our life, an ode to family, friends, and lovers alike.
Using original texts from the 1840s, Stephen Smith faithfully brings Edgar Allan Poe’s words to life on stage, performing four of the most terrifying examples of gothic literature:…
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN Performed by GARY MULLEN AND THE WORKS In 2000, Gary Mullen won ITV’s “Stars In Their Eyes” Live Grand Final, with the larges…
The quiz with just one question! Ollie Horn challenges a different comedian friend each show to a deceptively difficult game of putting things in order.
Every family has its drama, and every wedding has its secrets.
Experience a joyful adaptation of this classic, in a show for the whole family.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Captivate Theatre brings the smash-hit comedy to the Fringe! ‘You gotta concentrate ain’t ya, with two jobs.
The Guardian’s #1 Comedy Show of 2021 comes to the Fringe for a limited run.
Attention Needed is a fearless ride through stupidity and chaos.
Follow our adventurous, modern-day Alice through the looking glass to a wonderful, upside-down world of kings, queens, knights and other strange and comical characters who challeng…
When Amy, Megan, Nicole and Olivia decide to go on a week-long girls holiday to Magaluf, some of them are excited for sun, sex and sangria.
A Sri Lankan teenager’s quest to stage a live theatre show amidst post-AL angst, a pandemic and a country in crisis, told through a comedic, musical and dramatic multi-character …
A musical and a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! One man’s award-winning celebration of the work of the late writer, musician and working-class g…
This show is about identity, where to buy it, and how to cook it properly to make you stand out with your friends.
One Single Thread is a form-bending character and sketch “solo-ish” show written by NYC comedian Lauren Gamiel, featuring Slaney Rose Jordan.
“At the end of the tunnel we arrive here, an inner sanctum of endless adventure.
A Mighty Fall from Grace follows the life of a Bradford Bulls fan, who over several years watches his club deteriorate on and off the field and whose mental health deteriorates thr…
“At the end of the tunnel we arrive here, an inner sanctum of endless adventure.
Saber Came to Tea is an entertaining short play with original music and magic that tells the story of one young woman’s defiant stand against the constraining social norms of her f…
A beautiful, moving one-act play based on poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.
Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote over a hundred years ago.
Jess meets Jim.
A musical and a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! One man’s award-winning celebration of the work of the late writer, musician and working-class g…
Very occasionally, a performance transcends the boundaries of the form in ways previously unseen.
In this powerful one-hour theater piece, Kimleigh Smith takes the audience through a journey that is totally uplifting, totally heartbreaking and totally powerful! Totally! is the …
‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Mina (Comedy Central, STOMP) returns with her acclaimed multimedia show weaving together hilarious and heartfelt stories from her New York upbringing as the daughter of an Italian-…
Laurel and Chaplin: Before They Were Famous.
100,000 characters.
Join the award-winning star of Breaking The News, Heart FM and One Show for a joyful new comedy chat show.
The One Between, formed from the leaders of both sides of the struggle, is the last hope of restoring balance to the world through a show of strength, spirit, essence and loyalty.
An epic dystopian drama about the threat of religious extremism and right-wing populism.
MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London.
Alternative comedy extravaganza from two bizarre characters! See The Daft Duo as their solo performance personas in this double-bill.
Paul Sinha is probably best known as one of Bradley Walsh’s TV team of ‘Chasers’: a characterful crew of six champion quizzers whose aim is to stop four plucky hopefuls getti…
Since Charles Ross first brought his hilarious show to Edinburgh in 2006, it has established itself as a Fringe favourite.
Alice-India, 2Northdown New Comedian of the Year Finalist 2021, wants to be your best ever friend forever.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
What happens when you try to run 26.
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
They’re back! After years away touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Fring…
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
One time, Alice got kicked out of an airport because her passport was covered in glow stick – and that’s just the start.
Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another.
‘Few comics reduce their audience to the constant waves of laughter for the full hour like Britton does’ (Chortle.
A musical AND a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! My show (nominated for Best Spoken Word and winner of Greater Manchester Spirit Of The Fringe, 20…
A musical AND a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! My show (nominated for Best Spoken Word and winner of Greater Manchester Spirit Of The Fringe, 20…
A musical AND a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! My show (winner of Greater Manchester Spirit Of The Fringe, 2021) is one man’s attempt to celeb…
A musical AND a film about Queen and not one show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! My show (winner of Greater Manchester Spirit Of The Fringe, 2021) is one man’s attempt to celeb…
An immersive storytelling experience that brings the audience into the world of Wonderland.
An immersive storytelling experience that brings the audience into the world of Wonderland.
Acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, “outstanding physical and comedic performer” (The Scotsman), brings you his weird and wonderful part theatre, part stand-up comedy show, ‘I…
Acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, “outstanding physical and comedic performer” (The Scotsman), brings you his weird and wonderful part theatre, part stand-up comedy show, ‘I…
No One is a modern re-mix of HG Well’s The Invisible Man as a high-octane thriller.
Sometimes you see a piece of theatre that is so superb and shines so bright in every single way that it knocks you sideways.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
One-hit wonders are like love affairs – intense, but alas, all-too-brief- so join award-winning performer Paul Diello and his eight-piece ensemble as they resurrect some of the g…
The newly formed Amiche Quartet are breaking down the concept of the classical concert.
The newly formed Amiche Quartet are breaking down the concept of the classical concert.
Heather Alexander lit up the stage as she portrayed one of the most fearless female writers in history - Virginia Woolf.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Alice-India (2Northdown New Act Finalist 2021) wants to be your best ever friend forever.
Alice-India (2Northdown New Act Finalist 2021) wants to be your best ever friend forever.
Join Mr Dilly and MacMillan Children’s Books on a joyous journey to the magical world of Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems! Celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Th…
Join Mr Dilly and MacMillan Children’s Books on a joyous journey to the magical world of Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems! Celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Th…
Alice is bored and loves to daydream.
Alice is bored and loves to daydream.
Tadhg Hickey introduces you to Feargal; a downtrodden but cheery man who fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming an alcoholic.
Based on the 18th century Beggar’s Opera and Brecht & Weill’s Threepenny Opera, the band present their own version of this wildly entertaining story as a song cycle swarming wi…
Meet Dolly: a 20-something Londoner with one hell of a temper.
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
There is deceit in the title of this play.
A fantastical ballet for the whole family! Let’s All Dance returns with this fabulous family favourite.
A fantastical ballet for the whole family! Let’s All Dance returns with this fabulous family favourite.
Chiron: A One Centaur Show Lanky horse-boy talks funny A Beautiful Mess To-do lists aren't actually helpful.
The Documentary No One Asked ForThis absurdly hilarious radio play follows the investigations of a disgraced RTE journalist who has travelled to a strange island off the…
No One Is Coming is a storytelling performance about a mother and a daughter inspired by real life events and infused with Irish mythology and comedy.
It’s time to fall in love again with “Mr Christmas” – Andy Williams – in this family-friendly spectacular featuring Andy (Colin Savage) and legendary special guests as he…
Ladles and Gentle-spoons, Toys and Curls! Welcome to the rib-tickly, fun-fizzing, whack-tastic world of Wonderland!Tickets:Performances have a different pri…
"Part gig, part festival, part immersive adventure" - Lauren Laverne "Secret Cinema for live music" - London Live "Best Covid Safe Live Music Event 2020&qu…
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 1998! It was the year pure pop really hit the big time with B*Witched …
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…
One man.
‘Master of one-liners’ and DAVE’s Top Ten Jokes of The Edinburgh Fringe 2019 MARK SIMMONS, recently joined Dara O’Brian and Hugh Dennis on BBC2’s Mock The Week as…
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre.
A marathon of gothic horror masterpieces. One actor performs Edgar Allan Poe’s most spine-chilling classics
There’s magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded play in history and “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade&rdqu…
What’s scarier than a slice of gothic horror? Four slices, that’s what.
A musical AND a film about Queen and not ONE show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! The Church of The Fall is one man’s attempt to do justice to Mark E.
A musical AND a film about Queen and not ONE show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! The Church of The Fall is one man’s attempt to do justice to Mark E.
A musical AND a film about Queen and not ONE show about The Fall? That’s bobbins! The Church of The Fall is one man’s attempt to do justice to Mark E.
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 2001! Its been 20 years since 2001, the year that Atomic Kitten swappe…
In 2010 the world was in a sorry state.
London Pride is NOT cancelled!Yes Sadiq said we can’t have our annual parade BUT no one can stop us having fun and celebrating our right to be proud.
Box Tale Soup invite you down the rabbit hole into a timeless world of wondrous fantasy.
After a critically acclaimed debut hour, Ollie Horn returns with a new hour of stand-up about what happens when you let yourself try new things.
‘The first Naughty Step party is around the corner.
Mark Simmons (Mock The Week, Dave’s Top Jokes of the Fringe 2017, 2019) has been busy with his podcast Jokes With Mark over the last 18 months, interviewing the likes of Milton Jon…
Rio de Janeiro-based choreographer Alice Ripoll’s celebratory film about the lives of her company’s dancers.
Rio de Janeiro-based choreographer Alice Ripoll presents her celebratory film about the lives of her company’s dancers.
As seen and heard on Netflix, Union Jack Radio and the Max Turner final.
Stefan Warzycki presents a programme of piano music for the left hand including Godowsky’s studies on Chopin’s Op 10 Études, Scenes of Iceland by Thordur Magnusson and Scriabin’s …
The awkwardness of a blind date.
The awkwardness of a blind date.
As times of heady redolence go, the 1990s lacks the brittle style of the 1920s, sepia-tinted upper-lips of haunted men in WWI uniforms, or groovy pereniorange of the 1960s… And y…
One of the Gals is completely packed.
Choose Alice Brine’s work in progress show.
Choose Alice Brine’s work in progress show.
This is an R&D based project, made possible by funding from the Arts Council.
This is an R&D based project, made possible by funding from the Arts Council.
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.
It’s a Fringe 1st.
After a critically acclaimed debut hour, Ollie Horn returns with a new hour of stand-up about what happens when you let yourself try new things.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
As seen and heard on Netflix, Union Jack Radio and the Max Turner final.
Fiercely fabulous and fictitious Las Vegas lounge legend, Trudy Carmichael has lived (and nearly died), loved (and often lost) more than most mere mortals, but she gets through all…
You are on an island.
Join Mr Dilly and MacMillan Children’s Books on a joyous journey to the magical world of Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems! Celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Thro…
In association with Smock Alley Theatre, acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey brings you his weird and wonderful part-theatre, part-stand-up comedy show, In One Eye, Out the Other…
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.
Three flatmates are in their final year of university, working through the aftermath of the death of one of their best friends.
Making her headline Edinburgh Fringe debut, Alice Rabbit – Mother of the Hoose of Rabbit, reigning queen of Edinburgh’s regular Tuesday night explosion, The Rabbit Hole and all-r…
A hypnotic dreamscape.
If you hate Laura McMahon, women in general or comedy, then don’t see this show.
Ruby Carr (Amused Moose New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) and Alice-India (Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) are looking for a person or persons to join …
Ruby Carr (Amused Moose New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) and Alice-India (Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist) are looking for a person or persons to join …
If you hate Laura McMahon or women in general or comedy this isn’t the show for you.
If you hate Laura McMahon, women in general or comedy, then don’t see this show.
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular novels.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
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.
Drawing on the wealth of peculiar episodes from both ‘Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Box Tale Soup invite you down the rabbit hole into a timeless world…
Drawing on the wealth of peculiar episodes from both ‘Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Box Tale Soup invite you down the rabbit hole into a timeless world…
Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard fought campaign for the right to vote over a 100 years ago.
Jake Thompson is a West Yorkshire based actor/writer, who’s debut play ‘A Mighty Fall from Grace’ tells a gritty, relatable story, about the demise of the Bradford Bulls rugby leag…
Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard fought campaign for the right to vote over a 100 years ago.
Jake Thompson is a West Yorkshire based actor/writer, who’s debut play ‘A Mighty Fall from Grace’ tells a gritty, relatable story, about the demise of the Bradford Bulls rugby leag…
Join Alice on the day of her 50th birthday party as she uses all her tools to survive the effects of childhood trauma-with sometimes unexpected and darkly comic results! This origi…
We all have secrets to keep.
In 2010 the world was in a sorry state.
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
A two hour introductory workshop for self-producing artists and others interested in producing.
You are on an island.
Performances have a different pricing bands.
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… but 1.
A fantastical ballet for the whole family! Let’s All Dance returns with this fabulous family favourite.
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
FTLO Theater Troupe Presents; Alice and Wonderland – highlighting themes of maintaining identity in the face of adversity.
Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote over 100 years ago.
Sometimes we all feel different but not everyone has that confirmed by a professional.
Perhaps Pinter’s most political theatrical statement rings terrifyingly true as we enter our new decade.
Chris Dugdale, the only act ever to win the Edfest Bouquet four times! Total sell-out 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Baker (GameDay Warm-Up and Glory Hunters co-host on talkSPORT) is Devonshire and proud.
They’re back! After years away, touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Frin…
Everything’s a matter of time, one way or another.
In 2010, the world was in a sorry state.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
It’s me, Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks! In this show I’ll examine relationships (all kinds, baby), mental health (other people’s,…
Jesse is paranoid and he's frightened and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his daughter and his life… In a bittersweet comedy fuelled by anti-Semitis…
A comedy show by Andrea Hubert, in which she’ll mostly bitch about the people in her group therapy, while attempting to make a point about ageing and being Jewish …
Paquito Forever, performed by Joan Vázquez, is an intimate, personal (and musical!) and fun account of the real-life adventures of Paquito (Paco) Alonso, a gay Catalonian growing …
Fresh from a slot on James Corden’s Late Late Show, Lou Sanders breezes into Brighton to blow away the grubby taint of the coronavirus—and your dad.
Threedumb Theatre returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre for another whole day of one-act plays, showcasing a wide variety of new writing.
Harry and Chris (Guardian Pick of the Fringe 2018) are at the top of their field, having invented the field of comedy-rap-jazz.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
Christian Patterson returns as the clumsy schemer Francis Henshall! Written by Richard Bean| Directed by Peter Doran| Designed by Sean Crowley This Autumn, the Torch Theatr…
In fringe theatre, no one can hear you scream: one hour, one woman, one cult movie.
DRACULA: ONE BLOODY FANG AFTER ANOTHERWritten and Performed by John Hewer Whitby, England, 1897.
After being fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall is skint and hungry.
Following the huge success of the first season of Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace, Lambert Jackson are thrilled to return with another star-filled line-up of intimate West En…
Written, created and performed by Isabella Bliss, international star of both screen and stage.
In 2015 Alice Fraser (Radio Four, co-host of The Bugle podcast) unleashed Savage onto comedy festivals around the world.
Over the bank holiday weekend, Immersion Theatre's Alice in Wonderland offered a charming way to spend the afternoon.
Alastair has performed throughout the world as a traditional and classical performer.
One is the final part in Bert and Nasi’s trilogy on contemporary questions, following Eurohouse and the Total Theatre Award-winning Palmyra.
A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
‘The best artist we’ve ever had in session’ (BBC Radio Scotland).
Hello, I am Charles Quarterman.
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Alice Birch’s writing.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Funny Women One to Watch and Soho Radio presenter Kelly Ford AKA Book of Mum teams up with Max Turner finalist Naomi Wattis (BBC Two, BBC Radio 4 Extra) to talk about judgment, per…
Atmospheric drama about Second Opium War, populated by rarefied creatures of Chinese and British royal courts.
The award-winning Fiona Henderson School of Dance returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after their sell-out debut in 2017 with a unique creative dance composition created and rehearsed …
A well-loved family favourite.
Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes.
Lisa Klevemark, though Swedish, Lutheran and very boring, went to renowned clown school Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.
Miss Sophie has invited her four closest friends to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Enjoy watching some of the best one-liner comedians at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe rise to the challenge of performing a total of 1,000 of their best one-liners to raise money fo…
By mixing fiction and non-fiction, this performance transports the audience to the moment before the inevitable eruption, allowing them to understand and feel the causes that led t…
In an unassuming French restaurant, an American news anchor meets with a man who reveals to her that the 1969 moon landing was faked and this time there’s proof.
It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.
Don’t be late for a very important date! We invite you to follow us down the rabbit hole to the weird and wonderful world of Wonderland, where things will get curiouser and curio…
Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote over a 100 years ago.
‘Bold, subversive and dominant’ (ObjectivelyFunny.
Meet the two men who wish they were your dad (but who are glad he went to prison.
Workshopped with young people from PQA Glasgow’s afternoon academy, Lewis Carroll’s classic quirky fairy tale is retold through the eyes of Glaswegian teenagers.
Workshopped with young people from PQA Glasgow’s morning academy, Lewis Carroll’s classic quirky fairy tale is retold through the eyes of Glaswegian teenagers.
The Brunton’s series of classical lunchtime concerts.
Queen are in Edinburgh and they’re here to rock in a brand-new show guaranteed to blow your mind.
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Struggling with anxiety and depression in everyday life, Alice enters a topsy-turvy world Through the Looking-Glass.
And other noble-minded nonsense.
A thought-provoking show about haircuts and heartache.
Triple Fringe First, Olivier, and Herald Angel award winners Fishamble and Pat Kinevane present Before, a new play with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin on the very day this …
Surrealist comedian, author, illustrator and Fringe favourite Olaf Falafel presents his latest book It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind.
The Rise and Fall of Patti Superb.
Psychologists claim answering 36 questions can make two strangers fall in love.
One man, a guitar, and the most venerated love story of all time.
Ten strangers visit the same park bench on the same day.
Pip Utton returns with last year’s smash hit.
There are worse ways to start a show than with free sweets, and no better way to end it than with a singalong.
Nicola and Rosie Dempsey (aka: Flo & Joan) walk out to polite applause before stumbling through the intro bars of their opening number.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Joey Page – award-nominated star of Nevermind the Buzzcocks – 31, is having a midlife crisis.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
If you’ve been unlucky in love, nothing makes you feel better about yourself than laughing at someone else.
Before 30 follows Chris, a Deliveroo driver trying to make his way in the world.
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Chris Dugdale: Down to One.
April 2015, Michel Graindorge passed away.
Best Male Comedian winner, New Zealand Comedy Guild awards 2017.
‘Who are you?’ asked the Cheshire cat.
Doug Crossley’s solo show brings together songs, comedy and the heartache of trying to understand a friend’s suicide.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-dubbed ‘Lie-in King’, Seann Walsh returns to Edinburgh.
As seen on ABC, The Comedy Channel and Channel 11 which featured their one hour comedy special.
Alice Fraser has been lying to herself.
A girl from Oxford meets a boy from Asteroid B-612.
Last spotted leaving BBC’s River City in a limo with Claire from Steps – Gary is back at the Fringe following smash-hit runs in 2016/17.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Star of BBC Radio 4’s Chinese Comedian and co-host of E4’s The Hangover Games, Ken Cheng is back with a complete treatise on racism.
Leaping barriers of age, sexuality and gender, Gloria prepares to dance the can-can one last time.
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
Who are we? What are we doing here? Do you like me? And what are you saying behind my back? Let’s all get together and definitively find out if I’m the best or worst person you…
One Duck Down.
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…
Star of Radio 4’s Chinese Comedian, E4’s The Hangover Games and winner of Dave’s Joke of the Fringe, Ken returns with a love-letter to all the Twitter …
Alice Fraser has been lying to herself.
At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical.
It’s about Medea, the woman who killed her children.
Friday 31st May, 2pmTickets: £15 each or £56 for a Family Ticket (4 people but must include at least 1 child under 16yrs)Duration:Suitable for…
Dena Blizzard, the viral video sensation and creator of the Back to School Rant (125 million views), Chardonnay Go (24 million views) and Chardonnay Go, The Board Game f…
On one hand, Moving Pieces Theatre Company has a bold mission statement: ‘We combine performing arts with the containment of psycho-therapeutic practices and emergent ideas relatin…
Award-winning performances of Adolf, Bacon, Chaplin, Maggie and Churchill have taken Pip around the world.
Dropped on the wrong planet in 1994, Alice-India dissects the crisis that took over her life by letting it run riot in public.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
Majk Stokes is a singer-songwriter, poet, environmentalist, Quaker and self-confessed caffeine-addict.
Welcome inside the mind of endearing oddity Kallis Kyriacou.
Agatha Christie’s dark and chilling play - The Rats.
Lisa is always on time.
In Fringe theatre, no one can hear you scream: one hour, one woman, one cult movie! The sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show returns to Brighton, celebrating 40 years of the horror cla…
Irish comedian Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Showtime’s Live from Amsterdam) brings us a stand-up show that celebrates failure and loss and incompetence and…
The Brighton Beach Boys turn their laser-sharp gaze towards this classic of 70s Rock.
A four piece Japanese rock band who formed in 2005.
Jenny Rowe’s solo show Tiptree: No One Else’s Damn Secret But My Own is about a woman with many lives, who is best known for not being a man.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
It’s Mary Flanigan and Robbie McShane! One’s a comedian, one’s a robot pretending to be a comedian.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and the self-dubbed “Lie-In King”, Seann Walsh is “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation" (…
Duration: 55mins (no interval) The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea.
Devised by William Spencer Join us for an afternoon of cabaret featuring lost gems from Chicago, Gypsy, Little Shop of Horrors, Aladdin and more.
No One is ComingMy Mam's different to yours.
A fantastical new ballet for the whole family! Let’s All Dance returns with this fabulous family favourite.
A fantastical new ballet for the whole family! Let’s All Dance returns with this fabulous family favourite.
This is ETHOS, the first human/robot double act.
Before is a new play with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts - for good.
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle pieces together Alexandra and Kate Donnachie’s sometimes heartbreaking but often hilarious memories of growing up together and managing their cl…
One Love is a joyous exploration of friendship, what it’s like to be in love and have a learning disability.
Babygirl is eighteen, a student, and has just discovered SEX – in spite of her strict Catholic upbringing by two crotchety old women.
Come and explore an ecosystem of balloons: universes in miniature.
The Quay Players proudly present our annual pantomime, Alice in Wonderland! Beat those post-Christmas blues and come on an adventure through Wonderland.
by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper songs by Jon Bradfield directed by Andrew Beckett designed by David Shields Celebrating 10 years of Above The Stag Theatre&ap…
A toothless punk wakes one morning and asks herself the all-important question: why are we here? Expect cod philosophy, serious attitude and a chicken going on.
Book now for next year's fabulously filthy adult panto at Above The Stag Theatre.
Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed and multi award winning, The Morning After The Life Before, at The Liverpool Irish Arts Festival.
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?
Following James Hurn’s sell-out 2017 tour, he is back by popular demand with his stunning one-man, many voices, show, celebrating over 60 years of Hancock’s …
This stunning cabaret stars Gregory Hazel, whose dazzling vocals, wit and charm will take you through a celebration of Musical Theatre’s most iconic women.
Jamie Lloyd must be excreting pheromones of cool right now.
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…
Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
Last year Judah’s 84-minute stand-up comedy performance film, America Is the Greatest Country In the United States, debuted on Netflix to rave reviews from across the globe.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
One is a comedian doing relatable stand-up, the other is a robot programmed to do relatable stand-up.
After receiving her sell-out garland in 2017, Bessy returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show.
Following on from last summer’s smash-hit Touch, Vicky Jones returns with her award-winning debut play.
Be transported back to early 90s Los Angeles; the seedy underworld of gangsters, drugs, danger, and a mysterious briefcase.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era with her gorgeously characterful and distinctive voice and a stunning five-piece band of outrageous mus…
A showcase of the finest piano and chamber music from Royal Conservatoire Scotland and St Mary’s Music School rising stars, featuring great composers such as Bach, Rachmaninov an…
Every year I have to write a 100 word blurb for a new show and basically I’ve now been doing this long enough to know that none of this bullsh*t makes any difference.
Fresh from his tour of Australia earlier this year, comedy singer-songwriter Majk Stokes presents a new collection of witty and whimsical songs and poems covering two of his bigges…
With recent workshops around the world, this delightful new musical by California composer Tim Nelson is now at the Fringe! Alice’s magical, musical journey with a true Broadway …
A man and a woman wait in a flat in Camden for a phone call from a colleague.
With a statue of Alice unveiled earlier this centenary year and her very own suffragette memorabilia currently on loan to the UK Parliament as a star feature in the summer Voice an…
Join us for an evening of chilled jazz as new Scottish quintet The Misinformed Quintet makes their Edinburgh Festival Fringe and AMC debut with One Note at a Time, a one-time perf…
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.
Hyde Panaser’s debut show about living a multicultural life with and without a beard.
Alice in Wonderland by Jason Pizzarello.
Experience the magic of Wonderland in this spectacular reinvention of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.
Eighteen talented actors bring you a spectacular reinvention of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
Meet Liv – clever, funny, confident – everything a 15-year-old girl wants to be.
Inclusive theatre group The Theatre Shed will explore end of life and organ donation in a unique and inspiring way.
Back at the festival for the fourth time, 34/18 Youth Dance Company perform Step Into Africa IV.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Europe.
Watch Zillions of Comedians squeezed into just one hour.
Following last year’s Amused Moose: Best Show nomination for One-Linerer, Mark Simmons presents the hotly anticipated One-Linererer.
What do you do when you have a best mate who’s so sad he might die? Especially since your friendship is built around a mutual appreciation of 90s hip hop, borderline alcoholism and…
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
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 …
After a sell-out, five-star run in 2016, One Musical to Rule Them All returns to parody everyone’s favourite trilogy about wizards, hobbits and a quest to destroy some magical je…
Texas Beauty Pageant Murder: The Fall of Don Swan is a devised, one-act, absurdist, film noir comedy set in the 1980s that investigates the myth of Don Juan in the current wake of …
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
June has ambitions of going into space.
Heather-Rose Andrews skilfully acts out this minimalist stage version of cult classic Alien.
When Edinburgh’s famous One O’Clock Gun goes missing the city is outraged.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story most people know, but the life of Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Caroll, and the real Alice Liddell is much less popular.
The Last One is the end of all things, and still needing more.
Allison Hetzel (University of Alabama) returns to the Fringe after two successful runs of her solo show, Considering Georgia O’Keeffe (2009 and 2010).
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Enjoy a showcase of the best comedy talent to kick-start your day with our hand-picked selection – and watch what you should be seeing more of from around the city.
Caught between Berlin and New York, Daniel Louis Vezza explores and takes on the differences between these two cities and the lifestyles that come with them, in an hour of observat…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with ‘a sackful of promise’ (Chortle.
Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award, critically acclaimed character comedian Alice Marshall returns with a brand-new show.
New work-in-progress solo show from Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
Join Phil in a lighthearted romp through the the world of collective delusions.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an actor in possession of a woman’s story must be in want of a wife – to help him adapt it.
This Welsh comedian was the first major victim of Identity Theft in the UK.
If you break my heart, I’ll break yours too.
Power? Sex? Control? Part One: Meet Baby, a prostitute willing to entertain you with Barbie dolls… Experience a bizarre underworld of desire and oppression.
Scottish comedy award winner Gary Meikle premieres his debut hour and lays bare his remarkable life story and how he’s defeated the odds set against him from surviving children’s h…
As a character actor, Pip Utton is renowned for his depictions of world-famous figures, ranging from Margaret Thatcher to Charles Dickens and everything in between.
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
What does it mean to be human? Can a machine learn to be human? Or failing that can it at least learn how to be funny? That’s Alice Fraser’s main objective and constitutes the …
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
After performing to sold-out crowds at the New Zealand Comedy Festival, Alice Snedden is bringing her debut show, Self-Titled, to Edinburgh.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
Parody on love, friendship and shoes.
One is found buried in a culmination of emotions when life takes an unexpected turn.
After their five star runaway success with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Middle Child were always going to suffer from difficult second album syndrome and it’s a real shame …
Ever seen a double act with a robot? Imagine an Artificial Intelligence: a brilliant but naïve mind.
June has ambitions of going into space.
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Heard of a play within a play? What about three hour-long, critically-acclaimed comedy shows in one three-hour-long comedy show (with two humane intervals).
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with a ‘sackful of promise’ (Chortle).
The Tiger Who Came To Tea returns to the West End, to the Piccadilly Theatre, for another season.
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called Mike Birbiglia’s recent show 'Thank God For Jokes' “the best night I’ve spent in a theatre in a…
24th May 2015 was the day that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
The winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award returns with her brand new show, full of Alice’s signature weird and wonderful characters.
Blackadder meets Milton Jones.
"In theatre no-one can hear you scream" unless you head down to the Sweet Dukebox this Fringe to see One Woman Alien, billed as a one hour (standard Fringe fair) one woma…
Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Joe Wells returns with his unique brand of acerbic political humour about how we all grow increasingly right wing as we age.
Esther Manito, a finalist on ‘So You Think You’re Funny? 2017’ and heard on BBC radio 4 Extra, is working on her first solo show.
Radu started comedy in 2006 in Bucharest and was known as Romania’s comedian’s comedian.
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…
A panicked run to Canada.
How do you find yourself, when you find yourself where you don’t belong? Jonny Fluffypunk grew up in the far-flung, forgotten reaches of outer suburbia.
The human heart.
Born from the desire to bring visionary art into greater awareness, the ‘Psychedelic Dream Temple’ is not just a showcase of some of the worlds most talented artists but also a pla…
Gallery Lock-In is a makeshift gallery space tucked away in the backstreets behind the beachfront.
Following five-star rave reviews across UK and international tours where it was seen by more than 19,000 people, One Small Step returns to the BT for a fast, furious and full throt…
Three hilarious one-act comedies - plus a few other bits and pieces that will guarantee a great evening out!!.
Intelligence- the next frontier.
ONE HIT WONDERLAND will be a magical night of unforgettable songs.
Australia’s biggest and most authentic Bon Jovi Tribute Show is here! This show captures the essence of what this great band is about, the passion & hunger of the early years and t…
Alice is becoming more and more forgetful.
An international gross of $1.
UK-based singer-songwriter, poet, musician, environmentalist and caffeine addict Majk Stokes comes to Adelaide for the first time to present a show built around two of his greatest…
After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years.
Adelaide’s premier Open Mic night returns! EVERY MONDAY catch 10 different comedians from across the Fringe PLUS a special guest headline act.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in.
Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography.
Nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and total Fringe sell-out 2015 and 2016, Sarah Kendall returns with her brand-new show One-Seventeen.
Follow Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Superb duo: Catriona McKay (Clarsach) and Chris Stout (Shetland fiddle/viola).
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
On One Condition draws on stories from Dan Daw’s lived experiences, asking us to question our own perceptions of normal while offering a stripped back look at the world we live in.
Truscott wrestles with: standing up while telling jokes, second shows, stealing material and bad reviews – back in the town where she got ‘em! All while paying homage to her fa…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Two cabaret favourites – Don One from Birmingham and Claire Benjamin from London – join together for this unusual musical comedy pairing to host a variety show with a twist.
‘Theatrical knock-out’ (Times).
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.
Musical adaptations of other works often struggle to either make themselves distinct or justify their existence.
This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptio…
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
From a shared sovereign and a shaky colonial past, to endless daytime reruns of Neighbours and Home and Away on channel 5, plus cricket, Kylie and Rupert Murdoch; Australian export…
With the UK centenary of women first gaining the vote just months away, great-grandson Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of Alice’s hard fought campaign for wom…
SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences.
A woman returns to a hometown she no longer recognises in this haunting new play from Dalia Taha.
The Rising: the UK’s number one Springsteen tribute brings the energy and precision of the E Street band to the Festival Fringe once more.
Scottish early guitar/lute specialist and composer Gordon Ferries plays solos by the great 19th-century guitarist/composer Mauro Giuliani including Le Bouquet Emblematique (where e…
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
One Hundred Miles is a physical theatre performance structured around the experiences of a woman traveling through India in a bid to discover a different culture and way of life.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Powerful like a dragon, supple like a dancer.
A Scottish Documentary Institute production for the Edinburgh International Festival directed by Anne Milne and produced by Noe Mendelle.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Inaugurating the Friends of St Cecilia’s 2017 Fringe season in the stunningly refurbished concert hall on Niddry Street, John Kitchen and David Gerrard will demonstrate the flamboy…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era.
Demise was its own demise.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
How long will your adult child be staying? Should you make an ultimatum? Can you steer them away from war games and into the archives? What’s the point of it all? Will the story of…
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Received opinion says that we become more right-wing as we get older.
Fitted out in an elegant tuxedo, in an echo of Marlene Dietrich’s revolutionary turn in 1930’s Morocco, Kate O’Donnell is every inch the smooth Old Hollywood dame.
This show is for people that like jokes.
Escaping his war poetry homework, a schoolboy re-enacts the movie 300 to the spirit of Wilfred Owen.
Let me preface by saying that Hero suffered from technical issues when I saw it, which was announced at the play’s beginning and therefore meant that some of the lights for the p…
Physical theatre can always lend itself to a degree of interpretation, and inevitably the risk of confusion.
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
Cognitions was confessional, poetic physical theatre.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
Founded by Avalon Rathgeb, Fall Out is tap-dancing like you’ve never seen before.
Sugar Baby satirised the food industry with one eyebrow firmly raised, mocking both the trend of ‘clean eating’ for which vegan titans like ‘Deliciously Ella’ are increasin…
As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’.
A toothless punk wakes one morning and asks herself the all-important question: why are we here? Expect cod philosophy, serious attitude and a chicken going on.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
How far would you go to achieve your heart’s desire? Would you risk your home? Your livelihood? Your family? The Illusion of Truth is a project inspired by tales of the Orishas, …
Presented by Eva Price and co-written by Josh Koenigsberg, a writer for Netflix’s award-winning hit Orange is the New Black, comes a world premiere.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
Hi Anne, just put: ‘Low mileage, one careful owner, four new tires and MOT till June 2017’. Don’t mix this Auto Trader ad up with edfringe programme entry please.
When the headline act fails to show up, Jango, a bumbling theatre caretaker, is suddenly thrust into the limelight and embarks on a hilarious journey of highly crafted and heartfel…
‘One of the UK’s best young observationalists’ (Guardian) went viral in India this year – not in a good way.
One in One Out spans Davina’s journey from losing a parent and partner to gaining an enormous new nephew and several new partners.
Fresh from supporting Rob Brydon on tour, TT returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show.
Standing on a stage adorned with all the necessary equipment to run a fully-fledged activity holiday, Alice Devlin is poised and ready to welcome us to her Edinburgh Festival Fring…
Apocalypse Now, with its 153 minute running time, multi-million dollar production costs and jungle location, might not seem like the most obvious contender for adaptation into a on…
Strange physical theatre with soul-lined theatrics and odd feats.
Heather Litteer approaches her subject, women on- and off-stage, with a wry eye and deft, humorous touch (admittedly aided by the never-failing power of hindsight).
Mouthpiece is one of the shows at CanadaHub at King’s Hall, a venue in association with Summerhall.
Not Cricket’s new production of Alice in Wonderland is a charming and whimsical piece that delights audiences both young and old with its blend of live music, puppetry and dance.
Alice Marshall is a master of character comedy.
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.
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
In a month where white supremacists have marched through the streets over Charlottesville in protest against the removal of a Confederate statue, there could not be a more relevant…
What connects plastic penguins and the floundering middle class? Straight men and empty bottles of Gatorade? Melania Trump and the crumpled foil of a Ferrero Rocher? Julio Torres i…
Vicki is done with degrading retail jobs, fed up of waiting around for Mr Wrong and ultimately ready to get out of bed.
Bare Skin On Briny Waters is part of the Hull Takeover of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and is one of five plays presenting from the 2017 UK City of Culture.
Gutted is a one-woman, solo show about IBD.
In 1986, the Kendall family stood in their back-garden, staring at the Australian sky and hoping to catch a glimpse of Halley’s comet.
Oh no.
In her opus Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag explores the ways in which images of conflict can be altered for the benefit of a particular social cause or political group.
Flatulence, fornication and filth; Sean Patton brings his show Number One to Edinburgh armed with a New Orleans attitude and an unashamed subject matter of all things vulgar and bo…
‘Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to show you how to change the world…’ The world’s most notorious terrorist tells his remarkable, provocative and multi award-winnin…
Following sold-out seasons and rave reviews, Australia’s Alice Fraser is back with a fresh hour of unpredictably meaningful, occasionally silly, narratively unorthodox art-comedy…
‘I recognise this’Daniella Isaacs was in the newest Sweaty Betty zero gravity leggings, making hemp and cacao energy balls, flanked by her nutribullet.
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
The technical choreography from Flabbergast Theatre that delivers this consistently joyful, yet bleak, puppetry extravaganza is exceptional.
Fémage a Trois is Loquiter Theatre’s production of three twenty-minute monologues, performed by three women in three different circles of life.
This extremely famous one-handed actor shares his hilarious encounters with the world.
Following sold-out seasons and rave reviews, Australia’s Alice Fraser is back with a fresh hour of unpredictably meaningful, occasionally silly, narratively unorthodox art-comedy…
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.
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The Maydays present their signature brand of freewheeling black comedy and surrealism with special guest Scott Adsit (Second City, 30 Rock, Veep), plus Edinburgh sellout show Me Pl…
Award-winning and inclusive Youth Theatre Company Brightonshed in collaboration with Theatreshed bring their interpretation of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ to Brighton Fringe.
Three idiots spoof Noel Coward in a unique and ridiculous vision of ‘Blithe Spirit’.
A dog is man’s best friend, and is for life.
One Board Man is one of the most unique shows I have ever seen.
A newly-devised piece exploring issues of mental health.
Critically-acclaimed comedy actress and character comedian Alice Marshall returns to Brighton Fringe with ‘Blood’, the follow-up to her smash-hit 2016 debut show ‘Vicious.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible .
Challenges common perceptions of mental ill-health.
Apparently we all get more right-wing as we grow older.
Twelve years ago, Tobias and Alexander came together to form a spiritualist commune based on their shared visions of a peaceful and harmonious community.
”There is a place.
Children’s entertainer Jango Starr is a total clown, but that’s certainly not meant as a criticism; sans white-face, he instead relies on a pair of trousers just sufficientl…
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…
you thought Gleb was sizzling in the Master Chef kitchen and Kristina was stunning on Strictly then imagine how spicy it will be when you see the…
As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” …
A new production of the award-winning National Theatre comedy play.
It’s not just the eponymous seldom heard, often bullied, fragile young girl LV who struggles to be heard in Jim Cartwright’s classic tragicomedy The Rise and Fall – finding he…
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Andrew Hunter Murray, star of Fringe smash-hit Austentatious ***** (Times), QI podcast No Such Thing as a Fish and No Such Thing as the News (BBC Two), presents his debut solo hour…
Come along and journey through the rabbit hole on this exciting adventure! Our special closing party presents the final Edinburgh fringe performance of the one-hour spectacular Ali…
Live from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh, featuring topical stories and big name guests.
Harold Pinter’s short play, One for the Road, concerns torture, and you can assume it’s talking about state-sanctioned torture, given Rising Phoenix Repertory’s decision to t…
A contemporary twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Wasteland is a theatrical circus show with live instrumentation and an electronic soundtrack composed by t…
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
A masked figure, all in white, carries the biggest drumstick you’ve ever seen and drops it on the biggest drum you’ve ever seen.
Starting a show with a song containing the lyrics “it’s a stupid idea and it’ll never work” feels somewhat disingenuous when the song’s fully orchestrated and lit.
Fresh out of a critically-acclaimed run in Cambridge, a highly talented troupe of student dancers and performers bring you a contemporary circus interpretation of the family classi…
Fresh out of a critically-acclaimed run in Cambridge, a highly talented troupe of student dancers and performers bring you a contemporary circus interpretation of the family classi…
Following various elements from the classic book by C.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
Cinema screening of live performance.
‘Irish stew for the soul’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Hamlet is a woman, she is living the play from the lovers’ point of view, going into the depths of humanity.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
Come join Bessy Bass and share in her adventures as she leaves her Scottish, coastal home to embark on a journey to visit musical friends and family in several European destination…
World premiere: a theatrical adaptation of Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro’s moving and enigmatic short stories of her Scottish ancestors’ emigration.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
You may know Susan from QI, HIGNFY, News Quiz, or Mock the Week, now she’s back at the Fringe with a brand new hour of comedy.
Two of Newcastle’s rising stars present two separate half hours of stand up.
In the setting of voice, bass and guitar, Sophie Bancroft and Tom Lyne create a dynamic, entertaining and intimate interpretation of beautiful songs.
Byron is a bipolar writer.
The Hours Before We Wake presents us with a world where you can customise your dreams and upload them to DreamShare when you wake up.
This is an accomplished show from Young Pleasance, which re-imagines Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland with just the right blend of Carroll-esque surrealism and a new, fresh vi…
An “Original Lord of the Rings Parody” One Musical to Rule them All is full of puns, mocks the bits of Lord of the Rings that we all thought were a bit ridiculous and illogical…
Your manic tour through the zany zone of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland and Looking Glass novels is led by a cadre of crazy characters performed by a troupe from an independent high …
Welcome to Woodburn.
Hi, Lee here.
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…
People are vicious.
Three top-line comics bring their fast-paced comedy showcase to the world’s most famous comedy festival.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
How does it feel and what do you do about it when old age catches up with you 10 years before you even suspect it’s chasing you? When everywhere you look, you see the people around…
Who is that strange Frenchman signalling from the island? What’s in Aunt Fanny’s famous fish pie? Has anyone actually seen Timmy? The Famous Five are back! Shedload presents Robert…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
A gunshot on New Year’s Eve on a beach in Thailand changed musical theatre artist Nils Bergstrand’s life forever.
Alex Hylton has been performing for three years.
If you are a millennial/Gen-Y/Gen-X-er you need to see Neel Kolhatkar.
Yinka Kuitenbrouwer welcomes you into her shed, pours you a cup of tea, gives you a house-shaped biscuit, and the words come out in a torrent.
You are immediately struck by Alice Fraser’s triumphant gentility as she graces the stage.
You won’t find many performers at this year’s Fringe trumpeting their lack of uniqueness.
You may know Susan from QI, HIGNFY, News Quiz, or Mock the Week, now she’s back at the Fringe with a brand new hour of comedy.
Between Episode IV and V of Charles Ross’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy, the writer/performer spent some time polling the audience.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Don’t miss Susie Youssef as she weaves stories, characters, sketches and occasional dance breaks into an hour of comedy about her big family, her medium-size anxiety problem and th…
Star of Austentacious, No Such Thing as Fish (and its television transfer - No Such Thing as the News), the QI Elf finally has his one-man-show.
Seann Walsh is a brilliant observational comic, with an ability to tease out the comicality of even the most mundane, everyday occurrence.
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
Follow Alice on an adventure into the magical world beyond the mirror.
Join Alice as she journeys down the rabbit hole into a world of strange and uncanny beings.
Following the lives of Marie, John and their thirty-something son Danny, The Wee One is a heart-warming original comedy about the true-to-life challenges of a modern day family in …
The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t…
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
Does anyone ever read these blurbs? Here’s an experiment: if you are actually reading this right now, text your favourite animal to Alex at 07450 846 211.
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
Mr.
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
The star of BBC’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘The Impressions Show’, ITV’s ‘Newzoids’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Bad Girls’ takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impression…
Comedy actress and character comedian Alice Marshall presents a collection of her weird and wonderful characters in her debut solo hour.
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.
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Truscott undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.
The week’s most illustrious guest here is the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a powerfully dramatic Lied interpreter, who on Wednesday presents a recital of songs by Schuman…
Take an extraordinary journey in the dark.
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…
For more than 20 years, this Washington-based group has been sharing the art of stepping, which has roots in traditional African dance but took on a vital new form here with Africa…
Mr. Adsit, a longtime improviser, teams with Oliver Chris for a night of impromptu comedy that promises to defy its title, which refers to a beginner- level improv course.
Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman join forces (and faces, for a somewhat off-putting promotional poster) in this excellent stand-up show.
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
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.
There is an intrinsic roughness to this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena productions: performed “in the round” in a student bar within city’s Art College, th…
In support of the comedian Erik Bergstrom, a master of dry one-liners who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 100 comedians will perform their favorite gags to ra…
Some lives are touched by war.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Oct.
Crime writer Mark Billingham and country band My Darling Clementine come together for The Other Half, a blend of storytelling and music about love, loneliness and broken promises.
Old Edinburgh was a very different place to the contemporary city of today. John Lowrey of Edinburgh University provides an enlightening talk on the physical fabric of that city.
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
Heady musical cocktail of Fitkin, Nyman, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos served by master mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
The Day Before the Fair Album Launch – an arsenal of eclectic instruments.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Eighteen-year-old Michael and his fourteen-year-old brother Brucie – who has been considered mentally slow since birth – venture out on a camping trip together.
Flickering digits.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry.
The Day Before the Fair Album Launch – an arsenal of eclectic instruments.
Durham’s Ethrael Theatre presents a musical adaptation of Aeschylus’s The Furies, a tale of vengeance, honour, justice and mercy.
You are cordially invited to take tea with the Mad Hatter and March Hare.
Two staves (and all the leger lines!) become one under Stefan Warzycki’s dextrous left hand, in two virtuoso piano recitals including works by Bach, Chopin (arrangement by Godowsky…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
‘Choreographed by Robert Royce and Joanne Whitehill, this Alice captures the zany adventure in Lewis Carroll’s original story in a package that appeals to even the youngest audie…
Beardyman has been a regular Fringe success for several years and it’s easy to see why.
Shipley College’s Scruffy Penguin Theatre Company provides a riotously energetic rendition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland that has much to recommend as a theatrical exp…
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
Producers David Hutchinson and Phillip Rowntree discuss how they grew touring company Sell a Door from a shoestring Fringe company to a large scale and West End production company.
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
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, …
Oliver Suddon, comedian and broadcaster, hosts a relaxing evening of comedy and music with a variety of selected performers from the Fringe and creates radio broadcast inserts for …
This show has a bad title.
Blind Mirth are a special improv comedy group - wonderfully talented and energetic.
Winsome Brown’s one-woman show is an affecting portrait of her mother and the life Brown and her siblings shared with her.
One man shouldn’t be able to hold two men on his shoulders at the same time.
After Alice tumbles down a mysterious rabbit hole, she finds herself in a strange land where everyone is raving mad.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent.
A remarkably intricate and engaging murder mystery is created from scratch every night.
Instead of falling down a rabbit hole, Alice has been forcibly committed into a mental institution.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
A slick absurdist piece, PALP’s One Above is an intelligent offering from the young company.
The show explores a selection of songs by Noël Coward and Ivor Novello through humour, glamour and elegance, as the Flamin’ Dames Helen Whittington and Hilary Fisher combine music…
Nine school students navigate the pressures they face as girls: pressures from society and pressures from each other.
Cheque Please centres on Ivy, who describes herself as a high-functioning depressive, as she endures her job as a waitress with a boss who is constantly threatening dismissal.
This one-woman show presents Nell Gwyn, mistress of King Charles II, as she regales the audience with her lot in life – actor, lover and whore.
Alice Fraser’s kindness immediately hits you like a warm hug: as her audience filter in she’s chatting, pointing out the air conditioning (a small fan that she’s bought herse…
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea.
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.
Seattle comedy duo Charles (Chuck Armstrong and Charlie Stockman) present an imaginative, original and witty comedy, using physical theatre, sharp word play, and absurdism to launc…
Nick Payne’s bittersweet love story One Day When We Were Young charts Leonard and Violet’s tangled relationship across five decades of love and longing.
Broadway performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco takes you on a hilarious musical comedy journey, showing you what led her to become a multi-faceted, multi-voiced party of…
Book of Love is without a doubt a special show: Lindsay Benner is sexy, silly and completely charming.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
One of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary dance companies, who have toured to over 30 countries, make their UK debut with a double bill of two of their most acclaimed works.
Papa CJ takes the audience through chapters of his life, with the idea of simultaneously removing metaphorical and physical layers, as he strips in front of us.
The Durham Revue has a lot going for it this year – the group are all on top form.
The Bristol Revunions are a first class example of what a student sketch comedy show can be.
Attention customers: the store will be closing in five minutes.
Toby begins by racing through a history of his life in numbers - how many days he’s been alive (9424), how many minutes he has spent kissing (not enough), and how long it’s bee…
Mike Wozniak’s probably best known for playing moustachioed misfit Brian in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down.
Phone Whore is a show that is equal parts witty, sexually frank and dripping with cynicism.
Have you ever been surprised to receive a phonecall from a friend that you were just thinking about? How many times have you felt so in tune with a person that you knew what they w…
In her stand up show The Devil’s Door Bell, Njambi McGrath presents an hour of satirical shaming, teasing the audience into reflecting on colonialism’s legacy in Africa.
As the members of Edinburgh University’s improv troupe run into the flashing lights, accompanied by music and applause, they are introduced to us as ‘the players’.
Sixty episodes.
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…
Fresh from the Cambridge Footlights, Princes of Main – Alex MacKeith, Ben Pope and Jamie Fraser – are a new and exciting comedy trio, a promising addition to the scene.
One Trick Pony is the follow up to the critically acclaimed mouthful of a fringe show, Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little…
When he was 16 The NHS asked Jonny if he wanted cosmetic surgery to improve his appearance.
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
Massive Dad (Liz Kingsman, Tessa Coates, and Stevie Martin) have a sense of humour like Japanese fusion cooking, with their combination of social detail and zaniness.
50 minutes of Britney, Shania Twain, All Saints and the Spice Girls: every 90s girl’s dream.
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
Edgar Allan Poe and Sigmund Freud, partners in crime, telling horror stories and picking them apart: it sounds like rich source material, but Mr Poe’s Legendarium doesn’t quite…
Kent-native Harriet Kemsley takes a juvenile look at an adult world, as she describes fitting into the grown up sphere of sex, porn, drugs and flat-sharing with child-like naivety,…
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
When Breaking Bad came to an end at season five, everyone thought that this would be it for the franchise.
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
We have the best of the Edinburgh Fringe Under One Roof in South London for one special week 6th - 11th July.
Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice as her world is turned upside down in this new adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.
It’s not often that I’m asked back to see a show, let alone because those involved have openly taken on some of the points I made in my review!When the War Came Home is a …
(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…
Alice Walton opens her studio for an evening to showcase her range of hand crafted interior decor ceramics with guest jewellers.
Work in progress.
Three Brighton-based performance poets grab hold of the microphone at Over Broadway in order to shout at you on the subject of politics, sexuality and death.
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…
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…
“I know it’s harsh but I can’t imagine her ever being cool or sexy or anything”.
The world is not quite right, so she decided to listen to the voices in her head.
Martyna Majok’s stealthily devastating “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge,” an indelibly acted portrait of intimacy and entitlement, makes this a must-see.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on May 18) Let’s hope local playwrights have been running wind sprints and agility drills, because Ensemble Studio Theater’s Maratho…
Ensemble Studio Theater’s evening of one acts races between decades, places, genres and forms.
This adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1961 comic novel, part of Brits Off Broadway, is moderately amusing but is more interesting for the perspective.
Acclaimed playwright Alison Carr’s latest offering, Fat Alice, opens on a familiar scene.
HANK, the mostly online comedy duo of Dan Fox and Betsy Kenney, celebrates its one-year milestone with this live show, featuring new videos and stand-up from Jo Firestone, Carmen C…
The Boston ensemble Blue Heron delves into richly expressive secular and religious vocal music from the 15th century by composers including Johannes Ockeghem, Gilles Binchois and G…
The First World War is often described as the first “total war”, that is involving the entire population, at home as well as on the battlefield.
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…
(previews start on Jan.
Brett Davis and Sally Burtnick celebrate the first birthday of their monthly comedy show (which remains unconnected to the titular actor).
Mo Fathelbab and Tim Ellis go all out to celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly comedy show.
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…
This new opera by Laura Kaminsky, with a libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, stars the baritone Kelly Markgraf and the mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, husband and wife in real …
Wake up to Bach and a little Shostakovich in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
This well-known, local band simply enjoy entertaining their audiences.
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 heady cocktail of Fitkin, Piazzola, Ravel and Turnage: plus surprise ingredients served by master musical mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
Inspired by the public performances of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the less decorated but more alive writer and actor B.
One performance only! ‘Several of the best one-liners you will hear.
Compere Andy Zaltzman sets up the evening by asking the audience who is a no and who is a yes, wondering aloud if political comedy has any capacity to effect change and promisin…
Life on the One Wheel experiments with everyday experience and elements of popular culture to explore the fragile simplicity of human emotion.
The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood.
See Wonderland like you’ve never heard it.
Travelling at the speed of thought in his brand new music production spaceship, the world class multi-award-winning musician and comedian, transcends mere mimicry to produce studio…
‘Irish stew for the soul’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
Sixty Episodes in 60 Minutes.
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…
Her daughter has been taken, she sends in three dodgy nurses who enlist the disaffected youth and his somewhat feather obsessed friend.
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in a British mental hospital with a strict, unbending routine.
King’s College London’s All the King’s Men return to the Edinburgh Fringe with Spectacappella.
Following their sell-out Summerhall shows at last year’s Made In Scotland showcase, this genre-defying quartet take a break from performing with Scottish Dance Theatre to perform…
After a phenomenal run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, The Accidentals are back with ‘99 Problems But a Pitch Ain’t One’.
Cambridge University troupe The Foxymorons promise their sketch show Up the Auntie will be a “ludicrous abandon” of “porn, politics, pheasants and porn”, but their failur…
Hendrick’s brand ambassador for Northern Europe Duncan McRae takes us through a “cocktail of cultural and curious occurrences,” as he informs the audience about the world of …
‘Irish stew for the soul’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Scotland-based four-piece group The Bevvy Sisters (not all sisters, or even all women) enthrall and amaze as they bring us their unique stamp on Americana classics and their own so…
Established Edinburgh favourites Orkestra del Sol present a show of Balkan-inspired brass and visual spectacle infused with a love of theatricality.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
Al Murray’s One Man, One Guvnor is only in its preview stages, but already it is a spectacularly funny set.
The twists and turns of the topsy-turvy world of Alice in Wonderland are well known and loved by many, enshrined in literary pop culture.
Eight shows only! Winner Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013.
From the critically acclaimed SU Drama company comes a double play performance that combines Brien Friel’s Afterplay and an original piece named The White Peacock.
Combining different dance styles including ballet, jazz, tap and modern, The Houston City Dance Company use wit and pathos in eight different pieces, using six female dancers and t…
Lace Up presents the rise of one man, Stuart, from a childhood of neglect to dominance in the boxing ring, with the help of his brother (trainer and lifelong advocate Teddy) and…
“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…
Brighton-based Aidan Goatley returns to Edinburgh with a show based on the premise of his favourite “comfort food films”, taking in such blokey titles as The Avengers, The Magn…
Medical student music group One Dissection from St George’s, University of London escape the dissecting room and break into a different kind of theatre to present a medical a cappe…
Now that Freddie is a family man he is trying his best to be responsible.
One Man Breaking Bad is impressionist Miles Allen’s attempt to squeeze 60 Breaking Bad episodes into 60 minutes.
This is the debut show by one of the UK’s finest comedians.
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.
Forget Justin Bieber and his legions of ‘beliebers’.
Infinity Repertory Theatre update Shakespeare’s comedy to the 21st century as a musical with a rollicking rock’n’roll aim in mind.
An undemanding hour spent with a showcase variety of acts.
Luke Speirs’ new musical presents a love triangle between three best friends and the fallout of their relationships as a result of Tom’s (Sam Rich) unrequited love for Drew (Luke S…
“It’s the game show of all game shows!” our host tells us as we begin.
Much as if I’d been with real-life evangelists, I imagine, I left this show wondering what on earth had just happened.
Montreal-based Paul van Dyck brings imagination and passion to this polished one-man telling of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
From the award-winning Box Tale Soup, join Alice on her remarkable journey.
Journey through the Great American Songbook, captivating jazz vocals with piano trio and anecdotes about songwriters.
With long words, complex riddles and general nonsense, the stories of Alice’s various adventures might not seem best suited to children.
A Roaring Accordion brings Strangely Doesburg’s promise of a “rollicking, sing-along, one-man cabaret-riot” to the top deck of the bus in the Free Sisters.
Big Value Comedy Show (Early) promises two hours of comedy gold with four young stars of tomorrow.
Yorkshire girl Nalika comes to London to make it but reality hits when she ends up living with a violent squirrel.
Stuart Bowden has fashioned his costume out of a lime-green sleeping bag, which becomes baggy and puffy like an emptied out bean bag around his body.
In Australian comedian Lisa-Skye’s “love letter to the sex-and-drug-soaked 70s” she tells the tale of Melbourne hedonism in the 1970s star-crossed hippy lovers Bunny and Mad Do…
To tell the truth, I’m a little bit scared of Dr.
How do you go about describing Goose (An Odd One-Man Comedy Whodunnit)? It’s one of those shows that you just have to see with your own eyes to understand it’s sheer awesomenes…
If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore.
Manuelita uses physical theatre, music, storytelling and comedy to tell the story of the lover and co-strategist of Latin America’s 19th century revolutionary Simon Bolivar, Man…
Are you a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings? If so, look no further, this will be the highlight of your Fringe experience.
British comedian Gareth Berliner and Australian comedy actress, Kiruna Stamell present a dynamic, funny, edgy, fresh, new double-act comedy show, One of Us Will Die.
A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters, performed and hosted by one man from Bristol.
Join the One-Eyed Men’s new cult today! They’ve dedicated their lives to the worship of the great prophet Barry Ashworth, inventor of long-life milk! It’s just a matter of time unt…
Jonny Pelham is affable and tells some thoughtful stories about his life, with original punchlines, great timing, and a good sense of narrative.
Exeter University’s Theatre With Teeth brings their modern ballet to Edinburgh, presenting the story of three couples and a maid on a weekend away.
Five years of IVF and love going down the tubes and a sex life reduced to cold rooms with plastic cups.
Sitting in the Comedy section of the Fringe guide, this is a quirky piece of storytelling theatre by new company Five Wits and starring last year’s So You Think You Write Funny …
Much of Ross’s childhood was spent in a galaxy far, far away, watching Star Wars videos over – and over – and over again.
Creator Tom Ward-Thomas has written a two-act comedy that peers into the lives of passengers commuting to Cornwall.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
A jamboree of performances from second-year performing arts students of Varndean College.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Join the One-Eyed Men’s new cult today! They’ve dedicated their lives to the worship of the great prophet Barry Ashworth, inventor of long-life milk! It’s just a matter of time unt…
Touted as the next big thing in comedy, Leicester Square New Comedian Finalist and One to Watch Winner 2013, Sarah asks you for at least one more year of anonymity by keeping this …
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.
This colourful, vibrant performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was well received by children and adults alike.
Be prepared to take a whirlwind trip around Wonderland and let your mind wander on this wonderful voyage of mayhem and madness.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to a stuffy little junk shop, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
The producers of Dick Whittington return this Easter, with a legendary magician, starring in a show full of fun for the whole family.
Menier Chocolate Factory: 3rd Apr 3pm.
Take a 2004 Swedish vampire novel that was made into a subtitled horror film as your starting point.
(in previews; opens on April 17) Moss Hart’s classic autobiography becomes a play courtesy of James Lapine, who also directs this Lincoln Center Theater premiere.
In his hugely popular free show Think Big, Yianni sets out his ambition to sell-out the biggest venue at the Fringe, have Michael ‘HackIntyre’ open for him and to enter the stage ‘…
Spread over four evenings, John Bryden’s consummate performance of the Well-Tempered Clavier’s second book is the perfect way to unwind after a frantic day at the Fringe.
A riotous evening of laughter, live music and a magical story that may or may not be true. A real-life fairy tale followed by a right old knees up.
Karla is throwing a surprise birthday party for her husband Max with their closest friends.
Fresh from YouTube and Top 40 success, St Andrews’ The Other Guys bring their hilarious parodies, exquisite musicality and suspect dance moves for one night only in a show that won…
The mouth of a million sounds BeardyMan brings his beatboxing brilliance to Edinburgh with an extremely ambitious new project.
Playwright Idgie Beau sets out the parameters of A Hundred Minus One Day quickly and economically; 20 year old Jen, who has lived away from home for many years, has returned to her…
Boys will be boys, but their parents are not much better.
Imagine an operatic version of the Scottish Play set amongst an African baboon troop and you’ll have a vague idea of what ‘The Okavango Macbeth’ is like.
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches is given new wings by St Andrews Mermaids Theatre.
It’s rare that, at the close of a play, I’m still anxious to follow its characters around, still curious about their lives and where they lead but after the uproarious, somewhat ab…
What do you do when your husband decides to take another wife? Well, if you live in Saudi Arabia, where men are legally permitted up to four wives, there’s not much you can do.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A haunting glimpse into one family’s past, Last One Out is a bittersweet tale of loss, memory and grief.
Ageing is something that transforms us all on the outside and on the inside, but the whole process is much worse if you happen to be a woman.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
John Osbourne’s classic Look Back in Anger is one of those plays which should probably come with a health warning for people with high blood pressure and a family history of hear…
One of a trio of pieces that make up the Czech dance showcase at this year’s fringe, One Step Before the Fall uses a contemporary style to explore the life of Muhammad Ali.
From being a Nazi war criminal’s daughter and only girl in boys school to snogging politician Chris Huhne and a bishop.
In this comfortable fifty minutes or so, likeable Matthew Highton delivers good stand-up comedy that won’t leave you looking at your watch, but you won’t be wishing that it’s…
Hired by Aladdin’s genie, trainer Alice Lashman teaches you how to wish successfully.
Comedian Robin Cairns is famous throughout Scotland.
Paper Birds’ On the One Hand looks and feels a lot like a John Lewis advert.
Close-up card magic with a true English gentleman. Hear tall tales of a magician learning his craft and be confounded by events which are not easily explained.
‘The Canty Hole’ might sound a bit rude to modern ears but it’s actually the title of a Robert Fergusson poem about Edinburgh.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
‘A tour de force on the Fringe’, ***** (RemoteGoat.
After What Comes Before is a Dr.
Theatre is a sinful pastime and washing with hot water an extravagant luxury, so think yourselves lucky not to have been born in 19th century rural France.
The real star of this show sits outside throughout the performance.
Fantasy No.
Four comedians.
Richard Dedomenici’s winning comic formula combines silly games, fake songs, satirical mashups, topical pranks and bad gags.
There, in the midst of the darkness, sits the earth, glowing eerily, surrounded by silence.
Dot Howard’s entrance doesn’t come until right at the end of the show, which is exactly what you’d expect to happen in a show entitled How to Avoid Making an Entrance of Your…
I was so ready to tear this show down.
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.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
Genesis /Golgotha brings together the stories of Eve - first woman on Earth - and Jesus of Nazareth in two complementary monologues.
In this rather indie-style, little comedy, Robin is a lonely continuity announcer with only his imagination to comfort him.
Before Alice became Alice in Wonderland, she was simply Alice in Upper-Class-Victorian-Oxfordland, a stiflingly boring place to be, full of mean classmates, stressed governesses, b…
Kate and Alex are a brother and sister with a story to tell.
It’s a stand-up comedy show. At half 11 in the morning. In a tent. Two comedians. We’re not seeing anything else at that time. It’s a yurt tent apparently. Let’s definitely go.
With a show that is definitely not for the easily offended, Adam Kay reels off a series of his inimitable brand of parody songs with expert comedic timing and the hilarity that onl…
At the top of the staircase which leads to C soco, you can hear the sound of hushed voices.
Nick Helm has endured pain and suffering to become the greatest living example of not giving up the world has ever known and he will entertain you until it kills him.
How could you not love a play in which a giant white centaur becomes separated from its backside after its umbrella is struck by lightning? Ridiculous and absurd from beginning to …
It’s 5:40am by the clock on the office wall and Gordon Brown has some secrets to share before his first governmental meeting of the day.
What if I told you that Adolf Hitler was going to do a reading of Mein Kampf for a small audience, offering you tea and biscuits while you sit together and discuss his ideology? No…
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
Another day, another re-interpretation of a classic of children’s literature.
Walking through the opulent interior of the Brunswick Town hall, we head for the police cells.
Cape Towns renowned CAFDA Youth Dance Co.
Bach before breakfast is a rather lovely, if bleary way to start the day.
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
Lake Simons and John Dyers musical re-imagining of Lewis Carrolls much-loved tale is stylish and charming, but not quite captivating.
Welcome to the land of Tillys fantastical tails, I mean tales, where the line between fable and fact is not clear and brightly coloured clowns spring into song or into a story to…
A production by Scorch Theatre of a somewhat dated play by Alan Ball, the writer of Six Feet Under and American Beauty, which explores the differences between the sexes.
This was an incredibly brave and experimental theatrical installation from New Venture Theatre.
Through a babble of dialogue from a seemingly mad woman, the audience went through alterations of reaction; from the bored to the captivated, and from confidants to unintentional v…
This is a highly entertaining and quirky comedy from talented writer Anne Victoria about one womans quest to find love in a cynical world.
An occasionally funny, but usually overstated, collection of sketches from writer Christopher Durang set in the noisy Udder Place.
Following a series of recent bombings by the terrorist group EOC, hysteria has reached boiling point in the world of Intelligence Officers Frank and Harry, and their boss Mr …
How many stories can be told in a lifetime? How many stories can be told of a life? And how many stories can be told timelessly?A woman has died.
The Pauly Show – Episode One, is a brilliant idea on paper: a stand up comedian with a ramshackle sitcom pilot live on stage.
A night of cabaret at St Marys Church which brought together the quirky poetry of Sue Pearson, with the ethereal music of Astra and the opera-meets-musical-theatre style singing …
Reviewing childrens shows can feel a little ridiculous; after all, Im not the target audience.
Two men in suits are sitting at a desk facing one another in a room at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton.
As Lewis Carrol broods on his missing protagonist, and the White Rabbit is sent in search of an eight-year-old girl to fill the role, the Hatter, the Dormouse, the Hare and the Moc…
An hour long performance constructed out of the colourful and controversial life, ambitions and writings of Oscar Wilde was always going to be an evening well spent.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
‘One Touch of Venus’ is Kurt Weill’s most ‘commercial’ American score, attached to a kind of variation on the Pygmalion theme, in which an ancient statue of Venus, brough…
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
Hunger Warrior Theatre, a group of young American Theatre professionals present this tale of lust and its dangers, written Andrew J Hungerford.
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…
The boardroom proved a bold and equally bloody way to shake up old Macbeth in Entita Theatre’s adaptation of Fall to the Top.
Imagine if David Starkey did a Fringe show.
Talented Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford has the infectious ability to find hilarity and absurdity in the banality of his everyday routine.
Abandoman are like a combination of the Duracell Bunny and Eminem - Duranem, if you like.
The plot of One Night Stand is, unsurprisingly, the repercussions of a drunken work night out for two colleagues who wake up in the same bed.
The Pajama Men are impossible to describe, or do justice do, in a review.
Step into my Parlour invites you inside the cosy downstairs of The Royal Oak to hear traditional Irish folk songs performed by the cheery Michelle Burke.
As the lights dimmed for the start of One Hour Only, video projections and voice-overs appeared on stage, calling the audience to attention as the characters set the scene for the …
In this highly energetic performance, dancer-actor John Macaulay welcomes the audience and ushers them in, attempting to build up a friendly rapport.
Mario Morris presents his comedy magic show, the All Human One Magic Show at Zoo Southside.
This production comprises three stories arising from the central theme of the effect of war and terror on modern society, by writer Phillip Whiteman.
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
There are some novels so enduring, that their stories can be told again and again in any medium, whether that be written word, stage or film.
There are reasons to be sceptical coming into When Alice (Cooper) Met (Prince) Harry.
As promised in the blurb, In-Transit Dance Company deliver a fast-paced and energetic dance performance, to the degree that at times the onstage action is almost dizzying.
What is Hamlet if not a man that stands alone and, in his isolation from others, tries to discover truth where validation is impossible?If you think about it this way, perhaps the …
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.
This production is intended as a Hitchcock-esque thriller, but even with strong storytelling techniques, the level of suspense is disappointing.
An amnesiac is being interrogated.
Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix.
First, a confession: I am a Lord of the Rings film fanatic, nay zealot.
The brilliance of the Edinburgh Fringe is that you can see things which blow you away in the most unexpected of places, and things which are awful in the most anticipated.
It seems like a disaster waiting to happen, giving a huge cast a tiny budget and a drab church to perform in.
Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Please ensure your seat is in the upright position and that your tray tables are securely stowed.
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.
Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play has a script that dazzles, full of wordplay and witty one-liners.
There is one word that, quite deliberately, is never uttered by anyone on stage during the National Theatre of Scotland’s Let The Right One In—vampire.
Let’s make this clear from the start, that this is not the sugary-coated vision of Alice popularised by Disney’s 1951 classic, but the darker, more nightmarish view closer to Lewis…
Graham Whistler’s show from last year’s Fringe returns, again mainly focusing on his cerebral palsy.
Comprised of two one-act plays, The Words Upon The Window-Pane (W.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
The Fall Of Man is a reinvention of Miltons Paradise Lost, set in a bedsit in 2006.
Medieval dramas are an odd beast and very difficult to put on.
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
A one-man show is a terrifying prospect for any actor.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Traversing the line between the silly and the outrageous whilst keeping a comic dignity is a difficult skill to master.
The perplexingly named One-Eyed Men are the very genial trio of Alex, Sam and Ben.
I have always been of the belief that children’s shows require an element of the surreal for both the captivation of the children, and piquing the interest of the parents that pa…
The poet Bryon was famously described by one of his countless paramours as mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Agnes, played by Abi Tedder, is hosting a wake for the father who abandoned her as a child.
Cambridge Touring Theatre’s Alice the Musical is a great example of children’s fringe theatre, with simple set designs embellished by the high enthusiasm of the actors.
Kicking off BBC Radio 1s series of four one-off, one-man shows by Scott Mills, Nick Grimshaw and the team at this years festival, The One Who Doesnt Speak presented an eclect…
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…
The claws may not be fully out for this night of name dropping and gossip mongering with the Queen of Dynasty, but there’s certainly still a lot of fun to be had, especially if t…
Four young men and women in their underwear lay in a pool of dim light.
Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble…
“Alice in Wonderland,” by Lewis Carroll, has the potential to be turned into a musical for all the family.
Garrett Millerick impersonates different characters from standard British life in Which One’s Fergal? Millerick only had three audience members and was performing at the back of a …
One Man Star Wars Trilogy delivers exactly what the title promises.
Two storytellers kick start the play as a fairytale, but with a difference like none other we have seen before.
With so much excellent improvisation at the Fringe, it must be difficult to compete.
The creator of One Man Star Wars returned to the Fringe last year to put on One Man Lord of the Rings - a certain hit for all who are fans of the book, and one that clearly has had…
Rob Deering presents an exponentially better performance than the few silly guitar songs he delivered when I last saw him take to the stage.
The idea behind The One Hour Plays is that through audience involvement a script can be written, cast and performed with the appropriate costumes, props and music in under an hour.
Me Before Marilyn is the untold story of Norma Jean Baker.
One Rogue Reporter describes its presenter Rich Peppiatt’s progression from Daily Star lackey to vehement tabloid terror.
I have to begin by saying that I am incredibly thankful to my flatmate, Adam, for taking the time to give me a brief rundown of all the Star Wars films prior to my arrival in Edinb…
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
The premise is simple: a group of people meet in a park.
We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
James Macfarlane sits down with André De Freitas to discuss his Edinburgh debut What If, some of the best advice he's received from his peers and the unexpected moment that got hi...
Four women.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world.
One Day Moko is a devised solo show following the life of a homeless busker and the characters he meets in his daily life.
Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, swept the board at the Brighton Fring...
Broadway Baby chews the fat with It Just Takes One - something that ought to appeal to any fans of The IT Crowd or The Office.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Brigitte Aphrodite describes herself as a punk pop poet showgirl who was on the 2009 shortlist for the Musical Comedy awards - but she’s almost impossible to categorise.
Broadway Baby and PALP have a chat about One Above.