Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to its belove…
Russell Hicks heads out on his first tour, but not his first rodeo.
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.
Fearlessly hilarious delivery combined with honesty and sincerity, Kane Brown is 19 years in the game.
Following his Biggest Award in Comedy nominated debut and subsequent hit tour, multi-award-winning comedian and junior doctor Michael Akadiri is back in London with his …
Ify Nwadiwe is a father, lover, and avid reader of local political leaflets, but as a performer, he likes to believe he's a quadruple threat.
Japanese pianist Akiko Okamoto returns to the Fringe after some years’ absence to play Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2.
The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual.
For one night only, the Taskmaster NZ star and Lorde’s favourite Kiwi musician (‘That was really nice of her’ – Paul) plays the hits at this year’s Fringe.
It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha).
For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and…
Enjoy an evening of Clarinet Quintet music performed by the Glendal Quintet, a talented group of graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
We know in the UK you like your humour dry, but ours is sopping wet.
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Prepare for a hilarious hour of (unconvincing) romance, (sloppy) action and (tenuous) espionage! Don’t miss the debut whirlwind comedy from The Defectors.
It’s Tibby’s 25th birthday and she is throwing a big party: after years, her friends from uni are coming together — and they are all doing better than her.
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi…
Boom wer on! With guests, naughty and nice, Mr English will host former serial killers, gangsters, as well as facing his own demons through a spiritual journey live on stage.
Join Olivia and Philip Contini, grandchildren of the V&C founder Alfonso Crolla, singing the Italian and Neapolitan songs that have echoed through the shop since 1934, together…
Russell Howard, “one of the world’s top comedians” (Sunday Times) is warming up and trying new material.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
This show shines a new light on Peter Allen in his capacity as incredibly gifted composer/songwriter, while also showcasing Annaliesa Rose’s unique and diverse vocal expertise, wit…
Come and see the Rated 18 Podcast LIVE.
Iced to death at the nation’s favourite baking competition?! Catching the killer won’t be a piece of cake! Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect return to the Fringe with…
Kane & Abel return with magic and comedy based on being twins.
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…
Remember childhood-favourite Guess Who? It’s that, but based on vibes and played with you, the lovely audience.
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch.
Step into the electrifying atmosphere of the All Made Up Podcast live show, where storytelling takes centre stage! Join our charismatic hosts Harry Stachini, Ben Hart and Lewis Col…
After a sold-out 2023 season, your favourite Jewish Australian cancer survivor with one testicle is back with lots to say about the state of the world.
From @everydaysametime the online series takes to the stage. The story of how easy it is to make friends from around the world and have restaurants remember your order.
Nominated for the Best Show Award at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships Winner 2022.
Award-winning Becky Fury (her real name) investigates the challenging identity that is being British-ish.
Edinburgh show number five for the five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
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.
Michael Kunze is actor Mitch Coony in this Hollywood odyssey, where you’re only ever one hit away from a Tom Hanks sex party.
Knockout opera-singing stand-up comedian Steph DePrez is back with a new show about dreams, risks and how exactly Americans learn to be so… loud.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
‘Nobody on this planet makes me laugh as hard as Ross McGrane’ (Jordan Gray).
Comedian Michael Balazo (writer, Schitt’s Creek) presents a show about family secrets, shame and.
Following a host of sell-out shows and hot on the heels of last year’s debut, Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand-new hour…
Sobriety, sex and profound stupidity.
One guest.
Australian comedian Ross Purdy attempts to perform the most culturally significant show the Earth has ever seen with his chaotic brand of alternative anti-comedy.
After a sell-out 2023 season, your favourite Jewish Australian cancer survivor with one ball returns to the Fringe.
How would James Madison do on Tinder? Which US president had the best dying words? Did the Union troops write the original diss track? All of this and more with comedian, history l…
Michael sheds light on the everyday challenges of his condition, from the struggles of memory loss and impulse control to the comical mishaps that ensue when navigating social inte…
Ten years ago, reigning comedian’s comedian Sid Singh did his first-ever hour-long show.
Rosie and Hugh the Hedgehog are best friends.
Comedian Michael Welch returns with a new show filled with jokes, mischief and perhaps stuff he will later regret saying.
Emmy-nominated actress, Naomi Grossman made a name for herself as Pepper on American Horror Story, the fan-favourite and first crossover character.
At dawn, the nation of the Gummy Bears declares war against the nation of the Dinosaurs.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
BAFTA award winner, star of Live at the Apollo and Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Michael Odewale returns to the Fringe.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is set to take the roof off The Other Palace this summer.
A family in mourning.
Murder! Conspiracy? Audience participation?! 4 officers have been found dead and DC Richard Head suspects foul play.
Actors East are pleased to present an evening of two plays written by Alexander Gallimore.
They’re finally coming out! Of their bedrooms! After an excruciating wait, the Boys Gone Wild Podcast (Horatio Gould and Andrew Kirwan) is going live again.
If entrepreneurship tickles your taste buds, then this is the event for you.
London’s favourite sex-positive live comedy experience, as seen in Time Out, Metro and Londonist.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
Nominated for the Best Show Award at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, Copernicus Now is a joyful and surreal caper in which the Renaissance-era astronomer reshapes the sola…
Let out your inner child and enjoy The Untold Fable of Fritz by Unsettled Theatre at the Prague Fringe Festival in the Divadlo Inspirace Theatre.
What do Shakespeare, thermodynamics and biochemistry have in common? The somewhat surprising answer is Love.
For fans of Holmes and anyone who enjoys a solid solo show, this performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act at the Prague Fringe by celebrated actor Nigel Miles-Thomas is a must-…
If you’ve never seen Shakespeare performed Aussie style, this is your chance.
Making their international debut, UnErase Poetry, India's biggest spoken-word collective, with over two million followers on social media, provide an hour of delightful tales, …
Who knows what Shakespeare looked like? We might think we do, yet as Pip Utton points out in his solo performance of At Home With Will Shakespeare at the Prague Fringe, the most fa…
Stand-up comedian and semi-harmless fanatic Daniel Powell (plus special guest) take a deep dive into the work of the comedian Stewart Lee.
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 address for the World
Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show.
Great Britons starts with pomp and ceremony music setting the scene with a little row of Union Jack flags hung against a black backdrop.
Hot on the heels of last year’s debut Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand new hour filled with more guilt-tripped anecdote…
Mitchell Coony knows what people say about him.
Local Brighton alternative comedian Brad Jon Kane presents a character comedy show, where all the characters have been politely asked to ‘Please Slow Down’.
At the end of drunken night out all that Gemma and Jane want is to jump into a taxi, get home and crash into bed.
Award winning Becky Fury (her real name) investigates the sometimes challenging identity that is being Brit-ish Covering nuanced, and potentially edgy subjects like colonialism, th…
Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster.
Actor and writer Benjamin Kelm taps himself repeatedly about the face as he repeats the mantra, “You can do it, you can do it , you can do it.
Playwright Tim Coakley has created an interesting twist on Luigi Pirandello’s groundbreaking play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, with his latest work, Six Characters in …
The European premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre sees a work as mysterious in theatrical categorisation as the book on which it is based is in terms of religious litera…
From the moment you are handed your programme at the Bridewell Theatre you are immersed in the world of SEDOS’s Richard III directed by Dan Edge.
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger.
Bank holiday 6/5 classical music with the Elegia Consort [Daria Robertson, soprano, Paul Houston, clarinet, Andrew Storey, piano] including music by Rimsky-Korsakov 12/5 Ellie Bl…
Tours of St.
Bribery and corruption, greed and stupidity dominate Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector.
As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl…
Christopher Sainton-Clark, the sole actor in A Year and a Day, founded Raising Cain Productions in 2021 ‘with the aim of producing bold, innovative and cinematic small-scale thea…
Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances.
Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning.
Artistic Director and Founder of London Classic Theatre, Michael Cabot opened the company’s touring production of Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw at the Devonshire Park Theatr…
The only “American” tribute to the four tops touring the UK! Direct from the USA, and back by popular demand, Soul Satisfaction appear live in concert p…
Liverpool’s Lantern Writers have been working steadily with the best of the city’s acting talent in recent years, providing an opportunity for new theatre vo…
Sunshine is back for his 3rd year in London at Leicester Square Theatre and enjoying his 5th year on Broadway.
Stan’s Cafe Theatre, Birmingham, is rooted in the community, so it’s no surprise that they have taken the local story of Trevor Prince, a gospel guitarist and one of the first bl…
What an extraordinary and charming play this is, courtesy of De Insomniis Theatre.
It all starts off so nicely, but it’s not long before Nina Atesh’s drawing-room drama turns into a battleground of conflicts that resurrect the past, fight for the present and …
Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its UK tour, courtesy of the Theatre Nation Partnerships conve…
Musical Theatre legend Jason Robert Brown comes to the London Palladium for one night only, in an unmissable concert spectacular on Sunday 24 March 2024.
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre Impro group Sprout are the headline act on this evening of improvised fun.
To stage Les Misérables is a massive undertaking for any theatre company, but Director Ben Jeffreys has consummately risen to the challenge with a production of the School’s Edi…
Harry McDonald’s Foam, at the Finborough Theatre, is a chronological series of snapshots that capture events in the life of Nicky Crane (1958-1993).
It’s refreshing to see a much-visited subject of bullying and homophobia in a world dominated by social media, given a fresh treatment that is both innovative and extraordinary, …
Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo …
Celebrating the show’s first anniversary, Nicholas Hytner’s sensational, immersive production of Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre with a new lineup of stars, th…
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, has scored a major triumph in securing the services of Sir Trevor Nunn to direct his faithful adaptation of Uncle Vanya in a production that has …
Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre.
Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se…
Rising Moon Productions present an arresting new production of American Buffalo by David Mamet, directed by Olivier Award winning David Thacker (Former Octagon Theatre Bolton artis…
Robbie Ross? A wild(e) divulgence of Victorian indulgence.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to its beloved Leicester…
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to its belove…
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to its belove…
Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes.
Richard, Duke of Gloucester fresh from the conclusion of The Wars of The Roses remains dissatisfied and still ruthlessly ambitious, nothing and no one will stand in his way.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Music is something that we are all touched by.
Music is something that we are all touched by.
Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre.
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe…
Toulouse Lautrec regulars Freddie and Leo Benedict are teaming up as brothers and best friends for a one-off special event, performing a hand picked selection of their favourite Ch…
An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play — one that could transform each of their car…
IT’S ABOUT PLUCKING TIME!Armed with endless Ukulele and more pop culture songs than you can shake a stick at, this no strings attached concert pushes the boundaries of just what …
Artistic Director Tom Littler, with Francesca Ellis, scores another inspired triumph with his production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.
The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br…
The brief descriptor of Treason the Musical as “a historic tale of division, religious persecution, and brutality” reads like a modern-day newspaper headline.
Memory is a strange thing.
The final days of a sixty-year marriage are turned into a domestic comedy in the latest offering from playwright Richard Bean, of One Man, Two Guvnors fame, in To Have and To Hold,…
Playwright Adam Taub says, “In the era of Google, Amazon and Meta, when our every move is monitored and recorded, there is no more relevant story than 1984”.
Following their hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year Box Tale Soup are now performing Casting the Runes, based on stories by M R James, at the Pleasance…
Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world…
Head to the Bridge House Theatre, Penge for an evening of delightful storytelling and charming performances in Alan Booty's two-hander, The Loaf.
Writer Simon Stephens has taken Max Frisch’s 1953 Biedermann und die Brandstifter, variously translated as The Fireraisers or The Arsonists and given it a heightened absurdist in…
Winston Churchill’s famous expression, “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” could accurately be applied to the subject of The Kaspar Hauser Experiment a…
If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th…
Carly Churchill looks upon Owners, now revived at Jermyn Street Theatre, as a watershed in her life.
Dan has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others, whilst being one half of the smas…
Dan has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others, whilst being one half of the smas…
There is nothing subtle about Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical attack on the House of Lords in Iolanthe, which premiered in both London and New York on 25th November 1882; the fi…
From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic.
The current transformation of the postage stamp stage of Barons Court Theatre, located in the cellar vaults of The Curtains Up pub, has been wrought by Designer Jane Linz Roberts, …
There is an intriguing opening to The Island at the Cervantes Theatre.
Described as a ‘one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan’ Am I Irish Yet? lays bare her problem as soon as she opens her mouth.
Religious fervour and football fanaticism have much in common, so it seems entirely appropriate that Patrick Marber’s changing-room drama, The Red Lion should open to the sound o…
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Billed as ‘documentary theatre’ Lessons on Revolution at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating excursion into performance and the creative process that challenges the traditional i…
Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge.
A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes…
Two lives come together in an unlikely match.
We’re all familiar with mess in one form or another, but for most of us dealing with it is probably not an all-consuming activity in the way that it is for writer and performer Jen…
The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021.
The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series.
The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact…
With horrific events occurring around the world, The White Factory at The Marylebone Theatre, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s and directed by Maxim Didenko comes as a poignant rem…
Publicity for Lady With a Dog, written and directed by Mark Giesser, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, promises a version in which ‘Chekhov’s famous short story of romance and infi…
The traditional direction of migrants seeking a better life is turned on its head in Emanuele Aldrovandi’s Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (translated by Marco Young) at the Park Th…
Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th…
Roy’s Joys by Twyla Tharp This silky, sultry work embodies the spontaneity of the 1940s and 50s jazz soundtrack by Roy Eldridge.
After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in…
It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out.
Who has not experienced a situation in which a surmountable incident escalates out of all proportion? Then, on the way to resolving it, further baggage accumulates around the subje…
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
Sir Cliff Richard in conversation with Gloria Hunniford discussing his career.
Theater Camp is a hilarious feel-good mockumentary movie that celebrates the wonderful world of performing arts with all its eccentricities.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs an evening of beloved classics choreographed by their game-changing founder.
The legendary American dance company dazzles with technical brilliance and passionate energy, bringing audiences to their feet at every performance.
This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play.
Pianist Yuja Wang joins the Oslo Philharmonic for a programme of 20th-century masterpieces by Ravel and Shostakovich.
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
It’s a woke, woke world – political correctness has gone mad! If only a group of strong, forthright, red-blooded males in tight t-shirts would break free from the oppressive an…
Aki Remally (vocals, guitar) and Fraser Urquhart (piano, keyboards) make their return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Exeter Comedy Society is back after last year’s sell-out run to showcase the best and brightest in sketch performance! From a re-assessment of childhood toys, to an astrologica…
Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful.
Andy is one of Scotland’s top swing vocalists offering a big band sound production with professional sound and light.
Rave Forever is back at Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms this August for a 5am-finish Fringe special with the man responsible for bringing Acid House to Scotland back in the late 80s, the …
We spend one third of our lives asleep.
Michael and Hilary Whitehall have escaped the antics of their son Jack and are bringing their hit podcast The Wittering Whitehalls live to The Prestonfield on Saturday 19th August.
Scotsman Michael Herd, one of the rising stars of the English comedy scene in China, spent 14 years in the People’s Republic and has returned to live in Scotland after doing most o…
Join the world-renowned pianist for an exciting odyssey through the works of Fryderyk Chopin.
Back again after sell-out shows in 2019, swing jazz sensations Out of the Blue Jazz will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook, a classic mix of great lyrics, grea…
Fiddle melodies inspired Burns across his life.
Join performance poet Robert Garnham for his new show, Bouncer.
Experience a unique and occasionally surreal evening of laughter from Ireland’s favourite internet comedians Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann, bringing their jokes, sketches and …
Stand-up comedian and writer Richard Brown (‘A ruthless and angst-fuelled set with clever, impactful writing’ (TheWeeReview.
In Robes of White.
The Art of Vestment.
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
Join guests from the worlds of comedy, literature, music and faith for a series of live recordings of the popular All Terrain Podcast.
The undisputed masters of Bach interpretation return to the Festival under the baton of their revered musical director John Butt.
Join young soloists from Coro 23: Lesley Bruce, soprano, Holly Gowen, mezzo-soprano, John Hails, tenor, Matthew Fulton-Peebles, bass-baritone, and pianist Jamie Lang as they perfor…
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song…
Sketch duos Rompers and Cowtools present a split hour of sketch comedy.
Prepare for a sidesplitting and heartwarming comedic adventure in the must-see Soup Group: Art Show!; an exceptional masterpiece.
Students from Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex, have arrived in Edinburgh with 14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac, an exciting re-imagining of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 classic tale writt…
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
If someone tells you they love you, it’s rude to ask why.
Fronted by trombonist/producer Chris Greive, this extraordinary trio approaches the Led Zep cannon as devoted fans, paying homage to the massive riffs and weight of the originals b…
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
Emotional balladry, lyrical wizardry, and musical husbandry are the cornerstones of Men With Coconuts, at PBH's Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse.
An all-American line-up show, featuring the very best comedians from across the pond! Discover the freshest comedy talent on the Fringe as they make their Pleasance debuts this sum…
A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre.
A wildly hilarious show about life in America as an outsider, featuring subway rides, sex toys and a grand jury.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
Brilliantly weird, award-winning Fred Ferenczi bestraddles the great yawning maw of death in brand-new show, a show that’s has been awaited with huge anxiety by all fans and his la…
‘Nobody on this planet makes me laugh as hard as Ross McGrane’ (Jordan Gray).
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
Mick McNeill’s rapid climb up the Scottish comedy ladder has seen him become a weekend favourite at every comedy club in the country.
We know in the UK you like your humour dry, but ours is sopping wet.
Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022.
The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office.
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
Coor Cohen is an American stand-up comic who was born in the North and raised in the Deep South.
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
Join the BXG DXG Mark Henely in this summertime holiday celebration.
Country-rock crooner Sebastian Saint performs a selection of songs exploring what it means to be an American man while sharing intimate stories about life, loss, addiction, sex, an…
American comedian Ryan Wingfield is bringing his international comedy show to his new home in the UK.
The award-winning Night Owl ensemble returns with a brand-new show, taking audiences on a journey through the life of Burt Bacharach, a composer who defined the 60s.
Dancer and performer Elliot Minogue-Stone presents pop art, contemporary dance and cabaret in his brand-new mish-mash show, Groovicle at Zoo Southside.
A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th…
From emerging talent Charles Edward Pipe comes an anthology of five dynamic, new, short plays.
This musical is based on the concept album by Green Day and centres around Jonny, Tunny and Will as they fight to get out of their boring, mundane lives.
What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha…
Elsa McTaggart, a true folk musician and singer/songwriter in every sense of the word, has waited a long time to finally present this stunning show.
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
The Leeds Tealights bring joy and mirth to the Fringe this year in A Very Special Birthday Party.
Success.
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
American Cheese, despite what the international propaganda would have you believe, is the best cheese to melt over a burger.
Michael Porter is an incomparable comedy talent with an unmistakable Irish flair! ‘Fearless in ever sense of the word.
American Boy is a stand-up comedy show about immigrant guilt, gentrified Middle Eastern food, and Barbie.
In October 2022, Richard Cobb was on honeymoon in Cuba.
In 1941 a precocious young upstart of New York’s glittering theatre scene tried his hand at making a movie and accidentally created the greatest motion picture of all time.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
25 podcasts in 25 days! Come along for a live recording of a different podcast every day of the Fringe! Visit our site to see who is on, or just show up and be surprised.
Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel.
After a decade of writing jokes, Bazely is out of ideas.
Which ethnicity will he be? Come join us to see! You are invited to Michael Welch’s Ethnic Reveal Party in which he will finally answer that age-old question: ‘where are you really…
The Magic of Terry Pratchett is an absolutely smashing show that sweeps us into a captivating journey through the life and legacy of the legendary Sir Terry Pratchett, presented by…
The magic and mystery of midsummer combine with things past and present in Sing, River, written and performed by Nathaniel Jones of Love Song Productions at the Pleasance Courtyard…
Each human being is a galaxy.
Drew Michael's one-man show is a poignant yet probably divisive performance that promises a unique experience but will leave its audience grappling with a combination of innova…
A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B…
Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L…
Attending John Kearns' show, The Varnishing Days, was an absolute treat that demands to be seen! Right from his entrance, he had us hooked with his distinctive and uproarious p…
Award-winning writer Izzy Tennyson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in the shadow of her previous show Brute to tell the story of two dissimilar sisters who must navigate strained r…
Prepare to be blown away by an evening of non-stop laughter as Mat Ewins takes the stage in his sensational show, Mr TikTok.
If you think coming out as gay or announcing any change from the heteronormative might be difficult, then try telling your parents and friends that you've just been accepted on…
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
Kane and Abel perform comedy and magic based on the cliches of being twins.
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
Kane and Abel perform comedy and magic based on the cliches of being twins.
Michael Brunström is a surrealist comedian based in London, a member of Weirdos Comedy Collective and winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
In 70 action-packed minutes, Bones highlights mental health issues in sport, looking at one man’s struggle to reconcile his inner mental turmoil with the physical demands expecte…
Having emerged from a period in which we were exhorted to wash our hands at every opportunity and instructed on how to carry out the ritual, it is strange to go back in time to an …
Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits.
Ottisdotter theatre company’s production of Lady Inger provides a rare opportunity to see one of Henrik Ibsen’s earliest, least performed and less well-known works.
Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion.
From the extraordinary story of Cecilia Giménez (Mary Tillett), writer Joe Wiltshire Smith has created a beautifully crafted play that embraces her innocence and resilience, while…
Jonas (Michael Batten) would ideally like to be in full-time employment as an actor on stage.
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane…
It’s the tenth bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
It’s the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
Dinner of the Willing is simply a cross sector gathering of people who have a willingness and enthusiasm to be part of a shift on how we seriously push diversity conversations into…
Dinner of the Willing is simply a gathering of like-minded souls who have a willingness and enthusiasm to be part of a shift on how we seriously push diversity conversations into a…
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An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work In Progress) For the first time, internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great (‘lights up the stage’ -The Scotsman) br…
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Michael McMillan’s I Miss My Mum’s Cookin’ installation forms the backdrop to this unique experiential workshop which will use the handling, smelling and tasting different ingredie…
FOOD CULTURE & ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP Michael McMillan’s I Miss My Mum’s Cookin’ installation forms the backdrop to this unique experiential workshop which will use the handling, s…
FOOD CULTURE & ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP Michael McMillan’s I Miss My Mum’s Cookin’ installation forms the backdrop to this unique experiential workshop which will use the handling, s…
EDDIE IZZARD PERFORMS CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS Following her acclaimed New York run Eddie Izzard brings her one woman show to London’s West end stage for a …
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Jonny Woo (London drag legend and co-owner gay pub The Glory) returns to Brighton Fringe following hit appearances with Night at The Musicals (with Le Gateau Chocolat) and Transfor…
Martin Sherman’s Rose is already an award-winning production that received widespread critical acclaim during its sell-out runs at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and the Park T…
Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be do…
IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast is an improvised comedy interview podcast.
IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast is an improvised comedy interview podcast.
‘“Phenomenal!” - (Woman, 31, Helsinki) “Funny as fuck” - (Man, 65, New York) “Better than a real penis!” - (Gay man, 44, Helsinki) “I didn’t even have to be ashamed” -(Kaisa’s mum)…
‘“Phenomenal!” - (Woman, 31, Helsinki) “Funny as fuck” - (Man, 65, New York) “Better than a real penis!” - (Gay man, 44, Helsinki) “I didn’t even have to be ashamed” -(Kaisa’s mum)…
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…
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…
Northern Ballet’s sell-out sensation is back – get ready for the most glamorous party in town.
Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023.
Philip Ridley’s multi-layered, complex and highly acclaimed story Leaves of Glass is breathtakingly revived by director Max Harrison in collaboration with Lidless Theatre in a mi…
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
In May we are celebrating all things Eurovison so our Variety Lunch Club is getting a Eurovision Special!Sam Avery will be brining Eurovision themed acts to the stage to…
For 30 years now, Guy Masterson has been successfully taking on the monumental challenge of presenting Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show; revelations from the fictional …
Saint Michael’s church was established in 1862 but then the building greatly extended some twenty years later.
Saint Michael’s church was established in 1862 but then the building greatly extended some twenty years later.
Michael Fabbri stand up comedy Work in progress show
Stand-up comedy Work in progress show.
Michael Welch is an ethnically ambiguous comedian of unknown origin, a.
Michael Welch is an ethnically ambiguous comedian of unknown origin, a.
Brace yourself.
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
Michael Welch is an ethnically ambiguous comedian of unknown origin, a.
Come join Boogie Roo as she takes you for the best silent disco dance-walk adventure through the streets and the beaches of Brighton.
Brace yourself.
It’s not only the title of the play; Biscuits For Breakfast is all that some people have to start the day, and that’s if they are lucky.
The Many Deaths of Michael Malloy is a brand new, immersive comedy musical set in a 1930a speakeasy.
The Artistic Director might have changed but the Orange Tree Theatre continues to resurrect plays from eras that many houses might shun.
John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan…
In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
Noah McCreadie has scored a triumph with his debut play Getaway/Runaway and the intimacy of the King’s Head Theatre provides the perfect setting for this intense drama from Shot …
It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they …
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
In a rather surprising debut choice, Stella Powell-Jones has commenced her incumbency as Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s uninspired adapt…
A fast pace and some hilarious banter about their names, how to pronounce and spell them, gets Barry McStay’s Breeding off to an immediately engaging and rip-roaring start that s…
Given the vast repertoire of plays available to theatre companies one often wonders how they decide on what to perform next and why: in this case, the somewhat lesser-known work by…
In an unlikely melding of three disparate stories, Jack Fairey finds common ground in his moving play The Sun, The Mountain, and Me for Bedivere Arts at the Jack Studio Theatre, in…
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre Join Improv group Sprout for games, scenes, and a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all …
One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO.
No, no that one, but a musical theatre cabaret exploring the twists and turns in love through music, poetry and of course, wine.
OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE.
There is an inherent difficulty with plays that seek to tell a well-known story and thus lack a sense of mystery and element of surprise.
In this Coronation year, what could be more topical than Shakespeare’s verse-told-tale of coronation, usurpation, coronation and murder? Join Westcliff Boys to experience beautiful…
The Coronet Theatre is once again hosting The National Theatre of Norway, who have arrived with their take on August Strindberg’s dark matrimonial drama Dance of Death.
Matthew Jameson embarked on a major project ten years ago.
Hilarious, satirical, superbly staged and brilliantly performed, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has hit the Lyric, Hammersmith in an explosion of theatricality following its sens…
Our lives are indebted to many people.
What a joy to see a very simple and equally silly story adapted for the stage and turned into an hour of light-hearted frivolity, full of humour and ingenuity.
A & B want so badly to help.
Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev…
There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
The setting for Lucy Beresford-Knox’s Burn, could hardly be better.
On 25th February 2023, a remarkable event will begin in London’s West End.
Two main strands are interwoven in Harrison David Rivers’ This Bitter Earth, currently making its UK premiere at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington.
I was invited to see Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal at Brixton House and made it quite clear that it wasn’t my sort of thing, that I would go in order to be supportive, that I almost …
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
What could be more appropriate to mark the opening of the Southwark Playhouse Elephant than Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce.
A Macbeth that features only the eponymous hero and his wife is an opportunity to define the characters and chart the shifting balance of power between them as the tragedy unfolds.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to its beloved Leicester…
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to …
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers returns to …
Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all …
Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all …
A heteronormative upbringing fights homosexual desire on a battleground that moves from a playful and sometimes argumentative bedroom to the secluded cell of a conversion therapy u…
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has opened its Spring 2023 season with the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice.
Stars of the international cabaret scene as you’ve never seen them before, performing lesser-known routines, trialling ridiculous concepts they’ve never dared perform before or eve…
Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth.
A man is going through almost a lifetime’s accumulation of important junk in his attic.
A breath of theatrical fresh is often much needed at big fringe-style events and it can currently be found at the Vault Festival in A Manchester Anthem.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
Continuing their monthly residency, Join Improv group Sprout for games, scenes, and a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all based on audience sugge…
The ladies with their mugs of tea sitting outside a cottage with a fenced-off lawn would have grown up with the song In An English Country Garden, whose tune introduces George Savo…
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre.
The debate surrounding refugees, migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political scene both internationally and domestically for decades.
The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season.
Described by its author as a ‘tragi-farce’, Edward Bond’s Have I None at the Golden Goose Theatre is a blunt dystopian nightmare packed into an energetically angry fifty-five…
The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES.
The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES.
Literally what it says on the tin: ‘Six Plays One Day’ offers a wide variety in a short space of time.
Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o…
The need to willingly suspend disbelief in order to fully enter into the spirit of a play is sometimes an essential requirement if the potential for enjoyment is not to be lost alt…
If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit…
There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those.
Scheduled over twelve rounds, On the Ropes at the Park Theatre goes from 7.
Bells are ringing, dreidels are spinning, the holidays are here again! Leave the remote at home and get your fix of festive film hilarity at the Karaoke Hole with Dragprov’s Nutfli…
Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20…
Being dead, the great maestro of late baroque composition has the hope of being raised incorruptible.
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It’s that time of year again when, as an Irish community committed and passionate about HIV, we celebrate World AIDS Day with the Irish Aid Annual Professor Michae…
The creative team behind Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor at the Park Theatre have done an outstanding job on this production.
Two main strands run through Keeper of the Flame, written and performed by Rob Adams, a play that fits neatly into the confines of the delightful Bridge House Theatre.
Kae Tempest’s credentials as a poet and lyricist shine through in Wasted at the Jack Studio.
There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man.
The fabulous Mill at Sonning has revived last year’s Christmas success for another run over the festive season, It’s hard to believe that a full-scale musical like Top Hat, wit…
Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions.
Join Sprout for games, scenes, and even a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all based on audience suggestions.
We’ll never know what, if anything, Shakespeare was on when he wrote AMidsummer Night’s Dream, but the team at Intermission Youth Theatre have based their ‘Shakespeare Remix�…
Jamie Patterson (Will) and Charis Murray (Bean) give delightful performances in Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Rees, the debut production for their company, Shot in the Dark Theatre, at t…
Irish baritone Benjamin Russell is currently a member of the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany.
There was a more than usual buzz in the air at the Coliseum in anticipation of ENO’s latest foray into the world of Gilbert & Sullivan with The Yeoman of the Guard.
Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) leads a traditional life in rural Ireland.
When the setting for your play is the basement of a London pub, where better to perform than at Barons Court Theatre which is located in the basement of the west London pub aptly n…
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
1st Show: 18:30 2nd Show: 19:30 Cultural Comedy Tours returns to the Grant Museum for a wonderful Halloween special evening of discovery and laughter with a one of a kind look …
Douglas Henshall has wasted no time in returning to the stage after his years in Shetland.
When Intelligence Squared and History Hit joined forces on this event, neither company imagined it would take place after the death of Britain’s longest serving mo…
A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t…
The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre.
DIRECT FROM THE USA, William Hicks’ AMERICAN FOUR TOPS SHOW It’s the show jam packed with sweet soul music and Motown magic that continues to leave audiences…
In marked contrast to the UK’s recent smooth transition from one monarch to another, the story of Dmitry (Tom Byrne), at the new Marylebone Theatre, tells a woeful tale of power-…
Experience a unique night of laughter from Ireland’s favourite internet comedians Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann, bringing their jokes, sketches and tunes live…
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin join brilliant violinist Lisa Batiashvili for a concert of dazzling colours and intoxicating rhythms.
The latest surrealist caper from Michael Brunström, award-winning comedian and creator of The Human Loire, The Hay Wain Reloaded, Parsley and The Great Fire of London.
The British harpsichordist and conductor joins brilliant Baroque performers for a journey through the riches of European 17th-century chamber music.
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C…
Stunning, imaginative, inspired, colourful, amusing, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung, this Trial By Jury is Gilbert and Sullivan at its very best.
A beautifully melodic, rich programme of universally loved music: Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Suite Populaire Bresilienne and Sublime arrangements of classic George Gershwin songs by local…
Ross performs tracks from his new album, Provenance, a collection of works for piano and electronics.
Dirty Harry captures the rapture of Blondie and has not only the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of the band but a look-a-like of Debbie to deliver the good …
Come watch the live show of the hit comedy podcast The Year Is where every episode Red and Bobby go back to a year in history and talk about the weirdest and strangest events from …
Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans se…
A hilarious and edgy stand-up hour that examines what it’s like to see the world through cum-tinted glasses.
Join the creator of The Room Next Door in this final run at the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful sell-out tour as he talks about making comedy under the radar and the dangers of…
Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Americans are fat, find out why.
We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal.
Come and hear an EdFringe podcast recorded live and listen to the backstage chat and meet the Edinburgh legend/veteran/star.
Live podcast with celebrity guests! Join Lynn (Scottish and mouthy) Neil (quiet and brooding) and the one and only Chesney Hawkes (frankly adorable) for chat, live music, temporary…
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hit…
A brand-new show where volunteers from the audience unlock their imaginations and create a once-in-a-lifetime show of improvised comedy under the influence of hypnosis – live on …
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
The Greeks knew a lot about war and told great tales of heroism, victory and defeat.
There’s a point beyond burnout where all you can do is laugh and Deirdre O’Kane has well and truly reached it.
Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm.
There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past.
World-renowned songsmith and pianist extraordinaire, John Thorn, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a sublime collection of new original songs exploring the meaning of life and t…
Discover Edinburgh’s Little Ireland in this filmic exploration of the community through traditional music.
Dr Reverend Jimmy Goodlove, the 1980s-styled American televangelist, preaches and teaches! Life’s answers are found in the lyrics of Grammy Award-winning album Faith by George Mich…
The rhythm of the tango underpins Los Guardiola - The Comedy of Tango in this superb production from Musique et Toile, but the show is much broader than the one dance form.
Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues …
It’s a day like any other.
Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees.
A tour de force performance of the work which is widely considered musical minimalism’s first masterpiece.
Robert is a poet.
Wayne Marshall joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra for an evening of rip-roaring tunes and joyful American classics, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Works by Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
This one-act play is a historical drama that tells the true story of a catastrophic, man-made disaster that killed 2,200 people in 1889 when a dam containing 20 million tons of wat…
The Year 12 girls from Wycombe Abbey school in High Wycombe under the direction of Phoebe Francis have created a fine production of DNA by Dennis Kelly.
Join Edinburgh’s prestigious Poosie Nansie Burns Club in this their centenary year for a lively celebration of the life and works of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns.
After an unbroken run from 1990 to 2019, Fife’s premier operatic concert group Ensemble is delighted to be able to return to the superb setting of St.
Award-winning jazz trombonist Rory Ingham joins forces with ground-breaking Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie for a night of high-energy, encapsulating and accessible jazz, featuri…
Saltire Sky Theatre have lived up to all the expectations they raised following 1902, their smash hit of last year’s Fringe that won them the Broadway Baby Bobby Award and Off We…
A word-for-word theatrical adaptation (with original music) of the 1942 government handbook published to prepare families for uncertainty and violence, then and now.
Polly Peculiar, at Greenside Nicholson Square, is a joy from beginning to end: the sort of play that under normal circumstances you might not be tempted to see.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
With a busted knee, a burst eardrum and heroic reveries replaced by painkillers and words like ‘ouch’, ‘pardon’ and ‘I’m down here!’, Todd reckons he has one last chance to reinv…
The drunk knight returns.
Did you know Americans weren’t the first people in space? Me neither! Fake news.
Two contrasting elements combine to make Rebel into a spectacular show ideally suited to the vast tent that is Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows.
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
Gecko’s playful story-songs will take you on a journey via ignored characters in Italian renaissance paintings, pig outlaws and tooth fairy admin.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
Diane Chorley brings you her chart-topping podcast Chatting with Chorley live from the glamour of her cult 1980s nightclub The Flick.
The world’s changed, Michaels confused and snowflake is a cold dessert? Is it just me? Let’s find out together.
What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla…
Five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist brings his third hour to Edinburgh.
The Great American Songbook is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of tim…
The night is young and three of the best stand-up comedians from Australia are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink.
Fitry is an intriguing one-man show from Faso Danse Théâtre, Brussels, featuring Serge Aimé Coulibaly as the performer.
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
It’s the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
Robert Miles is a quirky one-liner comedian. Also an outstanding ventriloquist. Robert Miles is also in a double act with Cyril the squirrel in a stand-up comedy show.
It’s the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
If you’ve seen poker on Channel 4, that American accent you heard belonged to Joe Stapleton.
It’s the 10th bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Experience all the hits from one of the world’s most successful duos in this poignant and uplifting trip through the career of The Carpenters.
Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper and Jennifer Decilveo’s Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is in one word, a celebration.
‘Russell’s mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the…
Gabe Mollica brings New York-style comedy line-ups every night to Bar 50.
A hilarious and edgy stand-up hour that examines what it’s like to see the world through cum-tinted glasses.
People can be sensitive about how they are described.
Debut stand-up hour from your favourite, local American.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope.
Richard Stott returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners.
New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill.
Highly anticipated debut hour from comedian and junior doctor.
The highly anticipated world premiere of Irvine Welsh's Porno catches up with the lives of Renton, Sickboy, Begbie & Spud, fifteen years after their appearance in TRAINSPOT…
As the title Charlie Russell Aims to Please suggests, the entire show is an amalgamation of various theatre techniques from musical to slapstick to the dramatic in Russell’s atte…
What happens when you train for something your whole life, only to fail at the crucial moment? This question is the stimulus behind False Start, from acclaimed French-German theatr…
If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same…
Fringe-first award winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels, Monster) is back at the Fringe with his new work Fanboy in which he explores his relationship with his past and future self.
“Eagles! The eagles are coming” says Pippin Took in Lord of the Rings.
A stand-up performance of extracts from the works of some of the great writers of the past from Ireland, with no particular theme, just wonderful material full of humour and pathos…
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me.
Richard Brown returns to the Fringe with a new show that promises to be as bleakly brilliant as his previous endeavours.
Multi award-winning podcast returns.
Following the recent deposit of the landmark archive of acclaimed street photographer Robert Blomfield (1938–2020) at the Centre for Research Collections, this exhibition celebra…
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Have you had the experience of sitting through a play and thinking, “If I’d known that was how it was going to end I’d have paid far more attention to all the details in the …
Midnight Snacks is a new breed of late-night show - a chilled out hour designed to relax you before bed, featuring surreal stories, strange sketches and tall tales.
Based on the bone-chilling works of Bram Stoker, “Dracula’s Guest” takes you into the dark heart of Victorian horror to reveal the very meaning of terror and the consequences of co…
Based on the bone-chilling works of Bram Stoker, “Dracula’s Guest” takes you into the dark heart of Victorian horror to reveal the very meaning of terror and the consequences of co…
Director Max Lewendel has taken Theatre of the Absurd to a new level in his engrossing production of Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson in a translation by Donald Watson at the Southwa…
Richard Stott as seen on ITV2 Stand Up Sketch Show and runner up in Dave TV’s Jokes of 2019 is back with a new show about your mid 30s.
Set in Chester in 1645 as England was ravaged by the Civil War, Offered Up, at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio Theatre is a commentary on the political and social life of the …
A brand new kickass-pirational pop musical bursts into life as the Fantastically Great Women take to the stage to tell their stories.
Stunning from beginning to end The Convert is perhaps the most remarkable piece of theatre ever staged at Above The Stag in Vauxhall and that is no disrespect to the many fine prod…
On my radio. Classic comedy, satire, love and more …
Howard Brenton’s new play Cancelling Socrates at Jermyn Street Theatre is a fascinating piece that transports us to classical Greece in a consideration of the circumstances that …
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date.
On my radio. Classic comedy, satire, love and more …
Shakespeare knew what it took to pen a romantic tragedy when he wrote Romeo and Juliet and hence carefully structured all the ingredients to meet the demands of the genre and creat…
Set in an unspecified time and without a location, No Particular Order resonates across the ages, through civilisations and empires, dictatorships and democracies and more, vividly…
Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree…
Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree…
The event might fall short of the hype that The Man Behind the Mask would be a ‘confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outr…
Reportedly T S Eliot carried a pocket version of Dante around, and although he could not understand Italian explained that he simply listened to the music of the words.
Reportedly T S Eliot carried a pocket version of Dante around, and although he could not understand Italian explained that he simply listened to the music of the words.
Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly.
Russell Hicks has gained legendary status in British comedy for his masterful improv and crowd-work skills, hosting and headlining at iconic venues across the UK and abroad.
Russell Hicks has gained legendary status in British comedy for his masterful improv and crowd-work skills, hosting and headlining at iconic venues across the UK and abroad.
Did Alissa Finn choose to perform Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged at the Water Rats in King’s Cross because the stage has a pair of ionic columns framing the stage? No, is the …
Everything seems normal.
IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast is an improvised comedy interview podcast.
Everything seems normal.
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…
As seen on ‘Mock The Week’ (BBC Two), ‘The Stand-Up Sketch Show’ (ITV), ‘Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club’ (ITV) and more, Michael Odewale is taking the comedy world by storm.
As seen on ‘Mock The Week’ (BBC Two), ‘The Stand-Up Sketch Show’ (ITV), ‘Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club’ (ITV) and more, Michael Odewale is taking the comedy world by storm.
Searchlight Theatre Company returns to the Brighton Fringe with their delightful show Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy at the Rialto Theatre.
Please join us for a very special evening celebrating the “Otherwise Engaged” exhibition, which features the beautiful artistry of 3 talented practitioners from the Creative Fu…
It’s the tenth bi-annual meeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society and Alex, their founder, has a special surprise to mark the occasion.
Brighton favourites and award-winning idiots Privates return! Three brilliant big-brained buttheads try to make history and win a Nobel Prize, with some totally stupid homemade inv…
Today, when we think about sexuality, we tend to see broad (but not total) acceptance and can at times take it for granted.
“You are going to tell the whole world that there is such an offence.
Things were warming up at the Spiegeltent Bosco as the pre-Eurovision party crowd was ready for some afternoon goofs and giggles.
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu…
The Dwarfs is a semi-autobiographical work and Harold Pinter's only novel.
The Man In The Shed is a highly amusing and at time hilarious solo rant by actor Alex Dee, co-written as Alex Donald with Tim Connery.
Jim Spencer Broadbent is a playwright based in South-East London, so he is delighted to be presenting his play The Recollection of Tony Ward as one of twenty-seven companies contri…
Sunday Assembly is a worldwide network of non-religious gatherings that aim to celebrate life and build community through thought-provoking speakers, readings, poems, quiet reflect…
Sunday Assembly is a worldwide network of non-religious gatherings that aim to celebrate life and build community through thought-provoking speakers, readings, poems, quiet reflect…
Sharing funny stories from the front line of teaching, this live show will see the Two Mr P's reminiscing on their own school days and looking at the wonderful and …
Expectations can work in many ways and it’s interesting to realise the extent to which we can be influenced by what we have just seen.
Phil McIntyre Live LTD proudly presents TWO MR Ps IN A PODCAST - LIVE Mr P has been a primary school teacher for over 14 years.
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
Brecht would have felt at home watching two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood Studio.
“Ross Kamp has a strong future ahead of him as a comedian, as well as a writer” Broadway Baby Ross Kamp invites you to look on the bright side of life as he explores the world of…
Let’s face it, the future has seemed quite blurry for a while now hasn’t it? Well, it’s time to look ahead to a brighter and queerer future! Join queer comedian Ross Kamp as he s…
Celebrated director Sarah Frankcom makes her debut at Hampstead Theatre in a spartan production of Naomi Wallace’s morality-defying play The Breach.
A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m…
An odd combination of nostalgia and existentialism, American Idiot continues to remain incredibly current.
Both a restaurant and a theatre, The Mill at Sonning, with its beautiful river setting in the countryside near Reading, is currently host to the Busman's Honeymoon, co-written …
Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s amusing challenge to the norms of society, stemmed from her own life and that of her lover Vita Sackville-West, but in her novel, the eponymous hero'…
Dust-sheets cover what little furniture there is in the expansive room of Dr Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden), trusted personal physiotherapist to Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler (Ri…
When Marisha Wallace, who plays Ado Annie, sings “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” we are left in no doubt as to what she means and it gets the ovation it richly deserves…
Sometimes all the elements of a production combine to form something that is stunning and deeply moving.
Absolute Certainty? staged by Qweerdog Theatre revolves around the confused lives of two brothers and a friend.
Manic parties and manic dance, glorious swirls of colour, Chanel-inspired floating dresses and jazz from the Roaring Twenties, contrasted with the green light throbbing in the dist…
How It Is (Part 2) being Part 2 of a three-part novel of which Part 1 comes before it and Part 3 follows it after which there is no more being a novel it is not a play yet here at …
After sitting through two acts of around fifty-five minutes each at the Union Theatre, quite why David Lindsey-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five To…
CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE?!! The world premiere of a brand new kick-asspirational pop musical bursts to life as the Fantastically Great Women take to the stage to …
If you are into boxing, and I’m not, Fighting Irish gives you something to latch onto from the outset.
Gilbert & Sullivan have survived the test of time and now seem to have successfully weathered the pandemic.
Two stunningly energetic performances keep Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickyboy, courtesy of Bruiser Theatre Company, rolling along at a cracking pace that provides an hour of action-…
John Lahr’s Diary of a Somebody makes a return to the stage after an absence of 35 years, this time at Seven Dials Playhouse.
There is deceit in the title of this play.
Wilton’s Music Hall has come a long way since 1885 when Nelly Power sang The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery.
I’ll settle for the company’s own description of Under Electric Candlelight as an ‘existential tragicomedy’, but dont worry about interpreting that.
That irresistible 1970s suburban comedy, Abigail's Party, has been revived again; this time at the Watford Palace Theatre under the direction of Pravesh Kumar.
Dev’s Army, by Stuart D.
Blackpool chip shop heiress Teresa Toti is unlucky in love, to put it mildly.
Bacon, at the Finborough Theatre, showcases the talents of two remarkable young actors in a moving exploration of teenage angst.
Simple acts can often have huge repercussions.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
For aficionados of Ibsen this is a production not to be missed; nor should those who just like to wallow in the velvety richness of traditional theatre ignore this rare opportunity…
Politically, it seems like a highly appropriate time to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II - an exploration of the nature of leadership and egotistical entitlement.
Andy Warhol once declared, 'Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art'.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers…
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers…
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
Now seen by over 350,000 fans live and watched by millions on TV Europe's No.
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
The University of Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948.
Join Rudi Douglas and Grace Shush as they delve into the one and only Adele’s catalogue of music to perform live their favourite songs from 19, 21, 25 & 30.
In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a…
Join author, campaigner and podcast host Ruairí McKiernan, Senator Lynn Ruane and special guests for what is guaranteed to be a lively and inspiring conversation …
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman were joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical for their roles in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at The…
In a desperate attempt to bring some spark back to their all-too-cosy married life, professional millennials Michael and Phil switch a sherry on the couch for a night on the town.
Steam Down return to the Albany for a special homecoming gig.
Reclaiming the European Street: Speeches on Europe and the European Union President Michael D.
Renowned Scottish flautist and new music champion, Richard Craig, closes the festival with a programme of recent works built around Richard Barrett’s “Vale&r…
Joe went a little bit mad during lockdown – just like you did – and it’s hilariously cathartic to watch.
Joe went a little bit mad during lockdown – just like you did – and it’s hilariously cathartic to watch.
Banksy’s works pop up in all sorts of places, but seeing them is often a challenge.
Reversed, deconstructed and re-imagined to create a truly remarkable piece of theatre, Juliet & Romeo is the inaugural long-run production at The Chelsea Theatre, following its…
Writer/Director Paul Stone has unearthed a gem of World War II history and transformed it into a delightful monologue, now on stage at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington.
The Queer Gaze is a podcast presented and produced by Homotopia Associate Artist Ashleigh Owen.
The Tony Awards for comedy must have had a lean year in 2013 when Christopher Durang won Best Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Liverpool's Lantern Writers have been working steadily with the best of the city's acting talent in recent years, providing an opportunity for new theatre voic…
Some people pace up and down, others rock back and forth.
Can you believe it’s been 18 years since we first saw the Girls on Popstars The Rivals!? To celebrate their birthday and of course mourn the loss of our favourite wild child o…
Luke Oldfield’s Accidental Birth of an Anarchist at The Space on the Isle of Dogs tells of two novice activists from The People’s Movement to Protect the Planet who get jobs on…
Momentum Theatre Productions is proud to present the Irish premiere of The Great War along with Lovely Head in a night of two dark comedies by Neil LaBute.
THIS HALLOWEEN WEEKEND, THE SPOOKS COME ALIVE WITHIN DRAG ATTACK V!International lip-sync assassin, rocknroll songstress and your ghost hostess Crystal Lubrikunt welcomes you …
As W S Gilbert once observed, “Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?” Cal McCrystal provides plenty of material for that in his pro…
New covid-safe version of Brite Theater’s multi award-winning show! The fourth wall has been utterly obliterated, as the audience take on the roles of all the other characters at R…
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser evokes memories of a bygone age in British theatre and no setting more befits it than that glorious monument to thespian achievement, the Richmond Th…
Australian playwright Alana Valentine makes her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre with The Sugar House, in its first production outside of her home country, where it was nominat…
The Wife of Michael Cleary is the first piece of music theatre from composer and performer Maz O’Connor.
Benjamin Scheuer is one of the finest songwriters of his generation, and “plays guitar like he invented the instrument” (Los Angeles Times).
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
AEG Presents Jeremy Piven Plus Special Guests Jeremy Piven is best known for his role as ARI GOLD in the hit HBO series Entourage, which aired for eight seasons; le…
An amazing evening of dinner and live music.
If you either love…or hate… the magic of motoring then you are in for a big treat! Clive St.
The Salem witch trials are well known, perhaps in large part due to Arthur Miller’s outstanding play The Crucible that put the Massachusetts town on the map.
The Brockley Jack Theatre is currently offering the opportunity to see a rarely performed and probably almost unknown operetta by Gustav Holst.
It doesn’t take long to appreciate why Foxes, at Theatre 503, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award.
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
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Romancero Books con el apoyo de la Oficina de Asuntos Culturales y Cintificos de la Embajada de Espaa en Londres presenta el Festival de Literatura Queer Espaola en Londres - FLQEL…
The long-awaited Hamlet, directed by Greg Hersov, is finally on stage at the Young Vic and as the young prince Cush Jumbo gives a commanding performance that keeps the whole produc…
The renowned Finborough Theatre is still alive and well as witnessed by its latest production of Jordan Hall’s How To Survive An Apocalypse presented by Proud Haddock.
“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t…
“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t…
How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of…
Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma…
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
Noël Coward described Relatively Speaking as ‘a beautifully constructed and very funny comedy’ and this production at the Jermyn Street Theatre demonstrates how right he was.
In addition to much discussion of the play itself, Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Omnibus Theatre Clapham had the bar buzzing with anecdotes from people recalling what their mo…
SPECIAL PRIDE : Bring your best pride outfit while pushing yourself with the best pop playlist! The ultimate bootcamp experience.
Marcus Hercules, Artistic Director of Hercules Productions, is the one-man wonder behind Prison Games, currently live on-stage at The Pleasance in north London having previouslybee…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
Two people are left standing on opposite sides of the room at the end of a housewarming party in Crouch End: the hostess and a guy who came as the friend of a friend, but on whom s…
A cracking London story with drama, comedy, and romance that has entertained people for over 150 years.
Dirty Harry not only has the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of the band, but a look-a-like of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
This is Paradise, Michael John O'Neill’s new play at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, is a lengthy monologue in which Kate (Amy Molloy) provides a complex interweaving of the…
Outstanding young Russian pianist Nikita Lukinov gives a recital of Beethoven (Sonata No.
The wait is finally over! The world’s first Gay Fairytale Prince is coming to Manchester - and just in time for Pride!Perhaps happily ever after does exist after all? Or should we …
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow.
Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors.
This twelve-strong company are enthusiastic, bright young things who sing, sway and beat-box with great spirit.
Something special happens when you play piano for yourself at home.
Still by Frances Poet makes its world premiere courtesy of The Traverse Theatre Company at their theatre.
This week, the Gladiator workout is co-hosting a join event with the gay touch rugby team the Clapham feelers.
Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility.
After only about four years, Iona Fyfe is very well established as one of Scotland’s finest folk singers.
Set in a near-future, post-global ecological collapse, Quandary Collective’s Richard II is a bloodthirsty outdoor exhibition.
It’s Not Rocket Science at theSpace@Surgeons’ Hall is presented by Nottingham New Theatre, England’s only fully student-run theatre venue.
Lemon Squeeze Productions are presenting a new adaptation of Rossetti’s Women at the Space@Surgeons’ Hall, written and directed by Joan Greening, award-winning writer of ITV si…
Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
Born in Missoula, and growing up on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana, riding horses, swimming in the clear glacier water, Teague Goodvoice draws some of his inspirati…
The final concert in the A Great Disordered Heart series, curated by Aidan O’Rourke, presents two of the most thrilling acts in Scottish and Irish folk music today.
Some of the world’s most powerful Gaelic voices come together for Shared Songs – the second concert in the Aidan O’Rourke-curated series A Great Disordered Heart – in a nig…
The avant-garde Northumbrian folk storyteller combines an incredible singing voice, gritty subject matter and dark humour to create his unforgettable style.
Michael Akadiri is a London born & bred, award-winning, fast-rising stand up comedian who has been seen/ heard on LadBible, Times Radio and recently recorded for ITV2s Stand Up Ske…
Dean’s personal take on the craziness that’s befallen America, and the world, these past six years.
Shared Melodies opens A Great Disordered Heart’s concert series, curated by Aidan O’Rourke, with a mesmerising, stripped-back take on traditional Irish and Scottish melody.
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
Jonathan Smeed is making his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Run by Stephen Laughton at Lauriston Halls, courtesy of No Frills Theatre Company.
Richard Stott returns to the Camden Fringe with a show exploring the merits and pitfalls of loyalty.
Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill.
A conversation about the past, present and future of women’s playwriting in Scotland.
My Car Plays Tapes is the new storytelling show by John Osborne, about getting older, jobs, cars that don’t really work and how to make big decisions with your life.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
Ross Cullum (Bridgerton) plays villainous English bastards on TV, depicting the cis-het-masc-posho-twat demographic.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
Three lads have certain things in common.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company has made a highly successful adaptation of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) at theSpace Triplex as part of the contribution by the graduates of Que…
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
Smile.
We’re gonna be honest.
For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place.
We’re gonna be honest.
Paddy the Cope, written and directed by Raymond Ross, makes its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the delightful Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Cen…
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the master of wordplay.
Moonlight on Leith, by Emilie Robson and Laila Noble, at theSpaceTriplex is inspired by the ‘Save Leith Walk’ campaign; a grassroots movement seeking to preserve the historic s…
Chalkhill Theatre Ltd currently has a double debut with the company’s first appearance at the Festival Fringe and the premiere of their new play.
Join Glasgow-born Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone) accompanied on the piano by Keval Shah as he sings a selection of songs by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).
He’s back with a brand new comedy show for 2021! Mask off, mic on, laughs had! Four-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
In 1902 Hibs won the Scottish Cup.
A unique two-woman retelling of F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.
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.
Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy.
Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman.
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
Billed as ‘the future of queer comedy cabaret’ Tropicana is Aidan Sadler’s 80’s solo show of classic queer hits at the suitably late hour of 23:15 at theSpaceTriplex.
A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it.
From baseball to outer space, the American (In) Tent revue show is a lively event chock-a-block with all sorts of perspectives on current American life.
My Car Plays Tapes is the new storytelling show by John Osborne, about getting older, jobs, cars that don’t really work and how to make big decisions with your life.
400 milliliters.
The banner proclaims, ‘Congratulations’ as it hangs from the ceiling above the unimaginable mess left by the previous afternoon's party in which inmates and staff seemingly…
Come and laugh the trauma away at this dark comedy, inspired by the writer’s ridiculous lockdown diary entries.
Come and laugh the trauma away at this dark comedy, inspired by the writer’s ridiculous lockdown diary entries.
Is there an issue with capturing plays from the second half of the twentieth century that deal with gay issues of the period? The Southwark Playhouse recently managed a production …
For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T…
Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y…
Russel Brand takes some life lessons from William Shakespeare.
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and pr…
The Space on the Isle of Dogs continues its practice of supporting new talent with Helium, an original work by Grumble Pup Theatre, a fledgling company founded in the Black Country…
A wonderfully entertaining evening of laughter and fine acting is currently to be found in Keith Waterhouse’s Mr and Mrs Nobody, staged by Gabriella Bird in her directorial debut…
Exile at the Southwark Playhouse, by JoMac Productions Limited & Blue Heart Theatre, is an interestingly constructed piece consisting of two life-crisis monologues by individu…
The Jerk Store.
The Jerk Store.
The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.
The Southwark Playhouse has been transformed into an authentic 1960’s barbershop for the revival of Charles Dyer’s hit play Staircase, by Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in asso…
Garry Roost’s one-hander, Warhol: Bullet Karma, at the Rialto Theatre, as part of the Brighton Fringe, explores aspects of the artist’s life through encounters with various peo…
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard is 38 years old.
The apologetic opening to Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire, explaining the failure of the actors to turn up, might seem out of place in any standard piece of theatre, but then it wou…
The Soho Theatre launched its post-lockdown summer season this week with Shedding A Skin, written and performed by Amanda Wilkin, the 2020 winner of the Verity Bargate Award.
The Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley has opened its doors for the first time in fifteen months with a wonderfully heart-warming production of Stewart Pringle’s Trestle.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i…
Diary of an Expat makes a striking impression even before Cecilia Gragnani enters the stage for her solo play at the Rialto Theatre, directed by Katharina Reinthaller.
Seeing Queerly was a comedy show that presented a different take to life during and after lockdown, as well as dating.
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is anything but that when played ad nauseam on a loop while you are kept on hold by a robotic voice saying, “All our operators are currently busy.
One day perhaps someone will write a play about a drag queen where, beneath the frock and below the wig, above the high heels and under the layers of slap exists a man who is happy…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
The Jermyn Street Theatre continues its Footprints Festival with Lucy Betts’ acclaimed production of Ade Morris’s Lone Flyer, which was first staged at The Watermill Theatre la…
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se…
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the adaptability of works by Robert Louis Stevenson for the stage, with productions popping up in many quarters.
The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production.
Waiting for Hamlet has itself been waiting for some time.
Juicy Lime Productions presents Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play An Intervention, as part of the Brighton Fringe at the Sweet Room, Old SteineTwo characters, identified in the script on…
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
Blue Devil Productions closed the Rialto Theatre’s Brighton Fringe season last week with a two-act production,The Tragedy of Dorian Gray; their first full-length play.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021.
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
Brighton got their boogie shoes on as they danced around Brighton with Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party under the guidance of our ship's captain Mama Roo and her shipmat…
Discover a show about the discoveries that changed the world, by people who know nothing.
Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power.
Between Two Waves by Australian playwright Ian Meadows interweaves an urgent call to recognise the world’s impending climate crisis and the troubled smaller world of a young clim…
A unique two-woman retelling of F.
A unique two-woman retelling of F.
Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s…
Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s…
Writer and poet Michael Rosen celebrates his 75th birthday at Brighton Festival, sharing stories of his life and work with Hannah Azieb PoolOne of Britain’s best loved writers an…
The greater mouse-eared bat belongs to the family Vespertilionidae of the genus Myotis.
Tickets: £21.
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The Scottish Play is a solo performance written by Victoria Gartner, founder and artistic director of Will & Co which produces plays about Shakespear, under the umbrella title …
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the smash hit Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe comedy game show is bringing you all the action that Hallmark always let you down on - the…
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
!On Sunday 31 October we’re having a special Halloween-themed class.
Dirty Harry has not only the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of Blondie, but a lookalike of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
25 years since the premiere of ‘Toasting The Lassies’, does the costume still fit? Can she still hit the high notes of Ae Fond Kiss? Gill Bowman revisits the material and wonders i…
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Charlotte Green, writer of Lest We Forget, and James Robert Moore, writer of POSTERBOY, join us for a chat about the process of developing their plays and their ambitions…
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
A live-from-home reading of a twenty minute section of brand new play POSTERBOY based on the autobiography OUT IN THE ARMY by James Wharton – telling the insp…
Brad Tassell and Steve Goodie describe themselves as a pair who have been ‘all-around nutty goofballs for more than 30 years’; and it shows.
Dirty Harry has not only the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of the band, but a lookalike of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
The Mystic Chorale is an interactive 50-voice chorus from Boston, Massachusetts which has been bringing their audiences into the singing experience for 30 years, creating living co…
Back from sell-out shows in 2019, this band are swing jazz sensations, Out of the Blue Jazz, who will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook in the style of iconic …
It’s either a mid-conversation pick-up or a recording error that opens Jane Martin’s monologue, Lockdown Drag-Out, in which she appears as the plummy and plumpy Audrey Stanton …
If you’ve been feasting on BBC iPlayer during lockdown and enjoying the delights of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, it’s worth taking six minutes out of your social isolation t…
A series of four afternoon concerts, featuring soloists Chris Black (organ), Sarah Moore (soprano) and Sophie Horrocks (mezzo-soprano) and sacred choral music from Eastern Europe, …
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and ‘the best celeb interviewer in Britain’ (Guardian), probably best known for his role of Percy in Servants, brings his multi-award-winning podca…
Elsa and sister Irenie (The McTaggart Sisters) showcase a rare opportunity to hear these two highly acclaimed singers/songwriters/multi-instrumentalists come together in a fusion o…
Experience all the hits from one of the world’s most successful duos in this nostalgic and informative trip down memory lane and through the lush soundscape of The Carpenters.
Enjoy a plaguey, fiery hour in this informative and interactive one-man show for history-loving kids.
3’s Comedy brings together Luka Muller, Peter Jones and a mystery guest; three of the rising stars of Australian comedy for a whole new hour of hilarious stand-up.
The night is young and three of the best stand-up comedians from Australia and around the world are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink.
Ross is a father of four cool guys and still the coolest guy in town.
Horror in all it’s forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
After surviving testicular cancer, one of Australia’s fastest-rising comedians Michael Shafar debuts with his critically acclaimed show 50/50 that is equal parts raw, honest and hi…
From Dave’s Funniest Jokes 2019 runner-up comes a comedic journey of self-discovery exploring the benefits and pitfalls of both fitting in and standing out.
After surviving testicular cancer, one of Australia’s fastest-rising comedians Michael Shafar performs his first ever show in London with his critically acclaimed …
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
The Golden Age of Television was blessed with some of the best-loved of comedians, but why are Eric & Ernie and Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd so fondly r…
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
The heritage of comedy is a troubled one - littered with the shells of those whose genius is inextricably linked with struggles with mental health.
Comedy legend Tony Slattery is live on stage in conversation with Britain's foremost comedy historian Robert Ross.
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
Mark’s podcast investigates what it is to be British.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Edinburgh’s Traverse has long-championed new drama—indeed, the venue’s self-description is the simple goal of being “Scotland’s new writing theatre”.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers retu…
Threedumb Theatre returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre for another whole day of one-act plays, showcasing a wide variety of new writing.
When Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Keegan-Dolan covered the stage with a flurry of white feathers for his re-imagining of Swan Lake, it earned him a flock of five s…
From the producers of Searching For Sugar Man and Whitney: Can I Be Me comes this intimate new documentary into the heart and soul of the internationally renowned and enigmatic fro…
The NoSleep Podcast will be bringing its live show across the Atlantic for the first time ever in January 2020.
The NoSleep Podcast will be bringing its live show across the Atlantic for the first time ever in January 2020.
Shirley & Shirley went forth and multiplied.
The original ukulele orchestra.
CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation return for their annual Christmas charity special in aid of Age UK.
“We’re leaving the EU!” “OH NO, WE AREN’T.
There is something wonderfully seasonal about Wind of Heaven at the Finborough Theatre.
Nearly five years old and up to 200 podcasts, successful collaborations with Nike, Red Bull and Deezer, The Halfcast Podcast is hitting the centre of London for a very s…
Global Voices Theatre works with international playwrights based outside the UK to showcase plays in translation and from the wider English-speaking world, through uniquely curated…
Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation.
Performing a play in a cathedral about an archbishop assassinated in a cathedral might sound like a match made in heaven.
Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an intensely Irish play set in the wilds of Connemara, premiered locally by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway in 1996.
The prospect of a two-act monologue that lasts around two and a quarter, an interval, is perhaps daunting for both the actor and aficionados of the genre alike.
The decade might be set in history as ‘Swinging’, but for many of us who lived through the ‘60’s the appellation has only a marginal connection with the realities of life.
The mission of the Cervantes Theatre “to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London” is strikingly realised in its closing play of the 2019 season that featur…
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK! TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Gaslight has stood the test of time in the canon of British theatre.
Welcome to the campaign after the campaign! Three unlikely adventurers attempt to right the wrongs caused by a party of legendary heroes who screwed up the world wh…
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK!TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Jay Gatsby invites you to one of his infamous parties.
Faith - The George Michael Legacy returns with a brand-new production for 2018.
In a rare proscenium-style presentation at the Almeida Theatre, director Tinuke Craig offers Maxim Gorky’s Vassa as her debut production for the venue in a new adaptation by Mike…
Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare (Dead Ringers) come to TOM for the first time following their sell-out tour last year.
It’s only two years until the face of Alan Turing appears on the new £50 note.
To compile his one-man show, Velvet, Tom Ratcliffe combined personal experience and the disturbing revelations that emerged as the #MeToo movement gathered momentum.
Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler all stand out in the history of the twentieth century.
We got an extension – it’s the Will of the People! After our 7pm show with James O’Brien sold out in record time, REMAINIACS is proud to present a seco…
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Dervish bring The Great Irish Songbook to The London Palladium.
In the late 1920s Frederico García Lorca allegedly read about a bride who fled her wedding to elope with a former amor.
Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir…
Youth Without God at the Coronet Theatre is heralded as ‘a dark fable about the individual conscience in a time of social uncertainty’ and the 1937 novel by Ödön von Horváth…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
Luke Norris's Southend-based play and winner of the Bruntwood Prize, So Here We Are, finally comes to Essex in a delightful production that fits perfectly into the Queen’s Th…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
The world premiere of Sadie Hasler’s Stiletto Beach has burst onto the stage at the dynamic Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in a bold, brave, fearless and funny exploration of what…
Falsettos has been around since 1992, but it’s UK premier has only just opened at The Other Palace, London.
Fringe favourites the Sleeping Trees are doing Christmas in Edinburgh! Offering their surreal take on the most Christmassy story of all time; The Nativity.
The neon sign above the stage at the new Turbine Theatre, Battersea, hints at the lights of New York City, but it also reminds us of the history behind director Drew McOnie’s pro…
Russell T Davies is the man behind classic and acclaimed TV series Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Torchwood and Cucumber, among many others.
Scott Walker was one of popular music’s most fascinating and elusive characters.
Celebrating 50 years since the formation of Rankin File in 1969, two members of the band, Tony Mitchell and Rick Nickerson, are joined by the amazing voices of grandmother (Maureen…
Scottish jazz/funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas…
As the saying goes, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions".
Ketchikan, Alaska and New York City: island towns at opposite ends of the American continent.
A bold new adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s most blood soaked plays.
A classroom comedy.
Dear diary, definitely going to this! Award-winning musical geniuses who are old friends and two of the best musicians of their generation come together for this rare demonstration…
A One Woman Comedy show, with a dark twist.
An exceptional international ensemble with its roots in Scottish culture.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
The Golden Age of Television was blessed with some of the best-loved of comedians, but while Eric ‘n’ Ernie and Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd are still celebrated, some of the gr…
Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare return to Edinburgh following their sell-out run last year.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Michael performs a wide-ranging programme of standards looking back on a distinguished career, whilst looking forward to new possibilities…
Following a five-year sell-out residency in London, Matt Forde (as seen on Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, The Royal Variety Performance and Question Time) returns to Edinb…
Chris Cross – The tricky Geordie cheekster returns for his 14th consecutive Fringe, with his unique madcap style of multi award-winning comedy magic, escapology and cunning stunt…
HighTide, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts present two interweaving plays, written by talented writers Vinay Patel (Doctor Who) and Tallulah Brown (Songlines).
The podcast all about eating: live.
Name a Second World War poet.
Zaltzman, host of the global smash-hit podcast The Bugle, brings his uniquely interactive stand-up show Satirist For Hire.
Remarkably, if you wander into The Traverse at 9am, you will find an audience willing to watch a rehearsed reading of a brand-new play and not a spare seat in the house.
Complete sell-out 2017 and 2018.
Get your rig in to shape and your salad sorted, because the Grade Cricketer lads are heading to the UK for a very special run of LIVE performances to coincide with this …
Chris Cross – The tricky Geordie cheekster returns for his 14th consecutive Fringe, with his unique madcap style of multi award-winning comedy magic, escapology and cunning stunt…
Anərkē Shakespeare, a new, innovative theatre company, creates raw, fast-paced Shakespeare, bringing you the multifaceted text by a diverse, gender-blind, actor-led ensemble with…
With a highly experienced team behind this production it is no wonder that Identity by CTC COMPANY at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Based upon an idea by David Gest and Michael Jackson, Robert Burns the Musical by Tish Tindall is the story of love, Scotland and one man’s struggle to redefine his pride of worth.
[SFX: FANFARE] Michael Brunström is an Olympic athlete striving for gold medal glory.
The Italia Conti Ensemble changes its membership every year as another cohort passes through the famous drama school.
Rarely does the stage premiere of a work take place twenty-three years after it was written, but Out Of Bounds Theatre has claimed the honour with their gritty production of 44 Inc…
Chameleon Lady are the latest big noise from Edinburgh with their exciting brand of semi-acoustic pop.
Fabulous swing jazz band.
Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR.
Revd Richard Coles is on a fortnight’s leave from his country parish and has been excused from his co-presenting duties of Saturday Live (BBC Radio 4) to bring to Edinburgh this hi…
‘Bold, subversive and dominant’ (ObjectivelyFunny.
Morning: coffee concert of informal music-making.
Leading Scottish Composer John McLeod launches a new album featuring his entire music, composed over 50 years, for solo piano played by outstanding pianist Murray McLachlan and new…
Fire in the Grate play their favourite American roots country music.
A TV and newspaper pundit whose views on Scottish football and politics have roused vast armies of both admirers and detractors.
For Gil Scott-Heron fans this evening at The Jazz Bar would need no extra hype.
Pianist and educator Richard Michael BEM celebrates his 70th birthday by appearing with family members, Paul Michael (bass), Hilary Michael (violin and sax) and Joanna Duncan (viol…
“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y…
Aged just 16 and 17, Harrison Sharpe (Matt) and Archie Stevens (Mikey) make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Real Eyes, an intensely moving story of brothers growing up t…
Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’.
From debut album Raintown to follow-up When The World Knows Your Name, through to 2016’s The Believers, Deacon Blue are one of the most respected and best-loved bands of their ge…
Dear Mother Moon is one of four works presented by CalArts this year in what has become the Institute’s Edinburgh home, Venue 13.
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Mark Simmons (ITV’s Out There) brings his hit podcast to Edinburgh for a series of special live recordings.
Russell performs his work-in-progress show testing new material.
No Frills Theatre are proud to present the Scottish premiere of American Justice by Richard Vergette.
Afternoons: organ concert by Christopher Black; Sarah Moore sings Rachmaninoff/Mozart; Roxburgh Quartet playing Barber/Schostakovich; Hadley Court Singers/SMAS choir/orchestra musi…
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret…
Edinburgh Fringe's premier magical twins, Kane and Abel, return for their sixth run here in their regular home as the flagship magicians of PBH's Free Fringe venue the Liqu…
Absurdism runs amok in Well That’s Oz, one of four plays in this year’s programme from CalArts at Venue 13.
Writer Jack Fairey has taken on a huge task in adapting the substance of Homer’s Iliad into a modern story still firmly embedded in the Trojan War with a running time just short …
Comic dance-theatre conceived and performed by Yukon born ‘Intrepid’ Jen.
Follow Johnny’s life as he moves from small town America to the bright lights and party life of Tinseltown.
Sublime tribute to George Michael and last year’s Fringe sell-out show returns.
Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room.
What is it about guns? Today’s American high school students have been raised at a time when school shootings have become common and suicide rates have drastically increased.
(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Robert Graham is celebrating its 145th Anniversary this year and we have organised some fantastic educational whisky tasting afternoons in our atmospheric underground tasting room …
We spend trillions on health but like Brexit, nobody knows what it means.
A character comedy show from a comedian with real character.
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
The Guilty Feminist podcast has become a comedy phenomenon with over 60 million downloads since it launched in early 2016.
‘The Podfather’ (Guardian) and ‘King of Edinburgh’ (List), probably best known for playing a policeman on Ant and Dec Unleashed, brings his multi award-winning podcast to Edinburgh…
The Words Are There is a moving and innovative piece of physical theatre that appeals both for its approach to male domestic abuse, and for its style of performance.
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
For an incomplete play, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck has nevertheless managed to secure enduring interest.
Don’t read this!! These words will force you to see a German/Swiss character-sincere-existentialist stand-up comic taking an exhilarating ride on the dark side of human existence…
Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’.
The Carpenters Songbook premiers at the Fringe to take you on an emotive journey through the career of one of the world’s most successful duos.
Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn.
2018: The Supreme Court find a bakery not guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a gay cake.
The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre.
The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink.
There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play.
Two years ago, Matt Watson (‘Good Canadian fun’ (Wingspan Entertainment)) moved to Scotland.
As a teenager, Calum asked a famous comedian how to get into comedy.
James returns with his most ambitious show to date – an epic, thought-provoking stage spectacular celebrating the 1000 great lives that shaped history.
It’s fifty years since the Stonewall riots sparked off the movement that became known as gay liberation.
RLS is synonymous with Edinburgh.
“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed…
‘The angriest man in UK comedy is back at the Fringe for another hour of spleen-venting, more misanthropic, bitter and agitated than ever’ **** (Chortle.
‘Three nights to save a soul.
Many comedians converge in a mixture of stand-up comedy, improvisation, interactive debate and Q&A to find out who is the greatest superhero of them all.
2019 eh? Why is politics? When is religion? Who is gender? Where is race? Confused? So is Sam.
Michael Fabbri, star of BBC Radio 4’s Dyslexicon, has graced the global comedy circuit for many years.
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he’s trying to find out why.
The long-awaited debut Fringe show from Leslie is here.
From the mind who performed on / wrote for BBC Three, Comedy Central UK, Boom Chicago and had his debut Comedy Album hit number three on iTunes.
Horror in all its forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
Have you touched The Orb? Want to meet two that have? A mainstay of science, wonder and amazement since its inception in the late 80s, The Orb is science’s greatest invention.
After dropping 10 stone in weight Michael Livesley, the man described by Stephen Fry as an ‘outrageous talent’ is half the man he was but still just as funny.
Come join Russell for his early afternoon bonus hour.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
Boys don’t cry – but should they? Ross Smith can’t remember the last time he did and is unsure if he still can.
‘Edgy and very funny’ (Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club).
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Following an epiphany in the Van Gogh Museum, Fry takes a twisted wander through art history.
Olivier Award-nominated Wizard Presents brings Morpurgo’s treasured story to life, sparking imagination in both young and old.
Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says.
Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham return to Edinburgh with their latest libation, The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch, in Underbel…
One day the earth might be so devastated that we might need to leave for a distant planet.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Michael Odewale is selfish.
If you ever want to go to outer space, the probability of you ever getting the job is 0.
Somehow Comedy Historian Robert Ross and Hi-De-Hi star Jeffrey Holland didn't meet until a Comedy Legends cruise in the autumn of 2018, but it was an instant connec…
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he never knew why.
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
Richard Haslam is a Derbyshire-born classical guitarist currently based in Manchester.
Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts.
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
A bunch of comedy virgins have spent the weekend with Logan Murray, the man who taught Greg Davies, Rhod Gilbert, Josh Widdecombe, Andi Osho, Luisa Omielan, Diane …
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand.
Marc Almond brings the glitz and glamour to the first ever Apollo Nights Summer Series this summer with his orchestra and very special guest renowned burlesque dancer, Immodesty Bl…
Jazz music in its heyday was the pop music of the 1920s to 1950s.
Many strange things occur in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but in this production, by Oxford’s Creation Theatre, there are more surprises than even Prospero might have conjured up…
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
A night of Stand-up comedy for our charity partner BIRD featuring the best up-and-coming comedians from the open-mic circuit.
The world outside is (probably) falling apart.
Relax and enjoy the welcome extended to guests at the local infants’ school which Michele Austin delivers with considerable warmth and obvious delight.
Previewing his eagerly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy historian Robert Ross.
Scott Walker was one of popular music's most fascinating and elusive artists.
A new and exciting improvised comedy show where some of the finest Improvisers around will perform solo! High-risk comedy as our intrepid performers stand alone and spon…
The Comeback Special Written by Ian Salmon Directed By Mike Dickinson “Given the choice, Robbie would rather not talk to the dead.
The nominees and winners of the British Podcast Awards are always a who's who of UK podcast talent.
Tony Slattery is back in his natural habitat, joining forces with his improvisation partner, Allan Lear, for a brand new show of spontaneous laughter.
Brighton16 is a newly formed choir of 16 classically trained singers.
It is 1989 and about time someone brought an end to the Cold War. Enter Michael Phish with his warm front. The rest is history.
The brilliant British pianist Jonathan Powell returns in a colourful programme of works by Granados: his Goyescas and Szymanowski: his Masques, Metopes and Mazurkas.
Brighton’s much-loved, resident satirists with their legendary mix of bang up to date topical sketches and songs, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s f…
The EU has reset the Brexit Doomsday Clock to October.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Zahra’s never stood in front of a mirror and taken a selfie.
There was once an industry joke that Sam Kydd was in every British film ever made.
Faith – The George Michael Legacy Faith - The George Michael Legacy returns with a brand-new production for 2018/19.
Billed as a ‘dark, uncompromising play about the myths of modern love’, this starts promisingly enough but soon veers off.
One man.
Ever since he was a kid Nick has loved Barrymore.
Many comedians converge once more in Brighton to find out who is the greatest superhero.
Comedy actor Peter Butterworth is undoubtedly best-loved as an integral member of the Carry On team, appearing in sixteen of the film classics as well as an eighteen-mon…
This Brighton local gigs across the UK and all over the world, but can’t resist the yearly pull of performing a new show just a gentle stroll from his front door.
Following on from 4 sell-out dates at the Leicester Square Theatre, Ed Gamble is back for one day only (and he’s filming something special)!Live at The Apollo…
Much-loved local violinist Ellie Blackshaw pairs up with London based pianist David Elwin to perform the rarely heard 1932 violin and piano sonata by Frank Bridge.
The brilliant British pianist Simon Ballard returns to play works by Schubert, Ries, Dvorak, Smetana, Ireland, Moszkowski, de Severac and Sydney Smith.
Fresh from debut runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and 2018, and unveiling his new show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, Richard is now looking to make his mark on the seafron…
Unique and personal interpretations of songs from the jazz/blues years - plus a touch of Latin! Julie’s expressive voice is complemented by Michael’s superb piano playing in an exc…
A workshop with Richard Skinner—novelist and director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy.
Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he never knew why.
Any sensible person would look at the night sky and see the horrible purgatory of the cosmos.
3 top professional oboists come together to play for us on the first May bank holiday Monday.
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early ‘70s, inspired by the children he taught in his primary school class in Kent.
Come and celebrate life with Sunday Assembly Brighton at our Spiegeltent Special on the theme of ‘Home’, including glorious songs from the Choir With No Name and uplifting stories …
London based violinist Benedict Cruft once again surveys all of Bach’s solo violin music and over two evenings.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Boogie Shoes Silent Disco presents our ‘Cheeky Seaside Special’ tour of Brighton.
The Hired Man has been doing the rounds since 1984 and now finds a home at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.
A rousing overture, with blasting brass and pounding percussion raises hopes at the Coliseum for the first London production of Man Of La Mancha for over fifty years.
Christian Kane is an American actor and singer.
A gentle and immersive multisensory experience.
Despite occasional complaints, audiences over the centuries have generally become well-behaved.
An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida.
It’s not just a dead body that can be the subject of a post mortem.
A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy.
Tickets: £13.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 40mins Hand-picked by Adele herself on Graham Norton’s BBC ADELE Special, the outstanding Katie Markham has the show-stopping voice and capti…
Stream: Two New Plays, is a show that explores the ebb and flow at the very core of being human.
Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down.
Rebound Productions brings back their sell-out show FLIGHTS OF FANCY for three more nights at The Hen & Chickens Theatre.
Court rooms can often make for high drama, but unfortunately in this case the transcript of ‘the trial of the century, proves to be less than gripping.
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
Watermans welcomes back the ever popular Comedy Club 4 Kids, featuring the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the comedy circuit.
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown electrifies audiences with high-wire piano playing, impassioned singing and the emotional rollercoasters of his songs both c…
Now seen by over 250,000 fans direct from Ireland Europe's No 1 Country music show " The Legends of American Country " returns for another fantastic night…
There is plenty of barking in the street during Tom Coash’s Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre.
The tragedy of World War II is remembered in many ways, but The Conductor, at The Space, takes a highly focussed look at just one small event in Russia’s window on the west in 19…
There are times when a production comes along that is a powerful reminder of the beauty and eloquence of Shakespeare’s writing, his clarity of exposition and ingenuity of plot, e…
We might still be in the age of Aquarius, or we may not yet have entered it, depending on whose calculations you prefer, but it is now over fifty years since Hair opened on Broadwa…
Welcome to Anatevka! The Playhouse Theatre has been transformed to create this ‘dear little village’ for Trevor Nunn’s penetrating production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Duration: Approx 2hrs Get ready for an unforgettable evening with a global superstar, as he puts the Boom Boom into your heart in the all new production, Fastlove - A tr…
Celebrated choreographer and Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant collaborates with Oscar-winning composer Vangelis for this stunning new work.
The need for ‘a willing suspension of disbelief’ traditionally associated with an appreciation of Shakespeare’s Othello reaches a new level necessity in director Phil Willmot…
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
Robert White wowed the judges and viewers alike with his fast-paced comedy routines when he made the finals on this year's Britain’s Got Talent.
The palatial ceiling aloft the shattered plaster and exposed brick walls of the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre are aptly suited to Headlong’s powerful production of Shak…
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
Two time BBC Folk Award winners Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar met in 2011.
A hilarious, poignant play about falling out, making up, and the joy of true friendship.
Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock with special guest star Sam Bailey.
The UK's undisputed number 1 comedy brand returns to its home, the Broadway Theatre Catford, for another unmissable night of hilarious stand up comedy action.
This Valentine’s weekend, join us for an intimate evening of five star variety from London’s cabaret trailblazers and winners of Best Production at the London Cabaret Awards.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the worldwide hit returns to its beloved Leicester Square Theatre fo…
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the worldwide hit returns to its beloved Leicester Square Theatre fo…
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" That is probably not most women’s favourite line from Shakespeare and could not be further from the truth when applied to Emma Bentley.
I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself…
In the sad world of factory farming the horrors of animals trapped in cages for the duration of their painful lives is well-documented and visually familiar.
‘For them the clock would never strike midnight, the dance and the music could never stop…’ The American Clock turns, fortunes are made and lives are broken.
Two leading lights of the cabaret scene, Dusty Limits and Michael Roulston have been writing together for over a decade.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 30mins Following a sell-out UK tour in 2017, Europe's number one country music show promises a fantastic night of toe-tapping country classics…
As Brexit screeches towards a nightmare climax that not even the Prime Minister can predict, the REMAINIACS podcast crew return for an evening of high-end Brexit talk an…
Just because you’ve committed a crime doesn’t mean you have to be caught; at least, not if you can devise a clever cover-up.
The are more "sounds" than "sweet airs" in Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest at the Greenwich Theatre and while some elements of the perform…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Sunday 3rd February, 2.
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
The programme notes aptly describe The Orchestra at the Omnibus Theatre, which might be regarded as one of Jean Anouilh’s more incidental pieces.
Tickets: £13.
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Sid Singh humorously explains how billionaires are destroying his city.
International stand-up sensation Gina Yashere is back in London for Chritmas… Taking a break from travelling the globe and making a splash in the USA, Gina return…
Guests to be confirmed Following sell-out Christmas Special’s in 2016 and 2017 which featured Ed Balls, Alastair Campbell, Nick Clegg and Anna Soubrey.
Booming surrealist storytelling comedian Will Seaward (“part Brian Blessed, part Oscar Wilde” - the Telegraph, “genuinely, terrifyingly chari…
Angelos and Barry record another of their legendary award winning improvised podcasts in front of a live London audience.
Alfie Ordinary’s Christmas Special is back! For one night only, get fizzy and festive and sing along to all your favourite Christmas songs, performed live! With extra special guest…
Barbara Nice is back by popular demand with her annual festive shindig complete with raffle, tombola and mince pies.
Crime Scene Improvisation return to the Museum of Comedy for their popular charity Christmas special.
Following on from his highly-acclaimed reunion concerts in the USA with Billy Joel’s original touring band and now in its fifth, hugely-successful year, Elio Pace …
An evening of stand-up comedy with stars of many of the funniest shows on TV helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 …
The Almeida Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, boldly and sensitively directed by Rebecca Frecknall, is now playing at the Duke of Y…
Michael Schenker Fest will be touring the UK this coming November in celebration of their latest studio album release, Resurrection, whilst also performing an extended setlist of c…
Who is El Hablador? It’s Ross Noble.
A family on the verge of a momentous decision forms the focus of Don DeLillo’s Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet in a stark production by director Jack McNamara…
In her article for the British Library on Restorations Comedy Diane Maybankobserves that “little can be gained from removing the plays from their historical settings”.
Actor/scriptwriter Charlie Ryall leads an entertaining troupe of actors from Mercurius Theatre Company in her play Indebted to Chance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
The novels of Robert Goddard have ranged freely across the generic landscape.
After Alan Ayckbourn had seen The Woman in Black and the film The Haunting he was inspired to depart from his usual comedic tales of middle class life and try his hand at a ghost s…
Brass, Benjamin Till’s winner of the ‘Best Musical’ in the 2014 UK Theatre Awards, fills the stage at the Union Theatre, Southwark, in its professional London première.
The Orange Tree Theatre in a co-production with English Touring Theatre could hardly have expected that renewed police investigations into the mysterious disappearance of estate ag…
Darwen is probably not the most well-known town in England, but it holds a very special place in the history of football.
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
There are several peaks and notable features in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye that rise above the lengthy exposition of her themes that otherwise dominate this new work.
The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has reconfigured it’s stage and auditorium to house writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s production of Love.
One of the most gifted and multi-faceted personalities in modern American music history, Steve Tyrell, has been announced for a special show at London’s Leicester …
Trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Dimitris Papaioannou draws on the Greek classics and his visual arts background in this investigation of life and death.
A brightly lit auditorium and bare stage, with its exposed brick walls, look all set for a rehearsal.
Direct from London's West End, the UK's finest George Michael tribute show.
A little-known theatre hosts a lesser-known play and the result is a theatrical triumph.
The Rebels’ Season continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre with Bathsheba Doran’s Parents’ Evening.
From the surreal mind of Michael Brunström (“The Human Loire”, “The Golden Age of Steam”, “The Hay Wain Reloaded”, “Parsle…
To Have To Shoot Irishmen opens the Irish Theatre Season at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham.
Quietly is set in a pub in Belfast.
“It’s only people up there with guitars and other instruments telling and singing their way through an everyday love story.
Michael McIntyre WIP
The autumn/winter season at the Space on the Isle of Dogs got off to a punchy start this week with Little Fools.
Following the huge success of Michael’s previous visits to The U.
Footloose from a glittering turn on Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre has really hit her stride.
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews.
Gordon Brown once observed how Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a National Health Service was unimaginable in its day, yet it has withstood the test of time.
"I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!" Although never spoken in Revelation 1:18 these words from the last book in the bible capture the aspirational i…
Wine makes a return to the Tristan Bates Theatre following its successful run earlier in the year.
Albert Camus’ The Outsider (L’Étranger), is starkly brought to the stage in an adaptation by Ben Okri, Winner of the Man Booker Prize, commissioned by The Print Room at The C…
Shakespeare created ‘the vastly fields of France’ in a cramped ‘cockpit’ and crammed within his ‘wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt’ all c…
Perhaps as a five-part radio serial Prairie Flower might provide some particular interest to crime enthusiasts, but as a two-hour monologue in the Upstairs at the Gatehouse, even w…
It’s chapter two of Remainiacs Live! The cast of Britain’s biggest independent Brexit podcast take the stage for an evening of no-bullshit Brexit talk, bad B…
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Despite its title, we know very little of what actually happened at Abigail’s party.
About Leo is the first offering in The Rebels Season at Jermyn Street Theatre; an autumn programme that focuses on ‘people who dared to be different’.
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It’s a mark of how well a play is rooted in a particular era that the mere mention of Estée Lauder’s Youth Dew perfume can send ripples of mirth throughout the auditorium to a…
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Minister for UK negotiations on Scotland’s place in Europe and MSP for Argyll and Bute.
Appearing for the 28th successive year in the magnificent setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Fife vocal concert group Ensemble (www.
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Join comedian/impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy writer/producer Bill Dare from BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers for unscripted, spontaneous comedy and conversation as politi…
The Guilty Feminist joins forces with Amnesty International UK to bring The Secret Policeman back to life for 2018! Following the magnificent Secret Policeman’s tradition of presen…
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Special additional show featuring former Zappa Plays Zappa vocalist/instrumentalist Ben Thomas, who will be opening the show with his own material and then joining the band for.
CKP and InterTalent present: Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Special.
The Great Baldini is a magical legend.
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…
Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, mixing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas…
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
Celebrated pianist, composer and broadcaster Richard Michael BEM pays homage to the song-writing talents of another Richard in a programme of his best known tunes – song-writing …
Old bones ache before a storm.
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Recapture the sounds of a bygone era with this unmissable evening of classic big band of the 1940s and 1950s, including: In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, New York, New York.
A proud socialist and trade unionist, elected Scottish Labour Party leader in 2017 on a radical programme of change.
David Alacey, Des Coleman and Paul Drakeley star as Frank, Sammy and Dean in the original Rat Pack show, now celebrating its 21st record-breaking year.
Scottish folk singer-songwriter Karine Polwart has a knack of delivering sucker punches in the gentlest, subtlest of ways.
Robert Levin Fortepiano Mozart Piano Piece in C major [Fragment, completed by Robert Levin]Mozart Four Preludes K284aMozart Sonata in B flat K333Mozart Sonata in E flat K282/189gMo…
An hour of stand-up from Toronto comic; Mike Sheer and Essex funnyman; Ross McGrane (Russell Kane Tour Support).
The Regional Medical Draft Board has strict guidelines for the classification of recruits and their suitability for deployment.
Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion.
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Following sell-out shows in 2017, Bruce returns with more Dylan, Paxton, Seeger, Simon, etc.
Three young Scottish playwrights from the Traverse Young Writers’ group join forces with three leading British writers (Ella Hickson, Kieran Hurley and Sabrina Mahfouz) to explor…
Stephen Morrison performs a diverse array of compositions for classical guitar from this vast and varied cultural landscape.
Audience pick anecdotes from Bentley’s Bag of Showbiz Despair: Namedropping frenzy of failure, covers being a famous hate figure, trash TV and the dark side of comedy.
Join former 80s pop star turned vicar and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles – co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and BBC One’s The Big Painting Challenge, star of Strictly C…
The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured.
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
Some plays lend themselves to radical reinterpretations and stagings while others need handling with more care.
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
Complete sell-out 2017.
A new musical by Tish Tindall based upon an idea by David Gest, Michael Jackson, and the life and works of Robert Burns.
Forget Me Nots is a new piece of ‘queer theatre’ from Rokkur Friggjar, a collective of theatre makers based in Iceland and the UK, who are contributors to this year’s Army@Su…
Green Day’s visceral and provocative Grammy and two-time Tony Award-winning musical.
After sold-out shows, rave reviews and standing ovations at Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, Lord of the Strings! – the ultimate one-man guitar show, first created for touri…
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When The Jazz Bar springs to mind, it is impossible not to think of the late legend Bill Kyle.
"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims.
Based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri’s iconic Hindi short story Usne Kaha Tha, The Troth is about one soldier, Sardar Lehna Singh, and the sacrifice he makes to keep his secret pro…
When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C…
Mediocre magic.
Following five years of sell-out London shows, Matt Forde’s Political Party returns to Edinburgh for two live shows! Previous guests include: Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, Michael Port…
Chvrches as a charleston dance-off? Biffy Clyro as a torchsong ballad? Join award-winning five-octave vocalist Angus Munro and his floor-stomping jazz trio as they interpret modern…
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Fresh from Britain’s Got Talent 2018, Robert White brings you his unique form of musical stand-up in a laugh-packed hour.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings.
The Lads with special guest Murray McGrath and Some Criminals.
Michael Clarke has felt something.
Guests for this popular podcast include Romesh Ranganathan, Angela Barnes and Mark Thomas, who join Aidan Goatley for a lovely chat about the films they love.
A family-friendly mixed bag ranging from cabaret to comedy via spoken word and theatre.
This talented, international Japanese-born pianist returns to the Fringe to perform Mozart’s piano concerto No 12 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 1.
Bucket Men takes place in a small basement studio at C Royale where two men coincidentally have jobs in a small basement of a faceless government building.
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If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs.
Dirty Harry captures the rapture of Blondie and has not only the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of the band but a lookalike of Debbie.
This worldwide hit show for geeks and non-geeks everywhere returns with a changing line-up of hilarious comedians with a mixture of stand-up comedy and interactive debate to find o…
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
NY comedian and Vice contributor Harmon has made a career infiltrating extremist groups.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Full of joy and love following the royal wedding, the Wedding Guest Extraordinaire has brought her obsession with love matches to Edinburgh and wants to share her tales with you.
This is one of those shows where to review too closely is to spoil the experience for future audiences, so I’ll stick to the abstract.
Neverwant: the algorithm of life.
Red and Boiling is an entertaining cabaret-style show with some serious undertones.
This exquisite, sophisticated yet quirky mix of jazz, chanson, French pop, and rare trivia will ignite and excite your inner Francophile (even if you didn’t know you had one).
The first point to make clear is that My Name is Dorothy has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz.
Making their Edinburgh Fringe debut, Aki Remally and Fraser Urquhart play a whole set of jazz, funk and soul from the songbook of the godfather of hip hop, Gil Scott-Heron.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes.
Simon David bursts onto the stage in a bout of eccentricity that boldly asserts his dominance over the evening.
You first descend into a low-ceilinged basement.
Sublime concert tribute to George Michael, starring Grant Macintosh – ‘soul sensation’ (Sun).
Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway.
The hit Green Day punk rock musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following two consecutive sell-out years.
Fresh from last year’s Bubbles and Martini sell-out hit, this show features the forever charming Michael Bublé tribute host Michael Bubbles in conversation, taking the audience …
A young man waited outside the Greenside Royal Terrace Venue for Éowyn Emerald & Dancers to appear after their performance.
Curious Pheasant Theatre reinvents the Bard’s most famous tale of ‘star-cross’d’ lovers in a bare-bones, twisted production that will have purists running for shelter and a…
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Many productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year discuss female freedom of choice, but few do so as creatively as The Squirrel Plays.
Join your hosts, Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler, as they bring the UK’s finest spoof chat show and chaotic cabaret back to the Fringe.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Married to a corporate lawyer, owner of a pitch perfect Elmo impression and being the very definition of straight, white, male privilege.
People have never been more scared to say what they really think.
Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself.
A free Irish comedy show.
Acclaimed writer David Ireland’s new play is a visceral, violent and incredibly explosive punch to the gut that passionately tears into the confused state of British identity, th…
On March 20th, 7:13pm.
Ursine stand-up Richard Hanrahan finally gets his act together, or at least tries to.
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
Oliver Harris explores Elton John’s incredible songbook and the great songs, including Daniel, Rocket Man, Tiny Dancer, Your Song, and Sacrifice.
Comedians Bronston Jones (USA) and Martin Mor (IRE) are joined each day by a different guest.
How did this dentist get arrested by armed police? Want to hear the story of all stories? This is it! After a sell-out world tour and release of his bestselling book Gobsmacked, Mi…
I realise I’m breaking the Greek code by saying this, but George Michael is Greek is quite possibly the most underwhelming show I’ve ever seen.
Australian comedian Ross Voss’s show in the form of a basketball game! Four quarters of 12 minutes of comedy! Each quarter is different, from more about me to storytelling, longe…
****1/2 (PerthHappenings.
Russell Hicks returns with another free-form explosion that he deems ‘necessary medicine’ for any artist who is trying too hard to make it.
When he was seven, Edinburgh-based comedian Ross Hepburn saw the film Beetlejuice for the first time.
Richard Wright is a virgin.
Russell Hicks attempts to hone a work that is forever in progress by walking on stage with – literally – a fist full of ideas.
Silicon Valley dominates the news with the richest man in the world (Jeff Bezos), a website that helped spread fake news and swing a presidential election (Facebook), and a future …
After a sell out run last year the Great British Mysteries return to the Fringe with a new show set 400 years earlier, but still the containing the wit, charm, and ridiculous sense…
One man.
Richard is Britain’s leading blind theoretical physicist turned stand-up comedian with a Blue Peter badge… well, definitely in the top three.
What would you do if you had a bet on the horses and won a year’s wages in a day? Quit your job and become a professional gambler? Sure, why not.
Celebrating 20 years at the Fringe and direct from an 80-date tour of the UK and Ireland, Reginald returns to the Fringe this Summer with his highly anticipated new show.
Scottish rising star and oddball, Eleanor Morton tries to reinvent herself as the sexy, confident comedian she has always secretly probably been.
Ever since he was a kid, Nick has loved Michael Barrymore.
He’s been Annie Lennox, Madonna and Cole Porter to great acclaim.
An artist draws the same image repeatedly with indomitable zeal.
Brand-new sketch show from stars of award-winning Fringe favourites BattleActs (BBC Radio 1).
Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s best-selling memoir of her youth, adapted for the stage and performed by her granddaughter Ingrid.
‘Private Peaceful at the theatre is a moving experience that not only tells the story of a young soldier’s final day in World War One, but perhaps more importantly conveys the stre…
Lizzie, her mother and an elephant from the zoo flee the Dresden firebombing in the Second World War.
Off on the adventure of a lifetime, Michael, his parents and their faithful dog Stella set sail around the world.
A deliciously dark musical cabaret exquisitely crushing the American dream, delivered with rare power and visceral beauty.
Russell Howard returns to Edinburgh for two weeks only. New ideas, New routines, Anything could happen! It’s gonna be great, and it’s only a fiver. Who’s in?
US comedian and host of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update has announced his first London show in three years on 30 July at the Union Chapel in Islington.
What would you do if you had a bet on the horses and won a year’s wages in a day? Quit your job and become a professional gambler? That’s what Ross did.
Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond.
Michael Palin CBE is a founding member of the internationally renowned Monty Python team, revelling in the fish-slapping dance, the lumberjack song, and performing the D…
Do you like mysteries? Do you like historical inaccuracies? Do you prefer Thomas More to Roger Moore? The follow-up to 2017's sold out debut, but set 400 years earl…
The GYF Podcast is back – Comedy historian Robert Ross with his special guest Michael Palin CBE, FRGSRobert will be in conversation with founding member of Monty P…
Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond.
Step aboard, get your glass of grog, relax and enjoy a very special city cruise on the River Ouse.
Step aboard, get your glass of grog, relax and enjoy a very special city cruise on the River Ouse.
“I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee once observed that ‘the House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days’.
Celebrating collaboration, a sensational vintage night of swing music and dance - Rinkadon Jukeboy and his Blind Tiger Dance Band, the hottest sounds this side of the Pe…
A bunch of comedy virgins have spent the weekend with Logan Murray, the the man who taught Greg Davies, Rhod Gilbert, Josh Widdecombe, Andi Osho, Luisa Omielan, Diane Mo…
Love is a many-splendored thing, or so the soundtrack maintains as it heralds a fifty-minute romp through teenage troubles, acting aspirations and romantic realities.
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
There’s only one thing you need to know about newlyweds Tom and Sarah: They are definitely not “squirrel people.
Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond.
Michael Bublé – a true global superstar in his only UK performance is coming to Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2018! The undisputed ‘King of …
Ernst Krenek, Erich Korngold, Frank Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff and Mischa Spoliansky were not household names in the late 1940s when a young Barry Humphries in Melbourne, Australia …
In a lengthy whirlwind of staccato scenes with lento, adagio and presto interludes, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London combines political intrigue, corporate corruption, perso…
Don your flat cap, grab your whippet and come and join us for the launch of 2018’s Great Yorkshire Fringe! Lineup to include Tony Slattery, Harry & Chris, Thin…
Don your flat cap, grab your whippet and come and join us for the launch of 2018’s Great Yorkshire Fringe! Lineup to include Paul Foot, Tony Slattery, Harry & …
"Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon" (II Samuel 1:20) is a line that does not appear in Knights of the Rose.
According to its author, Loo Killebrew, The Play About My Dad “should feel quick-moving, and hopefully have a rhythm that is similar to the rhythm of a storm.
Energetic, playful stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian Russell Arathoon.
Richard Wright is a 35 year old, obese, balding, geeky, adult virgin who still lives at home with his parents.
Clueless Theatre makes a remarkable company debut with a production of Jim Cartwright’s Two.
Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare come to Leicester Square Theatre for the first time following their sell-out tour last yea…
A new and exciting improvised comedy show where some of the finest Improvisers around will perform solo! High-risk comedy as our intrepid performers stand alone and spon…
A new and exciting improvised comedy show where some of the finest Improvisers around will perform solo! High-risk comedy as our intrepid performers stand alone and spon…
The End of History is billed as “a moving and funny site-responsive play with music which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two radically differe…
Choir Byrdsong sing music by Willaert, Gabrieli, Bassano, Lassus and more.
Lunatic comedy double act John Dredge and Andy Harland present a manic hour of radio comedy weirdness, to be broadcast in simulcast with local radio titans Hove FM 95.
It’s Liverpool, 1978.
At the crossroads between Chopin, Pink Floyd and Explosions In The Sky, We Stood Like Kings plays instrumental progressive rock tinted with neoclassical influences thanks to the ce…
An evening of poetry and performance poetry with special guests, Phonetic and Dean Atta.
Love Disney? Love singalongs? Feel the magic with Miss Disney’s very own fairy-tale show.
The international hit show returns with more great comedians in a mixture of stand-up comedy and debate to find out who the best superhero is! Whether you are a Marvel or DC fan, …
Back on the road by popular demand, Someone Like You (The Adele Songbook) is an immaculate celebration of one of our generation’s finest singer-songwriters, and is…
Ambrose Page and Friends present ‘Celebrating Haydn’ - piano and vocal items by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, interspersed with readings from his letters and diaries.
Mr Fabbri, Star of Radio 4’s Dyslexicon, has graced the global comedy circuit for many years and is back in Brighton.
Newlyweds Tom and Sarah are definitely not “squirrel people.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer award-nominated ‘Story Beast’, “a bearded force of nature” (The Guardian) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), …
Relax and enjoy Julie’s warm, expressive voice with Michael’s superb piano interpretations.
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.
For the first time ever in the UK…TWO classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Anarchic twin tricksters Kane & Abel will break all the rules of the Magicians’ Code of Conduct passed down to them by their grandfather, to prove that it feels great to be bad! Co…
The Sussex Flutes’ flute quintet (Anne Hodgson, Victoria Hancox, Sue Gregg, Marielle Way and Nicole Le Clercq) play Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saens and much more.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
Brighton’s much-loved resident satirists with their unique brand of topical comedy, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s festival package.
Sofie Hagen brings her successful podcast ‘Made of Human’ to Brighton to record live episodes in front of an audience.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Having spent three months eating only peas, it comes as no surprise that the eponymous central character in Woyzeck appears in a state of both physical frailty and mental instabili…
Sunday Assembly is a global network of non-religious gatherings celebrating life through inspirational speakers, fascinating science, thoughtful readings, raucous pop music, peacef…
A living statue watches as a vandal tags her.
Michael Mooney hails from Glasgow but has been living in Brighton for 15 years.
Direct from London’s West End, the UK’s biggest George Michael tribute show.
Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch receives one scant mention towards the end of Patrick Hamilton's Rope, yet it is the driving force that underpins the play.
Neverwant.
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
A sensational line-up of Fringe favourites assemble to launch Brighton Fringe 2018.
“I come from a time and country where I was treated like a wrong hushed up.
Alongside his interviewing and writing Sir Michael Parkinson has spent much of his career promoting the appreciation of the music of the Great American Songbook and encouraging t…
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
The happy band of players that performs Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare’s Life is reminiscent of the troupes that wandered the country when the Bard was ali…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat…
Starting as ‘The Big Thing’, then ‘Chicago Transit Authority’, the band which ended up as ‘CHICAGO’ was formed in 1967, and is one of the longest-running and most successful rock g…
IS YOUR SNAIL THE FASTEST? Enter your fastest Snail and win fantastic prizes.
Think you know everything about the feminist Latin art movement of urban Puerto Rico in the 1970s?!?! Well think again as Sam Simmons turns this world inside out and upside down.
Aria Hall of Fame inductee, #1 selling Platinum artist, King of Pop, Australian Icon!! These are a few phrases commonly used to describe Aussie legend Russell Morris.
One of comedy’s greatest marvels’ (Daily Telegraph UK) Ross Noble, surrealist connoisseur and story spinner returns to Adelaide with his new show, El Hablador.
Ingrid Garner wrote and performs the internationally acclaimed, theatrical adaptation of her grandmother Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s award-winning memoir, detailing her youth as an Am…
In Room 21C Port Adelaide-based artist Michael Hocking undertakes a far-ranging investigation of underlying ties and tensions in visual art: drawing-painting, surface-content, line…
Alex is a Melbourne based stand-up comedian currently achieving her life long dream of being brave enough to live outside her home state of QLD.
Since 1989, MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ series has achieved iconic status in modern music & pop culture.
Britain’s bad boys of magic have finally arrived in Australia, direct from London’s West End via the world’s largest arts festivals including Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury Festi…
Immerse yourself in a journey mirroring the dynamic showmanship of Michael Jackson.
Join Nikko as he shares the harrowing details of the multiple times he survived capture from the hands of criminal organisations, won the title of world’s healthiest baby and stopp…
Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks deliver a blistering set of hits from the 5 decades spanning Ross’ spectacular career as singer, songwriter and producer.
GET READY FOR MAXIMUM FUN! Infinite Jest Comedy creator Jez Watts (The Nasty Show, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men podcast) is coming at your faceholes with a brand new power hou…
Monty left his corporate accountant job in Sydney, to base himself in Perth and travel all over the globe performing his Johnny Cash Show ‘A Boy Named Cash’ as seen on ‘The Voi…
Ever felt like you should be better at feminism? For the first time in Adelaide, comedian Deborah Frances-White and guest discuss topics ‘all 21st century feminists agree on’ w…
The 1950s were the golden age of radio drama.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Steely Dan’s Grammy Award winning ‘Aja’ is one of the most outstanding jazz-rock albums of all time, influencing the musical tastes of a generation of listeners.
“The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party.
Join The Parentheticals as they mix hohoho with hahaha in a special holiday edition of Bracket Racket, their monthly improv show and jam.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Bomb Happy is a verbatim victory.
Following on from their hit 2016 tour, Graeme Swann, England’s greatest ever spin bowler and cricket’s best loved commentator, Henry Blofeld, are back by popular demand…
Scottish Comedian Danny Bhoy embarks on his maiden tour of his brand- new show this autumn is selected theatres throughout the UK.
Christian Slater stars in David Mamet’s acclaimed masterpiece, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, returning to London’s West End this Autumn for its first major revival in over a dec…
Critically acclaimed Front Foot Theatre presents Shakespeare’s most charismatic, tour de force villain, Richard III.
Scandal and Gallows theatre company shines as a remarkably talented team in this production of The Overcoat by rising star scriptwriter George Johnston, who has imaginatively tra…
An evening of classics and curiosities from the decade that produced a treasure of rich, resonant and evocative pop music.
Hershey Felder’s Our Great Tchaikovsky is a time-bending tale of music, politics and one of the world’s most beloved composers.
Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu…
A faithful and heartfelt tribute to the beautiful Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album Raising Sand.
Join us for a one-off performance of The Starship Osiris, performed the way George Vere originally intended.
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the decaying Miss Havisham; the sudden appearance of a mystery benefactor – this series…
Superstar US violinist Joshua Bell has brought fresh new vigour to the already accomplished Academy of St Martin in the Fields since taking the reins as Music Director in 2011, the…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Wired is one of several productions with a military theme being performed at the Army Reserve Centre, Summerhall’s new venue, army@Fringe.
When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick.
Peter Gill”s Certain Young Men was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in 1999.
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
Bringing you the best comedy the fringe has to offer, The Really Great Compilation Show presents some of the biggest names gracing Edinburgh, as well as some amazing up-and-comers.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show that ‘defined comedy in 2016’ (**** Guardian) and earned a Total Theatre Award nomination for Innovation returns for 10 days only.
Renowned keyboard player and conductor Richard Egarr is one of the UK’s most compelling musicians – and, as music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, also one of the coun…
Three evocative works hint of American jazz: David Amram conjures up 1950s Greenwich Village, David Liebman draws on the jazz avant-garde and Stephen J Rush riffs on an Ornette Col…
The first Edinburgh Fringe live performance of the global smash hit podcast.
Two huge and awful comedic talents, Michael Legge – ‘often copied, never matched’ (Time Out) – and Caroline Mabey – ‘oddball genius’ (Chortle) – fuse together and become …
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
Following four years of sell-out London shows, Matt Forde’s political interview returns to Edinburgh for one show only with special guest, Alistair Darling.
Zaltzman, host of legendary podcast The Bugle, delivers satire on commission, as ordered by you, the public, in his unique interactive show.
The Traverse Theatre sadly need to offer more than a bacon roll to make Breakfast Plays: B!rth worth getting up for.
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.
If the boys of Semi-Toned ever tire of a cappella they could always take up comedy.
A spectacular night of comedy to celebrate the middle of the festival from award-winning production company Berk’s Nest, featuring festival favourites, the best new acts and specia…
Michael is live in Edinburgh for another game of On The Ball, alongside great live music and your Sunday Boasts.
Expect songs of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter Paul and Mary, and more when award-winning singer/songwriter Bruce Davies pres…
The Scottish Godmother and multi award-winning comedian Janey Godley (acclaimed comic famous for her Trump is a c*nt protest) and her award-winning comedian daughter Ashley Storrie…
The Nick Ross Orchestra presents Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era.
Journalists, writers and cultural commentators discuss the unique ability theatre has to examine differing perspectives, effect change and unravel layers of complexity in times of …
Unique collaborations between established European musicians and artists recently arrived in the continent bring you the newest sounds of Europe today.
Elgar songs for solo and trio featuring Judith Gardner Jones and pianist Richard J Lewis, with Madeleine Trépanier, and Alicia Pettit.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Edinburgh soul/funk heroes pay homage to the legend that is Stevie Wonder.
For one night only Proud Camden is hosting a night of music and comedy with an all killer no filler line up: Australian comedy rock artist Huw Joseph, the incredible talent of quir…
After sell-out shows at last year’s Fringe and Celtic Connections festivals, Bwani Junction return with their joyful rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland album.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths is Annie Lennox.
Can’t cook? Imagine having to come up with a three-course meal, completely from scratch, every week for a year.
Join Ewan Spence and the team behind the BAFTA nominated ‘Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show And Podcast’ at this year’s daily recordings of the live show in the Rose Theatre .
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Songs you know and love presented by cabaret specialists Patrice and Richard, who have performed on the east coast in the US, Hawaii, Ireland and on cruise ships.
Join Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin for a nightly live podcast with guests, chat, stand-up, and all round fun and games.
“Black lives matter!” Hold it there and let that well-known refrain ring in your head, along with the image it conjures up in your mind.
Life as a Goth is not easy.
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
Comedy conjurors Kane & Abel invite you to join them for an evening of close-up magic, comedy and silly stunts.
Come watch and be part of this interactive, fun mixture of stand-up and interactive comedy debate as a compere and a number of the best comedians from around the Fringe converge in…
The Wedding Guest is an award-winning solo character comedy chronicling the ups and downs of two idiots, Juan Dominguez a thick-moustached general, and J’VaAnN a lovesick poet as…
The soul of Richard Nixon attempts to justify his actions while the audience act as the jury.
Following last year’s smash-hit, these anarchic twin tricksters return to break more rules of the Magicians’ Code of Conduct.
For some Fringe performers, their tech gremlins are the cute ones from the movie franchise.
Darren has arrived to explore Earth when unexpected circumstances leave him stranded.
Why do we do traditions? Good question! You’ll find the answer and more in this show.
Join four-octave award-winning UK vocalist/saxophonist Angus Munro and his floor-stomping trio as they transform modern indie classics into superbly authentic American standards of…
Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro…
American Performing Arts International return to Edinburgh with their musical theatre revue American Broadway Hits.
Freaks, undergarments and curiosities! From America’s Wild West to the nether regions in-between comes Eugene, Oregon’s favorite sassy oddity Josephine D’Love, joining forces…
The story goes that in November 1786 the Scottish poet Robert Burns borrowed a pony and left his native Ayrshire for Edinburgh.
For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin…
‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and multi award-winning ‘Podfather’ (Elle) returns with the internet chat show, that all the cool kids who hang around the Omni Centre call RHEFP (RH…
Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford has his choice Phrases Ready, with wordplay, jokes and puns aplenty.
Shove on some Dr.
A good storytelling piece is lovely.
There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.
Fries, frites or chips?! This exquisite yet quirky mix of jazz, chanson, pop and rare trivia will remind you why you, too, secretly love the French.
Captain Zarg and Williamina Foxx are Guardians of the Universe.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well.
The star of ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘Episodes’ and ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’, Michael Brandon gave himself two years to star in a Hollywood movie.
70% improvisation, 30% stories about illicit drug use and Christian scientists.
How do you hold on to the world’s greatest escape artist? 10 years after the death of his father, illusionist extraordinaire The Great Ridolphi, Victor O’Meara is visited by detect…
This little-known musical is tremendous fun in its own right, but the extremely talented and energetic cast of The Great American Trailer Park Musical make it engaging for a full 9…
Like a piece of forgotten sellotape stuck on a wall, neurotic ditherer Richard Todd clings to nothing but his place on the earth; may his grip hold for an hour of art therapy, inne…
Michael Clarke has felt something.
Don’t miss the best of today’s new comedians at yesterday’s prices in this stellar lunchtime show.
Anything Can Be a Podcast! Podcast! John Hastings improvises an hour of comedy based on suggestions from the Fringe’s top comedians, his teenage blog, and his friend Paul Stanley H…
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Award-winning American comedian and ‘breakout star’ (TheAtlantic.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe.
It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis.
As seen on ITV2, Michael Stranney (NATY winner, Chortle Best Newcomer nominee, BBC New Comedy Award finalist) presents the debut hour from his character Daniel Duffy.
Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen.
Do you like mysteries? Are you the sort of person who says: ‘I wonder what that was?’.
Michael Redmond did indeed write a joke in 1987, a good one that still gets a laugh today.
Join your hosts Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler as they take the late-night chat show to its illogical conclusion.
The King is back, long live the King.
Two cultures have thrived, one on each side of an impenetrable wall.
Malcolm Hardee Award-winning, gay, autistic comedian adopts a new stance.
A finely-woven, patterned rug hangs from the ceiling, its design typical of the region.
It’s 35 years since Kevin Elyot’s first play, Coming Clean, premiered at the Bush Theatre and 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts.
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows featuring the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit.
Sid, struggling to become Sue, proclaims, “The great barrier between myself and the outside world is my appearance”.
Join your hosts Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler as they take the late night chat show to its illogical conclusion.
An ‘incident in a hotel room’ becomes a life-changing event for Tom Crowe, a rising star of the Labour Party whose past, present and future form the basis of Tremors.
Queers comes with no explanation, but the title alone is enough preparation for an hour of material that is amusing and sad, historical and contemporary.
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling al…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest selling albu…
Richard Alston’s newest creation comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of a triple bill.
Saska (Corinne Furlong) decides to hold what which she hopes will be a cosy dinner party for a select group of her closest friends.
Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) directs an ensemble of young, highly talented UK-based musicians in a programme drawn from the celebrated American avant-gardists including …
Renowned American pianist and conductor Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) performs piano music by three of America’s greatest composers: Charles Ives’ First Piano Sonata, pio…
The Brighton Academy of Performing Arts uses its Preston Park studio theatre to showcase the talents of its students.
Ryan was a bright lad at school.
Following the phenomenal sold out Vault Festival run, the party continues… "The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party.
The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito is “presented by BA(Hons) Acting and Creative Performance students, from the University Centre Colchester” who “in their final year of study p…
In under thirty minutes Collapse presents a hauntingly hypnotic exploration of Cassandra’ agony as she prophetically laments the collapse of her city.
The disparity between the promotional material put out by theatre groups and the reality of what they present to audiences is often quite staggering.
Pets come in many forms.
Summer in the south is aggressively hot and stiflingly humid.
Described as “unconventional, quirky, and voyeuristic”, Peppered Wit’s production of Blink by Phil Porter fulfills each of those descriptions.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award-nominated ‘Story Beast’ (“a bearded force of nature” (Guardian)) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), Ric…
A variety of comedians come together to find out who is the greatest superhero of them all.
A new relaxing lunchtime concert.
Funny. Political. Ends with a hanging.
I’m always interested in the extent to which the publicity for a performance matches the reality of the production; how the promise materialises on the stage.
Brighton writer Richard Hearn’s comedy/drama asks the question “If you could replay a key moment in your life, what would you do differently?” ‘The Missing Special’ won the R…
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 …
In 1987, celebrated BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish stood up on national television and shrugged off reports of an oncoming hurricane.
Richard III.
Soaring soprano and passionate cello lines intermingle with sumptuous piano writing in a recital programme featuring Esther Ward-Caddle (cello)and Nicole Panizza (piano) performing…
Four time Brit Classical Awards winner Russell Watson has announced details of his 2017 tour, his first since the release of his new FOD album True Stories.
‘The Wedding Guest’ is a solo character comedy chronicling the ups and downs of Juan Domínguez, a thick-moustached general, and J’VaAnN, a lovesick poet, as they pine for th…
Apparently, one of the men involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 resides in Hove - but this story isn’t about him, instead it’s about the women behind the heist, the ones…
No one does satire quite like Brighton’s very own ‘The Treason Show’.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Welcome to Crossbones Graveyard: last resting place of The Winchester Geese.
Guided tours of this magnificent Grade I* listed church - one of the finest Victorian churches in the country.
Miranda has been trying to get a flying penis for four years, but every year it eludes her.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character.
Pick of the Fringe Launch Night Special, kicked off Brighton Fringe at The Warren with fragments of 7 shows.
In 1987 Michael Phish (yes, like Fish) is a household name and weather Guru, giving portentous predictions of things to come.
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…
Three fast paced, twenty minute, absurdist comedies that are completely unrelated.
Join Children’s Laureate past and present Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell for a sublime afternoon of poetry and illustration for the young and young-at-heart.
For 9 weeks only, Dirty Great Love Story makes its West End debut! Two hopeful hapless romantics get drunk, get it on and then get the hell away from each other.
The forbidden fruit gets its comeuppance in Gandini Juggling’s cult-hit show Smashed.
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
From the imagination of one of Ireland’s foremost dance and theatre-makers, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes a magical new adaptation of one …
Post Traumatic Stress from a variety of sources is a familiar phenomenon in modern times.
Welcome to The Tempest as Shakespeare and probably most other people never imagined it could be.
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Cinema screening of live performance.
After a seven-year break from stand-up, during which she had babies, made a movie in Vietnam and became the mother of Moone Boy, Deirdre O’Kane returns with a brand new show.
Robert Schumann’s Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola and piano, stormy and tender, set the mood for György Kurtág’s deeply-felt Hommage to R.
Alex returns from his recent tour of New Zealand with another extravaganza showcasing old, new and traditional songs and stories.
Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event.
A condensed version of Shakespeare’s infamous Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest yet most revered works, which charts its tyrannical protagonist’s rise to the English th…
An endearing display that demonstrates both exceptional vocal and instrumental talents.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
Charting a journey of frustration, emotion, negotiation, memory, love, loss and the passage of time, culminating in the arrival of a very important package.
To commemorate the 100th year of the Bearpit Podcast (Podcast) the gang have invited back some of the best loved guests from the back catalogue, and some new faces, to help celebra…
Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together.
No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers.
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
9/11, as it now succinctly known, is one of those ‘where were you on the day?’ events.
You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the Great Fire of London is a 45 minute, 100 miles per hour show for kids! Two storytellers will transport the children back to 1666 smoggy, grotty Londo…
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
There’s always a good smattering of obscure, seldom-performed or minor plays at the Festival Fringe.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is a work that is in many ways very problematic, due to its fetishising and cultural stereotyping of the Japanese, written at the height of the …
The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions.
Why should the superheroes have all the fun and the glory? In this version of the Battle of the Superheroes show, a variety of comedians step up to make the case for the greatest s…
It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public.
The Handlebards are a unique group, reinventing the concept of the company of travelling players.
In Shakespeare Tonight, the famous playwright gives his first ever television performance on a talk show with host Martina, only to be confronted by his so-called ‘enemy’, huma…
Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour.
Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
Following three years of sell-out London shows Matt Forde’s Political Party returns to Edinburgh for a one-off special! Previous guests include: Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, Michael P…
Angus Munro and band offer you a medley of ‘Hipster’ songs reimagined as 20th Century Jazz classics.
Ross and Tom return to the Fringe with a new show after their sell-out performances in 2013 and 2014.
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
The Traverse’s Breakfast Plays series is an intriguing prospect: four plays on the same theme by their Associate Artists, presented as script-in-hand rehearsed readings at 9am ea…
Hecate’s Poison is a one-woman version of Macbeth, performed by Players Tokyo’s T.
In Edinburgh as members of Group 64, the cast of The Age of (Distr)action are an inclusive young people’s theatre company from Putney who have created, written and performed this…
Theresa May went to Oxford, but unlike Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, she could never have been invited to become a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, to which Laura Wad…
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
Bildraum is part of the ‘Big in Belgium’ series, featuring six of the country’s many outstanding theatre and performance companies.
Suppose, just suppose, that your mind and body lived separately from each other.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical.
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
What do you do when your set crumbles, your actors forget their lines and lighting fails? Cry? Laugh? Or just carry on? Rolling In The Aisle presents a comedy where everything that…
It’s Road, but not as we know it.
Presented by The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, the programme for this concert comprised of lesser-known and hugely underappreciated works by the three baroque greats: Antonio Vivaldi…
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t…
The Italia Conti Ensemble returns to the Festival Fringe with their second-year students again split into two groups, each with its own choice of play.
This one-woman show by playwright Lois Blanco involves Spanish actress Paula Blanco alternately playing William Shakespeare, a range of Shakespeare’s individual female characters…
Never judge a play by its title.
Fencible Productions invite you to an entertaining and enlightening encounter with the Adam Family – father William and brothers Robert, John and James – pillars of Scotland an…
From the Fringe First winning authors of Jekyll! comes this brand new adaptation of Dickens’ masterpiece.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Tempest, retold by children whose first language isn’t even English.
Classically-trained Canadian singer Melanie Gall presents this one hour recital of the music of legendary Francophone singers Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, with songs presented them…
Sainte Jane: Born from Lauren St.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried! The hilarious, heartwarming true story of how The Fabulous TT came to write Robert Burns: The Musical.
Tucked away in the intimate and comfortable setting of the Scottish Arts Club, Canadian singer Daniela Nardi and her group Espresso Manifesto, comprising Ron Davis (piano), Chris J…
Countertenor James Laing, theorbo player James Akers and bass violist Susanna Pell’s hour long feast of Dowland was one of the most spectacular concerts I have attended in a whil…
Edinburgh soul/funk heroes pay homage to the legend that is Stevie Wonder.
This celebrated international soloist returns to Edinburgh to ‘indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind’ (Xinhua, China).
The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, based on the music of Green Day, comes to the Edinburgh Fringe in this exciting new take on the show.
Award-winning Badger High School Theater presents Tales from the American Midwest, a series of American folk tales centred around the Midwestern states.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Tackling an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, one of the most famous and beloved novels ever written, is not a task taken on lightly but it is one the Nottingham New theatre rises to…
After 13 years abiding by the magicians’ code of conduct, Kane & Abel will break every rule in the book passed down to them by their grandfather to discover how different their l…
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
For a fast-paced, fun show filled with audience interaction, A Fool’s Paradise might be for you.
A revolving line-up of great and varied comedians come together in a number of show heats to argue and decide who is the greatest superhero, with the semi-finals and a Grand Final …
Shakespeare on Love offers a heartwarming performance given by a group of Milwaukee high school students: the brainchild of their two English teachers.
Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heart-warming acts at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Kieran Hodgson is not to be missed.
Kane Brown has a lot to get off his chest.
The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the ‘undisputed buzz comedy of last year’ **** (Guardian), Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell…
There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing.
Most seven-year-olds don’t pick a ghost as a role model.
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
Edinburgh-based improv group Men with Coconuts present an entirely improvised Bond film, based on suggestions from the audience and using many familiar tropes and improvisation gam…
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers, make a welcome return to Edinburgh in their usual Greenside, Royal Terrace location.
Ross Leadbeater is an alumnus of the all-male Welsh choir Only Men Aloud!, who won the 2008 television show Last Choir Standing.
Many theatre companies oversell their wares with outrageous hyperbole.
The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre.
Mavericks: A Sketch Show (of Sorts) is the product of talented comedy duo and Cambridge Footlights members Ruby Keane and Luisa Callander.
International Collegiate Theatre Festival has put together a delightful programme of both well-known and less familiar works to create this production of 2 By 5.
This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton.
Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards.
If you missed this show all is not lost.
This informal hour long recital, starring singer Elspeth McVeigh and fiddle player Gabi Maas, features a variety of folk songs, or ‘Broadside Ballads’, from 17th to 19th centur…
Fun lyrics and great musical timing manage to bring Neverland to life with a small cast and even smaller set.
Call Mr Robeson is Tayo Aluko’s tribute to one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable singers in terms of looks and voice.
In Shakespeare Syndrome, brought to Edinburgh by the talented Mermaidsgroup from the University of St.
Shakespeare Shorts: Hamlet - Shakespeare’s Hamlet condensed into an hour by kids, for kids.
We all have our price.
Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that.
After cycling 1,500 miles from London to Edinburgh, the four-strong all-male HandleBards present Shakespeare’s play as you’ve never seen it before – fast-paced, irreverent and bi…
Allan Foster, a writer whose name is practically synonymous with Edinburgh literary tourism, is our guide on the Book Lovers’ Tour, which specialises in introducing tourists to t…
Breandán de Gallaí, the celebrated ex-Riverdance principal, has devised a biographical series of dances to create Lïnger, which is performed in the generously spacious main thea…
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
Vivaldi for Breakfast is an interesting attempt to dramatise the enigmatic life of notorious Baroque composer, Antonio Vivaldi, as he worked in the famous Pietà orphanage for youn…
The British might be renowned for talking and complaining about the weather, but if you come from Fiji there are more heightened concerns than just cold rainy days.
In the programme, The Shakespeare Club promises to be a somewhat cheesy, yet harmless play about finding oneself through Shakespeare’s characters.
You’d be forgiven for thinking this was a generic literary tour, because of the way it had been marketed in the Fringe programme.
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator.
The redness of Red is not visible.
Celebrated Scottish choreographer Jack Webb has brought his latest, typically idiosyncratic work, The End, for performance at this year’s Festival Fringe as part of the extensive…
A week of arts and crafts events: an interactive art event unlike any other.
Great composers sometimes create a theme that is so captivating or remarkable that other great composers write variations on it.
In a previous show, we witnessed Robert Newman intellectually tear down Dawkin’s view of evolution.
It was immediately evident upon walking into the jam-packed Cabaret Bar that I was significantly changing the demographic awaiting the arrival of radio and television legend and na…
Ladies in Waiting, written by and starring James Cougar Canfield as the lascivious and misogynistic King Henry VIII, is a steamy, feminist critique of the most notorious of England…
Adolph Eichmann never personally killed anyone, but he was hanged in 1962, having been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
UK Pun Championships 2016 runner-up Richard Pulsford has phrases ready.
Hurricane Michael is the kind of production I come to Fringe to see: a very specific, niche show, seemingly outside of my interests, that is found to be a surprisingly charming hou…
When Stephen Carlin was named by Stewart Lee as one of the ‘Ten Best Comedians in The World Ever’ in 2008, he wasn’t exactly a household name.
Neil LaBute sets out to upset and disturb audiences and he made a spectacular start with his first play Bash: Latterday Plays.
Michael Griffiths is obscenely talented.
For a comedian with such a cult following, renowned for surrealist originality, I was very excited about my first encounter with Paul Foot’s comedy.
Dead’liner’ n.
Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
It’s back! The interactive comic book knowledge bomb.
Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2015, Faye Treacy went to the Brit School with Adele and Jessie J and then studied the trombone at The Royal Academy of Music with no one intere…
Italian comic Giacinto Palmieri, in this hour of comedy, tries to draw comparisons between himself and renowned misogynist and philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche in their approach to…
Intelligent, alternative comedy from one of Scotland’s rising stars.
Star of the critically acclaimed BBC One TV show Hospital People is back with an updated version of his sell-out five-star one-man variety show Club Sets.
Based on audience suggestions, the hour’s traffic of the stage is an improvised case which promises to be ‘the greatest Sherlock Holmes story ever’, The Case of the Lemon Pos…
I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb.
What are a couple of self-deprecating, twenty-something stand-up comediennes to do at the Fringe, if not perform a stand-up act in two halves, in a rather shockingly intimate karao…
Winner of the 2015 Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Michael Brunström (The Human Loire, The Golden Age of Steam), presents his strangest show yet: an ambitious Suffolk …
Lunchtime stand-up to warm up your chuckle muscles.
A stand-up show for miserable grown-ups, fuelled by self-loathing, paranoia and a course of anti-psychotic medication.
‘How much happier the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
Scottish comedian and Fringe veteran McTavish has celebrated his 60th birthday this year, and has therefore adopted a more ponderous and docile approach in his set, instead of dedi…
Jane Eyre – An Autobiography has to be one of the most moving pieces of theatrical storytelling ever created; quite simply, it’s astounding.
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
Every single audience member is given a ping pong ball with Shakespearean tropes written on them upon entry.
Fun for parents and children alike, The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare is a brilliant introduction to Shakespeare: the man and his plays.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
Meet the real edgy Bard.
If your idea of chillin’ is sitting in the armchair with a cup of cocoa and a novel, you probably won’t feel at ease with this play.
Sherlock Holmes, true to its original with all the same characters and tropes that keep fans hooked, but with a twist.
Quartet, Mixed Doubles, have brought a comedy sketch show to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, framed with four peculiar characters from the peaceful UKIP-voting Middle England villa…
In a festival saturated with comedy shows about Shakespeare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company continue to reign supreme as the undisputed masters at reimagining the Bard into hilari…
If you’re expecting a cosy drawing-room comedy about an aging female relative then you have clearly not read the publicity and are in for a big surprise.
As one of the most commonly adapted works in the English canon, Frankenstein often leaves one unmoved when he or she leaves the auditorium.
Shakin’ Shakespeare does an incredible job at presenting the playwright’s work in an accessible and side-splittingly funny way.
Seeing Care Takers is like watching all the episodes of a fabulous five-part drama series in one sitting.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
Showstoppers! have a strong reputation preceding them, made evident by the number of people in the packed auditorium murmuring excitedly before the lights go down.
There are two very good reasons for going to see Fresher: it is an outstanding play that ingeniously tackles contemporary issues, and the production is also raising money for Young…
What do you do when your mother is murdered for protesting corporate and governmental corruption? In the case of Milagros, you fight for the justice your mother was denied and see…
The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm.
In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward.
There’s a lot of camouflage in Dropped.
The Cambridge Footlights have such a reputation that their name is practically synonymous with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Oxford Imps’ technologically-heavy Fringe show, Hyperdrive, perform a mixture of long and short form improvisation, using technology as stimulus.
Randy is a bald, bright purple Australian stand-up puppet with a really quick wit and a sharp tongue.
The Aussies have a certain way with words and in the case Adam Seymour with his hands also.
Russell Howard and Steve Williams return to Edinburgh to tit about for half an hour each.
It’s a struggle to review Holly Burn.
What Edinburgh Fringe would be complete without a trip to Shakespeare for Breakfast? Now in its 25th year at the festival, the group have not lost their touch.
Californias Dreamin’, performed by California Poly SLO’s company Smile and Nod, comprises a mixture of short and long form improvisation, based on audience suggestions.
Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle.
Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m…
Waiting for the Call: The Improvised Musical’s Notflix has to be one of the best improv shows I have seen at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
Possibly the most ridiculous show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets are in their ninth year and were greeted with a sell-out audience.
Possibly the most beautiful show you will watch at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, Teatro Delusio is a marvel: original, stunningly choreographed, very funny and incredibly moving.
Improvised comedy at its most virtuosic, Sean McCann and Adam Meggido (of Showstoppers! The Improvised Musical and School of Night fame) are two masters of their artform, with an a…
Australian comedian’s Edinburgh debut.
Nick’s family performances are legendary! He has a fanatical army of little and not so little fans from all over the world.
The Edinburgh Fringe ‘smashed’-hit Shit-Faced Shakespeare returns in its seventh year to perform Measure for Measure in its unorthodox and unique inebriated manner.
Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift.
Two large basement rooms in Summerhall have been transformed into a remarkable installation and immersive theatre, musical, video, sound, and light performance area.
The Fruitmarket Gallery boasts “World class contemporary art at the heart of the city”.
Following on from its critically acclaimed 2015 London run and a smash hit 2016 UK Tour, Green Day’s explosive Tony Award ® winning musical, American Idiot will be return…
Who better to convey the darkness & danger of Shakespeare’s most compelling villain and his scheming entourage than armed forces veterans-turned-actors? Set in a modern military …
Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind, and reconnect with the world.
Brighton’s biggest monthly performance poetry and open slam event presents a clash of the titans of spoken word: Three-times World Slam Champion Buddy Wakefield v European Slam Cha…
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind; and reconnect with the world.
Treason Show: Festival Special.
Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer 2015 Faye Treacy.
‘Still Lives’ hinges on a chance meeting between wheelchair-bound Harriet and lost boy, Fred.
A number of great and varied comedians from around Brighton Fringe come together in a mixture of stand-up comedy and interaction to decide who is the greatest superhero.
The Black Fields’ Circus of Lujuria is back! The Black Fields will be tearing the place down with new music from their upcoming EP.
Enjoy the mellow voice of Julie Roberts, and the superb accompaniment of Michael Hinton on grand piano, in a relaxed programme of jazz and Latin standards.
Alan Felton and Tim Roycroft will give an insight into Skiffle, a form of entertainment influenced by American and British folk and jazz music that encouraged do-it-yourself music …
‘The Synagogues of Great Britain’: Dr Sharman Kadish is the Director of Jewish Heritage UK and a research fellow and lecturer at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of …
Michael performs a new stand-up show.
Russell Howard, one of the UK’s most successful stand-up comedians, will be a performing a one off benefit gig in aid of Coppafeel.
Directed by Roger Kay, Glengarry Glen Ross depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who have been supplied with the names and phone numbers of some new leads.
Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires.
Hello people of Brighton! I’m bringing my show to you as part of Brighton Fringe.
An American Drum Circle is a turn-of-the-millennium comic-drama in which an innocent American girl hopes to escape the failures of her pious father by taking refuge in an intense r…
The annual “Rhythm in Motion” festival is a one-stop shop for today’s top tap.
His 20’s were a fist of fun, his 30’s spent deciphering the intricacies of Big Cook and Little Cook’s business partnership, and then, oh fuck!, he was 40.
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
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…
Mr.
The romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl & an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war, is the stuff of B…
Hartshorn - Hook Productions presents The Blues Brothers XMAS Special, the most electric rock'n'roll party of the year.
(previews start on Thursday; opens on Jan.
American companies hailing from sea to shining sea are presented here by the Joyce Theater and White Bird, an influential Portland, Ore.
This annual festival celebrates dance of the past, promotes dance of today and honors those making significant contributions to the field.
The married comedy duo of Nick Afka Thomas and Sarah Ann Masse combine his droll British wit and her joke-packed American energy in this clever, cross-cultural sketch show.
In this idea-heavy one-man show, Steven Friedman, a Renaissance man whose areas of expertise include philosophy, seeks to weave a capsule history of philosophical thought with an a…
A glimpse of heaven from the man who created Narnia.
Hector (Was So Great A Crime) is based on the true story of the Scottish military hero in the Second Boer War who was brought down by malicious attacks on his good name.
This annual event — now in its 12th year — showcases the talents of Arab-American comedians, actors, playwrights and filmmakers.
Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers.
This program of seven short plays by David Ives is presented by New York Deaf Theater and employs both spoken English and American Sign Language to tell its comedic tales (2:00).
This saxophonist leads the world premiere of John Plant’s “Insomnia,” featuring ChoEun Lee on piano and the soprano Yungee Rhie.
Grab some popcorn and settle in for “Revelations.
Even if you don’t know the whole story of F.
The Thirty Years Tour is a brand new stage show in which Michael Palin, aided and abetted by a rich and often rare archive of film, video, photos and recordings, looks back over th…
Following highly successful evenings with Berlin, Porter, Kern and Gershwin, Fife’s premier operatic concert group Ensemble, (www.
Edinburgh debut concert of the Berlin-based Tegel Quartet.
Do you feel like your brain is half-baked? Or that your mental faculties are going off the boil? Join ‘head’ chef Dr Alan Gow in the Great British Brain Off to consider the recipe …
Multi award nominated Inel Tomlinson is back with his sell-out show, Kinetic Comedy.
Angelos Epithemiou (BBC Two’s Shooting Stars) and Barry from Watford (BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon) record their award-winning iTunes Best of 2014 podcast in front o…
Live podcast recording and variety show in aid of Peruvian Kettle Syndrome.
Dictator, lover, husband and murderer, Controversial writer, Christopher Marlowe’s fierce and ferocious play Tamburlaine the Great, hits the stage in an all new gripping, physica…
Live art every day.
Live art every day.
While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men could be seen as a dark comedy or as just dark.
Piaf opens with a spectacular tableau of the entire cast.
Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist.
For Queen and Country.
Party isn’t that sort of party; well, it sort of is, and maybe it should be, but overall it isn’t – though it might be after it’s finished.
Richard III is one of the most fascinating Shakespeare plays I know, and it is always interesting to see new interpretations by different companies.
I Am is the sequel to LCP Dance Theatre’s Am I.
If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
Irish comedians Giles Brody and Colin Chadwick invite you to a compendium of sketch comedy, featuring childish Nobel Prize winners, Frankenstein’s reformed monster, Teen Pope, Go…
There is dance and there is Scottish Dance Theatre.
Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
New kids on the block in Edinburgh’s bustling folk scene, Dowally make unclassifiable, thrillingly energetic music, fusing their love of traditional Scottish music with jazz harmon…
In Silver Darlings, celebrated writer Alexander McCall Smith has joined forces with innovative Scottish composer James Ross, to write a song cycle about Scotland and the sea.
Summerhall is proud to present the Sun Ra Arkestra, live in the Dissection Room.
Classical zheng performer, Yi Dong, is one of the only five soloists who has given a recital in China’s Great Hall of the People, and the soloist with the biggest number of public …
A stand-up comedy and beat box collaboration.
Some show titles aim to tease, titillate or intrigue but American Cunt, the name of US comic Jena Friedman’s Edinburgh Fringe debut, is a proud, badge-wearing member of the let’s-c…
What does Tomorrow mean to playwrights across the globe? This year the Traverse has commissioned six leading playwrights from China, Egypt, Ukraine, Canada, Turkey and Scotland to …
For fans of the unusual and the alternative, Macolm Hardee Award nominee Michael Brunström (AKA The Human Loire) investigates the nature of reality and illusion through a collecti…
With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts.
Texan Kiya Heartwood (Stealin’ Horses, Wishing Chair) is ‘an award-winning American singer/songwriter who writes smart, funny and poignant songs about the famous and not-so-famou…
Here we go again.
The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex.
‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me.
A Daily Mirror awaits us on our seats announcing the death of a ‘pair of “star-crossed” lovers … in the wake of increasingly violent clashes in the streets’.
In sixteenth-century Germany it was not regarded as irreverant to perform comic puppet shows featuring characters and scenes from the legend of Faust.
Matt Forde’s Political Party comes to Edinburgh for one night only, following a complete sell-out London run with guests including; Alastair Campbell, Nigel Farage, Michael Porti…
Richard Wiseman, psychologist and bestselling author of several popular psychology books, returns to the Fringe to talk for an hour about the psychology of perception, touching on …
Undermined was going to be called Shafted, but a guy named Godber had already beaten Danny Mellor to it.
The thinking person’s late night alternative! Triple award-nominated podcast reveals your favourite comics’ creative secrets.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Fringe veteran, freewheeling storytelling Phil is joined by Russell the brilliant young American upstart, cut from similar cloth.
I have seen several performances of Richard III; Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen on film, and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, but Emily Carding’s portrayal of the king who murders…
Edinburgh soul/funk heroes pay homage to the legend that is Stevie Wonder.
With this year’s general election behind us and members now in office the return of Posh to the Festival Fringe is timely.
For fans of the unusual and the alternative, Macolm Hardee Award nominee Michael Brunström (AKA The Human Loire) investigates the nature of reality and illusion through a collecti…
Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy started out as two plays in a year-long project by One World Actors Centre (Kuwait) to produce Jean Anouilh’s Antigone in both English and Arabic.
Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history.
Join Chris and Carl, plus special guests, for an hour of unedited nonsense in this live version of what the Guardian listed as one of the Top 10 Podcasts on the Web.
“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute.
Strap in, it’s joke time.
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
The follow up to his debut show, This is Not for You (**** Scotsman), this is an alternative comedy show about hopelessness.
When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her.
We all love a good story! Multi award-winning singer-songwriter Mike Willis and his rovin’ band transport you to the smoky mountains of America.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature.
Join this pair of idiots for all the bits too stupid for their “proper” shows in this ‘deeply flawed event’ (Threeweeks).
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
High-energy, left field stand-up for people who’ve read a book, without pictures, and enjoyed it.
Yet again CalArts pushes forward the frontiers of theatre with an extraordinary, fascinating and labyrinthine work.
The troubled comedian returns to the festival for the third year running (Cheese and Crack Whores, 2013; Breaking Gadd, 2014) having received rave reviews, sell-out crowds, critica…
Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen.
Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat.
This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable.
We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans.
The storyline is shallow, the message insubstantial and the script contrived, so you don’t have anything deep to think about.
Why go to the trouble of raising the funds and making the trip to the International Collegiate Theatre Festival, only to present plays nobody back home would want to see, much less…
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl…
Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you.
Given our familiarity with Escher’s unmistakable style it’s hard to believe that this is the first major exhibition of his work in the UK and that there is only one print of …
Fans of Rent will love this full length presentation and for those who have never seen it, this is a great opportunity to watch a rip-roaring production.
The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion is yet another triumph for the phantasmagorically fertile imaginations of the genial geniuses of gin.
For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder….
Following a sell-out Fringe Season in 2014, dancers from Scottish Ballet return to Dance Base to present new work freshly made and premiered exclusively for the Dance Base Fringe p…
‘How can I know who I am …feeling with pure energy, / With my heart, my mind, my body, my soul, / This is who and what I am.
Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors.
Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down…
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
Comedy’s bleak philosopher is back asking the questions nobody else will.
Micheal Legge - Prince of Bitterness, Lord of Fury - has his sights on an award.
The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War.
The Edinburgh Gin Company has left its distillery behind and moved to The Boards in the Edinburgh Playhouse to tell a brief history of the city’s alcohol and gin heritage along w…
Suitability: 16+ (Restriction).
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
John Hastings is back with his totally improvised stand-up comedy show that is released each day as a podcast (you know, internet radio thing).
Ross & Rachel is an exploration of beyond ‘happily ever after’, using the two Friends characters we all know so well as a medium through which to explore the artifice of relati…
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
Galileo lived in age when the church reigned supreme, faith was more important than fact and dogma denied discovery.
One of the fastest rising young comedians from across the pond, Michael Che is back in Edinburgh for a third year running with his new show Six Stars.
Originally a one-act play consisting of five scenes, The International Stud premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1978 and later became the first part of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark work, …
American smart ass showcases the wit that got him described as ‘a mix between Jack Dee and Dennis Leary’ (BroadwayBaby.
Lunchtime stand-up to warm up your chuckle muscles.
Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…
There’s a very fine line between watching an actual, heart-in-mouth onstage breakdown and one that’s convincingly feigned.
This show begins with the sound of drums and then a dreadful storm and so gives its audience certain expectations of what is to come but, as Russell himself exclaims, “prepare yo…
Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees).
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand is a bizarre yet beautiful blend of Māori culture, contemporary dance, vocals and music, drag and real life stories.
You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country.
Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun.
Welcome to a world in which West Africa meets Jamaica, meets Cuba: A world of burning desire, or as they say in Yoruba, Itara.
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot.
In keeping with its history, this latest production of La Ronde by Zebronkeyis controversial.
A dynamic exhibition by highly acclaimed Canadian artist Derek Michael Besant.
After six successful years of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year in London the competition comes to York, with a brand new contest to find the best up and coming…
Before the podcast officially begins, we’re invited to watch a clip of Yorkshire born and bred actor Mark Addy in action.
In the first Robert Ross Requests the Pleasure.
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
An exciting new competition has opened in the heart of the city; for one week only, every night from the 24th to the 31st July, there will be a raucous gathering of stand-up come…
Shakespeare’s popular play Richard II recounts the fate of the famously decadent king as he spends his father’s fortune, places punitive taxes onto the poor, and spends his no…
Under the unceasingly fertile direction of Garry Hynes, this enthralling Irish-born marathon presents the English crown as a fatal, glittering prize for those who wear it.
As part of the Pop Up Concerts series at the Miller Theater, the adventurous American Contemporary Music Ensemble offers a program of works by the pianist and composer Timo Andres,…
(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…
Many comedians converge in Brighton to find out who is the greatest superhero of them all.
Michael Fish, Svengali, Weather-guru & scourge to the meteorological Sanhedrin.
Richard Lewis’s long-form, fury-driven stand-up has influenced scores of comedians over the last 40 years.
Ever wanted to find out how a quality podcast is made? We can help you with that.
‘The True Tale of the Life and Death of Billy the Kid as Told by Pat Garrett’: Billy the Kid, bushwhacker, back shooter, downright no good or honourable and misunderstood youngster…
A Landlord.
Brighton Pub Plays are short 5-10 minute plays.
Submerging performance poet, ‘Purple Robert,’ revisits Brighton Fringe with his own kind of ‘on the edge’ direct art-form engagement.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this recital.
Join Adam Blampied “Delightful” (British Theatre Guide), Richard Soames “Excellent” (Sunday Times) and The Story Beast “Bearded force of nature” (Guardian) as The Beta Males finall…
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
Europe’s leading festival for new music
Michael Fabbri performs a comedy show about dyslexia in preparation for a Radio 4 series he’s recording later in the year.
A selection of short comic plays based on situations for the modern life, designed for a pub or café setting.
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 pianist Martin James Bartlett plays Mozart Concerto No.
An evening of polls, puns and psephology, spin, sleaze and swingometers, battling past the ballot box with a cabaret cabinet packed with a parliamentary portfolio of political ente…
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…
Not just an evening of song, but rather the story of a not particularly famous man whose words have been sung everywhere from Hong Kong to Geneva, from the National Theatre to the …
Brighton’s all year-round cult satire comedy sketch show, with their unique take on the General Election.
The award-winning travel writer, Robert Macfarlane, will be discussing his work with Andrew Tomlinson, Executive Producer, Media Literacy, BBC Learning.
All Tuesdays: 5th FRANCK SONATA Daniel Shao (flute) Alexandra Gracheva (piano).
Robert Edwards regales, reading from the books - four poetry, two journals - published under his Burble imprint, featuring the pedlar diaries and a revised, newly-illustrated editi…
Charm el Sheikh: Two women alone on holiday in an Egyptian resort find their worlds collide in the most unimaginable way.
Martyna Majok’s stealthily devastating “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge,” an indelibly acted portrait of intimacy and entitlement, makes this a must-see.
Irish comedians Giles Brody and Colin Chadwick invite you to a compendium of sketch comedy, featuring childish Nobel Prize winners, Frankenstein’s reformed monster, Teen Pope, so…
Join Hayden as he chats with comedians, musicians & performers from across the Fringe.
(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.
Agatha Christie’s 1958 whodunit is an interesting choice for Theater Breaking Through Barriers: The victim, a sadistic bully, is discovered shot through the head in his wheel…
Gotham Chamber Opera presents a bold pairing of works inspired by Shakespeare’s visionary play — a 1695 score attributed to Purcell, and Kaija Saariaho’s 2004 …
Following its highly successful Marlowe450 season in Canterbury, Fourth Monkey’s Two-Year Rep company tackles Marlowe’s most epic and savage work, widely acknowledged as a milest…
SubCulture hosts two noteworthy young pianists this week.
It’s never too late to reinvent yourself: After 60 years as the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the group returns this year as Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, a more in…
It’s always a treat to hear the pianist Richard Goode, here in partnership with young artists he has mentored at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Mr. Ross’s insults are so piercing that he’s known as “The Roastmaster General.” This weekend he headlines at Carolines on Broadway.
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…
After writing for “Saturday Night Live” last season, Mr.
In 1963, 10 Native American men and women founded the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers to preserve the performance traditions of their heritage.
With its very varied performance festival, featuring 33 artists over four days, the American Dance Guild salutes key players in the modern dance field.
On Broadway, dance is now more like a shot of espresso or a vintage Instagram filter and less of a storytelling tool, like it used to be.
Following the last year’s sell out, it’s back!
Since 1975, when the great Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker died, the foundation initiated in his name has fostered the careers of emerging American singers and brought opera to …
Brahms is in season for string quartets all over town, and this ensemble gets in on the action with a guest artist, André-Michel Schub, for performances of the quartets in B f…
The harpist Ashley Jennifer Jackson and a string quartet made up of members of this ensemble perform a new work by Danielle Eva Schwob, a London-born composer, singer and guitarist…
This renowned comedian, often considered an heir to Lenny Bruce, is a master of long-form storytelling who turns his endless neurotic energy into brilliant comedy.
Critically acclaimed prolific songwriter, Ivor Novello Award winner, recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of Al…
Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within.
Morran, Weatherby, Brechin, Duff and Freeman perform Tannahill’s captivating lyrics and haunting Irish melodies written in defence of 19th-century immigrants to Scotland.
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…
In a brand new show, award-winning political columnist and broadcaster Steve Richards takes you behind the scenes as the referendum looms and the next British general election move…
Let your afternoon stroll take you to this sunny one-hour concert.
Scottish Independence special.
He’s not Nick Grimshaw! Russell Kane is a superstar entertainer who often gets confused for the Radio 1 DJ.
One of the confusions in this production, although not without precedent, is the running order of the five interrelated plays that make up the complete work.
Declan Cooke is a physically big guy with a powerful presence: if you saw him standing at the bar you would imagine him to be full of confidence and completely in control of his li…
You, the audience, become the friends and family of this psychotic gangster’s victims.
James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of…
Scottish Independence special.
Your chance to see Richard Bacon present his lively and entertaining BBC Radio 5live show from the Edinburgh Festivals with celebrity guests.
Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913) was a minor English writer, artist and photographer and serious eccentric.
The Tories have take control and Michael Gove is Prime Minister.
International guitarist Luca Villani performs a recital entirely devoted to his own compositions from the sparkling Rwanda Suite to the poignant My Neverending Love Labyrinth, incl…
Koji Takeuchi was born in Japan and began his search for truth in his teens.
An interactive experience like no other as you take part in live mind-blowing experiments that will make you laugh, scream and gasp.
“Footloose may be a hit, but it’s trash - high powered fodder for the teen market.
Following their huge success in last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Fettes College Consort and Players return to this year’s festival with another of Mozart’s brilliant Mass settin…
Night School is an odd ‘show’ that seems to hover somewhere between an entertaining lecture and a TED talk.
Showcasing a medley of bright young things from the Invisible Dot’s impressive roster of talent, The New Wave, hosted by Fringe stalwart David O’Doherty, gave us an exciting …
In a 1990 interview on Japanese television, Berkoff said, “I believe that you don’t need anything more than just utter simplicity and that everything in my art must be created …
If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again.
Enjoy the finest breakfast theatre in town as the award-winning Traverse Breakfast Plays return to the festival menu.
Autistic, severely depressed and with inadequate provision for her, Tess Humphrey left school at the age of thirteen.
Chain smoker and chaplain, poet and padre, furnisher of faith and fags, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy dispensed Woodbines and the word of God on the Western Front during the First Worl…
Caroline Bowditch, Welly O’Brien and Nicole Guarino provide a wonderful evening in a cosy little room at Dance Base: it’s not very often a full house can consist of twelve peop…
AhhGee presents the #AhhGeePodcastLive.
Ofsted inspections are generally not much fun.
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
Opera singer Ann Liebeck and Edinburgh pianist Guy Newbury will perform songs by Granados, Ginastera, de Falla, Villa Lobos and Lecuona.
Total sell-out 2012.
Summerhall’s steeply tiered Demonstration Room gives off the air of an amphitheatre, but its back wall houses very modern projections.
This celebrated international classical zheng performer makes her annual return to Edinburgh to ‘indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind’ (Xinhuanet.
Canterbury may have one of the world’s most famous cathedrals, but Manchester had the Hacienda.
Opera singer Ann Liebeck and Edinburgh pianist Guy Newbury will perform songs by Granados, Ginastera, de Falla, Villa Lobos and Lecuona.
The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast is a chat show that revels in the niche.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Soiled bodies writhe across across a primordial swamp in earthbound exploration, rising from time to time in contorted gestures.
Led by Barrowland Ballet’s Artistic Director Natasha Gilmore and playwright Robert Alan Evans (Pondlife McGurk, Sleeping Beauties), a lively workshop on adapting ideas for differ…
The Horne Section have been a staple of the Fringe for several years now, yet their popularity has not necessarily provided them with a renewed sense of creative purpose or origina…
Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling.
Environmentally friendly? Sustainable? More like greenie hogwash! Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn suggests we take off our Clarkson ear muffs and hear a different take.
Mason and Harper live in a trailer park in a corner of what was once a powerful city.
“Immersive theatre productions tend to operate in dynamically fluid settings, allowing the audience a more active, voyeuristic, and central role, while also individualizing their…
Al Murray’s One Man, One Guvnor is only in its preview stages, but already it is a spectacularly funny set.
Bored with Berkoff? Choking on Chekhov? Fed-up with Feydeau? “Don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’, don’t stand in the pouring rain.
Russell Kane sparks back into action with a new format, anchoring a podcast about various news stories from the last few days.
Three American stand-ups, and guests, bring American humour to our shores, and show us how to laugh… Sarah Tiana (Chelsea Lately, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson), Co…
Join playwright Clare Duffy for a practical workshop about the challenges of combining live interaction and scripted drama.
Forget the defendant, it is the cast of this excruciating production who should be in the dock.
This is an inventive telling of the best folk tales, ghost stories and family anecdotes from a region rich in history.
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.
Marking the start of Shanley’s career, this show presents an imaginative and diverse collection of six short plays exploring the the relationships we live and the situations we p…
With the huge success of The Avengers and the Batman trilogy, the return of the Amazing Spider-Man and Superman movies, and Captain America, Iron Man and Wolverine making the A-lis…
“I always had a good experience with nuns,” said Dan Coggins, who wrote the book, music and lyrics we all know as Nunsense to show us what nuns are “really like.
Famous comedian Russell Brand thinks you shouldn’t vote.
Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe…
“You don’t know what heckling is!” screams Michael Legge at a woman in the first row, cutting down her contention that the Northern-Irish comedian is lovely.
Thirty-one years ago, a girl was born somewhere in suburban America.
Michael Fabbri delivers an evening of too much information that lives up to his title.
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
In the bowels of Banshee Labyrinth lurk the most unlikely of creatures, and none more terrifying nor outlandish as Richard Tyrone.
John-Luke Roberts delivered his usual off-the-wall comic offerings in this enjoyable hour at the Voodoo Rooms.
Love, life, families, losing weight and things that make us happy.
Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour.
The boys of Tiffin School are in town and look set to make a huge impact with The Caddington Affair, one of two devised pieces presented by different groups of year 12 A Level st…
This is a rock-solid, totally refreshing naturalist drama performed by outstanding actors.
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle…
How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use.
Fringe favourite Sammy J thought it would be humorous to fly from Melbourne to Edinburgh, perform one show, then fly home.
With so much improvised comedy coming to Edinburgh every year, it’s important to create a formula for a show that allows it to stand out from the crowd.
“The Nobel prize, by canonising individuals, disguises the truth that they are all, in Newton’s famous phrase, standing ‘on giants’ shoulders’ and on each other’s as well.
Edinburgh Jews is an exhibition originally compiled by two students at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity.
Jesper Arin, who performs this one-man play, stood at the exit to the theatre as the audience left.
As a comedian, Robert Newman seems somewhat unqualified to espouse a new theory of evolution, especially a theory that is rejected by most scientists.
Paolo Scheriani, Italian theatre author, winner of several prizes, performs I am Sarah Kane - An Almost Perfect Life.
Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance.
Faith is based on the story of Imber, a village which had the misfortune to be located too near to a military base on Salisbury Plain.
“Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.
Éowyn Emerald and Dancers made a successful debut at last year’s Fringe and are back again this year with another varied programme of short dances.
Writer David Skeele’s reimagining of Electra for Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania’s theatre students had all the makings of something worth seeing.
Does originality exist? Are all creators thieves in disguise? The answer is no and yes (probably), at least according to Great Artists Steal, a new play by Seamus Collins.
Richard Gadd is a deeply disturbed young man.
A thrilling double: your chance to see dancers from Scottish Ballet on the Fringe and an exclusive cut of a brilliant dance piece by VTDance.
Davies is a dynamo and a wonder to behold on stage.
In this farcical one-hour romp through the troves of storybook tropes, Fringe sketch regulars Casual Violence treat the audience to a kids-show-for-adults style adventure into a wo…
The spoken content of this play, written and directed by Adam Tulloch, is minimal; the direction is bold and brave.
Imagine local talk radio teamed up with Inside the Actors Studio.
Short Stories - True Song Tales from the American Edge is an acoustic solo show from Kiya Heartwood, an award-winning American singer-songwriter.
Chris is 18 years old, gay, and in search of fun and attention.
Seamlessly shifting between a medley of characters at an alarmingly fast rate, Will Franken’s caustic satire at times verged on the unbalanced, crazed side of affairs, but beneat…
Angus Dunican doesn’t get out much.
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon.
“This is not The Rocky Horror Show stage production” - a significant point of clarification in the Fringe programme lest anyone might think that this is the real thing.
You’ve got to have a bit of a thick skin to go to Russell Hicks: Unprepared.
Lunchtime stand-up to warm up your chuckle muscles.
This is one for all the lads who have ever had girlfriends problems, all the lassies who have had to put up with boyfriends, and anyone who likes tea.
A genderless riot from a little old force to be reckoned with.
The hilarious Sid Singh talks about anything and everything in his life as Another American! Nothing is off limits and everything is honest and hilarious!
There is a pleasant buzz in the largest Free Fringe venue, the Three Sisters.
Two of LA’s gutsiest comedians - Tamer Kattan and Toby Muresianu - bring intelligent, hard-hitting laughs from the world’s favorite country to the Fringe after performing in 32 nat…
Before comedy Robert did 67 jobs in seven years, went to prison for a practical joke and wrote symphonies for his sock-puppet.
Spencer Brown covers the familiar territory of ‘kids do and say the funniest things’ in his offering at the Free Sisters, and this provides unspectacular, if gently amusing vie…
Alone on stage, with only a uniform, an old bed and a painted sky, Andy Daniel lays out the story of sixteen-year-old soldier Thomas Peaceful, in an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo�…
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
Alfie Brown’s persona is defined by a mix of nihilism and desperation, yet this time round he promised the audience that his misanthropic take on the world had cooled.
A video highlighting Tommy Rowson’s previous misdemeanours introduced the audience to this apologetic reprobate, and what follows is a self-examination into how he can refine his…
The stage is adorned with a pair of angel wings, a velvet couch and a large book covered in sparkles with ‘My Life’ adorned on the front.
Attention grabbing opener! Brief description of performers involved: Stephen Harvey (Perrier nominee), Marcus Garvey (Peep Show, Psychoville, Four Lions), Gareth Kane (What’s On St…
Frank Wurzinger’s Goodbye Günther takes the audience on a curious little journey through facing the inevitabilities of life and death, which provides ample amounts of gentle hum…
Al Lubel’s latest outing predominantely revolves around an obsession with his own name.
This is a show about poo.
What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally…
Despite his onstage charm, Marlon Davis could have done more to cover up for a set that contained predominantly weak material.
Eddie Pepitone is convinced that we’ve been consumed by the ‘gelato syndrome’, where coziness and contentment have shrouded the harsh reality of our petty existences.
During this peculiar hour, David Elms takes a different approach to the usual bravado of musical comedy in a consciously quiet, ungainly performance.
In the appropriately grand setting at Assembly Roxy, this adaptation of The Great Gatsby fuses modern music, simple but effective set design, exquisite dancing and decadent cost…
In Mr.
Back by popular demand! Even more untold stories from TMS! Henry Blofeld and Peter Baxter cordially invite you to join them on a trip down memory lane to discover fascinating untol…
They say ‘write about what you know’, so Irish comedian Michael Downey decided to write about being blue, because he’s experienced all its shades.
The atmosphere of this exhibition is a mixture of solemnity and heroism beautifully accompanied by the melancholic sound of bagpipes.
Ross Leslie and Chris Griffin are joined by Gareth Mutch for an hour of solid observational stand-up as part of the Free Fringe at the Beehive Inn.
American Impressionism: A New Vision runs throughout the entirety of the fringe and can provide a blissful escape from the flyering and madness of the Royal Mile.
There may be questions surrounding his historical accuracy, but there can be no denying that Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most fascinating and entertaining of Englis…
The NY Phil Biennial is meant as a forum for new music, but 11 days is not enough time to explore all the recent works worthy of attention.
This ensemble presents a program of works written in or for Prague in the late 18th century.
In what is becoming a summer tradition, this beloved troupe returns to Lincoln Center with four programs of new and classic repertory.
(performances start on June 12) Theater Breaking Through Barriers, a company devoted to producing works that help to advance artists with disabilities, always attracts an impressiv…
A former member of the ’90s sketch troupe the State, Mr.
New York City Ballet maintains its strength and vitality thanks to a seemingly endless stream of talent from the School of American Ballet, its affiliated training academy.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the break out of World War I, the conductor Leon Botstein and this ensemble present the program “Forged From Fire.
Critics and audiences agree, NY-based writer and stand-up comedian Michael Che is a star on the rise.
No more than 10 minutes each, Brighton Pub Plays are actually performed in the bar area of pubs.
A Beautiful Day in November on The Banks of The Greatest of The Great Lakes (written by Kate Benson, directed by Lee Sunday Evans) is one of three world premieres in rep at The N…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
A concert of British music to mark the 2014 centenary of the Great War and the impact of the conflict on heritage and culture.
Monologues are a difficult thing – too short and it’s easy to feel cheated out of admittance to a fully formed performance, but too long and it’s hard not to become apathet…
We can’t promise you won’t get wet! Super silliness, ridiculously funny, interaction and hot chocolate included! 2013 Latest Award Winners ‘Best Theatre Performance’, return wi…
TGE is a new music festival that showcases emerging artists from all over the world, and is aimed at both music fans & industry professionals.
This musical represents a massive achievement in many senses.
One of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers gives a recital that pays tribute to some of his composition mentors.
Darius Davies brings his critically-acclaimed HBÖ Special to Brighton for a series of intimate and uncensored gigs.
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.
A benefit of fund-raising concerts is the mingling of great performers.
3rd May: Shin Suzuma - piano. 10th May: Ellie Blackshaw - violin. 17th May: Sussex Flutes - Flute Quintet. 24th May: Raija Walker-Piano. 31st May: Ambrose Page - piano.
Beloved for his bouncy energy and animated style, Mr.
(previews start on May 12; opens on May 22) Do you want your play on white or honey wheat? The playwright Bess Wohl sets her Second Stage Uptown comic study of low-wage America beh…
American Ballet Theater kicks off its spring season with a gala on Monday night featuring excerpts from the full-length classics to come, including “Cinderella,” …
This superlative pianist is an insightful interpreter of a range of repertory.
This year Susan (News Quiz/QI) has written a show based on the life and times of Rosa Klebb.
This adventurous band of new-music specialists is joined by the Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza for the final installment of its 10th anniversary celebration of the Orchestra Unde…
(previews start on April 11; opens on April 24) Steven Cosson is the artistic director of the Civilians, a documentary drama troupe.
It was once thought that school productions of Shakespeare plays were for the enjoyment of supportive parents and few others.
Hailing from Shetland and Devon respectively, Ross Couper (fiddle) and Tom Oakes (guitar, flute) are a dynamic duo who incorporate many of the elements of traditional Scottish and …
One of the aspects of folk music that makes it so different from any other variety is the connection it has to history and tradition.
BBC 5 Live’s Richard Bacon presents his show from the BBC’s venue at the Edinburgh Festivals. Join him for big name guests and topical debate.
The pub quiz returns! Featuring The Pub Landlord’s new comedy character Barry Braveheart, there will be Scots trivia and stuffed guts to be won! In aid of CamKids.
Ask the average punter in HMV what jazz is and they’ll describe squalling saxophones, pulsating trumpets, and the white heat of constant improvisation in a smoky bar.
Come and savour the intimate soundworld of the Edinburgh Piano Duo in two consecutive afternoon recitals which will include Schubert’s mighty Grand Duo D812.
One of the most enigmatic acts from Scotland.
Welcome to the fast-paced world of London’s top female underground criminals on their biggest job yet, an international heist.
A Respectable Widow documents the beginning of the unlikely friendship between Annabelle Love, a respectable English widow, and Jim Dick, a working class Scottish employee of Annab…
Many readers will be familiar with the experience of almost falling asleep in a lecture theatre; it is probably less common for the urge to arise while a Greek tragedy is in full s…
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
Conversations Not Fit For The American Dinner Table features a variety of characters that you would definitely not want round as dinner guests.
Buried deep under Edinburgh, accessible only via a side street and past an inconveniently parked white van, Paradise in the Vault is the perfect venue for this chilling chamber ope…
As Deidre and Veronica awake on their wedding day, the action of this show takes place in a bedroom with conversation ranging from Deirdre’s love of Julie Andrews to Veronica’s ins…
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s more often than not a badly-played oboe.
Sold out Fringe 2012! This lovely show returns with the critically acclaimed From a Garden of Songs, RLS’s own songs, poems from a Child’s Garden of Verses and a performance of Ste…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Head of Drama at Trinity College London, John Gardyne does not lecture in the art of playwriting, yet he makes an engaging host for this one-hour workshop encouraging the craft.
On the eve of the 2014 independence referendum, singer Gill Bowman and broadcaster Mark Stephen use the songs and poems of our national poet to try and explore how Burns might have…
Sarah Kane was an explosively controversial playwright who suffered from depression, communicating worlds of psychological turmoil through incredibly disturbing theatre.
What is it with us and smallness? The Brits love it - being tiny but fierce.
As with any canon, the Great American Songbook - the name given to the most important and influential American popular music of the twentieth century - is difficult to nail down.
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Richard Wiseman’s Psychobabble feels like an assembly.
Best-selling author, psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman rummages around in your mind.
Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb.
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
The Bear Pit Comedy Podcast podcast is made up to bring you its legendary lunchtime chat show podcast featuring the most fantastic and incredible acts from this year’s Fringe.
Wonderfully dark and disturbing, Richard Gadd has come to Edinburgh’s Free Fringe not only to make his audience cry with laughter, but also to push the boundaries of physical com…
Two girls dressed in leopard print belong in what must be the most boring world possible and for one whole hour let us in on how they pass the time.
Part protest, part poetry, part party.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Stand-up and a dash of improv from Fat Kitten improv alumni James Ross and Steve Violich.
Legendary entertainer Quint Fontana brings his comeback show to Edinburgh.
Darius Davies… I’m sort of in love with him.
Rape is a crime against humanity, especially when used as a weapon of war.
For those who are not experts in Dickensian literature, Grated Expectations might well prove hard to understand.
In The Principle of Uncertainty we have a physics lecture on Quantum Mechanics containing live music with the premise that the only certainty is that nothing in the universe is cer…
Award-winning comedians Joshua Ross and Sunil Patel tell jokes about betrayals, microwaves and pants.
Another outing for put-upon mother-of-three Ruth Rich, Something Fishy charts an ill-fated school trip to Marrakech.
From the producers of the Secret Policeman’s Ball, Amnesty’s acclaimed comedy podcasts are back.
Although far from perfect, this is a pleasant and, at times, touching comedy about the stresses and strains of family life.
PhD student Carrie leads us through several case studies of female mental illness, spanning centuries and hitting quite close to home.
Chris Harcum is loud, brash, theatrical and oh so American.
Watching Three Women is immensely frustrating.
Thirteen-O’Clock, Parliament Square, London.
This darkly comedic two-hander plunges us straight into the aftermath of a murder in the Scottish Highlands.
Ruth Rich’s madcap scheming to avoid a diary clash fills this hour of light comedy at the Pleasance Courtyard.
As humble a turnout as it was, Paul Revill was very grateful and welcomed us warmly.
Michael Fabbri performs an hour of stand-up comedy.
Robert Golding, the sequel to Owen Thomas’ Richard Parker, walks the path from the ordinary to the unusual before tumbling into the chasm of bizarre.
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.
No wires - no script! A completely improvised 50s radio-play adventure, unique every day.
If you love a good story, then you’ll love this.
For fans of Richard Digance, his twenty-two show run at the Fringe is long overdue.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been framed and is now forced to share a cell with a prostitute and possible murderer, Lina.
‘Somewhere between Flight of the Conchords’ parody and Tim Minchin’s witty word-play lies home-grown talent Robert Taylor’ (Theatre Press).
Including some of the newest and brightest stars, you’ll be hard pressed not to enjoy having an early afternoon pint and listening to these entertaining, hilarious and new young …
Rarely has there been a version of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Jacques Brel is one of the most famous French singers of all time.
Based on Ettore Scola’s 1977 film Una Giornata Particolare, Working on a Special Day succinctly adapts a historical story of repressed feeling for the stage.
This is an absolutely charming and highly informative performance, made possible by the wonderful writer and historian Allan Foster and his accompanying Scottish folk singer, Andy …
‘Revealing, thought provoking and at times hilarious’ reads the flyer.
From Eastern Finland comes Mammoth which is most definitely an acquired taste.
‘I invented anger’ bellows Michael Legge, as soon as he comes on stage.
I Believe in Unicorns immediately invites us into its world.
I went into Anthropoetry not sure what to expect.
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist…
Michael Che’s show Cartoon Violence offers a little fresh perspective on current issues such as racism, bullying, sex, and the recession.
God Bless Liz Lochhead follows three failing actors who attempt to stage an adaptation of Tartuffe, 25 years after a disastrous tour of that production brought chaos to all their l…
To devotees of Test Match Special, the voice of Henry Blofeld – deep, resonant, quite improbably plummy – is iconic.
Jason Byrne is a rare breed of stand up comedian.
With so many positive and upbeat comedy shows out there, why not go against the grain? This is Michael J Dolan’s reasoning for his blatantly bleak show.
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
During the Fringe, a haven for ill equipped hastily prepared venues, it can be reassuring to witness a comedy show at a place dedicated to stand up all year round.
Previous visitors to the Scottish National Gallery will be familiar with Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls from the American Side, the only major work by this American artist featu…
This gig is a total surprise – just what the Fringe should be.
Tick…Tick…Boom! is a show created by Jonathan Larson (of RENT fame) centred around a promising musical theatre writer ‘Jon’, who is running out of time.
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters has an interesting premise.
Valvona & Crolla is a bit of a household name in Edinburgh, and that’s putting it mildly.
Richard Michael and Family draw from a great songbook indeed, but they can’t be accused of too much deference to their source material.
Every man in the audience stiffened as a pulsating phallus inflated on the screen in front of us at the start of the show.
Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work.
Early in his set Cuddly Loser Damion Larkin describes himself as ‘five foot seven and made of pies.
Jessica Almasy is compulsive viewing, much like the material she delivers in her solo performance, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope).
Dinner and a show: a winning combination.
There is a saying in Hollywood that the gun you see in the first scene will go off in the third.
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
This is the second year running that I have seen a Fringe set by Henning Wehn – and although the man is a brilliant stand-up, the common threads running through his material are …
Who am I? What price, fame? What is reality? These are just some of the inane issues dredged up to validate this otherwise empty narrative.
Satirical portraits of Adolf Hitler have been around since Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’, through ‘The Producers’, to the Mr T Experience’s ‘Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend’.
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
Dong Yi is a celebrated classical Chinese zheng soloist.
The title of Wondrous Flitting is a double reference: it stands for both the miraculous appearance in 24-year-old waster Sam’s house of the Holy House of Loreto, a medieval site of…
The self-proclaimed professors of ‘pop hermeneutics’ return in stunning form to the Udderbelly, revealing their miraculous insights into the world of music and mass-culture, li…
This year, Richard Herring is resurrecting his first ever one-man Fringe show, Christ On A Bike, which he performed in 2001.
War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle…
In this North London retelling of Bizet’s opera, our feisty titular heroine is caught between two men in a world of crime, sleaze, and skinny black jeans.
An evening dedicated to songs and music inspired by Stevenson and his writings, this one-off performance of the critically acclaimed CD ‘From a Garden of Songs’ was a rare trea…
If you are a fan of hilarious songs and impeccable singing then this is the show for you.
This venue has just one entry in the Fringe Festival programme and this covers 11 different events.
If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun …
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
Entering the theatre in the midst of a party it was clear that this was going to be an energetic play.
Within the House of Shadows, there is an explanation for cultural popularity that I found rather endearing.
There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Kids are a notoriously tough crowd.
Cowering away from the insistent drizzle under a table umbrella near the beer tent, my mood was not of the best when Special Ed and the Shortbus appeared in the entrance of the Spi…
Various media have opted for sex as the defining theme of this year’s Fringe, and a number of the shows I’ve been able to see are characterised by a clear-eyed recognition of the d…
Apollo/Dionysus (Parts I, II & II) is a highly thoughtful play that hurls an audience headlong into a discussion of how we should live our lives.
It’s hard to fault this set by Ed Byrne, although it’s very tempting to do so.
Brutality is hard to sustain onstage.
In this energetic operetta, The Tabard’s own in-house company Pulling Focus give us a bizarre romp through a blood-thirsty country club.
It’s often the simple ideas that are the best.
Revival! by Mairi Campbell and David Francis, the duo also known as ‘The Cast’, is a new companion piece to their previous Fringe outing The Red Earth.
Less a comedy show and more an inventive piece of storytelling, Michael Workman presents an immersive tale of love and freedom of speech.
While chaos and violence unravel outside, within the safety and comfort of a hospital ward two strangers meet for a blind date.
This picture-book musical follows a young orphan girl who casts off her mourning clothes and warms the hearts of those around her.
If your knowledge of Mongolian history is limited to Genghis Khan, or if you think that folk music is merely background music for washed-out hippies, then Anda Union are the perfec…
The big songs of stage and screen are being presented at the Laughing Horse Free Festival by the Cabaret Freaks.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
35MM is subtitled ‘a musical exhibition’.
Have you ever seen a man sweat through the back of a business suit? If that’s an experience in which your life is lacking, it’s one of many reasons why you might be interested in s…
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
‘Isn’t memory funny?’, comments Amy, one of the two main characters of DC Jackson’s My Romantic History.
It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood.
The witty and charming pair Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna give us a beat poetry rom-com ballad that, while not groundbreaking, at least treads old ground with the comfort and warmt…
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
French-Canadian drama Bashir Lazhar draws its tension from the point at which two forms of loneliness intersect – that of an Algerian immigrant trying to make his way in a new wo…
Mr McFall’s Chamber highlight an integral part of Scottish culture, proving there’s far more to folk music than twee tunes and the Braveheart soundtrack.
Thank goodness for the British public’s ability to laugh at itself, otherwise the soggy weather might prove too much when it starts lapping at our ankles.
When it comes to unusual instruments, the harp probably is somewhere in the top 5.
This new and contemporary chamber opera from Royal Opera House composer Martin Ward and librettist Phil Porter of the RSC tells the story of Farquar Quimpugh, a world-renowned expe…
As Piers Fawcett lies ill in hospital suffering from AIDS, he receives a visit from his best friend Tom.
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
Henning Wehn might be the most bizarre stand-up comedian I have ever seen, but I think that’s intentional.
They say that two heads are better than one, and two bodies certainly are in this poignant two-part interpretation of Deborah Hay’s score I Think Not performed by two different sol…
In this offering from the American High School Musical Theatre Festival, Shakespeare’s text is revamped into a slick news room in a specially commissioned work from Chris Wynters…
Under The Ladder is a piece of theatre that works on many levels, yet is seemingly based on a simple concept.
After winning last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell Kane’s marriage fell apart, he had a breakdown, and didn’t perform for a considerable part of the year.
Misdirected sexual attraction is the plate of the day from the Cambridge University Opera Society.
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
Russell Howard has been playing to packed houses down at the Pleasance Courtyard with his show Wandering.
Adapted from a 1990s German play by David Geiselmann, this student production is a thrilling race through the cruelty and aggression underlying social etiquette.
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
A cast of eight reinterpret The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 19th century short story, which is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician…
Tim Rose and Andy Philip are two fantastic guitarists.
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
Thank goodness they didn’t call it Greenday: The Musical, because if they had, they wouldn’t have got half the audience they did.
Maybe it was lack of sleep.
Picture Chris Addison in your mind for a minute.
Call me strange, but watching this show twice (in English and in Japanese) has been my most fascinating theatre experience in a long time.
Let me start by suggesting that people of a nervous disposition need not read this review, since you sure as anything won’t enjoy the show.
In the week that a new date for the film version of F.
I have a confession to make: until recently, I’d never been to the circus.
There are 21 Richard Thompsons listed in Wikipedia, including a Conservative baronet, a racing driver and a Warner Bros animator.
Richard Herring returns to Edinburgh with his 21st show in 15 years.
David Egan’s Pork is an interesting stab at an interesting topic; set in a future dystopia where pigs live side by side with feral humans in a sinister charitable enclave known onl…
Previous reviewers have compared Lach to Woody Allen and Woody Guthrie, and while these two are good reference points I’d like to start by pointing out just how much he looks, and …
In a blank-canvas office, the corporate machine squeezes one last drop of inspiration from two ad-men at the end of their tether.
‘Ooh, he were good, that Mercutio! Shame he had to die, really.
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
Although his writing is poetry as much as philosophy, there is a danger that any performance of a work by Albert Camus might neglect the more intriguingly human aspects of his lite…
Sovereign debt, bad credit, riots and scandals – the Euro, and the sky, is falling.
Euna Park produced an excellent performance in St.
Omigod, I so can’t believe I just saw that! Mod is a brash American import exploring teenage angst amid Beatle-mania as the infamous group set out on their tour of the States.
The classic tale that is Hamlet has been reborn into a contemporary musical and it tries to be a lively fun-filled show.
‘There’s some room down here if you fancy a dance,’ fiddler John McCusker encouraged vainly during last night’s one-night-only concert of traditional and new Irish music, h…
Last year, Wednesday by Ian Winterton was one of my picks of the Fringe.
When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes…
Musical comedy is a risky business.
I had never been to a strip club before.
I just saw The Great Puppet Horn and boy do I need to catch my breath.
There’s a comedy show at this year’s Fringe entitled All Young People Are C*nts.
The Gillis Centre, situated in the leafy Grange, is far away from the hustle and bustle of the Fringe and its blizzard of proffered leaflets.
The wacky trio from The Thistle Creek Thespian Society roll into the old saloon at Cactus Gulch, New Mexico, in 1889 to entertain Mayor Maynot and the apparently simple folk of the…
Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
Sadly displaced from their usual venue, the St Andrew’s and St George’s West festival-within-the-festival have set themselves up in Royal Overseas House.
This egg-cellent production of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s Olivier award-winning family musical extravaganza is certainly something to quack about.
The best often start out young.
This was a very entertaining start to a Sunday from a very experienced and polished performer.
Deep in the bowels of the Barbican lies a show which defies categorisation.
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
‘Colour and light’ exclaims Georges, and this production takes that seriously.
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Having seen the Janus Theatre Company productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, perhaps my expectations were simply too high for Mephistopheles …
Say what you like about the show, the title doesn’t attempt to mislead you.
Children say the funniest things, but the words they say sound even funnier when adults speak them; that is what Monkey Bars sets out to prove.
Once in awhile the gods in comedy heaven will align the stars and deliver us a sublime female duo to embrace.
A typical all-American girl with a wholly British attitude, fiery redhead Laura Levites is in a constantly ever changing love/hate relationship with both countries.
This brilliant one man show covers the entire, short life of Tommo Peaceful, from starting school until his execution by firing squad in the First World War, at the age of around s…
This production is split into two parts of thirty minutes each.
The UK loves a good soap opera.
If you’ve ever seen or read JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls you’ll be broadly familiar with the message of UnWish Theatre’s Carnivale, a dinner party with a difference where the …
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
Blues can be a difficult act to pull off.
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
Adapted from Richard Milward’s 2006 novel, Apples is a slice of teen life in all its grottiness, expanded to cartoonish proportions from a starting point of Northern reality.
It is a great honour for any composer to have their work cherry-picked by fans and turned into a revue.
Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov…
Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war.
It’s only when you look back at your childhood books and films that you realise how many of them are ripe for satire.
Reuben Johnson’s The Meeting commands a strong central performance by Reuben Johnson, speaking the lines of Reuben Johnson under the keen directorial eye of Reuben Johnson.
I actually feel guilty about disliking this play so much.
The A-level drama students of St Marylebone CE School in London give this frothy oldie a new lease of life.
It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t…
‘I wuv you with the intensity of a thousand suns,’ yells Will (Jack Swain) in Misshapen Theatre’s Phillipa And Will Are Now In A Relationship, a romantic comedy told entirely throu…
A solitary woman is waiting for her husband to return from home.
Welsh-born playwright Owen Thomas’ newest play, Richard Parker, explores coincidence – is our life really a series of coincidences, or are they just products of us over-analysi…
This is a proper throw back.
There are places which have unquestionable resonance.
The careers of all 43 Presidents of the USA, from George Washington to George Bush, covered in an hour and a half.
There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the…
Some would say the journey is more important than the destination, but this rule doesn’t apply to 19;29’s Threshold, a choose-your-own-adventure psychodrama presenting the implosio…
Most comedy shows, like most reviews, come with some kind of inbuilt narrative, some trajectory from A to B that allows the performer to hook on their best jokes, anecdotes and obs…
When I was little I had a Jackanory audio tape which I would listen to as I fell asleep.
If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Have you seen that Jason Robert Brown musical where the smart Jewish guy falls for the neurotic Irish Catholic girl? Despite being the premise of three of his shows to my mind, in …
This show suffers from a major conceptual problem.
In the Gilded Balloon’s Dining Room the twinned stand up sets of Australian comics Michael Workman and Tommy Little provided some wonderfully imaginative laughs, a pleasing contr…
Dan Wright, with his highly controversial and misleading title, attempts to lure all the Whacko Jacko conspirators under one roof and, Guy Fawkes-like, burn them all down with a fi…
The idea of searching for a lost parent is particularly fertile territory.
There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an…
When in the first ten minutes of the show there have already been several jokes about vaginas and a song essentially about paedophilia, it quickly dawns that few sacred cows are go…
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
The memories of two people, Merridy and her father, are explored in a new devised piece, but the American company lagom’s work left me feeling confused about its narrative aims a…
This one-off concert, part of a series from St Andrew’s and St George’s West, was held in the Royal Overseas League in a room cooled to such an extent that the air conditioning…
This was my first venture over to C eca, a venue with a reputation amongst some as being out of the way.
Visiting the theatre to watch a piece advertised as ‘the unstageable play’, youre about to see either a well-thought-out staging of a lost classic or an arrogant ensemble perform…
I went into Sex Ed! a little wary.
There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them.
When is a musical not a musical? When it’s a sung play, of course.
The stunning, young, American-born mezzo-soprano opera singer Andrea Baker was joined for the first time on stage recently by her uncle Newman Taylor Baker, the percussionist and c…
‘I’m Withered Hand, and these are my friends’, announces Dan Willson as his three-piece backing band join him on the stage of the Electric Circus.
The title of this show hides nothing about its content, as bubbly Northerner Tom Wrigglesworth recounts his tales of woe and confusion on the 10.
Multitasking can be very difficult: Gerald Ford was famously said to not be able to walk and chew gum.
In a dystopian future society where all homosexuals are ‘rehabilitated’ by being forced to have straight sex in a sinister hostel, one man and one woman do a lot of shouting in Rib…
The Mandrake charts familiar territory for a Renaissance city comedy cuckoldry, trickery, and professional stereotypes but as might be expected from a play by Machiavelli, th…
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
My main memory of French lessons is struggling to remember lists of increasingly bizarre irregular verbs, a recollection many will, sadly, find familiar.
Aces High promise a radical, multimedia, re-gendered re-imagination of The Tempest, but deliver a bit of a damp squib, something more like a light drizzle or a power shower when th…
There once was a skinny redhead who wanted to sing in Les Miserables.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, with its ancient monuments, imposing churches and symmetrical townhouses.
A funeral sees the coming together of three siblings for their estranged father’s send-off, but this new musical is not really about death - it is about life and the suppressed t…
Comedy is subjective a cliché the truth of which I’d never truly experienced before seeing Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists.
More and more churches are using Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival as a window for their work.
Jamie Demetriou was in the Bristol Review last year at the Fringe and now returns to go solo in ‘Jamie Demetriou’s Peoples Day’, his new show in which he showcases just some …
The songs of Belgian-born chanteur Jacques Brel are renowned for their colourful imagery and dramatic storytelling.
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
Callum and Diana work in Educational Children’s theatre.
Flowers are not only part and parcel of music lyrics, but also the pretty packaging on top.
With so much excellent improvisation at the Fringe, it must be difficult to compete.
For the first ten minutes of Ben Okri’s the Comic Destiny, I sat there entirely unsure about what was going on.
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.
Guilt and Shame is a sketch show about the failure of a sketch show, or more specifically its utter breakdown.
Arthur, a doctor sheltering in a besieged city, wants to do ‘something useful.
In the world of organs, the Frobenius brand is king.
Are you back for more Dick, or are you inexperienced in these areas? Of course I’m referring to the madcap world of adult panto at the Leicester Square Theatre.
These are three astonishingly talented musicians; the acclaim surrounding them all is justified.
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Robert Browning’s birth, and Julian Lopez-Morillas solo performance honours the occasion with a presentation depicting one of the greatest roman…
What a charming narrative – a mountain man cons a young lady into marital servitude, at which point his six younger brothers steal six other women, holding them captive over wint…
The Prince and the Pauper has long been a staple of children’s bedtimes so the cast from Newman’s Art College had to satisfy not only children’s expectations but their parent…
Andrianna Smela and her accompanist Maria Dessena are classically trained musicians playing cabaret music, and my main gripe with this programme of the songs of Kurt Weill and othe…
This bitter-sweet musical errs self-consciously on the side of the sweet, providing a Rom Com where everything seems to go right.
German comedian Michael Mittermeier makes his début at the Fringe with a sell-out show, packed into an unfairly tiny venue.
Show 1 of Dance Bases 2006 Fringe performances consists of four separate pieces by Iskandar Dance Company, Karl Jay-Lewin Company, Michael Popper and the Curve Foundation respect…
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
What can a reviewer say about a musical that’s different every night? By extension, what can a reviewer say about any show, since surely no two performances are the same? If you�…
It’s 2012, we are in a field, I’ve forgotten my tent, Hunters and pac-a-mac, but who cares; it’s Music In a Field with Jonni Music, the Great(ish) and most bizarre music fest…
Through Kane’s discussion of procreation, something great is indeed born, and that is great comedy.
Tiny Revolutions, the podcast that asks whether comedy can be a force for social change, comes to Edinburgh for a Fringe special.
This young string quartet, founded in 2018, is borne out of the friendship of four former students at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris.
Eddie Izzard invites you to his brand-new work-in-progress reading/performance of Charles Dickens’ classic epic Great Expectations.
Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring.
Schubert Der TaucherMahler Selection from Des Knaben WunderhornStrauss Three Lieder from Op 87 Mahler Selection from Rückert-Lieder Powerhouse German baritone Michael Volle …
One of Australia’s most exciting new comedians is coming to Edinburgh! You might know Michael Shafar from his debut special (A)Live on Amazon Prime or be one of the 70+ million peo…
A world class voice and virtuosic musicians seamlessly combine the worlds of alternative pop and masterful baroque.
Ed Saunders-Lee writes about the research and background to creating his solo show, I Am Yours Sincerely, on the life of his step-grandfather, Major John Cox MC.
Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too
Gabriele Uboldi write about Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about...
Submissions are now open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024
Brendan Shelly talks about Ageless Arts' inaugural production, Porridge Boy at the Greenwich Theatre .
Making his Edinburgh Fringe debut, Michael Kunze talks with Katerina Partolina Schwartz about his show - Infinity Mirror - his character – Mitch Coony - and the nature of comedy ...
We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play.
Richard Beck met up with Edward Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre.
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
We talk to Ellie Jones and some of the cast about her production of Animal Farm for BYMT.
Barry McStay tells us about his experience of writing and revising his play, Breeding
We talk to Lama Alfard about her career in comedy.
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
We interview the director and cast of Sergio Blanco's When You Pass Over My Tomb at the Arcola Theatre.
EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens
We interview Gareth Watkins about his exciting new play The Gentleman of Shallot.
Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe.
St Martin's-in-the-Fields announces it Christmas celebrations.
Argentine dance sensation Malevo perform at the Peacock Thatre.
This week The Loaf by Alan Booty opens at The Bridge House Theatre in Penge, SE20. We spoke to him about his background, the play and its development.
The Bridge House Theatre, Penge announces its autumn/winter programme.
Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2024 is now open for declarations of interest and grant application
VAULT Festival 2024 will not go ahead.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
We reunited Lithuanian writer, Gintare Parulyte and Croatian-American performer Kristin Winters to talk online about the one-woman show, Lovefool, they have created and are now bri...
Georgie Carroll talks to us about her debut show, Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Claire Woolner, the LA-based absurdist comedian, performance artist and surrealist clown, talks about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe
We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks.
Nell Bailey, Artistic Director of November Theatre talks about the company's new play, Pitch at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We invited playwright Scott Organ to tell us about 17 Minutes at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mervyn Stutter talks to us about his 31st year at the Fringe, how things have changed and his show, Pick of the Fringe
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
We asked Charlotte Anne-Tilley to reflect upon her journey to becoming an actor/writer prior to opening with her show Almost Adult at the Edinburgh Fringe.
We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Ed Edwards gives some observations loosely connected to his new play England & Son at this year's Edinburgh Fringe
Chris Grace is performing in three shows this Fringe: Chris Grace As Scarlett Johannson; Shamilton and Baby Wants Candy all at Assembly George Square.
Paige Wilhide performs for the first time outside of the USA with her show Breakup Addict at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Established spoken word performer Jenny Foulds talks about her show, Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human at the Edinburgh Fringe nd her life so far.
I met up with Playwright/Actor Will Leckie, Director Zoë Morris and the cast to talk about their play, Crash and Burn at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
We talked with Liz Toonkel about her show, Magic for Animals, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Quebec clowns Rémi Jacques and Jean-Félix Bélanger talk about their art ahead of their show, Brotipo, opeining at the Edinburgh Fringe
Anu Vaidyanathan talks about her show, Blimp, at the Edinburgh Fringe and the many influences on her life and achievements.
We talked to Phil Green about his background and his show, Four Weddings & A Breakdown at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks with director Lily Wolff, who is bringing Mrs President to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Richard Beck speaks to Lottie Walker about her Edinburgh Fringe play Chopped Liver and Unions, celebrating one of the early pioneers of women union leaders, the Ukranian Jewish...
Kevin Quantum talks about the science and magic that combine to make his show, Momentum.
John Lampe talks about turning eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski into the subject his musical The TUNEabomber that premiers at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews US comedian Maggie Widdoes about her Tweets and forthcoming show Stay Big & Go Get 'Em at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, heads to Birmingham to meet, football mascot Bordesley (pictured), the newly-elected Leader of the Council and the team who created him for Stan'...
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews Noah McCreadie, director of Getaway/Runaway.
The East London Shakespeare Festival (16 June - 13 Aug) promises a ‘summer of partying and love’ and a production of Romeo and Juliet that is ‘riotous and atmospheric’.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck
In this Valentine's Special we talk to comedian Matt Hoss about what would be on his Valentine's playlist, how to book a tour after Edinburgh Fringe and what to get a vegan for Val...
Kate meets the folks behind the Army@TheFringe and finds out more about this unique venue.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
The final day! Richard's alcohol-fueled quest to find Edinburgh's best bar staff ends up at WestRoom, where he found Sam Leishman, a 20 year old Guinness drinker with a passion for...
Richard didn't stumble far from yesterday's bar, Foundry 39, as just a few yards up Charlotte Lane he fell into Sygn, a trendy retro-style cocktail bar & diner where Edinburgh Bars...
Tucked on the corner of Queensferry Street and Charlotte Lane you'll find the ultra-hip bar and eatery, Foundry 39.
Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene.
The Army has set up camp for the first time at the Fringe and is stationed with Summerhall in its own premises.
In the heart of the Old Town, Cabaret Voltaire is a legendary live music venue in the vaults beneath North Bridge.
Back in 1947 the founders of the Edinburgh International Festival could hardly have imagined what their legacy would be.
The Three Sisters – renamed the Free Sisters during the Fringe – has long been a festival hub and a jewel in the crown of the Free Festival.
Just around the corner from the iconic Greyfriar's Bobby you'll find the Oz Bar, and that's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Erik Stenersen.
Edinburgh is Festival City for good reason, and amongst all the theatre, comedy, books and arts there's even a Scottish Gin Festival.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Formerly a parsonage, Cloisters Bar is a uniquely traditional Edinburgh pub.
Just off the Royal Mile and Cowgate you'll find a craft beer shop and bar called the Salt Horse.
The Heads & Tales bar is the home of Edinburgh Gin, and it's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Tomas Germanavicius, a Lithuanian who's a dab hand at mixing up a c...
Richard's headed over to Leith to the eclectic bar that is The Mousetrap where he finds today's Edinburgh Barstar, Jay Weeks.
Writer and actor Milly Thomas is best known in the theatre world for her 2016 play Clickbait and for writing an episode of Clique on BBC Three.
Richard is exploring Edinburgh's East End today to discover the Barstar of the Day at The Newsroom, where Glaswegian Molly McCluskey is making plans on photography while sipping a ...
Richard's headed south to Clerk Street where at the unique Dog House bar he's discovered today's Edinburgh Barstar, Montse Pearce, a Spanish-born artist with good taste in whisky.
Just off George Street you'll find the Thistle Street Bar (the TSB as it's affectionally known).
An authentic Tiki bar in the New Town? Richard popped on his hula skirt and hotfooted over to the Auld Reekie Tiki Bar to meet today's Edinburgh Barstar - Donald McGhie, former ban...
Hidden away in the Old Town on Advocates Close you'll find The Devil's Advocate, and if you're lucky today's Edinburgh Barstar will also be on shift.
It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill.
Richard's in one of Edinburgh's most unique bars today to meet Ross Bryant, co-owner of Bryant & Mack Private Detectives on Rose Street North Lane.
Richard is still in New Town, but with great bar staff like Robbie Johnston at Nightcap - why would you want to leave? Nightcap might be a relatively new addition to the Edinburgh...
Richard's in New Town today to meet our Edinburgh Barstar of the Day, the fabulously hirsute Kyle Jamieson who takes care of his punters at Panda and Sons on Queen Street.
Richard takes us just a few steps from Princes Street today for the discovery of Hoot The Redeemer and the wonderful Sarah Urwin serving cocktails.
Richard ventures over to Broughton Street Lane to the Outhouse where today's EdFringe Barstar is Cordelia Toennies from Germany, who studied drama in Scotland and wants to move to ...
In a sea of celebrities, we chat to the people who really matter - the people serving us a drink. Today we find out a little more about Ben Howard at the Abattoir Bar.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
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.
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant has today announced the programme for maliphantworks, featuring world-renowned collaborators and works spanning his hugely...
A capella is something of a phenomenon at the Edinburgh Fringe.
What do we need to nourish ourselves? Is love enough? Can we definitively say that Nandos are the kings of fast food? Such questions and more are explored in the invigorating new p...
Andrew Blair and Ross McCleary are Edinburgh-local writers and collaborators.
Follow comic Clare Plested on an adventure in alcoholism as this year's she's agreed to bring us Cocktail of the Day. For the debut, it's a specially invented tipple at Ciao Roma.
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...
Rona Munro is an award-winning Scottish writer for theatre, television and radio.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe...
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry.
In their companion piece to 2013’s Fringe First Award-winning Dark Vanilla Jungle, writer Philip Ridley and director David Mercatali tell the story of Donny, a boy who has commit...
Andrew Blair gives Broadway Baby a taste of his spoken-word show This is Poetry with Ross McCleary, an exploration of fictional Edinburgh not at all based on the film Troll 2.
Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...
Randy Ross, an erotica-writer, has come to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to put on his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, a tale of a never-married hypochondriac, who t...