A new Jazz musical based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”What does it take for a woman to make it in a man’s world?Meet Vy, a talented songwriter looking to make it big in …
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
THE ONLY UK TOURING SHOW DEDICATED TO THE MAESTRO AND LEGEND- BARRY WHITE! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Will…
The only UK touring show dedicated to the maestro and legend - Barry White! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Wil…
The five star musical that shook 2019 is back! “One of the strongest shows the Royal Court has produced” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Liverpool Echo &…
The five star musical that shook 2019 is back! “One of the strongest shows the Royal Court has produced” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Liverpool Echo &…
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual.
Patrick Moore is a total Mamas’ Boy.
‘As if Debussy and Sufjan Stevens had a baby, and left her in the forest to be raised by Björk’ (Audience Review).
Alexa, Play, a comedy, follows the weekly meetings of Alexas Anonymous, a support group run by one very motivated Alexa.
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.
Orange Claw Hammer, following their triumphant appearance at the Zappanale Festival in Germany, continue to rework the music of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band for the 21st ce…
We have thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the US, but we’re particularly at home on the Fringe.
The show that turns smack talk into an art form.
16-year-old Brit School pianist, guitarist and singer.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
Welcome to Play-AI, where comedy and innovation collide in a chaos of creativity! Immerse yourself in a truly unique experience as our AI generates the script for the evening righ…
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…
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…
Occult illusionist David Alnwick investigates the true legend of Dracula.
Agatha Mystery’s The Rat-Trap makes its Fringe debut! But will it be curtains for the show when an actor is gruesomely murdered? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect ret…
Dolly’s forlorn.
How is it possible: we all watch this, we all agree, we all shake our heads, yet we all get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again? Matteo and Reggie, fuelled by John’s sugge…
Three agents are given a vital mission.
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote, returns to the Fringe with his hilarious and moving one-man show: a deep dive into the enduring appeal…
A powerful, provocative and funny new play by Nancy Hamada about love, loss and America’s twisted obsession with guns.
If you took every thought you’ve ever had about your life, every comedy sketch you’d ever seen and the vast, inky blackness of space and put them all into a blender: you’d pr…
A young writer is forced to face Death, his ego and his dying, critical mother after getting stuck in a play of his own creation.
Award-winning Becky Fury (her real name) investigates the challenging identity that is being British-ish.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
We are proud to present the group show of Ukrainian artists.
Cal Counters feels wasted in his hometown of Letterville.
Gareth’s desperately trying to be a modern man, but it isn’t easy.
Rosie and Hugh the Hedgehog are best friends.
Winner: 2023 Best Theatre Award.
At dawn, the nation of the Gummy Bears declares war against the nation of the Dinosaurs.
‘Being President of a footy club is pretty straightforward, right? Sign the best players, sell more beer, and try not to burn it all to the ground!’ A loud, obnoxious and darkly h…
Tupac never died.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award winning plays Jesus, Jane Mother and Me, and Heroin(e) for Breakfast.
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 …
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is set to take the roof off The Other Palace this summer.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Inspired by noughties cartoons such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragonball-Z, Battle Counters! is a sugar rush of a two-hander.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
IS LONDON READY FOR SLAVE PLAY?At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well.
At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well.
They say love is the glue that holds family together.
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
Great Britons starts with pomp and ceremony music setting the scene with a little row of Union Jack flags hung against a black backdrop.
Who makes the art that we love? And why do they do it? Why do white women keep making one woman plays? Is doing drugs actually cool? Who will tell annoying people to STFU? Kitsch …
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…
Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the ‘greatest British sitcom of all time’ (Radio Times) is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese a…
Dare you let him come inside your mind? Magic Mike (the magician, not the stripper), Blackpool’s least favourite son and Alakazammy award winner for most innovative based animal i…
Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning.
‘The Greatest Play Of All Time’ tells the story of 1&2, characters in the mind of a Writer trying to create a career defining play.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
The protagonist of Matthew Howell and Jack Michael Stacey’s new comedy farce almost says,“The name’s Blonde, Jane Blonde”.
When all of the studios in Hollywood reject his newest script, a frustrated screenwriter invites you, an audience of independent financiers, to a one-night-only presentation of… …
It’s Christmas Eve 2009: seven years into the world-famous boy band’s indefinite “hiatus”, *NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick has until midnight to make a wish that could change his life f…
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ returning to The Hen & Chickens Theatre, playing from Thursday 30th November until Saturday 2nd December at 19:30.
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 …
Irina takes erotic photos of average looking men.
As the Modern Country Music craze continues to spread across the globe, ‘Nashville At Heart’ is a show that celebrates the music of some of modern country mu…
Battle Cry is a solo play by Matt Fox, based on the true story of a former soldier, Adam, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The cult classic Bat Boy: The Musical descends on the London Palladium for a Halloween concert with Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Heathers) appearing as fans have never seen …
Ireland's first freestyle pole championship This Freestyle competition is different in the sense that it is held in 4 rounds - Each round will be won by knock …
AMENDMENTS: A PLAY ON WORDSHas ‘political correctness’ gone mad? Is censorship overshadowing common sense? Or is it vital to protect vulnerable people against prejudice?Meet Kennet…
‘this is not a play about ophelia (a play about ophelia)’ is a groundbreaking production that seamlessly blends new writing with text from Shakespeare’s much beloved classic …
This is the electric, funny and raw autobiographical debut by Declan Bennett.
Kim is having one of those days.
Roy’s Joys by Twyla Tharp This silky, sultry work embodies the spontaneity of the 1940s and 50s jazz soundtrack by Roy Eldridge.
Strategic Love Play offers a tragic and often hilarious mirror to the fears and hopes of the vast majority of us who harbour a fear of dying alone.
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.
This play comes from a fresh writer who is so fresh, he’s writing jokes that most writers would think were TOO silly.
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…
Do you like to argue? Well, I disagree to whatever you just said.
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
Bryony’s done with clowning.
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…
Many moons ago, a superhero of a different kind ruled the Pacific.
An avid fan of Davis, Colin Steele is the master when it comes to paying homage to musical legends.
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
When a young Prince is confronted with the death of his father he must now become the leader and man he always dreamt of being and bring forth his family’s legacy into new and enli…
When a young Prince is confronted with the death of his father he must now become the leader and man he always dreamt of being and bring forth his family’s legacy into new and enli…
Tim Benzie, the acclaimed creator and host of Solve Along A Murder She Wrote presents a new one-man show: a hilarious and moving exploration of the enduring appeal of murder myster…
Lesbian actor Kate struggles to create a self-tape audition as Virginia Woolf, revealing that she is frozen in the midst of running away from her healthy relationship.
Join Sam, a chronically online twentysomething, at the airport in Terminal, directed by Jett Fink and starring Samantha Vita.
Good Morrow, I am sure one has been made aware of the Obviously Very Sad news.
Good Morrow, I am sure one has been made aware of the Obviously Very Sad news.
The 1990s, when house music exploded! This is a gripping and immersive stage adaptation of excerpts from the cult book Cola Boy.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ is the leading question in the run up to this visceral production of a show where we take a unique journey into the …
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…
The show that turns smack talk into an art form.
Insert Laughter Here present Spin-a-Play! In this completely improvised comedy show, you will be invited to suggest genres for a “brand new” play to be made up on the spot by the …
Insert Laughter Here present Spin-a-Play! In this completely improvised comedy show, you will be invited to suggest genres for a “brand new” play to be made up on the spot by the …
Sketch duos Rompers and Cowtools present a split hour of sketch comedy.
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
Preaching the word to thousands in football stadiums and evangelising undercover in China, amidst 30 years of door-knocking, and all the while the sound of sexuality was knocking l…
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
It is genuinely difficult to keep track of all the wellness tips that you’re supposed to follow to have a healthy body and mind.
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…
From the Producers of I, Sniper (2018) and Chaika (2010).
Occult Illusionist David Alnwick investigates the true legend of Dracula.
A legendary detective killed aboard a famous train – but who had locomotive for murder? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect return with a new hilarious interactive murd…
On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story.
A silly solve-a-long mystery, this is for anyone who wishes their Agatha Christie murders were packed with a few more puns.
Okay, let’s start at the beginning.
The dog’s gone! Jen plays six sinful characters who seek him.
It’s a Boy? is from the wildly creative comic mind of Ben Hodge, Liverpool Echo’s Top 30 under 30 and winner of Into Film Documentary of the Year 2020.
Pianist Brian Kellock and trumpeter Colin Steele are amongst Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians.
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.
Welcome to the world of Meat Boy, a tale of mayhem, mystery and meat.
Surviving the streets of Coventry in his NAF NAF jacket, discovering the gay scene in 90s Soho, exploring the lonely aisles of Hobbycraft, Declan Bennett’s electric, funny and raw …
This is a strange one.
American Boy is a stand-up comedy show about immigrant guilt, gentrified Middle Eastern food, and Barbie.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
In 1886, following the death of her husband and child, Sarah Winchester purchased an unfinished farmhouse near San Francisco.
Get on the Lash! Just in time for last orders.
Dom Chambers’ unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage.
A Christmas Carol meets It’s A Wonderful Life meets.
“This is not a play,” we’re told.
So they’ve both swiped right.
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…
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian are at The Hope Theatre to present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters! The show’s prot…
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian are at The Hope Theatre to present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters! The show’s prot…
Following the success of their podcast Real Album Reviews, John and Christian present their favourite childhood TV show: Battle Counters!The show's protagonist, a boy called …
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
“We’ve got another 10 minutes before shit really hits the fan.
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play 1986.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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…
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
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 …
Ben Hodge winner of INTO film best documentary 2020 debuts his first live one-man stage show exploring themes of gender expression and trans masculinity in relation to growing up i…
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
Ben Hodge winner of INTO film best documentary 2020 debuts his first live one-man stage show exploring themes of gender expression and trans masculinity in relation to growing up i…
Snake Boy was raised for 18 years by a family of red-bellies in the Australian Outback.
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…
Northern Ballet’s sell-out sensation is back – get ready for the most glamorous party in town.
Lorry Boy is a live interactive installation performance piece.
Lorry Boy is a live interactive installation performance piece.
You want a blurb? I’ll give you a blurb right now.
You want a blurb? I’ll give you a blurb right now.
Following a critically acclaimed run in New York City, the american vicarious’ radically staged production of the historic debate between James Baldwin and William F.
What’s the only thing proven to change the world? That’s right: issue-led fringe theatre.
‘There’s nothing gentle about what i’m feeling’ Life’s moving too fast, and Sylvie’s doing all she can to keep up.
On 25th February 2023, a remarkable event will begin in London’s West End.
A new political satire transfers to The Other Palace.
What is love? It’s a mystery.
Penny and Anthony were once an item, but things went pear-shaped and they broke up.
Musical comedian Orlando Gibbs (MCA Finals 2021, 2022, 2Northdown Semi-Finalist 2021) sings and chats about the little things in life.
Comedian Harry Wright develops their hour Smalltown Boy, which was due to appear at VAULT Festival last year.
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…
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 solo show exploring the formative years of Phil Lynott.
Penny and Anthony were once an item, but things went pear-shaped a year ago and they separated.
A comedy improv special! “Whose Line Is It Anyway” type games & scenes followed by an improvised play-all inspired from audience suggestions “Give them their own TV show” The Me…
Benny Bonanza: Blue Brisbane Boy is the debut Fringe show for Australia’s best poet you’ve never heard of! From the creator of the Fringe gem Doo Wop Art Flop – Pay what you want…
Magic, Mystery and Mayhem is the debut show for comedy magic double act O’Leary and Meadows, and it is exactly as the title suggests - full of amazing magic, mysterious mind readin…
Magic, Mystery and Mayhem is the debut show for comedy magic double act O’Leary and Meadows, and it is exactly as the title suggests - full of amazing magic, mysterious mind readin…
One of The Guardian’s top five shows of 2021 returns for a limited run! Join The Duchess of Canvey on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart…
Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather …
Sirqus Alfon has attracted international attention for its innovative and interactive approach to merging technology, music, performance and the human body.
It’s the summer of 2017.
It’s the summer of 2017.
Discover Edinburgh’s Little Ireland in this filmic exploration of the community through traditional music.
In this one-person show, Clive does everything to impress people.
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…
Imagine having a passion, a calling, being so good and in love with something you wanted to do it forever – that was me as a child when it came to drumming but sadly it wasn’t th…
We think we know this story.
When you’ve witnessed the worst things imaginable, the world can never be the same again.
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.
When you’ve witnessed the worst things imaginable, the world can never be the same again.
When you’ve witnessed the worst things imaginable, the world can never be the same again.
A new solo performer show by acclaimed playwright Rosemary Jenkinson, about young bonfire builders in East Belfast.
Following a 2021 sell out run, acclaimed mystery maestros Highly Suspect return to the Fringe with a new duo of hilarious and interactive murder mysteries, which you – the audien…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who does? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fin…
On the sand of his seaside home town, Myles Wheeler monologues about home, hospitals and let’s say hope for the alliteration.
It is 1952 and the spiffing summer hols are here at last, what larks indeed! Young Lady Iris Bungle finds herself in bonnie Scotland assisting her theatrical, spunky cousin Lord Di…
A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery is an interactive Shakespeare-based whodunnit where the audience (with help from the cast) is tasked with solving the murder.
Edinburgh-based award-winning Siamsoir Irish dancers return with their fifth original show – an Irish dance play.
Murder has come to Rothersdale, where nothing ever happens.
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.
Like all women, Jo has been called her fair share of things, many not so flattering.
Disaster strikes aboard the S.
Young, trendy Spencer leaves home and hits Soho like a whirlwind in a journey of love, laughter, heartbreak and happiness.
Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper and Jennifer Decilveo’s Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is in one word, a celebration.
Tamar’s getting married.
The show that turns smack talk into an art form! Back again after sold-out runs in 2018 and 2019.
Murder Mystery ‘A drinks reception of all of poetic literatures greats.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 & East New Comedian 2019 finalist Phil Green.
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Award-winning Polish performer Piotr Sikora has created a beautiful hour of family storytelling which uses clowning, mime, ukulele and audience participation to paint the journey o…
In his intimate and highly anticipated debut hour, Rich Hardisty (Channel 4, Netflix, BBC) takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of his unusual life.
Join the Superhero Academy to be part of the greatest quest of all: to save the world.
Sarah Keyworth’s Lost Boy is very difficult to fully describe.
After the highly successful Us/Them, Carly Wijs returns to Summerhall with Boy.
New Perspectives presents The Great Almighty Gill.
In aid of the suicide charity CALM, and sound-tracked live with songs from his upcoming second album, the acclaimed beatboxer is back with Breathe: a breathtakingly theatrical disp…
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…
During a bizarre childhood accident, Trevor was drenched head to toe in dragon’s blood.
Chris Cantrill (half of 2019 Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominees, The Delightful Sausage) is The Defendant.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
Hot Dog has just been dumped by her girlfriend, Dumpling, and now she must candidly examine what it means to live in a post-Dumpling world.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
When you’ve witnessed the worst things imaginable, the world can never be the same again.
Magic Circle Magician & Star of The Magic Corner Tom Bolton presents: GROW UP MAGIC MAN.
At 18, single AND pregnant, Bryan’s Mam read a book on how to raise a confident child.
When you’ve witnessed the worst things imaginable, the world can never be the same again.
A brand new kickass-pirational pop musical bursts into life as the Fantastically Great Women take to the stage to tell their stories.
The Bridge House Theatre are delighted to announce the return of our evening of performance poetry!Play On Words 5!Curated and compered by Lee Campbell, the evening will see perfor…
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…
In this performance, we present the stories of three different female characters, from plays by Shakespeare; Desdemona (Othello), Kate (Taming of the Shrew), & Viola (Twelfth Night…
Kat Carson is a woman on a mission.
Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly.
GET DOWN .
GET DOWN .
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…
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Remember the 90s or want to find out what the hell was going on then? Do you have a non-typical brain or know someone who has? Then you’ll want to join South East New Comedian fina…
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
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.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
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…
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 …
The Bridge House Theatre are delighted to announce the return of our evening of performance poetry!Play On Words 4!Curated and compered by Lee Campbell, the evening will see perfor…
When Charles Dickens died, he left behind a plethora of iconic novels.
Back again and bigger than ever - Roles We’ll Never Play arrives at the Lyric Theatre for a night of musical theatre madness.
The Bridge House Theatre are delighted to announce the return of our evening of performance poetry!POW!Play On Words 3Curated and compered by Lee Campbell, the evening will see per…
Children Playing Downton Abbey to avoid death.
The Bridge House Theatre are delighted to announce the return of our evening of performance poetry!POW!Play On Words 2Curated and compered by Lee Campbell, the evening will see per…
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.
Boy out the City at Battersea’s Turbine Theatre is a solo piece performed by Declan Bennett.
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.
From the team that brought you I, Dido a world premier of new play by Bloomsbury playwright Non Vaughan-O’Hagan.
From the team that brought you I, Dido a world premiere of a new play by Bloomsbury playwright Non Vaughan-O’Hagan.
If you either love…or hate… the magic of motoring then you are in for a big treat! Clive St.
POW!Play On WordsCurated and compered by Lee Campbell, the evening will see performances from established performance poets as well as the opportunity for others to showcase their …
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
NOBODYS BUSINESS? Is our discretion killing us?What is the cost to us of privacy about our sexuality?Have sex, sexual identity, and politics become so intertwined that i…
This one-day boutique event is the only UK family creation show exclusively designed for the LGBTQ+ community informing attendees about UK and International family building options…
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
A cracking London story with drama, comedy, and romance that has entertained people for over 150 years.
An outdoor, bicycle-powered, eco-musical for children and their families.
Naughty Boy is a thrillingly provocative exploration of mental health, politics and morality.
**** (4-Stars) “Satisfying, enjoyable, emotive and intriguing” (Broadwaybaby.
Naughty Boy is a thrillingly provocative exploration of mental health, politics and morality.
**** (4-Stars) “Satisfying, enjoyable, emotive and intriguing” (Broadwaybaby.
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
A work-in-progress stand-up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know.
Highly Suspect is a highly novel theatrical experience in which four actors take on the roles of supporting players from the Sherlock Holmes stories - Watson, Le Strade, Mycroft an…
Unsolved mysteries meet mixology in Mystery on the Rocks, a very silly podcast hosted by award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes and named as one of The …
Unsolved mysteries meet mixology in Mystery on the Rocks, a very silly podcast hosted by award-winning comedians Sooz Kempner, Masud Milas and Chris Stokes and named as one of The …
Tad is one of comedy’s most exciting new acts; already scoring a multitude of award including winning the London and Manchester King Gong, The Frog and Bucket’s Beat The Frog, The …
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.
Tad is one of comedy’s most exciting new acts; already scoring a multitude of award including winning the London and Manchester King Gong, The Frog and Bucket’s Beat The Frog, The …
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…
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.
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.
Meet Davy.
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.
Those People: A Play About QAnon is based on interviews with young people from the UK, conducted online and from accounts written on the subreddit: r/QAnoncasualties.
Join an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father as they reimagine the story of a tiny snail’s incredible trip around the world, inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffl…
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Gay boy with autism explores a lifetime of trying to fit in with other men, with mixed results.
Come and laugh the trauma away at this dark comedy, inspired by the writer’s ridiculous lockdown diary entries.
A work-in-progress stand up comedy show from Max Turner Prize 2021 & East New Comedian 2019 finalist Phil Green.
Come and laugh the trauma away at this dark comedy, inspired by the writer’s ridiculous lockdown diary entries.
Miss McSkimming takes to the high seas in her second adventure, presented by Blackshaw Theatre.
Follow the Gays’ tantalising tales of devious destruction as they battle the heinous Hetero Sector! Enjoy a drink or two as a colourful cacophony of creativity causes chaos right…
Follow the Gays’ tantalising tales of devious destruction as they battle the heinous Hetero Sector! Enjoy a drink or two as a colourful cacophony of creativity causes chaos right…
An interactive audio horror experience with escape room elements.
A stand-up comedy show from South East New Comedian 2019 and Max Turner Prize 2021 finalist Phil Green.
An escape room style experience with a paranormal twist, Retrogression is about a ghost who scares visitors to the Brighton Toy Museum and needs to be released.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Inspired by the world’s most fearsome female pirates, two modern-day political mutineers join forces to take down an all-powerful tech billionaire and inspire a lost generation.
Whether we care to admit it or not, in some way, shape or form, we are all intrigued by pirates.
My last show was all about my family and almost nothing about me.
My last show was all about my family and almost nothing about me.
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.
Join an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father as they reimagine the story of a tiny snail’s incredible trip around the world, inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schef…
Join an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father as they reimagine the story of a tiny snail’s incredible trip around the world, inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schef…
A bicycle-powered eco-musical for children aged 6-10 and their families.
A bicycle-powered eco-musical for children aged 6-10 and their families.
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
Discover a show about the discoveries that changed the world, by people who know nothing.
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
Join ‘mystery maestros’ Highly Suspect for a hilarious interactive online murder mystery which you, the audience, must solve! There’s a fiendish plot, evidence to examine, an…
Bring together the work of Jane Austen and the modern world of dating together to create a murder mystery with a twist you get An Austentatious Murder.
A unique two-woman retelling of F.
A unique two-woman retelling of F.
All ticket bookers will have access to the performance ‘on demand’ for a period after the premiere.
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 …
Keela Kraving’s DRAG BATTLE ROYALE is now HERE! The newest Drag competition you just can’t miss is finally in town!Drag Queens, Drag Kings, Club Kids and anything you can thin…
A Season of New Digital Performances - written and performed by an acclaimed and international female-led creative team.
The Coming Out Play is a 40-minute one-woman play that follows the twenty-six-year-old and sucre-sweet Lucy Moran as she travels to her parents’ house to tell them that not only …
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 …
Murder has come to a quiet Yorkshire village where nothing ever happens.
Five years after the tragedy of Bly Manor, the world wants answers.
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…
Inspired by the ballet Coppelia, with music adapted from Delibes.
Join acclaimed mystery maestros Highly Suspect for a hilarious and interactive murder mystery, which you – the audience – must solve! Featuring a fiendish plot, evidence to exa…
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.
A classic murder mystery created on the spot in this ingenious and hilarious show from The Bristol Improv Theatre’s resident company.
Cute! Sexy! Seriously unhinged! The baby queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has decided it’s time Edinburgh found out what it means to be a pussy boy.
It’s worth noting first off that My Boy Danny was never originally intended to appear as an MP3 available for streaming on YouTube, with that compromise being a happy result of l…
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
The Jeff Rodrigues Trio present an evening exploring the music of Thelonious Monk – considered to be the father of Modern Jazz – and Joe Henderson, one of the most revered inst…
Jesse is paranoid and he's frightened and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his daughter and his life… In a bittersweet comedy fuelled by anti-Semitis…
by Jake Brunger A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
Nick Kroll has established himself as one of today’s most sought-after creators, writers, producers, and actors in film and television.
Joe Spud is twelve years old and the richest boy in the country! He has his own sports car, two crocodiles as pets and £100,000 a week pocket money! But what Joe doesn't …
The original ukulele orchestra.
Join a tiny snail on her trip round the world in Tall Stories’ magical, musical production inspired by the much loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Hit Edinburgh Fringe show returns to Brighton for its final shows of the year.
A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped.
Poor Polly Buckwheat, the Miller’s daughter, is in a bit of a pickle! If she doesn’t turn a roomful of straw into gold by morning, the greedy King will turn a bit nasty.
Jay Gatsby invites you to one of his infamous parties.
A live radio play within a play! Based on W.
In a country on the verge of doom and murderous clowns on the loose on our cinema screens, Join Awk this October and allow it to show you there’s more to life than work.
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.
See a scratch performance about the unique bond between real life grandfathers and grandsons that explores male family relationships and the legacy that is passed down through gene…
Dervish bring The Great Irish Songbook to The London Palladium.
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
GWC Trad Band is a nine-piece band playing Scottish and traditional music with a vibrant, modern twist.
This play is about dreams, where forgotten memories go, déjà vu, laughter, the inability to laugh, that sense you get when you can tell someone is staring at you, the song Girls …
Over the last three years, playwright Nicola McCartney and actor Dritan Kastrati have worked together to tell Dritan’s story of two epic journeys of survival set against the back…
John Chesterton works in a world where political correctness is paramount.
With thrilling stories, silly games, and pervy puppets, Sex Ed is the smartest, slam-bangin’-est cabaret in town.
This show follows the journey of a team of podcasters setting out to investigate the disappearance of an iconic infomercial grifter.
Nick is 14 years old.
After sell-out shows for the last four years, join Scotland’s top jazz stars as they take a trip with everyone’s favourite nanny! Playing all the greatest hits, we guarantee a supe…
Should schools be the main engines of social mobility? Or are teachers being tasked with a responsibility that truly belongs to the government? Is the education system supporting t…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Brian Molley Quintet recreate and reimagine one of the bestselling jazz albums of all time, Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd’s Jazz Samba.
With thrilling empathy, phenomenal solos and driving musical energy, Steele’s trumpet fronts a quintet covering classic arrangements of Miles Davis’s seminal albums of the 50s …
Bicycle Boy: an interactive, bike-powered eco-musical for children aged five to ten and their families.
Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare return to Edinburgh following their sell-out run last year.
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…
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…
Following last year’s sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run, No Nonsense Productions (It’s a Wonderful Life: **** (EdinburghGuide.
Fabulous swing jazz band.
It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.
A joyous tribute to the music of Cannonball and Nat Adderley, featuring a quintet of Scotland’s foremost jazz talent fronted by saxophonist M Kershaw and trumpeter Colin Steele.
The jolly summer hols have arrived at last! Young, brave Lady Iris Bungle and her beloved housekeeper, Mrs Squidgyfeet, find themselves at Hardwick Heights on the edge of Loch Ness…
This new comedy gives the audience a fly-on-the-wall view of how messy putting on a student Fringe play can be.
‘Bold, subversive and dominant’ (ObjectivelyFunny.
Rae Mac’s welcomes back cabaret diva Tricity Vogue for more ukulele fun.
Come to the Dungeon and solve the Deadly Dungeon Murder Mystery! Join the Secret Society of Scottish Scoundrels and investigate the shocking murder of Judge Mental.
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
A play, a pie and a pint all included in your ticket price! Contemporary interactive play and great craic. See website for further details: mcsorleysbar.com/events
The Design Informatics Pavilion is a pop-up exhibition space designed by biomorphis architects featuring a range of objects and experiences that invite you to step into the future.
The National newspaper and ELT short playwright winners.
London, 1887.
It’s time to pull on your spandex, dive into your capes and head up, up and away with Funbox! Join Gary, Kevin and Anya (formerly of The Singing Kettle) for some singalong sillines…
Sociologist-turned-detective Caleb Rutherford steps into a hall of mirrors exposing real people through their professions while thinking he has nothing to reveal about himself.
Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin.
Hell to Play is a bad-taste absurd comedy game show set in Hell.
As a boy, Josh Baulf aspired to be a lad.
Bea’s vagina can narrate, DJ, and dance, but she can’t have sex.
The debut stand-up hour from Arnab Chanda (Russell Howard’s Good News, BBC’s Pls Like, 2018 Writers Guild nominee) who was born in Yorkshire, but grew up abroad, but lives in Londo…
Michael Rice takes you on a hilariously raw and honest journey from a farm in rural Ireland to the big city lights of Chicago and back again.
Comic dance-theatre conceived and performed by Yukon born ‘Intrepid’ Jen.
Never seen before.
At age seven, Phil was sent to Dublin by his single mother, Philomena, to be raised by her parents so she could earn enough money to survive.
A young boy with an enormous gift. Follow Ma Liang as he discovers a very special skill that could help his whole village as long as it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands…
We spend trillions on health but like Brexit, nobody knows what it means.
In order for theatre to be political, it certainly does not have to make any truly profound statement on the state of the world.
Rakish aristocrat and first-time detective Charlie Montague must prevent a murder.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
Direct from great success in Australia, A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour is a show like no other.
2018: The Supreme Court find a bakery not guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a gay cake.
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.
Presented through Hawaiian hula, chant, and song, this opera dramatises the battle between the chief, Kekuaokalani, who wanted to hold onto the ancient Hawaiian religion, and Lihol…
Two years ago, Matt Watson (‘Good Canadian fun’ (Wingspan Entertainment)) moved to Scotland.
It is often a challenge to take a piece of original writing that has already achieved success at the Fringe and do something new with it.
The Duchess of Canvey returns with a new show and new songs! Join her on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart of a divided Britain.
James returns with his most ambitious show to date – an epic, thought-provoking stage spectacular celebrating the 1000 great lives that shaped history.
We put comedians head-to-head in a battle of wit and put-downs.
‘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.
Albert Einstein used to work in a patent office, reportedly because the mundanity and ease of the job allowed his mind to wander to more complicated concepts.
We all have to work.
The Artists Collective Theatre consider what could prompt an eighteen year old girl to create one of the most lauded, feared, impressive and appalling tales of the overpowering nee…
One of the brains behind the AATTA Podcast returns with his brand-new show in which TT comes to terms with his place in the world, asking some tough questions.
The hilarious science show is back with a new food-themed show.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
Maori garage parties are hotbeds of undiscovered talent and a central part of our cultural and musical legacy back home in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Join the Superhero Academy to be part of the greatest quest of all: to save the world… quite literally! The planet needs all the help it can get and we can’t rely on David Attenb…
To say that Murder She Didn’t Write, from Degrees of Error, is a slick production is an understatement.
He was exhausted by life.
Sarah Jane Morris with her unique and powerful voice celebrates John Martyn illuminating his life and art in her new show Sweet Little Mystery.
Two-time SA Comic’s Choice Award winner, South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout is back in the UK with his Edinburgh debut.
One day the earth might be so devastated that we might need to leave for a distant planet.
Winner: Pinder Prize, 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
There are two sides to every story.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
Finally, after years of toil, Gary Tro has perfected quite possibly the greatest superhero movie screenplay ever written.
If you ever want to go to outer space, the probability of you ever getting the job is 0.
A magical multi-media tale of a life saved by music.
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
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 …
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
The world outside is (probably) falling apart.
Above the Stag is – now that has two separate performance spaces – able to put on a dance production for the first time in its history.
John Chesterton works in a world where political correctness is paramount.
The Twins Macabre return to Brighton with ‘Crime Doesn’t Play’, a horror-crime-thriller-comedy.
#BeMoreMartyn trended on Twitter in the hours after the announcement of Martyn Hett's death at the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017 – but what does it mean?Hope asked eight …
Connected and heartfelt, revolutionary and irreverent, the Improvised Play is always of its time.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
We all have to work.
Many comedians converge once more in Brighton to find out who is the greatest superhero.
The filthiest love story on the Fringe: Butt Boy and Tigger meet in a chatroom late one night.
KAPOW! The synchronised swimmers of Brighton are back for their 11th SUPER show.
Jools takes you on a journey through the crazier moments of a life lived without a second thought.
Any sensible person would look at the night sky and see the horrible purgatory of the cosmos.
MyMiniDisco: 6th May - ‘Star Wars’ fancy dress - DJ Soul of Man (Finger Lickin’) 27th May - ‘Superheroes’ - DJs Elle ‘J’ Small & Molly Pop (Funk the Format) Brighton’s No.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Through her own brilliant interpretive vocal talents, Sarah Jane will be illuminating the work of John Martyn in her new show Sweet Little Mystery, accompanied by her regular colla…
The multi award-winning Spanish-based company dedicated to producing magical shows for family audiences, Aracaladanza, have been favourites at Sadler’s Wells since their Fami…
A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy.
This warm and nostalgic show is based around a Bric-a-Brac market stall where Mr Shabby and Mrs Chic try to teach a new dog old tricks in an attempt to solve the Mystery…
Tickets: £13.
Deep in the heart of a medieval palace dungeon, two strangers dwell.
MAKE, LEARN, PLAY and PERFORM on your own fully working ukulele, made from a spread tub! If you don't believe it, take a look at the YouTube extract below.
On the farthest edge of a wind-battered rock there sits a small fishing town.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
ON LOOP Cork is no New York Issues: An Important PlayMaking a statement - no matter what ON LOOP - Sadhbh Mc Loughlin + Isobel O'ReganThe sound of a dial ton…
Jump, roll and slide at Watermans in this creative movement workshop for children and adults.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
140 Characters#ItsAMatterOfPerspectiveDog BoyGrow up? Woof off 140 Characters - Firefly Theatre140 Characters is a One Man Show that delves into t…
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 …
Based on the much-loved novels by Tove Jansson, this intimate, gentle, heart-warming show takes us on a journey through the seasons of the year in Moomin Valley where ev…
Tickets: £13.
'Degrees of Error' & 'Something for the Weekend' present.
In BOLSTOFF: A Modern Actor’s Introduction to Advanced Contemporary Performance the lads from Wicker Socks (Fionn Foley, Michael-David McKernan and Ronan Carey) help guide us thr…
Join award winning storyteller Cathianne Hall as she brings alive the stories behind a lost ‘agony column’ of the 1890s.
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 …
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is 200 years old and yet the universality of the novel’s core message keeps her creation in the very centre of popular culture.
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.
From the surreal mind of Michael Brunström (“The Human Loire”, “The Golden Age of Steam”, “The Hay Wain Reloaded”, “Parsle…
Open a book and discover a world where anything is possible.
The Clash released their acclaimed second album "Give 'Em Enough Rope" in 1978.
Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews.
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
The captivating sound-world of medieval music, featuring Scottish chant from Inchcolm Abbey, music by Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury – an eight-part work by …
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
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 Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
After sell-out shows for the last three years, join Scotland’s top jazz stars as they take a trip with everyone’s favourite nanny! Playing all the greatest hits, we guarantee a sup…
Leigh Bowery was born in Sunshine, Australia (west of Melbourne) in March 1961.
With thrilling empathy, phenomenal solos and driving musical energy, Steele’s trumpet fronts a quintet covering classic arrangements of Miles Davis’s seminal albums of the 50s …
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…
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
Of course, this show will be based around Attila’s powerful, poignant, personal, political performance poetry – still evolving after 37 years.
Deep in the heart of a medieval dungeon, two strangers dwell.
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
Do you remember when we used to go camping? And when you helped me make an ATM out of cardboard for my school project? Do you realise what a big impact you’ve had on who I am? Fr…
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
Be transported back to early 90s Los Angeles; the seedy underworld of gangsters, drugs, danger, and a mysterious briefcase.
Following sell-out shows in 2017, Bruce returns with more Dylan, Paxton, Seeger, Simon, etc.
Prime Cut Productions: East Belfast Boy by Fintan Brady.
Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph.
Fresh from sell-out seasons and rave reviews in New Zealand and Australia, comedian Louise Beuvink is coming to Edinburgh for the first time with her smash-hit show Ladylike: A Mod…
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
No Nonsense Productions – It’s a Wonderful Life: ‘A delight’ **** (EdinburghGuide.
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
Rae Mac’s welcomes back cabaret diva Tricity Vogue for more ukulele fun.
Join the Secret Society of Scottish Scoundrels and investigate the shocking murder of Judge Mental.
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…
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
It starts like this.
The Battle of Boat is a new musical set in a seaside town on the English coast.
A family-friendly mixed bag ranging from cabaret to comedy via spoken word and theatre.
Choosing to adapt a fairly obscure Greek text like The Battle of Frogs and Mice (also known as the Batrachomyomachia) as a storytelling show for children would be a bold choice for…
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
Water is the essence of life.
Part-play, part-floristry masterclass, Funeral Flowers takes you inside the world of Angelique, a young black woman caught within the foster care system who dreams of becoming a fl…
An anthology horror show featuring nine modern day tales of terror, death and the supernatural.
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…
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
A superhero story that refuses to be a comic book.
From the creator of Will He Bonk You in the Chocolate Factory and Fridged Moan’s Diary comes a new stand-up comedy spectacular! An evening of music and comedy about being young and…
A play, a pie and a pint. All included in your ticket price. Contemporary interactive plays and great craic! See website for further details: mcsorleysbar.com/fringe.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
John Chesterton works in a world where political correctness is paramount.
What makes a woman? Facing motherhood and marriage, Girl is on the edge of womanhood.
Four friends decide to ignore the warnings about their local woods and meddle with seemingly demonic forces in the hope to create a film about a local urban legend.
Jasper Red invites you to a special healing session.
On average, victims of domestic violence experience 35 assaults before calling the police.
We’ve all been there.
Mystery Meat is a monthly cult stand-up show regularly performing to sell-out audiences in Brighton. This is no accident. Get involved.
Enough fantasies of the apocalypse, it’s already here.
After an award-winning London run, The Empty Chair comes to Edinburgh.
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
People have never been more scared to say what they really think.
Roast Battle features a rotating lineup that changes daily, with a general showcase of at least four or five pairs of comedians taking to the stage to rip sizeable chunks out of th…
A free Irish comedy show.
A love story, set on Preston Road, and also in space and in time.
Winner: VAULT Festival Comedy Award.
The war is over: there is peace in our time.
New Zealand’s favourite showband return to the Fringe with the world premiere of a new work.
****1/2 (PerthHappenings.
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…
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Sequel to 2017’s smash-hit sell-out debut about honesty, this one’s all about the law of the playground, traveling companions from hell and accidentally fulfilling your teenage buc…
Scottish rising star and oddball, Eleanor Morton tries to reinvent herself as the sexy, confident comedian she has always secretly probably been.
Alex Stone is a hotshot lawyer about to make partner, when an urgent call from an old friend drags her back to the town she thought she’d left behind.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
A classic murder mystery is created on the spot from audience suggestions in this ingenious show from Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error.
Superheroes for Kids 3 is the newest version of the hit show.
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.
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…
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.
Devised and performed by Chickenshed, Planet Play is a magical world of sensory learning, wonder and exploration, for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 years.
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…
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz…
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.
A play promising to be the first of its kind premieres in July at Landor Space, Clapham, inviting audiences to take control of a show where every night really is different.
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 & …
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.
Rain is in love with her best friend, Ash.
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…
It’s Liverpool, 1978.
There is a bit of a buzz around BOY.
Three rounds.
Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers have their finger on the pulse with this delightful double bill of comedy plays, interspersed with a few shorter sketches.
‘Mad About the Boy’ is a new play with musical interludes by local playwright Edwin Preece.
Winner Vault Festival Comedy Award 2017 Winner of the IYAF: Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy Award in 2017 After the success of their five-star, award-winning farce ‘The Starship Os…
A superhero story that refuses to read like a comic book.
Set on an island best known for its adorable marsupial inhabitants, Bus Boy is a sweet play about two very different people becoming friends.
Please note, this event is now called ‘Creative Cafe Brighton’. Full details and link to book tickets here: www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/creative-caf%C3%A9-brighton-125548/
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, …
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.
A new piece of devised work making its debut at this year’s Brighton Fringe.
"Make a fist with your hand and place it roughly where you think your heart should be," Cole Moreton instructs us at the start of his set, The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away…
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…
An original musical about school bullying with only children in the cast might not seem a first choice for top Fringe viewing, but it absolutely is.
Inspired by The Fool, Now, (& Death?).
Theatre play by Jean CoDirector: Bogdan PetkaninCast: Fahradin Fahradinov, Aleksandar Dojnov, Aleksandar Kadiev, Anelia Lucinova, Kateto Evro‘The comedy tells the …
'Degrees of Error' & 'Something for the Weekend' present.
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…
IS YOUR SNAIL THE FASTEST? Enter your fastest Snail and win fantastic prizes.
After a sell-out season last year with the premiere of Magic on the Edge, Five of Adelaide’s most present magicians will take you on another magical, mind boggling, fun filled, edg…
As seen on The Project, CRAM & Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network TEN).
THE DEER JOHNS get the party going as they take you on a trip through your favourite eras, playing a song-per-year chronological musical history.
It’s in the air… the desire to dance! Fly solo or bring your friends to learn a fun, modern and easy partner dance style that can be danced to any music.
Sold-out 2013-2017 A unique day out in the countryside with the Fringe’s best comedians performing in 4 mystery locations.
A major new revival of Terence Rattigan’s astonishingly involving classic family drama comes to Oxford Playhouse with Tessa Peake-Jones and Aden Gillett.
Do you want to see a show but can’t get a babysitter? Worry no more.
Do you: Want to have heaps of FUN with your kids? Have kids that probably won’t sit still through a show? Don’t want to spend a bomb on a 10 minute ferris wheel ride? Like natu…
Making her Australian debut: Stephanie’s love life has been a rollercoaster, if rollercoasters involve a lot of awkward sex, self-sabotage and therapy.
The boys of Sound & Fury present selected “Best-of-Fringe” artists to perform new, or experimental pieces NOT from the shows they’re mounting at Adelaide Fringe! New lineup each we…
A fun and interactive show for an audience of one at a time! Taking place in a public cafe, but you’re the only one who knows a show is happening.
Jamal and Bibi have a dream: to lead Afghanistan to soccer glory in the next World Cup.
Are you watching closely? Join Adelaide’s Card-King! He explores (and restores) the state of card magic today.
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.
Woody and friends’ musical party will inspire all children (and their parents).
From the producers of ‘Wank Bank Masterclass’ and fresh from an international tour of pleasure activism! ‘Pussy Play Masterclass’ returns to Adelaide Fringe after it’s award winnin…
A superhero story that refuses to read like a comic book.
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…
Calling all Clipsal Fans! Finally, the biggest question in motorsport is answered! Who is better - Holden or Ford? In a no holds barred, no beg your pardons fight to the comedy d…
Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks deliver a blistering set of hits from the 5 decades spanning Ross’ spectacular career as singer, songwriter and producer.
A Boy Named Cash: Johnny Cash Experience showcases the greatest hits of The Man In Black as performed by renowned impersonator Monty Cotton as seen on ‘The Voice’, as a one-man-ban…
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…
The 1950s were the golden age of radio drama.
The guys and girls from Sourced Up Talent present a night of murder and mystery.
The Fringe Festival 2018 sees a return of The Brewster Brothers with a difference.
‘Everybody just stared at them and loved them and wanted to be them – but nobody was.
Olivier Award-winning smash hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong returns to Oxford for another calamitous week! Don’t miss this brilliantly funny show that’s guaranteed to leave…
Ride the wind with Air Play, a modern circus spectacle that brings to life the very air we breathe.
“The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
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.
Mysterious figures are spotted in the streets, friends are disappearing and the threat of violence hangs heavy in the air.
Hershey Felder’s Our Great Tchaikovsky is a time-bending tale of music, politics and one of the world’s most beloved composers.
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…
Rae Mac’s welcomes back cabaret diva Tricity Vogue for more ukulele fun.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A homeless person, a gambling addict, a political preacher, a television presenter.
Deep in the medieval dungeons of the Royal Palace, two strangers dwell.
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.
Two of Scotland’s most critically acclaimed new acts present their unique brand of pastoral and lyrical pop, enhanced by intricate arrangements for the renowned Pumpkinseeds stri…
A light-hearted unofficial free walking tour of the Fringe, meeting outside Burgers and Beer Grillhouse at 10:30 – ending in a 15-20 professional magic show in The Newsroom on Le…
A one-man band greatest hits tribute to the legend Johnny Cash featuring Monty Cotton, as seen on The Voice.
Unafraid to show the peaks and troughs of getting over an upsetting event, TheForgottenMoose Theatre Company put on an endearing performance of their original piece: The Play.
Two men meet in a club.
Emerald Boy – three friends, a police officer and an alien walk into a bar.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Coltrane invites his best friends in comedy down for a friendly late-night geek retreat, as comedians play Super Mario Maker live: the most thrilling and infuriating platforming ga…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Quilarious: A new exciting comedy format.
Can’t cook? Imagine having to come up with a three-course meal, completely from scratch, every week for a year.
A boy washed up on the tide.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Billed as a uniquely grotesque combination of satire, horror and comedy, Bat Boy: The Musical has a small but dedicated cult following.
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.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
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…
It’s every child’s (and adult’s!) dream job isn’t it? Join this professional LEGO artist as he explains how he turned a hobby into a full-time career, building models out of LEGO b…
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…
Man And Boy is a perfectly poetic way to punctuate an otherwise hectic day at the Fringe.
A homeless person, a gambling addict, a political preacher, a television presenter.
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…
A darkly comic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
In our youth-obsessed society, women become sexualised at a very young age.
Welcome to Ginger Creek, where curious characters and perplexing events are the norm.
Ever made a pussy out of plasticine? Now is the time to get down and dirty with our vulvas and the crowds are hungry for it.
If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.
If you like superheroes; if you want to learn more about their history; if you’ve ever seen a movie that had superheroes in it… if you’ve read this far already – you should…
What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…
A good storytelling piece is lovely.
Play On! is the hilarious story of a theatre group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script.
There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.
A play, a pie and a pint.
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.
Meet Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face, not Tape Face.
Fellacio, faecal ‘docking’ and physical abuse.
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…
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Modern Maori Quartet are a good-looking, suave, contemporary Maori showband in the vein of forebears such as the Hi-Marks, Maori Volcanics Showband, Dalvanius and the Fascinations,…
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
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…
Oyster Boy is a comic telling of the fictional relationship between two young lovers on Coney Island and their subsequent journey into marriage.
‘Hysterical… Terrifyingly brilliant commitment to everything’ (TheEdgeSUSU.
Cameryn Moore has made a name for herself as one of the Fringe’s great taboo busters, especially on the subject of sex.
Do you like mysteries? Are you the sort of person who says: ‘I wonder what that was?’.
‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
A murder has been committed.
A quick-fire dystopian comedy following the daily routine of Harper and Collins: two lexicographers imprisoned by the sinister MW Corporation.
Having recently won English Comedian of the Year, Josh Pugh has the air of a rising star.
It’s time to paint the rainbow and unleash the world’s first one-man gay rom-com cabaret! Hilarious and heartfelt songs meet physical comedy and candid storytelling in one man’s fi…
A cult hit comedy game show set in Hell, hosted by the Devil.
Superheroes for Kids is a silly celebration of comic book superheroes.
The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts.
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”.
Stephanie talks about mental health problems and boys for an hour, but it’s totally funny, she promises, and won’t be as awkward as you think it will.
Following the phenomenal sold out Vault Festival run, the party continues… "The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party.
Kids these days! No one knows what they’re up to.
Award-winning stand-up comedian David Mills struggles to stay modern in a world quickly reverting to more medieval tendencies.
Come and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles albums: ‘Sgt.
A variety of comedians come together to find out who is the greatest superhero of them all.
For 14 years the poets and rappers of Brighton have been locked in an epic struggle.
The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.
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 …
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground” said Roosevelt.
A live radio play (hilarious sound effects included).
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…
A brand-new musical by BBC Bursary winner Natalie Sexton.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
“This parable of limiting life down to human usefulness is as beautiful as it is bleak” (Exeunt).
Inspired by Tim Burton’s poem, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, Haste Theatre transport us to Coney Island where Mr Gelati (Valeria Compagnoni) and the future Mrs Gelati (Lexi…
They move among you unseen.
A roller coaster, tongue-in-cheek homage to the world of musical theatre, CAT (THE PLAY!) is the fictitious account of how Dave the Cat was sacked from the iconic musical…
The Biblical narrative that is the foundation of the Christian faith has been described, on numerous occasions, as “The Greatest Story Ever Told.
The old showbiz adage that “the show must go on” is usually invoked—in the aftermath of some behind-the-scenes calamity—before curtain-up, but the point of The Play That…
'A triumph.
Can you fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? Peter is about to find out when he falls for the sexually ambiguous ‘Blue’.
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…
Have you ever wanted to explore the magical world of the Harry Potter books? Join the Professor of Potter’s brand new assistant for a fun, interactive hour with spells, potio…
18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl…
There is, ironically enough, a lot that’s incredibly old-fashioned about Thoroughly Modern Millie; it’s a feel-good, song and dance show about a young gold-digger who, while se…
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.
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
What would you do if one year Winter decided to stay and moved into your house? You would have icicles in the kitchen and snow all over your bed! Well that’s what happens in our …
Spanning one term at Oxford University, Modern Love follows the story of two sets of best friends - Olivia and Ella, Harry and Jonah - whose lives collide when they all fall for El…
A new writing night for alternative comedies.
Cinema screening of live performance.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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…
Welcome to Ginger Creek, where curious characters and perplexing events are the norm.
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…
Child’s Play begins with the tidying away of props and banners at the end of an organised demonstration; in the meantime, characters exchange strident opinions on how frustrating…
Angus Munro and band offer you a medley of ‘Hipster’ songs reimagined as 20th Century Jazz classics.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
In this adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic, troubled programmer Victor Stone attempts to restore his reputation after being responsible for crashing the stock market.
From the Fringe First winning authors of Jekyll! comes this brand new adaptation of Dickens’ masterpiece.
Making its European premiere, this Canadian comedy gem packs more ideas and laughs into 40 minutes than most plays triple its length.
An expedition to the North Pole.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Classical meets modern in a glamorous fashion show organised by Shanghai Culture Week.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The music of Egberto Gismonti is like a microcosm of his native Brazil – diverse, joyful and unique.
See the world through childlike eyes as this comic adventure plays out on an epic scale.
There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs.
Who do you turn to when you bring a curse on yourself? Blood Brothers is the story of twins separated at birth, as they fight through superstition and a class divide to continue a …
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…
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 …
Last year’s cult hit is back with a brand new show! Hell to Play is a bad taste comedy game show set in hell, hosted by the devil.
Rae Mac’s welcomes back cabaret diva Tricity Vogue for more ukulele fun.
Sexual Fears of A Modern Day Virgin.
English Comedian of the Year 2014 Jack Campbell brings you his second stand-up show.
Ross Leadbeater is an alumnus of the all-male Welsh choir Only Men Aloud!, who won the 2008 television show Last Choir Standing.
In the same way that a musical blends theatre with music, Strangers: A Magic Play blends theatre with magic.
The Edinburgh Dungeon returns with a thrilling new mystery to solve.
Fun lyrics and great musical timing manage to bring Neverland to life with a small cast and even smaller set.
A week of arts and crafts events: an interactive art event unlike any other.
A play, a pie and a pint.
Double act Best Boy present an hour of sketch comedy.
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.
The Man of Mystery comes on stage looking like something out of a classic James Bond film: strong jawline, handsome stubble and a black turtleneck — topped off with an orange shi…
William Shakespeare is back for his 400th anniversary, but he needs your help with his newest play.
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
It’s indefatigably Wilde.
Martha ‘Pigeon Puncher’ McBrier, (‘a glorious hour’ ***** Scotsman), returns with more true stories.
Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it.
Major Oscar Hadley is flown to the Middle East front line to probe allegations of severe misconduct within a self-styled Bully Boy unit of the British army.
Monty Cotton, a seasoned performer and musician woke up one day and realised he could imitate Johnny Cash.
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…
Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it.
What to expect from Bea Roberts’ modern day update of Flaubert’s classic novel Madame Bovary? Instead of surrounding herself with romantic literature to distract her from the b…
Joyous in every way, The Snail and the Whale by Tall Stories is a textbook example of how to do theatre for children right.
Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle.
A Boy Named Sue written by Bertie Darrell provides an interesting insight into the experiences of members of the LGBT+ community, played with great energy by the cast of three.
Lucky pup Elms is back chasing his tail again; he’s learning about sacrifice, guilt, and, as always, love.
A story of a little snail with a big dream, who tries to make it past doubting friends, to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
It’s the kids’ turn for some superhero fun.
Spending a full day (11 hours from first curtain up to last curtain call) watching three of Chekhov’s early plays (hence the ‘Young’ of the title) may not sound like the most fun…
A Boy Named Cash - Johnny Cash Tribute Show showcases the greatest hits of The Man In Black as performed by Monty Cotton as a one-man-band alongside a variety of pedals and instrum…
Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done.
‘Now I’m a Big Boy!’ is written, produced and performed by young people, tackling issues of growing up and the problems surrounding sexual consent.
A pair of comedic short plays simultaneously celebrating and condemning modern life, sandwiched in sketches: A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, and a contemporary fa…
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.
Actor/singer/storyteller Richard Spaul tells stories from Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre masterpiece.
Think Tank is a live comedy and debate show where professional comedians propose policy ideas to a panel of politicians and experts.
Double act Best Boy return to Brighton Fringe with an hour of side-splitting sketches.
Beautiful relaxing classical music for piano duet, including pieces by J.
Is it possible to fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? An unconventional love story in which Peter, a previously heterosexual young man, faces a challenge to h…
Is it possible to fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? An unconventional love story in which Peter, a previously heterosexual young man faces a challenge to hi…
Sy Thomas serves-up the best bits from his 2015 Edinburgh show ‘Jumper’ and some brand spanking new stuff for 2016.
Debonair.
An unique display of original artefacts, manuscripts and documents from the Doreen Valiente Collection.
For all we may use the platitude that “life is too short”, the harsh reality is that for most of us, it is anything but – and we fill the many minutes, hours and days bemoa…
If you believe ‘youth is wasted on the young’, then just for a second imagine it was lived by the not-so-young.
Showtime Challenge: 48‐Hour Musicals is proud to present Thoroughly Modern Millie, coming to the Adelphi Theatre on 20 March 2016.
(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: …
Meet Tony Smith loving husband, doting father, murder? Set in the heartlands of urban Yorkshire, Crossed Wires is a domestic drama following the lives of the Smith family and thei…
Time is of the essence as you and your newly formed team are transported to the authentically and adorned castle laboratory from which Victor Frankenstein has mysteriously disap…
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…
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on March 10) Gender trouble abounds in Anna Ziegler’s fictionalized treatment of the famous John/Joan case, about a boy who was raised as a …
Glistening with sweat, Megan Hill’s comedy is essentially a real-time Jazzercise class with a wacky plot fused to it, as a willfully chipper exercise instructor (Ms.
Described as Fawlty Towers meets Noises Off, this is THE smash hit new comedy! The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title su…
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.
Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian star in this improvised debate in character as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, respectively.
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.
Grab some popcorn and settle in for “Revelations.
Even if you don’t know the whole story of F.
(previews start on Monday; opens on Nov.
Following highly successful evenings with Berlin, Porter, Kern and Gershwin, Fife’s premier operatic concert group Ensemble, (www.
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 …
Irrepressible ponydance return to Edinburgh with a gallop to present their biggest show to date, in collaboration with the brilliant and prolific musician Donal Scullion and his ba…
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.
Tommy Foggo and his cello are a superhero duo going on epic adventures, overcoming impossible odds – singing and sharing fun with friends along the way! Coffee/tea, fruit juice a…
Throwing a great party in an amazing house, what could possibly go wrong? Except you’re supposed to be house-sitting.
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…
Following the huge worldwide success of the Battle of the Superheroes shows, it’s time for comedians to slug it out to decide who’s the greatest supervillain! And in true villainou…
A stand-up comedy and beat box collaboration.
Chap-hop, the hottest trend since hipster beard balm that makes your beard smell like woodsmoke and whisky, hits the Fringe this year in the form of Mr B’s Guide to Modern Life.
The sell-out smash hit from Australia makes its international debut, the annual Yo Mama Battle! Starring the hottest comedians battling it out over topics chosen by you! Yes you! A…
A boy and a bear go to sea, equipped with a suitcase, a comic book and a ukulele.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Yu Cai Primary School, originated in the ancient oriental city of Yan’an, where only about 100 years ago the people moved out from living in cave houses.
This two-person dance and physical piece is performed and choreographed by Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel, a male-female duo who have worked successfully both separately and toge…
Rise Kagona is a guitar hero to many on two continents! In Zimbabwe, Rise transferred traditional jiti rhythms to guitar, and his band The Bhundu Boys toured the world extensively.
In his last summer before graduation, James (of Utter! Spoken Word) had a Snufkin tattooed on his arm – 20 years on, and things have got steadily more Moomin ever since.
Strap in, it’s joke time.
Rae Mac’s welcomes back cabaret diva Tricity Vogue for more ukulele fun.
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
Game show set in Hell, hosted by the Devil.
A tale of dark deeds – with your host, magician Dave Reubens.
A number of great and varied British and international comedians from around the Fringe come together in a mixture of stand-up comedy and interaction to decide who is the greatest …
After 2014’s sell-out show, The Edinburgh Dungeon returns with a new mystery to solve.
The Celtic Mystery Festival will take place at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
A traumatised zookeeper tells the tale of her misadventures with her co-workers and an escaped Tiger who is now their captor… and director.
Did you like The Avengers movie? Well, this show is just like The Avengers (except with more jokes, and no actual Avengers).
This charming double bill from Puppets Being Theatre uses poise and precision to bring to life ingenious paper creations.
Game show set in Hell, hosted by the Devil.
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanish.
A play, a pie and a pint.
The Mac Twins return after last year’s sell-out run with the only DJ battle that gives the power-ups to the people! Identical superstar DJs, very different music tastes – enter a…
When High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found dead, Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Sergeant Rolfe are on the case to find the killer.
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.
Get ready for a perfect afternoon of musical fun! Johnny and the Raindrops are a sensational family friendly live band who play jump up and down, rocking and rolling, can’t sit d…
Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.
This stifling performance by young talent Greg Fossard will make you uneasy as the traumas of a troubled Belfast man’s life unravel.
This is a haunting and powerful solo show that lingers with you long after leaving the theatre, sticking closely to Oscar Wilde’s signature style: simultaneously intellectual and…
Come to the Globe Playhouse and meet William Shakespeare himself! An enchanting journey through Shakespeare’s most famous characters will start a love for his work that will last a…
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.
Die-hard fans of classic BBC Sitcom Dad’s Army will particularly enjoy this panel discussion, Q&A and selection of nostalgic clips from Ian Lavender, aka Private Pike, and fellow…
One of Matt Price’s ambitions is to be one of the nicest people in comedy, and man, he’s succeeding.
Phone Whore is a show that is equal parts witty, sexually frank and dripping with cynicism.
David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.
There’s a very fine line between watching an actual, heart-in-mouth onstage breakdown and one that’s convincingly feigned.
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…
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…
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…
Over 20 plays, some well known pieces, some new writing, some one person plays, some with a massive cast but all performed in 1 hour or less by numerous theatre companies
The arts organization Inception to Exhibition, founded in 2009 to support new creative ventures, presents four Friday nights of free dance in the Midtown outdoors.
(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.
Melodic, dynamic jazz trio playing creative adaptations of the music of Keith Jarrett.
Best Boy are on a mission: their greatest sketch made the BBC’s airwaves, but wasn’t done justice.
Help identify the dastardly murderer.
Look how we’ve evolved! Learn about women in policing.
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
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…
VOTE FOR ME is a musicalized Presidential debate where you pick the winner.
All Tuesdays: 5th FRANCK SONATA Daniel Shao (flute) Alexandra Gracheva (piano).
Our audience creates four new characters - one is dramatically murdered and our hero must go on a journey of adventure and romance to discover whodunnit.
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…
James Bennison has spent the last year going to extraordinarily dangerous lengths to gain superpowers so that you don’t have to.
FOUR PLAY is an exhibition of limited edition prints produced in collaboration between Unlimited design studio and a collective of 40 fantastic contemporary illustrators, artists a…
Kenny DeForest hosts long stand-ups sets from two of the city’s finest, Ben Kronberg and Brooke Van Poppelen, and featuring Greg Stone.
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…
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…
Best Boy are on a mission: their best sketch made the BBC’s airwaves but wasn’t done justice.
(previews start on Feb.
As the cast of Bat Boy: The Musical bowed and smiled at the audience, I tried to ask myself what I had just seen.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This sweet, silly, semi-unwieldy Off Off Broadway play, written by Michael Mitnick and starring the excellent Will Connolly as Kyle, is a coming-of-age comedy about a Colorado dram…
Improvised murder mystery comedy.
New play about the Caribbean slave trade to be performed in William Wilberforce’s church as part of Black History Month ‘It takes sixteen months for the sugarcane to ripen…Aft…
(previews start on Oct.
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…
How much Charlie Chaplin really wrote the score for “Modern Times” is debatable, but the genius of his 1936 reflection on industry and the Depression is not.
Simply See Productions proudly present to you.
Come and play.
Come and play?The invitation to play is timeless, but could you, would you play with God? Godly Play does just that.
Join the illustrious, world renowned detective duo on an epic mystery adventure for all the family.
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…
Bringing a show to the Fringe is a daunting prospect even for established theatre companies.
Rise Kagona is a guitar hero to many on two continents! In Zimbabwe, Rise transferred traditional Jiti rhythms to guitar, and his band The Bhundu Boys toured the world extensively …
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
From the gospel parlors of black Florida to the racist salons of white NYC, Sevan learns that it takes more than an NKOTB t-shirt to become a white American.
In the mid-19th Century, Madeleine Smith was accused of poisoning her lover, Pierre Emile L’Angelier.
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…
An original piece of theatre documenting the struggle of one group of Midwestern American kids trying to mount a show that shares their truth only to realize they may not know what…
A play, a pie and a pint.
Paper Play is the story of a boy who climbed to a great height to see what he could see.
Multimedia theatrical comedy that spans millennia.
In this energetic play presented as a game-show the audience is divided into two teams and sat facing one another across the playing space.
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…
(previews start on Aug.
Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator .
The idea of spending a night playing detective and trying to figure out a murder is always appealing.
Foul Play offers up the filthiest material from the most daring comics, and it really doesn’t disappoint.
Broken Britain or just broken lives? Rowena Moreno’s new one woman play - Modern Living - explores one of the last taboos of modern theatre, that area of our lives, that side of ou…
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.
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…
Rooted in the past of a dystopian pre-independence future - that means a minimalist set littered with industrial remnants and a broken toilet - Scotland’s greatest heroes, Wallac…
Angus Dunican doesn’t get out much.
Ben Hart is the kind of magician that makes sceptics become believers.
If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore.
A genderless riot from a little old force to be reckoned with.
One man is all it takes.
Join a group of ordinary gay friends for an honest and intimate evening together.
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…
A group photography exhibition focusing on the plight of indigenous people throughout the world and the ways cultures express a shared humanity.
The atmosphere of this exhibition is a mixture of solemnity and heroism beautifully accompanied by the melancholic sound of bagpipes.
A one-woman cabaret show presenting the life of Anita Boult, a jobbing musical actress trying to cope with life in New York city.
Leicester Square Theatre: 30th Jun 7pm.
(previews start on June 22; opens on July 16) Michael Counts, creative director of 3-Legged Dog, invites you on a blind date with 17 playwrights.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Sherlock Holmes has been murdered, a priceless jewel has been stolen and Poirot, Clouseau and Maigret find themselves on board the Orient Express in pursuit of the villain … or a…
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
Dominion Theatre: 22nd May 11pm.
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.
Harriet Walter & Guy Paul in a reading of Jessica Duchen’s new play ‘A Walk Through the End of Time’ exploring the astonishing history of Olivier Messiaen’s masterpiece compo…
TGE is a new music festival that showcases emerging artists from all over the world, and is aimed at both music fans & industry professionals.
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.
The Tight Modern is a miniature replica of the iconic Tate Modern and goes on tour every two years.
This smart, heartfelt and emotionally exhausting work by the devised-theater company CollaborationTown heaves you into the most intimate moments of family life.
Eden Court Theatre: 18th Apr 5pm.
(previews start on April 11; opens on April 24) Steven Cosson is the artistic director of the Civilians, a documentary drama troupe.
(previews start on April 10; opens on April 17) For the culmination of its 10th anniversary season, Red Bull Theater presents a revival of Charles Ludlam’s genre-spanning two…
Fold fitted sheets, design perfect desserts and create consummate canapés! A rich but practical diet of the responsibilities, realities and rituals of domesticity to entertain, ed…
Scotland’s version of Peter and the Wolf is an enchanting tale with a lot of heart.
Big Sky productions have returned to the festival with this distinctively Scottish storytelling performance for families.
The Jazz Bar is not what first comes to mind as a Fringe hotspot but this small, classy venue continues to offer the eclectic, high quality gigs it programmes throughout the year.
A rare chance to see this legendary Zimbabwean guitarist perform songs from his forthcoming album.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
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.
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
In hall at the top of a church on a blank proscenium arch stage, a group of Canadian high-schoolers gave me more than I bargained for: two plays for the price of one.
Back by popular demand.
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
Ren is performing before the show begins, making up a silly version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star with the audience’s help.
With their bold colours, fresh prints, improvisational piecing and minimalism, modern quilters are updating classic quilt designs for contemporary interiors and utilising the inter…
Part protest, part poetry, part party.
Fringe debutant Patrick Turpin takes his audience on a trip down memory lane, as he bids for their approval.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
An entertaining yet highly prurient act, Martin Mor’s How Do You Like Your Blue-eyed Boy Mister Death? offers a reinvigorated, revitalised and thoroughly welcome attitude towards…
This refreshing re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s Othello sees the handkerchief drama played out from a female perspective, a comedic take on the tragedy that we’re used to.
Chronicling the near three-year journey of a theatre company based in New York, The TEAM Makes a Play is a documentary film that lays bare the creative process and takes the audien…
Tupperware: it’s robust, it’s light, it seals, it’s stylish and it’s modern.
Originally written by Paula Vogel, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief is a retelling of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy and gives a voice to the female characters who were over…
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland return to the Fringe with an outstanding 50 minute musical from the absorbing pens of Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie.
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.
The strains of, ‘Ali Bali, Ali Bali Bee’, belt out from the PA as the cast tap their feet along with the rhythm.
Nobody’s Boy is a tapestry of songs by well-known songwriters woven together to narrate an emotional tale of childhood, identity and belonging.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
Super strength, X-ray vision and lightning fast speed can be fantastic fun if used for personal gain, without saving the world.
The Boy Who Lost Christmas, by The Young Actors Company/Engineerium, is an absolutely lovely piece of children’s theatre.
This show is about suicide and death.
‘New writing? New wronging!’ proudly exclaims production company Kill The Beast’s website.
‘Schoolgirls have crushes on teachers all the time.
The Cow Play is a trivial comedy about serious things.
The Play That Goes Wrong is an impeccably glorious spoof of such amateur disasters, that centres upon Cornley Polytechnic’s production of ‘Murder at Haversham Manor’ as it de…
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory’s Family Creatures may seem an impenetrable sort of name but early into watching this show it became apparent that this was a sketch show intended …
The Kings Head Theatre is once again offering multiple seasonal shows for their audiences to enjoy.
Five experienced improvisers each request an audience suggestion, ranging from an item found in an attic to anyones favourite chocolate bar, and on the spot create characters and…
Since West Side Story was my first ever pocket-money album purchase, I am unbelievably, unreasonably touchy about its treatment onstage and off.
Richard Michael and Family draw from a great songbook indeed, but they can’t be accused of too much deference to their source material.
Bad Play is almost becoming a permanent fixture on the Fringe, this being the fourth outing for this frenetically paced absurdist comedy.
If you were to somehow strap Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas on the front of an Express Train going in one direction, and Sondheim’s Into The Woods on a similar train headi…
The Mystery of Edwin Drood tells the unfinished tale of Charles Dickens’ last novel, however the ending in this instance is in the audience’s hands.
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
Willy Russells phenomenal West End hit musical succeeds for many reasons, but most of all because it has great tunes and in the final moments will make the hardest amongst us blu…
The highlight of the evening’s performance came as the inconspicuous Iain Mundy joined the orchestra to take the lead in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat.
We are warned at the beginning of this show that audience interaction is imminent.
Based on the Strauss-Kahn case in New York 2011, a small and talented cast enact the possible events that might have followed after the initial alleged assault and before the start…
What do you get if you mix Gogol Bordello with Bob Dylan, but without Dylan’s lyrical genius? The New Gondoliers.
On April 16 2007 a young student at Virginia Polytechnic carried out two separate shootings approximately two hours apart.
If there’s one near-forgotten art form due for a revival – along with storytelling and morris dancing – it’s surely ventriloquism.
The Free Paint and Play Ukulele Workshop with Tricity Vogue is exactly as described.
Jamie and Matt are two young men indulging in the exchange of sexual fantasies over the internet.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
As a recent ex-Catholic, I know there’s a lot of material to be got from the Catholic Church, whether you’re a member or not.
Bob Slayer treats his audience like a classroom full of unruly students - he is the erratic alcoholic headmaster to lord over them all.
There could be an incredible musical story in the tragic rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots, leading from her ascension to the throne to her eventual abdication, imprisonment fo…
The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…
The problem with starting a play with a man dressed in a moose costume explaining his life story to the audience is that, other than being a little odd, a high level of weird has a…
This autobiographical account tells the story of the Irish playwright and poet Brendan Behans true-life arrest at the age of sixteen when he was caught in Liverpool carrying expl…
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
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…
Unimpressive from the start, The Cow Play leaves the audience confused and unfulfilled.
What would you do if your partner began to spend a lot of time with someone you never met? There’d be trouble.
This isnt, Helen Arney tells us at the outset, a high-energy show.
For all the excellent performances and wonderfully controlled aesthetic, this production amounts to nothing more than average; because it’s Belt Up, that’s disappointing.
La JohnJospeh is the Boy in a Dress in this flamboyant autobiographical performance.
Dear Noel and Cole,Put down that celestial martini and stop fondling those cherubs.
In the week that a new date for the film version of F.
Maurice Cock and Belvedere Bagg model their show as a lesson in how to act.
Playwrights do seem to love Albert Eistein.
A Modern Town is a very 21st century fable of Newton Bassett, a tourist hotspot which has fallen on hard times, and its efforts to draw in visitors; a sink or swim initiative which…
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
It’s an intriguing concept, though not a new one: if you could write a letter to your future self what would you want to tell them? Henry Raby, poet and performer, uses the idea …
A Professor tries to find his daughter, Sophie, after the first failed attempt of making a double of her left haunting consequences.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
I just saw The Great Puppet Horn and boy do I need to catch my breath.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
The play is set entirely in the middle of the night in the caretakers storeroom of a school in the North of England.
Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls.
This play, written and directed by Kevin Holladay, makes broad fun of politicians, reporters, TV presenters and others.
The performing arts are undergoing a shift in inspiration towards the early Twentieth Century: Cabaret is on the up, Burlesque is increasingly acceptable, and in Comedy it is the m…
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
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.
Only Humour, the first improv group to emerge from Bristol University, present us with Word:Play.
Burke and Hare A Musical Play is based on the true story of Edinburghs notorious murderers William Burke and William Hare.
The UK loves a good soap opera.
Written by (and starring) Jenn Robbins, The Smoking Boy is the story of an upper middle class family from New Haven, Connecticut, in 1917 amidst America’s entry into the Great Wa…
Zoe Lyons hits the stage running with an immediate gag about the messed up ticketing system at this year’s Fringe and from there it’s straight into her set about how she focuses on…
Sprinkling a little Cinderella magic into the plot, Castoffs Youth Theatre have chosen a worthy subject for their musical The IT Boy, which tells the tale of Chris, a sixteen y…
The A-level drama students of St Marylebone CE School in London give this frothy oldie a new lease of life.
Set on the private island of recently deceased music mogul Morgan Tremain, where all the people he had a grudge with in his life have been assembled for the reading of his will, Mu…
Titus Groan, heir to the great crumbling kingdom of Gormenghast is fourteen.
The show begins in a Greek restaurant.
When a group came into his show mistaking it for the one on next door, Matt Panesh, aka Money Poet, didn’t bat an eyelid.
What happened in this hour long show is still not quite clear; there was singing, nudity, drag, and a large cupboard to be sure.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Ah, I always enjoy watching the English parody the French.
If there’s one theatre company that can claim to have built an episodic comedy-of-errors at the Fringe, then it’s The Trap.
Star of the 1960s TV series The Likely Lads, Rodney Bewes shares some of Dylan Thomas’ short stories about his childhood.
Agnes, played by Abi Tedder, is hosting a wake for the father who abandoned her as a child.
It is the mark of truly great theatre when the audience leave the auditorium and cannot stop talking about the play.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Three soldiers are hit by a mighty explosion.
Mad About the Boy, the new play from Gbolahan Obisesan, could not have come along at a better time.
Durham University Light Opera Group’s (DULOG) show is an unexpectedly touching coming of age story juxtaposed with moments of raucous insanity.
A richly textured atmosphere enlivens this bittersweet tale of a young boy who has a very unusual means of keeping his heart ticking.
Sammy J is an Australian comedy singer-songwriter who interweaves stories from his own life with jaunty numbers on the piano, occasionally sipping on his carton of juice as a Frenc…
What would happen if the beloved characters of Neverland - Wendy, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan - had grown-up and confronted the horrors of World War I? This is the ques…
Nick Beaton presents a show with enough social observations to make an hour fly by.
Arthur, a doctor sheltering in a besieged city, wants to do ‘something useful.
As cushy executives in Hollywood studios were sat making up their minds which of our favourite DC/Marvel comics could be transformed into this year’s predictable multi-million do…
The Snail and the Whale is an entertaining show about a woman reminiscing about her childhood and in particular her fond memories of her father’s bedtime stories.
Alec Garton Ash brings his new play about an egotistical director who is on a mission to put on the greatest production of Hamlet that ever was.
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…
This droll play follows the life of an elderly gay man and the relationship he develops with a male prostitute.
Eddie Izzard invites you to his brand-new work-in-progress reading/performance of Charles Dickens’ classic epic Great Expectations.
A light broadcasts from Mars. At first it falters, is interfered with, then it becomes clear. It is The Boy with Green Hair, anti-war. A short film.
A world class voice and virtuosic musicians seamlessly combine the worlds of alternative pop and masterful baroque.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Four women.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
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Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil.
Glenn Chandler, creator of the legendary Taggart, has become known at the Fringe for his plays exploring different facets of gay life.
Modern Life Is Rubbish is romantic comedy about a couple whose love of music brings them together as well as revealing their differences.
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.
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
When safe spaces for LGBT people are shut down, what does that mean for the communities left behind? Bertie Darrell talks to Adrian Bradley about his new play A Boy Named Sue, and ...
In 2012, Harry Baker became the youngest ever World Poetry Slam Champion.
Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, swept the board at the Brighton Fring...
Srangers: A Magic Play weaves theatre and magic for a unique experience. Broadway Baby finds out more.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Broadway Baby chats to Gemma Wilson and Anna Thomas-Jones from The Well-Behaved Women about their upcoming show Dog Play Dead.