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.
This is a story about the rivalry between the two great northern cities of Liverpool and Manchester and, the fact that they have so much in common yet… it is ofte…
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
Fringe veteran mind reader, Tomas McCabe, is back with a show that combines his trademark mentalism with a courtroom drama.
When I am on stage performing stand-up comedy I feel like a wild horse galloping through the plains of Ohio, the wind running through my mane, the hot sun shining down on my sturdy…
What are you storing in the back rooms of your brain? Who’s lurking behind your eyes? Hold still.
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Diverse compositions spanning Janáček to Lianne La Havas are woven together by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Harry Baker.
Each summer, young Jamie comes to the same spot on the same beach and speaks with a mysterious figure – the king of a magical realm far, far away.
Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul.
Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown.
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
A coincidence or an act of a god? Are the children who created a god as a game truly responsible for the unexplained events unfolding around them? Ten years after their last plea, …
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…
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from Fringe legend David Alnwick.
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
Sarah Preacher, an awkward teenage girl living in a structured outpost away from an AI-dominated Overworld, faces a life-altering dilemma when a mysterious figure arrives in her co…
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Pure horror… Pushing the boundaries of magic as a genre’ ***** (WorldMagicReview.
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
After 10 years in the UK, Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the test: The Life in the UK test.
Does your coffee order reveal your personality? Is it possible to “have it all”? In this lighthearted historical fiction, several women who helped shape the future of Erie, Pennsyl…
Rainee Blake presents an intimate experience of Joni Mitchell’s most memorable songs and the stories that inspired them.
Voices of Israel and Palestine.
The water you drink has been drunk before.
Award-winning David Hoare returns with another bumper show, brimming with silliness.
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
Ring-a-ding-ding, you’ve got the King! Master of the crowd and slave to the laugh, Kyle Legacy is back with more riffs and less hair.
Comedy Central featured comedian Devin Gray is ready to wow you with his new show How To Get Away With Marriage.
Returning after a total sell-out run in 2019, Fragility of Man follows one man’s epic, lifelong battle with the justice system.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Alex Mason and Freya McGhee will be showcasing mathematical graphs of their love life, then delving into their funny frustrations with lab experiments, all while ensuring a chemica…
The adventures of blind comedian and folk singer David Eagle: accosted by faith healers, bamboozling aggressive Australians and escaping arrest after a nocturnal accordion-based an…
After an encounter with a wildlife enthusiast, the Funny Women Award finalist explores what it means to be a human animal (nightmare, tbh).
The 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee and winner of the Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality returns with a brand new show! After the huge success of his 2023 Phil…
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
The David O’Doherty of comedy is back! Having trained his body and mind to the point of peak perfection, he has used a very nice pen to write a new concert of talking and songs.
The incredible true story of missing WWII soldier Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew David William Bryan.
A mind-reading show from Berlin! Enter a surreal world where mind-reading is normal! This show combines handmade vintage-style visuals with the strange skills of two savants from B…
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 …
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
“If that makes sense” Common Phrase.
Enter the world of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman.
Directed by Lisa Ferlazzo NatoliCompany lacasadargillaA hilarious and touching Italian adaptation of one of Caryl Churchill’s most revolutionary plays.
One King. One Kingdom. And literally no time to rule. Based on historical events, House of the Onion debuts the untold story of the world’s shortest reigning monarch.
This brand-new production of the award-winning West End and Broadway musical tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s rise to stardom.
After 10 years in the UK Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the Test, the Life in the UK test.
King John - Terrible King, Even Worse Play? Well, that’s not the view of Rendered Retina theatre company who, in their own words, have cut two hours, added plenty of songs, and t…
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Join David Ingram, a 40-something retired twink, as he discusses his life as a gay man, the ups and downs, the tops and bottoms of growing up in a small town in Scotland in the 80�…
How To Run Away is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
Step back in time to explore a unique part of Brighton’s wartime history with one of our air raid shelter tours.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
David has undergone changes and is happier than he looks, promise.
‘A born comic.
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
COMEDY HYPNOSIS SHOW - Presuming Ed’s A mesmerising and hilarious Comedy Hypnosis Show where volunteers from the audience have their imaginations unlocked through the power of hypn…
Alex Mason brings a work-in-progress version of his debut solo show, Delicate Flower, to Brighton Fringe 2024.
Prepare to be swept away with the magical spirits, river gods and squeaking sprites of Yubaba’s bathhouse for a timeless adaptation of the classic Japanese animated film, Spirite…
Before Tom Cruise, Cary Grant or Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks was the King Of Hollywood! Now virtually forgotten, Doug was a remarkable actor and gifted visionary.
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
Music is something that we are all touched by.
Music is something that we are all touched by.
Citadel Arts Group’s new play is based on the stories behind the graves in North Leith Cemetery in Coburg Street, Leith.
The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br…
An experiential ghost story, unlike anything you have ever experienced before.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
In Something To Take Off The Edge, Errol McGlashan delivers a gripping one-man show taking audiences on a visceral journey into the world of a high-security prison.
Late night and loose, Hive Mind is a gameshow in which contestants have to crowdsource their way to victory.
This double bill of new plays by young writers gives two fresh twists on tragedy.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
David Rivera and La Båmbula will make you dance with their Caribbean sounds from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
“Actually.
“Actually.
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
A Night of the Mind – Fraser Penman, the world’s most unique hypnotist, is an international stage hypnotist and mentalist.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
A stand-up comedy show in BSL by the funniest deaf actor in the world, David Sands (aka Chris Baker from Small World). Come and laugh with… or at… David Sands.
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
Witness first-hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment - French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango, etc.
“I am many things.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
“I am many things.
A State of Mind is a verbatim piece of theatre scripted entirely from interviews from Billie.
A State of Mind is a verbatim piece of theatre scripted entirely from interviews from Billie.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
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.
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Scary, especially for the easily frightened.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from fringe legend David Alnwick.
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to.
Narcissism, noun – a condition in which somebody is only interested in themselves and what they want, and has a strong need to be admired.
Quirky, surreal, highly original stand-up.
Take The Bins Out is a dark comedy, telling the story of Finley Whitmore, whose congenital eye disorder wreaks havoc on his professional and personal life.
There is secret connection among all of us.
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
David Ellis is a terrible Jew.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
Warning: Reading this description is legally considered consent to rewire your brain! Most humans only use 10% of their brain! Who is using the other 90%?! We will teach you to reg…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
Australian comedian David Quirk quit comedy in 2017.
In Married at First Sleight, married magicians Kat and Alan Hudson introduce their show with boundless enthusiasm, demonstraing the obvious chemistry you'd hope to witness from…
The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair.
Following a sold-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe run in 2022, Scottish Comedian of the Year winner and Some Laugh podcast host Marc Jennings returns with his most personal show to da…
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
This is a brilliant show.
Jack’s love of Bowie is the jumping off point for an hour of comedy about his teenage years, first love, hedonism, families, AI, culture wars, mortality and why you should always m…
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Following a sold-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe run in 2022, Scottish Comedian of the Year winner and Some Laugh podcast host Marc Jennings returns with his most personal show to da…
SYBMAP? is a lecture-performance that investigates Faizal’s Muslim-Malay-Singaporean identity and his relationship with each noun, especially the latter two.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
Experience the raw reality of prison life in “Something To Take Off The Edge,” a powerful one-man show Tragi-comedy written and performed by Spoken Word Artist & Actor, Errol McGla…
Experience the raw reality of prison life in “Something To Take Off The Edge,” a powerful one-man show Tragi-comedy written and performed by Spoken Word Artist & Actor, Errol McGla…
Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
ARTS GROUP DISCOVERS LONG-LOST GRAVETheir playwrights’ workshop wondered what lies beneath Coburg Street and found a number of big characters interred in this small cemetery.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Director Elizabeth Newman’s stated aim of empathising with the characters who people Tennessee Williams’ classic 1947 work, allowing for their contradictions, is movingly fulfi…
“I am many things.
“I am many things.
Local comedian and rising star of the stand-up-circuit Alex Mason is bringing a work-in-progress version of his debut solo show, Delicate Flower, to Brighton Fringe.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Award-winning comedian Lara A King brings her unique brand of clever observational comedy, uplifting melodies and lyrical wordsmithery, to her spiritual home of Brighton with this …
Local comedian and rising star of the stand-up-circuit Alex Mason is bringing a work-in-progress version of his debut solo show, Delicate Flower, to Brighton Fringe.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
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…
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Air raid shelter tours and 1940s themed activities.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
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It’s 1936.
It’s 1936.
This stunning production is an ideal example of how to use the unique ability of dance to emphasise and refocus on different aspects of a classic drama.
A night of stand up comedy in aid of Mental Health Charity Sikh Your Mind.
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
Scottish Ballet’s hugely popular, award-winning production of A Streetcar Named Desire returns to Scotland for the first time since 2015, touring to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen …
On a street in New Orleans, in the blistering summer heat, a sister spirals.
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
In a lifetime the average person sleeps for twenty-six years … James suffers from insomnia post-breakup and his ex-partner Claire is the voiceover for his Mindfulness app.
James suffers from insomnia post-breakup and his ex-partner Claire is the voiceover for his Mindfulness app.
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
Kelly wants change.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
David Ferguson: Nice Bum is a show for people who like a little tragedy with their comedy.
Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?) is a lecture-performance that was inspired by the creator’s early experiences of living in London, and made with the kno…
Heads up all you wannabe drag kings scattered all over the globe - we are kicking off the Year Of the King by bringing back our most popular online workshop, Drag King 101 with Dor…
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, the multi award-winning team behind the sold-out global smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong and the BBC comedy series The Goes Wrong Show, star in th…
If you missed Esther Manito on Live at the Apollo, this is fantastic chance to see the Lebanese-British stand up in person.
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
A compelling, humorous and emotion-filled solo show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor…
A brand new show from the award-winning Belfast comedian.
Gabriel Byrne on stage.
A mixed-bill comedy, cabaret and variety show to celebrate the life of maverick producer David Johnson who died in 2020.
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel 4), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, Jamali …
Irish national treasure Gabriel Byrne weaves a captivating tale that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.
The Scottish Reformation: a time of conflict and transformation.
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
A Polish migrant, David Tasma, is dying from cancer in post-war London.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
The brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Rarely off our screens and about to embark upon a 35-date Scottish tour of his new one-man play, Time’s Plague, Scottish acting’s national treasure revisits a highlight-strewn …
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz.
Having had plenty of time to practise, Caspar returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand new magic show.
New Show for 2022.
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
Three of the Fringe’s biggest variety performers come together for an extra-sensational show! Witness the best magic, mind-reading and nerd-ity the Fringe has to offer, all in on…
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
It is difficult to work out exactly who this play is for.
At the start of the pandemic, PE teacher Aniqa’s school transforms into a food bank, as the East London community pulls together to get through lockdown.
Carnival kissing booth: sometime, someplace.
International comedian Long Hu has returned from Beijing bringing his vaudeville style comedy with him.
Witness first–hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Red rubber strands hang down, filling the space.
Paranormal illusions, spooky magic and ghostly goings in the underground vaults of Edinburgh.
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to (NB you’ll still have to).
A brand-new show from the grand master of Dada nonsense that will endeavour to kick both the stigma of mental health and the patriarchy right in the non-binaries! Hold onto your re…
Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
Glorious mistakes.
There’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo has risen from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land.
In Vegas, a magician performs a final disappearing act.
Mischief is one of those companies that gives the struggling Fringe performer hope.
Here he comes, trotting back onstage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Experience the best upcoming talent from the North of England as one cast stage two of Shakespeare’s least known plays… What comes to mind when you thi…
Our Jubilee Bank Holiday Friday special! For the first time live on stage in Vauxhall in too many years, Eagle London is proud to present LIVE on stage, the one and only David Dale…
Touring productions of West End musicals can often feel like a poor shadow of their original run as they usually require considerable downscaling to easily fit into a multitude of …
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Want to learn how to use performance skills to express yourself and take up space? Join the multi-talented BiBi Crew for an immersive ½ day workshop led by Judith Jacob, Suzette…
Want to learn how to use performance skills to express yourself and take up space? Join the multi-talented BiBi Crew for an immersive ½ day workshop led by Judith Jacob, Suzette…
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
Having had plenty of time to practise, Caspar returns with a brand new magic show premiering at the Brighton Fringe.
Having had plenty of time to practise, Caspar returns with a brand new magic show premiering at the Brighton Fringe.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
New material from the blogging comic.
New material from the blogging comic.
An immersive museum about life in Brighton during WW2, built inside an original school air raid shelter.
Christopher Drake will explain the discoveries of the eminent Russian medical scientist Prof.
Christopher Drake and his team of Practitioners will explain the discoveries of the eminent Russian medical scientist Prof.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Horace Silver.
Simon David invites YOU to the live recording of his horrible DEBUT ALBUM From tender ballads (Daddy I Wanna Dance & Shitting On A Dick) to crowd favourites (Straggot, Why…
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
Ladies, Gaydies, Theydies, straight people who can take a joke Fashionista, and musical comedian, Simon David is back at The Glory trying out some horrible new songs LIVE! Fro…
Shakespeare’s extraordinary poem Venus and Adonis provides the inspiration for a compelling exploration of erotic power in States of Mind – a contemporary reimagining of the po…
SIMPLY THE BREAST - Drag King Fundraiser The m*n, the myth, the legend, Jamie Fuxx, is undergoing some gender affirming surgery this October.
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Behind Desire Festival is a celebration of sex workers, survivors and sexual minorities.
Objects of Desire is an archive of sex workers stories told through objects.
MIND UR HEAD @ THE YARDa queer dance platform + party Saturday 11th September // evening + night evening join us for an evening in theatre space for a sharing of pro…
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
Simon David (A hoot - The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Farmers-turned-entertainers David & Sam are ploughing up to George Square with their rambunctious family comedy, littered with the absolute best showmanship they can muster.
Find your place on the path to The Clapham Grand for our LION KING MOVIE NIGHT Weve already given you Mamma Mia, but were roaring back to full capacity Movie Nights here at T…
Doctors Benji Waterstones and Matt Hutchinson stitch their comedy careers back together – coming fresh from being heroes throughout the pandemic, heroically doing front-line hero…
Doctors Benji Waterstones and Matt Hutchinson stitch their comedy careers back together – coming fresh from being heroes throughout the pandemic, heroically doing front-line hero…
HEY BABES!Hold on to your unicorns because Babeslaytion are about to take you on a FABULOUS non-stop tour of sights you can only dream of!Were SO excited to announce our first EVER…
Join ‘Selfish’ Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King to to better understand yourself and events in your life!Workshop overviewSo, this workshop will be all about how to use w…
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT Festival 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing across to Islington with their rambunctious family comedy, littered wi…
Following her sell-out success of 5 Soldiers – The Body is the Frontline, choreographer Rosie Kay curates a series of live and hybrid panel discussions around freedom, security a…
Following her sell-out success of 5 Soldiers – The Body is the Frontline, choreographer Rosie Kay curates a series of live and hybrid panel discussions around freedom, security a…
A ghost story told with magic.
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.
Simon lives his life hoping to move on from tragic memories he’d rather forget.
Simon lives his life hoping to move on from tragic memories he’d rather forget.
Chalkhill Theatre Ltd currently has a double debut with the company’s first appearance at the Festival Fringe and the premiere of their new play.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
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.
‘Doctors Benji Waterstones and Matt Hutchinson stitch their comedy careers back together – coming fresh from being heroes throughout the pandemic, heroically…
Matt Hutchinson is a hospital doctor and comedian - Fresh from being an absolute hero throughout the pandemic, heroically doing front-line hero things, the sound of the “Clap for…
Matt Hutchinson is a hospital doctor and comedian - Fresh from being an absolute hero throughout the pandemic, heroically doing front-line hero things, the sound of the …
Matt Hutchinson is a hospital doctor and comedian - Fresh from being an absolute hero throughout the pandemic, heroically doing front-line hero things, the sound of the “Clap for…
You’re invited to celebrate Annabelle’s 10th birthday, hosted by everyone’s favourite MP candidate, Janet Crumb! (Almost) everyone is welcome… that is, everyone apart from …
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
An immersive museum about life in Brighton during WW2, built inside an original school air raid shelter.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
Nadia is a veteran journalist of The Balkan and Iraq wars.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Drag Bingo is BACK at the 2 Brewers and this time, it’s permanent!Pulling your balls is the ever wonderful Topsie Redfern with her right hand man, David Robson over on sound and vi…
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
An interactive online adventure story for children aged 3-8.
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
Missing the excitement of a family holiday this year? No fear! Join us as a ‘Cloud Cadet’ and go ‘Up, Up, Up and Away!’ on the adventure of a lifetime! This ★★★★★ “Hil…
The latest mission in “Project Pandora”, the epic escape game quest to bring an evil genius to justice.
Tickets: £24.
The latest mission in “Project Pandora”, the epic escape game quest to bring an evil genius to justice.
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
This show has been rescheduled from 17 April 2020.
“Drama King” is a compelling new one-man show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which tells the story of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Here he comes again, trotting on to the stage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing up to Bristo Square with their rambunctious comedy spectacular decorated with t…
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Created by Super Stories with City Actors and presented by Creation Theatre, Up, Up,Up and Away! is an online, interactive, adventure story aimed at children aged 3+ and their fami…
“Café Named Desire” is a musical about love, sexuality, and self discovery.
Carrying David, which is the dramatic story of how David McCrory inspired his bother Glenn to become the cruiserweight champion of the world, will play the Canal Cafe Theatre in Li…
Meet Marcus.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
Join us, farmers, David and Sam, under the watchful eye of our rumbustious Gran, as we courteously portray to you our untold and epic adventures right here at VAULT Festival, in th…
A thought-provoking play about how family and social structures mold us into misshapen beings, and how trauma can become one’s own salvation.
Don’t miss John Kani’s highly acclaimed play Kunene and the King marking the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid with a strictly limited London run, following its …
Two distinguished musicians – violinist Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) – bring their own interpretation to Bach’s profound wor…
Following the huge success of the first season of Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace, Lambert Jackson are thrilled to return with another star-filled line-up of intimate West En…
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK!TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
KING OF POP - THE LEGEND CONTINUES showcases the extraordinary talent of an impersonator who has performed for 28 years in over 350 international shows, 62 different cou…
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.
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
If you have ever wondered how contemporary dance choreography is created (as opposed to classical ballet) this fascinating show, CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Body Language directed …
Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare return to Edinburgh following their sell-out run last year.
Naomi Sheldon (Funny Women Best Show, 2018) returns with a new psychological drama that takes the audience on an exploration of sound and the supernatural.
We miss Robin Williams.
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Fresh from touring The Benny Lynch Story, completing the film comedy Fisherman’s Friends, and playing Private Frazer in the remake of the lost episodes of Dad’s Army (and a few…
A fun, interactive and educational classical violin and cello concert for babies and toddlers where wriggling is allowed! A programme of water-themed music and the story of The Luc…
The magic of David Attenborough live on stage! A blue whale swims through the ocean depths.
For the 16th year, this brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their world music mix with virtuoso skill and infectious enjoyment.
Join David Rudolf, defence attorney for Michael Peterson in the hit Netflix documentary series The Staircase, for an evening of discussion into the intimate details of the case and…
Craig and Darren are some nice boys who hit the jackpot when their venue agreed to let them give away free nachos at every performance they do.
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
If you were to ask every magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe who their favourite magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe is, you could expect the majority of them to respond in…
Character comedian David McIver’s Teleport takes us on a deliciously low-budget, self-deprecating, dynamic quest through the online fantasy character games he used to play as a c…
Top Fringe performers bring you the best variety show in Edinburgh! Elliot Bibby is the former Scottish Magician of the Year and his successful 2018 show was nominated for the Frin…
Sean expects a quiet night alone in the pub, but Lisa catches his eye.
When you are given a class project of Flat Stanley who better than your stand-up comedian Uncle Dave to do it for you.
David Kilimnick puts on his rabbi hat and brings the rabbinical mind to the stage as he expresses his irreverence for what is wrong.
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner presents his fourth show.
Up and Away is a drama set in rural Wisconsin.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Following sell-out runs in 2016 and 2018 Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show! As a child Mason always dreamt of mastering the art of sleight of hand.
Polenta and Sage Take to the Stage is a fusion of character stand-up and improv comedy with some audience participation.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Following sell-out shows and standing ovations in 2017/18, The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy Award winner and…
Using only a deck of cards and a toy rabbit, magician Craig Stephenson has been amazing audiences all over the world.
James Stuart – or Stuart James – is passed out at his desk as the audience file into the space.
Take Your Brain To Another Dimension II at Edinburgh’s VAB Lab – an exhibition of modern art.
Some people have called it ‘the biggest scam or our age’.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Joe Bates (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 6 Music) and Luke Chilton (BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra) have both been on a journey: one into the recesses of a broken mind in a foreign land, the othe…
Delightfully deranged and beautifully berserk, Ukrainian group Misanthrope Theatre re-ignite the flames of rebellion and fervour that saw Alfred Jarry’s play close upon its openi…
Character comedy is a difficult discipline at the best of times and, with a trope as thoroughly picked-over as the oblivious action-hero, it asks at lot from a performer to find so…
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, laconic, quirky, surreal, unexpected and awesome.
David Tieck is a big absurdist, idiotic, teddy-bear type person.
It’s 1981 and ska music pulses.
Benson shares his fascination with the infamous plot to murder Lord Liverpool’s entire cabinet and the grisly aftermath on the gallows at Newgate.
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
YesYesNoNo are searching for the truth.
There’s only one person who could compel people from their homes on a day when the rain is coming down in sheets and thunder crashes less than three Mississippi’s away.
“An improvised cinematic musical using a cast of actors performing alongside untested hypnotised volunteers expected to act, dance and even rap under the same impromptu condition…
The future is uncertain.
Fresh from consistently packing out the biggest room on PBH’s Free Fringe in 2018, Tomas McCabe walks out to a half-full room that is already half the size of his smash hit debut…
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘It was about getting rid, not counting’ she said, but they needed to know where the bodies were.
A show about getting lost and getting found.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Agatha Christie’s The Rats - one of her perplexing shorter plays in all its intrigue and deceit.
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
Three confused minds, one rather long acronym! Brighton-based trio, Spit the Ink, deliver a fantastic mix of comedy, poetry and spoken word in their Fringe debut.
Canadian stand-up comic David Tsonos has been auditioning for acting roles for 20 years.
Fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, avantguardian, all singing, all raging wonder.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos has had pet cats for the last 20 years, from the early days of Mittens to his new cat Mitzy, come watch him as he deals with problems of adopti…
Politics, celebrity, the media, technology, our 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia.
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
The daily blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
A pole-esque tale, telling the story of one woman’s journey through pole, from the seedy underworld of Brighton, to her respectable reinvention as a drag king.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
A fun space to connect with music and dance! DJs playing vinyl only, hosted by Nin Warrior guesting local legends.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Come! Escape into the Kingdoms of Ashgorn, where you can level up, complete quests, defeat monsters and watch a very cheeky young man doing some really stupid character comedy.
A fresh adaptation of a classic text, ‘Ghosts’ deals with themes of transgressive relationships, corruption within the church, hypocrisy, and social responsibilities towards the po…
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
Following on from their successful visits with The Nutcracker and Storyteller Storyteller, StoryPocket return with David Baddiel’s ANiMALCOLM the Musical.
We all need homes…….
Cult genius famed for the 1977 "Rhythm of Life" LP and club classic "Sweet Power, Your Embrace" which Norman Jay MBE proclaimed to be "One of the most infl…
Learn about the creative possibilities of using a commercially available Electroencephalography (EEG) headset that detects signals coming directly from the human brain! …
Unhook your mindbras.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
As Brexit screeches towards a nightmare climax that not even the Prime Minister can predict, the REMAINIACS podcast crew return for an evening of high-end Brexit talk an…
Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world.
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Lively and light-hearted singing with Barbara Rayner - a chance to share memories and a love of songs of all styles from jazz and show-stoppers to gospel and folk all in…
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
Fragments of a Complicated Mind is the first of any works I have come across by multidisciplinary artist Damilola DK Fashola, exploring the many facets of blackness and how it is p…
Hot off her world debut at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, followed by a critically acclaimed run at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cazeleon the cabaret chameleon is ready for her cl…
With three drummers, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey, as well as the return of multi-instrumentalist Bill Rieflin on keyboards, guitarist and original founding mem…
Now a massively-popular sub-genre of crime writing, Domestic Noir takes as its premise the belief that the domestic sphere can be a dark and dangerous environment for wo…
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
Award-winning singer songwriter David Gibb returns with a brand new musical show for families and children, after sold out performances in 2017.
In his latest stand-up tour show former Detective Sergeant Alfie Moore, and star of hit BBC Radio 4 comedy ‘IT’S A FAIR COP’, takes you on a thrilling …
Across four limitless, unplanned evenings of hilarity, protest and misrule, cabaret terrorist and avantguardian David Hoyle RETURNS, supercharged and offroad, to the R…
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Jean Genie are the ultimate tribute to David Bowie, fronted by John Manwaring and his band, expect a 2 hour show packed with all the hits from the Ziggy and White Duke e…
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…
Never Mind the Gap: genres, artistes and personalities combine with the old spirit of the Fringe and collide as the talents of three different personalities come together and clash…
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…
‘Combined blistering pace with beautifully crafted melodies’ (BroadwayBaby.
Eivind Ringstad ViolaDavid Meier Piano Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’Schumann MarchenbilderPeder Barratt-Due Correspondances (world premiere)Franck Sonata in ASchu…
There is never a dull moment with Billie.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
We miss Robin Williams.
This contemporary dance piece performed by Claire Henderson Davis and Bettina Carpi follows the interweaving stories of three pregnant women: a Syrian woman refugee journeying to …
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, returns to the International Festival three years after he performed his glorious soundtrack to the nostalgia-soaked film, From Scotland With Lov…
A series of (eight) mannequin heads are transformed by the insertion of thousands of metal pins and the application of mobile SIM cards, inviting us to question where humanity ends…
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a surprisingly silly trek through psychiatric wards, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis.
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
Discussions about drug use and drug policy often involve stories – personal experience combined with knowledge gleamed from the media and other sources.
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Croft & Pearce Show and Sketchorama, winners of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award, recipients of the official Fringe Total Sell-Out Show Laur…
Following a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, mind control artist Mason King returns for another journey into the inner depths of the human mind.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland and debut at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tomas is bringing his show back for a fina…
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos returns with his sequel to his solo show 2015 Walking the Cat.
Freddie Folkston plays with magic, words and humour.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Look, it’s David McIver, the nicest little man in town giving it a good go with his debut hour of riffs, bits and skits.
After a sell-out run in 2017 The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of this six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit mak…
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
August 1916, the great explorer Alexandra David-Néel has been in her hermitage cavern in the Himalayas for two and a half years, following the teachings of her guru, the Lama Gomc…
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, quirky, surreal, surprising and awesome.
A 23-year-old blind theoretical physicist turned local radio news broadcaster, a late-night TV casino host and a well-meaning woman called Glynis join forces for a laugh-packed sho…
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
After touring the world with internationally-received show, Getting Away Scott Free.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
At the centre of its big, warm heart, The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It is a story about a non-activist boy and his activist mother, and by extension a story about all of us and our…
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Though now a household name thanks to a semi-final place in last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, singing impressionist Jess Robinson is a familiar face of the Fringe.
As seen on Ricky Gervais’ Derek, Sky’s Rovers and Channel 4’s Gittins.
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
The 1991 holiday camp talent show winner, frontman of Best Hertfordshire Band 1998 and Most Promising Student 2002 pinpoints where things went wrong.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Home is a powerful concept.
Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them.
If there’s one thing the majority of people at the Fringe can empathise with, it’s how hard the life of a jobbing actor can be.
An enigmatic title is the hallmark of many Fringe shows – I’m sure no one knows quite what to expect from Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples or Lights Over Tesc…
Cazeleon, the self-proclaimed ‘cabaret chameleon’ – resplendent in monochrome make-up and a jaunty red, wide-brimmed hat - opens her show with a pitch perfect rendition of �…
New Zealand’s David Correos has blown away audiences from Auckland to Adelaide, now he returns to Edinburgh with his debut solo show.
Unhook your mindbras.
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
Trump.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
King Courgette is an old-time vegetable string band Featuring Wild Zucchini Bill from international trash-bashing phenomenon STOMP! Expect a righteous mix of fiddles, ba…
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Written by award-winning writer Tim Firth, The Band is a beautiful story for anyone who grew up with a boyband and how those songs became the soundtrack of their lives.
Leading US Humorist, David Sedaris, is coming to London for his 2018 UK tour supporting the release of his book of essays ‘Calypso’.
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and…
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…
7090 are the hosts of a playground full of music, films and installations.
Coming off the back of an international tour of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Puppets hunting passion.
We’ve all had childhoods.
A firm rite of the Queens, the boys from Der Wunderlich Revue have been peddling their own unique brand of chaos, smut, nudity and stupidity for ten years.
Comedian David Callaghan brings his newest interactive technological comedy adventure.
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.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend ‘David Hoyle’ returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
For the first time ever in the UK…TWO classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Take Shelter at Downs Junior School, and step back to the 1940s when visiting our original WW2 Air Raid Shelter under the playground.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a personal trek through his mental health history, including his time in a psychiatric ward, suicide attempts, depression an…
"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…
The daily-blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
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…
Wow, it’s time for the debut hour of comedy from hot ticket and nice friend David McIver! That’s right girls and boys, your special little man is all grown up and raring to do some…
Come and have your mind fried, and witness David Terrence conduct the live unboxing of a comedy, mind-reading show, demonstrating all the likely ingredients of a mind-blowing show …
While away an hour or so as magic meets stand-up comedy. As well as some cunning trickery, Freddie will share his frustrations of modern and not so modern life.
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Focus people! Stand-up comic David Mills is back with another free hour of sharp and hilarious rants.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with an inter-dimensional, work in progress stand-up comedy show.
Remember when Nazis were only found in Germany, Austria, and Clacton-on-Sea? Well now they’re in the White House, Downing Street, and Clacton-on-Sea.
‘Super Happy Land’ is the reimagining of 70s children’s favourite ‘Tiswas’ relocated to The Round George’s’.
All the King’s Men bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Direct from Paris, multi-award-winning magician David Stone presents his unique brand of comedy & illusion live in Leicester Square.
You Can’t Take it With You is a 1930’s era screwball comedy enthusiastically embraced by Sedos (The Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society), an amateur company three deca…
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tour, ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again with a brand new show.
Crib, check! Nappies, check! Weird breast-pump thing, check! Losing mind, check! Mum on speed-dial, quickest route to the hospital mapped.
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
Make Believe - children’s songs for grown-ups! Like the lovechild of Noni Hazelhurst and your loveable drunk uncle, kid’s entertainer David Salter slurs his way through a songbo…
“Ladies and Gentlemen, we welcome you aboard magical airline Up, Up & Away! where only the extremely good looking are eligible to fly! We trust you’ll enjoy the hospitality pro…
Fresh from his successful 2017 debut solo performance at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
A Monday night variety showcase, featuring performers from all over Fringeland… You better Hyde your dips, and Hyde your chives, IT’S GONNA BE A CRACKER!
UP, UP AND AWAY WITH CLAY !!! Come and see our new exhibition of members’ clay works…functional, quirky, decorative, thoughtful, but always engaging.
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
Rob Broderick, Abandoman’s freestyling frontman, is bringing his new solo show to the Fringe.
Billy T Award winner David Correos has developed a reputation for delivering full noise, powerful, messy comedy defying genre and labels.
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
As seen on The Project.
This unmissable acoustic experience debuts it’s all-star collaboration of Lindsay Field, Sam See and Glyn Mason for one night only at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe.
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
All hail Macbeth: the story of Shakespeare’s tragic soldier explored through the prism of PTSD on the bloody battlefields of WW1.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Polly Toynbee and David Walker join Professor Chris Carter to discuss their dream government, constructing an imaginary cabinet from politicians of the past half century.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
One of the emperor’s favorite concubines in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Gui Fei, was also renowned as one of the four beauties in Chinese history.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back with a new show for 2017! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland, Tomas is bringing his abilities across the sea to the Edinburgh Frin…
David Earl’s alter ego, Brian Gittins is an utter prat and according to the Sussex Argus, ‘The World’s Worst Comedian’.
One of Scotland’s great contemporary artists discusses his career.
A mind reading show based on the true story of America’s psychic spies.
Thisis a solo show where the Korean dancer and choreographer Lee Kyung-eun, inspired by the shamanic gut or rite to expel ‘goblins’ or evil spirits, aims to turn this around an…
His Lordship has returned home. The ghosts have been waiting (and they’ve hidden the gin). Welcome to Moistly Hollow, it’ll put the willies up you…
The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar,…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
We miss Robin Williams.
After amazing audiences for two years with groundbreaking Strictly Come Trancing, the Fringe’s first and best hypnotist returns with a brand-new hypnotic experience.
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
‘From tango to polka, Bulgarian Horo to hot New Orleans jazz – great skill.
A one woman verbatim play about a well lived woman.
Nominated for best play by the Anti-Trafficking Foundation in 2016.
After amazing audiences for two years with groundbreaking Strictly Come Trancing, the Fringe’s first and best hypnotist returns with a brand-new hypnotic experience.
Sherlock Holmes, whisky lore, and a wee dram in a haunted venue! Join Scots whisky expert Charles MacLean and Sherlockian author/expert Bonnie MacBird as they talk history, murder …
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
David McIver is a refreshing breath of air in every sense.
Christine is standing at a crossroads in life, looking back at her past decisions.
After amazing audiences for two years with groundbreaking Strictly Come Trancing, the Fringe’s first and best hypnotist returns with a brand-new hypnotic experience.
Physical theatre can always lend itself to a degree of interpretation, and inevitably the risk of confusion.
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
What is the future of desire? I hoped Neil Frude, a leading lecturer on abnormal psychology, would be able to tell me.
The Carole King Story premiers at the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit-maker.
People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies.
Experience the power of a live motivational mind reading show! Combining techniques used by motivational speakers, magicians, and stage mind readers, Phil Ainsworth is The MoMental…
At 36, David is still unable to function in society.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Communist crooner Des Kapital (Gulag’s Got Talent, The Ex-Soviet Republic Factor) is glasnost all over to present the history of the Soviet Union using the music of Taylor Swift …
Take a deep breath and join me on a multimedia rampage.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows returns following his 2014 show The Ten Best Songs of All Time with a personal trek through his mental health history, including his …
Winner: Piece of Wood (Comedian’s Choice) 2012, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
Rob Broderick is a one of a kind performer.
Fresh off the series finale of his critically acclaimed American comedy series, Review, Andy Daly (also seen on such shows as Eastbound & Down, The Office and Silicon Valley) makes…
Back with another hour of surreal stupidity.
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
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…
Luke Kempner takes a Luke in the mirror in this gently funny show, poking fun at himself and the impressions he uses to express himself.
Join David Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
This show is a mixed bag.
‘This is not an insultive show’, says the amiable and bearded Forbes, relaxing us into a state of lethargy.
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
Much as it is a pleasure to discover a hidden gem amongst the mass of shows in Edinburgh, there’s also something very reassuring about having a list of reliable prospects.
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
From the team behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs comes a brand new adaptation of David Walliam’s children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon.
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
After amazing audiences for two years with groundbreaking Strictly Come Trancing, the Fringe’s first and best hypnotist returns with a brand-new hypnotic experience.
A site specific, immersive play invites the audience into Danni’s student flat for pre-drinks and Ring of Fire with her best friend, Jack.
Three idiots spoof Noel Coward in a unique and ridiculous vision of ‘Blithe Spirit’.
Skyfall, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Ghost, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Beauty and the Beast, Notting Hill, 50 Shades Darker and Beetleju…
Some people might think that setting the Battle of Stalingrad to Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time is somewhat trivialising the matter.
Award-winning stand-up comedian David Mills struggles to stay modern in a world quickly reverting to more medieval tendencies.
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
A light-hearted mind-reading show with amazing and impossible mind stunts! No dead relatives will be contacted throughout the evening, however they may be interrupted with the laug…
Take Shelter at Downs Junior School, and step back to the 1940s when you visit our original WW2 Air Raid Shelter under the playground.
If you thought a night with the Rainbow Chorus couldn’t get any better, then get ready for a departure from our usual concerts as we roll out an evening of songs from the familiar,…
Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being on a section of the Mental Health Act and distinctly upset about being …
At thirty-six, David is still unable to function in society.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for an unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
David McIver is one of the most fun guys around these days.
“This parable of limiting life down to human usefulness is as beautiful as it is bleak” (Exeunt).
Crazy, voyeuristic, unexpected and fast paced, SOHO is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre in a diverse trip around the streets where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Experience the power of a live motivational mind-reading show! Combining techniques used by motivational speakers, magicians, and stage mind-readers, Phil Ainsworth is ‘The MoMenta…
Back by popular demand following a critically-acclaimed West End run and sold out residency at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not the Sitcom is a massively disrespectful …
Start with a few cold-reading tricks, dash in some sleight of hand, add in a heavy dose of comedy on top and you’ve got the recipe to make any mind-reading show come out well.
“Please don’t be charmed, he’s not a lovable rogue.
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…
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting musi…
The Ghosts of Mr Dickens charts the author’s voyage to America, where he is haunted by visions of his past and characters from his books.
Following a critically acclaimed, complete sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not The Sitcom comes to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited 5 we…
HarmonyChoir (and special guests) will bring you an evening of inspirational and empowering music! HarmonyChoir is a group of singers, some of whom have experience with mental heal…
Fife’s Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote, has become one of Scotland’s most acclaimed and prolific singer-songwriters: a squeezebox Casanova and a seafaring pop heart-breaker who…
Performed by a company of young actors, this is a credible adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely performed King John that revels in the high stakes of its historical narrative.
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
There is a myth that we use only 10% of our brains, and while this is not true, there is no doubt that a trained mind can perform tasks that ordinary people may find miraculous.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Your Clubcard may say more about you than your DNA, so should it be considered more private? When it comes to understanding patterns in health and illness, examining our data may b…
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.
Simon David is the next big music sensation but what makes him unique? He’s a virgin! Co-written by Fringe First Winner Chris Larner, Simon & his live band tell the story of his di…
Lord David Steel joins Professor Chris Carter to reflect on an illustrious career in public life.
David Kay, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 as one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit.
We miss Robin Williams.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried! The hilarious, heartwarming true story of how The Fabulous TT came to write Robert Burns: The Musical.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment – French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango etc.
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Harbouring secret feelings for Geoffrey Boycott? Fantasising about Edwina Currie? Join David as he deconstructs the cult of celebrity with a collection of love songs, poems and let…
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
Oh boy, this looks good! David McIver is a silly little man and he’s got a bit of fun for you.
Qualifying as a doctor in 2015, Aaron chose to leave the medical field to deliver this fast-paced, edge of your seat experience that showcases his mastery in mind control, hypnosis…
Almost twenty years ago, Guy Ritchie changed the landscape of British cinema with his love letter to the charismatic psychopaths of the East End underbelly Lock, Stock and Two Smok…
Where a show like Mind Games has to shine is in the mind reading and Aaron Calvert has chosen some lovely tricks that suitably stun the participants onstage and the audience alike.
Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle.
A semi-improvised stand-up show about mental illness and pest control.
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
Liz Miele is a smart, sardonic firecracker from New Jersey who’s been on the comedy circuit since the tender age of 16.
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…
Part stand-up show, part planetarium experience.
Put your out of office on, divert all calls to your PA Karen and come along to a character comedy show from duo Lola and Jo.
Wahoo! And also hooray! It’s David Stanier’s Silly Party – the party based comedy show.
David Ephgrave enters the room in an endearing manner, commanding the audience’s attention with music and his upbeat persona.
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
Having previously seen an outstanding Georgian language version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm by the Tumanisvili Film Actors Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, in…
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
Approaching Perfection is the new film¹ by award-winning director² David Quirk.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
The sharp-suited David Mills is already seated on stage when his audience comes in, chatting with us, riffing along to a Barry Manilow hit; while he later insists that the role in …
A cheeky staged reading of two original teleplays intended for premium cable adult programming (colloquially known as Skinemax shows).
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
Lucky pup Elms is back chasing his tail again; he’s learning about sacrifice, guilt, and, as always, love.
Puppet pioneers Flabbergast Theatre have made an interesting move this year, establishing their own dedicated performance space, The Omnitorium, within the confines of Assembly Ge…
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.
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
Beautifully-crafted comedy from one of the country’s masters of anecdote and timing.
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date? An engaging and amusing…
Joni has met someone special, but how can she tell him she has a long-term mental illness? And is that really the best thing to talk about on a second date?
Winner! 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical! Tony Award® winner Kelli O’Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific) and Jose Llana (Here Lies Love) star in a magni…
Stranded by severe snowstorms, three identically dressed strangers disturb the rural calm of a young woman in a remote Sussex cottage.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
The back end of the comic duo Doggett and Ephgrave turns the spotlight on himself for an hour of solo stand-up.
Mr.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding …
Free alternative comedy from Matt Hutson (Runner-up in Preston Comedian of the Year) and David McIver (Selected for the BBC New Comedy award 2015).
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic, early 20th century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic early 20th-century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
This is the second time Michael Pennington has donned the crown of Lear and this time it’s a Lear clearly made for a 21st Century audience; cut down and pacey.
Romany Mark Bruce, the creator of the Brighton AIDS Memorial, exhibits a new collection of vibrant abstract paintings, inspired by ecclesiastical items collected by him over 20 yea…
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a …
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
Mike Bartlett’s beautifully worded imagining of a constitutional crisis without a constitution invites us to witness the starkness of the Royal Family stripped bare whilst presen…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
With a performance and choreography career spanning more than half a century, David Gordon has accumulated a lot of mementos.
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
A show not for the cowardly or shy, this Flea Theater piece, devised by the incoming artistic director, Niegel Smith, and Elastic City’s founder, Todd Shalom, is “…
The Construction Company, a 45-year-old arts organization, presents an evening of new and revivified works by the veteran choreographers Sally Silvers and Kenneth King, as well as …
This program of seven short plays by David Ives is presented by New York Deaf Theater and employs both spoken English and American Sign Language to tell its comedic tales (2:00).
Mr.
Megan Barker’s courageous new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts follows the story of Helen Alving as she attempts to arrange funding for a children’s home.
This elegant young French pianist has attracted attention in recent years for his insightful performances and recordings of Schubert.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
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Generosity and gentleness of spirit may be the two most striking features of this joyous new show created by Lincoln Center Education and Trusty Sidekick Theater Company for childr…
Polly Toynbee and David Walker are two of Britain’s leading social democratic commentators and policy analysts.
A sage said ‘nothing can be certain but death and taxes’.
It’s 1941 and millions of women have their loved ones ripped away from them, unsure if they’ll ever meet again.
Joe Mylonas hosts this standup show to benefit the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
Stories, studies and stupidity about finding happiness in strange and scientific places by poet Agnes Török, winner of 2014’s Best International Spoken Word Show Award (PBH).
Prince Charming is down in the dumps, Cinderella can’t find her fairy godmother, Little Red Riding Hood has wandered out of the forest, and the Wolf seems more interested in doin…
The Giggle Dungeon has its sights set sights on the north! They are bringing every weapon in their arsenal.
Valour is a WWI Centenary-inspired composition by the composer and poet Dom Mason.
The David Latto Band bring their brand of celtic-tinged Americana to AMC@St Bride’s and the Fringe for the first time.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
Amid the discussion over the Irish Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill this year, Since Maggie Went Away could not come at a more relevant time.
Jimmy Shand to Johnny Dodds, a virtuoso mix of music unfolds before you: French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan.
1949: Maggie, an Irish country girl, secretly gives birth to a baby boy and is forced to give him away.
I wouldn’t normally mention a show’s venue in a comedy review, but David Mills is performing in a gorgeous space in the Voodoo Rooms.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Alternative comedy-themed stand-up from the melancholic David McIver (Tickled Pig finalist 2014), mischievous storyteller Sophie Henderson (Max Turner Prize finalist 2015), absurdi…
Jim Higo and Miki Higgins present their double act poetry, comedy and sketch show which is intended to be ‘a satirical look at culture and the arts’.
Bob Slayer’s infamous late night aftershow that probably isn’t for you.
Six passengers travel on the tube from Stratford to Ealing Broadway.
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
‘Gallivanting.
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
Following a bad break-up (although is there ever a good break-up?), David somehow gained custody of the cat, Mittens.
The Sacred Room of Desire, written and directed by Carola Benedetto tells the story of the Hindu pantheon family of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha.
Uncle Sam Wants You For U.
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club.
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
Despite being one of Jack London’s more obscure works, his 1915 novel The Star Rover or The Jacket is one that feels oddly contemporary.
An adventure through a moral maze.
The most disappointing revelation of Jimmy Bird’s stand-up routine is that the title is more than a little bit misleading.
Have you ever been surprised to receive a phonecall from a friend that you were just thinking about? How many times have you felt so in tune with a person that you knew what they w…
The first solo show from David Callaghan (BBC New Comedy Awards 2012 and 2013).
‘Supremely talented musical comedian’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The award-winning star of MTV’s Comedy Funhouse brings his debut hour to the Fringe in ‘a show rammed full of energy and laughs’ (Skinny).
David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
This time next year, the Assembly George Square Theatre will not be big enough to contain David O’Doherty.
The legend of Faustus, the man who sold his soul for knowledge, wealth and power is one which has been in the public consciousness for over 500 years.
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Jim Higo and Miki Higgins are, in one word, brave.
An all-new, all-female production of Shakespeare’s war play, King Henry V follows Henry and her band of brothers as they face the challenges of life on the front line, exploring …
(previews start on July 13; opens on July 27) The career of a sport agent is a high-testosterone avocation, but Liz Rico does it a as well or much better than her male colleagues.
(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…
Joni has just met someone special.
Through movement and play participants will identify their own Fools and Kings to explore the beautiful, ridiculous and poignant conflict of this unlikely alliance.
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…
For those who haven’t seen David Hoyle perform before, throw out your preconceptions and definitely expect the unexpected; for David is not your typical drag queen, and I’m s…
Welcome to the future world of ‘Inner-BioNanotechnology’ where the internet is now within you and you’re forced to be continually online! A comedic, yet disturbing satire where Nan…
Croft & Pearce are rising stars of sketch comedy! They were recently commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a four-part sitcom which will be developed from characters created for the…
Free stand-up comedy: Focus people! David Mills is back with brand new razor sharp rants, cocktail swagger and a biting, acerbic wit.
Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati…
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…
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
The music programming at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building downtown begins, in a collaboration with Issue Project Room, with four concerts over three days.
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
An internationally renowned Irish comedian, Mr.
David Carl and Katie Harman star in their new play about a couple who have decided to remarry after their “violent and expensive divorce.
Mr.
(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 12) The Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has always had a spooky feel, making it a fitting host for this revival of Ibsen…
The American pianist David Witten, currently the coordinator of keyboard studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, has long been curious about overlooked piano repertory…
Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha is the first of three plays in this season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Russia and Ukraine, curated by playwright Nicola McCartney who also direct…
The title of Schumann’s piano piece “Davidsbündlertänze” takes some explanation.
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche du Bois, a beautiful Southern Belle whose husband commits suicide after she catches him with another m…
(previews start on March 12; opens on April 16) Fans of the midcentury musical are most likely whistling a happy tune as Lincoln Center revives this Rodgers and Hammerstein show fr…
The Guggenheim’s behind-the-scenes series usually features new works and creative collaborations in their incubator stage.
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 friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
Ahead of her next premiere — coming in February to Works & Process at the Guggenheim — Ms.
In the lavish surroundings of the Assembly Rooms, Guardian journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker dive straight in at the deep end.
Give Take’s Musical Remedies are an exploration of the healing powers of the natural world.
A fun, flirtatious dating gameshow whereby four lucky single girls are given the opportunity to win a date with one of 20 stand-up comedians! Each comic is armed with a light; if o…
Successful stand-ups usually have a memorable on-stage persona; it may be manic, taciturn or just ‘nice’, but it’s what they’re remembered for.
In this one-man show, Christopher Peacock plays a man of the cloth struggling daily to overcome the temptations of the flesh.
An interactive experience like no other as you take part in live mind-blowing experiments that will make you laugh, scream and gasp.
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Practical workshop about making experimental multi-artform performance.
Sleight & Hand’s purposefully heavy-handed opening speech casts a shadow over its self-conscious remainder: this piece of new writing by Chris Bush is so knowing you’d really…
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
In January 2014, Mercury Music Award nominee Kenny Anderson (AKA King Creosote) completed his first ever film soundtrack for Virginia Heath’s poetic documentary, From Scotland With…
This show combines lighthearted, clean comedy with some spooky mentalism and a little bit of silliness.
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Monday morning, rush hour London.
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
I’ve often wondered how Edinburgh locals truly feel about the Fringe - is it a huge party or just a massive disruption? Given the wealth of subjects from around the world being d…
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform a highly enjoyable eclectic mix.
There’s a sort of delicious irony to queuing for a show about rationing whilst watching one of the cast frantically stuffing their face with crisps.
Newton’s Cauldron is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
May I Take Your Order? is the hilarious new one-woman show from Gabrielle Killick that lifts the lid on the life of an impoverished student actress struggling to live the dream.
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
(previews start on Aug.
This is just what you want from an evening of student stand up.
This comedy show started with a question: Why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
Barred from some of Las Vegas’ best known casinos, lounge singer and top career waitress Linda Lovin debuts her much awaited Edinburrow.
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
Can’t Stay Away! is a farce centred around an immigrant worker from Eastern Europe who has saved up some money and just wants to return home.
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
What happens to the thousands of people who go missing every year? And what happens to the people left behind? How can anyone accept they might never know what happened to their lo…
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
My first clue should have been the warmup.
Colin Cloud strolls confidently on stage and announces that he already knows what we’re thinking.
Away From Home is the sensitive, touching tale of Kyle, who in his capacity as a rent boy is used to his fair share of sensitive touching.
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
Race first opened on Broadway in 2009 and ran for almost 300 performances, directed by its Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, David Mamet.
Billed as ‘Comedy (mime, physical theatre)’ I was a little unsure about what to expect from Kraken, but whatever it was that I had been expected was soon proven to be way out.
Carol Robson is a wonderwoman.
Capturing the singular Richard Pryor in a staged bio-play is a challenge and this limp, rote production is nowhere near up to it (1:30).
The Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner explains why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games…
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
Hotly anticipated debut hour from BBC New Comedy Award winner and star of Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week.
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
David Morgan has two obsessions in his life: TV and the Internet.
One of the best things about the Fringe is the energy and ingenuity of the young companies performing here and these are both words that apply perfectly to Double Edge Drama, creat…
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
Making their way north for the fourth year on the trot, Croft and Pearce have brought us their best show yet.
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Edinburgh stalwarts Dan and Jeff are back for another energetic hour and, following Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto, it’s the turn of Baker Street’s own Sherlock…
David Trent enters to thunderous music and revs up the crowd with a flurry of fist pumps and screaming; only to cut it all off with a delightfully anticlimactic start to the show.
During this peculiar hour, David Elms takes a different approach to the usual bravado of musical comedy in a consciously quiet, ungainly performance.
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
After sell-out shows over the last two years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as Brighton and Glasgow, the Britain’s Got F*ck All Talent boys are back! The show comprises …
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
As the audience takes their seats, they see a man hunched over an easel, drawing pictures on a large sheet of paper with feverish intensity.
Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente, the husband-and-wife playwrights behind this supple production about the towering comic book artist Jack Kirby, deftly compressing much informa…
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The brilliant pianist David Greilsammer, who is also a conductor, has a gift for devising programs and recordings that juxtapose old and new music.
A startling and original portrayal of the fallibility of relationships in a technological age, Brewers Fayre demonstrates how theatre can be used to critique contemporary societal …
Male escorts, homosexuality and football: Away From Home takes on a lot in its one hour slot, and it scores perfectly in terms of tone, performance and narrative.
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
‘Space and Time’ is an exhibition of unexpected landscape photographs.
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.
London-based American comic David Mills combines a sharp-suited cocktail swagger with tremendous fire-and-brimstone rants.
Two artists in the 2014 Whitney Biennial — the choreographer Miguel Gutierrez and Alexandro Segade, of the Los Angeles collective My Barbarian — organize this evening o…
‘BABY/LON’, the second work by Hackney-based theatre company The Big House, is a big story; one of homelessness, violence, motherhood on the lowest rungs of society and the strug…
Hot 97’s DJ Cipha Sounds hosts this night of hip-hop and improv, where a rap song inspires an improv show from some of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s finest performers.
Barker is waiting.
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
This concert from Cadenza (an amateur choir founded in 1992) at Greyfriars Kirk proved to be a beautiful evening of accomplished music from both the choir and orchestra.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
The fireball of Scottish comedy, ‘uniquely dry, understated performer’ (Chortle.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
Come and find out about participating in Brighton Fringe, England’s largest arts festival.
David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humour writers.
Double act comedy is very difficult.
Mind reader, hypnotist and psychic entertainer Ian Harvey Stone presents his brand new show.
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
Sondheim’s Assassins sounds like a show that should not work; a musical exploration of some of the United States’ most famous attempts (and successes) to kill the President.
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
UK’s No.
I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom is a new musical based around the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus and it’s one hell of an ambitious undertaking.
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
Kourtney Kardashian.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites: ‘Jenny and the Cold Caller .
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites.
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their eclectic worldwide musical mix and also pay tribute to the giants of British Trad jazz: Ball, Barber and Bilk.
This accordion and clarinet duo based in Edinburgh gave a showcase of different music styles from around the world.
Undertaking the staging of David Copperfield is a tricky, if not impossible, task for any theatre company.
Folk is a big deal at the moment, with bands such as Mumford and Sons bringing English traditional music to the stadium stage, while American artists such as Alison Krauss enjoy a …
A blend of good stand up and well-presented storytelling, Ghosts of the Happy and High-Spirited is a firmly funny and chilling hour of Free Fringe comedy.
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
Glaswegian humour at its best.
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
Tired of the voice in your head? Tired of trying to contact your inner-self? Tired of rhetorical questions? This is a show about your brain.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Popular culture often gets derided by critics because, unlike many of the so-called ‘great’ works of art (you know, the ones that allegedly make you look good when ‘appreciat…
It’s the 1930’s and a few years have passed since Carl Dunham, the fabled showman brought King Kong from the jungle to New York.
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Écoute Theatre Company bring a new voice to UK’s carers in this thought provoking verbatim performance.
Mark Cairns puts on a wonderfully clever show, astounding his audience with his ‘mind reading’ abilities.
The beginning of What Is the Weight Of Your Desire?, by Czech company VerTe Dance, makes it clear to the audience that they’re walking into a rather typically odd fringe show.
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
In Status Anxiety and Piece of Mind, Dance Base presents a stellar double bill which compels and amazes at every turn.
An hour long comedy show featuring five different acts talking about sex? After a few pints this starts to seem like a great idea and I would recommend the show to any finding them…
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
My favourite thing about the Edinburgh Fringe is the sheer concentration of talent in creates in the city, an array of people with skills that I can only dream of having.
Mike Wozniak seems too nice to make a good job of murdering his mother-in-law, even though he seems to fantasize about it a hell of a lot during his show Take the Hit.
Music, video, comedy and theatre? A physical performance and an eBook? Attempting to tackle the subject of the apocalypse? From reading the show description of ‘The Flood’, you…
Award-winning stand-up from two of the country’s best newcomers Adam Hess and David Elms (as seen on BBC3).
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.
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
As refreshing and witty as ever, Spring Day returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show which takes some of the best bits of her 2011 Fringe appearance whilst offering…
The Islanders tells the simple tale of a young Dorset couple, Amy and Eddie; the beginnings of their love, the slow disaster of their living together and the titanic struggle of or…
‘Wicked punch lines have the audience falling over themselves with laughter, thinking: “I can’t believe she said that!” They absolutely loved her, no doubt you will too.
Droll, stylish stand-up! Inspirational rants! Mills dissects celebrity, relationships, politics with cutting accuracy.
Often high marks are awarded to those companies who create a new world in the theatre through their use of advanced set, puppetry, props or movement so it is good to sometimes be r…
A poignant adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s tale, The King and Queen of the Universe, produced by Slippers and Rum, tells a story of adulation and bereavement set in the depths of t…
We see a lot of Rich Hall on panel shows these days: QI, Have I Got News For You?, Eight out of Ten Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
It’s likely that, when you think of France at its coolest, there are certain figures who spring to mind –Francois Truffaut, Jean-Paul Satre, Brigitte Bardot.
The lunchtime concerts at St Mary’s take place every day of the festival and the programme changes day by day.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
Take Two Every Four Hours is a heart wrenching tale of friendship in the face of illness.
I’m sure any fringe veteran worth their salt has had the experience of seeing a famous face from their childhood appearing out of an Edinburgh side-street to bring back a flood o…
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
James will never leave his hospital bed.
Sotho Sounds in the band’s current form is four men: cheerful front-man Khuti, guitarist Tankiso, string-player Josepha and frowning powerhouse percussionist Paseka.
For most of this show, Robins’ mind is on the 24th of August, 2001, the greatest day of his life.
Other stand-ups stand up.
Though a wayward arachnid hanging from the ceiling threatened to steal Walsh’s show on the night I was there, his genuine reaction to it – ‘HOLY SHIT’ – turned into ten m…
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
David Quirk, an unapologetic child of the ‘80s, paints the scene immediately with his passion for Guns N’ Roses, leather trousers and idolatry of Slash.
David Trent has labelled each of his possessions: ‘This is a screen’, ‘This is a laptop’, ‘This is a projector’, etc.
If you take five 17 years olds, give them an internship at a leading advertising agency, add in the promise of a permanent job for only one of them then you have the right ingredie…
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
David Morgan is someone you want to be friends with.
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
The scene a producer’s office in that place where men sit waiting to throw money at the moon.
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters has an interesting premise.
David Trent calls live comedy ‘the only true spontaneous art form’.
There is something rotten in the state of Hampstead.
I didnt know what to expect from a show with the title Naked Boys Singing.
Bach before breakfast is a rather lovely, if bleary way to start the day.
Advertised in the Fringe guidebook as ‘David Kelly is Shameless’, the show turned out to be rebranded as ‘David Kelly and Laura Carr Have No Shame’.
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
The format for this show is very simple.
Set in Oyo, Nigeria in the middle of World War II, Wole Soyinkas Death and the Kings Horseman centres around the battle between British colonialist views and the local traditio…
It is easy to lose St Giles’ Cathedral in the haze of the Mile, where every square inch is covered with thespians still needing to sell the last few tickets.
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
Here in a school’s performance hall is one of the best shows of the festival, in this humble reviewer’s opinion.
Doing exactly what the show’s title suggests, Rob Bailey claims to be able to read your mind with his psychic powers.
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
Everyone loves a good scandal and this is probably why Sheridans most famous play has stood the test of the time for the last two hundred and thirty years.
This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature.
There is a moment a third a way into Fergus Fords play when the lights dim, the comedy darkens and the plot takes a sharp and unsettling swerve into territory already occupied by…
At first glance, Tissue is an exploration of a fascinating topic: breast cancer.
Tom is a modern boy living an openly gay life but unable to get it together.
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Jazz is a study of madness, perhaps.
The audience is introduced to the story behind Her Right Mind via a dynamically-staged sequence showing us the mundanity of protagonist Jack’s life.
An am-dram production in a church hall, this show comes from another world entirely to even the worst of fringe shows: a world where a serviceable witch’s hat can be made from a …
At the age of 18, Allegra Levy is already a considerably more compelling performer than handfuls of Parky regulars.
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
‘Andrew and the Pony’ is, oddly enough, the story of how performer Andrew Bridges has always, since early childhood, desperately wanted a pony and of all the bizarre situations…
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I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
The duo of Ian Millar on tenor and soprano saxes and Dominic Spencer on (electric) piano play a standards-based set at the Radisson Hotel every lunchtime (though, 12:30 is breakfas…
Based on Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, transplanting its protagonist to modern-day Soho, attaching the story to a real alleged bomb plot on the London Eye, incorporating so…
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
I caught this troop of budding young comedians last year and was mightily impressed by their ingenuity, their sense of comic timing, and the wonderfully risqué formula of getting …
Jamie and Matt are two young men indulging in the exchange of sexual fantasies over the internet.
I stumbled into FxP2 in Trouble out of an Edinburgh drizzle and initially thought to myself, oh well, another shower of rain, another comedy sketch show.
I have been to Walberswick and I never caught crabs, but Im glad I caught this new play by Fringe First Winner Joel Horwood.
It is easy to forget that in the tempest of the Edinburgh Festival, between the international plays and the famous comedians, there is still a strong Scottish backbone to many of t…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
This concert proved to be a bit of a gem.
With a razor-sharp tongue and ever sharper wit – think 1940s American reporter meets cocktail bar swagger – David Mills delivers an hour of comedy that you may mistake for an h…
The Sitcom double bill has a pleasingly simple premise: the hour long show is divided into two and a sitcom is performed in each half.
This is a sketch show occupying a very special niche in the imagination of the Fringe.
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
Let me introduce you to Blue the Puppet, Alamanda the Awkward Prawn, Toilet Duck Man, and Malcolm and Miranda, the Outsized Cushion Couple.
A co-production with Vertical Line and Greenwich theatre, Take Two Every Four Hours is a work in progress by Henry Regan and Ross Stanley.
Planet Lem is a captivating and sometimes baffling exploration of the sci-fi works of the author Stanislav Lem.
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…
Struggling to Evolve ‘promises a guide to sex, drink and violence’ – which sounds like prime material for an edgy comedian seeking to unsettle his audience.
When a show advertises itself as involving ‘heavy music, headbanging and a smidgen of angst-ridden poetry’, it does not sell itself well to a punter like myself, especially as …
In this hour long lunchtime concert, the Wordsworth Singers verified the health and vigour of the contemporary choir scene in England.
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 feels important to say before we discuss a show about such a sensitive issue that its engagement with the topic of women being raped is sensitively handled and that the dancer i…
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
The show starts with a projection poorly shone onto the back wall; ‘Lie Back And Think Of Sodom’.
Everyone remembers storytime – that happy time at the end of the day when the hard work of colouring in and sticking bits of paper to other bits of paper could be safely put behi…
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
Where in Edinburgh can you get a three-tier stand of scones and cakes and sandwiches that would do justice to Jenners, a glass of bubbly, and a Victorian thriller all for the price…
To hear that a company is performing a classic poem like The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner with dance, acrobatics and music is the sort of combination of ideas and media that can lea…
When I was a small boy, they filmed some of the outdoor scenes of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in my grandmothers street in Edinburgh.
Maff Brown’s Parade of This present the audience with a tight, irreverent and thoroughly silly sketch show.
It is often easy to think that a top quality set and good technical support can make a performance great in and of itself; shows like Turandot exist to demonstrate that this is not…
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
I love Ontoerend Goed; whether it’s their audience-dividing masterpiece that was Audience last year or something life changing and unique like A Game Of You, I have been a massiv…
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Billed as a ‘drama’, Heaven’s Gate, which explores the Titanic disaster (this year is the centenary of the sinking), proved to be a seemingly unintended comedy.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
It seems ironic that a show about heroin lacks so much speed.
David ‘Perrier Award winning’ O’Doherty has grown a beard especially for his role as the intrepid – read: inept - explorer Rory Sheridan.
Davie and Geordie are two teenage boys, the best of friends, just getting to the point in their lives where they begin to establish relationships with girls.
The excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.
For a music concert advertised as performance art and with the worryingly jejune title The Pain of Desire, one could be forgiven for thinking that this show might be worth a miss.
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
Six Ways is one of those small musicals that sends you out into the Edinburgh rain with a big heart.
In a festival filled with shows about wonderland and Lewis Carroll, Ontroerend Goed’s new production, the latest in a long line of probing pieces, stands tall as the true master …
The man looks like a comedian.
When I saw that Tennessee Williams’ tragedy of lost youth and nostalgia was being performed by a cast of sixteen-to-eighteen-year-olds, I’ve got to admit that I had my doubts.
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
The first thing you notice is that David Reed really has created a Shamblehouse in the Pleasance.
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
I must confess to having felt more than a little embarrassed at turning up at a childrens show in the middle of the day; we had a heated debate in the queue on the way in as to w…
Terezin Concentration Camp is an utterly fascinating story; built in the Czech Republic, it was inspected by the Red Cross, and during the visit the Nazis turned the camp into a ho…
Theres always a plethora of musicals on the most unlikely subjects at the Fringe.
This new adaptation of Dracula plays slightly with the order of the original; the voluptuous vampire orgies of Dracula’s castle take place in the second half as opposed to the firs…
St Giles’ cathedral, built in honour of Giles the Hermit, is certainly grand and the atmosphere is an appropriate one for an organ concert.
Britpop band Cast’s live performances have been compared to a ‘religious experience’ by the Gallaghers.
Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable ent…
A stellar performance from an all-singing, all-dancing cast of miscreants and their formidable opponents from the local neighbourhood watch, Asbo: the Musical is the story of Darre…
Do you remember the days of yore? Of gum detentions, boredom pure? Deep in the Smirnoff Underbelly, a group of Scottish students are putting on a play in memory of those school day…
Sordid Lives is the story of the overwhelming weirdness of small-town American life and the empowerment of its women, through the discovery of pink sequins and two-barrelled shotgu…
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
Doing exactly what the show’s title suggests, Rob Bailey claims to be able to read your mind with his psychic powers.
You know when you come out of a show that its going to sell out fast.
In three short years, All the King’s Men have gone from a little-known university a cappella group to the third best collegiate group in the world, and from the simply phenomenal…
David Hasselhoff has a large and committed international following: Pleasance Grand was sold out on his opening night and at almost £20 a ticket, this is one of the more expensive…
Catie Wilkins works in a call centre, has a gay brother and parents who are both completely normal and yet very unusual - all great topics for a comedy set.
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
The Oxford Belles are a small set of seven, performing upon a dauntingly massive black stage but as soon as they burst into song they fill the entire space with life.
Rash Dash are a theatre company to watch.
It is difficult for a fan of Ontoerend Goed to try and compare their output this year with their previous work, and that is mainly because they have little in common.
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
Nathan Caton is possibly the most amiable comedian you will ever witness on a stage.
Sharply clad in a waistcoat and red trousers, or as he describes himself dressing like ‘a gay snooker player,’ Max Dickens certainly looks the part.
Music Bugs is a company which provides music classes for ‘babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers’, an age group whose three primary occupations seem to be screaming, laughing and f…
We are in a strange building in an unidentified city, and not even the country is clear.
Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
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.
There’s basically no-one who doesn’t like Roald Dahl – he’s been a cornerstone of kids’ literature for 50 years and with good reason.
Recursion is a play that explores a plethora of different and fascinating themes, tapping into some intriguing sections of psychology in the process; a man who has lost his memory …
In the beautiful St Mark’s ArtSpace, Arash Bazrafshan improvises pieces of piano music inspired by a set of four pieces of art provided by his sister, Roza, which sit next to the…
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…
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
To say that young and enthusiastic comedian Phil Mann has a penchant for learning everything and everything would be a huge understatement.
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
The Ugly Sisters should not work.
Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play.
I got pulled into this pure wee gem of a show at almost the last minute.
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
‘Do you like bubbles?’ asks Louis Pearl of the audience, which was mainly comprised of families with small children.
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
It can be difficult, in a festival crammed with a cappella acts, to tell the talented from the dross.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
The Unexpected Items come with great credentials: they are the team responsible for the famous ‘Gap Yah’ videos on YouTube and have a poster covered in recent reviews decrying …
It is incredible how the Internet can expose and produce brand new superstars.
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
If you saw Stephen Frears movie My Beautiful Launderette, made way back in the mercifully distant days of Thatcherite Britain, or even if youre too young to remember it (like m…
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
Stephen Schwartz, long before he became famous for Wicked, collaborated with fellow student John-Michael Tebelak to create a highly experimental show that combined the parables of …
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
The show begins in a Greek restaurant.
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
George’s Marvellous Medicine had the children in the audience bemused at some points and enthralled at others.
Sarah Hamilton relates a story drawn from the annals of her family history.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Its a perennial problem in plays where the actors are continually taking their clothes off: how do they get them back on, or off the stage cleanly between scenes? Theres a lot …
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
Theyre sold out until the end of time (well, the end of the run anyway) so its pretty academic if I say that this is the funniest, silliest, campest, rudest, coarsest, most pre…
Sat atop a hill in Highgate town, beneath the clouds but throned over London’s starry spread sits a gem of Fringe theatre and a pleasure unrestrained.
It is rare that, as a reviewer, to see a show that struggles even to reach the praise of a single star.
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
I was just about getting weary of anything with The Musical after it when I went in to see this show by StoppedClock.
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
This is not a prospect faced with every day: a musical journey through the history of the Papacy.
Take a liberal helping of Ayckbourn, add a sprinkling of Sondheimesque songs, stir well with a cupful of Joe Orton, and what do you get? A unique show which pulls the rug from unde…
If reindeer could really speak, what awful tales would we hear? My hackles rose in the lobby when I was confronted with early November shiny baubles and other such Christmas frippe…
Oleanna is David Mamets unflinching and controversial portrayal of power relations as viewed through the prism of a potentially fraudulent allegation of sexual harassment.
Hurt, the theatrical offering from Aztikeria Teatro feels a little all over the place.
I used to know a guy with a small penis.
In a squat in Edinburgh in the midst of the riots, Miles and Kristy have set up their own little home of pillaged potpourri and Wetherspoons sauce sachets.
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
It takes a lot of courage to put on a tribute composed entirely of musical numbers from shows which flopped.
Mod Girl tells the story of a young prostitute’s evening with an older and, as it turns out, psychopathic man.
You can almost smell the testosterone coming off the stage in this raunchy and sexy play, an all-male take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
It takes some pluck to produce, write, direct and star in your own play.
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
Bud Take The Wheel is the new play from Clara Brennan.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
The first thing that was instantly noticeable about this ensemble was its intelligent manipulation of the acoustics of the St Mary’s Cathedral to create appropriate sounds for th…
The kindest comparison one can probably make of Maff Brown’s show Pacman Is Actually Allergic to Ghosts (a show with references to pacman noticeably absent) is to that of a Saga …
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
Updating Shakespeare into modern dress may be de rigeur, but it takes a lot of nerve to do the same with restoration comedy, much of the appeal of which for modern audiences - and …
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
Piazzolla Late proved to be a charming evening of classical music performed by two rising stars of the classical music scene.
You might think that a visual gag involving a woman with hair not dissimilar to that of King Charles II, dressed up as King Charles II might get old after a time.
Longley quickly explains the plan for his show, that he calls A Joke is Just A Joke.
A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism.
Were I a paying customer in the audience of The Madness of King Lear, I would have walked out when Lear - Leofric Kingford-Smith – began his imitation of Rammstein using Shakespe…
A concert in a modest and handsome Unitarian church situated underneath the castle sounds like a perfect way to spend lunchtime.
David ODoherty has been going from strength to strength since winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2008, and this show is a total delight.
The history of Edinburgh opens up so many opportunities for brilliant site specific work, which is rarely properly realised.
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
I hated history lessons at school - all those dates and names of Kings and Queens, so long ago that they seemed totally irrelevant.
With the sun outside glaring through the windows, this is a tough place for Australian Jo Loth to perform her cabaret about mental health, charting the highs and lows of her person…
Grit tells the tale of Amy, a girl whose father has recently died in the Middle-East whilst photographing the conflicts.
Lara A.
Veterans of the French theatre scene, Vincent Courtois and Pierre Baux, are two rather extraordinary performers and I would thoroughly recommend that everybody watch this show.
Stand & Stare Theatre Company create immersive theatre, which is like gold dust for me at the Fringe.
This debut show from Danny Buckler is a resounding success.
We all live our lives within walls.
If you revel in the musicality of the 1930s, take pleasure in performance poetry or wish to be swept away with some old world charm, then push the boat out and go see this show.
Chris Dugdale is an instantly likeable magician.
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
At theatre festivals there are often two types of show; dark and serious theatre that achieves acclaim, and theatre that acts as the tonic.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Misconceived by the world around her there is only one way to escape.
Beethoven Variations in F major Op 66 Lutoslawski GraveDebussy Sonata in D minor Fauré Élégie, Op 24Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No 2 in D major Op 58 Sheku Kanneh-Mason is …
We talk to Ellie Jones and some of the cast about her production of Animal Farm for BYMT.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Part animation, part-visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, Everything That’s Me is Falling Apart promises to be a unique comedy show at Edinburgh this year.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And...
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
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.
Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Following a successful run at Brighton Fringe in 2015 and two previous sold-out and critically acclaimed runs at the King's Head Theatre, 5 Guys Chillin' returns this February.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Matt Tedford’s drag incarnation as Margaret Thatcher started life as a simple Halloween joke but has since taken on a bit of a life of her own, winning him Best Male Performer at...
Agnes Török is a Swedish spoken-word performer, poetry events organizer and part of Loud Poets.
Wojtek: The Happy Warrior is a physical theatre ensemble retelling of the real-life story of a Syrian bear who joined the Polish army to fight in World War II.
In their companion piece to 2013’s Fringe First Award-winning Dark Vanilla Jungle, writer Philip Ridley and director David Mercatali tell the story of Donny, a boy who has commit...
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
Focus people! David Mills returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with brand new, razor sharp rants delivered with his signature cocktail swagger and his biting, acerbic wit.
Broadway Baby learns more about Since Maggie Went Away.
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.
Comedian David O'Doherty will host a one-off gig tomorrow to pay the temporary theatre license fee for his friend’s site-specific comedy horror show in a six-seater caravan.
Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio...