Brighton Academy Performing Arts Showcase

Brighton Academy Performing Arts Showcase

The Brighton Academy (TBA) Performing Arts Degree Showcase.  

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Jason Byrne: No Show

Jason Byrne: No Show

There’s no show like a Jason Byrne No Show. 

Totally Football Show Live

Totally Football Show Live

The Totally Football Show returns to Leicester Square Theatre for all the football analysis you need to know - and plenty that you don't. 

The Hakka Show Live

The Hakka Show Live

After a successful SOLD OUT show last year, Hakka the host is heading back to the stage for his live interactive show alongside some of the UK’s biggest influencer… 

Big Band Bublé – Scotland's Number One Tribute Show

Big Band Bublé – Scotland's Number One Tribute Show

Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good. 

Creationing Your Award-Winning Fringe Show with The Director!

Creationing Your Award-Winning Fringe Show with The Director!

The visionary behind the viral short film The Director – Work At Home (viewed in excess of a dozen times in four years) and champion of off-off-off-off-off-off Broadyway, The Dir… 

Aaaaa Very Fringey Show

Aaaaa Very Fringey Show

What makes the perfect Fringe show: comedy, theatre, magic, puppets, improv? Yes. 

Show How It's Thespian

Show How It's Thespian

Show How It’s Thespian (SHIT) is an acting masterclass you should be honoured to attend. 

Souvenirs (A Relaxed Show)

Souvenirs (A Relaxed Show)

Souvenirs is a story of neurodiversity, self-acceptance and service stations. 

Kabsa and Kilts: A Saudi-ish Show

Kabsa and Kilts: A Saudi-ish Show

Our show brings you a Saudi-ish line-up of comedians – two Saudis and a Scot – with diverse experiences and styles of comedy. 

Choose My Own Road – Cantonese Comedy Show

Choose My Own Road – Cantonese Comedy Show

Tim toured 10 different places last year. 

Healing Arts Scotland – Opening Celebration

Healing Arts Scotland – Opening Celebration

Unite with us in music and dance at the Scottish Parliament. 

The Poldark Show – Stage Hypnotist

The Poldark Show – Stage Hypnotist

Poldark, Master Stage Hypnotist: Bringing intrigue and wonder to the Festival Fringe for the first time. 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band return for 2024 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music and dance from the Middle Ages to … 

Logan, a One-Woman Show (Because Only One of Us Survived)

Logan, a One-Woman Show (Because Only One of Us Survived)

The true story of my brother’s murder so of course, it’s comedy. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Chapel

Nil penna sed usus – not the pen itself, but the skill in using it. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul’s Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul’s Church

Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise. 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ. 

Gavin Lilley Show

Gavin Lilley Show

Renowned deaf comedian Gavin Lilley brings his hilarious stories about his experiences as a sign language user, traveller, and a weary father of three - his embarrassing moments th… 

MAN: A One-Woman Show

MAN: A One-Woman Show

Inspired by a Hungarian gangster dad, a Sunday school mother, teenage years with Hell’s Angels, Emma Taylor (NewsRevue producer) takes us on an unforgettable ride. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Chapel

The Lord is my Shepherd: Sacred song of the English musical renaissance. 

Ask The Comedian – A Reverse Crowdwork Show

Ask The Comedian – A Reverse Crowdwork Show

Bored of watching comedians ask the audience questions? Then come to the show where we flip that dynamic and allow you the audience to ask the questions to the comedian on stage. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation. 

Jenny Collier: The Title of the Show is the Sound of a Burp

Jenny Collier: The Title of the Show is the Sound of a Burp

Jenny is an award-winning, court-case fighting (no spoilers), Welsh stand-up comedian. 

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco

For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Music at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Faure’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms – The Howe Street Singers, directed by Les Shankland, perform Faure’s much loved Requiem and equally beautiful Cantique de Jea… 

20 Years of the Free Fringe Festival – Charity Gala Show

20 Years of the Free Fringe Festival – Charity Gala Show

A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canongate Kirk

Refuge and the road home. 

TikTok Presents: The Variety Show

TikTok Presents: The Variety Show

TikTok is the virtual stage of Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Show Pony

Show Pony

We all know what they do with old horses. 

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

A family-friendly quick-fire improvised sketch show, chock full of fast-paced performing and silly short comedy sketches. 

Show Pony

Show Pony

Do you know what happens to acrobats when they hit middle age? Neither do still hungry, but they’re going to use every trick they have to try and figure it out. 

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibition at St Vincent's Chapel: Triptych of the Book of Revelation

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibition at St Vincent's Chapel: Triptych of the Book of Revelation

A three-panel painting depicting 122 texts from the last book in the Bible. 

Cobin Millage: Big F*cking Cobin F*cking Millage F*cking H*ll Yeah It's Cobin (The Show)

Cobin Millage: Big F*cking Cobin F*cking Millage F*cking H*ll Yeah It's Cobin (The Show)

Cobin Millage is f*cking sick and tired of this f*cking sh*t. 

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at Old Saint Paul’s Church: Dancing Ash Wednesday

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at Old Saint Paul’s Church: Dancing Ash Wednesday

TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth. 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers (A Climate Crisis Stand-Up Show)

Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers (A Climate Crisis Stand-Up Show)

Stuart’s terrified of the climate crisis, but no-one he knows ever mentions it, so it must be fine. 

Krystal Evans: Hospitality Horror Show (WIP)

Krystal Evans: Hospitality Horror Show (WIP)

Following her critically acclaimed, award nominated debut hour The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp, Krystal is back with a brand new hour of stand-up. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral: Sacred Jazz

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral: Sacred Jazz

Swing with the Spirit! In this innovative performance of sacred Jazz Schola Cantorum, the Catholic Cathedral’s celebrated choir directed by Michael Ferguson, is joined by Scottish … 

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story. 

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

The Ruthwell Cross is Scotland’s oldest Anglo-Saxon Christian monument. 

Flo & Joan: The Joan & Flo Show

Flo & Joan: The Joan & Flo Show

Well, it looks like it’s time to get your ears syringed because acclaimed musical comedy duo Flo & Joan are taking to the stage, and they have some quote unquote music and/or c… 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Church of the Sacred Heart

Live performance of selections chosen by the editors from the new edition of Scottish Religious Poetry. 

Harvey Nichols Variety Show

Harvey Nichols Variety Show

Join us in the Forth Floor Brasserie of Harvey Nichols Edinburgh, to experience the best of the Fringe. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Canongate Kirk

Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts 2024 opening service, Sunday worship. 

The One Couple Show

The One Couple Show

Not a one woman show. 

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia’s Hall for the third time. 

Paul Merton and Suki Webster's Improv Show

Paul Merton and Suki Webster's Improv Show

Fresh from their residency at London’s iconic Comedy Store, Fringe favourites Paul Merton and Suki Webster, two of the UK’s leading improvisers, bring their highly anticipated bran… 

Cash and Diamond: Tribute Show

Cash and Diamond: Tribute Show

Indulge in the ultimate musical celebration of Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond as multi-award winning Pete Storm and Pete Sinclair come together to craft an extraordinary tribute show… 

Paradok Platform: The Dink Rodgers Show

Paradok Platform: The Dink Rodgers Show

Dink Rodgers has won two Emmys, three Grammys and 84 Oscars. 

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far. 

Absurd: A Live Cabaret Panel Show

Absurd: A Live Cabaret Panel Show

Fun, joyous, raucous… absurd! Join magicians Ava Beaux, Kane & Abel for a riotous evening of wacky games and cabaret performances. 

Arron Jones: One Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

Arron Jones: One Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

Edinburgh Live’s number one pick of the Free Fringe is back for a third year! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and… 

Rated 18 Podcast Live Show

Rated 18 Podcast Live Show

Come and see the Rated 18 Podcast LIVE. 

The Magic Show – The Return of The Glittering Prince of Magic – Starring Liam A Black

The Magic Show – The Return of The Glittering Prince of Magic – Starring Liam A Black

Winner of the Out Of Hand Media Award for Best Show in the Spirit of the Fringe 2022. 

A Show About Tomorrow

A Show About Tomorrow

A Show About Tomorrow is a one-act musical set in the 90s at Bailey’s 21st birthday party, which happens to be in the middle of nowhere. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

‘The brains and talent behind Half-Cocked Theatre have undoubtedly carved a niche in the world of sketch comedy with their latest offering’ **** (LiveLondonPost. 

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

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… 

1 Date: The 18+ Game Show (Free!)

1 Date: The 18+ Game Show (Free!)

Not for the easily offended, this hilarious brand-new dating show sees the audience play naughty games, five guys compete for a date, and overall chaos. 

BED: a one man show

BED: a one man show

Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of traveling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian whi… 

Jessica Aszkenasy: BRA SHOW (WIP)

Jessica Aszkenasy: BRA SHOW (WIP)

An “alternative comedy” show about bras, more specifically about not being able to find the right one. 

Holy Sh*t I Lived: A Solo Show

Holy Sh*t I Lived: A Solo Show

Holy Sh*t I Lived is a solo comedy show about life, death and the thing we all fear most: love. 

Tom Little: Show Me Some Bloody Respect

Tom Little: Show Me Some Bloody Respect

‘A properly talented comic. 

Abracadabra Family Friendly Magic Show

Abracadabra Family Friendly Magic Show

Join Alex the Magician for an exciting children’s magic show, back for its fourth year at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe-favourite comedian Vladimir McTavish and a daily guest host for the return of the Fringe’s sell-out chat and comedy show – with big laughs about the latest Fringe and… 

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Returning to Edinburgh for the third year in a row! Liars and Clowns is a jam session for comedians, with a revolving door showcasing the best alternative comedy from around the fe… 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small yet unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique and original jewellery designs from 30 independent designers across the globe including local emerging talen… 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr… 

After Shakespeare – Richard III

After Shakespeare – Richard III

The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch. 

Best of Kids Comedy: The Big Show!

Best of Kids Comedy: The Big Show!

The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

Billy Banana's Brilliant Bingo – Kids Show

Billy Banana's Brilliant Bingo – Kids Show

Billy Banana’s Brilliant Bingo, the interactive extravaganza event of the Fringe. 

The Show for Young Men

The Show for Young Men

What does it mean to be a man today? Robbie (44) and Alfie (10) meet on an extraordinary building site at dawn. 

The Drunk and Heckle Show

The Drunk and Heckle Show

Veteran Canadian comic David Tsonos hates one thing: the drunk heckler. 

The Learn to Juggle Comedy Show!

The Learn to Juggle Comedy Show!

Laughter! Excitement! Learning! Comedian Frisco Fred performs then teaches you – the audience – to juggle! It’s fun, and great for annoying your downstairs neighbours. 

The Burlesque Show

The Burlesque Show

It’s the third year of our burlesque competition and the standard is getting higher! A competition with a brilliant prize that will satisfy the experienced as well as the novice bu… 

please DON'T see our show

please DON'T see our show

After a group of Zumba-lovers discover that it’s easier to book a Fringe venue than it is to hire out a rehearsal space in their local parish rooms, drastic measures must be taken. 

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Up the Antics (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra) bring a showcase of some of their best sketches. 

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand. 

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships Winner 2022. 

Altitude Comedy Festival: The Late Show

Altitude Comedy Festival: The Late Show

The world’s best late show comes to the Fringe for the first time! Altitude Comedy Festival (Winner of Best Overseas Festival) boasts previous performers that include. 

Depression vs Anxiety: A Comedy Game Show

Depression vs Anxiety: A Comedy Game Show

Think your emotional baggage is heavy? Wait ‘til you see ours! Join us for a night where anxiety and depression duke it out, comedy style. 

It's a Sheet Show

It's a Sheet Show

Two people, one bed and no connection. 

The Best Man Show

The Best Man Show

The Best Man Show is an interactive and darkly hilarious wedding reception where comedian Mark Vigeant plays the Groom’s brother Paul, who has been asked to give the toast at an un… 

Sushi Tap Show 2024

Sushi Tap Show 2024

We’re back! Jolly performers from Japan will take you on a journey through a dazzling world of rhythm, tap dance and comedy! Sushi Tap Show is a non-stop ride of entertainment as c… 

Olaf Falafel’s Stupidest Super Stupid Show So Far

Olaf Falafel’s Stupidest Super Stupid Show So Far

The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even more stupider! Join stupid comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which will be the s… 

The End of the World Show

The End of the World Show

This show will change your afterlife! How will the end of the world affect you? Is it nigh? Are pets allowed in heaven? Which religion guarantees unlimited free booze in the afterl… 

Beat the Comic – Quiz Show

Beat the Comic – Quiz Show

Your chance to get thrown into a hilarious head-to-head with a top comedian. 

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Who haunts our world-famous vaults? Join Mingin’ Annie from Edinburgh’s past and explore what it’s like being trapped beneath the city streets for 400 years. 

James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

James Rowland Dies at the End of the Show

What would you do with an hour? What if it was your last hour ever? For James the answer is easy: he wants to tell you a story. 

Dragon Shows for Babies

Dragon Shows for Babies

The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons. 

Ukrainian Modern and Contemporary Art Show

Ukrainian Modern and Contemporary Art Show

We are proud to present the group show of Ukrainian artists. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fir… 

All-New Crazy Puppet Magic Show

All-New Crazy Puppet Magic Show

Last year’s sell-out show returns with more magic, more puppets and even more laughter! A great show for all the family to start your festival day! Advance booking advised! Featuri… 

Big Value Comedy Show

Big Value Comedy Show

Big Value Comedy Show is an established showcase of the best new comedic talent. 

Late Night Party Boyz Do a Legally Mandated Kids Show

Late Night Party Boyz Do a Legally Mandated Kids Show

The Late Night Party Boyz, have messed up. 

Wrong! A F*cked Up Game Show

Wrong! A F*cked Up Game Show

50% game show, 50% comedy show, 100% f*cked up! A celebration of dark humor, cancellable offenses, and questionable decisions that takes everything you know about game shows and tu… 

LOLyamorous – A Speed-Dating Comedy Show

LOLyamorous – A Speed-Dating Comedy Show

Fringe 2023’s sell-out, interactive dating chat show returns for more jaw-dropping real encounters and hilarious dating war stories. 

Richard Cobb: Running Joke

Richard Cobb: Running Joke

Following a host of sell-out shows and hot on the heels of last year’s debut, Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand-new hour… 

Pure Imagination – A Willy Wonka Parody and Comedy Magic Show

Pure Imagination – A Willy Wonka Parody and Comedy Magic Show

Get ready to experience the extraordinary as Willy Wonka’s son, Andy Wonka, takes centre stage in Edinburgh for the world premiere of the Pure Imagination comedy magic show! This p… 

Not My Audience! The Stand-up Panel Show You Control With an App!

Not My Audience! The Stand-up Panel Show You Control With an App!

Comedy panel show where top comics answer the daft questions you choose on our exclusive app, and take on stand-up challenges that test their comedy muscles. 

4 Comedy Masterminds: Stand-Up Comedy and Game Show

4 Comedy Masterminds: Stand-Up Comedy and Game Show

The Comedy Connection: A Stand-up Comedy Game Show. 

Embrace Me: A Solo Show About Dating and Disability That is Also Funny

Embrace Me: A Solo Show About Dating and Disability That is Also Funny

Dating’s tough enough, but try dating when it’s also hard to walk. 

Suitcase Show

Suitcase Show

A traveller arrives at a border with a stack of battered cases. 

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show featuring disco dance numbers, comedy, drag, burlesque, music and did we mention disco?! Based on a love and deeply inaccurate knowledge of the 70s… 

The Greatest Magic Show

The Greatest Magic Show

‘A Rollicking Roller-Coaster Ride!’ ****½ (TheWest. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show 2024

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show 2024

Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

0 AD – After Dairy: A Split Bill Stand-Up Show

0 AD – After Dairy: A Split Bill Stand-Up Show

An hour of wall-to-wall laughs from two of Scotland’s most exciting new comedians – Liam Jackson and Grant Barr! Liam dissects his mishaps in the job market, travels and Scottish… 

Jokers in the Pack: Compilation Show

Jokers in the Pack: Compilation Show

Back in it’s fourth year. 

1001 Normal Dysfunctional Families – Comedy Game Show

1001 Normal Dysfunctional Families – Comedy Game Show

A comedy game show where four comedians battle each other using their childhood trauma and the audience decide which one of them had the worst parents. 

Jason Byrne: NO SHOW

Jason Byrne: NO SHOW

There’s no show like a Jason Byrne NO SHOW. 

The Circus Sonas Family Show

The Circus Sonas Family Show

All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin Mor and Logy Logan take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist. 

100 Things You are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!

100 Things You are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!

Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have. 

1001 Space Adventures: Breadlove and Poophead – Interactive Children Show

1001 Space Adventures: Breadlove and Poophead – Interactive Children Show

Join Breadlove and Poophead in a cosmic journey where your child isn’t just an audience member – they’re the hero of their own interstellar adventure! Will they save the galaxy? … 

Ray Fordyce's Vibrant and Vivacious Variety Show

Ray Fordyce's Vibrant and Vivacious Variety Show

Ray Fordyce is back to host a new vibrant and vivacious variety show. Featuring some of the best comedy talent from around the world. This show is a must for all Fringe-goers. 

1 Ball Show: 1 More Encore

1 Ball Show: 1 More Encore

When Terence Hartnett found out that his testicular cancer had spread to his lung, he got out his notebook and started writing jokes. 

Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism)

Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (Baptism)

You’re born, you’re in it, you’re dead. 

These Are the Contents of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show)

These Are the Contents of My Head (The Annie Lennox Show)

Annie Lennox’s transcendent solo album DIVA stands at the centre of this sparkling story about strong, defiant women and the little gay boy who loves them. 

Alex Hines: Putting on a Show

Alex Hines: Putting on a Show

Welcome to the camp and chaotic world of multi award-winning comedian Alex Hines. 

A.L.Ex and The ImpRobots Present: An AI Show for Kids!

A.L.Ex and The ImpRobots Present: An AI Show for Kids!

Sixty minutes of hilarious fast-paced interactive science theatre for the whole family featuring real robots, AI, and laughs. 

Circus – The Show

Circus – The Show

‘A must-see spectacle!’ ***** (GlamAdelaide. 

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian. 

Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show

Rob Auton: The Eyes Open and Shut Show

This is a show about eyes when they are open and eyes when they are shut. 

Man Up: A Show for Women!

Man Up: A Show for Women!

This women-created news satire stars comedian Maggie Metnick in drag as Chip Johnson, a red-blooded American male pundit on a mission to mansplain the news to women. 

Adults Only Magic Show

Adults Only Magic Show

Prepare for a wild and raunchy, adults-only night of magic and comedy with Sam, Justin and Magnus ‘Danger’ Magnus. 

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

‘Most reliable sketch group in the game’ **** (EdFringeReview. 

Surreal: The Mind-Reading Show From Berlin!

Surreal: The Mind-Reading Show From Berlin!

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 Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Good morning Edinburgh! We’re back bringing you brand-new, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15 minute comedies, eccentricities and mini-dramas - all served up with complimentary t… 

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

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 … 

BED: a one man show

BED: a one man show

Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of travelling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian wh… 

SHOW TIME

SHOW TIME

Lift your spirits, soothe your soul with fun, laughter, storytelling, comedy and music. 

Tonikaku Comedy Show

Tonikaku Comedy Show

This is a comedy show by the Japanese comedian "TONIKAKU," who made it to the finals of competed in Britain's Got Talent in 2023. 

DC Richard Head

DC Richard Head

Murder! Conspiracy? Audience participation?! 4 officers have been found dead and DC Richard Head suspects foul play. 

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat… 

Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show

Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show

Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth… 

Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show

Nick Helm’s Super Fun Good Time Show

Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth… 

ICTheatre, Brighton Performing Arts Graduate Showcase 2024

ICTheatre, Brighton Performing Arts Graduate Showcase 2024

The Institute for Contemporary Theatre, Brighton is proud to introduce the BA (Hons) Performing Arts graduating class of 2024. 

It Just So Happened: An Alternative History Show

It Just So Happened: An Alternative History Show

Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t… 

The Singing Psychic Game Show

The Singing Psychic Game Show

Spookily accurate (if bonkers) audience readings, songs & 70s team games. 

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021. 

PACE+ Lab ‘The Artist as Cultural Diplomat - Building International (Performing) Arts Networks’

PACE+ Lab ‘The Artist as Cultural Diplomat - Building International (Performing) Arts Networks’

BUILDING INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS & THE ARTIST AS CULTURAL DIPLOMAT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-Executive directors of the Pan-Afric… 

The Untold Fable of Fritz

The Untold Fable of Fritz

Let out your inner child and enjoy The Untold Fable of Fritz by Unsettled Theatre at the Prague Fringe Festival in the Divadlo Inspirace Theatre. 

René Mazing's Magic 'n Comedy Show Disappearing Tonight

René Mazing's Magic 'n Comedy Show Disappearing Tonight

René was raised in London and returned to Germany in 1996. 

The Chemistry of Love

The Chemistry of Love

What do Shakespeare, thermodynamics and biochemistry have in common? The somewhat surprising answer is Love. 

Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act

Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act

For fans of Holmes and anyone who enjoys a solid solo show, this performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act at the Prague Fringe by celebrated actor Nigel Miles-Thomas is a must-… 

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

If you’ve never seen Shakespeare performed Aussie style, this is your chance. 

UnErase Poetry - Stories from India

UnErase Poetry - Stories from India

Making their international debut, UnErase Poetry, India's biggest spoken-word collective, with over two million followers on social media, provide an hour of delightful tales, … 

At Home with Will Shakespeare

At Home with Will Shakespeare

Who knows what Shakespeare looked like? We might think we do, yet as Pip Utton points out in his solo performance of At Home With Will Shakespeare at the Prague Fringe, the most fa… 

The Stand-Up Horror Show

The Stand-Up Horror Show

In a stunning twist, the Ha Ha Horror Show sees the iconic Great Mortar emerging from retirement, promising a spectacle that transcends the realms of comedy and horror. 

A.L.Ex and the ImpRobots: an AI Show for Kids

A.L.Ex and the ImpRobots: an AI Show for Kids

Award-winning theatre troupe Improbotics presents A. 

Kids Khaos Carnival Family Show

Kids Khaos Carnival Family Show

Step right up and prepare for pandemonium at the Kids Khaos Carnival Family Show, starring the one and only Logy Logan from Circus Sonas! Get ready to be swept away in a tornado of… 

Through the Ages @ Downsview Life Skills College

Through the Ages @ Downsview Life Skills College

Travel back and forth in time with Through the Ages at Downsview Life Skills College. 

Unprofessional - Alexis Gay Solo Show

Unprofessional - Alexis Gay Solo Show

From New York-based comedian—and former tech employee—Alexis Gay, “Unprofessional” is a comedy solo show debut about working (or, uh, not working) in tech, and one very specifi… 

The Circus Sonas Family Show

The Circus Sonas Family Show

THE CIRCUS SONAS FAMILY SHOW All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist. 

Circus Sonas Shiny New Show

Circus Sonas Shiny New Show

Introducing Circus Sonas Shiny New Show, the latest offering from Circus Sonas that promises to dazzle audiences with even more excitement and energy! Building upon the success of … 

Brighton Buddhist Centre & Evolution Arts Open Day

Brighton Buddhist Centre & Evolution Arts Open Day

The Brighton Buddhist centre has been offering Meditation, Buddhism and Yoga classes for the last 50 years. 

A Circus Sized Game Show

A Circus Sized Game Show

Roll up Roll up! This May School Holidays! It’s not just a Circus; it’s not just a Game Show – it’s A Circus Sized Game Show! This One-Of-A-Kind Choose-Your-Own-Adventure spect… 

Captain Breadbeard's Alternative Comedy Show

Captain Breadbeard's Alternative Comedy Show

Join Captain Breadbeard and Davy Scones for an alternative night of stand-up comedy with special guests. 

Spoken Poetry: Show Up in Sequins, or Don't

Spoken Poetry: Show Up in Sequins, or Don't

Amelia is a Northern-born, Brighton-based actor, poet and theatre practitioner. 

Richard III (a one person show)

Richard III (a one person show)

Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show. 

Alice-India: See You In Hell (A Work in Progress Show)

Alice-India: See You In Hell (A Work in Progress Show)

See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”. 

Richard Cobb: Running Joke (Work in Progress)

Richard Cobb: Running Joke (Work in Progress)

Hot on the heels of last year’s debut Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand new hour filled with more guilt-tripped anecdote… 

RANK.

RANK.

At the end of drunken night out all that Gemma and Jane want is to jump into a taxi, get home and crash into bed. 

Richard III | Globe

Richard III | Globe

Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster. 

Far From Home Close To Love

Far From Home Close To Love

Actor and writer Benjamin Kelm taps himself repeatedly about the face as he repeats the mantra, “You can do it, you can do it , you can do it. 

Six Characters in Search of Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of Pirandello

Playwright Tim Coakley has created an interesting twist on Luigi Pirandello’s groundbreaking play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, with his latest work, Six Characters in … 

A Song of Songs

A Song of Songs

The European premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre sees a work as mysterious in theatrical categorisation as the book on which it is based is in terms of religious litera… 

Richard III

Richard III

From the moment you are handed your programme at the Bridewell Theatre you are immersed in the world of SEDOS’s Richard III directed by Dan Edge. 

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. 

Hill & Jones Sketch Comedy Show

Hill & Jones Sketch Comedy Show

Serious comic Ryan Hill and loveable idiot Ben Jones present their Sketch Show Goes Wrong play combining original material, tributes to comedy greats and much more silliness! Hill… 

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. 

The Black Diamonds presents: Stealing the Show

The Black Diamonds presents: Stealing the Show

The Black Diamonds UK present ‘Stealing the Show’. 

Laugh Till It Hurts: A BDSM Comedy Show

Laugh Till It Hurts: A BDSM Comedy Show

A BDSM Comedy Show. 

A Mundane Slide-Show Trilogy

A Mundane Slide-Show Trilogy

The Curator puts his flasks down to tell you his life-story. 

Figment Arts & Artist Open Houses Presents: Story Maps

Figment Arts & Artist Open Houses Presents: Story Maps

Figment Arts will be sharing the folklore, heritage and history of Sussex this May in association with Artist Open Houses. 

'If you like David Sedaris, John Mulaney, and a sexy accent, you might like this show'

'If you like David Sedaris, John Mulaney, and a sexy accent, you might like this show'

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… 

The Slide Show Must Go On

The Slide Show Must Go On

Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop. 

Ed Mulvey: If You Laugh More The Show Will Get Better

Ed Mulvey: If You Laugh More The Show Will Get Better

Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth. 

Comedy Hypnosis & Mind Reading Mentalism Show

Comedy Hypnosis & Mind Reading Mentalism Show

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… 

Entangle: A solo show by Nina Garstang

Entangle: A solo show by Nina Garstang

Entangle a solo exhibition by Nina Garstang. 

The Flying Bubble Show

The Flying Bubble Show

Dive into The Flying Bubble Show, where dreams and reality blur in a breathtaking fusion of bubble magic and aerial flying. 

The Bubble's Bubble Show

The Bubble's Bubble Show

Featuring the World’s Tallest Bubbleologist from Bubbles Inc. 

The Drunk and Heckle Show

The Drunk and Heckle Show

Veteran Canadian comic David Tsonos hates one thing: the drunk heckler. 

The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector

Bribery and corruption, greed and stupidity dominate Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. 

So That You May Go Beyond The Sea

So That You May Go Beyond The Sea

As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl… 

A Year And A Day

A Year And A Day

Christopher Sainton-Clark, the sole actor in A Year and a Day, founded Raising Cain Productions in 2021 ‘with the aim of producing bold, innovative and cinematic small-scale thea… 

Frozen

Frozen

Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances. 

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy

Connor Sparrowhawk died this morning. 

What The Butler Saw

What The Butler Saw

Artistic Director and Founder of London Classic Theatre, Michael Cabot opened the company’s touring production of Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw at the Devonshire Park Theatr… 

American Four Tops Motown Show

American Four Tops Motown Show

The only “American” tribute to the four tops touring the UK! Direct from the USA, and back by popular demand, Soul Satisfaction appear live in concert p… 

Bing Bong Comedy Improv Show

Bing Bong Comedy Improv Show

A chaotic cavalcade of comedy featuring some of Ireland’s tip top improv groups. 

Community Service

Community Service

Stan’s Cafe Theatre, Birmingham, is rooted in the community, so it’s no surprise that they have taken the local story of Trevor Prince, a gospel guitarist and one of the first bl… 

Besa

Besa

What an extraordinary and charming play this is, courtesy of De Insomniis Theatre. 

Horne's Descent

Horne's Descent

It all starts off so nicely, but it’s not long before Nina Atesh’s drawing-room drama turns into a battleground of conflicts that resurrect the past, fight for the present and … 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

My Beautifull Laundrette

My Beautifull Laundrette

Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its UK tour, courtesy of the Theatre Nation Partnerships conve… 

Making a Show of Myself

Making a Show of Myself

An Irish raconteur shares the most ridiculous, embarrassing, hilarious and tragic episodes of her life, showing there's a story in every stumble - and a … 

The Heart & Hand Glasgow Rangers Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Heart & Hand Glasgow Rangers Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Longest Running and most listened to Glasgow Rangers podcast presents a live recording with ex Rangers Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first London Glasgow Rangers show… 

The Heart & Hand Glasgow Rangers Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Heart & Hand Glasgow Rangers Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Longest Running and most listened to Glasgow Rangers podcast presents a live recording with ex Rangers Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first London Glasgow Rangers show… 

The Spurs Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Spurs Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The longest running Tottenham Hotspur Podcast presents a live recording with Spurs and England Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first West End show in many years. 

Les Misérables (School Edition)

Les Misérables (School Edition)

To stage Les Misérables is a massive undertaking for any theatre company, but Director Ben Jeffreys has consummately risen to the challenge with a production of the School’s Edi… 

The Spurs Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The Spurs Show Live: Audience With Paul Gascoigne

The longest running Tottenham Hotspur Podcast presents a live recording with Spurs and England Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first West End show in many years. 

Foam

Foam

Harry McDonald’s Foam, at the Finborough Theatre, is a chronological series of snapshots that capture events in the life of Nicky Crane (1958-1993). 

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

It’s refreshing to see a much-visited subject of bullying and homophobia in a world dominated by social media, given a fresh treatment that is both innovative and extraordinary, … 

Rika’s Rooms

Rika’s Rooms

Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo … 

Guys & Dolls

Guys & Dolls

Celebrating the show’s first anniversary, Nicholas Hytner’s sensational, immersive production of Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre with a new lineup of stars, th… 

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle:  Solutions for Health, Life and Football

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football

A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today. 

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle:  Solutions for Health, Life and Football

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football

A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today. 

Side Show in Concert

Side Show in Concert

SIDE SHOW comes to the London Palladium in a special, one-night-only concert spectacular on Sunday 3 March 2024. 

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya

The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, has scored a major triumph in securing the services of Sir Trevor Nunn to direct his faithful adaptation of Uncle Vanya in a production that has … 

Blonde Poison

Blonde Poison

Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre. 

The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi

Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se… 

BEASTS | Bad Girl: A One Man Show

BEASTS | Bad Girl: A One Man Show

BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up. 

Richard Blackwood Live

Richard Blackwood Live

Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes. 

Richard III

Richard III

Richard, Duke of Gloucester fresh from the conclusion of The Wars of The Roses remains dissatisfied and still ruthlessly ambitious, nothing and no one will stand in his way. 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an … 

Robin Hood (that sick f**k)

Robin Hood (that sick f**k)

Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre. 

Double Trouble: Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

Double Trouble: Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe… 

Double Trouble : Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

Double Trouble : Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe… 

The Showstoppers’ Christmas Kids Show

The Showstoppers’ Christmas Kids Show

A festive improvised musical show for kids of all ages, from Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers. 

PERFORMING MONOLOGUES WORKSHOP, WITH CAMERON RAASDAL-MUNRO

PERFORMING MONOLOGUES WORKSHOP, WITH CAMERON RAASDAL-MUNRO

Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals. 

Making A Show of Myself

Making A Show of Myself

With a modern twist on the tradition of Irish storytelling, Mary Kate takes a journey through the most ridiculous, excruciating, heart- breaking, uplifting episodes of h… 

She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

Artistic Director Tom Littler, with Francesca Ellis, scores another inspired triumph with his production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer. 

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show

You better watch out, you better not cry, because “The Queens of Christmas” (Entertainment Weekly) are coming back to YOUR town with a brand new edition of the internat… 

Ghosts

Ghosts

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… 

Treason - the Musical

Treason - the Musical

The brief descriptor of Treason the Musical as “a historic tale of division, religious persecution, and brutality” reads like a modern-day newspaper headline. 

Nashville At Heart: The Modern Country Show

Nashville At Heart: The Modern Country Show

As the Modern Country Music craze continues to spread across the globe, ‘Nashville At Heart’ is a show that celebrates the music of some of modern country mu… 

The Happiness Show

The Happiness Show

Prepare your chuckle muscles for the tickling of a lifetime at the fourth annual Doddy Day Happiness Show! The Squire Of Knotty Ash liked nothing more than making p… 

Now Entering Ely, Nevada

Now Entering Ely, Nevada

Memory is a strange thing. 

To Have And To Hold

To Have And To Hold

The final days of a sixty-year marriage are turned into a domestic comedy in the latest offering from playwright Richard Bean, of One Man, Two Guvnors fame, in To Have and To Hold,… 

1984

1984

Playwright Adam Taub says, “In the era of Google, Amazon and Meta, when our every move is monitored and recorded, there is no more relevant story than 1984”. 

Casting the Runes

Casting the Runes

Following their hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year Box Tale Soup are now performing Casting the Runes, based on stories by M R James, at the Pleasance… 

Manic Street Creature

Manic Street Creature

Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world… 

The Loaf

The Loaf

Head to the Bridge House Theatre, Penge for an evening of delightful storytelling and charming performances in Alan Booty's two-hander, The Loaf. 

Trueman and the Arsonists

Trueman and the Arsonists

Writer Simon Stephens has taken Max Frisch’s 1953 Biedermann und die Brandstifter, variously translated as The Fireraisers or The Arsonists and given it a heightened absurdist in… 

The Kaspar Hauser Experiment

The Kaspar Hauser Experiment

Winston Churchill’s famous expression, “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” could accurately be applied to the subject of The Kaspar Hauser Experiment a… 

The Nag's Head

The Nag's Head

If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th… 

West End Magic’s Late Show

West End Magic’s Late Show

A soiree of delights. 

Owners

Owners

Carly Churchill looks upon Owners, now revived at Jermyn Street Theatre, as a watershed in her life. 

The Dirty Blues Show

The Dirty Blues Show

Saucy, sexy, dirty blues songs from the 1920s-40s, many of which feature the word ‘hot dog’ performed by chanteuse Suzanne Noble accompanied by ‘Gorgeous’ George Webster on the pia… 

Iolanthe

Iolanthe

There is nothing subtle about Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical attack on the House of Lords in Iolanthe, which premiered in both London and New York on 25th November 1882; the fi… 

Gentlemen

Gentlemen

From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic. 

fell

fell

The current transformation of the postage stamp stage of Barons Court Theatre, located in the cellar vaults of The Curtains Up pub, has been wrought by Designer Jane Linz Roberts, … 

The Island

The Island

There is an intriguing opening to The Island at the Cervantes Theatre. 

Am I Irish Yet

Am I Irish Yet

Described as a ‘one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan’ Am I Irish Yet? lays bare her problem as soon as she opens her mouth. 

The Red Lion

The Red Lion

Religious fervour and football fanaticism have much in common, so it seems entirely appropriate that Patrick Marber’s changing-room drama, The Red Lion should open to the sound o… 

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

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. 

Lessons on Revolution

Lessons on Revolution

Billed as ‘documentary theatre’ Lessons on Revolution at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating excursion into performance and the creative process that challenges the traditional i… 

The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera

Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge. 

Tony Cantwell's Sketch Show

Tony Cantwell's Sketch Show

Step into the whimsical world of Tony Cantwell. 

The Old Queen's Head

The Old Queen's Head

A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes… 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

Two lives come together in an unlikely match. 

Mess Maker

Mess Maker

We’re all familiar with mess in one form or another, but for most of us dealing with it is probably not an all-consuming activity in the way that it is for writer and performer Jen… 

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

Boys From The Blackstuff

Boys From The Blackstuff

The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series. 

Artefact & Something Unspoken

Artefact & Something Unspoken

The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact… 

The White Factory

The White Factory

With horrific events occurring around the world, The White Factory at The Marylebone Theatre, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s and directed by Maxim Didenko comes as a poignant rem… 

The Lady With a Dog

The Lady With a Dog

Publicity for Lady With a Dog, written and directed by Mark Giesser, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, promises a version in which ‘Chekhov’s famous short story of romance and infi… 

Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea

Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea

The traditional direction of migrants seeking a better life is turned on its head in Emanuele Aldrovandi’s Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (translated by Marco Young) at the Park Th… 

One Under Par

One Under Par

Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th… 

CHICK-IN SHOW

CHICK-IN SHOW

A male chef prepares, roasts and serves up a chicken. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

Rebecca

Rebecca

After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in… 

Dead Dad Dog and Sunny Boy

Dead Dad Dog and Sunny Boy

It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out. 

God of Carnage

God of Carnage

Who has not experienced a situation in which a surmountable incident escalates out of all proportion? Then, on the way to resolving it, further baggage accumulates around the subje… 

The Mr Thing Show

The Mr Thing Show

The cult comedy TV-show show is back for two nights only with their best bits from five years at Fringe. 

Sir Cliff Richard in Conversation With Gloria Hunniford

Sir Cliff Richard in Conversation With Gloria Hunniford

Sir Cliff Richard in conversation with Gloria Hunniford discussing his career. 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show. 

Step and Singing Joy Show

Step and Singing Joy Show

Sing about the opera faces. The age of awakening. Chinese youth traditional repertoire. 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show. 

Serial Spinners: The Dark Arts of Politics

Serial Spinners: The Dark Arts of Politics

The Dark Arts used by politicians and their advisors, speechwriters, and spin doctors are mired in mystery and their own mythology. 

Stephanie Staples in Concert – Record Release Show

Stephanie Staples in Concert – Record Release Show

Nashville-based international singer-songwriter Stephanie Staples has shared her passionate and contemplative music for over two decades, performing all over the world. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play. 

Carl Donnelly – The Dead Dad Show

Carl Donnelly – The Dead Dad Show

Have you heard that the three most stressful life events are bereavement, moving house and divorce? Well, funny story. 

Jerry Sadowitz proudly presents... Last Year's Show!

Jerry Sadowitz proudly presents... Last Year's Show!

Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds. 

Horizon Showcase: The Trauma Show

Horizon Showcase: The Trauma Show

“Have you ever trauma dumped? TikTok says this show might do that but don’t worry we can just trauma bond. 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Fast-paced comedy magic. 

Collage-Magic Show

Collage-Magic Show

‘Definitely raise a shudder’ (BeyondPost. 

A Night at the Musicals – Spotlights Show Choir

A Night at the Musicals – Spotlights Show Choir

Is Exeter University emerging as the new powerhouse in student musical groups on the Edinburgh Fringe? Let’s not complicate this - the answer is simply but emphatically Yes. 

The TUNEabomber

The TUNEabomber

Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful. 

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

Mimic, singer and dancer Sindy Fling literally unwraps the divas of pop – from Monroe to Madonna via Dolly Parton. 

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Risa uses her hands, sponges, sometimes her entire body, to apply colour across the canvas from end-to-end. 

The Finger Show – An Adultish Musical Comedy Smorgasbord

The Finger Show – An Adultish Musical Comedy Smorgasbord

A ridiculous interactive combination of musical comedy, ventriloquism and fingering. 

Arguments! The Comedy Debate Show

Arguments! The Comedy Debate Show

Do you like to argue? Well, I disagree to whatever you just said. 

Still Surviving In Hong Kong – Cantonese Comedy Show

Still Surviving In Hong Kong – Cantonese Comedy Show

The first Cantonese show at this festival is coming! 2011’s funniest person in HK, Tim’s Instagram has 50k+ followers. 

The Style Shanghai Cheongsam Show

The Style Shanghai Cheongsam Show

A fashion show produced by a Shanghai-based female fashion club for women over 40, originally founded in November 2022 to enable its members to express their artistic creativity an… 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band is back for 2023 with a fresh programme of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, the much-loved programme of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages… 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent's Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent's Stockbridge

The Robin Chapel, built in 1950 at the centre of a unique Edinburgh housing complex, The Thistle Foundation, is a memorial to Robin Tudsbury and well known for its excellent choir. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

The Art of Ecclesiastical Heraldry. 

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

After their smash-hit, sell-out debut last year, legendary tennis coach Judy Murray and her son Duncan (the other Murray brother) return with another unique show featuring special … 

Deaf Action Presents: The Gavin Lilley Show

Deaf Action Presents: The Gavin Lilley Show

Essex-born Gavin Lilley, through his masterful use of sign language, has done stand-up shows all over Europe and the UK, bringing laughter to many deaf and hearing people with his … 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's Church

Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito… 

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou… 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s Window. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito… 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Basia Mindewicz, Director of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, explains the artistic techniques and spiritual inspiration behind one of the most venerated forms of sacred art. 

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

“Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit (so far this trademark has failed to hold water in court). 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 1

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 1

The Art of the Icon. 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

The Desert in the Heart of the World is a filmic study of the impact of the Carthusian monastic movement on the French landscape. 

Dicks and Tricks: A Comedy/Magic Show featuring the Pundance Kid and the Flamboyant Chesney George

Dicks and Tricks: A Comedy/Magic Show featuring the Pundance Kid and the Flamboyant Chesney George

Dicks and Tricks is an old-school comedy and magic variety show featuring the puns and knob gags of the Pundance Kid and the magic tricks and illusions of the Flamboyant Chesney Ge… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation. 

Soup Group: Art Show!

Soup Group: Art Show!

Visual jokes and creative messing about from this absurd double act. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sanctified Royalty: Jacobite Relics and the Divine Right of Kings. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Greyfriars Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Greyfriars Kirk

Spirituality, Faith and Belief: Voyages of Discovery. 

Will Adamsdale: Melanjolly – A Show of Just Songs

Will Adamsdale: Melanjolly – A Show of Just Songs

Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat… 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape. 

Luke Manning: One Manning Show

Luke Manning: One Manning Show

Sharp, silly and sublime solo character comedy from Luke Manning, formerly one half of veteran Fringe sketch duo, In Cahoots, and a writer-performer for BBC Radio 4’s Sketchtopia a… 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Fast-paced comedy magic. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's

Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension. 

Richard Brown and Jin Hao Li Split an Hour

Richard Brown and Jin Hao Li Split an Hour

Stand-up comedian and writer Richard Brown (‘A ruthless and angst-fuelled set with clever, impactful writing’ (TheWeeReview. 

Eleanor Morton: The Ill Advised Character Show

Eleanor Morton: The Ill Advised Character Show

Stand-up, writer, actor and Edinburgh native Eleanor Morton presents a brand-new one-off character show, displaying a full range of accents and coats for one night only. 

Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show

Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show

Toxicity. 

Comedy Hypnosis Show

Comedy Hypnosis Show

Hypnotist Jason Simmons returns to the Camden Fringe to take you on a magical mystery tour into the depths of your own mind in this hilarious, fast-paced, interactive experience. 

Attachment: The Leech Show

Attachment: The Leech Show

The premise of Attachment: The Leech Show is very simple: it’s a play devised and performed for the sole benefit of impressing a single specific audience member; a prominent thea… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor. 

Seriously Funny Comedy Show

Seriously Funny Comedy Show

Enjoy some adult comedy entertainment with The Seriously Funny Comedy Show as they complete their 2023 summer touring schedule at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Risa uses her hands, sponges, sometimes her entire body, to apply colour across the canvas from end-to-end. 

Everything That Annoys Me, and You

Everything That Annoys Me, and You

Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night … 

Comedy Hypnosis Show

Comedy Hypnosis Show

Hypnotist Jason Simmons returns to the Camden Fringe to take you on a magical mystery tour into the depths of your own mind in this hilarious, fast-paced, interactive experience. 

#MeToo, a one-woman show

#MeToo, a one-woman show

Sex cults with fake feminism, pretend shamans, Burning Man, Lower East Side “nightclub photographers” and Tinder f*ck boys all make an appearance in this educational and hilari… 

SUSPS: The A Cappella ‘Friends’ Show

SUSPS: The A Cappella ‘Friends’ Show

Where Friends meets Pitch Perfect! The Bristol Suspensions tell a story of friendship and scandal using chart-topping hits, familiar characters, and funky choreography… not to me… 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Fast-paced comedy magic. 

Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show

Auto-Engrain: A One-Woman Show

Toxicity. 

Come to Our Show (Please)

Come to Our Show (Please)

Two clowns, Anna and Felix, set out on a quest for home. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Gilbert Scott’s dramatic architectural landmark, with its three spires prominent in Edinburgh’s distinctive skyline, provides a magnificent setting for the Opening Service of t… 

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at St Vincent's Chapel Undercroft

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at St Vincent's Chapel Undercroft

The Mysteries – Reimagined. 

Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters

Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters

‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you. 

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev… 

Grace Campbell: A Show About More Me(n)

Grace Campbell: A Show About More Me(n)

After a completely sold-out Edinburgh 2022 run and her biggest tour to date, Grace returns with her hit show, A Show About Me(n), with some brand-new material never heard before! T… 

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Renowned punk poet and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker has loved early music ever since he grabbed a recorder aged about 8. 

The Recovery Through Comedy Show

The Recovery Through Comedy Show

Poppyscotland are proud to introduce to the Fringe an inspirational group of Armed Forces veterans. 

Richard Michael Plays The Great American Songbook

Richard Michael Plays The Great American Songbook

Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song… 

Ellie and Arshan Do a Show and Tell

Ellie and Arshan Do a Show and Tell

Ellie and Arshan Do a Show and Tell is a short, fun, high-energy exploration on the “stuff” that makes us all up. 

Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show

Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show

Two queer Jews. 

The Bubblegum Gumdrop Show

The Bubblegum Gumdrop Show

Music, games and colourful clowns collide! After touring across several elementary schools and festivals in Chicago, Bubblegum Gumdrop and her best friend, Babblebum Boopbop, have … 

DJ Yoda’s Tarantino AV Show

DJ Yoda’s Tarantino AV Show

An immersive audio-visual experience blending classic movie footage, soundtracks and insane turntable wizardry! ‘To me, movies and music go hand in hand’ (Quentin Tarantino). 

Show Up The Improvised Comedy Musical

Show Up The Improvised Comedy Musical

Show Up will make up a brand new, toe tapping, hilarious improvised musical based on your suggestions. 

Show Up The Improvised Comedy Musical

Show Up The Improvised Comedy Musical

Show Up will make up a brand new, toe tapping, hilarious improvised musical based on your suggestions. 

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Improvisers and comedians go to comedic war to win the Extreme Improv Championship belt! Performers compete in innovative improv challenges and will create scenes, songs and storie… 

Psychedelic Bubble Show

Psychedelic Bubble Show

Experience the enchanting “Psychedelic Bubble Show” at London’s Courtyard Theatre. 

Psychedelic Bubble Show

Psychedelic Bubble Show

Experience the enchanting “Psychedelic Bubble Show” at London’s Courtyard Theatre. 

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

Mimic, singer and dancer Sindy Fling literally unwraps the divas of pop – from Monroe to Madonna via Dolly Parton. 

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Extreme Improv Comedy Show

Improvisers and comedians go to comedic war to win the Extreme Improv Championship belt! Performers compete in innovative improv challenges and will create scenes, songs and storie… 

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

The Marilyn Monroe Burlesque Show

Mimic, singer and dancer Sindy Fling literally unwraps the divas of pop – from Monroe to Madonna via Dolly Parton. 

Soup Group: Art Show!

Soup Group: Art Show!

Prepare for a sidesplitting and heartwarming comedic adventure in the must-see Soup Group: Art Show!; an exceptional masterpiece. 

14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac

14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac

Students from Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex, have arrived in Edinburgh with 14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac, an exciting re-imagining of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 classic tale writt… 

Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity

Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity

What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas. 

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Painting Show

Colorhythm Risa uses her hands, sponges, sometimes her entire body, to apply colour across the canvas from end-to-end. 

Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity

Rozarina Larsen presents White Fishing: A comedy show on finding your authenticity

What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas. 

The Crazy Puppet Magic Show

The Crazy Puppet Magic Show

UK premier magician and kids entertainer in brand-new and hilarious interactive magic and puppet show for all the family. 

Arts and Crafts Family Workshop

Arts and Crafts Family Workshop

Explore making rubbings, printing, collage and fun with circles and squares, and mixed-media collage. 

Richard Spalding: Look Who Loves Me (WIP)

Richard Spalding: Look Who Loves Me (WIP)

If someone tells you they love you, it’s rude to ask why. 

Aardvark: Comedy Compilation Show

Aardvark: Comedy Compilation Show

A split-bill stand-up comedy show featuring a daily selection of the best up and coming comedians from Ireland and the UK. 

GURLBAND: The Show

GURLBAND: The Show

A girlband concert. 

Absurd: A Live Cabaret Panel Show

Absurd: A Live Cabaret Panel Show

Fun, silly, raucous… absurd! Join magician host Ava Beaux and magical team captains Kane and Abel, for an array of whacky games and cabaret acts. 

Arron Jones: One-Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

Arron Jones: One-Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

Edinburgh Live’s number-one pick of the Free Fringe 2022 returns! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and unexpected … 

Think 'n' Grin: A Solo Improv Comedy Show

Think 'n' Grin: A Solo Improv Comedy Show

Think ‘n’ Grin is a solo comedy show featuring Chicago-style narrative improvisation. 

Chris Cook Asked a Robot to Write Him a Five-Star Show and This Is What It Said

Chris Cook Asked a Robot to Write Him a Five-Star Show and This Is What It Said

Over 10 years, Chris Cook has brought magical, thought-provoking comedy shows to the Fringe. 

Griffin and Jones: A Life-Changing Magic Show!

Griffin and Jones: A Life-Changing Magic Show!

Griffin and Jones have decided to change the world. 

A Goofy Sexy Comedy Show

A Goofy Sexy Comedy Show

Two of the hottest, freshest comics bring their best jokes to Edinburgh. 

0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Stand-up Show

0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Stand-up Show

A crowd-work and stand-up comedy show with zero plans. 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small-yet-unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique and original jewellery designs from 30 independent designers across the globe including local emerging talen… 

Abracadabra With An Apple Magic Show

Abracadabra With An Apple Magic Show

Join the funalicious Alex with more than a decade of being a master magician, bringing a children’s magic show! Filled with fun, laughs and stories that entangle together in one aw… 

A Show for Gareth Richards

A Show for Gareth Richards

This year the biggest stars of the UK stand-up circuit, including Iain Stirling, John Robins, Mark Simmons, Jo Caulfield and Nick Helm, return to their roots in a mixed-bill show, … 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show

A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from around the Fringe in a late show full of fun and laughter. 

JM Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K

JM Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K

Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse. 

Pineapple Performing Arts School Summer School Showcase

Pineapple Performing Arts School Summer School Showcase

A showcase performance featuring the students from Pineapple Performing Arts School’s Dance Intensive Summer School 2023.  

Pineapple Performing Arts School Summer School Showcase

Pineapple Performing Arts School Summer School Showcase

A showcase performance featuring the students from Pineapple Performing Arts School’s Dance Intensive Summer School 2023.  

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe-favourite comedian Vladimir McTavish and a daily guest host for the return of the Fringe’s sell-out chat and comedy show – with big laughs about the latest Fringe and… 

Good Grief: Five Deserts in Search of My Father. A One-Man Show by Writer Jon Lawrence

Good Grief: Five Deserts in Search of My Father. A One-Man Show by Writer Jon Lawrence

The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity. 

The Midnight Show

The Midnight Show

‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). 

The Drunk and Heckle Show

The Drunk and Heckle Show

Veteran Canadian comic David Tsonos hates one thing: the drunk heckler. 

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller

Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022. 

The Typewriter

The Typewriter

The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office. 

Square Peg

Square Peg

This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in… 

The George Lucas Talk Show

The George Lucas Talk Show

Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a “normal talk show”. 

The Standard Short Long Drop

The Standard Short Long Drop

Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p… 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

The Burlesque Show

The Burlesque Show

Its the second year of our burlesque competition – the standard is getting higher, the talent on display is incredible, so if burlesque is your thing or you’re new to it, then jo… 

Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars & Clowns returns to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative comedians from around the festival. 

Groovicle

Groovicle

Dancer and performer Elliot Minogue-Stone presents pop art, contemporary dance and cabaret in his brand-new mish-mash show, Groovicle at Zoo Southside. 

Chinese Art Show

Chinese Art Show

Immerse yourself in the richness of Chinese culture with a showcase of exceptional young dancers from China, featuring both traditional and contemporary Chinese dance. 

Be Home Soon

Be Home Soon

A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th… 

The Grandfathers

The Grandfathers

What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha… 

Bubble Show for Adults Only 2

Bubble Show for Adults Only 2

New Show! Weekly Award Best Circus 2023 Fringe World, As seen in La Soiree, Australia’s Got Talent and iUmor. 

Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake

Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake

Every child goes inside their own bubble! Seen on China, Romania and Bulgaria’s Got Talent. 

Ed: The New, Totally Unofficial, Ginger-Inclusive Parody Sketch Show

Ed: The New, Totally Unofficial, Ginger-Inclusive Parody Sketch Show

Accompanied by a glittering live band and fresh from two sold-out London and Cambridge runs, don’t miss the Fringe premiere of Ed, charting the story of a ginger pop sensation. 

Henry Ginsberg’s Hyper Masculine Cookery Show

Henry Ginsberg’s Hyper Masculine Cookery Show

Stand-up comedian and culinary wizard Henry Ginsberg presents a guide to all things gastronomical. 

Billy Kirkwood: Show Me Your Tattoo

Billy Kirkwood: Show Me Your Tattoo

The world’s only stand-up/improv/chat tattoo comedy show hits the Fringe to take you down the hilarious highway of human graffiti. 

A Bookish Comedy Show

A Bookish Comedy Show

***** (Dircksey. 

An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995

An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995

Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even … 

Aaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show

Aaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Aaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Aaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Enjoy an hour of the tastiest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. 

Circus Sonas Family Show

Circus Sonas Family Show

All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist. 

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

From Glass Crumpet, comes an all-new Sketch Show. 

The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show Strikes Back!

The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show Strikes Back!

Hey kids and kidults, cool cats and dancing dogs, Jarred and Hobbit are back with an all-new action-packed hoopla! Guaranteed LOLs and interactive fun for the entire family (OK, ma… 

The Stand-Up Horror Show

The Stand-Up Horror Show

Occult cabaret-horror stand-up show but none of the booked acts have shown up! Therefore, it falls on our host, the spectral Tom Short (2019 Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, 201… 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

Richard Stott: Dear Lord… What A Sad Little Life

Richard Stott: Dear Lord… What A Sad Little Life

If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going. 

LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

First Dates meets Graham Norton’s Red Chair Stories in this hilarious interactive dating chat show. 

The Gong of Edinburgh: Comedy Gong Show

The Gong of Edinburgh: Comedy Gong Show

Gong Shows have launched the careers of several famous comedians. 

Philipp and Phriends: A Late Night Comedy Show

Philipp and Phriends: A Late Night Comedy Show

Philipp Kostelecky brings the festival’s best acts together for a late-night extravaganza! No rules, no regulations – it’s late night so anything goes. 

Richard Cobb: Couple's Massage

Richard Cobb: Couple's Massage

In October 2022, Richard Cobb was on honeymoon in Cuba. 

The Greatest Show Songs

The Greatest Show Songs

The incredible Oliver Harris sings the great songs from Les Misérables, Chess, Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, We Will Rock You and many more. 

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings. 

Big Value Comedy Show

Big Value Comedy Show

Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe. 

The Many Colours of Comedy: A Prism Comedy Variety Show

The Many Colours of Comedy: A Prism Comedy Variety Show

Get ready for a night of cutting-edge humour and entertainment as Prism Comedy presents The Many Colours of Comedy: A Prism Comedy Variety Show. 

Not My Audience! The Interactive Panel Show You Control with an App!

Not My Audience! The Interactive Panel Show You Control with an App!

The Fringe’s cult-hit stand-up comedy panel show that you influence in real time is back. 

1 Ball Show: 1 Lung Less

1 Ball Show: 1 Lung Less

This sequel to 1 Ball Show began three months after the 2022 Fringe favourite ended it’s sold-out run, when NYC comedian Terence Hartnett (Caroline’s on Broadway) found out that hi… 

Glass Crumpet's Stand-Up Show

Glass Crumpet's Stand-Up Show

Glass Crumpet presents a triple bill of brand new stand-up from comedy graduates Will Rice, Tom Roberts and James Tangye. 

The Anti Self-Help Show

The Anti Self-Help Show

Good things will happen. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fir… 

A Terrible Show for Terrible People

A Terrible Show for Terrible People

Winner: Best Comedy, 2022 (Hollywood Fringe). 

The Opera Comedy Show

The Opera Comedy Show

Wagner turned up to 11! A hilarious dive into the ridiculous world of opera and life as a Valkyrie and Rheinmaiden, peppered with hits from Puccini and Verdi from Berlin’s thrill… 

Ray Fordyce and His Wonderfully Spiffing Variety Show

Ray Fordyce and His Wonderfully Spiffing Variety Show

Ray Fordyce is back to host a wonderfully spiffing show full of comedy and entertainment. 

Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show

Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show

After 20 years on the circuit, Alexis Dubus, easily one of the comedians of his generation, is ready to deliver the greatest 3-star comedy experience ever staged. 

2nd Picture of Dorian Gray

2nd Picture of Dorian Gray

Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel. 

Eccentrics Unite! The Guerilla Autistics and Neurodiverse Show – Year Nine

Eccentrics Unite! The Guerilla Autistics and Neurodiverse Show – Year Nine

Quentin Crisp! Florence Jenkins! Einstein! Patricia Highsmith! William McGonagall! Through the centuries, secret Neurodivergent or Autistic people have found respect and love in th… 

Sing, River

Sing, River

The magic and mystery of midsummer combine with things past and present in Sing, River, written and performed by Nathaniel Jones of Love Song Productions at the Pleasance Courtyard… 

Rob Auton: The Rob Auton Show

Rob Auton: The Rob Auton Show

The Rob Auton Show is unlike any other stand-up comedy show in existence. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show

For anyone who knows the first thing about the history of Edinburgh Fringe, and indeed, comedy itself, you should already be familiar with Cambridge Footlights and its roster of al… 

JezO's Car-Crash Magic Show

JezO's Car-Crash Magic Show

Car-Crash Magic is a debut Edinburgh Fringe show presented by JezO, winner of the Family Entertainer of the Year Competition 2022 and member of the prestigious Magic Circle. 

The Last Show Before We Die

The Last Show Before We Die

Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by … 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

‘An excellent comedy show’ **** (BroadwayBaby. 

Dominique Salerno: The Box Show

Dominique Salerno: The Box Show

Dominique Solerno’s The Box Show is a well-conceived theatrical piece which sees this talented and versatile performer performing a plethora of different characters, all from wit… 

Welcome to The Big Show

Welcome to The Big Show

This show is a love letter to unique families, queer self-discovery and devoted fathers. 

Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life

Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life

Award-winning musical comedian and viral internet-hit-maker Anesti Danelis returns with his hit comedy concert that will change your life. 

Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show

Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show

Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello’s Body show is a dystopian cacophony of farce, comedy and tragedy. 

Dahlia Wilde: Oh My God Particle Show!

Dahlia Wilde: Oh My God Particle Show!

What if Beatrice came through space and time to find her long-lost Dante? Now researching the sequel to his Inferno at the Large Hadron Collider? Dahlia Wilde – Walt Disney Writi… 

How to Be Dumped: A Sort of Magic Show

How to Be Dumped: A Sort of Magic Show

The world is desperate for more one-man musical-comedy magic mind-reading shows about a break-up in your early thirties, and actor and magician Sam Lupton (Wicked, Avenue Q) is mor… 

The Greatest Magic Show

The Greatest Magic Show

‘This is the show to see!’ ***** (Entertainment-Now. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu… 

Mrs President

Mrs President

A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B… 

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids’ comedy show that’s fun for all the family! Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness. 

A Manchester Anthem
BOBBY WINNER

A Manchester Anthem

Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L… 

Olaf Falafel's Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider)

Olaf Falafel's Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider)

Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which is now 20% more stupider than ever before. 

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand. 

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional. 

Adults Only Magic Show

Adults Only Magic Show

The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show. 

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Who haunts our world-famous vaults? Join Minging Annie from Edinburgh’s past and explore what it’s like being trapped beneath the city streets for 400 years. 

Ashley Barnhill: Texas Titanium (Show 'Bout Gettin' a New Skull)

Ashley Barnhill: Texas Titanium (Show 'Bout Gettin' a New Skull)

  • Listing
  • Comedy
  • Camden Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 31st Jul - 12th Aug 2023

Chappelle’s opener Texan Ashley Barnhill was hit by a car & in a coma, had 5 brain surgeries & got a new titanium skull. 

Collar

Collar

If you think coming out as gay or announcing any change from the heteronormative might be difficult, then try telling your parents and friends that you've just been accepted on… 

Ashley Barnhill: Texas Titanium (Show bout gettin a New Skull)

Ashley Barnhill: Texas Titanium (Show bout gettin a New Skull)

  • Listing
  • Comedy
  • Camden Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 31st Jul - 12th Aug 2023

Chappelle’s opener Texan Ashley Barnhill was hit by a car & in a coma, had 5 brain surgeries & got a new titanium skull. 

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

KEITH. 

BAB'S BIG SHOW

BAB'S BIG SHOW

Hailing from the midlands, Bab is a female sketch duo comprised of Amy Spinks and Lauren Soley. 

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

KEITH. 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show. 

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat… 

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat… 

Arabs Are Not Funny - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

Arabs Are Not Funny - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond! Arabs Are Not Funny sees comedians with roots in the Arab world attempt to prove… 

Bones

Bones

In 70 action-packed minutes, Bones highlights mental health issues in sport, looking at one man’s struggle to reconcile his inner mental turmoil with the physical demands expecte… 

 Dr Semmelweis

Dr Semmelweis

Having emerged from a period in which we were exhorted to wash our hands at every opportunity and instructed on how to carry out the ritual, it is strange to go back in time to an … 

Song From Far Away

Song From Far Away

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. 

Lady Inger

Lady Inger

Ottisdotter theatre company’s production of Lady Inger provides a rare opportunity to see one of Henrik Ibsen’s earliest, least performed and less well-known works. 

Vincent River

Vincent River

Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion. 

Behold! The Monkey Jesus -  a (kind of) restoration comedy

Behold! The Monkey Jesus - a (kind of) restoration comedy

From the extraordinary story of Cecilia Giménez (Mary Tillett), writer Joe Wiltshire Smith has created a beautifully crafted play that embraces her innocence and resilience, while… 

Self Tape

Self Tape

Jonas (Michael Batten) would ideally like to be in full-time employment as an actor on stage. 

Wandsworth Arts Fringe

Wandsworth Arts Fringe

SW London’s bold and boundary-pushing festival of arts and culture returns for 17 brilliant days, taking over Wandsworth from 9-25 June with a jam-packed, belly-laughing, awe-ins… 

Nicki's Variety Show

Nicki's Variety Show

Join my friends and I for a short variety show, comprising of poetry, mini plays, monologues, comedy/improvisation and music. 

Nicki's Variety Show

Nicki's Variety Show

Join my friends and I for a short variety show, comprising of poetry, mini plays, monologues, comedy/improvisation and music. 

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show

a 75-minute chaotic journey through the minds of two dudes; Jack & Jordan, who are actors - nay, artists! And professional ones at that. 

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under… 

Kid's Interactive Ukulele Show: Ukeboxbaby

Kid's Interactive Ukulele Show: Ukeboxbaby

Ukulele interactive show with ukulele lessons, educational games, dances, bubbles, glitter cannons, parachutes, ribbon sticks and more. 

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under… 

Kid's Interactive Ukulele Show: Ukeboxbaby

Kid's Interactive Ukulele Show: Ukeboxbaby

Ukulele interactive show with ukulele lessons, educational games, dances, bubbles, glitter cannons, parachutes, ribbon sticks and more. 

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE & Black Brighton Market

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE & Black Brighton Market

In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural… 

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE with Black Brighton Market & Kymara

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE with Black Brighton Market & Kymara

In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural… 

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE with Black Brighton Market & Kymara

PACE ARTS MARKET PLACE with Black Brighton Market & Kymara

In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural… 

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021. 

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe favourite comedians Vladimir McTavish, Jay Sodagar and (occasionally) Dave Chawner for Brighton Fringe’s hilarious chat and comedy show: The Early Late Show. 

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe favourite comedians Vladimir McTavish, Dave Chawner and Jay Sodagar for Brighton Fringe’s brand new chat and comedy show: The Early Late Show. 

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay. 

It Just So Happened: An Alternative History Show

It Just So Happened: An Alternative History Show

Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t… 

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... (Perfect and Arena-Ready Show)

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... (Perfect and Arena-Ready Show)

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... (Perfect and Arena-Ready Show)

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... (Perfect and Arena-Ready Show)

A well-respected scientist in the International community, UK national treasure Mark Silcox makes his Brighton Fringe debut. 

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

A quick-fire improvised sketch show chock full of death-defying improv, fast-paced performing and silly short comedy sketches. 

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

Leamprov, the premier Improvised Comedy troupe in Leamington Spa brings you ‘The Elephant in the Room’; a quick-fire improvised sketch show in the style of ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway… 

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

Simon David: Dead Dad Show

In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer. 

Dead Dad Show

Dead Dad Show

In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer. 

That One-Liner Bloke's Comedy Show

That One-Liner Bloke's Comedy Show

Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes. 

That One-Liner Bloke's Comedy Show

That One-Liner Bloke's Comedy Show

Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes. 

The Jain Edwards Show

The Jain Edwards Show

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

The Jain Edwards Show

The Jain Edwards Show

“If your tastes in comedy tend toward the weird, wonderful and painfully funny, The Jain Edwards Show is the one for you. 

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke o… 

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of… 

The Slide Show Must Go On

The Slide Show Must Go On

Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop. 

Rose

Rose

Martin Sherman’s Rose is already an award-winning production that received widespread critical acclaim during its sell-out runs at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and the Park T… 

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Graduating Actors Showcase 2023

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Graduating Actors Showcase 2023

Showcase Start Time - 13:00 To attend this Industry Showcase please email actingshowcase@lipa. 

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be do… 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

69 sketches in the space of an hour? The fastest sketch show at the Fringe returns, but this time with a thief running through the production and stealing bits of the skits. 

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Alternative Comedy Show

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Alternative Comedy Show

An alternative night of stand-up comedy hosted by Captain Breadbeard and Davy Scones! 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

The Circus Sonas Family Show

The Circus Sonas Family Show

THE CIRCUS SONAS FAMILY SHOW All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist. 

Ed Mulvey: If You Laugh More The Show Will Get Better

Ed Mulvey: If You Laugh More The Show Will Get Better

Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth. 

The Dirty Blues Show

The Dirty Blues Show

Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta… 

BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’

BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’

With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding. 

Arts Practitioner Group Coaching Programme

Arts Practitioner Group Coaching Programme

This programme is for you if you are: o Wanting to earn an income from your creativity by delivering creative projects. 

The Dirty Blues Show

The Dirty Blues Show

Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta… 

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. 

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. 

BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’

BHASVIC College presents ‘Blood Wedding’

With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding. 

Arts Practitioner Group Coaching Programme

Arts Practitioner Group Coaching Programme

This programme is for you if you are: o Wanting to earn an income from your creativity by delivering creative projects. 

3,2,1 Vulva Slam: Variety Show to Charge Your Vulva Power!

3,2,1 Vulva Slam: Variety Show to Charge Your Vulva Power!

Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one. 

3,2,1 Vulva Slam: Variety Show to Charge Your Vulva Power!

3,2,1 Vulva Slam: Variety Show to Charge Your Vulva Power!

Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one. 

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

THE ART OF A DAMAGED SOUL - THE ONE WOMAN SHOW ADAPTATION

THE ART OF A DAMAGED SOUL - THE ONE WOMAN SHOW ADAPTATION

The author of the bestselling poetry series The Art of a Damaged Soul brings you the hard-hitting , powerful one woman show.  

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show will have the audience in stitches and in awe simultaneously. 

IT'S A TRAP! The Improvised Star Wars Show

IT'S A TRAP! The Improvised Star Wars Show

Hello there! Dropping out of hyperspace, for one night only, IT’S A TRAP! The Improvised Star Wars Show comes to Brighton Fringe for the first time ever. 

The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache

The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache

Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023. 

IT'S A TRAP! The Improvised Star Wars Show

IT'S A TRAP! The Improvised Star Wars Show

Ladies and gentlemen, droids and aliens, gather round for a special Star Wars themed improv show taking us to comedic depths of a galaxy far, far away! But did Leia, Luke, Boba and… 

Leaves of Glass

Leaves of Glass

Philip Ridley’s multi-layered, complex and highly acclaimed story Leaves of Glass is breathtakingly revived by director Max Harrison in collaboration with Lidless Theatre in a mi… 

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

For 30 years now, Guy Masterson has been successfully taking on the monumental challenge of presenting Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show; revelations from the fictional … 

The Heist: Solo Full Mask Show

The Heist: Solo Full Mask Show

Steve, a successful chef and bistro owner, is suddenly thrown into the maelstrom of a global pandemic. 

LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

LOLyamorous: A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

First Dates meets Graham Norton’s Red Chair Stories in this hilarious interactive dating chat show. 

LOLyamorous - A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

LOLyamorous - A Live Speed-Dating Comedy Show

First Dates meets Graham Norton’s Red Chair Stories in this hilarious interactive dating chat show. 

The Heist: Solo Full Mask Show

The Heist: Solo Full Mask Show

Steve, a successful chef and bistro owner, is suddenly thrown into the maelstrom of a global pandemic. 

Bubble Show

Bubble Show

Mind-blowing liquid magic. 

The Late Show at The Forge

The Late Show at The Forge

The Late Show at The Forge is THE place to be for late night laughs at Brighton Fringe. 

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring. 

The Late Show at The Forge

The Late Show at The Forge

The Late Show at The Forge is THE place to be for late night laughs at Brighton Fringe. 

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring. 

Brazen Hodgepodge - A Sketch Comedy Show

Brazen Hodgepodge - A Sketch Comedy Show

Brazen Hodgepodge: A Sketch Comedy Show The Lion & Unicorn Theatre Brazen Hodgepodge is a brand spanking new sketch comedy show! A fast-paced hour of original sketch comedy scene… 

The Brighton Fridge Show

The Brighton Fridge Show

Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev… 

Biscuits for Breakfast

Biscuits for Breakfast

It’s not only the title of the play; Biscuits For Breakfast is all that some people have to start the day, and that’s if they are lucky. 

Pattern Up Arts Collective

Pattern Up Arts Collective

Brighton’s revolutionary youth artists are joining us in their second year at the Brighton Fringe. 

Pattern Up Arts Collective

Pattern Up Arts Collective

Brighton’s revolutionary youth artists are joining us in their second year at the Brighton Fringe. 

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show comes to the Peacock Theatre as p… 

Rocky Horror Show

Rocky Horror Show

Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show is ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments. 

The Circle

The Circle

The Artistic Director might have changed but the Orange Tree Theatre continues to resurrect plays from eras that many houses might shun. 

Teechers Leavers ‘22

Teechers Leavers ‘22

John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan… 

Richard Parker

Richard Parker

In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea. 

Richard III - Rose Theatre

Richard III - Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa… 

Getaway / Runaway

Getaway / Runaway

Noah McCreadie has scored a triumph with his debut play Getaway/Runaway and the intimacy of the King’s Head Theatre provides the perfect setting for this intense drama from Shot … 

The Good Person of Szechwan

The Good Person of Szechwan

It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they … 

F★★king Men

F★★king Men

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… 

Jules and Jim.

Jules and Jim.

In a rather surprising debut choice, Stella Powell-Jones has commenced her incumbency as Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s uninspired adapt… 

Breeding

Breeding

A fast pace and some hilarious banter about their names, how to pronounce and spell them, gets Barry McStay’s Breeding off to an immediately engaging and rip-roaring start that s… 

Trumpets and Raspberries

Trumpets and Raspberries

Given the vast repertoire of plays available to theatre companies one often wonders how they decide on what to perform next and why: in this case, the somewhat lesser-known work by… 

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me

In an unlikely melding of three disparate stories, Jack Fairey finds common ground in his moving play The Sun, The Mountain, and Me for Bedivere Arts at the Jack Studio Theatre, in… 

TWO

TWO

One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO. 

The Dinosaur Show

The Dinosaur Show

Join Hunter and Shelly as they step back 65 million years on their mission to rediscover the Lost Kingdom of the Dinosaurs. 

The Dinosaur Show

The Dinosaur Show

Join Hunter and Shelly as they step back 65 million years on their mission to rediscover the Lost Kingdom of the Dinosaurs. 

The Totally Football Show Live With James Richardson

The Totally Football Show Live With James Richardson

The Totally Football Show returns to the Leicester Square Theatre just in time for the Premier League run-in. 

The Only White

The Only White

There is an inherent difficulty with plays that seek to tell a well-known story and thus lack a sense of mystery and element of surprise. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Richard II

Richard II

In this Coronation year, what could be more topical than Shakespeare’s verse-told-tale of coronation, usurpation, coronation and murder? Join Westcliff Boys to experience beautiful… 

Dance of Death

Dance of Death

The Coronet Theatre is once again hosting The National Theatre of Norway, who have arrived with their take on August Strindberg’s dark matrimonial drama Dance of Death. 

Ten Days

Ten Days

Matthew Jameson embarked on a major project ten years ago. 

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Hilarious, satirical, superbly staged and brilliantly performed, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has hit the Lyric, Hammersmith in an explosion of theatricality following its sens… 

Family Tree

Family Tree

Our lives are indebted to many people. 

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

What a joy to see a very simple and equally silly story adapted for the stage and turned into an hour of light-hearted frivolity, full of humour and ingenuity. 

Ireland the Show!

Ireland the Show!

Following a debut sell out nationwide tour including Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall join an all star cast of Ireland’s most talented singers and performers acco… 

Batman (aka Naomi's Death Show)

Batman (aka Naomi's Death Show)

A girl walks down a blossom-lined street, a knife clutched in her pocket. 

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Join Shelf for sketches and silliness in this high energy kids’ show! Shelf perform for kids across the UK with Comedy Club 4 Kids and Girl Guides, including appearances at Under… 

The Enby Show

The Enby Show

The Enby Show brings together the best gender-benders and cis-tem offenders that the UK has to offer, in an all-star variety night popping with creme-de-la-thems. 

Billy Kidd Show

Billy Kidd Show

Billy Kidd will bring no rabbits, feather flowers or top hats to her show. 

Under the Black Rock

Under the Black Rock

Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev… 

The Long Run

The Long Run

There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze. 

Burn

Burn

The setting for Lucy Beresford-Knox’s Burn, could hardly be better. 

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell has been called a multitude of things, but after her most recent comedy set A Show About Me(n) she can add electrifying, iconic and all around spectacular to the lis… 

A Bard is a Failed Poet | The Lead Pipe Pigeon Brigade

A Bard is a Failed Poet | The Lead Pipe Pigeon Brigade

A Bard is a Failed Poet Stories about poems without rhyme The Lead Pipe Pigeon Brigade Pigeon. 

This Bitter Earth

This Bitter Earth

Two main strands are interwoven in Harrison David Rivers’ This Bitter Earth, currently making its UK premiere at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington. 

Happy Meal

Happy Meal

I was invited to see Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal at Brixton House and made it quite clear that it wasn’t my sort of thing, that I would go in order to be supportive, that I almost … 

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013. 

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013. 

The Walworth Farce

The Walworth Farce

What could be more appropriate to mark the opening of the Southwark Playhouse Elephant than Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce. 

FEET PICS AREN'T FREE! | The Bag of Cats 9 Lives Show

FEET PICS AREN'T FREE! | The Bag of Cats 9 Lives Show

FEET PICS AREN'T FREE! For sale: feet pics, freshly painted. 

Wo/Mi | Show Time!

Wo/Mi | Show Time!

Wo/MiYou don’t even look sick. 

Macbeth

Macbeth

A Macbeth that features only the eponymous hero and his wife is an opportunity to define the characters and chart the shifting balance of power between them as the tragedy unfolds. 

American Four Tops Motown Show

American Four Tops Motown Show

Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all … 

American Four Tops Motown Show

American Four Tops Motown Show

Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all … 

Lifting the Gate | The CRISPR Show!

Lifting the Gate | The CRISPR Show!

Lifting the Gate People, places and lives that mattered The CRISPR Show! Three enthusiastic scientists explain genetic editing. 

Passion

Passion

A heteronormative upbringing fights homosexual desire on a battleground that moves from a playful and sometimes argumentative bedroom to the secluded cell of a conversion therapy u… 

Rebus: A Game Called Malice

Rebus: A Game Called Malice

The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has opened its Spring 2023 season with the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice. 

SMOKE

SMOKE

Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth. 

I Found My Horn

I Found My Horn

A man is going through almost a lifetime’s accumulation of important junk in his attic. 

A Manchester Anthem

A Manchester Anthem

A breath of theatrical fresh is often much needed at big fringe-style events and it can currently be found at the Vault Festival in A Manchester Anthem. 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP!  Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and … 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP!  Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer … 

Dead Dad Show

Dead Dad Show

In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer. 

Escaped Alone & What If If Only

Escaped Alone & What If If Only

The ladies with their mugs of tea sitting outside a cottage with a fenced-off lawn would have grown up with the song In An English Country Garden, whose tune introduces George Savo… 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

How Not To Drown

How Not To Drown

The debate surrounding refugees, migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political scene both internationally and domestically for decades. 

The Lehman Trilogy

The Lehman Trilogy

The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season. 

Have I None

Have I None

Described by its author as a ‘tragi-farce’, Edward Bond’s Have I None at the Golden Goose Theatre is a blunt dystopian nightmare packed into an energetically angry fifty-five… 

Preppers: A Sketch Show

Preppers: A Sketch Show

Do you think the end of the world is nigh? Then safeguard your future by listening to two very smart people: Stuart & Matt are doomsday preppers and are delighted to give the audie… 

Micky Flanagan Warm Up Show

Micky Flanagan Warm Up Show

Micky Flanagan’s Warm Up Show at Leicester Square Theatre. 

The Elephant Song

The Elephant Song

Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o… 

The Unfriend

The Unfriend

The need to willingly suspend disbelief in order to fully enter into the spirit of a play is sometimes an essential requirement if the potential for enjoyment is not to be lost alt… 

little scratch

little scratch

If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit… 

Hamlet

Hamlet

There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those. 

On The Ropes

On The Ropes

Scheduled over twelve rounds, On the Ropes at the Park Theatre goes from 7. 

The Showstoppers’ Christmas Kids Show

The Showstoppers’ Christmas Kids Show

The award-winning musical improvisers will make all your kids’ Christmas stories come to life! 

Hey Duggee - The Live Theatre Show

Hey Duggee - The Live Theatre Show

Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they … 

Liz Kingsman: One Woman Show

Liz Kingsman: One Woman Show

Following sensational critical acclaim One Woman Show played sold out runs at Soho Theatre London and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and was called “the single hottest ticket in … 

The Dinosaur Show

The Dinosaur Show

Join Hunter and Shelly as they step back 65 million years on their mission to rediscover the lost land of the dinosaurs. 

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20… 

Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience

Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience

Being dead, the great maestro of late baroque composition has the hope of being raised incorruptible. 

QUEENZ: The Show with BALLS!

QUEENZ: The Show with BALLS!

Straight off the runway and onto the West End stage, the cast of Queenz: The Show with Ballz, strut their way into the Arts Theatre for a night of gender-bending, show-stopping gla… 

Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor

Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor

The creative team behind Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor at the Park Theatre have done an outstanding job on this production. 

Keeper Of The Flame

Keeper Of The Flame

Two main strands run through Keeper of the Flame, written and performed by Rob Adams, a play that fits neatly into the confines of the delightful Bridge House Theatre. 

Wasted

Wasted

Kae Tempest’s credentials as a poet and lyricist shine through in Wasted at the Jack Studio. 

The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show

In this science fiction double feature, Christopher Luscombe’s adaptation of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show is a fun, mischievous celebration of the cult classic. 

TINTE NA FARRAIGE DUIBHE: A multi-media Science Fiction show

TINTE NA FARRAIGE DUIBHE: A multi-media Science Fiction show

Beirt ar a dteitheadh ó Roghall, gealach bheag amach ón bpláinéad dearg Na Hasta, is ea Sál agus Ríosa. 

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man. 

Top Hat

Top Hat

The fabulous Mill at Sonning has revived last year’s Christmas success for another run over the festive season, It’s hard to believe that a full-scale musical like Top Hat, wit… 

Here

Here

Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions. 

MSND

MSND

We’ll never know what, if anything, Shakespeare was on when he wrote AMidsummer Night’s Dream, but the team at Intermission Youth Theatre have based their ‘Shakespeare Remix�… 

Cheer Up Slug

Cheer Up Slug

Jamie Patterson (Will) and Charis Murray (Bean) give delightful performances in Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Rees, the debut production for their company, Shot in the Dark Theatre, at t… 

The Yeomen of the Guard

The Yeomen of the Guard

There was a more than usual buzz in the air at the Coliseum in anticipation of ENO’s latest foray into the world of Gilbert & Sullivan with The Yeoman of the Guard. 

Paddy goes to Petra

Paddy goes to Petra

Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) leads a traditional life in rural Ireland. 

A Butcher of Distinction

A Butcher of Distinction

When the setting for your play is the basement of a London pub, where better to perform than at Barons Court Theatre which is located in the basement of the west London pub aptly n… 

Dr Richard Shepherd

Dr Richard Shepherd

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. 

The Happiness Show

The Happiness Show

Prepare your chuckle muscles for the tickling of a lifetime at the third annual Doddy Day Happiness Show! The Squire Of Knotty Ash liked nothing more than making pe… 

Rob Auton: The Crowd Show

Rob Auton: The Crowd Show

‘The Crowd Show’ is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds by award-winning writer, actor and podcaster Rob Auton. 

Mary

Mary

Douglas Henshall has wasted no time in returning to the stage after his years in Shetland. 

Something in the Air

Something in the Air

A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t… 

The Poltergeist

The Poltergeist

The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre. 

Dmitry

Dmitry

In marked contrast to the UK’s recent smooth transition from one monarch to another, the story of Dmitry (Tom Byrne), at the new Marylebone Theatre, tells a woeful tale of power-… 

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell is a one-woman manifesto for body, sex and mental health positivity. 

Jasmine Power Solo Show

Jasmine Power Solo Show

Celtic sensation Jasmine Power from West Wales takes you on an ethereal musical journey at the piano with her own magnificent cinematic pop songs. 

Richard Egarr & Friends

Richard Egarr & Friends

The British harpsichordist and conductor joins brilliant Baroque performers for a journey through the riches of European 17th-century chamber music. 

The Dan Daw Show

The Dan Daw Show

The Dan Daw Show is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push-pull of living with shame while bursting with pride. 

Show Me What You're Maid Of

Show Me What You're Maid Of

Show Me What You’re Maid Of follows a bridal party on the day of Flora’s wedding. 

Long Nights in Paradise

Long Nights in Paradise

There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin… 

Alright?

Alright?

Patrick Withey gives a delightfully engaging and endearing performance as the troubled 15-year-old in Black Hound Productions’ Alright!, which has absolutely nothing to do with C… 

Trial by Jury
BOBBY WINNER

Trial by Jury

Stunning, imaginative, inspired, colourful, amusing, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung, this Trial By Jury is Gilbert and Sullivan at its very best. 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

A Depression-Cure Show

A Depression-Cure Show

Antidepressant! Ever lost your way, your mind, or your will to live? Jonathan Winfield brings his comedy show about family trauma, mental illness and depression from his lived expe… 

Phil Kay & Stacey Clare: Book Festival Fringe Launch Show

Phil Kay & Stacey Clare: Book Festival Fringe Launch Show

Come! Welcome to the inaugural Book Festival Fringe. 

The Late Shift: New York City Stand-Up Comedy Show

The Late Shift: New York City Stand-Up Comedy Show

The Late Shift is the one Fringe stand-up comedy show you do not want to miss! New York City is the stand-up comedy capital of the world. 

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

Legendary tennis coach, Judy Murray and her son Duncan (the other Murray brother) present a unique, one-off show featuring special guests, Q&As and a desperate attempt from Duncan … 

N'zrama Show

N'zrama Show

N’zrama presents exuberant, vibrant, energetic and lively performances of traditional and contemporary dance from several regions of West Africa’s Ivory Coast. 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns in 2022 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of instrumental music from the Middle Ages … 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Les Shankland directs the Chapter House Singers in Choral Evensong. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Love of Creation: Poetry’s power for the present. 

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Every universe has an Edinburgh Fringe but the multiverse is collapsing. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out!). 

A Boxing, Crossdressing, Commando Show

A Boxing, Crossdressing, Commando Show

No one asked for this combination of themes but be prepared for a lot of different perspectives. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Exhibition: The Art of Illumination. 

Appraisal

Appraisal

We’ve all been there! That sense of recognition permeates the room during Tim Marriott’s latest play Appraisal. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19… 

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at Old St Paul’s Church

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at Old St Paul’s Church

Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises. 

Liz Kingsman: One-Woman Show

Liz Kingsman: One-Woman Show

The Guardian’s #1 Comedy Show of 2021 comes to the Fringe for a limited run. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Mansfield Traquair

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Mansfield Traquair

Painting Heaven on Earth. 

Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us

Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us

The Greeks knew a lot about war and told great tales of heroism, victory and defeat. 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick. 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick. 

Horsepower

Horsepower

Not all shows have clarity of meaning or purpose yet they still retain a certain charm. 

The One TEEN Show

The One TEEN Show

A Sri Lankan teenager’s quest to stage a live theatre show amidst post-AL angst, a pandemic and a country in crisis, told through a comedic, musical and dramatic multi-character … 

The Collie's Shed

The Collie's Shed

There is nothing like a timely reminder from the past. 

Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show

Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show

The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show. 

Sam Campbell: Comedy Show

Sam Campbell: Comedy Show

Warning: I want to be worldwide performer. I hope you do not mind but this show will pretty much just involve me going up there and being nice with it.  

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered. 

Los Guardiola – The Comedy of Tango

Los Guardiola – The Comedy of Tango

The rhythm of the tango underpins Los Guardiola - The Comedy of Tango in this superb production from Musique et Toile, but the show is much broader than the one dance form. 

Spit Me Out

Spit Me Out

Slap ‘N’ Tickle Theatre Company, founded in 2020 by East 15 Acting School alumni, has created a fabulously entertaining piece of devised theatre that explores sensitive issues … 

Andy's Moon Show – How to Fake the Moon Landing

Andy's Moon Show – How to Fake the Moon Landing

Join Andy (AKA Radio 1’s occasional moon expert, Shawn Moondez) as he explains the intricacies around faking the 1969 moon landing to his conspiracy theorist co-host and UK Improv … 

Taiwan Season: Experimentation and Innovation: Crossing Boundaries in Digital and Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Experimentation and Innovation: Crossing Boundaries in Digital and Performing Arts

Come join a panel of experts and gain valuable insights into the strategic thinking and collaborative developments linking digital and live art forms in Taiwan and the world. 

Taiwan Season: Experimentation and Innovation: Crossing Boundaries in Digital and Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Experimentation and Innovation: Crossing Boundaries in Digital and Performing Arts

Come join a panel of experts and gain valuable insights into the strategic thinking and collaborative developments linking digital and live art forms in Taiwan and the world. 

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered. 

AAA Immigrant Comedy Show

AAA Immigrant Comedy Show

Growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the West with no language, culture, personality, looks or even a clue. Standup Comedy Show by Joe Bains 

Walk-Man

Walk-Man

It’s a day like any other. 

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at St Michael and All Saints

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at St Michael and All Saints

Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees. 

Andy's Moon Show – How Much is the Moon Worth?

Andy's Moon Show – How Much is the Moon Worth?

Join Andy (AKA Radio 1’s occasional moon expert Shawn Moondez) as he explains various ways to value our moon to his co-host and UK Improv Smackdown 2022 winner, Rick Falcon. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist… 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Painting the Way of the Cross. 

The Funny Punny Magic Show

The Funny Punny Magic Show

Join the Trickster and Sunny the Bunny for a riot of silly stunts and crazy magic in The Funny Punny Magic Show! Four-time winner of the Scottish Children’s Entertainer of the Ye… 

An Objectively Hilarious Show

An Objectively Hilarious Show

A big old extravaganza from your new favourite production company. 

Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I've Got?

Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I've Got?

Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables. 

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

The Dinner Daddies Present: The 9pm Friday Show

Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou… 

DNA by Dennis Kelly

DNA by Dennis Kelly

The Year 12 girls from Wycombe Abbey school in High Wycombe under the direction of Phoebe Francis have created a fine production of DNA by Dennis Kelly. 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick. 

Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!

Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!

Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others… 

We Wrote a Show

We Wrote a Show

Humanity is in a right old mess. 

We Wrote a Show

We Wrote a Show

Humanity is in a right old mess. 

Bits 'N' Pieces

Bits 'N' Pieces

Saltire Sky Theatre have lived up to all the expectations they raised following 1902, their smash hit of last year’s Fringe that won them the Broadway Baby Bobby Award and Off We… 

Jason Simmons: Socially Dis-tranced Comedy Hypnosis Show

Jason Simmons: Socially Dis-tranced Comedy Hypnosis Show

Join hypnotist Jason Simmons as he takes you on a journey into the depths of your mind, stripping back the layers of your reality, in this highly interactive family-friendly unforg… 

Jason Simmons: Socially Dis-tranced Comedy Hypnosis Show

Jason Simmons: Socially Dis-tranced Comedy Hypnosis Show

Join hypnotist Jason Simmons as he takes you on a journey into the depths of your mind, stripping back the layers of your reality, in this highly interactive family-friendly unforg… 

The Fat Penguin Late Show

The Fat Penguin Late Show

Jay Handley blows off steam in a show heavy on audience interaction. 

Polly Peculiar

Polly Peculiar

Polly Peculiar, at Greenside Nicholson Square, is a joy from beginning to end: the sort of play that under normal circumstances you might not be tempted to see. 

Richard Todd: Transferable Skills

Richard Todd: Transferable Skills

With a busted knee, a burst eardrum and heroic reveries replaced by painkillers and words like ‘ouch’, ‘pardon’ and ‘I’m down here!’, Todd reckons he has one last chance to reinv… 

1 Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

1 Hour Straitjacket Escape Magic Show

One devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

The Quote Show

The Quote Show

The Quote Show is the hilarious live search for the best quote of the day, featuring a mixed bill of comedy talent and industry guests. 

Queenz – The Show With Balls!

Queenz – The Show With Balls!

The trailblazing drag extravaganza taking the UK by storm. 

Just a Magic Show

Just a Magic Show

A perfect show to start your day! Card tricks, mind-reading, all the magic show stuff! Magician, on stage, doing magic in a magic show; what more do you want? Oh and it’s literally… 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

Rebel

Rebel

Two contrasting elements combine to make Rebel into a spectacular show ideally suited to the vast tent that is Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

The Richard Osman Fan Club

The Richard Osman Fan Club

After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab… 

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

David Alnwick: Secret Magic Show

Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick. 

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t… 

Attachment: The Leech Show

Attachment: The Leech Show

The story of three actors who are performing a show to impress the infamous theatre critic, Bob the Leech. 

Leicester Square Theatre All-Star Show

Leicester Square Theatre All-Star Show

A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre. 

Ben Hur: The Theatre Show

Ben Hur: The Theatre Show

The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot… 

Scotland's Adult Comedy Show

Scotland's Adult Comedy Show

Scotland’s Adult Comedy Show. 

Unseen Shepard

Unseen Shepard

What if the characters you created in your plays were to come to life and challenge the lives and circumstances you created for them?Unseen Shepard finds Pulitzer Prize-winning pla… 

The Drunk and Heckle Show

The Drunk and Heckle Show

Veteran Canadian comic David Tsonos hates one thing: the drunk heckler. 

Totally! A One Superwoman Show

Totally! A One Superwoman Show

In this powerful one-hour theater piece, Kimleigh Smith takes the audience through a journey that is totally uplifting, totally heartbreaking and totally powerful! Totally! is the … 

Queen Killers – The We Will Rock You Tribute Show

Queen Killers – The We Will Rock You Tribute Show

A celebration of Queen songs performed by four of the UK’s most talented singers and dancers in a tribute to the musical We Will Rock You. 

Jekyll and Hyde: A One-Woman Show

Jekyll and Hyde: A One-Woman Show

‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way. 

Planetarium Lates – Under Pressure: The Ocean Show

Planetarium Lates – Under Pressure: The Ocean Show

Come with us as we take a deep dive into the global ocean; we’ll explore dark, hidden ecosystems and see the collective efforts of hundreds of marine scientists and engineers, stri… 

Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake

Adventure Bubble Show with Milkshake

Every child goes inside their own bubble! Seen on China, Romania and Bulgaria’s Got Talent. 

Growing Up Ringside: A One-Woman Show by Mina Liccione

Growing Up Ringside: A One-Woman Show by Mina Liccione

Mina (Comedy Central, STOMP) returns with her acclaimed multimedia show weaving together hilarious and heartfelt stories from her New York upbringing as the daughter of an Italian-… 

Platonic Love Triangle – A New York Stand-up Comedy Show

Platonic Love Triangle – A New York Stand-up Comedy Show

New York comedians Wyatt Feegrado (Bettor Days on Hulu, Amazon Prime), Lukas Arnold (2 million+ followers on Tiktok) and Otter Lee (Fairview on Comedy Central) present an afternoon… 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small yet yet unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique and original jewellery designs from 30 independent designers across the globe including local emerging t… 

This is a Sketch Show

This is a Sketch Show

Roll up, roll up! Following last year’s sold-out show, the Manchester Revue is returning to the Fringe with a brand-new show! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manches… 

Cash and Diamond: Tribute Show

Cash and Diamond: Tribute Show

Multi award-winning Pete Storm and Pete Sinclair return with their sell-out tribute show, bringing together on stage two legends of American music. 

The Burlesque Show

The Burlesque Show

A dance competition that brings burlesque into the mainstream and opens up this dance genre to a whole new audience. 

Late Show Great Show

Late Show Great Show

The night is young and three of the best stand-up comedians from Australia are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

Fitry

Fitry

Fitry is an intriguing one-man show from Faso Danse Théâtre, Brussels, featuring Serge Aimé Coulibaly as the performer. 

The Late Late Irish Show

The Late Late Irish Show

The Late Late Irish Show is a compilation show featuring Ireland’s best comedians. 

The Funny Thing About Death

The Funny Thing About Death

There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable. 

The Magic Show Starring Liam A Black as the Glittering Prince of Magic

The Magic Show Starring Liam A Black as the Glittering Prince of Magic

Join The Glittering Prince of Magic for a world-class magical premiere extravaganza. 

The Burlesque Show

The Burlesque Show

A dance competition that brings burlesque into the mainstream and opens up this dance genre to a whole new audience. 

The Gin Show

The Gin Show

Back for its third year running and getting better every year. 

Heroin to Hero

Heroin to Hero

There are many rags-to-riches stories around but probably not another that follows a young heroin addict’s journey from death’s door to the gates of Buckingham Palace. 

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe-favourite comedians Vladimir McTavish and Jay Sodagar for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s brand new chat and comedy show. 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Edinburgh Fringe is a hub of unique and wild shows, contrasting genres and varieties of themes crunched into a tight hour. 

Bomb and Get Bombed: A Stand-Up Comedy Show

Bomb and Get Bombed: A Stand-Up Comedy Show

The only comedy show in town with actual consequences for bad jokes. 

Gary G Knightley: The Not Knightley Show

Gary G Knightley: The Not Knightley Show

Gary G Knightley (the “Twat out of Hell”) returns with a new passion: quizzing. 

The Show That Must Not Be Named

The Show That Must Not Be Named

Improvised Harry Potter parody from Chortle Award-winning Jericho Comedy. 

Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show

Oy Gay! The Queer Jewish Comedy Show

‘Oy Gay! is hilarious, clever and filthy! These talented comedians charm and entertain whilst exploring faith, community and life, with some classic material that still makes me la… 

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

Join Yorkshire double act The Halls of Ridiculous as they push the boundaries of improv, sketch and character creativity to the max with their quick thinking scenes, zany special g… 

Not My Audience! The Comedy Show You Control!

Not My Audience! The Comedy Show You Control!

The cult hit stand-up panel show where the audience can join the fun without being picked on! Enjoy three top stand-ups answering the daft questions that have been picked using our… 

Gabe Mollica: A Show About Friendship

Gabe Mollica: A Show About Friendship

New York Comedian Gabe Mollica started comedy the day after he got broken up with. 

The Circus Sonas Family Show

The Circus Sonas Family Show

Circus Sonas are Northern Irish father and son Martin and Logy. 

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

Yes, I know it’s the Edinburgh Fringe but this is the Edinburgh Fridge! Come along to hear poems and monologues from a fridge called Smeg, robots, spiders, goats and so much more! 

Aaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show

Aaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Kirsty Munro. 

Anxiety vs Depression: A Comedy Game Show – Pay What You Can

Anxiety vs Depression: A Comedy Game Show – Pay What You Can

Two teams of comedians – one team depressed, one team anxious. 

Monkey Poet's Murder Mystery and The Bo Jo Show Episode 1 – Chequer's Mate

Monkey Poet's Murder Mystery and The Bo Jo Show Episode 1 – Chequer's Mate

Murder Mystery ‘A drinks reception of all of poetic literatures greats. 

Love and Sex on the Spectrum

Love and Sex on the Spectrum

It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage… 

A Bookish Comedy Show

A Bookish Comedy Show

The book-themed comedy compilation hit is back! If you’ve ever: paused after reading something to take a moment and collect yourself, read naked, thought the book was way better … 

The Discount Comedy Checkout: Improvised Family Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout: Improvised Family Show

Nominated for Best Kids’ Show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2022. 

An Objectively Funny Show

An Objectively Funny Show

Critical darlings and audience favourites Objectively Funny take time out from producing top-tier shows and providing mental health support at the Fringe to present some of the hot… 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fir… 

The Return of the Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

The Return of the Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then grab your pet adult and join us! Award-winning c… 

Jarred and Hobbit: The Big Beatbox Comedy Mess Around Gameshow Show!

Jarred and Hobbit: The Big Beatbox Comedy Mess Around Gameshow Show!

A delightful mess of a show combining the electrifying skills of award-winning comedian Jarred Christmas and the vocal genius of world-champion beatboxer Hobbit. 

Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show

Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show

Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of really stupid kids’ comedy plus a drawing lesson and possibly something that involves fishing, ducks, bumbags and … 

Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life

Anesti Danelis: This Show Will Change Your Life

Musical comedian and viral internet songboy, Anesti Danelis, presents a comedy concert inspired by all of those stupid self-help books. 

1 Ball Show

1 Ball Show

NYC comedian Terence Hartnett (Caroline’s on Broadway) was diagnosed with testicular cancer last year and it was the first bad thing that has ever happened to him. 

Amber Glancy: Wine Show

Amber Glancy: Wine Show

Wine Show is a solo clown show centered on Bailey Barrel, a charming and unorthodox wine maker who is discovering her place in the world after the death of her father. 

This is Not a Show About Hong Kong

This is Not a Show About Hong Kong

Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award 2022. 

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

After selling out at the Adelaide Fringe, Liars and Clowns comes to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative, underground and weird acts from around the festival. 

Ireland's Best Themed Show: Tree Fiddy

Ireland's Best Themed Show: Tree Fiddy

Dublin’s favourite comedy club is on tour. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

Are You Being Murdered?

Are You Being Murdered?

People can be sensitive about how they are described. 

Marcel Lucont Etc – A Chat Show

Marcel Lucont Etc – A Chat Show

Top 10 Comedy Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2019 (Telegraph). 

Banana Split: A Stand-Up Comedy Show

Banana Split: A Stand-Up Comedy Show

Fresh, off-beat comedy from two former Cambridge Footlights. 

Are You Interested in a Comedy Compilation Show?

Are You Interested in a Comedy Compilation Show?

A stand-up comedy compilation show hosted by Tom Mayhew, as heard on BBC Radio 4. 

Lanessa Long: The Lanessa Show

Lanessa Long: The Lanessa Show

Lanessa has been performing shows all her life. 

Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious

Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious

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… 

9 Circles

9 Circles

From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a… 

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a show for all the family, specially written for the live stage and packed with fun and excit… 

Nina Conti: The Dating Show

Nina Conti: The Dating Show

It's only around halfway through Nina Conti: The Dating Show that you realise just how hard she is working. 

The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen

The Transfiguration of Mrs Lamen

The story of the theatrical Dame has had many incarnations and they all revolve around a fairly standard trope. 

Richard Stott: Afterparty

Richard Stott: Afterparty

Richard Stott returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners. 

One of Two

One of Two

There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is… 

A Secret Show by Cameron Young

A Secret Show by Cameron Young

Cameron Young is one of the hottest names in modern magic, with appearances on national television shows such as Britain’s Got Talent, Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Tu Si Que Vales, C… 

The Mr Thing Show

The Mr Thing Show

‘This anarchic, multimedia show has cult in its genes’ **** (Chortle. 

Irvine Welsh's Porno

Irvine Welsh's Porno

The highly anticipated world premiere of Irvine Welsh's Porno catches up with the lives of Renton, Sickboy, Begbie & Spud, fifteen years after their appearance in TRAINSPOT… 

The Big Free Festival Launch Show

The Big Free Festival Launch Show

Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,… 

False Start

False Start

What happens when you train for something your whole life, only to fail at the crucial moment? This question is the stimulus behind False Start, from acclaimed French-German theatr… 

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du… 

In the Name of the Son

In the Name of the Son

If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same… 

Lou Conran: A Show

Lou Conran: A Show

Host of Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club and critically acclaimed podcast Spit or Swallow. 

Fanboy

Fanboy

Fringe-first award winner Joe Sellman-Leava (Labels, Monster) is back at the Fringe with his new work Fanboy in which he explores his relationship with his past and future self. 

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

Grace, ‘one of the funniest women in Britain’ (Times), makes her eagerly awaited Fringe return following 2019’s sell-out run, with a new show about her two lifelong passions; men a… 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet?

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet?

All aboard The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet? Buckle up as we hit the road for a tour of life itself, visiting more sketch-shaped destinations… 

Moira in Lockdown

Moira in Lockdown

It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-… 

Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster

Manual Cinema Presents: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster

Adapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, Leonardo! tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions he must make along the way. 

Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story

Viva Your Vulva: The Hole Story

As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so… 

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

The MP, Aunty Mandy and Me

Award-winning writer and actor Rob Ward returns to the Fringe with his latest creation The MP, Aunty Mandy & Me. 

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act… 

Adults Only Magic Show

Adults Only Magic Show

The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show. 

Richard Brown: Horror Show

Richard Brown: Horror Show

Richard Brown returns to the Fringe with a new show that promises to be as bleakly brilliant as his previous endeavours. 

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... [Perfect and Arena-Ready Show]

Mark Silcox: I Can Cure... [Perfect and Arena-Ready Show]

Dr Silcox returns with his perfect show for the fourth time for his hardcore fans; a unique and no-nonsense approach to exposing big pharmaceutical companies who rip off their cust… 

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Multi award-winning podcast returns. 

The Greatest Magic Show

The Greatest Magic Show

‘A rollicking roller-coaster ride!’ ****½ (The West Australian). 

Emmy Blotnick: The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez: A Show About Death, Betrayal and Financial Ruin

Emmy Blotnick: The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez: A Show About Death, Betrayal and Financial Ruin

The American stand-up, TV writer and “neurotic Jewish millennial” returns following her acclaimed 2019 debut. 

Rob Auton: The Crowd Show

Rob Auton: The Crowd Show

The Crowd Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds by award-winning writer, actor and podcaster Rob Auton. 

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Who haunts our world-famous underground vaults? Join Minging Annie from Edinburgh’s past and explore what is it like to have been trapped beneath the city streets for 400 years. 

The Discount Comedy Checkout - Improvised Family Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout - Improvised Family Show

This show is all about children’s ideas and stories being brought to life before your very eyes with the help of three talented comedy improvisers - Chris Lumb, Natalie Smeaton & P… 

The Discount Comedy Checkout - Improvised Family Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout - Improvised Family Show

This show is all about children’s ideas and stories being brought to life before your very eyes with the help of three talented comedy improvisers - Chris Lumb, Natalie Smeaton & P… 

Linda's Freak Show

Linda's Freak Show

Award winning late night cabaret showcase hosted by Linda, with her fellowship of freaks from participants in the festival/whoever can make it to Durham that night! Enter the dark … 

Linda's Freak Show

Linda's Freak Show

Award winning late night cabaret showcase hosted by Linda, with her fellowship of freaks from participants in the festival/whoever can make it to Durham that night! Enter the dark … 

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021. 

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021. 

Stole the Show

Stole the Show

Stole the Show ‘It’s criminally underrated!’ Stole the Show is a farcical comedy play inside a play about a robber who stumbles into a amateur retelling of The Legend of King Ar… 

Stole the Show

Stole the Show

Stole the Show ‘It’s criminally underrated!’ Stole the Show is a farcical comedy play inside a play about a robber who stumbles into a amateur retelling of The Legend of King Ar… 

Sniff

Sniff

Have you had the experience of sitting through a play and thinking, “If I’d known that was how it was going to end I’d have paid far more attention to all the details in the … 

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show - a 70-minute chaotic journey through the minds of two dudes; Jack & Jordan, who are actors - nay, artists! And professional ones at that. 

Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion Freak Show

Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion Freak Show

Eccentric, scandalous, provocative, exuberant, and funny as ever, Jean Paul Gaultier is set to shake up London this summer when his stunning creation, Fashion Freak Show - 50 years… 

Fashion Freak Show

Fashion Freak Show

Fashion Freak Show is a retrospective of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s career using a combination of catwalk, dance and theatre revue. 

The Lesson

The Lesson

Director Max Lewendel has taken Theatre of the Absurd to a new level in his engrossing production of Eugène Ionesco’s The Lesson in a translation by Donald Watson at the Southwa… 

Richard Stott: Afterparty (Edinburgh Preview)

Richard Stott: Afterparty (Edinburgh Preview)

Richard Stott as seen on ITV2 Stand Up Sketch Show and runner up in Dave TV’s Jokes of 2019 is back with a new show about your mid 30s. 

Offered Up

Offered Up

Set in Chester in 1645 as England was ravaged by the Civil War, Offered Up, at the Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio Theatre is a commentary on the political and social life of the … 

The Convert

The Convert

Stunning from beginning to end The Convert is perhaps the most remarkable piece of theatre ever staged at Above The Stag in Vauxhall and that is no disrespect to the many fine prod… 

It Just So Happened - An Alternative History Show

It Just So Happened - An Alternative History Show

Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t… 

It Just So Happened - An Alternative History Show

It Just So Happened - An Alternative History Show

Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t… 

University of Brighton Undergraduate Summer Show: Art and Media

University of Brighton Undergraduate Summer Show: Art and Media

The Summer Shows are a culmination of our talented art, media and design students’ university journey in the form of a large-scale public exhibition. 

University of Brighton Undergraduate Summer Show: Art and Media

University of Brighton Undergraduate Summer Show: Art and Media

The Summer Shows are a culmination of our talented art, media and design students’ university journey in the form of a large-scale public exhibition. 

Cancelling Socrates

Cancelling Socrates

Howard Brenton’s new play Cancelling Socrates at Jermyn Street Theatre is a fascinating piece that transports us to classical Greece in a consideration of the circumstances that … 

The Early Late Show

The Early Late Show

Join Fringe favourite comedians Vladimir McTavish, Dave Chawner and Jay Sodagar for Brighton Fringe’s brand new chat and comedy show: The Early Late Show. 

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

Richard Pulsford: A Bit More Rich

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay. 

Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit

Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit

The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date. 

Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit

Richard Filby: Slick Tricks & Dry Wit

The newest show from Richard Filby promises to be his best work to date. 

Starcrossed

Starcrossed

Shakespeare knew what it took to pen a romantic tragedy when he wrote Romeo and Juliet and hence carefully structured all the ingredients to meet the demands of the genre and creat… 

No Particular Order

No Particular Order

Set in an unspecified time and without a location, No Particular Order resonates across the ages, through civilisations and empires, dictatorships and democracies and more, vividly… 

Brussels Sprouts, Christmas Pudding and Arts?

Brussels Sprouts, Christmas Pudding and Arts?

Brighton Spiegeltent is hosting another of our occasional vital conversations about the state of the arts in in Brighton and Hove. 

Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask

Barry Humphries: The Man Behind the Mask

The event might fall short of the hype that The Man Behind the Mask would be a ‘confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outr… 

Beanpig Puppet Show

Beanpig Puppet Show

Beanpig Puppets presents an adaptation of an obscure fairy tale for the enjoyment of all ages! You are invited into an enchanted forest full of surprises, and a small house where… 

Beanpig Puppet Show

Beanpig Puppet Show

Beanpig Puppets presents an adaptation of an obscure fairy tale for the enjoyment of all ages! You are invited into an enchanted forest full of surprises, and a small house where… 

Absolutely Reliable! Solo-Mask-Show

Absolutely Reliable! Solo-Mask-Show

Inspired by Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Gogol’s Diary of a Madman, this solo mask and movement performance is a unique blend of heart and politics. 

Absolutely Reliable! Solo-Mask-Show

Absolutely Reliable! Solo-Mask-Show

Inspired by Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Gogol’s Diary of a Madman, this solo mask and movement performance is a unique blend of heart and politics. 

Soho Boy

Soho Boy

Soho Boy, at the Drayton Arms Theatre, is a new musical, written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly. 

The Best of Miss Hope Springs (...it's a very short show)

The Best of Miss Hope Springs (...it's a very short show)

Brighton Fringe 2021 Award Winner Miss Hope Springs recently celebrated a decade of decadence as resident songstress at London’s premier cabaret room Le Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly. 

The Best of Miss Hope Springs (...it's a very short show)

The Best of Miss Hope Springs (...it's a very short show)

Brighton Fringe 2021 Award Winner Miss Hope Springs recently celebrated a decade of decadence as resident songstress at London’s premier cabaret room Le Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly. 

Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show

Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show

Come along to see Psychic Stu in his Phenomenal Stand Up Show! You may be lucky and get your fortune told by the man himself. 

Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged

Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged

Did Alissa Finn choose to perform Confessions of a Goddess Unhinged at the Water Rats in King’s Cross because the stage has a pair of ionic columns framing the stage? No, is the … 

Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show

Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show

Psychic Stu takes on the world of fake mediums and not only stands up for the holistic world, but unwittingly educates others on what to look for so as not to get conned. 

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Everything seems normal. 

Aaargh It's the One Liner Show

Aaargh It's the One Liner Show

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Aaargh It's the One Liner Show

Aaargh It's the One Liner Show

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Kirsty Munro: A Naughty Show

Kirsty Munro: A Naughty Show

Kirsty Munro talks about naughty stuff, overshares and gets saucy. 

Kirsty Munro: A Naughty Show

Kirsty Munro: A Naughty Show

Kirsty Munro talks about naughty stuff, overshares and gets saucy. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship. 

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Richard Wright: Into The Wright-Verse

Everything seems normal. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: The Fringe Show. 

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of… 

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: The Fringe Show. 

A Celebration of Arts & Wellbeing

A Celebration of Arts & Wellbeing

The University of Brighton’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing hosts a showcase event, celebrating the centre’s innovative work on how the arts can support and inform well-being fo… 

A Celebration of Arts & Wellbeing

A Celebration of Arts & Wellbeing

The University of Brighton’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing hosts a showcase event, celebrating the centre’s innovative work on how the arts can support and inform well-being fo… 

Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy

Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy

Searchlight Theatre Company returns to the Brighton Fringe with their delightful show Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy at the Rialto Theatre. 

You're Bard

You're Bard

Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors. 

You're Bard

You're Bard

Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors. 

A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show

A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show

Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer. 

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

Jekyll & Hyde: A One Woman Show

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. 

A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show

A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show

Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer. 

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

Leamprov, the premier Improvised Comedy troupe in Leamington Spa brings you ‘The Elephant in the Room’; a quick-fire improvised sketch show in the style of ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway… 

A Bit On The Side Show

A Bit On The Side Show

Red Sauce Theatre brings a surreal blast from the past with their zany end of the pier amusement booth and performance experience. 

A Bit On The Side Show

A Bit On The Side Show

Red Sauce Theatre brings a surreal blast from the past with their zany end of the pier amusement booth and performance experience. 

Proper Job Panel Show

Proper Job Panel Show

Proper Job Is a panel show featuring the best comedians on the circuit competing to see who would fare best in the real world. 

Proper Job Panel Show

Proper Job Panel Show

Proper Job Is a panel show featuring the best comedians on the circuit competing to see who would fare best in the real world. 

Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)

Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)

Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu… 

Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)

Richard Stott: Afterparty (WIP)

Welcome to the afterparty, take a seat but don’t stay forever! We all leave the party at different times but have you hung on until the sun is coming through the curtains, the mu… 

The Dwarfs

The Dwarfs

The Dwarfs is a semi-autobiographical work and Harold Pinter's only novel. 

The Man In The Shed

The Man In The Shed

The Man In The Shed is a highly amusing and at time hilarious solo rant by actor Alex Dee, co-written as Alex Donald with Tim Connery. 

The Recollection of Tony Ward

The Recollection of Tony Ward

Jim Spencer Broadbent is a playwright based in South-East London, so he is delighted to be presenting his play The Recollection of Tony Ward as one of twenty-seven companies contri… 

Not Done Yet ! - A Life In Progress Show

Not Done Yet ! - A Life In Progress Show

A Life in Progress Show - Not Done Yet! After thirty years of listening to others, one day Stewart listened to himself and left his job - Now he wants you to listen to him. 

Bubble Show, The

Bubble Show, The

Mr. 

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show will have the audience in stitches and in awe simultaneously. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Mr. 

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

Expectations can work in many ways and it’s interesting to realise the extent to which we can be influenced by what we have just seen. 

Bubble Show The

Bubble Show The

Mr. 

...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)

...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)

We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe. 

Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)

Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)

A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m… 

two Palestinians go dogging

two Palestinians go dogging

Brecht would have felt at home watching two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood Studio. 

The Breach

The Breach

Celebrated director Sarah Frankcom makes her debut at Hampstead Theatre in a spartan production of Naomi Wallace’s morality-defying play The Breach. 

Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)

Richard Todd: Hot Bubbly Danger (WiP)

A busted knee, a burst eardrum, a brain struggling to accept updates, heroic reveries shanghaied by harsh reality; in a bid to recapture what was, ageing bath-time fantasist Todd m… 

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show este o trupă de comedie din Republica Moldova care a impresionat prin prestaţiile lor publicul și jurații emisiunii iUmor, unde au ajun… 

Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon

Both a restaurant and a theatre, The Mill at Sonning, with its beautiful river setting in the countryside near Reading, is currently host to the Busman's Honeymoon, co-written … 

Orlando

Orlando

Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s amusing challenge to the norms of society, stemmed from her own life and that of her lover Vita Sackville-West, but in her novel, the eponymous hero'… 

The End of the Night

The End of the Night

Dust-sheets cover what little furniture there is in the expansive room of Dr Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden), trusted personal physiotherapist to Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler (Ri… 

Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!

When Marisha Wallace, who plays Ado Annie, sings “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” we are left in no doubt as to what she means and it gets the ovation it richly deserves… 

 If. Destroyed. Still. True.

If. Destroyed. Still. True.

Sometimes all the elements of a production combine to form something that is stunning and deeply moving. 

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

BASIL BRUSH’S FAMILY FUN SHOW Broken Robot Productions & So Comedy in association with Basil Brush Limited Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerja… 

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

BASIL BRUSH’S FAMILY FUN SHOW Broken Robot Productions & So Comedy in association with Basil Brush Limited Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerja… 

Absolute Certainty?

Absolute Certainty?

Absolute Certainty? staged by Qweerdog Theatre revolves around the confused lives of two brothers and a friend. 

How It Is (Part 2)

How It Is (Part 2)

How It Is (Part 2) being Part 2 of a three-part novel of which Part 1 comes before it and Part 3 follows it after which there is no more being a novel it is not a play yet here at … 

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

After sitting through two acts of around fifty-five minutes each at the Union Theatre, quite why David Lindsey-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five To… 

Fighting Irish

Fighting Irish

If you are into boxing, and I’m not, Fighting Irish gives you something to latch onto from the outset. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

The Gondoliers

The Gondoliers

Gilbert & Sullivan have survived the test of time and now seem to have successfully weathered the pandemic. 

Mojo Mickybo

Mojo Mickybo

Two stunningly energetic performances keep Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickyboy, courtesy of Bruiser Theatre Company, rolling along at a cracking pace that provides an hour of action-… 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Diary of a Somebody

Diary of a Somebody

John Lahr’s Diary of a Somebody makes a return to the stage after an absence of 35 years, this time at Seven Dials Playhouse. 

LIVE/WIRE - The AC/DC Show

LIVE/WIRE - The AC/DC Show

Live/Wire is The AC/DC Show. 

The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

There is deceit in the title of this play. 

Sasha Regan's All Male H.M.S. Pinafore

Sasha Regan's All Male H.M.S. Pinafore

Wilton’s Music Hall has come a long way since 1885 when Nelly Power sang The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery. 

Under Electric Candlelight

Under Electric Candlelight

I’ll settle for the company’s own description of Under Electric Candlelight as an ‘existential tragicomedy’, but dont worry about interpreting that. 

Abigail’s Party

Abigail’s Party

That irresistible 1970s suburban comedy, Abigail's Party, has been revived again; this time at the Watford Palace Theatre under the direction of Pravesh Kumar. 

Dev's Army

Dev's Army

Dev’s Army, by Stuart D. 

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Blackpool chip shop heiress Teresa Toti is unlucky in love, to put it mildly. 

Bacon

Bacon

Bacon, at the Finborough Theatre, showcases the talents of two remarkable young actors in a moving exploration of teenage angst. 

Moreno

Moreno

Simple acts can often have huge repercussions. 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and… 

When We Dead Awaken

When We Dead Awaken

For aficionados of Ibsen this is a production not to be missed; nor should those who just like to wallow in the velvety richness of traditional theatre ignore this rare opportunity… 

Richard II

Richard II

Politically, it seems like a highly appropriate time to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Richard II - an exploration of the nature of leadership and egotistical entitlement. 

The Enby Show @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

The Enby Show @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

As recommended by TimeOut LondonThe Enby ShowThe Enby Show brings together the best gender-benders and cis-tem offenders that the UK has to offer, in an all-star variety night popp… 

Chiron: A One Centaur Show | A Beautiful Mess

Chiron: A One Centaur Show | A Beautiful Mess

Chiron: A One Centaur Show Lanky horse-boy talks funny A Beautiful Mess To-do lists aren't actually helpful. 

The Collaboration

The Collaboration

Andy Warhol once declared, 'Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art'. 

The Legends of American Country Tribute Show

The Legends of American Country Tribute Show

Now seen by over 350,000 fans live  and watched by millions on TV Europe's No. 

Totally Football Show Live

Totally Football Show Live

Totally Football Live The Totally Football Show returns to the stage, and what better place to kick start things than the Leicester Square Theatre in t… 

Totally Football Show Live

Totally Football Show Live

Totally Football Live The Totally Football Show returns to the stage, and what better place to kick start things than the Leicester Square Theatre in t… 

The Stars Are Fire

The Stars Are Fire

The University of Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948. 

HOLST: The Music In The Spheres

HOLST: The Music In The Spheres

In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a… 

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman were joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical for their roles in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at The… 

Fringe Academy: Starting a Performing Arts Company

Fringe Academy: Starting a Performing Arts Company

Thinking of setting up your own performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal and Industrial Relations Manager at ITC, for a workshop about the legal and administrative basic… 

Show Time

Show Time

If you feel the blue in January, join us for 3 nights of fun. Thursday 13th,  20th and the 27th of January at Bar Soho!Ticket link 

Fringe Academy: Arts Council Project Grants Surgery

Fringe Academy: Arts Council Project Grants Surgery

Theatre Relationship Managers, Anna Jefferson and Claire Soper, from Arts Council England will be holding an online advice session on Zoom to talk you through the National Lottery … 

The Dina Martina Christmas Show

The Dina Martina Christmas Show

Miss Martina (a. 

Drunk Women Solving Crime: Christmas Show 2021

Drunk Women Solving Crime: Christmas Show 2021

The hit comedy podcast takes to the stage with a very special, live christmas show! Drunk Women Solving Crime is a true crime podcast with a twist…of lime. 

The Aidan Orange & Friends Show

The Aidan Orange & Friends Show

This weeks friends include . 

UPRISING - Let the Record Show - A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993' UK launch

UPRISING - Let the Record Show - A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993' UK launch

Join us for a United in Anger screening and UK launch reading of Let the Record Show along with a World Cafe style event on cabaret tables where everyone gets to mas… 

RICHARD CRAIG | VALE

RICHARD CRAIG | VALE

Renowned Scottish flautist and new music champion, Richard Craig, closes the festival with a programme of recent works built around Richard Barrett’s “Vale&r… 

The Art of Banksy

The Art of Banksy

Banksy’s works pop up in all sorts of places, but seeing them is often a challenge. 

Juliet & Romeo

Juliet & Romeo

Reversed, deconstructed and re-imagined to create a truly remarkable piece of theatre, Juliet & Romeo is the inaugural long-run production at The Chelsea Theatre, following its… 

The Happiness Show

The Happiness Show

Prepare your chuckle muscles for the tickling of a lifetime at the second annual Doddy Day Happiness Show! The Squire Of Knotty Ash liked nothing more than making p… 

For Queen And Country

For Queen And Country

Writer/Director Paul Stone has unearthed a gem of World War II history and transformed it into a delightful monologue, now on stage at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington. 

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

The Tony Awards for comedy must have had a lean year in 2013 when Christopher Durang won Best Play for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. 

Footfalls & Rockaby

Footfalls & Rockaby

Some people pace up and down, others rock back and forth. 

Accidental Birth of An Anarchist

Accidental Birth of An Anarchist

Luke Oldfield’s Accidental Birth of an Anarchist at The Space on the Isle of Dogs tells of two novice activists from The People’s Movement to Protect the Planet who get jobs on… 

MIMI's - Bite Me! - Standing Late Show

MIMI's - Bite Me! - Standing Late Show

BOO BITCHES! It’s spooky season, and we’ve lined up a horrible concoction of shocking live shows from some of the deadliest drag  around! On October 30 we bring you a spooky,… 

HMS Pinafore

HMS Pinafore

As W S Gilbert once observed, “Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?” Cal McCrystal provides plenty of material for that in his pro… 

Richard III (A One Person Show)

Richard III (A One Person Show)

New covid-safe version of Brite Theater’s multi award-winning show! The fourth wall has been utterly obliterated, as the audience take on the roles of all the other characters at R… 

The Dresser

The Dresser

Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser evokes memories of a bygone age in British theatre and no setting more befits it than that glorious monument to thespian achievement, the Richmond Th… 

The Sugar House

The Sugar House

Australian playwright Alana Valentine makes her UK debut at the Finborough Theatre with The Sugar House, in its first production outside of her home country, where it was nominat… 

The Enby Horror Show

The Enby Horror Show

As recommended by TimeOut LondonThe Enby Horror ShowThe Enby Show brings together the best gender-benders and cis-tem offenders that the UK has to offer, in an all-star variety nig… 

I'm Not Okay! Emo drag show & party is BACK!

I'm Not Okay! Emo drag show & party is BACK!

Dragpunk’s I’M NOT OKAY has risen from the grave for an iconic HELLOWEEN SPECIAL! Your favourite emo party has been resurrected, for a night of classic emo bangers and alt dra… 

Joe & Ken

Joe & Ken

A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th… 

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret Show

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret Show

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret ShowSun 17 Oct @ The Brunswick Holland Road HoveDoors 6:45pm Show 7pm End 9pm 10 A NIGHT CURATED BY LESBIANS, FOR LESBIANS AND ALLIESEVERYO… 

The Enby Show: Manchester!

The Enby Show: Manchester!

As recommended by TimeOut LondonThe Enby ShowThe Enby Show brings together the best gender-benders and cis-tem offenders that the UK has to offer, in an all-star variety night popp… 

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret Show

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret Show

Belszki and Guests: Lesbian Cabaret ShowThurs 14 Oct @ Two Brewers ClaphamDoors 7pm Show 8pm 10 A NIGHT CURATED BY LESBIANS, FOR LESBIANS AND ALLIESEVERYONE WELCOME IN AUDIENC… 

Topsie Redfern Show

Topsie Redfern Show

The incredible Topsie Redfern is back - singing from opera through to pop with her fabulous and fun show. 

The Witchfinder’s Sister

The Witchfinder’s Sister

The Salem witch trials are well known, perhaps in large part due to Arthur Miller’s outstanding play The Crucible that put the Massachusetts town on the map. 

The Idea

The Idea

The Brockley Jack Theatre is currently offering the opportunity to see a rarely performed and probably almost unknown operetta by Gustav Holst. 

Foxes

Foxes

It doesn’t take long to appreciate why Foxes, at Theatre 503, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. 

Rat King

Rat King

Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company. 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Hamlet

Hamlet

The long-awaited Hamlet, directed by Greg Hersov, is finally on stage at the Young Vic and as the young prince Cush Jumbo gives a commanding performance that keeps the whole produc… 

How to Survive an Apocalypse

How to Survive an Apocalypse

The renowned Finborough Theatre is still alive and well as witnessed by its latest production of Jordan Hall’s How To Survive An Apocalypse presented by Proud Haddock. 

Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act

Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act

How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of… 

Love, Genius and a Walk

Love, Genius and a Walk

Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma… 

Bolly-Illusion Presents The CUTIE-POC Variety Show VOL. 5

Bolly-Illusion Presents The CUTIE-POC Variety Show VOL. 5

Clubs and shows are BACK BABY which means it’s time for VOL. 

The Modern Family Show 2021

The Modern Family Show 2021

This one-day boutique event is the only UK family creation show exclusively designed for the LGBTQ+ community informing attendees about UK and International family building options… 

Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show: Closing Party

Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show: Closing Party

*UPDATE* As a result of COVID restrictions we have had to make the difficult decision to postpone our opening event and instead invite you to join us for a closing party to ce… 

The Enby Show @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

The Enby Show @ Royal Vauxhall Tavern

As recommended by TimeOut LondonThe Enby ShowThe Enby Show brings together the best gender-benders and cis-tem offenders that the UK has to offer, in an all-star variety night popp… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Relatively Speaking

Relatively Speaking

Noël Coward described Relatively Speaking as ‘a beautifully constructed and very funny comedy’ and this production at the Jermyn Street Theatre demonstrates how right he was. 

The Accidental Show

The Accidental Show

James Campbell’s Accidental Show returns for a second season - zooming into family homes every Saturday morning for 10 weeks. 

Small Change

Small Change

In addition to much discussion of the play itself, Peter Gill’s Small Change at the Omnibus Theatre Clapham had the bar buzzing with anecdotes from people recalling what their mo… 

Not Another Pride Show

Not Another Pride Show

Its finally here, the day that should have been London Pride, and even though the paraide is limed and Soho is less full of half naked twinks, that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate… 

 The Adam & Apple Show

 The Adam & Apple Show

This Pride weekend, come down to The Phoenix Arts Club to celebrate some of the best LGBTQ+ talent that London has to offer. 

Prison Games

Prison Games

Marcus Hercules, Artistic Director of Hercules Productions, is the one-man wonder behind Prison Games, currently live on-stage at The Pleasance in north London having previouslybee… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and… 

Visible Show

Visible Show

VISIBLE SHOWDrag artist, SemiColon, is back again with another Visible show with the iconic East London venue, The Glory. 

Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Calling kids aged 5 to 100, join our MIGHTY gang! A sensational interactive show, where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide with electrifying results. 

Beginning

Beginning

Two people are left standing on opposite sides of the room at the end of a housewarming party in Crouch End: the hostess and a guy who came as the friend of a friend, but on whom s… 

This is Paradise

This is Paradise

This is Paradise, Michael John O'Neill’s new play at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, is a lengthy monologue in which Kate (Amy Molloy) provides a complex interweaving of the… 

The Very Nice Improv Show

The Very Nice Improv Show

The nicest improv show this side of Toronto, creating a hilarious, spontaneous show all from audience suggestions. 

The Very Nice Improv Show

The Very Nice Improv Show

The nicest improv show this side of Toronto, creating a hilarious, spontaneous show all from audience suggestions. 

The Very Nice Improv Show

The Very Nice Improv Show

The nicest improv show this side of Toronto, creating a hilarious, spontaneous show all from audience suggestions. 

Brownton Abbey: Talk Show

Brownton Abbey: Talk Show

An evolving, international performance collective, centring and celebrating disabled, queer people of colour, Brownton Abbey’s kaleidoscopic events investigate and reclaim tradit… 

Babeslaytion Show: Take me to...

Babeslaytion Show: Take me to...

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… 

Bard Heads: The Third Witch from the Left and the Whirligig Of Time

Bard Heads: The Third Witch from the Left and the Whirligig Of Time

These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf… 

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers – Your Tomorrow

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers – Your Tomorrow

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow. 

Intricate Rituals

Intricate Rituals

Intricate Rituals by York DramaSoc at theSpace Triplex is a monologue with alternating actors. 

Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show

Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show

Britain’s most loveable fox returns to Underbelly with his amazing Family Fun Show. 

The Circus Sonas Family Show

The Circus Sonas Family Show

FunnyHappyStuff. 

Double trouble Drag show

Double trouble Drag show

Crouch End get ready for another great night with your favourite queen Shyanne OShea along with her extra shot of trouble Heidi Wurst. 

Still

Still

Still by Frances Poet makes its world premiere courtesy of The Traverse Theatre Company at their theatre. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Choral Evensong

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Choral Evensong

The 2021 Festival of the Sacred Arts concludes with a service of Choral Evensong. 

Wilma Ballsdrop drag show

Wilma Ballsdrop drag show

Are you ready for a fun-packed night of music, laughter and stupidity with the amazing Wilma Ballsdrop? Wilma the Welsh Warbler and giantess, has taken the London cabaret worl… 

The LoUis CYfer Show

The LoUis CYfer Show

Multi award-winning dickhead and DragKing superstar of the West End: LoUis CYfer presents his own version of a Ted talk as he takes you through a musical tour of his working-class … 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility

Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture

Lunchtime lecture: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture. 

Gabo Variety Show

Gabo Variety Show

Afro-fusion pan-global music and dance fever at La Belle Angele. 

An Audience with Mary Mac - SECOND SHOW ADDED

An Audience with Mary Mac - SECOND SHOW ADDED

SECOND SHOW ADDED!!The Tartan Temptress is BACK for an intimate evening of song and chat PLUS you the gorgeous members of the general public have the chance to ask Mary you’re most… 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical Embroidery

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical Embroidery

One-day exhibition: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical. 

Richard II: The UK Tour

Richard II: The UK Tour

Set in a near-future, post-global ecological collapse, Quandary Collective’s Richard II is a bloodthirsty outdoor exhibition. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Embroidery

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Embroidery

Lunchtime talk: Ms Zoe van Zwanenberg, embroiderer, discusses the art of embroidery. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from the Fringe Box Office.  

Bard in the Yard: The Scottish Play

Bard in the Yard: The Scottish Play

Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know. 

It's Not Rocket Science

It's Not Rocket Science

It’s Not Rocket Science at theSpace@Surgeons’ Hall is presented by Nottingham New Theatre, England’s only fully student-run theatre venue. 

Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Hymns

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Hymns

Lunchtime lecture: The Art of Hymns. 

Bard Heads: The Dust Behind the Door and Call Me Oz

Bard Heads: The Dust Behind the Door and Call Me Oz

The Dust Behind the Door: A midsummer’s dream for Hermia? More like a mid-life crisis. 

Rossetti's Women

Rossetti's Women

Lemon Squeeze Productions are presenting a new adaptation of Rossetti’s Women at the Space@Surgeons’ Hall, written and directed by Joan Greening, award-winning writer of ITV si… 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. 

Madhouse

Madhouse

Madhouse by Nottingham New Theatre at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall does what it says on the tin. 

For All The Love You Lost

For All The Love You Lost

For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Festival Opening Service

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Festival Opening Service

Mass setting: Lassus’ Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ altera. 

Comedy Freak Show

Comedy Freak Show

Come one, come all to this tragic affair! Stand-up comedy show featuring acts that are positively freaky. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross

Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet… 

MARGATE PRIDE AFTER PARTY 2021 / MARGATE ARTS CLUB

MARGATE PRIDE AFTER PARTY 2021 / MARGATE ARTS CLUB

JONJO JURYJACQUI POTATOJANET DISTRICT COUNCILGINROSY ROSSTED ROGERSANT CJOYLESSBONKSPECIAL GUESTS ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. 

Trevor Lock's Show

Trevor Lock's Show

Something different every day! Brand new social experiments that will heal your soul. 

QUEENZ – The Show With Balls!

QUEENZ – The Show With Balls!

A night of gender-bending, life-affirming fun and frolics with a bunch of boys who dance like Britney and sing like Whitney! Five vocal powerhouses armed with songs, sass and plent… 

Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson

The avant-garde Northumbrian folk storyteller combines an incredible singing voice, gritty subject matter and dark humour to create his unforgettable style. 

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill. 

Run

Run

Jonathan Smeed is making his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in Run by Stephen Laughton at Lauriston Halls, courtesy of No Frills Theatre Company. 

Richard Stott: Dog WIP

Richard Stott: Dog WIP

Richard Stott returns to the Camden Fringe with a show exploring the merits and pitfalls of loyalty. 

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Tonight I'm Entertaining Richard Gere

Blackpool chip shop heiress, Teresa Toti, dressed as cat woman , meets her dream man at a bonkers fancy dress party in Muswell Hill. 

The Big Birthday Show With Magic Gareth

The Big Birthday Show With Magic Gareth

Did you have a birthday in the last year that was spoilt by COVID? Or an anniversary? Or a Christmas. 

Bard Heads: The Queen's Speech and Happy as Larry

Bard Heads: The Queen's Speech and Happy as Larry

The Queen’s Speech: Miranda’s revels now are ending, but island life looks such fun! 35 years after Miranda and her father Prospero left their island at the end of The Tempest, the… 

#1 Best All-American Comedy Show in London

#1 Best All-American Comedy Show in London

The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d… 

Taiwan Season Symposium: Unheard Voices – Social Engagement in the Arts

Taiwan Season Symposium: Unheard Voices – Social Engagement in the Arts

Moderated by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, curator of Green Island Human Rights Art Festival in Taiwan, this webinar will look into how the Festival enabled the artistic expression of … 

Trevor Lock's Show

Trevor Lock's Show

Something different every day! Brand new social experiments that will heal your soul. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah It’s Super Scott’s Variety Show!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah It’s Super Scott’s Variety Show!

Super Scott returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his own style of comedy juggling and escapology. Maybe a bit of magic. Expect the unexpected! 

#1 Best All-American Comedy Show in London

#1 Best All-American Comedy Show in London

The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d… 

Shook

Shook

Three lads have certain things in common. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Pool (No Water)

Pool (No Water)

Oddly Ordinary Theatre Company has made a highly successful adaptation of Mark Ravenhill’s Pool (No Water) at theSpace Triplex as part of the contribution by the graduates of Que… 

Wudang Taoist Arts Show and Seminars

Wudang Taoist Arts Show and Seminars

This is a series of Wudang Kungfu shows and seminars along with Daoist culture and music. 

Saving Mr Ultimate

Saving Mr Ultimate

Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa… 

Tai Chi and Qigong Show

Tai Chi and Qigong Show

We will offer a series of Tai Chi and Qigong events so audiences can take part in the events online and in-venue in Edinburgh. 

Sam and Mark's On The Road Show

Sam and Mark's On The Road Show

Children’s TV royalty Sam and Mark, as seen on CBBC’s Big Friday Wind Up, Copycats and Crackerjack are delighted to be joining the hotly anticipated line up at Underbel… 

Corpsing

Corpsing

For a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled Corpsing you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a comedy about laughing out of place. 

Paddy the Cope

Paddy the Cope

Paddy the Cope, written and directed by Raymond Ross, makes its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the delightful Netherbow Theatre at the Scottish Storytelling Cen… 

Aaaaaaaaargh It’s the One Liner Show!

Aaaaaaaaargh It’s the One Liner Show!

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). 

Richard Pulsford: A Bit Rich

Richard Pulsford: A Bit Rich

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the master of wordplay. 

Moonlight On Leith

Moonlight On Leith

Moonlight on Leith, by Emilie Robson and Laila Noble, at theSpaceTriplex is inspired by the ‘Save Leith Walk’ campaign; a grassroots movement seeking to preserve the historic s… 

A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir

A Weekend Away at the Hotel Decevoir

Chalkhill Theatre Ltd currently has a double debut with the company’s first appearance at the Festival Fringe and the premiere of their new play. 

The New Scummy Mummies Show

The New Scummy Mummies Show

Following their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019, comedians Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn return for an all new show – new songs, new jokes and new catsuits. 

The Sean and Gerry Breakfast Show

The Sean and Gerry Breakfast Show

A comedy play about two veteran local radio DJs finally getting their shot at the big time: the breakfast show on national radio. 

Sunshine on Leith

Sunshine on Leith

Captivate Theatre returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their production of Sunshine on Leith, at Multistory, first performed in 2014 and twice thereafter. 

The End of the World Show

The End of the World Show

Edinburgh’s favourite topical comedy show. 

Theatre-19 Presents: John

Theatre-19 Presents: John

Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol… 

The Big Show from Monkey Barrel Comedy

The Big Show from Monkey Barrel Comedy

The Big Show returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy’s top-rated, sell-out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15 (not 12th), with a top mixed-bill line-up each even… 

Trudy Carmichael Presents: The Improvised One-Woman Show!

Trudy Carmichael Presents: The Improvised One-Woman Show!

Fiercely fabulous and fictitious Las Vegas lounge legend, Trudy Carmichael has lived (and nearly died), loved (and often lost) more than most mere mortals, but she gets through all… 

Ronald Forbes: The Dreamweaver's Puzzles Exhibition at the Scottish Arts Club

Ronald Forbes: The Dreamweaver's Puzzles Exhibition at the Scottish Arts Club

Ronald Forbes RSA RGI festival exhibition, The Dreamweaver’s Puzzles at the Scottish Arts Club (28th July to 29th August). 

1902
BOBBY WINNER

1902

In 1902 Hibs won the Scottish Cup. 

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

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. 

Plasters

Plasters

Plasters is an original play by Emma Tadmor who founded RJ Theatre Company with co-producer, Daniel Feldman. 

Tropicana

Tropicana

Billed as ‘the future of queer comedy cabaret’ Tropicana is Aidan Sadler’s 80’s solo show of classic queer hits at the suitably late hour of 23:15 at theSpaceTriplex. 

Myra's Story
BOBBY WINNER

Myra's Story

A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it. 

Tai Chi and Qigong Show

Tai Chi and Qigong Show

We will offer a series of Tai Chi and Qigong events so audiences can take part in the events online and in-venue in Edinburgh. 

The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show

Izzy wizzy let’s get busy! Join TV legend Sooty with his best friends Sweep and Soo in a laugh out loud show for the whole family. 

Medicine

Medicine

The banner proclaims, ‘Congratulations’ as it hangs from the ceiling above the unimaginable mess left by the previous afternoon's party in which inmates and staff seemingly… 

The Late Gay Comedy Show

The Late Gay Comedy Show

Every Tuesday, come down to Bar CMYK in Wimbledon for South London’s only weekly LGBTQIA+ comedy night. 

The Showstopper Kids Show

The Showstopper Kids Show

The Showstoppers’ Kids Show takes kids’ ideas and turns them into marvellous, musical adventures from scratch, right away and in front of your very noses. 

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerjack, Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in show for all the family specially written f… 

My Night With Reg

My Night With Reg

Is there an issue with capturing plays from the second half of the twentieth century that deal with gay issues of the period? The Southwark Playhouse recently managed a production … 

every seven years

every seven years

For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T… 

Two Worlds No Family

Two Worlds No Family

Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y… 

The Game of Love and Chance

The Game of Love and Chance

As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new … 

The Nearly News Show

The Nearly News Show

Good evening and welcome to The Nearly News Show, live from The Brighton Fringe. 

The Nearly News Show

The Nearly News Show

Good evening and welcome to The Nearly News Show, live from The Brighton Fringe. 

'Adorable Dora' - The Dora Bryan Show

'Adorable Dora' - The Dora Bryan Show

“Tarts and barmaids, I just took whatever came along!” West End Diva Rosemary Ashe pays tribute to national treasure and long-term Brighton resident, Dora Bryan, whose showbi… 

'Adorable Dora' - The Dora Bryan Show

'Adorable Dora' - The Dora Bryan Show

“Tarts and barmaids, I just took whatever came along!” West End Diva Rosemary Ashe pays tribute to national treasure and long-term Brighton resident, Dora Bryan, whose showbi… 

Scummy Mummies: The New Scummy Mummies Show

Scummy Mummies: The New Scummy Mummies Show

Following their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn head to The Warren for an all new show – new songs, new jokes and new catsuits. 

Helium

Helium

The Space on the Isle of Dogs continues its practice of supporting new talent with Helium, an original work by Grumble Pup Theatre, a fledgling company founded in the Black Country… 

Mr and Mrs Nobody

Mr and Mrs Nobody

A wonderfully entertaining evening of laughter and fine acting is currently to be found in Keith Waterhouse’s Mr and Mrs Nobody, staged by Gabriella Bird in her directorial debut… 

Exile

Exile

Exile at the Southwark Playhouse, by JoMac Productions Limited & Blue Heart Theatre, is an interestingly constructed piece consisting of two life-crisis monologues by individu… 

Music and Arts Night

Music and Arts Night

Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/funk and gospel influences, playing songs from their forthcoming album. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Mr. 

Music and Arts Night

Music and Arts Night

Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/R&B playing songs from their forthcoming album - guest artist Mark Edwards on piano… 

The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show

The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show

The London Rebel Dykes merged outsider cultures in the 1980s to create a fresh feminist exploration of art, sex and activism. 

Bad Nights and Odd Days

Bad Nights and Odd Days

The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill. 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group are back in Brighton with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire … 

Staircase

Staircase

The Southwark Playhouse has been transformed into an authentic 1960’s barbershop for the revival of Charles Dyer’s hit play Staircase, by Two’s Company and Karl Sydow in asso… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group are back in Brighton with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire … 

Warhol: Bullet Karma

Warhol: Bullet Karma

Garry Roost’s one-hander, Warhol: Bullet Karma, at the Rialto Theatre, as part of the Brighton Fringe, explores aspects of the artist’s life through encounters with various peo… 

The Slide Show Must Go On

The Slide Show Must Go On

Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop. 

Jekyll & Hyde: A One-Woman Show

Jekyll & Hyde: A One-Woman Show

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. 

Jekyll & Hyde: A One-Woman Show

Jekyll & Hyde: A One-Woman Show

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular novels. 

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Richard is 38 years old. 

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Richard is 38 years old. 

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand. 

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we’d give him a hand. 

Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire

Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire

The apologetic opening to Mayhem at the Cabaret Voltaire, explaining the failure of the actors to turn up, might seem out of place in any standard piece of theatre, but then it wou… 

Shedding A Skin

Shedding A Skin

The Soho Theatre launched its post-lockdown summer season this week with Shedding A Skin, written and performed by Amanda Wilkin, the 2020 winner of the Verity Bargate Award. 

Trestle

Trestle

The Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley has opened its doors for the first time in fifteen months with a wonderfully heart-warming production of Stewart Pringle’s Trestle. 

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i… 

Diary of an Expat

Diary of an Expat

Diary of an Expat makes a striking impression even before Cecilia Gragnani enters the stage for her solo play at the Rialto Theatre, directed by Katharina Reinthaller. 

The After Dark Cabaret and Burlesque Show

The After Dark Cabaret and Burlesque Show

Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton. 

The Sensemaker

The Sensemaker

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is anything but that when played ad nauseam on a loop while you are kept on hold by a robotic voice saying, “All our operators are currently busy. 

Make-up

Make-up

One day perhaps someone will write a play about a drag queen where, beneath the frock and below the wig, above the high heels and under the layers of slap exists a man who is happy… 

The After Dark Cabaret and Burlesque Show

The After Dark Cabaret and Burlesque Show

Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton. 

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII

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… 

Lone Flyer

Lone Flyer

The Jermyn Street Theatre continues its Footprints Festival with Lucy Betts’ acclaimed production of Ade Morris’s Lone Flyer, which was first staged at The Watermill Theatre la… 

After All These Years

After All These Years

After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Chamberlain: Peace in our Time

Chamberlain: Peace in our Time

History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se… 

Drama King

Drama King

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. 

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

There seems to be a resurgence of interest in the adaptability of works by Robert Louis Stevenson for the stage, with productions popping up in many quarters. 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production. 

Waiting for Hamlet

Waiting for Hamlet

Waiting for Hamlet has itself been waiting for some time. 

Ryan Mold and Friends Compilation Show

Ryan Mold and Friends Compilation Show

Stand-up comedy compilation show hosted by Ryan Mold, introducing short sets from some of the very best comedians across Brighton Fringe. 

SPLIT EGG: A Magic Show About Being Twins

SPLIT EGG: A Magic Show About Being Twins

The twin tricksters perform magic and comedy inspired by clichés surrounding twins. 

SPLIT EGG: A Magic Show About Being Twins

SPLIT EGG: A Magic Show About Being Twins

The twin tricksters perform magic and comedy inspired by clichés surrounding twins. 

Ryan Mold and Friends Compilation Show

Ryan Mold and Friends Compilation Show

Stand-up comedy compilation show hosted by Ryan Mold, introducing short sets from some of the very best comedians across Brighton Fringe. 

Arts Industry Networking Mixer with Brighton Fringe and Ironclad Creative

Arts Industry Networking Mixer with Brighton Fringe and Ironclad Creative

An online event, in association with the free digital platform The Ironclad Hub ( https://ironclad-hub. 

An Intervention

An Intervention

Juicy Lime Productions presents Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play An Intervention, as part of the Brighton Fringe at the Sweet Room, Old SteineTwo characters, identified in the script on… 

The Show Must Go On

The Show Must Go On

The Theatre Support Fund+, the team behind ‘The Show Must Go On!’ campaign and MZG Theatre Productions present, THE SHOW MUST GO ON! LIVE AT THE PALACE THEATRE from 2 t… 

The Vertical Hour by David Hare

The Vertical Hour by David Hare

The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance. 

Bard in the Yard

Bard in the Yard

Bard in the Yard is a Covid-19 inspired project founded on the legend that Shakespeare wrote King Lear and Macbeth in plague quarantine. 

The Tragedy of Dorian Gray

The Tragedy of Dorian Gray

Blue Devil Productions closed the Rialto Theatre’s Brighton Fringe season last week with a two-act production,The Tragedy of Dorian Gray; their first full-length play. 

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show will have the audience in stitches and in awe simultaneously. 

The 17th Century Show

The 17th Century Show

The tradition of telling ghost stories reaches back many centuries and we’re keeping that custom alive with a visit from everyone’s favourite 17th-century monsterologist, Profe… 

The Richard Filby Spectacule

The Richard Filby Spectacule

World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021. 

The Richard Filby Spectacule

The Richard Filby Spectacule

World famous Richard Filby is bringing his one-man show to Brighton Fringe in 2021. 

The Webcam Circus Show

The Webcam Circus Show

A live clowning interactive family-friendly circus show delivered online on Zoom. 

The Webcam Circus Show

The Webcam Circus Show

A live clowning interactive family-friendly circus show delivered online on Zoom. 

The Travesty of Richard III

The Travesty of Richard III

Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power. 

The Travesty of Richard III

The Travesty of Richard III

Join a cast of two, but a whole host of characters, as they boldly romp through The Bard’s chilling tale of plots, prophecies and power. 

Harriet Kemsley: New Show

Harriet Kemsley: New Show

It’s a new show in from Harriet Kemsley as seen on ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’, ‘Hypothetical’, ‘Bobby & Harriet Get Married’, ‘Comedy Central at The Comedy Store’, ‘Pants on Fire’, ‘Stand … 

Between Two Waves

Between Two Waves

Between Two Waves by Australian playwright Ian Meadows interweaves an urgent call to recognise the world’s impending climate crisis and the troubled smaller world of a young clim… 

Harriet Kemsley: New Show

Harriet Kemsley: New Show

It’s a new show in from Harriet Kemsley as seen on ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’, ‘Hypothetical’, ‘Bobby & Harriet Get Married’, ‘Comedy Central at The Comedy Store’, ‘Pants on Fire’, ‘Stand … 

SH!T SHOW

SH!T SHOW

In ‘SH!T SHOW’, The Bobolyne Poets play among the pigeons, get therapy with Danny Dyer and leave something nasty in the Saatchi. 

Bard Overboard

Bard Overboard

Editors Choice Award (★★★★★) (VoiceMagUK) ‘Polished, Classy and Bloody Funny!” (BritishTheatreGuide) Wonder World Cruises has a heartwarming corporate message for you in… 

Bard Overboard

Bard Overboard

Editors Choice Award (★★★★★) (VoiceMagUK) ‘Polished, Classy and Bloody Funny!” (BritishTheatreGuide) Wonder World Cruises has a heartwarming corporate message for you in… 

SH!T SHOW

SH!T SHOW

In ‘SH!T SHOW’, The Bobolyne Poets play among the pigeons, get therapy with Danny Dyer and leave something nasty in the Saatchi. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

The Late Show was a comedy night that lit up The Warren with much needed silliness, laughter and joy with the return of live shows. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

The world famous (infamous?) Late Show returns to The Warren for the best in late-night laughs every Thursday, Friday and Saturday throughout the Fringe. 

The Ultimate 70s Show

The Ultimate 70s Show

The Ultimate 70s Show is a totally live seven-piece tribute to the seventies, featuring Martin Metcalf ex Geordie, alongside the powerhouse vocals of Chris Peters. 

The Blue Hearts Variety Show

The Blue Hearts Variety Show

The Blue Hearts Variety Show in support of NHS Charities together showcases the exceptional talent of those in the performing arts and allows us to hear the experiences of the incr… 

Fringe Academy: Learn How to Review Arts and Cultural Works with Voicemag.uk

Fringe Academy: Learn How to Review Arts and Cultural Works with Voicemag.uk

Are you aged 16- 25? Fancy getting involved in Brighton Fringe and becoming a young reviewer for Voice? Join Alice online on Monday 26th April, 2pm for this free workshop where we … 

Vespertilio

Vespertilio

The greater mouse-eared bat belongs to the family Vespertilionidae of the genus Myotis. 

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show este o trupă de comedie din Republica Moldova care a impresionat prin prestaţiile lor publicul și jurații emisiunii iUmor, unde au ajun… 

RICHARD JONES: ESCAPE

RICHARD JONES: ESCAPE

£74 Family Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Children)£23 Adult £20. 

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Showcase

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Showcase

This Showcase is the culmination of the first International 10-Minute Play Competition organised by the Soldiers’ Arts Academy which attracted submissions from across the UK, Eur… 

Bard in the Yard: The Scottish Play

Bard in the Yard: The Scottish Play

The Scottish Play is a solo performance written by Victoria Gartner, founder and artistic director of Will & Co which produces plays about Shakespear, under the umbrella title … 

Juliette Burton: ReDefined Online Show

Juliette Burton: ReDefined Online Show

****Please note this is an online performance, you will be supplied with a zoom link to watch the show, if you wish to see Juliette in person she will be with us in Apri… 

Rob Newman's Philosophy Show

Rob Newman's Philosophy Show

Weaving together Nietzsche’s sunglasses, James Bond in Toxteth, electric spiders and singing neanderthals into a hilarious tour-de-force that offers new hopes for a changing worl… 

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show La Londra

Comedy Zebra Show este o trupă de comedie din Republica Moldova care a impresionat prin prestaţiile lor publicul și jurații emisiunii iUmor, unde au ajuns pân�… 

Mister Dusty Rose's GHOST SHOW

Mister Dusty Rose's GHOST SHOW

Light a candle, turn off the light, and let us begin. 

The Silly and Unnecessary Variety Show

The Silly and Unnecessary Variety Show

Live from New York, it’s comedian Lori Hamilton’s one-woman variety show. 

Martial Arts Special Seminar - Halloween

Martial Arts Special Seminar - Halloween

!On Sunday 31 October we’re having a special Halloween-themed class. 

Championing Minority Voices In The Arts Through Mixed Media And Intersectionality

Championing Minority Voices In The Arts Through Mixed Media And Intersectionality

Join Daisy Rogers, Founder of Liberally, as she discusses the place of storytelling in the fight for greater diversity and inclusion across the liberal arts, through expressive mix… 

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

Two shows only! Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them instantly into interactive musical adventures. 

In Conversation With: Richard Beck (Broadway Baby) & Matthew Shelley (Scottish Festivals PR)

In Conversation With: Richard Beck (Broadway Baby) & Matthew Shelley (Scottish Festivals PR)

A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley. 

Folk Dance Show

Folk Dance Show

Bringing the knowledge, education and entertainment of African cultural heritage to the people of the world. Every dance has a meaning and an origin. 

Write What You Don’t Know – Staging A Solo Show

Write What You Don’t Know – Staging A Solo Show

Oliver Yellop, (Further Theatre) brings you a workshop on the process of making I Am Gavrilo Princip. 

Bringing a Show to Army @ The Fringe

Bringing a Show to Army @ The Fringe

Find out more about bringing a show to Army @ The Fringe, what we’re looking for and our unique offering for artists. 

Louis Prima and Keely Smith: Dinner and Show

Louis Prima and Keely Smith: Dinner and Show

Louis Prima (Sicilian-American, 1930’s-1950’s, comedy-jazzer), Keely Smith and band stormed Las Vegas. 

Vampire's Ball Ultimate Halloween Party

Vampire's Ball Ultimate Halloween Party

Brad Tassell and Steve Goodie describe themselves as a pair who have been ‘all-around nutty goofballs for more than 30 years’; and it shows. 

Daft Punk Tribute Show

Daft Punk Tribute Show

Currently the world’s leading Daft Punk Tribute Act, having sold-out shows in Europe, China and Russia. 

The Princesse de Polignac, Patron of the Arts

The Princesse de Polignac, Patron of the Arts

A cornucopia of music and the extraordinary life story of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, heir to the vast Singer sewing machine fortune. 

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Film Night

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Film Night

A screening of short films curated by Soldiers’ Arts Academy, hosted by Román Baca. 

Lockdown Drag-out

Lockdown Drag-out

It’s either a mid-conversation pick-up or a recording error that opens Jane Martin’s monologue, Lockdown Drag-Out, in which she appears as the plummy and plumpy Audrey Stanton … 

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

Celebrating Hamish Henderson’s recent centenary. 

The Plague Thing

The Plague Thing

If you’ve been feasting on BBC iPlayer during lockdown and enjoying the delights of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, it’s worth taking six minutes out of your social isolation t… 

The Silly and Unnecessary Variety Show

The Silly and Unnecessary Variety Show

Live from New York, it’s comedian Lori Hamilton’s one-woman variety show. 

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and ‘the best celeb interviewer in Britain’ (Guardian), probably best known for his role of Percy in Servants, brings his multi-award-winning podca… 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small yet unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique pieces from 30 independent designers across the globe including local, emerging and established talents. 

Craig's Magic Show

Craig's Magic Show

Using only a deck of cards and a very talented toy rabbit, magician Craig Stephenson has dazzled audiences around the world with his exemplary sleight of hand skills combined with … 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show

Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show

‘Wonderful silliness’ ***** (GlamAdelaide. 

Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show

Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show

The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that … 

Fleas and Cheese: The Great Plague and Fire Show

Fleas and Cheese: The Great Plague and Fire Show

Enjoy a plaguey, fiery hour in this informative and interactive one-man show for history-loving kids. 

Nina Conti: The Dating Show

Nina Conti: The Dating Show

British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is pioneering a new dating show. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show 2020

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show 2020

Great value lunchtime comedy compilation showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fir… 

The Greatest Magic Show

The Greatest Magic Show

Best in Fringe Kids 2019. 

The Show That Must Not Be Named

The Show That Must Not Be Named

Improvised Harry Potter from Chortle Award-winning Jericho Comedy. 

Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Are you a kid? Do you like music, laughing and whack-a-doodle-noodle craziness? Grab your pet adult and join us! Direct from a UK tour and last year’s sell-out run; we’re back … 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. 

Late Show Great Show

Late Show Great Show

The night is young and three of the best stand-up comedians from Australia and around the world are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink. 

Richard Brown: Horror Show

Richard Brown: Horror Show

Horror in all it’s forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics. 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Good morning, Edinburgh! After many successful Fringe sell-outs, we’re back for our fabulous 15th anniversary! Three new, stimulating, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15-minute c… 

Richard Stott: Toe the Line

Richard Stott: Toe the Line

From Dave’s Funniest Jokes 2019 runner-up comes a comedic journey of self-discovery exploring the benefits and pitfalls of both fitting in and standing out. 

Show Up, Kids! Online LIVE!

Show Up, Kids! Online LIVE!

This online, live, interactive family show for kids 3-10 years old puts a wildly comedic, theatrical twist on the traditional kids’ show. 

Rob Auton: The Time Show

Rob Auton: The Time Show

Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide… 

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl… 

Richard Stott – Right Hand Man

Richard Stott – Right Hand Man

In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

Richard Alston Dance Company - Final Edition

Richard Alston Dance Company - Final Edition

Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism. 

Gad Elmaleh: Work In Progress (French Language Show)

Gad Elmaleh: Work In Progress (French Language Show)

Metropolis Music Presents: Gad Elmaleh J’ai choisi le Leicester Square Theatre pour improviser autour des thèmes de mon prochain spectacle#workinprogress Pl… 

W*nk Buddies

W*nk Buddies

“It’s about us—together,” explain Jake Jarratt and Cameron Sharp, in their new play in which two drama students – straight “Jake”, gay “Cameron” – end up trying… 

Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti

Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti

Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti is that relatively rare thing for the Royal Lyceum Theatre—a star vehicle, rather than an ensemble production, that happens to have two audience fav… 

Paquito Forever - A one-man cabaret show

Paquito Forever - A one-man cabaret show

Paquito Forever, performed by Joan Vázquez, is an intimate, personal (and musical!) and fun account of the real-life adventures of Paquito (Paco) Alonso, a gay Catalonian growing … 

The Mighty Kids Show

The Mighty Kids Show

Calling kids aged 5 to 100: join our mighty gang for an interactive show where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide – with electrifying results. 

Pride Plays

Pride Plays

Edinburgh’s Traverse has long-championed new drama—indeed, the venue’s self-description is the simple goal of being “Scotland’s new writing theatre”. 

The Death Show

The Death Show

Death. 

The Girls From Oz Australia Day Show!

The Girls From Oz Australia Day Show!

Get yourselves down to The Girls From Oz - the most dinky-di singing Sheila’s this side of the black stump - for a bonza night of entertainment that’ll take you on a journey 16… 

Lloyd Griffith Previews His New Show

Lloyd Griffith Previews His New Show

There will be no refunds. 

Lloyd Griffith Previews His New Show

Lloyd Griffith Previews His New Show

There will be no refunds. 

An Aussie Xmas Show

An Aussie Xmas Show

“JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS, XMAS TIME IS BEAUT! OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE IN A RUSTY HOLDEN UTE. 

Learn Martial Arts while in a Pub

Learn Martial Arts while in a Pub

Welcome to Camden Shorinji Kempo! We’re proud to be an openly LGBTQ+ Shorinji Kempo martial arts club where everyone is welcome. 

Wind of Heaven

Wind of Heaven

There is something wonderfully seasonal about Wind of Heaven at the Finborough Theatre. 

Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie

Many Scots first experience of comics is likely to be two series published by Dundee-based D C Thomson in their long-running newspaper, The Sunday Post. 

Sydney & the Old Girl

Sydney & the Old Girl

Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation. 

Murder in the Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral

Performing a play in a cathedral about an archbishop assassinated in a cathedral might sound like a match made in heaven. 

Reach: A Children's Show

Reach: A Children's Show

We need your help!Three bouncy besties seeking some top notch cookie hunters! Quick thinking, team playing adventurers needed to help Amy, Zoë and James on their quest to the high… 

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is an intensely Irish play set in the wilds of Connemara, premiered locally by the Druid Theatre Company in Galway in 1996. 

The Match Box

The Match Box

The prospect of a two-act monologue that lasts around two and a quarter, an interval, is perhaps daunting for both the actor and aficionados of the genre alike. 

A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving

The decade might be set in history as ‘Swinging’, but for many of us who lived through the ‘60’s the appellation has only a marginal connection with the realities of life. 

The House of The Spirits / La Casa de Los Espíritus

The House of The Spirits / La Casa de Los Espíritus

The mission of the Cervantes Theatre “to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London” is strikingly realised in its closing play of the 2019 season that featur… 

ALBUMS SHOW: Billy Joel Songbook

ALBUMS SHOW: Billy Joel Songbook

The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK! TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show. 

Gaslight

Gaslight

Gaslight has stood the test of time in the canon of British theatre. 

ALBUMS SHOW: Elio Pace's Billy Joel Songbook featuring David Brown

ALBUMS SHOW: Elio Pace's Billy Joel Songbook featuring David Brown

The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK!TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show. 

Vassa

Vassa

In a rare proscenium-style presentation at the Almeida Theatre, director Tinuke Craig offers Maxim Gorky’s Vassa as her debut production for the venue in a new adaptation by Mike… 

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

ShakeItUp: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand…Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, we cre… 

The Stornoway Way

The Stornoway Way

“We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond,” argues Roman Stornoway, a struggling musician and the central protagonist in Kevin MacNeil’s thea… 

Breaking The Code

Breaking The Code

It’s only two years until the face of Alan Turing appears on the new £50 note. 

The Panopticon

The Panopticon

I well remember when Jenni Fagan’s explosive debut, The Panopticon, first appeared in 2013. 

Velvet

Velvet

To compile his one-man show, Velvet, Tom Ratcliffe combined personal experience and the disturbing revelations that emerged as the #MeToo movement gathered momentum. 

Jonathan Pie: Warm Up Show

Jonathan Pie: Warm Up Show

Catch Jonathan Pie before he heads out on his huge national Fake News Tour. 

Fly Me To The Moon

Fly Me To The Moon

Having this year reached the notable landmark of their 500th new production, the team behind the award-winning lunchtime theatre phenomenon that is “A Play, A Pie and a Pint” i… 

I Am Gavrilo Princip

I Am Gavrilo Princip

Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler all stand out in the history of the twentieth century. 

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92. 

Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding

In the late 1920s Frederico García Lorca allegedly read about a bride who fled her wedding to elope with a former amor. 

Mother Of Him

Mother Of Him

Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir… 

The Home: The Talent Show

The Home: The Talent Show

The Home prides itself on being integrated within the community, so what better way to show it than with crowd favourite, The Home’s Got Talent! Come and see our residents compet… 

Youth Without God

Youth Without God

Youth Without God at the Coronet Theatre is heralded as ‘a dark fable about the individual conscience in a time of social uncertainty’ and the 1937 novel by Ödön von Horváth… 

The Showstoppers Kids Show - The Spiegeltent

The Showstoppers Kids Show - The Spiegeltent

Here at The Showstoppers’ Kids Show we take your ideas and turn them into marvellous, musical interactive adventures. 

So Here We Are

So Here We Are

Luke Norris's Southend-based play and winner of the Bruntwood Prize, So Here We Are, finally comes to Essex in a delightful production that fits perfectly into the Queen’s Th… 

Stiletto Beach

Stiletto Beach

The world premiere of Sadie Hasler’s Stiletto Beach has burst onto the stage at the dynamic Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in a bold, brave, fearless and funny exploration of what… 

Falsettos

Falsettos

Falsettos has been around since 1992, but it’s UK premier has only just opened at The Other Palace, London. 

Keela Kraving's Grand Show! SEPTEMBER SPECTACULAR!

Keela Kraving's Grand Show! SEPTEMBER SPECTACULAR!

Keela Kraving’s Grand Show is the show you just can’t miss! Are you ready to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered?  We will have a stellar line-up for this open mic nigh… 

Rob Auton: The Time Show

Rob Auton: The Time Show

The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time. 

How to do a Show at the Fringe

How to do a Show at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

Silent Disco Show

Silent Disco Show

Part show, part disco, all party! Electric live performances and three channels of music to choose from on your glowing headphones. 

BBC: The Now Show

BBC: The Now Show

Comedy sketches and satirical comments with an Edinburgh twist from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests.  

Torch Song

Torch Song

The neon sign above the stage at the new Turbine Theatre, Battersea, hints at the lights of New York City, but it also reminds us of the history behind director Drew McOnie’s pro… 

Accordion Fight Show

Accordion Fight Show

Strangely’s folk-punk-cabaret riot returns with new songs and shenanigans. 

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour

A comedy special featuring a feast of worldwide laughter from some of the brightest, newest and best comics around the globe, recorded in the BBC’s big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh… 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The John Rowe Show

The John Rowe Show

Direct from Australia, John Rowe brings his sofa-based entertainment show to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Everyman

Everyman

As the saying goes, "The path to hell is paved with good intentions". 

I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show

I Went to Barcelona and All I Got Was This Lousy Comedy Show

All the way from the land of sun, sea and Mexican* sombreros (*not Spanish!) these intrepid comedians have made their way to Edinburgh by sea, air and Megabus, to show the world th… 

My Other Self: The Evolution of Shakespeare's Richard III

My Other Self: The Evolution of Shakespeare's Richard III

A bold new adaptation of three of Shakespeare’s most blood soaked plays. 

Viol Rackett Show

Viol Rackett Show

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band are joined by Polyhymnia Dancers in the ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, with a fresh programme for 2019 of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages… 

Summer Dance Show of the Elementary School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

Summer Dance Show of the Elementary School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

Bell Dance – Ring, ring, ring… the Tibetan boys and girls happily dance and ring their bells. 

Questions for Quiz Shows

Questions for Quiz Shows

Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform. 

Alex Hodgson’s Half Past Seven Show

Alex Hodgson’s Half Past Seven Show

Alex Hodgson’s Half Past Seven Show gives a muckle tip of his bunnet to some of Scotland’s best variety entertainers. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out!). 

Lollypops and Moptops Show

Lollypops and Moptops Show

Alan Mosca, formerly of Freddie and The Dreamers, retells stories of yesteryear with song and a touch of comedy. 

Richard Michael BEM at 70: Celebration

Richard Michael BEM at 70: Celebration

Internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Michael performs a wide-ranging programme of standards looking back on a distinguished career, whilst looking forward to new possibilities… 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles and even fir… 

It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show

It Just So Happened – An Alternative History Show

In this alternative history show four panellists each deliver an original stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some point in his… 

The Tragedy Of Richard II

The Tragedy Of Richard II

Anərkē Shakespeare, a new, innovative theatre company, creates raw, fast-paced Shakespeare, bringing you the multifaceted text by a diverse, gender-blind, actor-led ensemble with… 

The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio Show

The Adventures of Leonard Biscuit Radio Show

New to the Fringe! A show that really takes the biscuit! A hilarious farcical radio show about Leonard Biscuit, the most put-upon man in the land and his escapades. 

Identity

Identity

With a highly experienced team behind this production it is no wonder that Identity by CTC COMPANY at Greenside, Infirmary St. 

This Island's Mine

This Island's Mine

The Italia Conti Ensemble changes its membership every year as another cohort passes through the famous drama school. 

44 Inch Chest

44 Inch Chest

Rarely does the stage premiere of a work take place twenty-three years after it was written, but Out Of Bounds Theatre has claimed the honour with their gritty production of 44 Inc… 

EAST

EAST

Steven Berkoff’s irresistible EAST makes an inevitable return to the Festival Fringe, this time in a vibrant and energetic production by HiveMCR. 

Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson

Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson

Revd Richard Coles is on a fortnight’s leave from his country parish and has been excused from his co-presenting duties of Saturday Live (BBC Radio 4) to bring to Edinburgh this hi… 

Jonny's Panel Show (Really Good)

Jonny's Panel Show (Really Good)

After directing ungrateful clown duo Zach & Viggo, starring in an award-winning funk opera with Thumpasaurus, and touring the world three times over, Jonny Woolley (AKA Mr X) rolls… 

The Discount Comedy Checkout Raw & Unscripted Improv Show (Camden Fringe)

The Discount Comedy Checkout Raw & Unscripted Improv Show (Camden Fringe)

The Discount Comedy Checkout have been wowing crowds for over 10 years on the UK comedy circuit with 100% raw and unscripted comedy improvisation shows. 

Remde Show

Remde Show

The 15-strong troupe bring colourful, rhythmic, authentic local dances from Côte D’Ivoire (West Africa). 

The World's Smallest Comedy Show

The World's Smallest Comedy Show

It’s the smallest comedy show in the smallest venue at the Fringe. 

This Show Will Make You Sharper!

This Show Will Make You Sharper!

Staying sharp as you age is easy… just eat this super berry, do five simple things or play this game to beat dementia! But what if it’s not as simple as the hype suggests? If w… 

The Halls of Ridiculous Comedy Panel Show (Camden Fringe)

The Halls of Ridiculous Comedy Panel Show (Camden Fringe)

The comedy panel show NO ONE is talking about - but they should be! Two teams of two comedians compete in a series of ridiculous quiz rounds to win a very ridiculous prize. 

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed by Bear Grylls on Celebrity Island, scrawny Fringe legend Watson returns with his show about empathy: one of the top-ten best… 

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

Celebrating Hamish Henderson’s centenary with songs that won the recognition of Bob Dylan and Nelson Mandela. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Showcase includes: In Mist and Rain by Arts of China, Letter from An Unknown Woman by The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Hear of The Lights by Ningbo Municipal Culture &… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Bits & Bots

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Bits & Bots

One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. 

Bits & Bots: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Bits & Bots: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. 

Freak Show

Freak Show

An army of foreign invaders, bad guys, rapists and thieves, fake news, sensationalist tweets and buckets of ice cream, Creon rules Thebes with ungoverned rage. 

Children’s Large-Scale Painting Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Children’s Large-Scale Painting Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

An exciting and engaging art workshop that children really enjoy. 

Rory Motion - All Manner of Things Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory Motion - All Manner of Things Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i. 

Parenting in the Performing Arts: Coffee Break

Parenting in the Performing Arts: Coffee Break

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Rory Motion - All Manner of Thing Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory Motion - All Manner of Thing Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i. 

Food & Folk with Iona Lane: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Food & Folk with Iona Lane: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A hearty meal with a helping of folk. 

Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show

Big Tops and Tiny Tots Circus Show

Luth’s on an action-packed circus adventure – but she needs your help! She’s looking for giggle-ready three to seven-year-olds to help her solve a whole host of fun physical chal… 

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show

Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope return to the Fringe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary, award-winning radio comedy at th… 

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be … 

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords with Rory Motion: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords with Rory Motion: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be … 

Float Tank #5: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Float Tank #5: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de… 

Sushi Tap Show

Sushi Tap Show

Yes, it’s true! Those tap-dancing, juggling, pink-suited comedians from Tokyo are back at the Fringe for the sixth time! Don’t miss this hilarious, amazingly entertaining show!… 

The Glang Show

The Glang Show

The Glang Show is the only anarcho-comedy utopia that has travelled back in time from beyond the heat death of the universe. 

Richard Michael at 70: Generations

Richard Michael at 70: Generations

Pianist and educator Richard Michael BEM celebrates his 70th birthday by appearing with family members, Paul Michael (bass), Hilary Michael (violin and sax) and Joanna Duncan (viol… 

[title of show]

[title of show]

Jeff, Heidi, Hunter, and Susan write a musical about Jeff, Heidi, Hunter, and Susan writing a musical. 

Ugly Youth

Ugly Youth

“I’ve not seen anything like this in the 12 years I’ve been working at the Fringe,” was the observation from one of the tech guys I spoke to after seeing Ugly Youth, this y… 

The Amazing Dyslexic Poetry Show

The Amazing Dyslexic Poetry Show

Sam Rapp is The Dyslexic Poet. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv… 

Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv… 

Real Eyes

Real Eyes

Aged just 16 and 17, Harrison Sharpe (Matt) and Archie Stevens (Mikey) make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Real Eyes, an intensely moving story of brothers growing up t… 

Float Tank #4: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Float Tank #4: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de… 

Mobile Phone Show

Mobile Phone Show

‘Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to begin, could I please ask you all to turn your mobile phones ON. 

BBC: The Tim Vine Chat Show

BBC: The Tim Vine Chat Show

Tim Vine hears the life stories of the public while showcasing his trademark gleeful wordplay and silly songs. 

River Voices: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca… 

River Voices - Poetry: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices - Poetry: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca… 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Rubbish Show

The Rubbish Show

On the Brink Theatre Company return to Edinburgh, their name having a deeper relevance than ever, with their alternative take on our critically fragile environment; influences happ… 

The Brave Anthology

The Brave Anthology

Angus gets a review that says he’s ‘watchable’. 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

BBC: The Afternoon Show

BBC: The Afternoon Show

Janice Forsyth and Grant Stott present The Afternoon Show from the heart of the festivals, showcasing the best acts and talking to the biggest names in town. 

The Wild and Crazy Adventures of Tom Wayfinder: Story time Spectacular: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The Wild and Crazy Adventures of Tom Wayfinder: Story time Spectacular: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Mischief

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Mischief

Mischief Night. 

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show

Mark Dean Quinn Knits: A Comedy Show

A show about knitting. 

Mischief: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Mischief: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Mischief Night. 

Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Interactive story telling, plus Riddling Competition! Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure. 

Tom Wayfinder’s Mexican Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Mexican Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom signs up as a driver for Eduardo Dorado, gold-hunter, on a trek that takes him up a ziggurat and a volcano, where he encounters an Aztec god of fire called Xiuhtecuh… 

Tom Wayfinder’s Pacific Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Pacific Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom signs on as a ships cook on the good ship Sinkfast, bound from Japan to Mexico, falls foul of the Genie of Chilli Sauce, El Roja The Sweat-head, meets a mermaid call… 

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin: Open air Cinema: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin: Open air Cinema: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin. 

Mothers Who Make – How Can the Arts be Mother Friendly?

Mothers Who Make – How Can the Arts be Mother Friendly?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight. 

The Bird Show 
- A flap-tastic family comedy

The Bird Show 
- A flap-tastic family comedy

Coming to The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol in the summer holidays, The Bird Show uses live music, puppetry and lots of silly bird puns in this heart-fluttering physical comedy about… 

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show

A hilarious street cleaner sweeps you off on an outdoor journey into the unknown festival, uncovering its secrets and making an ingenious show out of rubbish with his extraordinary… 

Louis Prima and Keely Smith – Dinner and Show

Louis Prima and Keely Smith – Dinner and Show

Louis Prima, Sicilian-New Orleanian, 1930s-1950s, comedy-jazzer, sung by Philip Contini: ‘his genius makes him so special’ (Scotsman). 

Dear Mother Moon

Dear Mother Moon

Dear Mother Moon is one of four works presented by CalArts this year in what has become the Institute’s Edinburgh home, Venue 13. 

Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show

Man vs Balloon: The Family Magic Show

Witness a magical extravaganza where you will marvel at The Biggest Balloon in the World and risk your dryness at the ultimate game of Water Pistol Roulette! All live on stage in f… 

Filament

Filament

Whether it’s because Hollywood has force-fed us with them for decades, or simply because the concerns of teenage life are pretty universal across most of the Western world, we’… 

Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved

Richard Wright Is Just Happy to be Involved

Richard Wright is just happy to be involved. 

My Land

My Land

I have absolutely nothing but admiration to the performers of Recirquel Company Budapest, given that some of their number must have spent their entire lives training their lean, mu… 

The 2 Mouthed Men Show

The 2 Mouthed Men Show

Beatboxing. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

The Maths Magic Show 2019

The Maths Magic Show 2019

Returning for the third time after the previous full-house shows. 

Kombini

Kombini

Let's be honest here: I've never particularly liked clowns. 

'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

Split Egg: A Magic Show About Being Twins

Split Egg: A Magic Show About Being Twins

Twin tricksters Kane & Abel perform magic and comedy inspired by clichés surrounding twins. 

The Hollywood Summer Christmas Show

The Hollywood Summer Christmas Show

An original play inspired by a child’s love of Christmas; with song, dance and traditional Christmas offerings. 

Nothing's Happening: A Black Mountain College Project

Nothing's Happening: A Black Mountain College Project

Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project celebrates and pays homage to the tiny school in the mountains of North Carolina that in 24 years became one of the most inf… 

Robert Powell 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Robert Powell 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

Arts of China 2019 – A Beautiful Collaboration of Chinese and Western Culture

Arts of China 2019 – A Beautiful Collaboration of Chinese and Western Culture

A collaboration of Chinese and Western instruments performed by young musicians from Shenzhen Bao’an Children’s Palace Orchestra. 

The Dementos Radio Show

The Dementos Radio Show

Brian (Seaton) Demento and Richard (Collins) Demento perform their outlandish, shocking and downright silly self-penned songs and rock‘n’roll parodies. 

Fight Song

Fight Song

Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13. 

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl

Here Comes the Tide, There Goes the Girl is one of four plays presented by CalArts at venue 13 this year and is steeped in their tradition of producing original material that stret… 

Well That's Oz

Well That's Oz

Absurdism runs amok in Well That’s Oz, one of four plays in this year’s programme from CalArts at Venue 13. 

Wrath of Achilles

Wrath of Achilles

Writer Jack Fairey has taken on a huge task in adapting the substance of Homer’s Iliad into a modern story still firmly embedded in the Trojan War with a running time just short … 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Craig's Magic Show

Craig's Magic Show

Magician Craig Stephenson has dazzled audiences around the world with his exemplary sleight of hand skills combined with devilish psychological illusion. 

Bony Tony's Silly Show

Bony Tony's Silly Show

Silly (adj. 

Judas

Judas

Smokescreen Productions is supporting the work of Amnesty International through its new work, Judas, at Assembly Blue Room. 

The Gin Show

The Gin Show

Following on from our success last year, the gin-tasting show is back with comedy and songs interspersing our three free gin tastings. 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small yet unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique pieces from 30 independent designers across the globe, including local emerging and established talents. 

Philipp and Phriends: A Late-Night Comedy Show

Philipp and Phriends: A Late-Night Comedy Show

Award-winning comedian and radio presenter Philipp Kostelecky brings the best acts of the Fringe together for one of the latest shows of the festival. 

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2019

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2019

Discover handmade objects for you, and your home, from 41 Scotland-based makers in one unique location. 

Vigil

Vigil

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has, for many years, produced and maintained a “Red List” of species which are either already extinct or in danger of bei… 

(Ab)solution

(Ab)solution

(Ab)solution is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe Play from Swindon-based Jackrill Productions, and it’s an impressive debut at Greenside, Infirmary St. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!

The Strut Club Cabaret presents. 

Puppet King Richard II

Puppet King Richard II

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. 

Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The Strut Club Cabaret presents. 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

The Bubble Show For Adults Only starts innocently enough. 

The Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!

The Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!

Direct from the Wild West, the infamous Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!, a world-premiere cabaret featuring blood and thunder melodrama, heel-kickin’ musical theatre and… 

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

‘The Podfather’ (Guardian) and ‘King of Edinburgh’ (List), probably best known for playing a policeman on Ant and Dec Unleashed, brings his multi award-winning podcast to Edinburgh… 

The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon… 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

You think science is boring, think again; this is science like you have never seen it before. 

The Words Are There

The Words Are There

The Words Are There is a moving and innovative piece of physical theatre that appeals both for its approach to male domestic abuse, and for its style of performance. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Magic for teens, tweens and hot soccer mums. 

Bleeding Black

Bleeding Black

Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square. 

Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold

Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold

For an incomplete play, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck has nevertheless managed to secure enduring interest. 

Short Film Open Screen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Short Film Open Screen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity. 

Fox-tot!

Fox-tot!

There are two challenges at the heart of Fox-tot!, a new work from composer Lliam Paterson and director Roxana Haines for Scottish Opera. 

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

This chat show is the perfect guide to what comedy you should see at the Fringe as host Vladimir McTavish, one of Scotland’s finest stand-ups, introduces this intimate and hilariou… 

The New and Improved I Hate Children Children's Show

The New and Improved I Hate Children Children's Show

Treat yourself and treat your kids to the new (even better) best magic show for adults and young teens who will cry and pout if they don’t get what they want. 

Teach

Teach

Matthew Roberts’ solo show, Teach, at theSpace, Surgeons Hall is performance brimming with conviction and energy. 

Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard

Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard

What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose finally meet. 

Bangkok Ladyboys Comedy Show

Bangkok Ladyboys Comedy Show

This comedy duo started working together over 20 years ago, touring all over the world with companies including The Lady Boys of Bangkok. 

Dream of a King

Dream of a King

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… 

Laugh Till It Hurts: A BDSM Comedy Show

Laugh Till It Hurts: A BDSM Comedy Show

Like 50 Shades Of Grey, but funny on purpose. 

Bacon

Bacon

Francis Bacon once observed that ‘in order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present’. 

Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break

Richard Pulsford: Roll Up for the Smirking Break

Stand up comedy from the master of wordplay, Richard Pulsford, in his sixth year with The Scottish Comedy Festival at The Beehive Inn. 

Thief by Liam Rudden

Thief by Liam Rudden

The Edinburgh Fringe programme’s standard listing format provides a simple yet clear message about Thief at the Hill Street Theatre. 

The Grease vs Dirty Dancing Tribute Show

The Grease vs Dirty Dancing Tribute Show

Featuring former West End singers and dancers, this combined tribute to two of the most iconic musicals of all time is simply electrifying! Have the time of your life watching Baby… 

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink. 

Stanley

Stanley

There’s Stanley the man and Stanley the play. 

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show

Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show

The Fawlty Towers Live Themed Dinner Show is one of two similar events happening at this year's Edinburgh Fringe; both themed dinners based on the legendary iconic 1970s sitcom… 

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

Richard Duffy’s been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born. 

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

A year ago, the world ended. 

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue returns for its 10th Fringe, bringing you 50 minutes of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby. 

James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban

James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban

Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories. 

Shattered

Shattered

As a reviewer, there are several situations that I normally hope to avoid while covering the Fringe: it may surprise you, given that essentially I’m here to force my opinion on you… 

Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death

Feed Wolf Ice Cream: A Comedy Show About Death

For those who want more from their comedy than one guy standing still on a stage with a microphone. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Great value, great venue and great fun! Lunchtime compilation showcasing comedians you must not miss with new line-ups every day hand-picked from across the Fringe. 

Paris de Nuit

Paris de Nuit

There appears, these days, to be an almost apologetic desire among directors and producers to find ways of presenting traditional circus acrobatics and high-wire acts with some add… 

Wannabe: The Spice Girls Show

Wannabe: The Spice Girls Show

Stop right now! Thank you very much. 

Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Jarred Christmas and Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Calling kids aged 5 to 100, join our mighty gang! A sensational interactive show, where the worlds of comedy and beatboxing collide with electrifying results. 

Conversations With Myself

Conversations With Myself

It’s fifty years since the Stonewall riots sparked off the movement that became known as gay liberation. 

Comedy Freak Show

Comedy Freak Show

Come one, come all to this tragic affair! Comedy Freak Show is an exhibition of comedic rarities. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It's the One-Liner Show

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It's the One-Liner Show

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

'Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn't Your Fault Again?

'Aaaaaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn't Your Fault Again?

Last year Bruce spent an hour telling hilarious stories about how he looked into the abyss of middle age with the maturity of a teenager. 

Sing Me a Song: The Robert Louis Stevenson Show

Sing Me a Song: The Robert Louis Stevenson Show

RLS is synonymous with Edinburgh. 

Letter to Boddah
BOBBY WINNER

Letter to Boddah

“Will they or won’t they go through with it?” That is the consuming question that hovers for an hour over Letter to Boddah, written and directed by Sarah Nelson and performed… 

Atomic Saloon Show

Atomic Saloon Show

Welcome to the Atomic Saloon: a place where the beer is flowing and anything goes, so long as you can afford it…Madam Boozy Skunkton is our host for the evening – the straight-… 

Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show

Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show

The fifth year of the world unique audience autism conversion show faces new issues. 

How to Get Your Show Noticed

How to Get Your Show Noticed

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Antique Jokes Show

The Antique Jokes Show

Top acts dust off their most out-of-date material. 

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Children's Underground Ghost Show

Help us to find out which ghosts haunt our famous underground vaults. 

The Mars & Lee Show

The Mars & Lee Show

A no-holds-barred comedy show starring Will Mars (FOX’s Showtime at The Apollo) and Sarah Lee (Jewish Comedian of the Year finalist 2018). 

Jasmine: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Jasmine: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Jasmine is a saxophone-led from Leeds, performing music composed by saxophonist Jasmine Whalley. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host Wes Dalton, featuring a different line-up e… 

When the Birds Come

When the Birds Come

As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin… 

Sam See: Coming Out Loud

Sam See: Coming Out Loud

It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it. 

Circus Sonas Family Show

Circus Sonas Family Show

Martin and Logy are back in Edinburgh and ready to have some fun. 

A Mad Ron Rhodes Show

A Mad Ron Rhodes Show

Uxbridge’s third hardest man: Mad Ron. 

The Greatest Magic Show

The Greatest Magic Show

Winner of Fringe World 2019 Best Children’s Show Weekly Award! The multi award-winning, sell-out sensation of 2018, The Greatest Magic Show is coming to Edinburgh for the first tim… 

The Human Show / Free Fringe

The Human Show / Free Fringe

Join Those Big Bois for the award-submitted, The Human Show – a journey inside the mind of one confused specimen and the two voices in his head as they navigate a day in this wei… 

Double Denim: Adventure Show

Double Denim: Adventure Show

Part safari party. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic. 

Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)

Richard Brown: Horror Show (Work in Progress)

Horror in all its forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics. 

Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I've Got?

Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I've Got?

Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables. 

Alan Shed's Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show

Alan Shed's Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show

If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim. 

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for the children and their parents. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. 

The Nasty Show Australia

The Nasty Show Australia

Offensive is the new black. 

Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show

Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show

Seven comedians: you, the audience, decide their fate. 

Luka Muller's Gong Show

Luka Muller's Gong Show

A parade of comedians have 90 seconds of safety to impress the crowd, before facing the gong and the wrath of special guest judges! Always fun and loose, don’t miss this fast-paced… 

Son of Dyke

Son of Dyke

I have a slight confession of bias. 

A Booklover's Comedy Show

A Booklover's Comedy Show

***** (Dircksey. 

A Famous Taste of Scotland Dinner and Show

A Famous Taste of Scotland Dinner and Show

A fun-packed feast of traditional music, dance, song and myth with historic Prestonfield House and the magnificent setting for this nightly dinner show. 

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine

There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs. 

Normaler Than Everyone

Normaler Than Everyone

It may be because of the stage productions and films which I saw growing up, but my innate and core expectation about musical theatre is that it tends to be on the big size, if not… 

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they… 

Chris Parker: Camp Binch

Chris Parker: Camp Binch

"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o… 

Divet Show: The Greatest Divas

Divet Show: The Greatest Divas

Divet Show will bring glitter, glamour, fun and over 30 world-class stars like Adele, Whitney, Celine, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Freddie Mercury, Cher. 

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back. 

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Winter Bubble

A packed room at Gilded Balloon’s new Patter Hoose venue shows that even a rainy Friday morning can’t dampen the enthusiasm for bubbles. 

Leo Kearse: Transgressive

Leo Kearse: Transgressive

Leo Kearse isn't, by his own admission, a 'woke' comedian. 

Richard Fry: O Starry Night

Richard Fry: O Starry Night

Following an epiphany in the Van Gogh Museum, Fry takes a twisted wander through art history. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 people across two continents. 

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care

In a festival where comedians eager to share their personal histories, foibles and perspectives on the world can oft seem ten-a-penny, it makes a pleasant change of pace to spend a… 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Good morning, Edinburgh! After Fringe sell-outs in 2017 and 2018, we’re moving to a lovely new venue. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves

Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y… 

PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y… 

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says. 

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy, at heart, has a Unique Selling Point—the show’s creator, Anita Rochon, isn’t actually in Edinburgh. 

Where to Belong

Where to Belong

What makes a home? It’s one of a number of questions that Victor Esses asks of audience members as they come in, taping their responses for use later on in his show. 

The Noise Next Door's Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

The Noise Next Door's Really Really Good Afternoon Show Through Time!

Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone. 

The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch

The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch

Award-winning drinks writers and comedy performers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham return to Edinburgh with their latest libation, The Thinking Drinkers: Heroes of Hooch, in Underbel… 

For All I Care

For All I Care

For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women. 

A Holy Show

A Holy Show

Written and directed by Janet Moran. 

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Basil Brush's Family Fun Show

Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a show for all the family, specially written for the live stage and packed with fun and excit… 

Short Film Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Short Film Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity. 

Sketching Workshop with Pennie Lordan: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Sketching Workshop with Pennie Lordan: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

During this two hour sketching workshop, you will have the opportunity to be supported to explore your surroundings and views from the arts barge with artist Pennie Lord… 

York Symphony: Marinella Senatore: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

York Symphony: Marinella Senatore: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Another chance to see the films by Italian artist Marinella Senatore for her York Symphony piece, created through a series of workshops and conversations, collecting ind… 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Deer Woman

Deer Woman

Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us. 

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

You’ll learn two things from Aaron Simmonds’ Disabled Coconut. 

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders

Bystanders begins with staging reminiscent of a police detective’s office – plain desks, a few chairs, and piles of boxes full of paperwork and evidence. 

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind

Detour: A Show About Changing Your Mind

A show about getting lost and getting found. 

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them on the spot into interactive musical adventures. 

Don't Bother

Don't Bother

It takes a certain bravery, or innocence, to name your debut full-hour show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Don’t Bother. 

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Liam Malone, it’s fair to say, is not backwards at coming forwards. 

Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show

Harriet Dyer: The Dinosaur Show

An hour with Harriet Dyer is an hour of absurdism where literally anything can happen. 

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

Titania McGrath may just be a young Kensington girl with a modest Trust Fund and a thirst for social justice, but she’s in Edinburgh to make a difference, and inspire us common peo… 

Family Yoga: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Family Yoga: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Family Yoga on the Arts Barge! This is an informal yoga session that brings together elements of traditional yoga practice, play and discovery. 

Typical

Typical

Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Made of Nowhere

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Made of Nowhere

Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Say Owt Showcase

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Say Owt Showcase

Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK. 

Made of Nowhere: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Made of Nowhere: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit… 

Say Owt Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Say Owt Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK. 

The Glang Show £5 / PWYW

The Glang Show £5 / PWYW

The Glang Show is the only anarcho-comedy utopia that has travelled back in time from beyond the heat death of the universe. 

Harriet Dyer - The Dinosaur Show £5 / PWYW

Harriet Dyer - The Dinosaur Show £5 / PWYW

Harriet (BBC3, BBC Live at The Fringe, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Knock Knock, BBC Ouch, Absolute Radio) loves dinosaurs. 

It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show

It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show

“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show” is all I was ever told as a kid. 

The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show: Through Time!

The Noise Next Door’s Really Really Good Afternoon Show: Through Time!

Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone. 

“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show”

“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show”

“It’s NOT the Joshua Benson Show” is all I was ever told as a kid. 

How To Beat Up Your Dad (The Musical): Arts Barge Riverside Festival

How To Beat Up Your Dad (The Musical): Arts Barge Riverside Festival

This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad. 

Tommy Foggo, Superhero!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tommy Foggo, Superhero!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A magical multi-media tale of a life saved by music. 

Classical Guitar: Richard Haslam

Classical Guitar: Richard Haslam

Richard Haslam is a Derbyshire-born classical guitarist currently based in Manchester. 

Carla Pol: The Pol Show

Carla Pol: The Pol Show

What's the difference between a sign and a gesture? Carla Pol, the Italian comedian, opens up like a silly Russian doll interweaving her disconnected visual world a… 

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

Come and join us for the York Fringe Dog Show in aid of RSPCA York. 

Alan Shed's “Music, Comedy and Everything Else” Interactive Quiz Show (Edinburgh Preview)

Alan Shed's “Music, Comedy and Everything Else” Interactive Quiz Show (Edinburgh Preview)

When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy. 

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Richard Herring: RHLSTP

Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets

Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear. 

Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Heaven's Gate

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Heaven's Gate

Four cups of Apple Sauce. 

Heaven's Gate: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Heaven's Gate: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Four cups of Apple Sauce. 

The York Dungeon Fringe Show

The York Dungeon Fringe Show

For 3 nights only, the York Dungeon will open their cages to the city of York, open their arms to new audiences, and expose their smelly armpits at the Great Yorkshire F… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Tim Eriksen

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Tim Eriksen

Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos… 

Tim Eriksen - Hardcore Americana: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tim Eriksen - Hardcore Americana: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos… 

Shape Note Singing Workshop with Tim Eriksen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Shape Note Singing Workshop with Tim Eriksen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Come and learn shape note singing with Tim Eriksen! We are delighted to welcome Tim to York to lead a workshop and a singing on the Arts Barge in advance of his evening … 

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Richard Wright Is Just Happy To Be Involved

Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright. 

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Ed Fringe Preview)

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Ed Fringe Preview)

A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand. 

Making a Magic Show (with just JOSH & WonderPhil)

Making a Magic Show (with just JOSH & WonderPhil)

just JOSH & WonderPhil are proud to present their debut double act. 

Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with their jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying… 

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Two days of Jazz and Manouche as part of The Arts Barge Riverside Festival. 

Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Award-winning saxophonist Alex Hitchcock returns to York, with his powerhouse quintet that combines a compelli… 

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival

A two day Jazz and Manouche Festival of performances, workshops and open sessions. 

The Tempest

The Tempest

Many strange things occur in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but in this production, by Oxford’s Creation Theatre, there are more surprises than even Prospero might have conjured up… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Northern Electric - Rust

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Northern Electric - Rust

Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel… 

Rust: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rust: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel… 

Opening Night at The Arts Barge with Alistair Anderson: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Opening Night at The Arts Barge with Alistair Anderson: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Alistair to play for the opening of York’s Arts Barge. 

The Ugly One

The Ugly One

At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical. 

The Hunt

The Hunt

Relax and enjoy the welcome extended to guests at the local infants’ school which Michele Austin delivers with considerable warmth and obvious delight. 

Them!

Them!

First, let’s get the biggest disappointment out of the way first: Them!, a joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland, writer Pamela Carter and director Stewart La… 

The Dracula Rock Show

The Dracula Rock Show

Please note: This is a youth theatre production  The Mansfield Palace Intermediate Youth Theatre presents this fun, energised and fresh take on scary legend that is… 

Blunderland Variety Show

Blunderland Variety Show

Direct from Brooklyn’s most notorious nightclub, BLUNDERLAND is an acid trip down the rabbit hole for a variety show unlike any other. 

Sea Changes

Sea Changes

Jim Brown's Sea Changes is a play that delightfully and unashamedly embraces the info-dump, to the extent of having most of its characters directly introduce themselves to the … 

The Very Perry Show

The Very Perry Show

As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre. 

Curious Shoes

Curious Shoes

Curious Shoes is a show that's unashamedly dominated by the perceived needs of its target audience, people living with dementia, and those who care and support them. 

The Glang Show

The Glang Show

The Glang Show has arrived in Brighton! Earth’s most prestigious comedy anti-competition where the audience are given powerful orbs that grant them ultimate and arbitrary control o… 

The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show

Izzy wizzy let's get busy! Sooty is back in a brand-new show with guaranteed giggles for the whole family! Direct from their new series on itv Sooty, Swee… 

Us/Them

Us/Them

Arguably a surprise word-of-mouth hit during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this physical-theatre exploration of a mass hostage-taking returns to the Scottish capital with - t… 

Black Magic - The Little Mix Show

Black Magic - The Little Mix Show

Duration: Approx 1hr 50mins A highly energetic tribute show that follows in the footsteps of the award-winning girl band, Little Mix. 

I Wish I Was A Mountain

I Wish I Was A Mountain

It's appropriate that this particular production within the 2019 Edinburgh International Children's Festival is the only one slotted into the schedule for the Netherbow sta… 

Emil & The Detectives

Emil & The Detectives

I have a confession: I’d never previously heard of Erich Kästner's 1929 novel, Emil and the Detectives; It just wasn't a part of my childhood. 

The Bubble Show

The Bubble Show

Join Mr. 

The Brighton Beach Boys perform Abbey Road and The 1969 Show.

The Brighton Beach Boys perform Abbey Road and The 1969 Show.

The Brighton Beach Boys and Psychedelic Love Orchestra recreate The Beatles classic of 1969, ‘Abbey Road’. 

Stealing the Show: The Improvised Heist Comedy

Stealing the Show: The Improvised Heist Comedy

Move over Oceans 8, 11, 12 and 13. 

Leebo Luby: The Farucchio Peru Show

Leebo Luby: The Farucchio Peru Show

A riotously surreal concoction of clown, kitsch and nonsense from Leebo Luby (London SketchFest 2015 finalist). 

The Treason Show Festival Special

The Treason Show Festival Special

Brighton’s much-loved, resident satirists with their legendary mix of bang up to date topical sketches and songs, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s f… 

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on ‘Taskmaster’, half-killed on ‘Bear Grylls’ Celebrity Island’, Watson returns to what he’s best at: being indoors. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts at GBMet. 

Sunday Encounters: Curious Arts Curate Curious London

Sunday Encounters: Curious Arts Curate Curious London

Join us for the day at the Theatre Royal Haymarket for ‘London Curious’ on Sunday 19th May, where a series of curious adventures with the legendary Iain Sinclair&n… 

Strode's College Final Performance

Strode's College Final Performance

Strode’s College Performing Arts students will be performing Extremism by Anders Lustgarten. 

Prozac and Cons Show

Prozac and Cons Show

Ian appeared on a televised seduction course to find love. 

The Duchess (of Malfi)

The Duchess (of Malfi)

There's little doubt that The Duchess of Malfi has become the most popular and successful work written by the English Jacobean playwright John Webster. 

Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie

Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie

One man. 

The Depression Cure Show

The Depression Cure Show

Warning: Anti-depressant. 

What's to be done with the Arts in Brighton?

What's to be done with the Arts in Brighton?

What’s to be done with the Arts in Brighton? Or Where Are We Now where Are We Now? A discussion at the Spiegeltent on the state of the arts and culture in Brighton and Hove - and w… 

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

Three, as the song goes, is a magic number. 

Super Human Heroes

Super Human Heroes

Super Human Heroes from theatre group The Letter J (in association with Paisley Arts Centre) has a simple message: We all need to do our little bit to help make the world a better … 

U ARE WHAT U WEAR: The Fashionista Show

U ARE WHAT U WEAR: The Fashionista Show

See the hit Nafflix TV show LIVE on stage! Host and fashion devotee Kate Bell introduces us to her guests. 

Bright City Visual Arts

Bright City Visual Arts

Bright City is a community of musicians, dancers, producers, visual artists and actors from St Peter’s Church. 

The Laurel & Hardy Radio Show

The Laurel & Hardy Radio Show

Lucky Dog are now quite a Brighton Fringe fixture, constantly presenting different Laurel & Hardy material every year. 

The Death Show

The Death Show

Death. 

MARK WATSON: THE INFINITE SHOW

MARK WATSON: THE INFINITE SHOW

Tickets: £20Duration: 2hrs, incuding an intervalSuitable for: ages 14+. 

Richard Wheatley is Blindingly Obvious

Richard Wheatley is Blindingly Obvious

Fresh from debut runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and 2018, and unveiling his new show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, Richard is now looking to make his mark on the seafron… 

A Writing Workshop with Richard Skinner

A Writing Workshop with Richard Skinner

A workshop with Richard Skinner—novelist and director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy. 

Show of Hands

Show of Hands

Show of Hands: 'Special Relationship' Tour with special guest Richard Shindell  Show of Hands join forces with long-term friend and collaborator Richard S… 

The Red Lion

The Red Lion

There’s something reassuringly "classy" about this production of Patrick Marber's The Red Lion, now touring Scotland for the first time courtesy of Glasgow-based Ra… 

The Greatest (Bank Holiday Breakfast) Show

The Greatest (Bank Holiday Breakfast) Show

Unforgettable bank holiday fun for all the family from our own ‘Greatest Showman’, Des, as he presents some of the most talented circus performers at the Fringe. 

Cards Against Humanity, The Shame Show

Cards Against Humanity, The Shame Show

Following on from a sold-out run at Brighton Fringe 2018, The Shame Show returns with its dark game show based on the world famous, politically incorrect party game; Cards Against … 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. 

Boat Show Comedy Club

Boat Show Comedy Club

London's finest floating comedy club aboard the Tattershall Castle. 

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: the Fringe Show. 

The Hired Man

The Hired Man

The Hired Man has been doing the rounds since 1984 and now finds a home at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. 

Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha

A rousing overture, with blasting brass and pounding percussion raises hopes at the Coliseum for the first London production of Man Of La Mancha for over fifty years. 

The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean

The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean

Despite occasional complaints, audiences over the centuries have generally become well-behaved. 

The Close Up Show 2019

The Close Up Show 2019

Tickets: £17. 

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida. 

Post Mortem

Post Mortem

It’s not just a dead body that can be the subject of a post mortem. 

Market Boy

Market Boy

A rollicking romp around the stalls of Romford fills the Union Theatre, Southwark, in a joyous revival of David Eldridge’s Market Boy. 

Carter School of Dance Presents A Great Dance Show 2

Carter School of Dance Presents A Great Dance Show 2

  Tickets: £13. 

The Jerry Hall Show

The Jerry Hall Show

The Jerry Hall Show' is a bizarre narrative comedy, based loosely on the life of celebrity Jerry Hall. 

After The Dance

After The Dance

Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down. 

The Showstoppers Kids Show

The Showstoppers Kids Show

Here at The Showstoppers’ Kids Show we take your ideas and turn them into marvellous, musical interactive adventures. 

Mole & Gecko: The Show (5+ yrs)

Mole & Gecko: The Show (5+ yrs)

An interactive rap musical about a Mole and a Gecko starring Simon Mole & Gecko A rapper and a singer. 

The Massaoke Family Show

The Massaoke Family Show

What is Massaoke? The idea is simple: a brilliant live band plays well-known songs, with lyrics on a giant screen, and the whole audience sings along together. 

The Trials Of Oscar Wilde

The Trials Of Oscar Wilde

Court rooms can often make for high drama, but unfortunately in this case the transcript of ‘the trial of the century, proves to be less than gripping. 

Tony’s Last Tape

Tony’s Last Tape

Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had … 

Matilda The Musical

Matilda The Musical

When Noel Coward warned a certain Mrs Worthington against putting her daughter on the stage, it's highly likely that he didn't have Matilda The Musical in mind at the time. 

StarStruck - Best Theatre Arts

StarStruck - Best Theatre Arts

Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su… 

(Can This Be) Home

(Can This Be) Home

It’s seldom fun to leave a venue thinking: "Well, that's an hour of my life I'm never getting back. 

Get a Life!

Get a Life!

The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame. 

Cry Havoc

Cry Havoc

There is plenty of barking in the street during Tom Coash’s Cry Havoc at the Park Theatre. 

The Conductor

The Conductor

The tragedy of World War II is remembered in many ways, but The Conductor, at The Space, takes a highly focussed look at just one small event in Russia’s window on the west in 19… 

Othello

Othello

There are times when a production comes along that is a powerful reminder of the beauty and eloquence of Shakespeare’s writing, his clarity of exposition and ingenuity of plot, e… 

Hair

Hair

We might still be in the age of Aquarius, or we may not yet have entered it, depending on whose calculations you prefer, but it is now over fifty years since Hair opened on Broadwa… 

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

Welcome to Anatevka! The Playhouse Theatre has been transformed to create this ‘dear little village’ for Trevor Nunn’s penetrating production of Fiddler on the Roof. 

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton is described as many things in addition to being a stand-up comedian – a philosopher, thinker, poet, surrealist. 

Local Hero

Local Hero

When Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre announced that they were producing a stage musical based on the iconic 1983 Scottish film Local Hero, I must admit to wondering if it was … 

Othello

Othello

The need for ‘a willing suspension of disbelief’ traditionally associated with an appreciation of Shakespeare’s Othello reaches a new level necessity in director Phil Willmot… 

Richard III

Richard III

The palatial ceiling aloft the shattered plaster and exposed brick walls of the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre are aptly suited to Headlong’s powerful production of Shak… 

The Funeral Director

The Funeral Director

In drama, an audience can either be ahead of what the characters know, or behind them, catching up; each approach has its dramatic advantages and disadvantages, but what is needed … 

Diverse Performing Arts - Showcase 2019

Diverse Performing Arts - Showcase 2019

Saturday 2nd March, 7pm Tickets: £13. 

The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton

The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton

Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a… 

Lost in Music

Lost in Music

“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else. 

Martini Lounge Variety and Burlesque Show 2019

Martini Lounge Variety and Burlesque Show 2019

The Martini Lounge has gone back to its roots! Revisiting those heady days in the beautiful basement bar of The Royal Court Theatre and once again filling the stage with… 

The Death Show

The Death Show

Death. 

NBDA: Lights! Camera! Action! - 2019 Show

NBDA: Lights! Camera! Action! - 2019 Show

Saturday 23rd February, 2pm & 7pmTickets:Duration:Suitable for: most agesJoin the talented pupils of Niki Barbara Dance Academy for a dance spectacular, performed by… 

Mole & Gecko: THE SHOW

Mole & Gecko: THE SHOW

  • Listing
  • Children’s Shows
  • London Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 20th Feb - 7th Apr 2019

A new show for children and families from Poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko. 

Valentines Dinner + Show

Valentines Dinner + Show

Valentines Dinner + ShowAnd you thought you missed Abigail's Party . 

[title of show]

[title of show]

Jeff and Hunter have a dream – and that dream is for their work to be selected for the upcoming New York Musical Theatre Festival. 

To She Or Not To She

To She Or Not To She

"Frailty, thy name is woman!" That is probably not most women’s favourite line from Shakespeare and could not be further from the truth when applied to Emma Bentley. 

The Story's End

The Story's End

I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself… 

Blasphemy

Blasphemy

In the sad world of factory farming the horrors of animals trapped in cages for the duration of their painful lives is well-documented and visually familiar. 

The Legends of American Country Tribute Show 2019

The Legends of American Country Tribute Show 2019

Duration: Approx 2hrs 30mins Following a sell-out UK tour in 2017, Europe's number one country music show promises a fantastic night of toe-tapping country classics… 

DNA

DNA

Just because you’ve committed a crime doesn’t mean you have to be caught; at least, not if you can devise a clever cover-up. 

Not Just Jazz Show

Not Just Jazz Show

Our incredibly popular, long-running evening of easy listening music and comedy entertainment in the friendly atmosphere of the Cellar Bar. 

The Tempest

The Tempest

The are more "sounds" than "sweet airs" in Lazarus Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest at the Greenwich Theatre and while some elements of the perform… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

Theme Show! - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Theme Show! - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Edy Hurst battles to create the world’s greatest theme park. 

NT ENCORE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND

NT ENCORE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND

Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: … 

The Orchestra

The Orchestra

The programme notes aptly describe The Orchestra at the Omnibus Theatre, which might be regarded as one of Jean Anouilh’s more incidental pieces. 

Carter School of Dance presents A Great Big Dance Show

Carter School of Dance presents A Great Big Dance Show

Tickets: £13. 

Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019

A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II. 

The Close Up Show

The Close Up Show

 

The Catherine Tate Show Live

The Catherine Tate Show Live

The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedian and actor Catherine Tate, will bring THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW - LIVE to London’s Wyndham’s Theatre. 

Museum of Magic! - Christmas Show

Museum of Magic! - Christmas Show

A festive feast of magical entertainment for the whole family. 

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

When Jo Clifford ("proud father and grandmother") first performed her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, it attracted bo… 

House of Jack Christmas Show

House of Jack Christmas Show

House of Jack is excited to present the first House of Jack Christmas Show! This street and urban dance show is jam-packed with dynamic performances from students of House of Jack... 

Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

It's said that Edinburgh is a city, the size of a town, that feels like a village; or, in other words, the Scottish capital is sufficiently small and compact that you don't… 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

What makes a "traditional" pantomime? It's certainly not just a case of blowing the dust off a 1970s panto script and hoping for the best; here, the Brunton’s now r… 

Joe Longthorne 50th Anniversary Show

Joe Longthorne 50th Anniversary Show

TV and recording star Joe Longthorne returns to Leicester Square Theatre in 2018 as part of his 50th Anniversary Tour. 

The Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his band

The Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his band

Apollo Theatre Company in association with Spike Milligan Productions Ltd presentsThe Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his BandBy Spike MilliganFrom the producers… 

Summer and Smoke

Summer and Smoke

The Almeida Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, boldly and sensitively directed by Rebecca Frecknall, is now playing at the Duke of Y… 

Love-Lies-Bleeding

Love-Lies-Bleeding

A family on the verge of a momentous decision forms the focus of Don DeLillo’s Love-Lies-Bleeding at the Print Room at the Coronet in a stark production by director Jack McNamara… 

The Recruiting Officer

The Recruiting Officer

In her article for the British Library on Restorations Comedy Diane Maybankobserves that “little can be gained from removing the plays from their historical settings”. 

Indebted To Chance.

Indebted To Chance.

Actor/scriptwriter Charlie Ryall leads an entertaining troupe of actors from Mercurius Theatre Company in her play Indebted to Chance at the Old Red Lion Theatre. 

Haunting Julia

Haunting Julia

After Alan Ayckbourn had seen The Woman in Black and the film The Haunting he was inspired to depart from his usual comedic tales of middle class life and try his hand at a ghost s… 

BRASS, an Award-winning Musical by Benjamin Till

BRASS, an Award-winning Musical by Benjamin Till

Brass, Benjamin Till’s winner of the ‘Best Musical’ in the 2014 UK Theatre Awards, fills the stage at the Union Theatre, Southwark, in its professional London première. 

Dealing with Clair

Dealing with Clair

The Orange Tree Theatre in a co-production with English Touring Theatre could hardly have expected that renewed police investigations into the mysterious disappearance of estate ag… 

The Giant Killers

The Giant Killers

Darwen is probably not the most well-known town in England, but it holds a very special place in the history of football. 

The Chit Chat Chalk Show

The Chit Chat Chalk Show

A magical and interactive chalky adventure that follows the story of Kiko, a confused young girl struggling to understand how she feels about the strange new world she lives in. 

ear for eye

ear for eye

There are several peaks and notable features in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye that rise above the lengthy exposition of her themes that otherwise dominate this new work. 

LOVE

LOVE

The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has reconfigured it’s stage and auditorium to house writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s production of Love. 

The Wild Duck

The Wild Duck

A brightly lit auditorium and bare stage, with its exposed brick walls, look all set for a rehearsal. 

The Paradise Circus

The Paradise Circus

A little-known theatre hosts a lesser-known play and the result is a theatrical triumph. 

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

The works by French poet and playwright Edmond Rostand, just one of the victims of the influenza pandemic which swept the world in 1918, are today largely forgotten; the one except… 

Parents’ Evening

Parents’ Evening

The Rebels’ Season continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre with Bathsheba Doran’s Parents’ Evening. 

To Have To Shoot Irishmen

To Have To Shoot Irishmen

To Have To Shoot Irishmen opens the Irish Theatre Season at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham. 

Quietly

Quietly

Quietly is set in a pub in Belfast. 

Arctic Oil

Arctic Oil

Watching Clare Duffy's one-act play "Arctic Oil", a particular phrase kept coming back to me: that mantra of 1960s' student protests and second-wave feminism, &qu… 

ONCE

ONCE

“It’s only people up there with guitars and other instruments telling and singing their way through an everyday love story. 

Dave Spikey: Juggling on a Motorbike (Charity Show)

Dave Spikey: Juggling on a Motorbike (Charity Show)

Dave had been working in the NHS for 19 years as a Biomedical Scientist when in 1988 someone uttered the immortal words, “You’re really funny, you should be … 

Little Fools

Little Fools

The autumn/winter season at the Space on the Isle of Dogs got off to a punchy start this week with Little Fools. 

Kids Play

Kids Play

Kids Play is now running in London following its triumph at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it received multiple five star reviews. 

No Help Sent

No Help Sent

Gordon Brown once observed how Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a National Health Service was unimaginable in its day, yet it has withstood the test of time. 

Revelation 1:18

Revelation 1:18

"I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!" Although never spoken in Revelation 1:18 these words from the last book in the bible capture the aspirational i… 

Wine

Wine

Wine makes a return to the Tristan Bates Theatre following its successful run earlier in the year. 

The Outsider (L’Étranger)

The Outsider (L’Étranger)

Albert Camus’ The Outsider (L’Étranger), is starkly brought to the stage in an adaptation by Ben Okri, Winner of the Man Booker Prize, commissioned by The Print Room at The C… 

Scotties

Scotties

"Best leave history in the history books—get on with living. 

Losing Venice

Losing Venice

Shakespeare created ‘the vastly fields of France’ in a cramped ‘cockpit’ and crammed within his ‘wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt’ all c… 

Prairie Flower

Prairie Flower

Perhaps as a five-part radio serial Prairie Flower might provide some particular interest to crime enthusiasts, but as a two-hour monologue in the Upstairs at the Gatehouse, even w… 

Abi

Abi

Despite its title, we know very little of what actually happened at Abigail’s party. 

Nests

Nests

Within a cluttered clearing in some woods that's neither town nor countryside and so somehow feels like nowhere, an unnamed Man (David McKay) sleeps the sleep of the just-finis… 

About Leo

About Leo

About Leo is the first offering in The Rebels Season at Jermyn Street Theatre; an autumn programme that focuses on ‘people who dared to be different’. 

Abigail's Party

Abigail's Party

It’s a mark of how well a play is rooted in a particular era that the mere mention of Estée Lauder’s Youth Dew perfume can send ripples of mirth throughout the auditorium to a… 

The Yellow on the Broom

The Yellow on the Broom

It's just four years since Pitlochry Festival Theatre put on a production of Anne Downie's 1989 play The Yellow On The Broom, based on the autobiographical novel by Betsy W… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Show

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala Show

The 38th Edinburgh Comedy Awards. 

Richard Rodgers – A Song in My Heart

Richard Rodgers – A Song in My Heart

Appearing for the 28th successive year in the magnificent setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Fife vocal concert group Ensemble (www. 

Make It as an Arts Journalist

Make It as an Arts Journalist

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

Returning for the 16th year is the show that makes a difference – come along and help to raise vital funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. 

Absolutely (Not) Free – An Evening of Zappa – Special Extra Show

Absolutely (Not) Free – An Evening of Zappa – Special Extra Show

Special additional show featuring former Zappa Plays Zappa vocalist/instrumentalist Ben Thomas, who will be opening the show with his own material and then joining the band for. 

Accordion Fight Show

Accordion Fight Show

Award-winning, folk-punk-cabaret rioteer Strangely returns with a brand new show, full of new songs and shenanigans. 

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

In a controversial move to promote classic children’s novels, publishers have released all the stories far too filthy for the page! The Infamous Five is an hour-long sketch show … 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Tomfoolery's Beans on Toast Show

Tomfoolery's Beans on Toast Show

Following his sell-out Fringe debut last year, Tomfoolery returns with his action-packed show that’s fun for all the family. 

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

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… 

In Your Own Sweet Way

In Your Own Sweet Way

Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way. 

The Naked Blind Data Show

The Naked Blind Data Show

Do you want to reveal yourself to the world? Does your data show more than you think? To whom? We think our personal information is private. 

Richard Plays Richard Rogers

Richard Plays Richard Rogers

Celebrated pianist, composer and broadcaster Richard Michael BEM pays homage to the song-writing talents of another Richard in a programme of his best known tunes – song-writing … 

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show

Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show

East meets West in this wild mash-up of comedy, electric violin, characters, spoken word and songs from legendary AmerAsian duo Slanty Eyed Mama. 

The Magic Show

The Magic Show

Following last year’s Edinburgh Fringe sell-out and newly written for 2018, journey through the ever-changing story of magic featuring misdirection from eras past to today’s mind… 

Spotlights Show Choir: A Night at the Musicals

Spotlights Show Choir: A Night at the Musicals

After last year’s sold-out, five-star run, Exeter University’s Spotlights Show Choir are back at the Fringe with another set of musical hits! With songs ranging from classics l… 

Richard III

Richard III

Old bones ache before a storm. 

A Comedy Show on Top of Arthur's Seat

A Comedy Show on Top of Arthur's Seat

This is a show on top of Arthur’s Seat. 

Joz Norris Has No Show This Year, but Mr Fruit Salad Does

Joz Norris Has No Show This Year, but Mr Fruit Salad Does

Hi, I’m award-winning comic, actor and writer Joz Norris (BBC Three, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, ITV, ITV2, Dave, Channel 4). 

In Conversation With... Richard Leonard

In Conversation With... Richard Leonard

A proud socialist and trade unionist, elected Scottish Labour Party leader in 2017 on a radical programme of change. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For two nights only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

The MMORPG Show – Scruffy Looking Nerd Herder

The MMORPG Show – Scruffy Looking Nerd Herder

The multi award-winning MMORPG Show returns with more improvised, role-play comedy adventures. 

Cezary Goes to War

Cezary Goes to War

The Regional Medical Draft Board has strict guidelines for the classification of recruits and their suitability for deployment. 

The Police Sting Show

The Police Sting Show

The Police Sting Show in concert: Re-worked, fresh versions of all the iconic Police and Sting solo album songs in a 70-minute show featuring an acoustic Sting section. 

Goodbye Rosetta

Goodbye Rosetta

Goodbye Rosetta abounds with youthful enthusiasm and passion. 

Dyslexia Awareness in the Arts

Dyslexia Awareness in the Arts

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The State of Arts Criticism

The State of Arts Criticism

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Mad Craic Comedy Show

The Mad Craic Comedy Show

An Irish stand-up comedy compilation show featuring some of the best comedians from around the festival, for free. 

Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions

Reverend Richard Coles: Confessions

Join former 80s pop star turned vicar and broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles – co-host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and BBC One’s The Big Painting Challenge, star of Strictly C… 

HMS Pinafore

HMS Pinafore

The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore. 

Horror Show

Horror Show

People are going missing. 

Kids Play
BOBBY WINNER

Kids Play

Glen Chandler, Edinburgh’s theatrical detective story-writing son, returns to the Festival Fringe this year with yet another ingenious triumph. 

Picasso's Women

Picasso's Women

Given how many inhabited his life, Picasso’s Women is but a mere glimpse from one side of the bed into what they endured. 

Reigen

Reigen

Some plays lend themselves to radical reinterpretations and stagings while others need handling with more care. 

Waiting for Ofsted

Waiting for Ofsted

Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself. 

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

The UK’s number one Tommy Cooper tribute returns to the Fringe! Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius. 

Louis Prima – Dinner and Show

Louis Prima – Dinner and Show

Louis Prima, Sicilian-New Orleanian showman and comedy-jazzer (1930s-1950s) sung by Philip Contini. 

Forget Me Nots

Forget Me Nots

Forget Me Nots is a new piece of ‘queer theatre’ from Rokkur Friggjar, a collective of theatre makers based in Iceland and the UK, who are contributors to this year’s Army@Su… 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band are joined by Polyhymnia Dancers in the ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the… 

Interruption Show

Interruption Show

The interactive show where Dalia Malek (CKP’s Lunchtime Special, Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist, Second City Diversity in Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest) and rotating co-hos… 

Show And Tell at The Queen's Hall

Show And Tell at The Queen's Hall

The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Live at the Apollo star, the Lidl Enya, the broken Bublé… DAVID O’DOHERTY headlines. 

The World's Smallest Comedy Show

The World's Smallest Comedy Show

It’s the smallest comedy show, in the smallest venue at the Fringe. 

Navigating the Labyrinth: US Visas for Performing Artists

Navigating the Labyrinth: US Visas for Performing Artists

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Shell Shock

Shell Shock

"A British soldier never runs away from a fight", Tommy Atkins proudly proclaims. 

Power, Gender and The Arts

Power, Gender and The Arts

Performers, producers, activists and cultural workers come together to investigate where power really lies and what needs to be done to ensure genuine diversity and equality of exp… 

NEHH Presents... The Kevin Rowland DJ Show

NEHH Presents... The Kevin Rowland DJ Show

Kevin Rowland – Style icon and leader of the band Dexys (formerly Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is renowned for his vast wealth of musical knowledge and a highly charged eclecticism, … 

The Troth

The Troth

Based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri’s iconic Hindi short story Usne Kaha Tha, The Troth is about one soldier, Sardar Lehna Singh, and the sacrifice he makes to keep his secret pro… 

InValid Voices

InValid Voices

When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C… 

Ari Shaffir's Renamed Storyteller Show

Ari Shaffir's Renamed Storyteller Show

Ari Shaffir and other funny people tell true and scintillating stories. 

The Gin Chronicles in New York

The Gin Chronicles in New York

The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following. 

The Dame

The Dame

Peter Duncan’s The Dame is hosted at The Dome, one of Edinburgh’s glitziest and most glamorous buildings. 

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

Art to Wear: International Contemporary Jewellery Show

This small yet unmissable jewellery exhibition features over 300 unique and original jewellery designs from 30 independent designers across the globe including local emerging talen… 

The Snake Oil Art Show

The Snake Oil Art Show

This show is an interactive science show, involving members of the public as audience, in the apparently controversial science of homeopathy. 

Parenting in the Performing Arts Coffee Morning

Parenting in the Performing Arts Coffee Morning

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

To Be Frank Poetry: Open Mic and Live Spoken Word Show

To Be Frank Poetry: Open Mic and Live Spoken Word Show

A brand new type of spoken word show is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe, with one half open mic and one half live spoken word show. 

Making Your Show Accessible: The Basics

Making Your Show Accessible: The Basics

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Great Red Sky Cabaret Show

The Great Red Sky Cabaret Show

A family-friendly mixed bag ranging from cabaret to comedy via spoken word and theatre. 

Bucket Men

Bucket Men

Bucket Men takes place in a small basement studio at C Royale where two men coincidentally have jobs in a small basement of a faceless government building. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight. 

Is This the Worst Quiz / Game Show Ever? (Edinburgh Regional Championships) Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou

Is This the Worst Quiz / Game Show Ever? (Edinburgh Regional Championships) Hosted by Yianni Agisilaou

A cross between Mastermind, Ultimate Cage Fighting, and the Royal Variety Hour in a bar off Cowgate. 

Punel Show

Punel Show

Ever pundered what shows like Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, QI or Never Mind the Buzzcocks would be like if they were just puns? Punder no longer. 

You Are Frogs

You Are Frogs

If some of what you are about to read sounds completely bonkers then you are well on the way to an appreciation of You Are Frogs. 

Split Egg: A Magic Show About Being Twins

Split Egg: A Magic Show About Being Twins

These twin tricksters perform magic inspired by cliches surrounding twins. 

Man Down

Man Down

Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA. 

Crizards Cromedy Show

Crizards Cromedy Show

Crizards come to Edinburgh with some spicy cromedy concerning bronze, weevils and utility bills. 

Zillions of Comedians (The One-Man Compilation Show)

Zillions of Comedians (The One-Man Compilation Show)

Watch Zillions of Comedians squeezed into just one hour. 

This Sentence is the Title of the Show

This Sentence is the Title of the Show

Al Lubel also considered Mean Jewish Boy and Boy of Inaction as titles. 

The Late Night Cabaret Show

The Late Night Cabaret Show

A late-night open mic cabaret night which is open to all Fringe performers: so music, comedy and performance is all on the cards. 

#Dave: Luxury Magic Show

#Dave: Luxury Magic Show

Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs. 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Kimono My Comedy Show

Kimono My Comedy Show

An hour of stand up comedy from one of Ireland’s best joke writers. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r… 

Red and Boiling

Red and Boiling

Red and Boiling is an entertaining cabaret-style show with some serious undertones. 

Dave Maher Coma Show

Dave Maher Coma Show

Dave Maher was almost unplugged from life support during a month-long coma. 

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson is quite clear about what his (modestly) titled Spectacular Show isn't: "It's not a science lecture," he insists. 

What Girls Are Made Of

What Girls Are Made Of

The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo… 

The Flop

The Flop

It seems that Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre Company are happy to take risks. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

My Name Is Dorothy

My Name Is Dorothy

The first point to make clear is that My Name is Dorothy has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz. 

The Edinburgh Revue's Stand-Up Show 2018

The Edinburgh Revue's Stand-Up Show 2018

The Edinburgh Revue returns to the Fringe with a collection of its best and brightest local talents from throughout the year in this stand-up showcase.  

Three's Company, Where's Our Crowd? An Improvised Show

Three's Company, Where's Our Crowd? An Improvised Show

Three wise men followed a star to Edinburgh to bring you frankincense, myrrh and comedy gold. 

The Gravel Road Show and the Cult of True Womanhood

The Gravel Road Show and the Cult of True Womanhood

Direct from the USA, the infamous Gravel Road Show presents The Cult of True Womanhood in a world-premiere cabaret that dismantles the four cardinal virtues of “true” womanhood… 

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel. 

Richard Pulsford: Uns-Pun

Richard Pulsford: Uns-Pun

Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford brings his fifth solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Virgin

Virgin

Simon David bursts onto the stage in a bout of eccentricity that boldly asserts his dominance over the evening. 

Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard

Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard

What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose, finally meet. 

A New Political Comedy Show

A New Political Comedy Show

‘Social barriers will dissipate as Rick Molland and Sully O’Sullivan go head-to-head in an epic stand-up comedy battle’ (TheCultureTrip. 

Late Night Nonsense: Variety Show

Late Night Nonsense: Variety Show

A variety show of absurdist comedy. 

Sushi Tap Show

Sushi Tap Show

The sell-out comedy tap-dance hit is back at the Fringe! Awfully addictive eccentric performances combine tap, circus and comedy for an unforgettable toe-tapping experience you hav… 

The Late Night Evil Show

The Late Night Evil Show

We all have some evil in us: there is a Mr Hyde to our Dr Jekyll, a yin to our yang, a fig roll to our jaffa cake. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Touch and feel Chinese arts and culture by attending CACF 2018. 

Danger Strip Show

Danger Strip Show

The most jaw-dropping, mind-popping, eye-watering experience of this year’s Fringe! With unbridled attitude, this firecracker of a show performs death defying stunts while honoring… 

Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band

Clowntown: I Can Do Anything, the Funtastic Show by Sphere Clown Band

‘Five stars! Infectious fun’ (FringeReview. 

The I Hate Children Children's Show

The I Hate Children Children's Show

We’re back! The award winning magic show that’s fun for kids and parents who drink – Champagne for mums as each child is personally insulted by a fat American circus man. 

And Another Thing! An Improvised Show

And Another Thing! An Improvised Show

What’s the one thing you’ve always wished you told somebody? What was the perfect phrase for that moment that just passed you by? Never seen before, never to be seen again. 

The Cloak and Dagger Show

The Cloak and Dagger Show

Dive into the horrors of history in our immersive walking tour and show. 

Shackleton's Stowaway

Shackleton's Stowaway

Making their debut at the Festival Fringe, Stolen Elephant Theatre bring to life one of the great voyages of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration in Shackleton’s Stowaway. 

'Aaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn't Your Fault?

'Aaave You Been Involved in a Comedy Show That Wasn't Your Fault?

Life is full of accidents, mishaps, frustrations and disappointments. 

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2018

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2018

The second floor of White Stuff becomes a haven for design-lovers. 

The New I Hate Children Children's Show

The New I Hate Children Children's Show

Treat yourself and treat your kids to the new better best magic show for adults and young teens who will cry and pout if they don’t get what they want. 

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers

A young man waited outside the Greenside Royal Terrace Venue for Éowyn Emerald & Dancers to appear after their performance. 

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Curious Pheasant Theatre reinvents the Bard’s most famous tale of ‘star-cross’d’ lovers in a bare-bones, twisted production that will have purists running for shelter and a… 

Stu and Garry's Fringe Improv Show

Stu and Garry's Fringe Improv Show

Our long-running improvised comedy show will have you in stitches. 

Circus Sonas Family Show

Circus Sonas Family Show

Funny Happy Stuff presents: Circus Sonas Family Show! A brand-new show from father and son circus performers Martin and Logy. 

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe day, as you spend an hour in the company of one of the finest stand-ups on the Scottish comedy circuit. 

Ivor Dembina Show

Ivor Dembina Show

Jewish comedian’s truthful stand-up, funny stories and good jokes. 

Say It Ain't Show

Say It Ain't Show

Say it Ain’t Show is a brand-new show from Evan Desmarais about trying to adult while still being a child on the inside. 

Midsummer

Midsummer

What a difference a decade can make. 

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

Join your hosts, Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler, as they bring the UK’s finest spoof chat show and chaotic cabaret back to the Fringe. 

Comedy Freak Show

Comedy Freak Show

Come one, come all to this tragic affair! Comedy Freak Show is an exhibition of comedic rarities. 

The Nasty Show

The Nasty Show

Offensive is the new black. 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience

Richard Brown: You Are Not My Audience

Richard Brown is too angry to kill himself. 

James Veitch's Work in Progress Show

James Veitch's Work in Progress Show

To make James Veitch better for you, he brings regular updates to improve speed and reliability. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price. Hand selected from our year-round auditions, this show is quality talent in its prime. 

Kaput

Kaput

For anyone who thinks they don't make physical comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton any more, here's a word from the wise—which, in this context, essentially … 

Aaaaaaaaaargh, It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry

Aaaaaaaaaargh, It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). 

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

This is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about talking. 

Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down

Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down

Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab… 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It's the One-Liner Show – Free Entry

Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It's the One-Liner Show – Free Entry

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This

Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This

Ursine stand-up Richard Hanrahan finally gets his act together, or at least tries to. 

To Have Done With the Judgement of God

To Have Done With the Judgement of God

Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With … 

Your Bard

Your Bard

Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Spend a rip-roaring hour in the pub with the man himself! He’ll tell you all about his family, what it’s like on tour and the glory days at th… 

Bob Slayer Is Bob Slayer (The Eponymous Show)

Bob Slayer Is Bob Slayer (The Eponymous Show)

‘Everyone should spend an hour with Bob, loveably chaotic master of one unique Fringe experience after another. 

Tony Law: A Lost Show

Tony Law: A Lost Show

A journey through the side and under-mind. 

Providence

Providence

"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori… 

Michael Hackett: The Late Mike Show

Michael Hackett: The Late Mike Show

How did this dentist get arrested by armed police? Want to hear the story of all stories? This is it! After a sell-out world tour and release of his bestselling book Gobsmacked, Mi… 

Show Up

Show Up

The critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe 2017 improvised solo comedy about your crazy life returns! From the New York City comic who brought you the Edinburgh Fringe hit Desperate… 

#1 Comedy Great Fun Best Show Jez Watts

#1 Comedy Great Fun Best Show Jez Watts

****1/2 (PerthHappenings. 

Free and Proud

Free and Proud

Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl… 

Richard Wright: Virgin

Richard Wright: Virgin

Richard Wright is a virgin. 

The O'Riordan and Ettling Show: Farewell Tour

The O'Riordan and Ettling Show: Farewell Tour

North London’s “finest” comedy duo bring their final show to Edinburgh’s acclaimed arts festival. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Great value lunchtime compilation showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price. 

How to Get Your Show Noticed

How to Get Your Show Noticed

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free

James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free

Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety. 

A Booklover's Comedy Show

A Booklover's Comedy Show

George loves reading. 

Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro

Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro

So what exactly IS the Trouble with Scott Capurro? Is it that this left-leaning liberal American (yes, he’s the one, apparently) seemingly talks without pausing for breath? (“Are y… 

A Joke

A Joke

It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc… 

The Tape Face Show

The Tape Face Show

As a genuine YouTube sensation, TV talent show star, and with a Las Vegas residency, Tape Face is a comedy rock god but he isn’t here to play the hits; this is an hour of brand n… 

Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show

Owen Roberts: I Let a Six-Year-Old Write My Show

After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him. 

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed on The Island, Watson returns to what he’s best at: being indoors. 

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!)

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really, Good Afternoon Show (At Sea!)

The 10-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an epic new show for just about everyone. 

Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie

Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie

One man. 

Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student

Richard Wheatley: Jokes and Tales of a Second-Year Gap Student

Richard is Britain’s leading blind theoretical physicist turned stand-up comedian with a Blue Peter badge… well, definitely in the top three. 

David Mills: Focus People!

David Mills: Focus People!

David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age. 

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them on the spot into interactive musical adventures. 

Police Cops in Space

Police Cops in Space

It's obvious from the loud, excited audience in Assembly Studio 3 that London-based comedy theatre trio The Pretend Men – Nathan Parkinson, Zachary Hunt and Tom Rose – have… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

The Last Straw

The Last Straw

People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some… 

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Show 2018

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Show 2018

See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr… 

Marketing Your Show

Marketing Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

This is one of two offerings at the Fringe this year from Iulia Benze and Kurt Murray, featuring high energy physical movement, bubble art and audience interaction. 

Damian Clark: Extra Show

Damian Clark: Extra Show

Strap in for rapid-fire jokes from the Aussie hurricane in this brand-new show. 

My Left Nut

My Left Nut

“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve. 

Space Doctor

Space Doctor

This November happens to mark the 55th anniversary of the BBC broadcasting the first ever episode of Doctor Who, so it’s hardly surprising that several shows on this year’s Fringe … 

Loud Poets: The Fantastical Game Show Spectacular

Loud Poets: The Fantastical Game Show Spectacular

For anyone who isn’t already familiar with Loud Poets, you really should be. 

Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs

Richard Todd: We Need the Eggs

An artist draws the same image repeatedly with indomitable zeal. 

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower

Every child goes inside their own bubble! Milkshake’s bubble flower cannot survive a cold winter without bubbles so she must get help from Dr Bubble – and quick! Smoke bubbles,… 

Egg: Richard Pictures

Egg: Richard Pictures

Brand-new sketch show from stars of award-winning Fringe favourites BattleActs (BBC Radio 1). 

Marmite

Marmite

Marmite: it’s the breakfast spread that we apparently love or hate, and the word has – in that way the English language often does – subsequently evolved far wider metaphoric… 

Famous Taste of Scotland Show

Famous Taste of Scotland Show

A fun-packed evening of traditional Scottish music, legend and dance set within the photo-ready setting of historic Prestonfield House – former mansion to Edinburgh’s Lord Prov… 

Statements

Statements

Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio… 

Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity

Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity

Tom Neenan has been a regular Fringe attraction for several years now, bringing a succession of one-man pastiches - Edwardian ghost story, Vaudeville Horror tale, 1950s British Sci… 

Erewhon

Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a fantasy novel by Samuel Butler which, first published anonymously in 1872, presented itself as the experiences of its narrator on discovering the m… 

Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger's)

Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger's)

I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s… 

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles. 

Dominic Frisby's Financial Game Show

Dominic Frisby's Financial Game Show

Start your night with a big fat prize in your pocket! Dominic Frisby, the world’s only financial expert and comedian, is host and quizmaster in this classic game show full of fasci… 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another world tour. 

A Clown Show About Rain

A Clown Show About Rain

Following the ‘audacious’ (**** (Scotsman)) and critically acclaimed Follow Suit, Silent Faces return to the Fringe with more physical political fooling in the heart-warming A … 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Good morning, Edinburgh! Three funny, thought-provoking “menus” of ten-minute plays. 

The Moa Show

The Moa Show

Three lonely men are magically transported to a mythical land through the charms of a Maori busker. 

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for children and their parents. 

Show Up, Kids!

Show Up, Kids!

If the main attraction doesn’t show up, the kids still want to see a comedy show! So Pete’s gonna make one up and have the kids (and adults) help write, direct, and design it. 

Morgan & West’s Magic Show For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Morgan & West’s Magic Show For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying, mind-frying, spirit-lifting, paradigm-shiftin… 

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

Come and join us for the York Fringe Dog Show in aid of RSPCA York. 

Hymn to Love

Hymn to Love

“I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. 

Jackman and Bones Steal the Show

Jackman and Bones Steal the Show

Frantic sketch comedy from York University's funniest (only) double act! Join lanky sketch duo Ollie Jones and George Blackman as they fight to reclaim stolen comed… 

Iolanthe

Iolanthe

Prime Minister Clement Attlee once observed that ‘the House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days’. 

The Arts Barge Presents... The Great Yorkshire Swing!

The Arts Barge Presents... The Great Yorkshire Swing!

Celebrating collaboration, a sensational vintage night of swing music and dance - Rinkadon Jukeboy and his Blind Tiger Dance Band, the hottest sounds this side of the Pe… 

Jarred Christmas & Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Show

Jarred Christmas & Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Show

Blue Jeans Management Proudly Presents - Jarred Christmas & Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Show Hey kids, grab your parents, parents grab your cash and come do… 

Fred and Ginger

Fred and Ginger

Love is a many-splendored thing, or so the soundtrack maintains as it heralds a fifty-minute romp through teenage troubles, acting aspirations and romantic realities. 

The Final Journey of Edward Wilson

The Final Journey of Edward Wilson

Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre. 

Owen Roberts: I Let A Six Year Old Write My Show

Owen Roberts: I Let A Six Year Old Write My Show

After a severe case of writer's block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him. 

The Abandoman Show

The Abandoman Show

Ireland's finest hip hop musical comedian is back at Underbelly Festival for four nights only! Using his trademark blend of audience interaction and razor-sharp improvisation, … 

Barry Humphries Weimar Cabaret

Barry Humphries Weimar Cabaret

Ernst Krenek, Erich Korngold, Frank Schreker, Erwin Schulhoff and Mischa Spoliansky were not household names in the late 1940s when a young Barry Humphries in Melbourne, Australia … 

Earthquakes in London

Earthquakes in London

In a lengthy whirlwind of staccato scenes with lento, adagio and presto interludes, Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London combines political intrigue, corporate corruption, perso… 

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final is the culmination of a series of youth arts showcases held this year within Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth, hosted … 

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids

Time travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw dropping, heart stopping, brain busting, opinion adjusting, death defying, mind frying, spirit lifting, paradigm shifting,… 

The Glenn Miller Show

The Glenn Miller Show

TOMMY STEELE RETURNS TO LONDON’S COLISEUM 60 YEARS AFTER STARRING IN RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA! As his legion of fans already know, Tommy Steele – Brit… 

The Big Fat Running Show

The Big Fat Running Show

The Big Fat Running show is about . 

Festival Concert – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Festival Concert – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

A spectacular musical celebration of the West End to close the Arts Festival, featuring the very best of musicianship from across the College and concluding with a masse… 

Collaborative Community Drama Project - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Collaborative Community Drama Project - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

This is a new collaboration with a local drama company that will see an external director working collaboratively with members of the local community and our own student… 

Hairspray - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Hairspray - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Good morning, Baltimore! It’s 1962 and change is in the air. 

Knights of the Rose

Knights of the Rose

"Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon" (II Samuel 1:20) is a line that does not appear in Knights of the Rose. 

Junior School Concert - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Junior School Concert - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

The Junior School pupils of St Dunstan’s College invite you to attend their annual Summer concert. 

Black Box Devising – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Black Box Devising – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Led by Drama Prefect, Beatrice Swordy, and her team, Black Box devising is an improvisation work created by Year 7 - 9 students over the last two terms, drawing inspirat… 

Briony Show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival

Briony Show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival

This time-limited devising project welcomes the return of Briony O’Callaghan, a professional director, who, working with a select number of Year 10 - 13 student… 

Vibe Dance show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Vibe Dance show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Vibe Arts are delighted to be working with the St Dunstan's College Dance Company for their first appearance in this year’s Arts Festival. 

The Play About My Dad

The Play About My Dad

According to its author, Loo Killebrew, The Play About My Dad “should feel quick-moving, and hopefully have a rhythm that is similar to the rhythm of a storm. 

Richard Wright: Literally A Virgin

Richard Wright: Literally A Virgin

Richard Wright is a 35 year old, obese, balding, geeky, adult virgin who still lives at home with his parents. 

Two by Jim Cartwright

Two by Jim Cartwright

Clueless Theatre makes a remarkable company debut with a production of Jim Cartwright’s Two. 

The End of History

The End of History

The End of History is billed as “a moving and funny site-responsive play with music which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two radically differe… 

PÖJJ: Our Sketch Show

PÖJJ: Our Sketch Show

Sketch comedy hat-trick PÖJJ bring you their debut show. 

Expedition Peter Pan

Expedition Peter Pan

"Grow up, mature, and come back when you have something to contribute!" It's not the most sympathetic way to address a young audience; nevertheless, it succinctly sho… 

"Hello la voix" New Show, New Shoes, Old Earrings

“Hello” La Voix is the brand new show from ‘Ab Fab the Movie’ star La Voix! La Voix’s new show is a feast for the senses, with a show featuring her amazing live musicians, side-s… 

Matt Stellingwerf: Bachelor Of Arts

Matt Stellingwerf: Bachelor Of Arts

Bachelor of Arts is one comedian’s attempt to find a use for the most useless of tertiary degrees and perhaps, in the process, prove that a BA is not as worthless as you might thin… 

Mbuzeni

Mbuzeni

Part of the inherent challenge for Noel Jordan and the Imaginate team when putting together their annual Edinburgh International Children's Festival is their very diverse poten… 

Gretel and Hansel

Gretel and Hansel

Fairy tales survive because they can be constantly retold, uncovering new depths and relevancies to the world today. 

Stick By Me

Stick By Me

Andy Manley is undoubtedly one of the treasures of Scotland’s current theatrical landscape, all the more so given his seemingly innate (but presumably hard-learned) skill in hold… 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: The New Show

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: The New Show

Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show. 

The Gloop Show

The Gloop Show

Oozing Gloop, the world’s premiere autistic, green, drag-queen/queer alchemist, is here to help you survive the 21st century, champion the communist hypothesis and put on the ol’… 

The Jerry Hall Show

The Jerry Hall Show

Jerry Hall bursts her way into Brighton Fringe, in this riot of a cabaret developed at Soho Theatre. 

1000 Years Hour Show

1000 Years Hour Show

History; Comedy; Songs. 

Strode's College

Strode's College

An evening of new and exciting work from students nearing the end of their acting training at Strode’s College. 

Now THAT'S What I Call A Game Show!

Now THAT'S What I Call A Game Show!

Think you know game shows? Think again, as this new show comes to Brighton, that will make you laugh like a child. 

The Big Fat Running Show

The Big Fat Running Show

RUNNING CAN BE FUN[NY]. 

Owen Roberts: I let a six year old write my show

Owen Roberts: I let a six year old write my show

After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a six year old child write his show for him. 

The Story Beast & Richard Soames

The Story Beast & Richard Soames

The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer award-nominated ‘Story Beast’, “a bearded force of nature” (The Guardian) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), … 

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way. 

The Frow Show

The Frow Show

After a sell-out success at Brighton Fringe 2017, ‘The Frow Show’ returns with this superb sketch comedy show. 

Your Bard

Your Bard

Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Come and meet the man himself and take the lid off a legend in your local. 

ALBUMS SHOW: Elio Pace's Billy Joel Songbook featuring David Brown

ALBUMS SHOW: Elio Pace's Billy Joel Songbook featuring David Brown

For the first time ever in the UK…TWO classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show. 

Starting a Performing Arts Company: The Business Basics

Starting a Performing Arts Company: The Business Basics

Are you hoping to grow and develop your performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal & Industrial Relations Manager of the Independent Theatre Council, for an overview of th… 

Al Lubel in This is the Title of the Show

Al Lubel in This is the Title of the Show

This is the description of the show.  

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

Brighton’s much-loved resident satirists with their unique brand of topical comedy, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s festival package. 

Harriet Kemsley's New Show

Harriet Kemsley's New Show

Harriet’s back in Brighton and she’s brushed her hair specially. 

Spiegeltent: Heart of the Fringe Show

Spiegeltent: Heart of the Fringe Show

Tonight was Brighton's chance to show the size of its heart – and its wallet. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

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… 

Woyzeck

Woyzeck

Having spent three months eating only peas, it comes as no surprise that the eponymous central character in Woyzeck appears in a state of both physical frailty and mental instabili… 

Mind Show: Unboxing

Mind Show: Unboxing

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 … 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Gentleman juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb. 

Richard Todd: Toddymandias, Todd of Todds

Richard Todd: Toddymandias, Todd of Todds

A living statue watches as a vandal tags her. 

Rope

Rope

Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch receives one scant mention towards the end of Patrick Hamilton's Rope, yet it is the driving force that underpins the play. 

The Silent Disco Show

The Silent Disco Show

Is it a show? Is it a disco? Is it a party? It's all that and more! The essence of the unique club night that has swept through Britain’s party scene comes to this life i… 

Richard Stainbank: The Wilderness Years

Richard Stainbank: The Wilderness Years

Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well. 

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays invite you to tear up the Fringe in the name of comedy! You choose performances or events from the Fringe Guide and then delight as these award-winning improvisers give… 

Comedy Happy Hour: The Chat Show

Comedy Happy Hour: The Chat Show

This show is the perfect way to start off your night at Brighton Fringe, as you spend an hour in the company of some top-class comedy hosts, such as Vladimir McTavish, in an early … 

Cards Against Humanity: The Shame Show

Cards Against Humanity: The Shame Show

The Shame Show invites you to get involved in a dark game show based on the world-famous, politically-incorrect party-game, Cards Against Humanity. 

The Five O'Clock Show

The Five O'Clock Show

A different show each day. The best of Brighton’s cabaret, opera, comedy all under Broadway Lounge. See our website for the daily schedule. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

The “slightly soiled bearpit of a show” (G Scene) returns. 

Creditors

Creditors

August Strindberg apparently subtitled his play Creditors (in Swedish: Fordringsäxgare) a “tragicomedy” but, while David Greig’s 2008 adaptation does indeed contain a few de… 

Eddie and the Slumber Sisters

Eddie and the Slumber Sisters

Sometimes, when it comes to suspending our disbelief, we just have to go with the flow. 

Martini Lounge Variety and Burlesque Show

Martini Lounge Variety and Burlesque Show

The Martini Lounge has gone back to its roots! Revisiting those heady days in the beautiful basement bar of The Royal Court Theatre and once again filling the stage with… 

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

“I come from a time and country where I was treated like a wrong hushed up. 

Gut

Gut

“In my day, we trusted people. 

Passing Places

Passing Places

A road movie, according to Wikipedia, is “a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip,” during which “the hero changes, grows or improves over the cou… 

More Heat Than Light

More Heat Than Light

In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life. 

The Banana Bunch presents: Bananas on the Run – An Improvised Comedy Show

The Banana Bunch presents: Bananas on the Run – An Improvised Comedy Show

Come and join The Banana Bunch – Bex Darmody, Annalea Doyle and Emma Stroud as three bananas on the run from the boring, mundane and downright crazy world we live … 

Will

Will

The happy band of players that performs Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare’s Life is reminiscent of the troupes that wandered the country when the Bard was ali… 

The Schlocky Horror Improv show

The Schlocky Horror Improv show

The Schlocky Horror Improv Show” is a completely improvised B-Movie! Host and director Ross Hepburn - with the help of your suggestions - brings to life a brand new, never-befor… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

Richard Alston Dance Company - Mid Century Modern

Richard Alston Dance Company - Mid Century Modern

Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat… 

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice

If theatre is home to lies that impart truths, then this Actors Touring Company’s production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice (translated by David Tushingham) makes … 

Pop the bubblemans fantabulous bubble show

Pop the bubblemans fantabulous bubble show

The Science of bubbles, a fun filled event full of soap bubble, smoke inside bubbles, giant bubbles, square bubbles even kids inside bubbles, pop explains to the children the scien… 

cosmo the clown comedy magic show

cosmo the clown comedy magic show

Cosmo The Clown Presents A Bit of Fun & Magic Roll up, roll up and let Cosmo entertain you with magic, comedy, music and dance. 

The I Hate Children Children’s Show Rock and Roll Spectacular!

The I Hate Children Children’s Show Rock and Roll Spectacular!

Pet Slugs and Rock and Roll!!! Join the cast of the award-winning I Hate Children Children’s Show as they take your whole family on a non-stop sugar rush of live music, funny so… 

Nath Valvo - Show Pony

Nath Valvo - Show Pony

Complete show-off Nath Valvo is asking the big questions. 

Bingo Jack's Big Book Magic Show

Bingo Jack's Big Book Magic Show

Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe. 

Eclipse performing music by the Legendary Pink Floyd

Eclipse performing music by the Legendary Pink Floyd

After the sell-out success of their 2017 Fringe performance, the all-star cast of musicians that are ‘Eclipse’ are coming together once again to perform one show only for the 2… 

Amazing Drumming Monkeys.  The

Amazing Drumming Monkeys. The "Ocean" Show

The AMAZING DRUMMING MONKEYS are back with their ‘Ocean’ show. 

BEST OF FRINGE: Early Show: FREE!

BEST OF FRINGE: Early Show: FREE!

The Original and still the BEST “Best of Fringe”. 

Best of Adelaide Fringe: Late Show

Best of Adelaide Fringe: Late Show

After three highly successful years in Adelaide The very best in late-night Fringe Comedy is back! Four top-notch comedians are picked from venues across the Fringe especially f… 

Rhino Room Late Show

Rhino Room Late Show

Since 2002 the locally produced, original Rhino Room Late Show has been a ‘must see’ late night Fringe event for comedy fans and Fringe artists alike. 

A ROCK LEGENDS SHOW.... THE SONGS OF ROD STEWART, VAN MORRISON & JOE COCKER

A ROCK LEGENDS SHOW.... THE SONGS OF ROD STEWART, VAN MORRISON & JOE COCKER

Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the … 

The Boat that Rocked - Piano Man, The Billy Joel Tribute Show

The Boat that Rocked - Piano Man, The Billy Joel Tribute Show

Dance the night away with Adelaide’s hottest party boat and live acts on the Inner Harbour of Port Adelaide. 

Grossed Out Game Show

Grossed Out Game Show

SMASH HIT of 2017 is BACK!! Grossed Out Game Show is riotously noisy fun for kids aged 5-13 years. 

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower

Bubble Show: Milkshake and the Bubble Flower

EVERY CHILD GOES INSIDE THEIR OWN BUBBLE A new adventure from the world’s most entertaining bubble duo. 

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a … 

A COLLAGE OF THE ARTS

A COLLAGE OF THE ARTS

Be entertained! Be amazed! Your chance to see some of Adelaide’s best young talent before they take the world by storm. 

The 6 O'Clock Show

The 6 O'Clock Show

Brought to you by the people behind the cult hit Late Night Comedy at The Producers, The 6 O’Clock Show is an early show with a difference. 

The Mr Spin Show

The Mr Spin Show

International street theatre sensation Mr. 

The Velveteen Rabbit Musical Show

The Velveteen Rabbit Musical Show

We can all recall that one special toy which, even in adulthood, puts a smile on our face when we think of it, and ‘The Velveteen Rabbit Musical Show’ is about such a toy. 

The Scientific Bubble Show

The Scientific Bubble Show

World record bubble-ologist Marty McBubble will blow you away with his amazing bubble creations and the incredible science that makes them possible. 

'One Wild Night' - The Australian Bon Jovi Show

'One Wild Night' - The Australian Bon Jovi Show

Australia’s biggest and most authentic Bon Jovi Tribute Show is here! This show captures the essence of what this great band is about, the passion & hunger of the early years and t… 

Late Night Nonsense - Variety Show

Late Night Nonsense - Variety Show

A variety show of absurdist comedy. 

The XTREMO Show

The XTREMO Show

The Xtremo Show is a late night fire Fiesta of explosive proportions starring Australia’s leading edge fire entertainment company Fiesta creations. 

Arguably* the best show.

Arguably* the best show.

Adelaide born globe trotting vagrant Bill Egan returns home with his uplifting, light hearted look at the darker corners of modern life. 

THE ULTIMATE COMEDY SHOW

THE ULTIMATE COMEDY SHOW

A variety improv comedy show featuring some of the best acts in the world… and the most currently available. 

The Stand Up Show

The Stand Up Show

The Stand Up Show is back! For the fourth year in a row the Stand Up Show will be bringing the best comedians in town together in one place. 

THE PAPA AFRICA SHOW

THE PAPA AFRICA SHOW

Winston Ruddle AKA Papa Africa, the director and founder of Cirque Africa, brings to Adelaide Fringe for the first time ever his solo comedy clown and stand up show. 

Fringe of the Fringe Comedy Show

Fringe of the Fringe Comedy Show

A comedian walks into a bar. 

That 90's Show

That 90's Show

WE’RE BACK! More Music. 

Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Board and Tjutjuna Arts - Adelaide Meets the Bush

Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Board and Tjutjuna Arts - Adelaide Meets the Bush

The members of the Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resource Management Board, Tjutjuna Arts and the people of the Western deserts and Far West Coast of South Australia, invite you to t… 

2018 Marden Senior College Photography Exhibition

2018 Marden Senior College Photography Exhibition

Marden Senior College is proud to present a selection of Marden student work celebrating the achievements and learning of our Stage 1, Stage 2, Vet Network students . 

Michelle Braiser & Laura Frew: Double Denim Adventure Show

Michelle Braiser & Laura Frew: Double Denim Adventure Show

Like Morecambe and Wise smashed together with the two best Spice Girls (Sporty and Scary), Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew have created a brand-new show that easily puts to rest an… 

Around the World: The International Comedy Show

Around the World: The International Comedy Show

British comedian Terry North introduces the very best in International Comedy with this rotating line-up of top-notch comedians who are visiting Adelaide. 

Bumbles the Clown's Incredi-Bubble Show

Bumbles the Clown's Incredi-Bubble Show

Adelaide’s #1 Clown Magician Bumbles the Clown is getting his 2018 Adelaide Fringe on with a brand new BUBBLE show! The moment Bumbles comes on stage wearing pencil glasses and a s… 

Your Bard

Your Bard

Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Come and spend a rip-roaring hour in the pub with the man himself! He’ll tell you all about life on tour, the glory days at the Globe. 

Variety Jam Late Show

Variety Jam Late Show

In similar fashion to the Variety Jam shows that happen all year round, the Adelaide Fringe edition of Variety Jam brings music, comedy, magic and more. 

Show For Jim

Show For Jim

This show is not for you. 

The Earliest Breakfast Game Show, LIVE!

The Earliest Breakfast Game Show, LIVE!

Maybe not the best game show. 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

SOLD OUT Perth Fringe World 2017 SELL OUT SHOWS Edinburgh Fringe 2017 4 Stars ‘You’ll never look at a bubble performer the same way again. 

Hollywood’s First Australian - The Picture Show

Hollywood’s First Australian - The Picture Show

So who was Hollywood’s first Australian? Bet you thought it was Errol Flynn? But no, that was not even close. 

Rob Hunter: Uncle Rob's 10 Cent Comedy Show ($24)

Rob Hunter: Uncle Rob's 10 Cent Comedy Show ($24)

Rob Hunter (writer ‘Rosehaven’, ‘Spicks & Specks’, ‘Get Krack!n’, ‘You’re Skitting Me’, ‘Late O’clock’) presents a brand new bunch of oddball stand-up and sketches in a show guaran… 

Schlocky Horror Improv Show

Schlocky Horror Improv Show

Ladies and gentlemen. 

The Amy Winehouse Show

The Amy Winehouse Show

After the death of the great songstress and singer Amy Winehouse in July 2011 there was a void that was left. 

Port Community Arts Centre Members Fringe Exhibition

Port Community Arts Centre Members Fringe Exhibition

An eclectic collection and exhibition of Port Community Arts Centre Members artworks - fabrics, mosaics, printmaking, drawing, woodwork, watercolour, ceramics, oils - explore our m… 

'The Elephant of My Heart' Kid's Storytelling Show

'The Elephant of My Heart' Kid's Storytelling Show

A true-life story of hope & the power of imagination! When the writer, Jessica Clements was nine she lived in Canberra. 

Shake Your Booty 70s Disco Show

Shake Your Booty 70s Disco Show

SHAKE YOUR BOOTY 70S DISCO SHOW features a 12 piece band performing solid gold disco hits at THE GOV, including 70s Disco dance classics from The Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, Hot… 

Heaps Good Oi Show

Heaps Good Oi Show

Born beneath the storm clouds of Sydney’s recently introduced “lockout laws” (currently draining the magic from a once-vibrant nightlife), this continually shifting mobile street a… 

The Last Bordello

The Last Bordello

Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final … 

Johnny Cash Tribute Show with BILLY T & the Free Spirits

Johnny Cash Tribute Show with BILLY T & the Free Spirits

BILLY ‘T’ (William Snell) & his 5 piece band present the Johnny Cash Tribute Show. 

Rumours - The Fleetwood Mac Show

Rumours - The Fleetwood Mac Show

Hot tribute band RUMOURS perform the music of Fleetwood Mac at 2018 Fringe. 

Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show

Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show

With seats at the back reserved for the adults, the children are encouraged to sit on the floor right up against the stage for this lovely show that aims to educate and entertain i… 

H G Wells' The Time Machine

H G Wells' The Time Machine

While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te… 

Kind of Blue: the Miles Davis show

Kind of Blue: the Miles Davis show

“Miles ahead of the rest” – The Clothesline “5-stars” – GlamAdelaide Sold out in 2017 and back by popular demand, this all Adelaide-based production sees a complete p… 

The Boat that Rocked - Satisfaction Rolling Stones Show

The Boat that Rocked - Satisfaction Rolling Stones Show

Dance the night away with Adelaide’s hottest party boat and live acts along the Inner Harbour. 

The Belle's Stratagem

The Belle's Stratagem

Writer and director Tony Cownie has established a particular niche at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, taking potentially overlooked 18th century comedies (like Carlo Goldoni’… 

Showtime from the Frontline

Showtime from the Frontline

Most stand-up comedy these days is based on the lives of the people standing behind the microphone, albeit reshaped to varying degrees to ensure their material matches the “rule … 

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

It’s 36 years since Andrea Dunbar’s breakthrough play announced the all-too-brief flowering of a new writing talent – “a genius straight from the slums,” as the Mail on S… 

The Match Box

The Match Box

The central metaphor running through Frank McGuinness’s 2012 monologue The Match Box is almost breath-taking in its simplicity; it’s that all of us, all of our lives, are ultim… 

It's Behind You!

It's Behind You!

Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre. 

Knives in Hens

Knives in Hens

David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens, made a big splash back in 1995, recognised as a modern classic which has since seen revivals by companies as diverse as the Nation… 

Generous Laughs: Pride Fund Benefit Show

Generous Laughs: Pride Fund Benefit Show

Littlefield NYC is proud to present “Generous Laughs,” a charity comedy show benefiting the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, featuring some of New York City’s most exciting come… 

The Laster Comedy Show

The Laster Comedy Show

The Laser Comedy Show is a live improvised comic book created using laser reactive technology drawn and voice acted by US performance artist Chris Fair. 

The Lover

The Lover

When watching the stage adaptation of any book, especially one I’ve not read, there’s often a question lingering at the back of my mind; would I appreciate this more, would I… 

Counterfeit Sixties Christmas Show

Counterfeit Sixties Christmas Show

Re-live the sounds of the swinging sixties, as Britain’s No. 

The Showstoppers' Christmas kids Show!

The Showstoppers' Christmas kids Show!

The Showstoppers are here to make your kids’ Christmas story wishes come true! Welcome to our Christmas grotto where the The Showstoppers are here to make your kids’ Ch… 

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

There’s a deliberate cheapness to the temporary, painted proscenium arch erected in the Brunton’s theatre-space, indicative of this local panto’s rough ’n’ ready (and n… 

Shona Reppe’s Cinderella

Shona Reppe’s Cinderella

This revival of Shona Reppe’s acclaimed puppet retelling of the iconic fairytale is a fascinating jewel of a production, ideal for young children and families alike; subtle, s… 

The Tin Soldier

The Tin Soldier

It’s a real shame temporary roadworks make accessing this show’s venue ever-so-slightly off-putting; also, that the venue is still relatively new, especially when it comes t… 

How To Disappear

How To Disappear

As Scotland’s self-declared “new writing theatre”, Edinburgh’s Traverse does like to offer up an alternative to the pantomimes and decidedly family-focused fare on offer… 

Tommy and the Snowbird

Tommy and the Snowbird

It’s said that actors should never work with children or animals, presumably because of their unpredictability and the extra work this requires. 

Winter Arts Fair

Winter Arts Fair

A free event featuring local artists, children’s book illustrators, a range of handmade crafts and a series of events in the theatre with some of our Pictures at Play artists. 

Trapped In The Closet: A Musical Comedy Show

Trapped In The Closet: A Musical Comedy Show

The raucous & uproarious musical that reveals inner secrets & truths of recording audiobooks by star Sarah Naughton incorporates stand-up comedy, dance, immersive theater, and trad… 

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights

Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N… 

Side Shows

Side Shows

Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows. 

A Late Bloomer: A Comedy & Hoop Dancing Show

A Late Bloomer: A Comedy & Hoop Dancing Show

Comedian & hoop-dancer Mimi Fischer (from The Chris Gethard Show) is 64 years young & announcing her first solo show: A Late Bloomer. 

Bomb Happy

Bomb Happy

Bomb Happy is a verbatim victory. 

Counterfeit Seventies Show

Counterfeit Seventies Show

The Counterfeit Seventies comes to the Playhouse for the very first time this October! Having toured extensively with The Counterfeit Sixties show they now bring you their unique S… 

Free Stand-Up Comedy Show

Free Stand-Up Comedy Show

Free Stand-Up comedy show with all donations given to Lady Parts Justice! Come join at Local 138 on Thursday, 11/2 at 8pm. 

Climb That Tree - A Family Music Show

Climb That Tree - A Family Music Show

Join award-winning songwriter and musician David Gibb on a musical journey through his hilarious and often surreal imagination. 

Ghosted Stories Live Show

Ghosted Stories Live Show

This hilarious live show of the podcast called Ghosted Stories invites guests to talk about their crappy dating situations & stories of being ghosted to make dating less frightenin… 

Our Fathers

Our Fathers

It’s mildly amusing to see two grown men briefly falling into a childish bragging-match about their fathers—one a retired Church of Scotland minister, the other a former Bis… 

The Maids

The Maids

“We’re beautiful, wild, free and full of joy,” say the titular Maids, Solange and Claire, towards the close of Jean Genet’s 1947 drama, courtesy of Martin Crimp’s 1999… 

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

An evening of comedy featuring some of the top comedians from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe including some of the winners and nominees of the lastminute. 

Thingummy Bob

Thingummy Bob

There’s a wonderful clarity to Linda McLean’s short play Thingummy Bob, a firm favourite with Scotland’s leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, Lung H… 

Richard III

Richard III

Critically acclaimed Front Foot Theatre presents Shakespeare’s most charismatic, tour de force villain, Richard III. 

Love Song to Lavender Menace

Love Song to Lavender Menace

“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem… 

Man to Man

Man to Man

There were a lot of expectation around this new Wales Millennium Centre production of Manfred Karge’s one-woman play, Man to Man. 

One Mississippi

One Mississippi

There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in. 

Without a Hitch

Without a Hitch

There’s no doubting the raw energy and physicality of this show, a work of dance theatre that definitely prefers choreography to speech, and uses it—along with some pretty st… 

Cockpit

Cockpit

Site specific theatre is nothing new in Scotland; from the numerous innovative creations by the likes of Grid Iron Theatre Company to much of the work by the “without walls” … 

The Overcoat

The Overcoat

Scandal and Gallows theatre company shines as a remarkably talented team in this production of The Overcoat by rising star scriptwriter George Johnston, who has imaginatively tra… 

THE BOX SHOW

THE BOX SHOW

In this hilarious solo show, one woman plays over 25 different characters from inside a kitchen cupboard. 

Damned Rebel Bitches

Damned Rebel Bitches

Historically speaking, the original “Damned Rebel Bitches” were—according to the “butcher” Duke of Cumberland—the Jacobite women who marched behind their men in order… 

The Coolidge Effect

The Coolidge Effect

During the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation, its first Director-General Lord Reith established the BBC’s mission as being to “inform, educate and entertai… 

Cilla – The Musical

Cilla – The Musical

Given that she’s such a much-loved public entertainer, an all-too-obvious challenge in creating a musical based on the early life of the late Cilla Black—born Priscilla Mari… 

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / A Midsummer Night's Dream from China by Whispering Lotus Artists (Guqin, Dizi, Xiao, Pipa and Zheng)

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / A Midsummer Night's Dream from China by Whispering Lotus Artists (Guqin, Dizi, Xiao, Pipa and Zheng)

Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu… 

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / Dong Yi's Special Programme on the Zheng for Chinese Lovers' Day

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / Dong Yi's Special Programme on the Zheng for Chinese Lovers' Day

Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Every year a sell-out! The UK’s first and premier award for live comedy. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Whose Line is Anyway? – Captioning your Fringe show

Whose Line is Anyway? – Captioning your Fringe show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Last Ever Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Last Ever Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

The final anarchic annual two-hour charity variety show celebrating the life and random irresponsibility of the godfather of British alternative comedy, filled with bizarre acts, e… 

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

Returning for the 15th year is the art show where you can make a difference – come along and you’ll be raising vital funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. 

Goose: The Game Show

Goose: The Game Show

Brand new, late-night game show from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Goose. 

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen. 

Introduction to Arts Sponsorship

Introduction to Arts Sponsorship

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Wired

Wired

Wired is one of several productions with a military theme being performed at the Army Reserve Centre, Summerhall’s new venue, army@Fringe. 

BBC: The Now Show

BBC: The Now Show

Comedy sketches and satirical comments with an Edinburgh twist from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests. 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

When the Sky Falls In

When the Sky Falls In

When The Sky Falls In is written and presented by Janet Gershlick. 

Certain Young Men

Certain Young Men

Peter Gill”s Certain Young Men was first performed at the Almeida Theatre in 1999. 

Two Man Show

Two Man Show

Men have all the power. 

One for the Road...

One for the Road...

In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey. 

The Really Great Compilation Show

The Really Great Compilation Show

Bringing you the best comedy the fringe has to offer, The Really Great Compilation Show presents some of the biggest names gracing Edinburgh, as well as some amazing up-and-comers. 

Edy Hurst: Theme Show

Edy Hurst: Theme Show

Award-winning comedian Edy Hurst presents a debut work of comic ingenuity and imagination, plundering against forces far beyond his reach to create the world’s greatest theme par… 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Introduction to the Korean Arts Market

Introduction to the Korean Arts Market

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do

Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do

The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show that ‘defined comedy in 2016’ (**** Guardian) and earned a Total Theatre Award nomination for Innovation returns for 10 days only. 

Street Arts – Where To Go Next?

Street Arts – Where To Go Next?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour

BBC: The Arts Hour on Tour

As artists from across the globe descend on this historic city, this special show, hosted by Nikki Bedi, features top actors, filmmakers, comedians and musicians who live in Edinbu… 

Richard Egarr

Richard Egarr

Renowned keyboard player and conductor Richard Egarr is one of the UK’s most compelling musicians – and, as music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, also one of the coun… 

The Patrick Monahan Game Show

The Patrick Monahan Game Show

Audience favourite Patrick Monahan brings his high energy comedy style with hilarious and engaging topical and observational material to his brand-new Game Show! 

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

This is the year 1929, Tom is a happy, wealthy and young broker who lives in London and whose life is about to radically change. 

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie… 

MIMES (Most Imbecilic Mime Ensemble Show)

MIMES (Most Imbecilic Mime Ensemble Show)

Three unconventional mimes show their ridiculous life of living in the world of mime. 

The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything!

The Etiquette Show: Much Ado About Everything!

You’ve heard them on the radio and seen them on the television, now join William Hanson and Diana Mather, leading etiquette experts, live on stage in this tongue-in-teacup foray in… 

Richard III (A One-Woman Show)

Richard III (A One-Woman Show)

It’s Shakespeare performed in a completely new way: a Shakespeare play condensed to the size of one woman, Emily Carding, and the way she deals with the audience. 

Semi-Toned: Stay Tuned

Semi-Toned: Stay Tuned

If the boys of Semi-Toned ever tire of a cappella they could always take up comedy. 

Parenting in the Performing Arts Coffee Morning

Parenting in the Performing Arts Coffee Morning

Join other parents/carers and their children at an informal coffee morning. 

2 Religions 1 Comedy Show – Free

2 Religions 1 Comedy Show – Free

Henry’s Show Aaaah The Growing Pains of a Neurotic Jew and Joe’s The Confused Sikh Who Loves Curried Mustard. 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

I wasn’t really in the mood for this show. 

Viva Napoli! Dinner and Show

Viva Napoli! Dinner and Show

Philip Contini sings your favourite Neapolitan songs with his Be Happy Band live on stage. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day Two

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day Two

SCCC will carry on the splendid programme during the second day of the event. 

BBC: The Michael Ball Show

BBC: The Michael Ball Show

Michael is live in Edinburgh for another game of On The Ball, alongside great live music and your Sunday Boasts. 

The Rock 'n' Roll Relationship Show (Unplugged) – Free

The Rock 'n' Roll Relationship Show (Unplugged) – Free

Join Aaron Ayjay as he takes a comedic and sometimes musical journey through dating, marriage, divorce, death and other life experience stuff from his point of view… 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day One

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day One

SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences. 

There Were Two Brothers

There Were Two Brothers

Part confessional monologue, part lecture and part nostalgic trip back to the days of the BBC’s Jackanory, there’s no doubt that There Were Two Brothers is a funny, personal—… 

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017 - BONUS SHOW

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017 - BONUS SHOW

“An epic improvised comedy battle. Who wins? You decide!” 

Stand By

Stand By

There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town. 

Beyond Enigma – Judith Gardner Jones Sings Elgar, With Pianist Richard J Lewis

Beyond Enigma – Judith Gardner Jones Sings Elgar, With Pianist Richard J Lewis

Elgar songs for solo and trio featuring Judith Gardner Jones and pianist Richard J Lewis, with Madeleine Trépanier, and Alicia Pettit.  

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Arts in the Aftermath of Conflict

Arts in the Aftermath of Conflict

What narratives must begin when a war has ended and how does society protect itself from slipping back into conflict? This discussion explores the role of artists in post-war conte… 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Mia: Daughters of Fortune

Mia: Daughters of Fortune

This startling, if indistinct production from Mind the Gap, England’s largest learning disability theatre company, gets straight to its point, with cast members slipping into ‘… 

Cell Block Soweto: An A Cappella Gang Show

Cell Block Soweto: An A Cappella Gang Show

Cell Block Soweto: An A Cappella Gang Show by After Freedom is a new a cappella show telling stories of five prisoners confined in one of Johannesburg’s prisons. 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

BBC: The Janice Forsyth Show

BBC: The Janice Forsyth Show

Janice Forsyth presents her celebrated show from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh, with up-to-date coverage, highlights and top interviews from across the Edinburgh festivals.  

Ewan Spence's Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show and Podcast

Ewan Spence's Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show and Podcast

Join Ewan Spence and the team behind the BAFTA nominated ‘Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show And Podcast’ at this year’s daily recordings of the live show in the Rose Theatre . 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

The Amazing Guy Show!

The Amazing Guy Show!

Thom Peterson is The Amazing Guy! A one-man flash mob of magic and comedy. 

Rahul Kohli's Late Night Comedy Compilation Show: Kohl and the Gang

Rahul Kohli's Late Night Comedy Compilation Show: Kohl and the Gang

Award-winning comedian Rahul Kohli picks up to five of the best upcoming acts on the circuit right now, for a late-night comedy extravaganza! Including some very secret special gue… 

The Singing Psychic Game Show

The Singing Psychic Game Show

The Singing Psychic returns! Best Show, Funny Women 2016 nominee. 

Gunshot Medley

Gunshot Medley

“Black lives matter!” Hold it there and let that well-known refrain ring in your head, along with the image it conjures up in your mind. 

About a Goth

About a Goth

Life as a Goth is not easy. 

The New Maths Magic Show

The New Maths Magic Show

The sequel to last year’s full house show. 

Light Puppet Show

Light Puppet Show

Award-winning, funny and unpredictable wordless puppet show featuring a stunning variety of innovative electro-luminous objects. 

The Amorous Ambassador

The Amorous Ambassador

There’s nothing that says ‘Edinburgh Festival Fringe’ quite like the portrayal of sex on stage: that said, compared with many of the thousands of shows in Edinburgh this August, … 

Rahul Kohli's Late Night Comedy Compilation Show: Kohl and the Gang

Rahul Kohli's Late Night Comedy Compilation Show: Kohl and the Gang

Award-winning comedian Rahul Kohli picks up to five of the best upcoming acts on the circuit right now, for a late-night comedy extravaganza! Including some very secret special gue… 

Jarred Christmas and the Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Game Show

Jarred Christmas and the Hobbit: The Mighty Kids Beatbox Game Show

Hey kids, grab your parents, parents grab your cash and get on down to the best game show in town. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Super Scott's Totally Scripted Unimprovised Show

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Super Scott's Totally Scripted Unimprovised Show

Super Scott returns to the Fringe with his own unique blend of comedy, juggling, magic and more. Expect the unexpected! (Recommended by his mother). 

Autopsy. The Soul of Richard Nixon

Autopsy. The Soul of Richard Nixon

The soul of Richard Nixon attempts to justify his actions while the audience act as the jury. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Richard Brown: Hold Tightly to the Walls

Richard Brown: Hold Tightly to the Walls

For some Fringe performers, their tech gremlins are the cute ones from the movie franchise. 

[title of show]

[title of show]

The ambiguity and space for misunderstanding in [title of show]’s name and concept are such that it is entirely possible it could put audience members off, but the University of … 

Gordon Southern: That's a Fun Fact!

Gordon Southern: That's a Fun Fact!

Upbeat Gordon Southern may dress like the kind of supply teacher that the kids love to bully (his words) but, despite his repeated mantra of ‘Not Laughing, Learning’, his lates… 

Lord Dismiss Us

Lord Dismiss Us

Scottish award-winning playwright and novelist Glenn Chandler’s best-known work might be television detective series Taggart, but he also has a string of successful plays and pro… 

The Black Medicine Show

The Black Medicine Show

Miss Candy AppleBottom, the infamous cross-dressing bearded guitar loop-playing extraordinaire, will dazzle you with an eye-watering array of burlesque, music, comedy and twisted t… 

The Great Merkin Show!

The Great Merkin Show!

Freaks, undergarments and curiosities! From America’s Wild West to the nether regions in-between comes Eugene, Oregon’s favorite sassy oddity Josephine D’Love, joining forces… 

Bella Freak: Unwritten

Bella Freak: Unwritten

Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive … 

Arab Arts Focus: Dance Double Bill

Arab Arts Focus: Dance Double Bill

Due to some of the artists being refused visas to enter the UK, we have had to make some changes to the Arab Arts Focus Dance Double Bill. 

Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams' Ivan's Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams' Ivan's Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin… 

Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and multi award-winning ‘Podfather’ (Elle) returns with the internet chat show, that all the cool kids who hang around the Omni Centre call RHEFP (RH… 

The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show

The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show

All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show. 

Tomfoolery's Beans on Toast Kids Show

Tomfoolery's Beans on Toast Kids Show

Following on from his hugely successful tour in the south of England, Tomfoolery has revamped and re-toasted his action-packed Beans on Toast show for his Edinburgh Fringe debut! B… 

The Gun Show

The Gun Show

A thoughtful and well-realised production, this play provides a personal perspective on the debate surrounding American gun ownership. 

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’… 

Another Political Comedy Show

Another Political Comedy Show

‘Social barriers will dissipate as Rick Molland and Sully O’Sullivan go head-to-head in an epic stand-up comedy battle’ (CultureTrip. 

Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready

Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready

Master of wordplay Richard Pulsford has his choice Phrases Ready, with wordplay, jokes and puns aplenty. 

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2017

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2017

The second floor of White Stuff becomes a haven for design lovers. 

The I Hate Children Children's Show

The I Hate Children Children's Show

Magician Paul Nathan returns to Edinburgh once more with The I Hate Children Children’s Show for an hour of interactive magic, name-calling and the occasional glass of champagne. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Vintage Mobile Cinema: Free Daytime Show

Vintage Mobile Cinema: Free Daytime Show

Back in the 1960s there were seven of these mobile cinemas made for the Ministry of Technology. 

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks… 

Meet Me At Dawn

Meet Me At Dawn

Zinnie Harris has five plays on in Edinburgh this August, including two within the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme. 

The Gravel Road Show

The Gravel Road Show

The Gravel Road Show, featuring the Intoxicating Temperance Sisters, is a world-premiere cabaret that denounces the evils of alcohol consumption. 

The Edinburgh Revue's 2017 Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue's 2017 Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue returns for its eighth Fringe, bringing you an hour of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows. 

Mae Martin and Nick Coyle: Show Party

Mae Martin and Nick Coyle: Show Party

Mae Martin (BBC Radio 4’s Mae Martin’s Guide to 21st Century Sexuality, Russell Howard’s Good News) and Australian comic Nick Coyle (Guided Meditation) improvise a variety show bas… 

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

This is a very silly comedy about some very serious books (and poems and plays). 

The Harry and Chris Show 2

The Harry and Chris Show 2

After last year’s sell-out run of their debut show, Harry Baker – ‘Blistering wordplay’ ***** (ThreeWeeks) – and Chris Read – ‘Brilliant’ (Evening Standard) – bring back … 

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot. 

Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes

Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes

Andrew Doyle has, allegedly, lost quite a few friends this last year. 

Rodney's Really #Good Family Show

Rodney's Really #Good Family Show

With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family! 

Blank Tiles

Blank Tiles

It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Have a bite to eat and take a seat – you’re in for a treat. 

I Can Make You Tory

I Can Make You Tory

When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience. 

How to Get Your Show Noticed

How to Get Your Show Noticed

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Bleach

Bleach

There are downsides to most jobs and many come with dangers, hidden or otherwise, but there are usually compensatory factors as well. 

Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show

Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show

The Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show. 

The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show

The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show

Daddy and Beeje, two self-absorbed, dysfunctional TV presenters, are getting ready for their live chat show. 

The Hardest Working Men in Show Business

The Hardest Working Men in Show Business

Beta-males Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (shortlisted for BBC Radio New Comedy Award, 2016) and Ross Smith (So You Think You’re Funny? Semi-Finalist, 2015) explore identity, nostalgia … 

Rodney's Really #Good Family Show

Rodney's Really #Good Family Show

With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family! 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

The 23rd year as the recognised launch pad for future legends. 

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Flamin' Hot – Free

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Flamin' Hot – Free

A selection of five of the hottest up-and-coming comedians at the festival in this stand-up comedy showcase extravaganza, with a different line up daily featuring your headliner Ro… 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. Four comedians, different to the early show. Two hours with tomorrow’s comedy stars. ‘Top value, top comedy’ (List). 

Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks

Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks

Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming… 

Richard Todd: Monsters

Richard Todd: Monsters

Like a piece of forgotten sellotape stuck on a wall, neurotic ditherer Richard Todd clings to nothing but his place on the earth; may his grip hold for an hour of art therapy, inne… 

The Family Friendly(ish) Stand-Up Show

The Family Friendly(ish) Stand-Up Show

Two world travelled comedians, Dylan Gott (Canada) and Radu Isac (Romania), perform an hour of sort of clean comedy. 

Lilith: The Jungle Girl

Lilith: The Jungle Girl

This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly … 

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros

Time and again during Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s famous farce, people tell each other not to be absurd. 

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

The Science Guy is back. 

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth. 

The Road That Wasn't There

The Road That Wasn't There

The truth about fairy tales, all too often forgotten by us grown-ups, is that the best ones are meant to be scary, albeit in an ultimately reassuring context. 

Funny Cluckers – Afternoon Show – Free

Funny Cluckers – Afternoon Show – Free

One of the least thought out shows on the Fringe, possibly featuring: alternative facts corner, fake news correspondents, pest of the fest and live guests. 

Show Up

Show Up

Peter Michael Marino greets the audience as we arrive. 

Amazing Magic Christopher – Family Magic Show!

Amazing Magic Christopher – Family Magic Show!

Amazing Magic Christopher presents fun at the Fringe – Family Magic Show! The show features magic, balloon modelling, Barney the Puppet Bird and lots and lots of audience partici… 

The Truman Capote Talk Show

The Truman Capote Talk Show

Truman Capote regards us with a look that cannot be readily deciphered. 

The Naz Show

The Naz Show

Heavyweight sketch maestro (WitTank) and award winning stand-up veteran, Naz, charges back to the Burgh to punch out his first solo sketch show. 

Letters to Morrissey

Letters to Morrissey

Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Performers

Performers

One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe… 

Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver

Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver

Given that so much of the stand-up comedy you’ll find on the Fringe is blatantly autobiographical—at least to some extent—it’s not surprising that a lot of Jamie MacDonald�… 

Aaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show – Free

Aaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show – Free

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Ivor Dembina Show

Ivor Dembina Show

Truthful stand-up, funny stories and some good jokes. 

Rob Auton: The Hair Show

Rob Auton: The Hair Show

It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). 

Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story

Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe. 

Victorian Gothic

Victorian Gothic

Thanks to the numerous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, we arguably don’t have the best impression of the Victorian Police Detective—especially when it comes to either their inte… 

The Sean Kelly Chat Show

The Sean Kelly Chat Show

Sean Kelly is the ever-smiling, ever-shouting auctioneer star of Storage Hunters. 

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

It is a rare treat to hear a dramatised performance of Shakespeare’s first published work, Venus and Adonis. 

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

Richard from The Carpenters used to be on top of the world looking down on creation, to the left of (and slightly behind) Karen. 

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The Noise Next Door’s Really, Really Good Afternoon Show is what it says on the ticket. 

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th… 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

Anna Mann is, according to herself, the greatest actress of her generation—a quote she can now legitimately edit for future Fringe posters with no fear of censor. 

The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never

The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never

The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never is exactly what you want from a cabaret. 

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

Join your hosts Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler as they take the late-night chat show to its illogical conclusion. 

Marketing Your Show

Marketing Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

(More) Moira Monologues

(More) Moira Monologues

Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular. 

Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future

Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future

Early in his Fringe show Mark Thomas reveals the impressively religious character of his upbringing. 

Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again!

Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again!

Matt Forde is a consummate professional, with sharp observations and confident crowd work, it’s just a shame this show lacks the biting satire expected from political comedy at t… 

Show Me the Money

Show Me the Money

After six years of austerity, is it even possible to be an artist and make enough money for luxuries like bread? Show Me the Money is a funny, inspirational show by multimedia arti… 

The Dame Dolly Donut Show

The Dame Dolly Donut Show

Ever wondered what your favourite pantomime characters did before they became famous? Or what they did after their tale ended? Join the irrepressible Dame Dolly and her lovable son… 

Bin Laden: The One Man Show

Bin Laden: The One Man Show

‘Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to show you how to change the world…’ The world’s most notorious terrorist tells his remarkable, provocative and multi award-winnin… 

Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I'm 50!

Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I'm 50!

The King is back, long live the King. 

Salt Water: A Comedy Show

Salt Water: A Comedy Show

Bracing maritime sketch show from Eggbox Comedy. 

Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning

Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning

There’s one point during Geoff Norcott’s latest show when it really flies, when you sense he really has most of the audience on his side — even though at least one or two of … 

Bubble Show with Mini Milkshake

Bubble Show with Mini Milkshake

Every child goes inside a bubble! Award-nominated (Fringe World Perth) Dr Bubble and Milkshake present a new bubble story about sharing. 

No Show

No Show

No Show is perhaps the perfect show: one that claims to be nothing at all. 

Who, Me

Who, Me

It’s four years since Rob Lloyd first brought this autobiographical, Doctor Who-related show to Edinburgh. 

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

Seeing The Showstoppers’ Kids Show is like watching a new improvised episode of Horrible Histories. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence

When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e… 

Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady's Face

Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady's Face

Burly Glaswegian stand-up Scott Agnew has for many years joked about “blow-job knee”—wear and tear arising from too much time on his knees providing oral sex. 

Knock Knock

Knock Knock

It’s 54 years since the last conscripted British citizens returned to civilian life after completing their National Service. 

5 Guys Chillin'

5 Guys Chillin'

Many an article’s been written on how the gay scene appears dominated by drugs and sex. 

A Thousand Doorways

A Thousand Doorways

A finely-woven, patterned rug hangs from the ceiling, its design typical of the region. 

Coming Clean

Coming Clean

It’s 35 years since Kevin Elyot’s first play, Coming Clean, premiered at the Bush Theatre and 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK. 

Mr Danger's Really Safe Show

Mr Danger's Really Safe Show

Mr Danger is a real-life damaged former daredevil who learnt his lesson the hard way. 

The Slightly Fat Show

The Slightly Fat Show

The Slightly Fat Show harkens back to the Golden Age of variety performance, updated for a twenty-first century audience. 

Roberts and Holt: The Horse Show

Roberts and Holt: The Horse Show

The Horse Show comes galloping down to the Camden Fringe festival, fresh from the lush green pastures of Manchester. 

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

Richard Carpenter is Close to You

There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�… 

A Boy Named Sue

A Boy Named Sue

Sid, struggling to become Sue, proclaims, “The great barrier between myself and the outside world is my appearance”. 

The Not So Late Show with Ross & Josh

The Not So Late Show with Ross & Josh

Join your hosts Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler as they take the late night chat show to its illogical conclusion. 

Edy Hurst: Theme Show!

Edy Hurst: Theme Show!

Edy Hurst loves theme parks. 

The Lying Kind

The Lying Kind

“O, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott wrote in his epic poem Marmion, “when first we practise to deceive!” It’s a life lesson we can only hope unfortunat… 

Tremors

Tremors

An ‘incident in a hotel room’ becomes a life-changing event for Tom Crowe, a rising star of the Labour Party whose past, present and future form the basis of Tremors. 

Queers

Queers

Queers comes with no explanation, but the title alone is enough preparation for an hour of material that is amusing and sad, historical and contemporary. 

The Waves on the Seas

The Waves on the Seas

A marriage isn’t just the joining of two people, or even two families—it marks the coming together of two communities. 

Richard Alston-Triple Bill

Richard Alston-Triple Bill

Richard Alston’s newest creation comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of a triple bill. 

Thirty Three

Thirty Three

Saska (Corinne Furlong) decides to hold what which she hopes will be a cosy dinner party for a select group of her closest friends. 

Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity

The Brighton Academy of Performing Arts uses its Preston Park studio theatre to showcase the talents of its students. 

Brawn

Brawn

Ryan was a bright lad at school. 

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito is “presented by BA(Hons) Acting and Creative Performance students, from the University Centre Colchester” who “in their final year of study p… 

Bounce!

Bounce!

It’s fair to say that Bounce!, created and performed by French company Arcosm, is a delightfully playful blend of music and dance, performed with real skill and alleged wild a… 

Collapse

Collapse

In under thirty minutes Collapse presents a hauntingly hypnotic exploration of Cassandra’ agony as she prophetically laments the collapse of her city. 

The Stroop Effect

The Stroop Effect

The disparity between the promotional material put out by theatre groups and the reality of what they present to audiences is often quite staggering. 

Goggles

Goggles

Pets come in many forms. 

Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton

Summer in the south is aggressively hot and stiflingly humid. 

Falling Dreams

Falling Dreams

Recent years have seen a significant rise in the number of (usually) London theatre productions being transmitted live to cinemas and other venues across the UK. 

Escape: A Magic Show

Escape: A Magic Show

Escape the mundane and the everyday and see the world through the eyes of a magician. 

Blink by Phil Porter

Blink by Phil Porter

Described as “unconventional, quirky, and voyeuristic”, Peppered Wit’s production of Blink by Phil Porter fulfills each of those descriptions. 

The Meebles Get The Show On The Road

The Meebles Get The Show On The Road

Be different! Join the Meebles on their madcap adventures in a circus van, racing against time to save the children from all being made the same by Von Zalatan and his virtual o… 

The Beta Males Go Solo: The Story Beast & Richard Soames

The Beta Males Go Solo: The Story Beast & Richard Soames

The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award-nominated ‘Story Beast’ (“a bearded force of nature” (Guardian)) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), Ric… 

Margo Piano Musical Show

Margo Piano Musical Show

A musical story for children where each character is a musical instrument . 

Femme Fatale Show: Cabaret & Burlesque Night

Femme Fatale Show: Cabaret & Burlesque Night

Join us for a show-stopping night of music and dance, as we shimmy through the hits of ‘Chicago’, ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Sweet Charity’, before turning up the heat for our classic burlesqu… 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum. 

Kings Cross (Remix)

Kings Cross (Remix)

I’m always interested in the extent to which the publicity for a performance matches the reality of the production; how the promise materialises on the stage. 

Glory on Earth

Glory on Earth

At one point during Glory on Earth, its two main characters—stage right, the young, romantic Mary, Queen of Scots; stage left, the firebrand Protestant preacher John Knox—ar… 

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

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 … 

Music Is Torture

Music Is Torture

“Keep going,” actor Andy Clark says repeatedly to the musicians behind the glass screen in the unsubtly-named Limbo Studio created on stage, ensuring that we find our seats … 

The Frow Show

The Frow Show

After 3 sell-out runs in its native town of Forest Row in East Sussex, The Frow Show comes down the M23 to take the Brighton Fringe. 

Richard III (a one-woman show)

Richard III (a one-woman show)

Richard III. 

Matt Green: New Show

Matt Green: New Show

Matt returns to Brighton for the ninth year running with a show bursting with new jokes, new ideas and absolutely no nudity. 

Fried Mind Show: David Terrence

Fried Mind Show: David Terrence

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… 

Bard's Bitches

Bard's Bitches

By Heather Alexander. 

Walsh & Simmons: Punel Show

Walsh & Simmons: Punel Show

Ever pundered what shows like ‘Mock the Week’, ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘QI’, or ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ would be like if they were just puns? Punder no longer. 

Strode's College Evening of New Performance

Strode's College Evening of New Performance

An evening of new and exciting work from students nearing the end of their acting training at Strode’s College. 

Cirque Du Cabaret: Gala Show

Cirque Du Cabaret: Gala Show

One of the UK’s longest running cabaret companies ‘Cirque Du Cabaret’ debuts in Brighton Fringe 2017 with a brand new show. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by author/illustrator Eric Carle has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1969 selling more than 43 million copies … 

Comedy Happy Hour: The Chat Show

Comedy Happy Hour: The Chat Show

This show is the perfect way to start off your night at Brighton Fringe, as you spend an hour in the company of genial Scottish comedian Vladimir McTavish and guests in an early ev… 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

No one does satire quite like Brighton’s very own ‘The Treason Show’. 

Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound

Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound

In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 

Spiegeltent: Heart Of The Fringe Show

Spiegeltent: Heart Of The Fringe Show

A special Spiegeltent charity showcase with the very best ‘Heart of the Fringe’ performers helping kick off the season. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

“The true mystery of the world is the visible . 

Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue

Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue

Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles. 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Gentleman juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb. 

Joan Eardley: A Private View

Joan Eardley: A Private View

The London-born artist Joan Eardley, who settled in Scotland to study and whose artistic career was cut short when she died—aged 42—in 1963, is best known for two very diffe… 

Meet the Arts Industry

Meet the Arts Industry

Are you an artist or performer looking to make connections beyond Brighton Fringe? Join us for informal networking with a diverse range of arts industry professionals from around t… 

Mr Danger's Really Safe Show

Mr Danger's Really Safe Show

Mr Danger is a damaged former daredevil who learnt his lesson the hard way. 

The 306: Day

The 306: Day

The 306: Day is the second of a three play trilogy instigated by the National Theatre of Scotland, inspired by the stories of the 306 British soldiers that we know were executed… 

The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II

The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II

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… 

Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: The Superhero Show

Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: The Superhero Show

They move among you unseen. 

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

Turn up, tear out and laugh lots as we give other fringe shows a unique makeover! Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show … 

Richard Carpenter's Close to You

Richard Carpenter's Close to You

Richard Carpenter is, for those that remember him at all, a somewhat complicated character. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

The legendary late show returns. 

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt

This is a homecoming, of sorts; the revival of a play, first performed at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre back in 1989, which subsequently enjoyed successful productions in the West … 

Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine

“I used to be Shirley Valentine,” explains the focus of Willy Russell’s 1986 one-woman play; a 42 year old Liverpudlian woman who, now that the children have flown … 

Confessional

Confessional

The comedic tone of David Weir’s Confessional is clear from the start; as Schubert’s beautiful Ave Marie fades into silence, “Good Catholic” Kevin—or, as he puts it, th… 

Charlie Sonata

Charlie Sonata

There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always … 

Monstrous Bodies

Monstrous Bodies

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s debut novel has become so iconic in Western culture that the word “Frankenstein” is now used pejoratively to describe any scientific o… 

Orlando

Orlando

If the usual writerly advice is to always “show, not tell”, then biography is arguably one of the few artistic forms where a certain amount of direct author-to-audience expl… 

The Edinburgh Easter Play

The Edinburgh Easter Play

The Biblical narrative that is the foundation of the Christian faith has been described, on numerous occasions, as “The Greatest Story Ever Told. 

One Man Shoe

One Man Shoe

Children’s entertainer Jango Starr is a total clown, but that’s certainly not meant as a criticism; sans white-face, he instead relies on a pair of trousers just sufficientl… 

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Almost at the start, Gilchrist Muir—here inhabiting the tweed suit of our lecturer, Glasgow University-based Theoretical Zombiologist Dr Ken House—insists that Zombies are no… 

A Stone’s Throw

A Stone’s Throw

A young girl, annoyed by being made fun of by her seven older brothers, joins in the family’s evening game of throwing stones and unintentionally shatters the sun from the sky… 

Isaac’s Eye

Isaac’s Eye

From the start of his exploration of the scientific method, through the prism of the 17th century rivalry between Isaac Newton and the now little-remembered Robert Hooke, playwr… 

A Number

A Number

In one sense, this Lyceum revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play is exactly the “dynamic two-hander” described in the programme: the only actors on stage are Peter Forbes,… 

Girl in the Machine

Girl in the Machine

The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to. 

Cosmonaut

Cosmonaut

There’s always a risk attempting to present previously “unknown” stories as theatre. 

Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery

Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery

I’m not a fan of promenade performances, especially those involving the audience being led in a group from one set piece to another. 

The Nether

The Nether

Science Fiction isn’t the most common genre you find on stage; ironic, really, since it was Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R. 

Fried Mind Show: David Terrence

Fried Mind Show: David Terrence

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. 

Hay Fever

Hay Fever

Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c… 

Girls Like That

Girls Like That

Evan Placey’s Girls Like That (first performed at London’s Unicorn Theatre three years ago) came to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—courtesy of the neighbouring Lyceum Thea… 

La Cage Aux Folles

La Cage Aux Folles

There’s much to love about this new touring production of La Cage Aux Folles; gloriously Technicolor™ sets, gorgeous costumes, tight choreography, clearly enunciated sin… 

The Beaches of St Valery

The Beaches of St Valery

Three-quarters of a century on, there are still stories of the Second World War that aren’t as well known as they should, but Stuart Hepburn’s new play—while promoted as t… 

The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong

The old showbiz adage that “the show must go on” is usually invoked—in the aftermath of some behind-the-scenes calamity—before curtain-up, but the point of The Play That… 

Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show

Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show

There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B… 

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

The writer and historian James Truslow Adams once defined the “American Dream” as the potential for life to be “better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity … 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

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… 

Shoreditch Improv Festival Opening Show

Shoreditch Improv Festival Opening Show

Opening the festival will be City Impro (“Incredibly Good” ****– Arts Award Voice), who make up crazy characters and silly scenes all based on suggestions provided by the aud… 

The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has all the characteristics of a Tragedy, as we speedily witness the horrendous consequences of King Leontes’ groundless jealousy for pregnant … 

69 Shades of Gay

69 Shades of Gay

“I’m so excited”—that iconic 1982 hit by the Pointer Sisters—is an apt intro to a show with a predominantly female audience that’s already wound up to have a good ti… 

Cirque Berserk!

Cirque Berserk!

“Not a circus, it’s a Berserkus!” Cirque Berserk! boldly comes with two USPs. 

Dusty Won't Play

Dusty Won't Play

18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl… 

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

If politics is about people—specifically the ever-fluctuating power imbalances between people in different situations—then Federico García Lorca was right to focus his “po… 

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

There is, ironically enough, a lot that’s incredibly old-fashioned about Thoroughly Modern Millie; it’s a feel-good, song and dance show about a young gold-digger who, while se… 

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an… 

Wonderland

Wonderland

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland isn’t known for its plot; in fact, it’s essentially a succession of wonderfully fanciful sketches which happen to share … 

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

As titles go, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a fine conflation of the innocent and disturbing, although the cultural impact of Joan Lindsay’s novel is arguably more down to Peter W… 

Cinderella

Cinderella

Pantomime, as we’re reminded by the Ambassador Theatre Group’s pre-show video (narrated by Brian Blessed), is a peculiarly British theatrical tradition, although it’s a sha… 

Last Christmas

Last Christmas

“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic. 

A Christmas Carol at the Arts

A Christmas Carol at the Arts

You are cordially invited to the parlour of Mr Ebeneezer Scrooge for a rousing rendition of this timeless classic served over a two-course Christmas feast. 

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Scottish writer Stuart Paterson now has a back catalogue of sufficient scale to warrant a revival or two; his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is curre… 

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

It’s a brave show which starts with the words: “I don’t like it. 

Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets

Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets

Inside Out Theatre’s second pantomime for relatively news arts venue Websters (located in Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge area) is another self-consciously low-rent production which … 

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

Reviewing Mamma Mia! almost feels like a lost cause; it’s an unstoppable global phenomenon and, if this touring production—setting up home in the Edinburgh Playhouse for Chri… 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits. 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” … 

George’s Marvellous Medicine

George’s Marvellous Medicine

“Small boys are not to be trusted,” says the titular George’s gleefully malevolent Grandma in this new production—by Dundee Rep’s Associate Artistic Director Joe Dougla… 

Green Tea

Green Tea

The master of the English ghost story, M R James, once described Irish author Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank” among supernatural storyteller… 

The Rivals

The Rivals

First performed in 1775, Sheridan’s The Rivals remains surprisingly relevant, not least thanks to its inter-generational conflict. 

Jumpy

Jumpy

You get a strong sense of what Jumpy is going to be like from Jean Chan’s impressive set—two jumbled piles of household goods, surrounded by an off-kilter frame of plain wall… 

Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland

Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland

A risk when putting any historical figure on stage—let alone a writer and thinker of the calibre of Dr Samuel Johnson—is that using their own words makes them appear less a … 

Invisible Army

Invisible Army

It’s not every play that starts with a reaffirmation of one of the basic fundamentals of theatre: that things which aren’t true can be imagined, and that what can be imagine… 

Side Show

Side Show

Daisy and Violet Hilton were real-life Siamese twins in Texas plucked from relative freak-show obscurity and who rose to a dazzling but fleeting stardom. 

Him

Him

“It’s quite comfortable being old,” 80 year old actor Tim Barlow tells us at the start of his latest one-man show, a work co-devised with the writer Sheila Hill. 

Grain in the Blood

Grain in the Blood

For at least some of its audience, it’s enough that Grain in the Blood reunites actors Blythe Duff and John Michie—long-time compatriots on STV’s Taggart. 

Walking on Walls

Walking on Walls

There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a… 

A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

This one-man show, written and performed by Gary McNair, won lots of praise during its initial run as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Thrive

Thrive

Post Traumatic Stress from a variety of sources is a familiar phenomenon in modern times. 

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

It was the head-to-head that, even at the time, seemed almost unthinkable; a televised face-off between British chat-show host David Frost—certainly at the time not exactly kn… 

Mischief

Mischief

We’re somewhere among the Western Isles, and at least a thousand years back in time. 

Crude: An Exploration of Oil

Crude: An Exploration of Oil

Edinburgh-based Grid Iron Theatre Company has long specialised in creating immersive, site-specific theatre. 

The Gazillion Bubble Show NEW YORK

The Gazillion Bubble Show NEW YORK

The first and only high-tech, interactive, artistic, and scientific stage production, the Gazillion Bubble Show is “nothing short of one whopping ‘wow’ after another” accor… 

[title of show]

[title of show]

If you’re a student theatre company with somewhat limited resources, but still want to try your hand at a reasonably successful Broadway musical, then [title of show] is argua… 

The Shape of Things

The Shape of Things

Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” … 

The Suppliant Woman

The Suppliant Woman

In ancient Greece, it was the practice before any theatrical performance to name those citizens who had financed it, and for a respected citizen to give “the libation” to th… 

The Course of True Love

The Course of True Love

Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s… 

Journey's End

Journey's End

R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis… 

Breaking The Ice

Breaking The Ice

It’s fitting, in the weeks running up to the latest Arctic Circle Assembly (running from 7-9 October in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the team behind A Play, a Pie and a Pint opted… 

The Tempest

The Tempest

Welcome to The Tempest as Shakespeare and probably most other people never imagined it could be. 

Two Man Show

Two Man Show

When Goalen, Greenland and Wilkie sweep, commandingly onto the stage of the Soho Theatre, they announce their identity as goddesses ‘who know everything’. 

If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You

If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You

Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Every year an absolute sell-out! The UK’s first and premier award for celebrating live comedy. 

Venue Marketplace

Venue Marketplace

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Gin Whore Tour

The Gin Whore Tour

Much has been said and written about gin but Dorothy Parker probably uttered the most appropriate for this event. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Alice in Wasteland Presents CabaRave... The Closing Show Party!

Alice in Wasteland Presents CabaRave... The Closing Show Party!

Come along and journey through the rabbit hole on this exciting adventure! Our special closing party presents the final Edinburgh fringe performance of the one-hour spectacular Ali… 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards. 

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show

This exciting annual art show, now in its 14th year, is held in the beautiful surroundings of Bonhams auction house in the New Town. 

The Essential Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change

The Essential Role of the Arts in Addressing Climate Change

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Richard III and Soundwall

Richard III and Soundwall

A condensed version of Shakespeare’s infamous Richard III, one of the playwright’s earliest yet most revered works, which charts its tyrannical protagonist’s rise to the English th… 

Party Animal Roop – Stories About a Unique Career in Show Business

Party Animal Roop – Stories About a Unique Career in Show Business

Roop has had a 20 year career as a celebrity party planner, and he has some special stories to share in his incisive one man show. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

BBC: The One Show

BBC: The One Show

Live from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh, featuring topical stories and big name guests. 

A Dave Cohen Show: Music Was My First Love

A Dave Cohen Show: Music Was My First Love

Edinburgh Fringe veteran, Perrier nominee, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players, multiple BAFTA-winning Horrible Histories songwriter, inadvertent creator of the phrase ‘comedy i… 

Spill: A Verbatim Show About Sex

Spill: A Verbatim Show About Sex

Spill: A Verbatim Show About Sex is the sex-ed class we all wish we’d had. 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Woman Up Improv Show

Woman Up Improv Show

Fresh from their sell-out Glasgow International Comedy Festival run, Scotland’s first all-women improv troupe Women Up are ready for their Fringe debut! With short form and long … 

Twix

Twix

Jamie’s comical lack of good fortune is beautifully summed up in the last two lines of this play, where the parallel monologues of Twix finally come together. 

No Exit (Huis Clos)

No Exit (Huis Clos)

No Exit (Huis Clos) is an existentialist drama, adapted from Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic by Charlie Rogers. 

Attempts on Her Life

Attempts on Her Life

Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis… 

Decade

Decade

9/11, as it now succinctly known, is one of those ‘where were you on the day?’ events. 

Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past. 

The Rose and Crown

The Rose and Crown

There’s always a good smattering of obscure, seldom-performed or minor plays at the Festival Fringe. 

Out of the Box – Adult Comedy and Variety Show

Out of the Box – Adult Comedy and Variety Show

A unique fun-filled, vibrant and interactive riotous adult five-star afternoon variety show, packed with hilarious mime, comedy, innuendo and magic. 

Mixing the World: The Power of Global Arts Projects

Mixing the World: The Power of Global Arts Projects

Digital can bring the world together. 

The Wall

The Wall

The Wall is a wonderfully refreshing play from Corby Productions. 

The Telemachy

The Telemachy

It’s rare to come across a wandering poet these days and it’s probably not the most effective way to get your message across to the public. 

The HandleBards: Richard III

The HandleBards: Richard III

The Handlebards are a unique group, reinventing the concept of the company of travelling players. 

Street Arts – Where to Go Next?

Street Arts – Where to Go Next?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Grey Matter

Grey Matter

Adrian Raine’s pioneering work in neurocriminology can be seen as a reaction to the supremacy of nurture over nature in the debate about the causes of criminal behaviour. 

Dick Lee Septet – Dinner and Show

Dick Lee Septet – Dinner and Show

The classics of swing jazz swung by this fabulous band. 

Info and Discussion Session: Time to Shine Youth Arts, 2014-2016

Info and Discussion Session: Time to Shine Youth Arts, 2014-2016

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Young People – Building Peace Through the Arts

Young People – Building Peace Through the Arts

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Bristols On Show

Bristols On Show

Bristol’s On Show A showcase of female acts, featuring award winning comedians Amy Howerska, Angie Belcher & Kate Smurthwaite, as well as a host of Bristol’s best up-and-coming n… 

The Irish Comedy Improv Show

The Irish Comedy Improv Show

Hilarious scenes made up on the spot based entirely on audience suggestions. 

NEHH Presents... Richard Dawson & Nev Clay

NEHH Presents... Richard Dawson & Nev Clay

Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room. 

Some Men All Biscuit – A Tribute Show

Some Men All Biscuit – A Tribute Show

A tribute to Half Man Half Biscuit’s 30+ years in music. 

The Todd and Molly Show: Welcome to LA LA Land

The Todd and Molly Show: Welcome to LA LA Land

Join your guides, Todd and Molly, as they take you on a bespoke tour of Los Angeles, their City of Angels, or as they call it: LA LA Land. 

West Side Story

West Side Story

This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society. 

The Age of (Distr)action

The Age of (Distr)action

In Edinburgh as members of Group 64, the cast of The Age of (Distr)action are an inclusive young people’s theatre company from Putney who have created, written and performed this… 

Posh

Posh

Theresa May went to Oxford, but unlike Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, she could never have been invited to become a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club, to which Laura Wad… 

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens. 

JJ Cale Appreciation Show

JJ Cale Appreciation Show

Scottish session musicians The Breeze return to perform an hour-long set featuring popular and lesser well-known songs of the late JJ Cale. 

Bildraum

Bildraum

Bildraum is part of the ‘Big in Belgium’ series, featuring six of the country’s many outstanding theatre and performance companies. 

Aunty Donna: New Show

Aunty Donna: New Show

This Australian trio packs a punch as they whirl through an hour of weird, wacky and utterly hilarious sketch comedy like nothing else you will see at the Fringe. 

Spool

Spool

Suppose, just suppose, that your mind and body lived separately from each other. 

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body. 

A Show of Two Halves (Somethings Old, Somethings New)

A Show of Two Halves (Somethings Old, Somethings New)

Ranging from the bittersweet to the rude and raunchy, Scotland’s former national poet and recent recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry weaves a spellbinding and beguiling … 

Mervyn's 25th Gala Show

Mervyn's 25th Gala Show

Join Mervyn and a host of top talent in a glorious two hour variety show to celebrate the 25th year of the legendary Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe showcase. 

Felix Holt: The Radical

Felix Holt: The Radical

‘Wholesome’ is how a lady I spoke to after the performance described Felix Holt: The Radical. 

Three Jumpers

Three Jumpers

The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist. 

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

The Dean Martin Christmas Show

The Dean Martin Christmas Show aims to explore the warm relationship between Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra as they appear on the titular Christmas special. 

Jumping the Barriers

Jumping the Barriers

There are many symbols of class division and expressions of social stratification in this country. 

Family Voices and Victoria Station

Family Voices and Victoria Station

Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces. 

Road

Road

It’s Road, but not as we know it. 

The Mikado

The Mikado

St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t… 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Italia Conti Ensemble returns to the Festival Fringe with their second-year students again split into two groups, each with its own choice of play. 

Steele Edge: Martial Arts Illusion Show

Steele Edge: Martial Arts Illusion Show

Steele Edge: Martial Arts Illusion Show bills itself as “a dynamic fusion of physical excitement and visual wonder” but it’s more of a bizarre fusion of vague ‘oriental’ … 

Year Ten

Year Ten

Never judge a play by its title. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Afternoon)

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Afternoon)

Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival. 

Mambo Italiano – Dinner and Show

Mambo Italiano – Dinner and Show

How lucky can an audience be? More Dean Martin songs and stories with Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band live on stage with a cracking show after a delicious three-course dinner. 

The Maths Magic Show

The Maths Magic Show

Experience and learn mathematical magic tricks. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Morning)

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Morning)

Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival. 

Sing-a-Long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sing-a-Long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show

Cinema screening of film. 

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor. 

How to Crowdfund for your Arts Project

How to Crowdfund for your Arts Project

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Shanghai Modern Fashion Show

Shanghai Modern Fashion Show

Classical meets modern in a glamorous fashion show organised by Shanghai Culture Week. 

Actors Wanted for Fringe Show: No Mobile

Actors Wanted for Fringe Show: No Mobile

Three-hour fast-moving, fun workshop for up to 20 children (11 to 14-year-olds) exploring how young people use their mobile phones and what happens when a teenager is left without … 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Arthur Conan Doyle – Man of Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle – Man of Mystery

There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs. 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Art of Collaboration: Bringing the Arts Into Gaming

The Art of Collaboration: Bringing the Arts Into Gaming

Collaboration has the capacity to break down boundaries of a medium and expand its limits. 

The Abridged Dapper Eleven Hour Monochrome Dream Show

The Abridged Dapper Eleven Hour Monochrome Dream Show

Three people’s dreams merge in post-apocalyptic Britain. 

Guerilla Aspies – the Show of the Book, with Paul Wady

Guerilla Aspies – the Show of the Book, with Paul Wady

Paul Wady’s unique and controversial mass autism conversion show returns for a second year. 

RSC Live: Richard II

RSC Live: Richard II

Cinema screening of live performance. 

The Alan David Ross Show

The Alan David Ross Show

Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems. 

Midnight Show – Just the Tonic Comedy Club

Midnight Show – Just the Tonic Comedy Club

Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows. 

Harmon Leon's Big Fat Racist Show

Harmon Leon's Big Fat Racist Show

VICE contributor/NY comedian, Harmon Leon has made a career infiltrating extremist hate groups in America. 

Punel Show

Punel Show

Ever pundered what shows like Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, QI or Never Mind The Buzzcocks would be like if they were just puns? Punder no longer. 

The Harry and Chris Show

The Harry and Chris Show

World champion slam poet Harry Baker returns to the Fringe, accompanied by his talented friend Chris Read on guitar for a spoken word/acoustic fusion set. 

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Big and tall sketch friends Fish Finger Fridays bring their anticipated debut to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Sonic Vision – Dome Cinema Show

Sonic Vision – Dome Cinema Show

Take a trip through vivid 3D graphic environments that pulsate to the rhythm of high energy music. 

Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do

Richard Gadd: Monkey See Monkey Do

The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the ‘undisputed buzz comedy of last year’ **** (Guardian), Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell… 

Dieser Ort

Dieser Ort

A bell tolls. 

Two Man Show

Two Man Show

In an explosion of energy, raw intensity and emotion, RashDash theatre company shatters preconceptions of the patriarchy. 

Confetti

Confetti

There’s no confetti in Confetti, but there is a complex mix of language and movement that makes it intriguing. 

Rob Auton: The Sleep Show

Rob Auton: The Sleep Show

What is sleep to you? A distraction? A reward? A perversely sweet taste of that undiscovered country? Whatever it is, it’s a massive part of your life: around a third of your tim… 

The Parentheticals: Aside Show

The Parentheticals: Aside Show

The Parentheticals have one hour, almost a dozen performers, and not a single page of script. 

Chapel Street

Chapel Street

If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example. 

That Selfies Show!

That Selfies Show!

Pitch the diaries, the journals, the travelogues. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Miranda Hart. 

The Man Who Knows Everything

The Man Who Knows Everything

It’s pretty clear what kind of show we’re about to see when – as it becomes obvious that there isn’t actually a sufficient number of seats for all of the audience that’s … 

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers

Éowyn Emerald & Dancers

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers, make a welcome return to Edinburgh in their usual Greenside, Royal Terrace location. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Sitting into a dark room, crammed with many other eagerly awaiting strangers, Stephen K Amos enters, his booming voice announcing his talk show and diving into some sarcasm-laced m… 

On Ego by Mick Gordon

On Ego by Mick Gordon

Many theatre companies oversell their wares with outrageous hyperbole. 

Oliver!

Oliver!

The Spiegeltent is a far cry from the workhouse and rarely can a setting have been better used than in this stunning production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Captivate Theatre. 

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (of Sorts) is the product of talented comedy duo and Cambridge Footlights members Ruby Keane and Luisa Callander. 

2 By 5

2 By 5

International Collegiate Theatre Festival has put together a delightful programme of both well-known and less familiar works to create this production of 2 By 5. 

Partial Nudity

Partial Nudity

This might only be Partial Nudity, but it’s a full-on piece from writer/director Emily Layton and actors Kate Franz and Joe Layton. 

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards. 

Glitch – The Improvised Puppet Show

Glitch – The Improvised Puppet Show

An improvised comedy show performed by a cast of puppets for adults. 

Alba Flamenca

Alba Flamenca

If you missed this show all is not lost. 

Call Mr Robeson

Call Mr Robeson

Call Mr Robeson is Tayo Aluko’s tribute to one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable singers in terms of looks and voice. 

Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good

Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good

It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good. 

Three for Two by Phil Booth

Three for Two by Phil Booth

We all have our price. 

5 Out of 10 Men...

5 Out of 10 Men...

Top ratings aren’t always just about putting on a remarkable production, although 5 Out of 10 Men is that. 

The HandleBards: Richard III

The HandleBards: Richard III

After cycling 1,500 miles from London to Edinburgh, the four-strong all-male HandleBards present Shakespeare’s play as you’ve never seen it before – fast-paced, irreverent and bi… 

The Nutty Professor and His Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and His Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Bubble-lovers will rejoice in this fun, immersive spectacle lead by the energetic assistant Ms Squeaky Bottom and the Nutty Professor himself. 

Lïnger

Lïnger

Breandán de Gallaí, the celebrated ex-Riverdance principal, has devised a biographical series of dances to create Lïnger, which is performed in the generously spacious main thea… 

Poggle

Poggle

“Poggle’s not scared of climbing trees,” we’re told early on in this beautifully clear and uncluttered piece of vibrant dance theatre aimed at very young children. 

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2016

Craft Scotland Summer Show 2016

Back by popular demand! Returning for its fourth year, the Craft Scotland Summer Show sets up shop in the centre of town. 

Stu and Garry’s Improv Show

Stu and Garry’s Improv Show

Award-winning Stu Murphy and Garry Dobson perform brilliant improvised comedy all year round as Stand Comedy Club residents. 

Are We Stronger Than Winston?

Are We Stronger Than Winston?

The British might be renowned for talking and complaining about the weather, but if you come from Fiji there are more heightened concerns than just cold rainy days. 

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue are back at the Fringe celebrating ten years of making the ‘comic talent of the future’ (Skinny). 

A Dream of Dying

A Dream of Dying

It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is. 

I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator

I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator

I Keep a Woman in My Flat Chained to a Radiator. 

Dani Girl

Dani Girl

Trust me, Fringe magic still happens. 

Fraxi Queen of the Forest

Fraxi Queen of the Forest

Some stupid adults, having forgotten what it’s actually like to be children, are often surprised, disturbed and horrified by the serious issues lurking in the heart of the most s… 

Jo Caulfield: Pretending to Care

Jo Caulfield: Pretending to Care

It’s clearly an uncomfortable time of life for Jo Caulfield; a succession of musical heroes have died, she’s moved from middle-class Morningside to somewhat more “cosmopolita… 

The He & She Show

The He & She Show

Funny moments exist in all relationships. 

Red

Red

The redness of Red is not visible. 

The End

The End

Celebrated Scottish choreographer Jack Webb has brought his latest, typically idiosyncratic work, The End, for performance at this year’s Festival Fringe as part of the extensive… 

The Very Nice Improv Show

The Very Nice Improv Show

These guys are fantastic improvisers. 

Troika

Troika

Great composers sometimes create a theme that is so captivating or remarkable that other great composers write variations on it. 

Robert Newman: The Brain Show

Robert Newman: The Brain Show

In a previous show, we witnessed Robert Newman intellectually tear down Dawkin’s view of evolution. 

The White Crow

The White Crow

Adolph Eichmann never personally killed anyone, but he was hanged in 1962, having been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 

Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready

Richard Pulsford: Phrases Ready

UK Pun Championships 2016 runner-up Richard Pulsford has phrases ready. 

How to Get Your Show Noticed

How to Get Your Show Noticed

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Improvised Improv Show

The Improvised Improv Show

Taking improv to the next level – we improvise the cast! ‘Belly-laugh inducing’ (Platform). 

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky [mijnki] 1. 

Emily Lloyd Saini - Is This Part of the Show?

Emily Lloyd Saini - Is This Part of the Show?

Emily Lloyd-Saini’s debut hour of stand-up. 

Bash

Bash

Neil LaBute sets out to upset and disturb audiences and he made a spectacular start with his first play Bash: Latterday Plays. 

Bob Graham Fifth Show

Bob Graham Fifth Show

One of Edinburgh’s indigenous comedians presents a show with the most factually accurate title on this entire website. 

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Science like you have never seen before. 

Hilarity Bites Management Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites Management Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites Management are one of the biggest comedy agencies in the North of England, looking after some of the biggest and brightest talent. 

The Sandy and Danni Improv Show!

The Sandy and Danni Improv Show!

Character comedy improvisers Leanna and Angela present Sandy and Danni, two desperate and deluded American girls looking for fairy tale romance. 

Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Standing ovations are rare, but the house rose as one at the at the end of Tom Gill’s Growing Pains in tribute to a remarkable performer and a stunning show. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Expensive Shit

Expensive Shit

Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled… 

Bubble Show for Adults Only

Bubble Show for Adults Only

The Bubble Show your mother warned you about is here! Clothes and bubbles will fly in this cabaret styled story filled with beautiful bubble creations, stripping, slapping, stick f… 

Aaaaargh! It's 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Aaaaargh! It's 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

If you find it in your heart to forgive the failings of Masai Graham’s previous show, Aaaaah! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes, and stuck around for the follow-up, you�… 

Andrew Doyle: Future Tense

Andrew Doyle: Future Tense

Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne… 

Richard Brown: Stop, Children, What's That Sound? Everybody Look, It's Richard Brown!

Richard Brown: Stop, Children, What's That Sound? Everybody Look, It's Richard Brown!

Intelligent, alternative comedy from one of Scotland’s rising stars. 

Aaaaah! It's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Aaaaah! It's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Masai Graham has assembled an act so far from risky that it is bubble wrapped in woefully predictable innuendos, presumably to retain its innocence. 

[Title of Show]

[Title of Show]

As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Twenty second year as the recognised launch pad for future legends. 

Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show – Live on Stage!

Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show – Live on Stage!

Brand new show for 2016! She’s a Princess who farts. 

Colum Tyrrell: The Hookers and Blow Show

Colum Tyrrell: The Hookers and Blow Show

New York-based Irish comedian Colum Tyrrell brings his debut hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

The best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics in a great value lunchtime compilation showcase, hand-picked from across the Fringe. 

Aaaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show – Free Show

Aaaaaargh! It's the One-Liner Show – Free Show

Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. 

Saturday Night Forever

Saturday Night Forever

I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb. 

Last Dream (on Earth)

Last Dream (on Earth)

While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in… 

Will Franken: Little Joe

Will Franken: Little Joe

There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing. 

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham. 

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham. 

Aidan Goatley: Mr Blue Sky

Aidan Goatley: Mr Blue Sky

Aidan Goatley’s stand-up show isn’t, despite its title, about ELO; indeed, there’s no obvious guarantee that he will get round to telling us why he chose one of that band’s… 

John Gordillo: Love Capitalism

John Gordillo: Love Capitalism

Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system. 

Richard Todd

Richard Todd

‘How much happier the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. 

The Amazing Bubble Man

The Amazing Bubble Man

Underbelly’s largest venue is the huge tent – shaped like an purple cow tipped onto its back – that this year has been transplanted into the western half of George Square Gar… 

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures. 

The Really Good Show Hour

The Really Good Show Hour

Ed Caruana and Tamar Broadbent can’t pronounce their own names (so don’t feel bad). 

WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s 2x4 Tour One-Man Comedy Show

WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s 2x4 Tour One-Man Comedy Show

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 … 

The One Legged Man Show

The One Legged Man Show

A gunshot on New Year’s Eve on a beach in Thailand changed musical theatre artist Nils Bergstrand’s life forever. 

Lords of Strut: The Family Show

Lords of Strut: The Family Show

Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem on tour. 

Oh Hello!

Oh Hello!

“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here. 

Joe Jacobs: Orthodox Joe

Joe Jacobs: Orthodox Joe

“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie… 

Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist

Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist

“Every woman is a riot,” is roughly painted on the wall behind the stage area of this hidden-away New Town bar’s seldom used attic space. 

Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show

Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show

Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it. 

The Wimps Show

The Wimps Show

The Arts Theatre West End’s resident improv troupe perform their high octane brand of slick, witty, musical improvised comedy for free! (Usually costs £10, duh. 

Chef: Come Dine With Us!

Chef: Come Dine With Us!

Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me. 

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality. 

5 Guys Chillin'

5 Guys Chillin'

If your idea of chillin’ is sitting in the armchair with a cup of cocoa and a novel, you probably won’t feel at ease with this play. 

Outside the Box – A Live Show About Death

Outside the Box – A Live Show About Death

Death is a funny thing when you think about it: it’s the only certain thing in this world yet the majority of us deny its existence, but as performer Liz Rothschild points out, i… 

The Late Night With Boabby Roaster Show

The Late Night With Boabby Roaster Show

From award-winning character comedians Andrew McBurney (SYTYF finalist 2013) and Jack Kirwan, plus filmmaker Damien Hyde, comes a dark, original and very funny live show. 

Babushka: A Sketch Show

Babushka: A Sketch Show

‘All hits, no misses: the litany of wit that was Babushka’ ***** (TheTab. 

Lili La Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

Lili La Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

For a night of revelry and a hot mix of incredible performances, Lili La Scala’s Another F*cking Variety Show is a tough show to rival. 

Bricking It

Bricking It

Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years. 

Trash Test Dummies

Trash Test Dummies

There’s an anarchic edge to the Trash Test Dummies – as might be expected from a circus troupe who go on to perform a succession of tricks and humorous gymnastics using that mo… 

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-Ups!)

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-Ups!)

Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West return to unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. 

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

If you’re expecting a cosy drawing-room comedy about an aging female relative then you have clearly not read the publicity and are in for a big surprise. 

Care Takers

Care Takers

Seeing Care Takers is like watching all the episodes of a fabulous five-part drama series in one sitting. 

Scott Agnew: I've Snapped My Banjo String, Let's Just Talk

Scott Agnew: I've Snapped My Banjo String, Let's Just Talk

Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s… 

Geoff Norcott: Conswervative

Geoff Norcott: Conswervative

Geoff Norcott, as he points out quite early on in his set, has not been seen on television. 

David Mills: Shame!

David Mills: Shame!

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 … 

Lords of Strut: Late Night TV Talk Show

Lords of Strut: Late Night TV Talk Show

Lords of Strut is hands-down the most fun I’ve had at Fringe this year. 

The MMORPG Show

The MMORPG Show

The MMORPG show is a good idea but lacks the slick execution required to fully succeed. 

Fresher

Fresher

There are two very good reasons for going to see Fresher: it is an outstanding play that ingeniously tackles contemporary issues, and the production is also raising money for Young… 

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

With a Cambridge Footlights endorsement on their flyer, this is a group already promising great things to an expectant audience. 

Bucket List

Bucket List

What do you do when your mother is murdered for protesting corporate and governmental corruption? In the case of Milagros, you fight for the justice your mother was denied and see… 

Squirm

Squirm

The toilet, which dominates the floor space of this production, is essential to the performance of Squirm. 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

On top of the breakfast (croissant, coffee and strawberries), there is a handful of ten-minute theatre pieces that are eccentric, funny and outrageous. 

Johnny Cochrane: Appeal

Johnny Cochrane: Appeal

When life gives you lemons, those with an optimistic, can-do attitude invariably suggest you make lemonade. 

Mikey and Addie

Mikey and Addie

Mikey and Addie is a story about two pre-teen kids who couldn’t be more different – Mikey’s life is all about imagination and play, while Addie’s is focused on enforcing rule… 

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone. 

Adam & Eve and Steve

Adam & Eve and Steve

In the beginning it all seemed so straightforward. 

Tom Neenan: Vaudeville

Tom Neenan: Vaudeville

Tom Neenan appears to be making his way through the genres with his one-man/many characters shows: Edwardian ghost story in 2014, and 1950s-styled British science fiction thriller … 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Fast! Fun! Irreverent! Funny! This is the award-winning Fringe show that makes your children the star of an outstanding afternoon of fun, magic, music and frivolous frivolity. 

Dropped

Dropped

There’s a lot of camouflage in Dropped. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2016: Lagoon

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2016: Lagoon

The Cambridge Footlights have such a reputation that their name is practically synonymous with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show

Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show

Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it. 

Wank Bank Masterclass

Wank Bank Masterclass

The Aussies have a certain way with words and in the case Adam Seymour with his hands also. 

Mid-Brow: The Live Show

Mid-Brow: The Live Show

The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. 

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The Noise Next Door's Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The eight time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone. 

Jonathan Pie: Live

Jonathan Pie: Live

Pretend news reporter Jonathan Pie – the creation of actor Tom Walker – has risen to public attention, during the last year, thanks to a succession of videos on YouTube which a… 

The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show

The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show

If a panto and a Sarah Kane play had an unimaginably grotesque love-child it would look a lot like this. 

Hamlet in Bed

Hamlet in Bed

Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m… 

The Showstoppers' Kids' Show

The Showstoppers' Kids' Show

Here in their very own story factory, Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids’ ideas and transform them into marvellous, musical adventures, … 

The Late Night Sexy Show

The Late Night Sexy Show

A celebration of sex through song! Using his unique brand of satirical striptease stand-up, let Australian musical comedian Grant Busé take you on a joyous taboo-tackling explorat… 

Stuart Laws: So Preoccupied With Whether or Not He Could That He Didn't Stop to Think Whether He Should (1hr Show)

Stuart Laws: So Preoccupied With Whether or Not He Could That He Didn't Stop to Think Whether He Should (1hr Show)

Stuart Laws is the guy who does all the comedy at Turtle Canyon Comedy and supported James Acaster on tour. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Fast! Fun! Irreverent! Funny! This is the award-winning Fringe show that makes your children the star of an outstanding afternoon of fun, magic, music and frivolous frivolity. 

Larry Dean: Farcissist

Larry Dean: Farcissist

Male stand up comedians from certain parts of Glasgow often face a significant impediment; they can’t help but sound like Billy Connolly, and so inevitably find themselves compar… 

The Animotion Show: Peace - War

The Animotion Show: Peace - War

Returning in a new theatrical format that builds on 2015’s outdoor extravaganza, The AniMotion Show premieres Peace and War. 

Daphne's Second Show

Daphne's Second Show

After ‘threatening to be the hottest gang in town’ (List), Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominees, Daphne (Phil Wang, Jason Forbes and George Fouracres) threaten Edinburgh again with new… 

Switch: A Sketch Show

Switch: A Sketch Show

The Piff the Magic Dragon Show

The Piff the Magic Dragon Show

Piff the Magic Dragon is the character creation of comic magician, John van der Put. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

There’s surely no better sign that mental health issues – and depression in particular – are becoming more openly discussed than for the likes of Colin Hoult to come along an… 

Patrick Monahan: That 80s Show

Patrick Monahan: That 80s Show

Patrick Monahan is the guy in the club that everyone becomes best friends with in one night. 

Denton and Me

Denton and Me

Never underestimate the power or repercussions of a gift. 

Briony Redman: Secret Show

Briony Redman: Secret Show

Shh, it’s a surprise. 

The Dwelling Place

The Dwelling Place

Two large basement rooms in Summerhall have been transformed into a remarkable installation and immersive theatre, musical, video, sound, and light performance area. 

Laurence Clark: Independence

Laurence Clark: Independence

Some things never change; despite more than a decade performing stand-up, Laurence Clark still opens his set by drawing attention to his cerebral palsy: “This is just how I talk. 

Famous Taste of Scotland Cabaret Dinner Show

Famous Taste of Scotland Cabaret Dinner Show

Historic 17th-century Prestonfield House, adjacent to Royal Holyrood Park, is the spectacular setting for the Famous Taste of Scotland Cabaret Dinner Show. 

Marketing Your Show

Marketing Your Show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?

What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Bubble Show With Milkshake and Dr Bubble

Bubble Show With Milkshake and Dr Bubble

Come see every bubble trick imaginable. 

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

The Fruitmarket Gallery boasts “World class contemporary art at the heart of the city”. 

The Clan Mucmor Family Fun Show

The Clan Mucmor Family Fun Show

The Clan Mucmor Family Fun Show is family fun for all the family. This show is suitable for people of all ages and abilities. 

The Hairy Maclary & Friends Show

The Hairy Maclary & Friends Show

Making a musical out of poetic animal stories aimed at children is nothing new but, while Andrew Lloyd Webber opted to turn T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats int… 

RICHARD III

RICHARD III

Who better to convey the darkness & danger of Shakespeare’s most compelling villain and his scheming entourage than armed forces veterans-turned-actors? Set in a modern military … 

Barry Manilow Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise on 23 June 2016

Barry Manilow Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise on 23 June 2016

Barry Manilow O2 Arena show on Thursday 23 June 2016 with premium seating ​A 5 hours experience! Barry Manilow’s going to be back in the UK for one final set of shows… 

The Sandy & Danni Improv Show!

The Sandy & Danni Improv Show!

Leanna and Angela Present: The Sandy & Danni Improv Show! A completely improvised date night with games, comedy guests and buckets of silliness. 

Tales From The Hanging Captain

Tales From The Hanging Captain

If theatre is all about holding a mirror up to ourselves, then Tales From the Hanging Captain certainly makes the grade – it’s the first performance piece arising from the thr… 

The Wee One

The Wee One

The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t… 

What Next?

What Next?

Strange Town is an Edinburgh-based company which offers opportunities for young people between the ages of five and 25 to fulfil their creative potential though drama and perfor… 

What Now?

What Now?

There’s a definite shift in the second play in this double bill from Edinburgh-based theatre company Strange Town. 

The Great Illusionist

The Great Illusionist

Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done. 

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams

“The here and the now is wow!” we’re told at the start of Broken Dreams. 

Escape: A Magic Show

Escape: A Magic Show

Escape the mundane and see the world through the eyes of a magician. 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

Treason Show: Festival Special. 

Fluff – A Story of Lost Toys

Fluff – A Story of Lost Toys

There’s a simple idea at the heart of Australian company cre8ion’s show Fluff; rescuing and giving a new home to lost and abandoned toys. 

The Mad Hatter's TV Party Show

The Mad Hatter's TV Party Show

The Language of Television is everywhere, but the language is… 01000110001101101 

T.W.4.T Radio's Farewell Show

T.W.4.T Radio's Farewell Show

It’s 3am on a Friday morning and it’s T. 

The Sandy & Danni Improv Show!

The Sandy & Danni Improv Show!

The Sandy & Danni Improv Show! A completely improvised date night with amazing comedy guests, games and buckets of silliness. 

Traces

Traces

Traces is a theatre show with no obviously clear-cut beginning or end; if there’s a start at all, it might be when the two principal performers – Marko Werner and Michael Lur… 

Constellations

Constellations

Sometimes words feel unworthy of the task when it comes to describing and reviewing a performance, especially a dance-piece as vibrant, colourful and joyous as this. 

The Family Show

The Family Show

Winner, Best Children’s Show - Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem to a show for the whole family. 

Walden

Walden

On 4th July 1845 – Independence Day, suitably enough – the young Henry David Thoreau went into the woods at Walden Pond, near the town of Concord, Massachusetts, and lived t… 

Tales of a Grandson

Tales of a Grandson

There is much more to history than just learning dates and facts. 

The Story of the Little Gentleman

The Story of the Little Gentleman

The physical core of the The Little Gentleman is a large wooden crate, addressed to the show’s venue, which is slowly revealed to include numerous small doors and openings from… 

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-Ups!)

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-Ups!)

Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. 

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Tommy Cooper, with his impeccable timing, love of slapstick and one-liners was a true comic genius. 

A Royal Wunderlich Variety Show

A Royal Wunderlich Variety Show

Brighton’s all-male cabaret smutsters, Der Wunderlich Revue, celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday with a night of right royal mirth, magic, music, cheerleading and madness. 

A Tit Show

A Tit Show

Our tits sing, dance and talk about how they’re made for f**king. 

George Egg: Anarchist Cook

George Egg: Anarchist Cook

Touring stand-up George Egg has spent – and, presumably, continues to spend – a lot of his life in hotels the length and breadth of the UK. 

Thon Man Molière

Thon Man Molière

Never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the rich and powerful; that’s certainly one of the obvious lessons you can get from Liz Lochhead’s brilliantly funny take on the sc… 

Living Like a Moth

Living Like a Moth

There are some incredible strengths in this latest production from Edinburgh’s most inspiring new theatre company. 

Dirty Dusting

Dirty Dusting

I must admit to feeling a tad confused after experiencing Dirty Dusting. 

Role Shift

Role Shift

Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company continues to lead the way in producing theatre that’s fully accessible to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, both … 

Think Tank: a comedy, politics and debate show

Think Tank: a comedy, politics and debate show

Think Tank is a live comedy and debate show where professional comedians propose policy ideas to a panel of politicians and experts. 

Outside the Box: A Live Show about Death

Outside the Box: A Live Show about Death

“We are in uncharted territory when we sit with death,” Liz Rothschild says in her one-woman show, Outside the Box: A Live Show About Death. 

Little Howard's Big Show for Kids

Little Howard's Big Show for Kids

Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed… 

Tony Roberts Magic Show

Tony Roberts Magic Show

Exceptionally clean tricks with wickedly naughty jokes from this award-winning magician. 

Il Divo Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Il Divo Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Experience the magic of the stunning popera quartet, Il Divo, live at London’s O2 Arena, and enjoy a pre-show Thames River Cruise! Carlos, Urs, David and Seb are delighted… 

Avenue Q

Avenue Q

All theatre requires some degree of “suspension of disbelief”. 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Amazing trickery, eccentric comedy; fun and hilarity guaranteed! “Highly recommended for kids and adults alike” (The Argus), “Still the must-see children’s show in Brighton… 

Burning Love. To the ground. An interactive show with Lasagna

Burning Love. To the ground. An interactive show with Lasagna

One man takes on the concept of love in a raging battle to the death. 

One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean

One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean

Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires. 

Richard Wright: Proper Grown Up!

Richard Wright: Proper Grown Up!

Hello people of Brighton! I’m bringing my show to you as part of Brighton Fringe. 

Mark Dolan: This Show Will Change Your Life

Mark Dolan: This Show Will Change Your Life

Broadcaster and comedian Dolan is one of the most in-demand MCs. 

The Maydays present: Pitch That Show

The Maydays present: Pitch That Show

Award-winning comedy troupe, The Maydays, pitch ideas for a new improvised show every night, inspired by the audience. 

The Paul Laight Show

The Paul Laight Show

London-based comedian Paul Laight and guests deliver a free hour of jokes, puns, observations and a song or two about the horrors of everyday life. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

Fancy more Fringe? Join us for the best in laid-back, late-night entertainment at The Warren. 

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

During the 2008 Spring Season of “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” at Glasgow’s Òran Mór, writer and director Selma Dimitrijevic presented audiences with a delicate, poignant e… 

Second Hand

Second Hand

It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl… 

The Best Ink_d Show EVER

The Best Ink_d Show EVER

This year, Ink_d have invited every artist they have ever shown to submit one amazing artwork to make the best Ink_d show ever! Be prepared to be amazed and delighted by all your f… 

Leanna and Angela Present: The Sandy & Danni Improv Show

Leanna and Angela Present: The Sandy & Danni Improv Show

A completely improvised date night with amazing comedy guests, games and buckets of silliness. 

The Iliad

The Iliad

It says something about us as a species that one of our oldest myths, crystallised in the form of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, is about war – specifically the bloody climax of th… 

This Restless House

This Restless House

Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H… 

Mary Barnes

Mary Barnes

As a playwright, David Edgar long ago sped past the number of plays written by Shakespeare, but it’s fair to say that – while often making a big impact at the time – not m… 

Right Now

Right Now

First lines are important; as attention grabbers, but also as indicators of what’s to come, tonally at least. 

Ring Road

Ring Road

Ring roads are not usually places you go to; they’re a means of avoiding congestion, of giving a wide berth to somewhere. 

Show Boat

Show Boat

Perhaps the most influential musical of the twentieth century, Show Boat combined the talents of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, both of whom had felt for some time that Broa… 

Lost at Sea

Lost at Sea

On 10 January 1992, the container ship Ever Laurel, several days out from Hong Kong en route to Tacoma, Washington, hit a storm in the North Pacific Ocean. 

Neither God Nor Angel

Neither God Nor Angel

There’s are plenty of laughs in this imaginary conversation between King James VI of Scotland – preparing in March 1603 to make his stately progress south from the Palace of… 

Muse Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Muse Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Muse massive O2 Arena show on 3rd, 11th & 12th April 2016 with premium seating ​A 5-hour experience! Devonshire rockers, Muse, are poised to bring down the house at Lon… 

Oh, Such a Good Show, Oh!

Oh, Such a Good Show, Oh!

Ethan Beach hosts this stacked variety show, with comedy from Michelle Wolf, Brett Davis, Seaton Smith, Mary Houlihan, Mike Kelton and Harry Gensemer, as well as a musical performa… 

April Fools Comedy Show

April Fools Comedy Show

After a near-fatal car accident in 2014, Tracy Morgan has been making a welcome return to stand-up comedy over the last six months. 

The Silent Treatment

The Silent Treatment

It has become traditional for Lung Ha Theatre Company – Scotland’s principal theatre group for people with learning disabilities – to present at least one large show every… 

Little Red and the Wolf

Little Red and the Wolf

Most of us come to fairy tales – folk tales in general – courtesy of their so-called “traditional” retellings by Disney or the local panto. 

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley

In the near-century since Czech writer Karel Capek first gave us the word “robot” (in his play R. 

The Air That Carries The Weight

The Air That Carries The Weight

It is a tad ironic that, initially, the most overpowering element in this new show from Stellar Quines Theatre Company – established in 1993 to “celebrates the energy, exper… 

Ellie Goulding Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Ellie Goulding Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Ellie Goulding Live O2 Arena show on Thursday 24 & Friday 25 March 2016 with premium seating A 5 hours experience! Head down with a friend to the O2 Arena in 2016 for an … 

International Waters

International Waters

David Leddy’s apocalyptic fable International Waters certainly starts as it means to go on; loud and bold, with the memorable image of four gas-masked figures performing a tab… 

An Evening with Phil Differ

An Evening with Phil Differ

Phil Differ is not someone you’d immediately recognise. 

Richard Herring: Happy Now?

Richard Herring: Happy Now?

His 20’s were a fist of fun, his 30’s spent deciphering the intricacies of Big Cook and Little Cook’s business partnership, and then, oh fuck!, he was 40. 

Dan+Joe+Charles Show

Dan+Joe+Charles Show

This excellent long-running stand-up show, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould, has found a new home at this Williamsburg distillery. 

Rapid Departure

Rapid Departure

Most theatre audiences have an anonymous – some might even suggest voyeuristic – role, viewing the action on stage from the safety of a darkened auditorium. 

The Treason Show

The Treason Show

The Treason Show takes the news, parodies it, adds music and makes it irreverently entertaining. 

For the Love of Cousins

For the Love of Cousins

In one sense this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena Theatre Company is nothing more than a theatrical game in which writer Jack Elliot creates a succession of… 

Rocky Horror Show

Rocky Horror Show

Behind me a slightly overweight man in basque, suspenders and very little else is shuffling up the row to his seat to cheers from the back stalls. 

Masters of Show Choir

Masters of Show Choir

The UK’s university show choir and glee competition comes to the Arts Theatre for one night only! Warwick, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, Sussex, Swansea, Kent and Portsmouth compete; … 

Rudimental Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Rudimental Live at the O2 with Pre show Thames River Cruise

Rudimental’s massive O2 Arena show on Thursday 3 March 2016 with premium seating ​A 5 hours experience! Rudimental are touring the world with their latest album &lsqu… 

Iphigenia In Splott

Iphigenia In Splott

In Greek mythology, princess Iphigenia is the eldest daughter of King Agamemnon, sacrificed to the goddess Artemis in order to allow her father’s warships to sail off to Troy. 

Purposeless Movements

Purposeless Movements

There’s a beautiful symmetry to this new production from Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company; the start and end deliberately remind us that the four disabled men o… 

King Lear

King Lear

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 … 

Good King Richard

Good King Richard

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… 

Works & Process, Shen Wei Dance Arts

Works & Process, Shen Wei Dance Arts

Fifteen years ago, Shen Wei burst onto the dance scene with a mesmerizing blend of starkly beautiful visual art and propulsive yet meditative movement. 

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness

I’ve long been a fan of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, in which an Antarctica exhibition uncovers the still-living legacy of a previously unknow… 

The Destroyed Room

The Destroyed Room

With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and … 

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Arguably, the most important part of any Agatha Christie play doesn’t happen on the stage at all; it takes place in the rest of the theatre during the interval, when there’s… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i… 

My Name is Saoirse

My Name is Saoirse

Outside of the almost factory-like default setting of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s one hour time-slot (long-since exported around the world), it actually feels somewhat odd… 

The Crucible

The Crucible

In the face of something terrible, we can either laugh or cry. 

The Sensible Show

The Sensible Show

Chris Duffy and Evan Kaufman host the first edition of the new weekly stand-up show “at a reasonable hour. 

The Memory Show

The Memory Show

When a daughter comes home to care for her aging mother, the pressure starts to build on their turbulent relationship. 

Valentines Shows

Valentines Shows

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… 

Cock

Cock

In the run-up to Mike Bartlett’s play Cock opening at the Tron Theatre, a lot of people – myself included – clearly couldn’t help have some innocent adolescent fun with … 

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

All theatre requires a certain suspension of disbelief, musical theatre even more so. 

Endgame

Endgame

“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. 

A Murder is Announced

A Murder is Announced

Coming to a “classic” Agatha Christie whodunnit after a full day’s binging on the latest series of the BBC’s Silent Witness – oh, the life of a reviewer! – is, frank… 

CauseWay

CauseWay

“A dastardly attempt was made in the early hours of yesterday morning by suffragists to fire and blow up Burns’s Cottage, Alloway, the birthplace of the national poet,” rep… 

The Weir

The Weir

If there’s one moment in this new production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir that encapsulates the quality of its cast and director, it’s towards the close when a moment of … 

The Duo Show

The Duo Show

This monthly show pairs comedians for performances that often become a mix of stand-up, improv and vaudevillian acts. 

Broadway & the Bard

Broadway & the Bard

Len Cariou’s odd but engaging solo show combines classic Shakespearean monologues (and one sonnet) and Broadway show tunes. 

Chen Dance Center

Chen Dance Center

In “Newsteps,” a semi-annual showcase of emerging choreographers selected by a panel of veterans, Takeshi Ohashi looks at dynamics in relationships; Gina Montalto wonde… 

Aladdin

Aladdin

Strange Town is a theatre company based in Edinburgh which aims to “enable young people to fulfil their creative potential”, by providing five to 25 year olds with the opport… 

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Annual Winter Wonderlandia Holiday Variety Show

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Annual Winter Wonderlandia Holiday Variety Show

This event promises to be “everything you wish your company’s holiday party was but isn’t. 

Tracks of the Winter Bear

Tracks of the Winter Bear

At a time of year when most theatres across the land are bursting with colour, raucous laughter and the panto spirit, it’s typical of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, long-esta… 

A Belter of a Cinderella Story

A Belter of a Cinderella Story

When it comes to retelling Cinderella, two of the three most important roles in terms of plot and audience participation are Cinders’ best pal Buttons and her Fairy Godmother. 

Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Like most of Scotland’s producing theatres, the Citizens Theatre does not, as a matter of principle, “do” panto. 

Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs

Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs

Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four… 

Show Me the Tap… Show Me the Soul!

Show Me the Tap… Show Me the Soul!

After a one-night performance in 2014, Tap Soul Productions brings back this musical revue for four performances. 

To Breathe

To Breathe

To Breathe starts with its six performers standing in a circle, staring at the audience, just breathing. 

Cinderella

Cinderella

“Smells like Seton Sands” is precisely the kind of line you expect in a pantomime at The Brunton theatre in Musselburgh; it’s hooked on local rivalries, and grounds the ubi… 

One, Two, Three, Yippee

One, Two, Three, Yippee

There is an intrinsic roughness to this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena productions: performed “in the round” in a student bar within city’s Art College, th… 

Center for Performance Research

Center for Performance Research

Fall Movement is a short festival featuring six choreographers whose work will each be seen twice over three nights. 

The Bruce in Ireland

The Bruce in Ireland

“A truce is a truce, but war is war,” we’re told early on in Ben Blow’s history play focusing on the all-too-forgotten consequences of Robert the Bruce’s victory over … 

The Astronaut Love Show

The Astronaut Love Show

This musical satire by Fred Sauter and Paul Leschen (“Bedbugs!!!”) commandeers three real-life stories of obsession: the German cannibal who ate his willing victim, the… 

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala

Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers. 

Cagebirds

Cagebirds

Leicester-born David Campton, who died in in 2006, was a prolific British dramatist, especially adept at writing thought-provoking one act plays that make us laugh as much as we … 

The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth

“Juke-box musicals”, which essentially use existing songs as their musical score, may strike you as a relatively modern theatrical phenomena – think Mamma Mia! or We Will … 

Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance

Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance

Grab some popcorn and settle in for “Revelations. 

Panopticon

Panopticon

Panopticon, written and directed by second year University of Edinburgh student Liam Rees, is set in a women’s prison, into which well-meaning dramatist Julia comes to run a s… 

Loserville

Loserville

“One day every company will fear a geek in a garage,” we’re told early on in Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s Loserville. 

Hidden

Hidden

One of the strengths of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company during the last half-century has been its ongoing commitment to providing quality drama education and performance opport… 

The Talent Show

The Talent Show

Elna Baker and Kevin Townley host this ever-changing variety show, with each edition based on a different idea. 

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

The first thing that strikes you about this new stage adaptation of William Golding’s classic dystopian novel is Jon Bausor’s astounding set: the huge section of a passenger… 

Tribes

Tribes

The family at the heart of Nina Raine’s Tribes is liable, at least initially, to make you yearn for the exit. 

Lot and his God

Lot and his God

“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room. 

The MsFits: Fur Coat & Magic Knickers

The MsFits: Fur Coat & Magic Knickers

A criticism sometimes made about Edinburgh – especially by Glaswegians – is that, while the city appears sophisticated and morally upstanding, this is just a facade hiding a … 

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti… 

Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

This esteemed ensemble begins the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series with a program of works ranging from the Renaissance to the present, with selections by Tallis, William Byrd… 

The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil

The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil

Arguably the most significant work of new theatre from “north of the border” in recent years is the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an excellent example of inve… 

The Loud Boys Show

The Loud Boys Show

Mark Vigeant and Yoni Lotan are hosts of this boisterous comedy show who promise to “sing, dance, give out candy and loudly shout at each other. 

Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Every year a sell out! The UK’s first and premier award for live comedy. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It’s the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – and It’s Free!

Anarchic annual two-hour charity show celebrating the late Godfather of Alternative Comedy. 

The Little Red Show

The Little Red Show

Ever had therapy? Feel like a failure? Then this one’s for you! Join performance poet Little Red as she reveals why the therapy didn’t work, through laughter, tears and sexual innu… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

The Wow Wow Show! with Dan Clark

The Wow Wow Show! with Dan Clark

Star of BBC3’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life, Dan Clark, presents The Wow Wow Show! A very British take on the American late night talk show such as Letterman and Fallo… 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

The Angelos and Barry Show: Live Podcast

The Angelos and Barry Show: Live Podcast

Angelos Epithemiou (BBC Two’s Shooting Stars) and Barry from Watford (BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon) record their award-winning iTunes Best of 2014 podcast in front o… 

Bearpit Podcast (Podcast) Gala Show

Bearpit Podcast (Podcast) Gala Show

Live podcast recording and variety show in aid of Peruvian Kettle Syndrome. 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company. 

H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore

While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H. 

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men could be seen as a dark comedy or as just dark. 

Piaf

Piaf

Piaf opens with a spectacular tableau of the entire cast. 

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Italia Conti Ensemble score an absolute triumph with Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist. 

Edmund the Learned Pig

Edmund the Learned Pig

Barry Bonaparte’s Travelling Circus is in trouble. 

For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country. 

Party

Party

Party isn’t that sort of party; well, it sort of is, and maybe it should be, but overall it isn’t – though it might be after it’s finished. 

Richard III

Richard III

Richard III is one of the most fascinating Shakespeare plays I know, and it is always interesting to see new interpretations by different companies. 

I Am

I Am

I Am is the sequel to LCP Dance Theatre’s Am I. 

I Loved You and I Loved You

I Loved You and I Loved You

If Morfydd Owen had lived three weeks longer she would have been immortalised in the 27 Club. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement. 

The Misfit Analysis

The Misfit Analysis

Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec… 

The Amazing Sketch Show

The Amazing Sketch Show

The description of The Amazing Sketch Show states that their sketches are ‘some of the funniest, silliest and zaniest sketches’ to be found at this year’s Fringe. 

The Fallen Angel Show

The Fallen Angel Show

Vesper Walk describe themselves as a “quirky five to eight piece band performing art-pop music in a gothic style. 

Sweet Thunder – A Show in Three Layers

Sweet Thunder – A Show in Three Layers

‘Cocking a snook at learned prejudices . 

Josh Widdicombe's XFM Show Live!

Josh Widdicombe's XFM Show Live!

After a sell-out run in 2014 Josh and Producer Neil return with their award-winning XFM Podcast . 

The People's TV Show

The People's TV Show

A raucous, fun-filled cabaret show dedicated to all the best things on the box. 

YAMA

YAMA

There is dance and there is Scottish Dance Theatre. 

EurekaDance – Presented by Performing Arts Studio Scotland

EurekaDance – Presented by Performing Arts Studio Scotland

EurekaDance is the culmination of a week of movement exploration with artistic director of Collision, Lisi Perry and Simonson Modern Jazz facilitator Teresa Perez Ceccon – all th… 

Savage

Savage

Aimee has an ironically funny line in Savage when she refers to John as “a boring old queen”. 

Street Arts – Where to Go Next?

Street Arts – Where to Go Next?

Performers, join a discussion set up specifically for Street and Outdoor Artists. 

The Sun Ra Arkestra with Richard Youngs

The Sun Ra Arkestra with Richard Youngs

Summerhall is proud to present the Sun Ra Arkestra, live in the Dissection Room. 

The Stupid Show for Idiots

The Stupid Show for Idiots

A stupid show made by idiots, for idiots!* Join frustrated satirist Ben Powell and frantic artist and comedian Mike Milling for an hour of comedy, satire, art, music and awful, rel… 

Shh! It's The Very Perry Show

Shh! It's The Very Perry Show

Actor comedienne Kate Perry performs her solo character comedy show featuring six costumes, two pairs of glasses and a rubber hat. 

Jean-Luc Picard and Me

Jean-Luc Picard and Me

Recent cinematic reboots notwithstanding, there’s arguably at least one generation of television viewers for whom Star Trek’s starship captain of choice is not James Tiberius K… 

Alistair Williams and Edd Hedges – The Late Show

Alistair Williams and Edd Hedges – The Late Show

Cutting straight to the chase, Alistair and Edd embark on an hour of joke-telling aimed solely at making you laugh. 

Oliver!

Oliver!

With a cast of nearly fifty, there’s no shortage of oom-pah-pah in this dazzling production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! by Stage 84, The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts. 

Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight

Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight

Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful… 

Matt Abbott is Skint and Demoralised

Matt Abbott is Skint and Demoralised

Matt Abbott admits that poetry is a hard sell on the Fringe, impossible to talk about without coming across as pretentious – which may well explain why one of his bespoke marketi… 

Saltire – Scottish Song, Music and Comedy – Supper and Show

Saltire – Scottish Song, Music and Comedy – Supper and Show

Scottish song, music and comedy at its finest. 

The State of Concrete

The State of Concrete

The Britwell estate, built in 1957, was created to rehouse people from the slum clearance areas of London and Essex. 

Odd Shaped Balls

Odd Shaped Balls

‘The last 12 months have been very difficult for me. 

Rhymes with Orange

Rhymes with Orange

Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick. 

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

A Daily Mirror awaits us on our seats announcing the death of a ‘pair of “star-crossed” lovers … in the wake of increasingly violent clashes in the streets’. 

Donald Does Dusty

Donald Does Dusty

Donald Torr was, apparently, the best big brother any little girl could have, especially growing up on the outskirts of 1960s’ Aberdeen. 

JJ Cale Appreciation Show

JJ Cale Appreciation Show

Scottish session musicians The Breeze perform a 60 minute set featuring popular and lesser known songs of the late John Walden Cale. 

The Jäger Maestros Oompah Show

The Jäger Maestros Oompah Show

Manchester’s definitive entertainment band, The Jäger Maestros are an authentic German oompah band with a refreshingly modern difference. 

The Mrs Mash Show

The Mrs Mash Show

Mrs Mash loves food and she loves stories! Join her for a feast of stories, songs and joining in fun about all kinds of fabulous food. 

Baby Wants Candy: The Graduation Show

Baby Wants Candy: The Graduation Show

The Graduation Show is where BWC’s Fringe Improv Intensive Workshop students strut their stuff in a showcase performance having learnt long-form improv from the finest! Find out … 

Title of Show

Title of Show

The title of [Title of Show] tells you quite a lot about what you need to know! This musical, within a musical, within a musical writes itself as it plays out. 

Faust

Faust

In sixteenth-century Germany it was not regarded as irreverant to perform comic puppet shows featuring characters and scenes from the legend of Faust. 

Richard Wiseman: How to be Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Richard Wiseman: How to be Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Richard Wiseman, psychologist and bestselling author of several popular psychology books, returns to the Fringe to talk for an hour about the psychology of perception, touching on … 

Undermined

Undermined

Undermined was going to be called Shafted, but a guy named Godber had already beaten Danny Mellor to it. 

Torna a Sorrento – Dinner and Show

Torna a Sorrento – Dinner and Show

Let Philip Contini take you back to Sorrento for songs, stories, sunshine, romance, Neapolitan food and wine. 

Full Tilt Janis: The Australian Janis Joplin Tribute Show

Full Tilt Janis: The Australian Janis Joplin Tribute Show

Full Tilt Janis: The Australian Janis Joplin Tribute Show captures the sound, feel and attitude of the infamous Janis Joplin. 

The Jeremy Kyle Show Does Shakespeare

The Jeremy Kyle Show Does Shakespeare

A young girl swears she will kill herself if her parents won’t let her date her boyfriend. 

Gunge! A Show With Gunge in It

Gunge! A Show With Gunge in It

Afternoons are dead boring now, everyone knows that, even proper stupid idiots. 

Fife Youth Arts Hub Fringe Picks

Fife Youth Arts Hub Fringe Picks

Supporting the progression of youth arts in Fife, FYAH are delighted to offer this varied programme of four individual performances from groups who are working in Fife creating wor… 

Village Pub Theatre

Village Pub Theatre

For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f… 

Film in the Old College Quad – Free Family Films

Film in the Old College Quad – Free Family Films

Free morning films for the whole family. 

BBC: The Radio 2 Arts Show

BBC: The Radio 2 Arts Show

Live from Edinburgh, The Radio 2 Arts Show captures all the excitement from the Edinburgh Festivals, with guests from the world of comedy, theatre, dance, literature and music.  

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. 

The Animotion Show

The Animotion Show

‘A mesmerising visual and aural feast’ (Scotsman). 

Richard III
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Richard III

I have seen several performances of Richard III; Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen on film, and Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic, but Emily Carding’s portrayal of the king who murders… 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

A common objective for artists participating in the Fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work. 

Film in the Old College Quad

Film in the Old College Quad

Outdoor cinema returns to the Fringe with a season of classic films in the iconic Old College Quad. 

The Antipoet And Friends After 9 Show

The Antipoet And Friends After 9 Show

This comedic beat poetry duo have spent the last seven years successfully entertaining festival audiences across the land. 

The Sino Profusion Show

The Sino Profusion Show

Performed by Shanghai’s Hand in Hand Troupe, a famous young artists’ association in China. 

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

Banter and silliness are the driving force of this Cheltenham sketch comedy troupe. 

Stuart Laws: Who Said Anything About Stopping It? (1hr Show)

Stuart Laws: Who Said Anything About Stopping It? (1hr Show)

Third show from the guy who makes all the comedy with Turtle Canyon Comedy and supported James Acaster on tour. 

The Thomas Clifford Show

The Thomas Clifford Show

The Thomas Clifford Show is a theatrical spoof of a chat show resembling The Jonathan Ross Show. 

Posh

Posh

With this year’s general election behind us and members now in office the return of Posh to the Festival Fringe is timely. 

God's Waiting Room

God's Waiting Room

Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round. 

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy started out as two plays in a year-long project by One World Actors Centre (Kuwait) to produce Jean Anouilh’s Antigone in both English and Arabic. 

The Jerome Experience – Rotating Drumming Show

The Jerome Experience – Rotating Drumming Show

The Jerome Experience – Rotating Drumming Show… ‘You may call him a musician, I’d call him an artist whose medium is sound and form…’ (Andy Sweetland). 

Pelican: A Sketch Show

Pelican: A Sketch Show

‘The epitome of bizarre hilarity and joyous absurdity’ ***** (Tab. 

To Space

To Space

Dr Niamh Shaw is that relatively rare thing – a skilled and engaging stage performer who also happens to be a scientist and engineer, with both a degree and PhD to her name. 

The Thomas Clifford Show

The Thomas Clifford Show

The Thomas Clifford Show is a theatrical spoof of a chat show resembling The Jonathan Ross Show. 

Roaring Boys

Roaring Boys

Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history. 

The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance

“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute. 

That Silly Show

That Silly Show

Join Jim and Miranda for an hour of jokes, songs and good old-fashioned entertainment with their own brand of friendly silliness. 

Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times

Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times

Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from… 

Bayou Blues

Bayou Blues

Bayou Blues is beautiful. 

Strictly Come Trancing Hypnosis Show with Ben Dali

Strictly Come Trancing Hypnosis Show with Ben Dali

Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults. 

That Silly Show

That Silly Show

Join Jim and Miranda for an hour of jokes, songs and good old-fashioned entertainment with their own brand of friendly silliness. 

Tales from a Cabaret

Tales from a Cabaret

The Creative Martyrs, that white-faced Laurel and Hardy of existential cabaret terrorism, are not men to be trifled with, as some rather talkative front-row audience members discov… 

The Brendon Burns Show Again

The Brendon Burns Show Again

When Brendon Burns announced last year that he would neither be promoting his Fringe show nor charging for tickets, a few eyebrows were raised. 

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

Hilarious 100% raw improvisation is on the menu as some weird and wonderful suggestions are taken from the audience while performing short-form improvisation games. 

Richard Brown: Art is Easy

Richard Brown: Art is Easy

The follow up to his debut show, This is Not for You (**** Scotsman), this is an alternative comedy show about hopelessness. 

Late Show

Late Show

Where the who’s who of comedy and comedy’s new breakout stars love to perform and audiences love to be. 

Stuart Goldsmith: An Hour (Free Show)

Stuart Goldsmith: An Hour (Free Show)

All spit no polish, all show no pony, Goldsmith goes back to the source. 

My Name is...

My Name is...

When Gaby disappeared from her Scottish home in 2006, it was assumed that her Pakistani father had kidnapped her. 

Sinister: A Murder Mystery & Magic Show

Sinister: A Murder Mystery & Magic Show

A tale of dark deeds – with your host, magician Dave Reubens. 

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

Ever wanted to know what a camping trip sounds like through the medium of opera? Yes, I’m being serious, and this is just one of many bizarre performances you will see from The Dis… 

The Alan David Ross Show

The Alan David Ross Show

Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems. 

Reconciling

Reconciling

Fractals are frequently found in discussions within the realms of science, maths, art and nature. 

Dead Letter Office

Dead Letter Office

Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli … 

Five Drinks

Five Drinks

It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound. 

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim’s score for his self-described “black operetta” Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, must rank among his most complex and challenging works, if on… 

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

A series of comedy sketches performed by a talented all-female cast from St Mary’s Calne Senior School. 

Aaabeduation – A Magic Show

Aaabeduation – A Magic Show

“We are the first show… in the Edinburgh Fringe Guide” magicians Malin Nilsson and Charlie Caper crow happily, claiming this as the reason for their strangely named show. 

Rob Auton: The Water Show

Rob Auton: The Water Show

The Water Show is a show about water. 

IamI

IamI

Yet again CalArts pushes forward the frontiers of theatre with an extraordinary, fascinating and labyrinthine work. 

Richard Gadd: Waiting for Gaddot

Richard Gadd: Waiting for Gaddot

The troubled comedian returns to the festival for the third year running (Cheese and Crack Whores, 2013; Breaking Gadd, 2014) having received rave reviews, sell-out crowds, critica… 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show

Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer. 

Worst Show on the Fringe

Worst Show on the Fringe

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin . 

Bristol Improv Steals the Show – Free

Bristol Improv Steals the Show – Free

Bristol Improv return with their hit format Bristol Improv Steals the Show! Everything on stage is completely improvised based on you, the audience! Expect to have your programmes … 

The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans… 

Wonderland

Wonderland

Wonderland is the story of Alice’s encounters in the tale of the Red Queen. 

BED

BED

Eddie, Imogen and Lena share a flat. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

The Ascension of Mrs Leech

The Ascension of Mrs Leech

This hilarious beginners guide to theology is the funniest presentation of religious concepts imaginable. 

The Clean (as Possible) Comedy Show

The Clean (as Possible) Comedy Show

Come and watch three top comedians from the stand up-circuit clean up their act! Two (or more) of the circuit’s best loved comedians will be joining hosts Rob Thomas and Fran Garri… 

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following two sell-out runs. 

The American Soldier

The American Soldier

We must be nearly at saturation point with plays and particularly monologues about war veterans. 

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Children’s entertainment should be brimming with energy, lovable and over-the-top characters, and enchanting tricks. 

Thirteen (13)

Thirteen (13)

The storyline is shallow, the message insubstantial and the script contrived, so you don’t have anything deep to think about. 

Ozymandias

Ozymandias

Interviewed by Broadway Baby, Hugh Train explained how Ozymandias was generated through free writing around the words of Shelley’s poem until eventually the “nonsensical rambl… 

Grossed Out Game Show

Grossed Out Game Show

Dressed in a suit emblazoned with the sort of multicoloured exclamations that you would often find in comic books, Matty Grey’s eye-catching attire alone sets the tone for this m… 

Complex

Complex

A man is desperate for a job. 

Bones

Bones

Bones is an intimate and tragic tale of growing up in a bruised family and having to take responsibility not only for yourself but also for those who who should be caring for you. 

ABC of Musical Comedy – Luc Valvona – Free Show!

ABC of Musical Comedy – Luc Valvona – Free Show!

Luc Valvona returns to the Fringe with his third full show, featuring multiple instruments and musical technology, and this time his stand-up and funny songs will be based on all t… 

The Amazing World of MC Escher

The Amazing World of MC Escher

Given our familiarity with Escher’s unmistakable style it’s hard to believe that this is the first major exhibition of his work in the UK and that there is only one print of … 

Rent

Rent

Fans of Rent will love this full length presentation and for those who have never seen it, this is a great opportunity to watch a rip-roaring production. 

The Hendrick's Emporium of Sensorial Submersion

The Hendrick's Emporium of Sensorial Submersion

The Hendrick’s Emporium of Sensorial Submersion is yet another triumph for the phantasmagorically fertile imaginations of the genial geniuses of gin. 

Styx

Styx

For once, we are given a programme description that is completely accurate and delivers what it promises: ‘a tragicomic thriller about love and accidental murder…. 

Craft Scotland Summer Show

Craft Scotland Summer Show

Back by popular demand! Returning for its third year, the Craft Scotland Summer Show sets up shop in the centre of town. 

The Quentin Dentin Show

The Quentin Dentin Show

The Quentin Dentin Show is an extraordinary and eccentric dark comedy rock musical, which sees main characters Nat and Keith’s relationship on the rocks and their lives in a rut. 

Homme | Animal

Homme | Animal

‘How can I know who I am …feeling with pure energy, / With my heart, my mind, my body, my soul, / This is who and what I am. 

The Maydays Present: Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show

The Maydays Present: Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show

Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanish. 

A Face That Fits

A Face That Fits

Moon Fly Theatre Company was created this year with the aim of affording opportunities to new and promising writers, actors and directors. 

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

The Discount Comedy Checkout – Improv Show

Hilarious 100% raw improvisation is on the menu as some weird and wonderful suggestions are taken from the audience while performing short-form improvisation games. 

Block

Block

Block is a production that constantly surprises, though not always in ways that are comforting. 

Thief

Thief

Sailor – he had a real name once, but he believes “Sailor” suits him now – is a street hustler, thief and raconteur; the illegitimate son of a prostitute who has taken up h… 

Pip Utton: Playing Maggie

Pip Utton: Playing Maggie

Margaret Thatcher was – still is, two years after her death – a divisive figure, loved and hated in equal measure. 

Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas

Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas

“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot. 

How to Sell Your Show

How to Sell Your Show

Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers. 

High Jinx Magic and Illusion Show

High Jinx Magic and Illusion Show

Fresh from his European Tour with the Festival International de Magie and his sell-out UK theatre tour the unique creativity, passion and talent of Michael Jordan brings together a… 

The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier finds an interesting perspective on the lives of men who fought in the First World War. 

The Wild Card Kitty Show

The Wild Card Kitty Show

In this solo show, Wild Card Kitty presents a compendium of character comedy based chicanery, transforming into different artistes from around the globe showing off their special s… 

Oliver Meech's Improvised Magic Show

Oliver Meech's Improvised Magic Show

Oliver Meech is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe, having brought his show When Magic and Science Collide in previous years. 

39 Steps by Patrick Barlow

39 Steps by Patrick Barlow

It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th… 

Edinburgh Gin O'Clock

Edinburgh Gin O'Clock

The Edinburgh Gin Company has left its distillery behind and moved to The Boards in the Edinburgh Playhouse to tell a brief history of the city’s alcohol and gin heritage along w… 

Next Year's Show (50% Abridged Version)

Next Year's Show (50% Abridged Version)

After four years of consistently filling the smallest room in Edinburgh, Adam Belbin is set to return with possibly the final instalment in this quadrilogy of shows. 

Scaramouche Jones

Scaramouche Jones

‘God, what a day’ is the first thing said to us by Scaramouche Jones, the red-nosed, white-faced clown who – sensing the ghosts of an audience in his dressing room – decide… 

CELL

CELL

There is something inherently heartbreaking about the small metal-framed chair standing centre-stage as the audience comes in, but no more so than when one of the show’s co-devis… 

The Sunny Side Show

The Sunny Side Show

Award-winning comic Keith Carter presents a stand-up situation comedy musical game show satire about how good manners and boundless optimism will triumph over life’s hardships. 

Aaaaaarrgghh! It's 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Aaaaaarrgghh! It's 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour. 

Comfort Slaves

Comfort Slaves

Suitability: 16+ (Restriction). 

RAZ by Jim Cartwright

RAZ by Jim Cartwright

It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe. 

Lords of Strut: The Family Show

Lords of Strut: The Family Show

Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem on tour; a show for the whole family, you can even bring your granny! Brothers Famous Seamus and Sean-tastic will do… 

The Missing Hancocks: Live in Edinburgh! (Show B)

The Missing Hancocks: Live in Edinburgh! (Show B)

BBC Radio 4’s smash hit – live! Hancock’s Half Hour, lovingly recreated with a stellar cast led by Kevin McNally as The Lad Himself. 

Dr Professor Neal Portenza's Catchy Show Title

Dr Professor Neal Portenza's Catchy Show Title

Winner: Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe. 

Late Night Dark Show

Late Night Dark Show

Bobby Mair, Tim Renkow and Dylan Gott roll out some of the darkest jokes at the Fringe. 

Lili la Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

Lili la Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

The hottest ticket of the Fringe is back! Treat yourself to a late night date with Lili la Scala and her glittering cavalcade of Cabarati. 

Sex, Hugs and Gender Roles: A Panel Show About Sexuality

Sex, Hugs and Gender Roles: A Panel Show About Sexuality

This unique stand-up panel show explores relationships with sex, sexuality and culture. 

Alun Cochrane: A Show with a Man in It

Alun Cochrane: A Show with a Man in It

Okay, he doesn’t promise much - the title was his son’s butchering of the ‘one-man show’ term. 

The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show

The Fabulous Punch and Judy Show

Punch and Judy has been a long running stalwart of beachside entertainment for the whole family – but whatever you do, don’t bring the kids to this live-action adaptation. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Lunchtime

Big Value Comedy Show – Lunchtime

Take a punt at lunchtime. 

Abigoliah's GoPro Comedy Talk Show!

Abigoliah's GoPro Comedy Talk Show!

NYC Comic, Abigoliah Schamaun, has devised a talk show where you, the audience, are the star! Armed with a GoPro Camera atop her head, Schamaun will host an hour of games, fire tri… 

The Improvised Improv Show – Free Show!

The Improvised Improv Show – Free Show!

Taking improv to the next level – we improvise the cast! Now in its third year, the Fringe’s free daily improv jam returns for more comedy scenes and games based entirely on audi… 

Fife Youth Arts Hub Gallery

Fife Youth Arts Hub Gallery

Young Curators from Fife College worked with Kirkcaldy Galleries in Fife during the Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus exhibition. 

Ian Fox – Shutter Monkey (A Comedy Show With Pictures) – Free

Ian Fox – Shutter Monkey (A Comedy Show With Pictures) – Free

Forget typewriters, what would happen if you gave an infinite number of monkeys a camera each? **** (BroadwayBaby.co.uk). **** (Comedy.com). 

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Big Value Comedy Show – Early

Our 21st year as the recognised launch pad for future legends. 

Clandestine Sketch Show

Clandestine Sketch Show

**** (Nouse. 

Aaaaaahhhh, it's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Aaaaaahhhh, it's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes – Free Show

Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour. 

The Trials of Galileo

The Trials of Galileo

Galileo lived in age when the church reigned supreme, faith was more important than fact and dogma denied discovery. 

Chris Martin: This Show has a Soundtrack

Chris Martin: This Show has a Soundtrack

Chris Martin is trying something a little different this year by having his show underpinned with a musical soundtrack. 

Aaaaaarrgghhhh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Aaaaaarrgghhhh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show

Feast on five of the tastiest up and coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham. 

Déjà Vu – A Mind Reading Show Like You Won't Have Seen Before

Déjà Vu – A Mind Reading Show Like You Won't Have Seen Before

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… 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

The best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics in a great value lunchtime compilation showcase. 

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Big Value Comedy Show – Late

Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe. Four different comedians to the earlier show. Two hours, four acts for £10 or less. ‘Top comedy, top value’ (List). 

I Went To A Fabulous Party...

I Went To A Fabulous Party...

During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug… 

International Stud

International Stud

Originally a one-act play consisting of five scenes, The International Stud premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1978 and later became the first part of Harvey Fierstein’s landmark work, … 

Show Your Hope

Show Your Hope

Show your Hope is a mobile art exhibition by Dutch storyteller Mr Martin who has been travelling all over the world with a van full of paintings since 2003. 

Lisa Gornick's Live Drawing Show

Lisa Gornick's Live Drawing Show

Lisa Gornick’s Live Drawing Show opens with an interesting and inventive premise: using the aid of drawing in real time to tell a story. 

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Morgan & West's Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show for Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. 

Fills Monkey: Incredible Drum Show

Fills Monkey: Incredible Drum Show

Sebastien Rambaud and Yann Coste’s Incredible Drum Show thoroughly deserves its seemingly immodest title. 

Richard Melvin Presents… Live at The Stand Podcast

Richard Melvin Presents… Live at The Stand Podcast

Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte… 

The Missing Hancocks: Live in Edinburgh! (Show A)

The Missing Hancocks: Live in Edinburgh! (Show A)

The Missing Hancocks is a genuine blast from the past. 

The Noise Next Door: The Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The Noise Next Door: The Really, Really Good Afternoon Show

The seven-time sell-out comedy sensation returns to Edinburgh with an anarchic afternoon show for just about everyone. 

The Gideon & Hubcap Show

The Gideon & Hubcap Show

Direct from NYC, Gideon & Hubcap serve up their unique brand of Stove-Top Folk (on no fewer than ten instruments!), sharing tales of love, apocalypse and death-defying friendship t… 

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

This sketch show offers an hour of clean-cut and well-rehearsed comedy. 

Richard Soames Does the Right Thing

Richard Soames Does the Right Thing

Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees). 

The Underbelly Radio Shows

The Underbelly Radio Shows

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… 

May I Have the Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell

May I Have the Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell

Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption… 

Big Bite Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite Size Breakfast Show

Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre. 

The Shuffle Show

The Shuffle Show

If The Shuffle Show is anything to go by, life behind the Genius Bar requires a very specific skill-set. 

K'rd Strip: A Place to Stand

K'rd Strip: A Place to Stand

K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand is a bizarre yet beautiful blend of Māori culture, contemporary dance, vocals and music, drag and real life stories. 

As Is

As Is

New York, 1985. 

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba… 

S.E.N

S.E.N

You can find the characters Taylor and Aalia in every comprehensive school in the country. 

Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox

Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox

Following last year’s generally well-received comic homage to the Edwardian Ghost Story (The Haunting of Lopham House), writer and performer Tom Neenan shifts his genre gaze forw… 

Labels

Labels

Labels are easy to create: they can even be fun. 

Danza del Caribe: Itara

Danza del Caribe: Itara

Welcome to a world in which West Africa meets Jamaica, meets Cuba: A world of burning desire, or as they say in Yoruba, Itara. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Performer Paul Nathan informs his audience before they enter the space that ‘Moms and Dads get Champagne, kids get insults’. 

George and Co (the Solo Tour)

George and Co (the Solo Tour)

At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea… 

Richard Parker

Richard Parker

What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat. 

Loot

Loot

There’s a huge difference between comedy and black comedy that seems to have eluded the Lincoln Company in their production of Joe Ortons’s Loot. 

La Ronde

La Ronde

In keeping with its history, this latest production of La Ronde by Zebronkeyis controversial. 

Trans Scripts

Trans Scripts

One of the challenges of reportage theatre – works in which the words and experiences of real people are edited and put into the words of actors – is to justify the process as … 

Sushi Tap Show 2

Sushi Tap Show 2

Tokyo Tapdoare a company of Japanese tap dancers, percussionists, circus artists. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank… 

Sonic Vision – Dome Cinema Show

Sonic Vision – Dome Cinema Show

Take a trip through vivid 3D graphic environments that pulsate to the rhythm of high-energy music. 

Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Kevin MacLeod’s Call To Adventure is entirely appropriate as the walk-in soundtrack to Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids. 

The Arts Barge Project Presents…The Great Yorkshire Swing!

The Arts Barge Project Presents…The Great Yorkshire Swing!

The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza. 

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

With the blessing of the Cooper Estate, John Hewer takes to the stage in the guise of one of Britain’s most loved comedians. 

Richard II

Richard II

Shakespeare’s popular play Richard II recounts the fate of the famously decadent king as he spends his father’s fortune, places punitive taxes onto the poor, and spends his no… 

Lincoln Center Festival

Lincoln Center Festival

 (performances start on Thursday) All the world’s onstage when this internationally engaged summer festival encamps at Lincoln Center. 

When The War Came Home

When The War Came Home

It’s not often that I’m asked back to see a show, let alone because those involved have openly taken on some of the points I made in my review!When the War Came Home is a … 

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Frühlings Erwachen – written around 1891 but not performed until 1906 – deliberately kicked against sexually-oppressive fin d… 

The Super Serious Show

The Super Serious Show

Hailed by L. 

The Driver's Seat

The Driver's Seat

Described as “a metaphysical shocker” on its release in 1970, The Driver’s Seat was apparently author Muriel Sparks’ favourite amongst her own stories, in part thanks to th… 

Stand

Stand

“This is not just about me,” says one of the cast at the start and close of Chris Goode’s Stand. 

Shows for Days

Shows for Days

(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… 

Place-based Arts: Brighton Writes

Place-based Arts: Brighton Writes

The University of Brighton is hosting a one-day event on place-based arts and how location can provide diverse and rich triggers for writing and other arts based practices. 

Richard Lewis in Conversation with JB Smoove

Richard Lewis in Conversation with JB Smoove

Richard Lewis’s long-form, fury-driven stand-up has influenced scores of comedians over the last 40 years. 

Yer Granny

Yer Granny

Having enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood and colourful teenage youth during the 1970s, I’m often still annoyed by the apparent cultural consensus which dismisses those y… 

Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre

Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre

See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details. 

Persevere

Persevere

Site-specific works can be accused of relying on their location to do the heavy-lifting, theatrically speaking. 

The Chris Graham Variety Show

The Chris Graham Variety Show

Eclectic mix of comedy, music, sketches, improv, interaction: all-new original material. 

A Journey to Here... An Improv Show

A Journey to Here... An Improv Show

Six women are on a journey. A comedy journey to make you laugh. Witness our responses to you and your suggestions. Be scared - we will take you anywhere. It may even involve song. 

Short & Girlie Show

Short & Girlie Show

Improvised comedy by multi award-winning Short & Girlie Show. 

Short & Girlie Show

Short & Girlie Show

Improvised comedy by multi award-winning Short & Girlie Show. 

Short & Girlie Show - kids

Short & Girlie Show - kids

Multi award-winning improvised comedy for families. 

The Beta Males Go Solo: Adam, Richard & The Story Beast

The Beta Males Go Solo: Adam, Richard & The Story Beast

Join Adam Blampied “Delightful” (British Theatre Guide), Richard Soames “Excellent” (Sunday Times) and The Story Beast “Bearded force of nature” (Guardian) as The Beta Males finall… 

The Improverts - Exam Shows

The Improverts - Exam Shows

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… 

Bunty: Full AV show feat VJ Luna

Bunty: Full AV show feat VJ Luna

Looping experimental avant-pop music with a distinctive voice, Brighton’s Bunty brings us her raw talent and unique multi-tasking showmanship! An epic & dazzling audiovisual feast … 

Show Offs

Show Offs

Two adorable weirdos bring you an hour of ridiculous, world-weary comedy about giants, failure, upsetting the elderly, and how dangerous moths used to be. 

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

If you are preparing for the Edinburgh Fringe or performing in Brighton, this expert panel discussion can help with getting your show noticed by media, arts industry and audiences. 

Seska: The Magic Beard, Comedy Magic Show

Seska: The Magic Beard, Comedy Magic Show

Together we will saw your mum in half, lay a golden egg, levitate a baby and make a bogey cake. 

Keep Calm and Sing a Show Tune!

Keep Calm and Sing a Show Tune!

A stylish evening which takes you through the work of musical theatre geniuses from Webber to Jason Robert Brown. 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Gentleman juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb. 

Hombres Flamenco Show

Hombres Flamenco Show

‘Hombres’ is an intimate show that will take you on a magical, emotional, passionate and powerful journey through a series of colourful rhythms of flamenco dance. 

North Coast Six-Year Anniversary Show

North Coast Six-Year Anniversary Show

The hip-hop improv troupe North Coast celebrates six years of freestyle comedy with a special show. Guests include Rob Cantrell and the spectacular beatboxer Kaila Mullady. 

Brooklyn Studios for Dance Studio Show

Brooklyn Studios for Dance Studio Show

It’s been a productive spring for Pepper Fajans, the founder of this new space at Cadman Congregational Church in Fort Greene. 

The Late Show: Election Night Special

The Late Show: Election Night Special

An evening of polls, puns and psephology, spin, sleaze and swingometers, battling past the ballot box with a cabaret cabinet packed with a parliamentary portfolio of political ente… 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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… 

The Treason Show: Election Special!

The Treason Show: Election Special!

Brighton’s all year-round cult satire comedy sketch show, with their unique take on the General Election. 

Comedy Benefit Show for the Families of Second Avenue

Comedy Benefit Show for the Families of Second Avenue

The Upright Citizen Brigade’s finest improvisers are raffling off the chance to improvise with various teams and performers at this show. 

Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show

Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show

Time-travelling Victorian duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. 

The Maydays Present The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present The Fringe Show

Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show every night. 

The Off Beat Show Off Show

The Off Beat Show Off Show

Comedians, sketch-writers and affable bellends Chris Gates and Joe Kenny have created a show that will amuse, arouse, and occasionally disturb you to the very core of your soul (bu… 

The Late Show

The Late Show

Fancy a drink? Join us for a laidback, late-night jaunt at the beautiful Basement. 

Annual Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

Annual Exhibition of Arts and Crafts

Annual exhibition on display at 7 North Road of the arts and craft work of Sanctuary’s residents. Now in its eleventh year. 

No Nothing

No Nothing

Alan Spence is not the first to imagine a meeting between two famous people from different worlds, though there’s certainly a whiff of wishful thinking in this thoughtful, if … 

New York Virtuoso Singers: Distinguished Queens College Composers

New York Virtuoso Singers: Distinguished Queens College Composers

Harold Rosenbaum conducts the New York Virtuoso Singers, a champion of contemporary American music, in a program featuring works by composers associated with Queens College. 

The Venetian Twins

The Venetian Twins

For some, he was “Italy’s Shakespeare”, “the Moliere of Venice”; yet it’s only relatively recently that British theatre audiences have warmed to work by 18th centur… 

Les Arts Florissants

Les Arts Florissants

William Christie leads his vibrant Baroque ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix, his academy for aspiring singers, in a semi-staged performance call… 

Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr / Whisky Galore

Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr / Whisky Galore

On 5th February 1941, during heavy gales, the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. 

Fridays at Noon: Remembering Clark Center

Fridays at Noon: Remembering Clark Center

In the second half of the 20th century, as modern dance hit adulthood, Clark Center for the Performing Arts nurtured a new — and more diverse — generation of artists. 

The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black

Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time… 

The Mash-Up Show

The Mash-Up Show

Adrienne Iapalucci and Luis J. 

Broth

Broth

It’s fitting that, this Eastertide, a resurrection of sorts lies at the heart of this latest collaboration between Glasgow’s Òran Mór and Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre. 

Boys

Boys

Even the greatest of parties end with the hangover of cleaning up afterwards. 

Fools

Fools

Fools and their stories were the theme of this latest set of short plays, dramatic monologues and glorified sketches presented in rehearsed readings by the Village Pub Theatre t… 

Smart, Funny & Black Anniversary Show

Smart, Funny & Black Anniversary Show

Amanda Seales celebrates the first anniversary of her regular show with a top-notch lineup of comedians from Tru TV’s “Friends of the People”: Jermaine Fowler, Li… 

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

Many of the world’s greatest Tragedies – Shakespeare’s in particular – are grounded on the character flaws of their titular characters: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and so … 

The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde

The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde

No less a figure than Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin once insisted that the only author to ever “nail” Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson in his classic 1886 novella, S… 

The History Boys

The History Boys

The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”. 

Beating McEnroe

Beating McEnroe

Life was so much simpler, back in 1980. 

Edgar and Annabel

Edgar and Annabel

Only a clever or ignorant writer would deliberately choose to begin a play with that most egregious of sitcom clichés: “Hi Honey, I’m home. 

Chess - The Musical

Chess - The Musical

There’s one thing I hate about musical theatre, which is especially common with “amateur” productions – there’s seemingly no way of stopping audiences full of family an… 

Equus

Equus

There’s something particularly appropriate about experiencing Peter Shaffer’s Equus at the Bedlam Theatre. 

The Judas Kiss

The Judas Kiss

At one point in the first act of The Judas Kiss, Oscar Wilde admits to always having had “a low opinion of what is called action. 

S.N.L. Writers Unscripted: The Oscar Show

S.N.L. Writers Unscripted: The Oscar Show

Natasha Rothwell, Alison Rich, Meredith Scardino, Claire Mulaney and Katie Rich — all writers at “Saturday Night Live” — host this Academy Awards-themed imp… 

Richard Goode and Friends

Richard Goode and Friends

It’s always a treat to hear the pianist Richard Goode, here in partnership with young artists he has mentored at the Marlboro Music Festival. 

Comedic Reform: A Variety Show Benefit in Support of Police Reform

Comedic Reform: A Variety Show Benefit in Support of Police Reform

Keisha Zollar, one of the Upright Citizen Brigade’s finest improvisers, hosts this fund-raiser for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which is seeking to reform New York̵… 

Jekyll & Hyde

Jekyll & Hyde

Since its first publication in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been adapted for stage, cinema and television hundreds of times. 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

There’s rumbustious joy aplenty in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s infamous examination of legality and justice. 

Fleabag

Fleabag

Unexpected pre-show choice of “Easy Listening” music notwithstanding, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is an exciting theatrical ride, slipping from laugh-out-loud humour to… 

Netting

Netting

They say that, while you can choose your friends, you can’t choose your family; even when you pick a partner, you have no say about the family that comes along with them. 

The Rejection Show Valentines Day Heartbreak Haven

The Rejection Show Valentines Day Heartbreak Haven

Jon Friedman hosts this storytelling show dedicated to breakups and blues. 

Cheap Date Comedy Show

Cheap Date Comedy Show

Sharron Paul and Calvin Cole host this monthly stand-up show, which offers free snacks as well as top-notch comedy. 

When The Rain Stops Falling

When The Rain Stops Falling

Those who don’t know history, according to the Irish statesman Edmund Burke, are destined to repeat it, while the Bible insists more than once that the sins of the father will b… 

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”. 

“SNL” Writers Unscripted: An Improv Comedy Show

“SNL” Writers Unscripted: An Improv Comedy Show

Some of the best writers for “Saturday Night Live” leave the sketches behind for a night of entirely improvised comedy. 

The Real Inspector Hound

The Real Inspector Hound

When reviewing a play – especially one verging on farce – where two of the main characters are professional theatre critics, it’s hard not to become a tiny bit defensive … 

Butterfly

Butterfly

Men – especially working class men from the West of Scotland – are not known for expressing their emotions, instead hiding behind either brutish silence or dry humour. 

A Night With “Kroll Show” Characters

A Night With “Kroll Show” Characters

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will be in character as Gil Faizon and George St. 

Filter's Macbeth

Filter's Macbeth

The “Scottish Play” is among Shakespeare’s shortest, but for critically acclaimed theatre company Filter to edit it down to barely more than 90 minutes, without missing an… 

When The War Came Home

When The War Came Home

The First World War is often described as the first “total war”, that is involving the entire population, at home as well as on the battlefield. 

Faith Healer

Faith Healer

Reality and performance lie at the heart of this solid production of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. 

The Improverts - London Shows

The Improverts - London Shows

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… 

Shen Yun Performing Arts

Shen Yun Performing Arts

This lavish survey of Chinese culture returns to Lincoln Center with an array of musicians, acrobats and dancers consolidating and interpreting 5,000 years worth of tradition and h… 

The Mash Up Comedy Show

The Mash Up Comedy Show

Luis J. 

The Mehran Show

The Mehran Show

Mehran Khaghani kicks off his new weekly stand-up show with a powerhouse lineup, including Janeane Garofalo, Eugene Mirman, Jen Kirkman and Gary Gulman. 

The Macaulay Culkin One-Year Anniversary Show

The Macaulay Culkin One-Year Anniversary Show

Brett Davis and Sally Burtnick celebrate the first birthday of their monthly comedy show (which remains unconnected to the titular actor). 

Low Standards Show

Low Standards Show

John Murray and Matt Fisher, Upright Citizens Brigade veterans, welcome some of their favorite comedians to perform stand-up. 

The Adam Wade Show

The Adam Wade Show

Mr. Wade, a 20-time winner of the storytelling juggernaut the Moth, hosts this variety show, which features a guest racounter each month. 

City Green 10th anniversary Show

City Green 10th anniversary Show

City Green, a nonprofit that promotes urban farming and gardening, celebrates its first decade with a comedy show. 

Slope

Slope

There’s a moment in Pamela Carter’s play Slope when the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, ensconced in a seedy London flat with his young lover Arthur Rimbaud, fears t… 

The George Lucas Halloween Show

The George Lucas Halloween Show

Connor Ratliff and Shaun Diston return with a special Halloween edition of their “Star Wars”-inspired variety show. 

Shrek The Musical - Matinee Show

Shrek The Musical - Matinee Show

Starring Dean Chisnall as Shrek, Richard Blackwood as Donkey, Neil McDermott as Lord Farquaad and Carley Stenson as Princess Fiona; Shrek The Musical brings the charac… 

The Gamblers

The Gamblers

Nikoli Gogol’s The Gamblers (premiered in 1843) is relatively rarely-performed, at least in comparison with the writer’s most famous work, The Government Inspector. 

Bondagers

Bondagers

“Nobody thought to save any of the roots,” says Sara towards the end of The Bondagers. 

Cardinal Sinne

Cardinal Sinne

There’s a strong whiff of Farce about Cardinal Sinne from the off; only that particular genre, after all, requires quite so many doors in a set—in this case three interior d… 

The Macaulay Culkin Show

The Macaulay Culkin Show

Brett Davis and Sally Burtnick host a spooky Halloween edition of their monthly comedy show. 

Josie Long and Maeve Higgins Fantastic Show

Josie Long and Maeve Higgins Fantastic Show

The British comedian Josie Long performs her critically-acclaimed show, “Cara Josephine,” an hour of stand-up about relationships, love and family. 

Short & Girlie Show - Spreading the Love Tour

Short & Girlie Show - Spreading the Love Tour

8 women, three acts, two hours. 

2014 Richard Tucker Gala

2014 Richard Tucker Gala

Since 1975, when the great Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker died, the foundation initiated in his name has fostered the careers of emerging American singers and brought opera to … 

Cameron Esposito Album Release Show

Cameron Esposito Album Release Show

Ms. Esposito, host of the podcast “Put Your Hands Together,” celebrates the release of her new album, “Same Sex Symbol,” with a night of stand-up. 

Myq Kaplans Pre-Birthday Comedy Show and Freestyle Rap Extravaganza Unless People Get Scared

Myq Kaplans Pre-Birthday Comedy Show and Freestyle Rap Extravaganza Unless People Get Scared

The comedians and storytellers Myq Kaplan, Nick Vatterott, Giulia Rozzi, Ophira Eisenberg, Joe List, Adam Wade, Chris Sullivan and Nick Turner perform in this show, whose title say… 

Side Show

Side Show

(previews start on Oct. 

Dan + Joe + Charles Show

Dan + Joe + Charles Show

Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould present this reliable weekly show, with stand-up from Mark Normand, Rob Cantrell and Giulia Rozzi. 

Kill Johnny Glendenning

Kill Johnny Glendenning

Kill Johnny Glendenning is a play of two halves; each a brutally funny, finely-tuned treatise on the various overlapping hierarchies of power and violence that, while shaping ou… 

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

There are five characters in Tennessee William’s breakthrough “memory play” The Glass Menagerie. 

Richard Lewis

Richard Lewis

This renowned comedian, often considered an heir to Lenny Bruce, is a master of long-form storytelling who turns his endless neurotic energy into brilliant comedy. 

Queer New York International Arts Festival

Queer New York International Arts Festival

“Queer” has gained mainstream momentum as an umbrella to capture the ever-shifting terrain of gender identity and sexuality. 

1984

1984

When a work of fiction becomes so iconic a cultural “classic” that it’s known and understood by people who have never read it, it’s unsurprising that a few inaccuracies cre… 

Richard Thompson in Concert

Richard Thompson in Concert

Critically acclaimed prolific songwriter, Ivor Novello Award winner, recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of Al… 

Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show

Every year a sell-out! The UK’s first and premier award for live comedy. 

Kimono Fashion Show

Kimono Fashion Show

A marvellous collection of rare Kimonos inherited from the times of our mothers and grandmothers. 

Simon Singh: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Simon Singh: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within. 

Asian Fashion Show

Asian Fashion Show

A fashion show inspired by young creative designers who want to promote their cultural dress, which can be both fashionable and fall within the acceptable realms of Asian styles. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show - and It's Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show - and It's Free!

It seems arbitrary, if not foolish, to award a star rating to something like the Malcolm Hardee Awards Show. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

The Velma Celli Show

The Velma Celli Show

Direct from London’s Hippodrome Casino, cabaret star Velma Celli presents an evening of all things fabulous and diva. 

An Evening with Richard Michael and Family

An Evening with Richard Michael and Family

Scotsman Richard Michael leads his talented family on piano with his daughters Hilary Michael on violin and saxophone, Joanna Duncan on violin and xylophone, and nephew Paul Michae… 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

China Box Arts Project

China Box Arts Project

China Box Arts Project (CBAP) is a China themed multimedia arts project based on Konghou, a traditional Chinese instrument similar to the harp. 

Palatinotes: The a Cappella Show

Palatinotes: The a Cappella Show

This is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut of Durham University a Cappella Choir and we couldn’t be more excited to share our show with the people of Edinburgh and beyond. 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company. 

Confusions

Confusions

One of the confusions in this production, although not without precedent, is the running order of the five interrelated plays that make up the complete work. 

merry christmas, Ms Meadows

merry christmas, Ms Meadows

During the last few years, the Belarus Free Theatre company has built a strong reputation in issue-based theatre, utilising a wide range of performance techniques to frame and ex… 

David Kay

David Kay

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. 

Compulsion

Compulsion

Declan Cooke is a physically big guy with a powerful presence: if you saw him standing at the bar you would imagine him to be full of confidence and completely in control of his li… 

James Bannon: Running with the Firm

James Bannon: Running with the Firm

James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of… 

BBC: Richard Bacon

BBC: Richard Bacon

Your chance to see Richard Bacon present his lively and entertaining BBC Radio 5live show from the Edinburgh Festivals with celebrity guests. 

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

This special tribute to Tommy Cooper is a compilation of rarely seen material from his cabaret days and the very best of Cooper’s classic gags and tricks. 

Now We Are Pope: Frederick Rolfe in Venice

Now We Are Pope: Frederick Rolfe in Venice

Frederick William Rolfe (1860-1913) was a minor English writer, artist and photographer and serious eccentric. 

Who's Afraid of Michael Gove?

Who's Afraid of Michael Gove?

The Tories have take control and Michael Gove is Prime Minister. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Nature's Heart

Nature's Heart

Koji Takeuchi was born in Japan and began his search for truth in his teens. 

Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Kiss Me Honey Honey! appears to be attracting a decidedly local crowd of middle-aged women, at least if this performance is anything to go by. 

Experimental: The Show That Plays With Your Mind

Experimental: The Show That Plays With Your Mind

An interactive experience like no other as you take part in live mind-blowing experiments that will make you laugh, scream and gasp. 

Breaking Down Barriers: Early Years Arts @ the Fringe

Breaking Down Barriers: Early Years Arts @ the Fringe

Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe. 

Footloose

Footloose

“Footloose may be a hit, but it’s trash - high powered fodder for the teen market. 

Billy Kirkwood's Show Me Your Tattoo - One Night Only!

Billy Kirkwood's Show Me Your Tattoo - One Night Only!

The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood. 

Richard Wiseman: Night School

Richard Wiseman: Night School

Night School is an odd ‘show’ that seems to hover somewhere between an entertaining lecture and a TED talk. 

Celebrating the Social Fabric for Change - Fashion Show

Celebrating the Social Fabric for Change - Fashion Show

Enjoy a fascinating fashion show exhibiting beautiful garments made from colourful organic cotton and ethical eri-silk fabric handwoven by vulnerable indigenous women and survivors… 

Dorian

Dorian

In a 1990 interview on Japanese television, Berkoff said, “I believe that you don’t need anything more than just utter simplicity and that everything in my art must be created … 

How to Tour Your Show Internationally

How to Tour Your Show Internationally

Presented with the British Council, this event is for artists and producers interested in touring their shows at an international level. 

Fisher Lassies

Fisher Lassies

The Fisher Lassies are an a cappella group with a well-established reputation in their home territory of the Scottish Borders. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Maintaining Sash and Case Windows

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Maintaining Sash and Case Windows

If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again. 

Naumburg Orchestral Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Naumburg Orchestral Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Though the inviting Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park is just over 90 years old, this summer is the 109th season of free classical music at  that site. 

Winter of Our Discotheque

Winter of Our Discotheque

Autistic, severely depressed and with inadequate provision for her, Tess Humphrey left school at the age of thirteen. 

Woodbine Willie

Woodbine Willie

Chain smoker and chaplain, poet and padre, furnisher of faith and fags, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy dispensed Woodbines and the word of God on the Western Front during the First Worl… 

Falling in love with Frida

Falling in love with Frida

Caroline Bowditch, Welly O’Brien and Nicole Guarino provide a wonderful evening in a cosy little room at Dance Base: it’s not very often a full house can consist of twelve peop… 

O is for Ofsted

O is for Ofsted

Ofsted inspections are generally not much fun. 

Is an Arts Administration Degree for Me?

Is an Arts Administration Degree for Me?

Thinking of going into performing arts management? Have you wondered if you should get an arts administration degree? Meet and talk with others who are also asking these questions … 

Violetta's Last Tango

Violetta's Last Tango

The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f… 

James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock

James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock

This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions. 

James II: Day of The Innocents

James II: Day of The Innocents

We don’t see one of the most important events in the life of James II, just its immediate consequences; a hurried, chaotic, almost dream-like explosion of fear and movement fo… 

James III: The True Mirror

James III: The True Mirror

If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture… 

MacBheatha

MacBheatha

Summerhall’s steeply tiered Demonstration Room gives off the air of an amphitheatre, but its back wall houses very modern projections. 

The Hacienda Tales

The Hacienda Tales

Canterbury may have one of the world’s most famous cathedrals, but Manchester had the Hacienda. 

Napoli Mia! Dinner and Show

Napoli Mia! Dinner and Show

In Napoli Mia!, Scottish performer and Naples familiar Phillip Contini sings Italian songs from and about Naples and its people. 

Songs by Three Teachers of the Royal College of Music

Songs by Three Teachers of the Royal College of Music

Songs by three teachers of the Royal College of Music (Ireland, Howells and Horowitz) and piano solos by Lambert, a student of the Royal College of Music, are contrasted with the g… 

Josh Widdicombe's XFM Show Live!

Josh Widdicombe's XFM Show Live!

High energy, witty and often silly, Josh’s weekly XFM radio programme hits the stage, bringing the humor and voices that you usually hear through speakers into the room. 

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox. 

Miann

Miann

Soiled bodies writhe across across a primordial swamp in earthbound exploration, rising from time to time in contorted gestures. 

Bard Music Festival

Bard Music Festival

“Schubert and His World” is the most ambitious undertaking of the Bard Music Festival in its 25th anniversary summer season. 

Francesca Martinez: What The **** Is Normal?! - Show plus Book Q&A

Francesca Martinez: What The **** Is Normal?! - Show plus Book Q&A

The wobbly comedian performs five dates of her award-winning show to tie in with her new book, also called What the **** is Normal?! Each show will be followed by a Q&A about the b… 

Cafe Voices

Cafe Voices

Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling. 

Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show

Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show

The Josh Smith Not What You Expected Show will carry on to reflect on the well-being of everyday life. 

Hendrick's Parlour Bar

Hendrick's Parlour Bar

“Immersive theatre productions tend to operate in dynamically fluid settings, allowing the audience a more active, voyeuristic, and central role, while also individualizing their… 

Trinity College London on the Fringe

Trinity College London on the Fringe

Learning to play an instrument? Hear a selection of repertoire from Trinity’s exciting new 2015 syllabuses for piano and other instruments, including first performances of selected… 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

Edinburgh Renaissance Band returns with its ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music, song and dance from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. 

SHOUT! The Mod Musical

SHOUT! The Mod Musical

Bored with Berkoff? Choking on Chekhov? Fed-up with Feydeau? “Don’t sleep in the subway, darlin’, don’t stand in the pouring rain. 

How to Tour Your Show UK

How to Tour Your Show UK

A common objective for artists participating in the fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work. 

The Cowboy Max Show

The Cowboy Max Show

The Cowboy Max Show is a comedy and stunt extravaganza for the whole family. 

Plays and Games: Getting the Audience in the Show with Clare Duffy

Plays and Games: Getting the Audience in the Show with Clare Duffy

Join playwright Clare Duffy for a practical workshop about the challenges of combining live interaction and scripted drama. 

Rock Trial

Rock Trial

Forget the defendant, it is the cast of this excruciating production who should be in the dock. 

Bristol Improv Steals the Show - Free

Bristol Improv Steals the Show - Free

The premise for this clever improvised show is to poach from the best of the Fringe. 

Nunsense

Nunsense

“I always had a good experience with nuns,” said Dan Coggins, who wrote the book, music and lyrics we all know as Nunsense to show us what nuns are “really like. 

Richard Tyrone Jones: Crap Time Lord

Richard Tyrone Jones: Crap Time Lord

Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe… 

The Ruby Darlings Show

The Ruby Darlings Show

If this is what you get in Free Fringe, it makes you wonder how the paid gigs will ever pull the punters in! At the top end, financially, Fringe shows are squeezed by the big boys … 

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin . 

Show 6

Show 6

Show 6 is Secret Theatre’s latest production of Mark Ravenhill’s new script. 

Things from Before Pt. 4

Things from Before Pt. 4

“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe… 

Richard Tyrone Jones: What the F*ck is This?

Richard Tyrone Jones: What the F*ck is This?

In the bowels of Banshee Labyrinth lurk the most unlikely of creatures, and none more terrifying nor outlandish as Richard Tyrone. 

Rob Auton: The Face Show

Rob Auton: The Face Show

Rob Auton’s show has a mercurial quality, slipping somewhere between spoken word show, stand up comedy and theatrical piece. 

The Brendon Burns Show

The Brendon Burns Show

Fans of Burns already know his distinctive style. 

Tinder & Ash and Tangle Movement Arts

Tinder & Ash and Tangle Movement Arts

The Hot! Festival, which has been exploring LGBT themes, identity and sexuality for the past month, concludes with two ensembles that use traditional circus arts to grapple with so… 

Late Show

Late Show

Thirteenth year and cannot be beat, Edinburgh’s favourite late night stand-up comedy show in Edinburgh’s favourite venue, the intimate cabaret bar. 

The Midlife Crisis Cabaret Show

The Midlife Crisis Cabaret Show

Two women run off to the Fringe in a Peugeot van with a kid in tow. 

Richard Brown: This Is Not for You

Richard Brown: This Is Not for You

Richard Brown, ‘tall, bearded’ (Fresh Air Radio), presents his debut hour. 

Stuart Laws When's This Gonna Stop? (1hr Show)

Stuart Laws When's This Gonna Stop? (1hr Show)

Irritating stand up from an irritating man. 

The Caddington Affair

The Caddington Affair

The boys of Tiffin School are in town and look set to make a huge impact with The Caddington Affair, one of two devised pieces presented by different groups of year 12 A Level st… 

The Noctambulist

The Noctambulist

This is a rock-solid, totally refreshing naturalist drama performed by outstanding actors. 

Late Night Dark Show

Late Night Dark Show

It’s the Late Night Dark Show - take that title as a hint. 

Tea Time Story

Tea Time Story

How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents. 

Surname and Surname: Last Year's Show (But Better)

Surname and Surname: Last Year's Show (But Better)

Paul Foxcroft (everyone’s imaginary friend) and Briony Redman (sitting-room dancer) are doing their hit 2013 sketch show with a couple of new bits to keep each other surprised. 

Casting the Runes

Casting the Runes

For several decades, it was the habit of the acclaimed medieval scholar Montague Rhodes James (who died in 1936) to entertain his Christmas guests with an especially composed tale … 

An Extraordinary Light

An Extraordinary Light

“The Nobel prize, by canonising individuals, disguises the truth that they are all, in Newton’s famous phrase, standing ‘on giants’ shoulders’ and on each other’s as well. 

Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show

Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show

Theorising that new episodes are possible within their own lifetime, the Maydays step into the Quantum Leap accelerator . 

Edinburgh Jews

Edinburgh Jews

Edinburgh Jews is an exhibition originally compiled by two students at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. 

Evil

Evil

Jesper Arin, who performs this one-man play, stood at the exit to the theatre as the audience left. 

God's Own Country

God's Own Country

“Gossip,” we’re told, “travels fast in a valley. 

Foul Play. The F*cking Nasty Show

Foul Play. The F*cking Nasty Show

Foul Play offers up the filthiest material from the most daring comics, and it really doesn’t disappoint. 

Factor 9

Factor 9

If this show was a stick of rock, it would have “Anger” written all the way through it in blood red: specifically anger at the medical, commercial and political establishments … 

Forty-Five Minutes

Forty-Five Minutes

Flying High Theatre Company from Nottinghamshire is aptly named; that is exactly what this group of lively youngsters do throughout this performance. 

Faith

Faith

Faith is based on the story of Imber, a village which had the misfortune to be located too near to a military base on Salisbury Plain. 

The Sketch Show That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons

The Sketch Show That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons

From the tropical rainforests of Cornwall come 10(ish) virile and sexually exhilarating students from Falmouth and Exeter University and their pet giant. 

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Error 404

“Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family. 

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers

Éowyn Emerald and Dancers made a successful debut at last year’s Fringe and are back again this year with another varied programme of short dances. 

Richard Gadd: Breaking Gadd

Richard Gadd: Breaking Gadd

Richard Gadd is a deeply disturbed young man. 

The Clean (As Possible) Comedy Show

The Clean (As Possible) Comedy Show

Come and watch three top comedians from the festival clean up their act! Two (or more) of the circuit’s best loved comedians will be joining hosts Tony Vino and Andy Kind in an eve… 

The Cut Tuk Show and Wonders of the Universe

The Cut Tuk Show and Wonders of the Universe

Close-up encounters of the silly kind. 

The 1am Apesh*t Show

The 1am Apesh*t Show

The 1am Apeshit Show is a chance for multiple comedians to perform ten minute sets, yet as a result there was little in the way of hilarity. 

18b

18b

Regulation 18b of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 is a now little-remembered piece of legislation which came into force just before the outbreak of the Second World War. 

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Showcase Show

Hilarity Bites, as comedy showcases at the Fringe go, is a solid choice - a mix of an experienced compere and a good range of acts promising a solid hour of entertainment. 

Olaudah Equiano: The Enslaved African

Olaudah Equiano: The Enslaved African

The spoken content of this play, written and directed by Adam Tulloch, is minimal; the direction is bold and brave. 

The Stand Late Show

The Stand Late Show

If you’ve ever watched anything by John Robertson before you’ll know just how zany and energetic he can be, which is the perfect reason why he makes a great host for The Stand … 

Craft Scotland Summer Show

Craft Scotland Summer Show

Returning for its second year, the Craft Scotland Summer Show sets up shop in the centre of town. 

3,000 Trees by George Gunn

3,000 Trees by George Gunn

“When a man starts a war against the State, it’s a war he cannot win,” says our nominal hero Willie McKay at the point in this play when the writer presumes we will sympathis… 

Famous Taste of Scotland Show and Dinner

Famous Taste of Scotland Show and Dinner

Historic Prestonfield House, just moments from the Royal Mile, is the magical setting for Scotland’s most famous traditional Scottish Show and Dinner. 

The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant

The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant

The Fringe’s late-summer position in the calendar means that few of those who visit the Scottish capital ever experience one particular form of indigenous theatre — pantomime… 

Man Enough

Man Enough

Chris is 18 years old, gay, and in search of fun and attention. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

Big Value Comedy Show (Early) promises two hours of comedy gold with four young stars of tomorrow. 

Me, Bill Nighy and the Goblin - A One-Woman Show Performed by Nalika de Silva

Me, Bill Nighy and the Goblin - A One-Woman Show Performed by Nalika de Silva

Yorkshire girl Nalika comes to London to make it but reality hits when she ends up living with a violent squirrel. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Lunchtime

Big Value Comedy Show - Lunchtime

Come and join us for lunchtime laughs at a special Big Value bargain sized ticket price. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Established as one of the most exciting shows at the Fringe, Big Value brings you the best of the breakthrough talent. 

Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show! Free

Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show! Free

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comics in this stand-up showcase. 

The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast

The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast

In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon. 

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

Anyone might be forgiven for apprehension about a literary sketch show. 

A Virgin's Guide To... Rocky Horror

A Virgin's Guide To... Rocky Horror

“This is not The Rocky Horror Show stage production” - a significant point of clarification in the Fringe programme lest anyone might think that this is the real thing. 

Miss Behave's Game Show

Miss Behave's Game Show

Miss Behave hosts the wackiest, zaniest game show at the Fringe! You are kept on your toes, trying to outsmart the opposing team. 

Aidan Killian: Jesus Versus Buddha

Aidan Killian: Jesus Versus Buddha

Irish comedian Aidan Killian certainly cuts a surprising figure with his new show; not so much for the long, simple robe he wears, but the fact that he’s shaved off half his bear… 

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae

Sometimes, we can miss what’s important. 

Another F*cking Variety Show

Another F*cking Variety Show

If you’re looking for a variety show that is deliciously sexy, a little bit bizarre and a whole lot of unbridled, raucous fun, look no further. 

The Referendum Review Show!

The Referendum Review Show!

A themed show of comedy and music from Graham de Banzie, Alex Cox and Ewan Park providing their own irreverent trawl through the issues of the independence debate A must-see for ev… 

Old Folks Telling Jokes

Old Folks Telling Jokes

As a card-carrying, paid-up member of the Grumpy Old Men squad, I occasionally look at all those fresh-faced stand-ups staring out from the posters plastered across the city like S… 

Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal

This is one for all the lads who have ever had girlfriends problems, all the lassies who have had to put up with boyfriends, and anyone who likes tea. 

How to Sell Your Show

How to Sell Your Show

Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers. 

Adam Belbin: The Third Half of Next Year's Show

Adam Belbin: The Third Half of Next Year's Show

For half an hour in a room somewhere in the back of the Free Sisters, Adam Belbin is doing a comedy show about leaving the comedy world. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

The Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show at the Cabaret Bar in the Pleasance Courtyard claims to be the longest running and most successful lunchtime show at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up

Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up

“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement. 

Jason Byrne in You Name the Show

Jason Byrne in You Name the Show

This year, Jason Byrne has decided to do away with racking his brain on what to name his show. 

Lou Sanders in Another Great Show Again

Lou Sanders in Another Great Show Again

A genderless riot from a little old force to be reckoned with. 

The Tommy Cooper Show

The Tommy Cooper Show

Stars Daniel Taylor as Britain’s favourite comedian in a spectacular show featuring all your favourite gags and magic tricks. 

The Improvised Improv Show - Free

The Improvised Improv Show - Free

Taking improv to the next level, we improvise the cast! A daily impro jam that absolutely anyone can take part in, whether experienced veteran or enthusiastic newcomer. 

Playdough Face

Playdough Face

Scheduling is an often overlooked aspect of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, not least by venues attempting to squeeze in as many popular shows as possible. 

Wild Card Kitty: The Showgirl Show

Wild Card Kitty: The Showgirl Show

Wild Card Kitty presents a showcase exploring the glamorous world of being a showgirl in show business. 

Show Pony

Show Pony

Eamon is a disillusioned pink horse searching for his destiny. 

The Little Big Show

The Little Big Show

Little tent. 

Jody Kamali: One Man Variety Show

Jody Kamali: One Man Variety Show

A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters, performed and hosted by one man from Bristol. 

The Pitiless Storm

The Pitiless Storm

For all its claims of being a one-man show, the stage can get pretty crowded during The Pitiless Storm. 

Stephen Bailey: Neon Heart

Stephen Bailey: Neon Heart

Stephen Bailey—all silver dickie bow tie, floral grey suit and camp demeanour—is clearly in love with love and romance. 

Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee

Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee

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… 

Hancock’s Last Half Hour by Heathcote Williams

Hancock’s Last Half Hour by Heathcote Williams

“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day. 

Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

We all have them, if we’re honest; those moments in our lives where we’ve reacted without thinking and “put our foot in it”, slipping from innocent victim to outright offen… 

The Post Show

The Post Show

We’ve all been there—the post-show discussion that goes on for too long or goes nowhere at all. 

Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead

Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead

Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, my first experiences of academic lectures were either snatches of TV programmes aimed at those studying courses with the Open University (thankful… 

This is Brasil - The Show

This is Brasil - The Show

There is something about Brazilian music that can cheer you up for hours on end. 

Sid's Show

Sid's Show

Join Sid from CBeebies live on stage in a fantastic, fun-filled adventure that will knock your socks off. 

Carl Hutchinson: Here's Me Show

Carl Hutchinson: Here's Me Show

Uniquely stubborn, outright impractical and undeniably hilarious. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

The meanest magician in the world is back with more tricks, more fun, and more inexpensive booze. 

Show Off

Show Off

If a cabaret act is consciously, deliberately devoid of talent, does that excuse it from criticism? It seems reductive to point out that the mono-browed, pink-wigged Figs in Wigs… 

Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des

Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des

The Trouble with Being Des, according to Des Clarke, is that he has an inner demon man child inside him which makes him “weird”—not least within the context of growing u… 

Andrew Doyle: Zero Tolerance

Andrew Doyle: Zero Tolerance

During the last few years, Andrew Doyle has made a name for himself as a frequently hilarious, sharply intelligent, and fearless comedian, ready to push his audiences’ tolerance … 

Robin and Partridge: Robin Dies at the End of the Show

Robin and Partridge: Robin Dies at the End of the Show

I must immediately declare that I have always liked Robin and Partridge. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience. 

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show

Every art needs its new generation of practitioners. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2014: Real Feelings

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2014: Real Feelings

Stepping into some pretty big comedy shoes, Cambridge Footlights have brought a fast-paced sketch and improv show to this year’s Fringe. 

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

This excellent one-man show from Mark Farrelly portrays the transformation of Denis Charles Pratt, born in suburbia, into Quentin Crisp. 

MenSWEAR Collection: Three, Two, F*ck

MenSWEAR Collection: Three, Two, F*ck

What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally… 

Bard SummerScape: Euryanthe

Bard SummerScape: Euryanthe

Weber’s echt-Romantic opera contains some of his most innovative, subtle music. 

Sushi Tap Show

Sushi Tap Show

This exuberant, toe-tapping spectacular is a sure-fire crowd pleaser. 

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

“There has not been a single incidence of Zombieism anywhere in the world to date,” according to Doctor Austin of the Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, but “this does… 

Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House

Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House

“What is it that frightens you?” Tom Neenan asks at the start of this one-man pastiche of an Edwardian ghost story. 

Dane Baptiste: Citizen Dane

Dane Baptiste: Citizen Dane

Dane Baptiste is a confident performer. 

Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly

Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly

Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”. 

Scott Capurro Islamohomophobia: Reloaded

Scott Capurro Islamohomophobia: Reloaded

Age hasn’t softened Scott Capurro; nor, it has to be said, has marriage. 

Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Lincoln Center Out of Doors

This three-week festival brings free performances of music, dance and spoken word to the plazas of Lincoln Center. 

Adam Wade From New Hampshire Show

Adam Wade From New Hampshire Show

Adam Wade, who has won the Moth Story Slam 18 times, hosts this monthly variety show, which also features a special guest storyteller. 

Lincoln Center Festival: The Passenger

Lincoln Center Festival: The Passenger

Suppressed when it was written in Soviet Russia in the late 1960s, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s unsparing Holocaust opera, based on a radio play by Zofia Posmysz and with a libretto… 

Dan & Joe & Charles Show

Dan & Joe & Charles Show

This weekly stand-up showcase, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera, and Charles Gould, features Wyatt Cenac, Sue Smith and Matt Ruby. 

Caroline and Joes Video Show

Caroline and Joes Video Show

Caroline Creaghead and Joe Pera host a delightful night of video comedy, with shorts from Good Cop Great Cop, Dan Opsal and John Haskell, John Early and Kate Berlant and Joe Rumril… 

The Sam & Joe Show

The Sam & Joe Show

The up-and-coming favorites Sam Morril and Joe Machi host this weekly stand-up show, with performances from Josh Gondelman, Nick Vatterott, Anthony DeVito and Seaton Smith. 

Show Boat

Show Boat

Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre: 2nd Jul 7pm. 

Lincoln Center Festival: Rosas

Lincoln Center Festival: Rosas

Last fall, the renowned Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Belgian company was in New York with a pair of new, starkly minimalist works that bore little resem… 

The Jim Davidson Show

The Jim Davidson Show

Fresh from his triumph on Celebrity Big Brother, one of Britain’s most successful comedians tells it as he sees it. 

Tragic Magic

Tragic Magic

Four times Scottish champion of close up magic Michael Neto is an assured and amiable stage magician, whose slight of hand is smooth, assured and doubtless the result of decades … 

An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show

An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show

Alhambra Theatre: 28th Jun 7pm. 

The Stone and Stone Show

The Stone and Stone Show

The brothers Adam and Todd Stone host this monthly stand-up show, with the guests Phil Hanley, Bridey Elliott and Harrison Greenbaum. 

Richard III

Richard III

There may be questions surrounding his historical accuracy, but there can be no denying that Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most fascinating and entertaining of Englis… 

Lifeline

Lifeline

Phil Roach isn’t the first man to be dumped by his girlfriend and realise his life isn’t quite working out as expected but, as Julian Wickham’s “Lifeline” quickly shows, he’s pos… 

In My Father's Words

In My Father's Words

Louis is one of Canada’s most respected teachers of classical literature. 

Max Silvestri Releases His Album: A Comedy Show and Party

Max Silvestri Releases His Album: A Comedy Show and Party

The host of the excellent Williamsburg show “Big Terrific,” Mr. Silverstri celebrates his new stand-up album, “King Piglet.”  

University of Brighton Graduate Show

University of Brighton Graduate Show

The Faculty of Arts Graduate Show opens to the public from 7 - 15 June at the University of Brighton, where 15,000 visitors are expected to view an inspiring showcase of work by mo… 

Show Off

Show Off

“Impressively made and performed” **** (FringeReview). 

show the SAILOR

show the SAILOR

Show the SAILOR - a new direction of circus art; it is the original perfomance, which have not analogs! Distinctive feature of the show the SAILOR is an original interpretation an… 

Children's Shows and Workshops

Children's Shows and Workshops

A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement. 

Show Off

Show Off

Impressively made and performed’. 

Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 12 certificate film in the UK and so you can only attend if you are 12 or older. 

Myq Kaplan Album Release Show Party Fun Time Featuring Many Fun People (and a Too Long Title)

Myq Kaplan Album Release Show Party Fun Time Featuring Many Fun People (and a Too Long Title)

The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher… 

Josh Smith 'Not What You Expected' Show

Josh Smith 'Not What You Expected' Show

Josh Smith embarks on yet another show that includes the unfortunate events that happen daily and yet he shares them. 

How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe

How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe

Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va… 

The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show

The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show

‘The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show’ is fun, interactive, educational, relevant, accessible and also great for mumosaurus and daddydactyl too. 

Venue B

Venue B

What kind of music do you like? We got it. 

Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender

Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender

2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�… 

The ‘Bubbles at Bedtime’ Puppet Show

The ‘Bubbles at Bedtime’ Puppet Show

Following a sell-out run at last years Brighton Fringe and described as “one of the highlights of The Brunswick’s Fringe programme for the 2013 Festival”, TPTPC are back with more … 

Chicks and Giggles Comedy Anniversary Show

Chicks and Giggles Comedy Anniversary Show

Nichelle Stephens and Carolyn Castiglia celebrate the 10th anniversary of their now-defunct all-female comedy show with an impressive night of stand-up, storytelling and music. 

The Greatest Shows on Earth

The Greatest Shows on Earth

A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals. 

Show-Bina!

Show-Bina!

Fresh from gigs at Brighton Dome and Hurst Festival, Hobina! celebrate harmony, groove and feel-good tunes all delivered with unflagging passion and precision in a night of diverse… 

The Treason Show

The Treason Show

Brighton’s legendary Treason Show,now in its record breaking 12th year,is back in cabaret style at Latest Music Bar. 

The Shakespeare Heptet Fringe Show

The Shakespeare Heptet Fringe Show

As a Bard-olator, I was keen to see this show. 

The Treason Show

The Treason Show

Composed of a succession of satirical sketches, this festival special of The Treason Show ridicules all the supposedly powerful members of this planet. 

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Whether you are preparing for Edinburgh or performing in Brighton, our expert panel is here to help you get your show noticed by media and arts industry professionals. 

A Gay Show for All People!

A Gay Show for All People!

Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp host this night of music and comedy with performances from Sasheer Zamata, Eliot Glazer, Justin Sayre and Jason Michael Snow. 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Gentleman Juggler Tim Bat clowns his whimsical way through an impressive repertoire of amazing tricks, with aplomb. 

The Tim Bat Trick Show

The Tim Bat Trick Show

A fast, funny and exciting show for children of all ages. 

The Scummy Mummies Show

The Scummy Mummies Show

The Scummy Mummies Show was sold out for its first performance, the room filled mostly with fans of their iTunes podcasts. 

How to: Tour Your Show

How to: Tour Your Show

Enjoyed performing at Brighton Fringe and want to take your show elsewhere? Not sure where to go or how to start? Join our panel of experts to find out how far in advance tours are… 

How to Tour Your Show

How to Tour Your Show

Get advice on touring your show after the Fringe, both in the UK and internationally. 

The Wine & Whisky Comedy Show

The Wine & Whisky Comedy Show

The Wine and Whisky Comedy Show definitely encourages the room to drink, although wine and whisky may be the only thing that keeps the comedy alive. 

The Stick Up: A Gigposter Show

The Stick Up: A Gigposter Show

An official partner of The Great Escape music festival, this event, now in its 2nd year, is an explosive display of colourful hand-printed gig posters by artists from all over the … 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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. 

More Bubbles for Breakfast Puppet Show

More Bubbles for Breakfast Puppet Show

Following a sell-out run at last years Brighton Fringe and described as “one of the highlights of The Brunswick’s Fringe programme for the 2013 Festival”, TPTPC are back with more … 

Rob Auton: The Sky Show

Rob Auton: The Sky Show

A show about the sky and the things in it (you know, clouds, birds, weather, etc. 

How to: Sell your Show to the Arts Industry

How to: Sell your Show to the Arts Industry

Need a producer? A venue? A mentor? A residency? Want to improve your work and make new contacts, but don’t know where to start? Hear from venue managers, producers and companies… 

Compagnia T.P.O. and Insite Arts

Compagnia T.P.O. and Insite Arts

The outback can be a dangerous place, but Compagnia T. 

The Libertine

The Libertine

“You will not like me,” insists John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, at the start of The Libertine; not so much presented an unreliable narrator, more the self-created bad … 

City College Art Attack

City College Art Attack

City College is launching an exciting range of adult courses and are offering people the chance to come and sample a selection of arts focussed activities. 

The Tom Show

The Tom Show

A family-friendly one man variety spectacular, with magic, circus skills, comedy and a stunt bunny called Stu. 

The George Lucas Talk Show

The George Lucas Talk Show

Connor Ratliff, an Upright Citizens Brigade regular, embodies the filmmaker George Lucas for this costume-friendly talk show, which counts down to Star Wars Day (on Sunday). 

The Liar Show

The Liar Show

Andy Christie welcomes the storytellers Micaela Blei, Ed Gavagan, Christine Gentry and Rich Greene for a night of mostly the truth. 

Pressure

Pressure

Us inhabitants of the British Isles can spend an inordinate amount of our time discussing the weather, yet it doesn’t automatically follow that our “four seasons in a day”c… 

Shen Wei Dance Arts

Shen Wei Dance Arts

In 2005, the Chinese choreographer and painter Shen Wei created “Map,” a mesmerizing visualization of Steve Reich’s “The Desert Music. 

FunFair Freak Show

FunFair Freak Show

Slip through the gypsy carvan, down the haunted stairs and into the hedonistic heart of FunFair’s revolving Freak Show. 

Richard Goode

Richard Goode

This superlative pianist is an insightful interpreter of a range of repertory. 

Dear Scotland

Dear Scotland

As part of its contribution to the many debates in Scotland during 2014—sparked into life, of course, by this September’s independence referendum—new National Theatre of Sc… 

The Cringe Humor 10 Year Anniversary Show

The Cringe Humor 10 Year Anniversary Show

This show celebrates a decade of making audience members squirm in their seats with a night of favorites, including Mike Vecchione, Kurt Metzger, Big Jay Oakerson, Chris DiStefano … 

JUST LIKE THAT! The Tommy Cooper Show

JUST LIKE THAT! The Tommy Cooper Show

Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius. 

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler

When the Glasgow-born poet, playwright, song-writer, musician, cartoonist, humorist and story-writer Ivor Cutler died in March 2006, the nation’s obituarists remembered an “una… 

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Musicians including the violinist Daniel Hope, the clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and the cellist David Finckel offer a program exploring music by 20th-century composers who w… 

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices … 

Take It Personal: The Hip Hop Improv Show

Take It Personal: The Hip Hop Improv Show

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. 

Solid Silver 60s Show 2014

Solid Silver 60s Show 2014

The UK’s original and premier ’60s show is back once again!The Solid Silver 60s Show, now in its 24th year, brings together the unforgettable talents of The Searchers,… 

The Pitchfork Disney

The Pitchfork Disney

There’s no doubting that Philip Ridley’s debut play, even now, feels like a strange beast; a modern fairytale of two infantalised and orphaned twins, Presley and Haley, somehow… 

Union

Union

Big, bold and buxom; playwright Tim Barrow’s Union, directed for the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s artistic director Mark Thomson, starts as it means to go on, with blocks of “sce… 

Richard III

Richard III

It was once thought that school productions of Shakespeare plays were for the enjoyment of supportive parents and few others. 

This Wide Night

This Wide Night

A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t… 

The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses

The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses

Quizmasters Ian Gordon and Tom Ellis take to the stage in a whirlwind of energy that carries their audience through the entirety of their show. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses

The Quiz Show That Has Nothing to Do With Horses

Horses bring their frenetic quiz show to the Fringe for the first time. Join them for a mad hour of interactive silliness and win prizes! 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! Free! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! Free! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show

Two hour charity variety show includes presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

How To Do a Show at the Fringe

How To Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open festival in the world. 

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Performing Arts Company

ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of fundamentals you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Charlie Chuck's Chuckasaurus Show

Charlie Chuck's Chuckasaurus Show

I never expected not to ‘get’ a children’s show. 

The New Age Labrador

The New Age Labrador

Singer-songwriter Shaun Shears sort of fancies himself as a 21st Century reincarnation of the medieval Troubadour, travelling the country performing his songs about life, love and … 

The EU Culture Programme: Opportunities for the Arts, Culture and Heritage Sector

The EU Culture Programme: Opportunities for the Arts, Culture and Heritage Sector

Opportunities for arts, culture and heritage sectors. 

The Rakugo Show

The Rakugo Show

Someta Hayashiya is a Japanese comedian. 

All-Nude College-Girl Revue or How I Made It Through the LSE

All-Nude College-Girl Revue or How I Made It Through the LSE

If you are easily swayed into buying a ticket based on a show’s title, though you may be enticed into seeing the All-Nude College Girl Revue, you may be rather disappointed. 

A Reason to Smile

A Reason to Smile

Two wooden chairs, some books, an otherwise empty stage. 

BBC: The Richard Bacon Programme

BBC: The Richard Bacon Programme

BBC 5 Live’s Richard Bacon presents his show from the BBC’s venue at the Edinburgh Festivals. Join him for big name guests and topical debate. 

Landfall

Landfall

The idea of some supernatural being falling down to Earth and helping change the lives of us mere mortals is a powerful myth that resonates down human history, from the biologicall… 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! So It Goes - John Fleming's Comedy Blog Chat Show

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! So It Goes - John Fleming's Comedy Blog Chat Show

Hottest Fringe comedy acts chat with John Fleming, ‘the Boswell of the alternative comedy scene’ (Chortle. 

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Matt and Ian provide an hour of laughs with their improvised show at the Sweet Venues. 

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Comedy improvisers Matt and Ian are sensible enough to start their show with what the unkind might describe as their get-out clause; they admit, from the start, that they ‘might … 

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test and Other Real Life Mysteries.

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test and Other Real Life Mysteries.

Given that, at one point, Jon Ronson describes himself as ‘essentially [just] a humorous journalist out of his depth,’ you might be surprised that the Cardiff-born writer and docum… 

The Little Wheel Sketch Show

The Little Wheel Sketch Show

Allow this exciting sketch troupe to take you for a spin through a random roulette of manic sketches, including celeb comedians, a singing prime minister and an outrageous chat sho… 

Josh Smith - From Top to Bottom Show

Josh Smith - From Top to Bottom Show

Finally Josh Smith’s From Top to Bottom Show comes to Edinburgh after his recent sell-out performances! ‘Had our audience in stitches’ (Creswell Social Club). 

Do We Need You After The Apocalypse? The Game Show

Do We Need You After The Apocalypse? The Game Show

Society has crumbled, zombies are on the loose - what do you do next? A) Search for food, B) try to find other people or C) go see some bad comedians late at night with an underwri… 

BBC: Radio 4 Extra Stand-Up Show

BBC: Radio 4 Extra Stand-Up Show

Showcasing an exciting selection of the brightest and the best stand up comedians at this year’s Fringe.  

Story's End

Story's End

Even on paper, this ‘reconnaissance mission into the no-man’s land where death borders storytelling’ has the potential to be either really good or a recipe for self-indulgence; a… 

How To Tour Your Show Internationally

How To Tour Your Show Internationally

An event for participants interested in touring their shows at an international level. 

Our Father

Our Father

Honesty’s important in stand-up; so’s making stuff up, obviously, but audiences can generally sniff out if the person on stage doesn’t – at least for that moment – believe in … 

Blues! Live at Venue 45

Blues! Live at Venue 45

The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45. 

Medea

Medea

Many readers will be familiar with the experience of almost falling asleep in a lecture theatre; it is probably less common for the urge to arise while a Greek tragedy is in full s… 

Tony Benn and Richard Holloway: Two Old Gits

Tony Benn and Richard Holloway: Two Old Gits

In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change. 

Poems and Pots

Poems and Pots

John Rivers is the first to admit he’s not an entertainer and that Poems and Pots isn’t a ‘show’ as such, but hopefully a relaxing opportunity to tease out and encourage the creati… 

Sex, Drugs and Toilet Rolls

Sex, Drugs and Toilet Rolls

Set only in a bathroom at a house party, this play follows the intoxicated experiences of three siblings and their friends as they struggle under the influence of sex, drugs and to… 

A Hundred Minus One Day

A Hundred Minus One Day

Playwright Idgie Beau sets out the parameters of A Hundred Minus One Day quickly and economically; 20 year old Jen, who has lived away from home for many years, has returned to her… 

Wing It, Dusty

Wing It, Dusty

As Deidre and Veronica awake on their wedding day, the action of this show takes place in a bedroom with conversation ranging from Deirdre’s love of Julie Andrews to Veronica’s ins… 

Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs

There’s an unfortunate earnestness to this short piece from the Bangor English Drama Society, as they attempt with both script and performance to be all grown up and serious about … 

The Ivor Novello Story

The Ivor Novello Story

‘A successful bachelor is always a puzzle to others,’ says the singer James Dinsmore, playing the composer and actor Ivor Novello. 

The Perilous Botanical Expedition

The Perilous Botanical Expedition

In May 2013, David Piper - the modestly-titled ‘Global Ambassador’ for Scottish boutique gin producer Hendrick’s - accompanied master distiller Lesley Gracie and celebrated a… 

Baby Wants Candy: The Graduation Show

Baby Wants Candy: The Graduation Show

Students of Baby Wants Candy’s Improv Fringe Intensive strut their stuff in this showcase performance! To find out more or register for the award-winning BWC’s 4-day Improv Intensi… 

The Dark Arts of the Cocktail

The Dark Arts of the Cocktail

Explore the folklore and magical properties linked with common cocktail ingredients, with recipes from the most influential occultist of all time, Aleister Crowley. 

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox. 

How To Sell Your Show

How To Sell Your Show

Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers, this discussion will give you invaluable advice on ma… 

How To Tour Your Show in the UK

How To Tour Your Show in the UK

Develop your show after the Fringe with a focus on touring in the UK. A panel of experts will discuss the benefits, complexities and logistics of touring in the UK. 

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun … 

A Play With Songs ... and Music and Film and Dance

A Play With Songs ... and Music and Film and Dance

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme. 

Robin Ince - Importance of Being Interested

Robin Ince - Importance of Being Interested

The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane once stated his suspicion that ‘the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose’. 

Hamelin: The Last Child

Hamelin: The Last Child

On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend. 

That's Not How You Spell Pedantic

That's Not How You Spell Pedantic

Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’. 

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations. 

Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar

Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar

Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan… 

Chops

Chops

Chops is not a piece of naturalistic theatre, but then that’s hardly to be expected, given that this ‘linguistic farce’ by Brooklyn-based artist Kirin McCrory, performed by an all-… 

Death Ship 666

Death Ship 666

Death Ship 666 is Airplane meets Titanic; an exuberant rollercoaster ride of humorous grotesques, which revels in its own clichés and absurdities. 

The Sunday Assembly

The Sunday Assembly

It’s said that the Devil has all the best tunes, but why shouldn’t the Godless also enjoy the fun and sense of community that comes from gathering on a Sunday morning to enjoy coff… 

Auditions for the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

Auditions for the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

Hundreds of aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory’s comprehensive and demanding training programmes. 

Richard Wiseman: Psychobabble

Richard Wiseman: Psychobabble

Richard Wiseman’s Psychobabble feels like an assembly. 

Auditions for the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

Auditions for the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

Aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory’s comprehensive and demanding training programmes. 

Richard Wiseman - Psychobabble

Richard Wiseman - Psychobabble

Best-selling author, psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman rummages around in your mind. 

Stu and Garry in The Catchily Titled Improv Show

Stu and Garry in The Catchily Titled Improv Show

Stu and Garry in The Catchily Titled Improv Show is an hour of absolutely roaring comedy that will have you crippled with laughter. 

Ginger Nation

Ginger Nation

Canadian Shawn Hitchins bounces onto the stage with puppy-like energy, rushing straight into a ‘blond, brunette and a ginger’ joke to make the point that, as ‘a person of primary c… 

Young & Strange - Magic, Illusion and a Hate for Each Other

Young & Strange - Magic, Illusion and a Hate for Each Other

Most magic shows you find on the Fringe nowadays are necessarily intimate, close-up affairs – not least because of the size of the available venues, budgets and the ‘close magic’… 

Jem Rolls

Jem Rolls

‘Dynamic, funny, sharply political … pump-action poet… The godfather of Scottish performance poetry… Go see. 

Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret

This all-female spoken word cabaret claims to offer ‘a veritable smorgasbord of poetry’; yet even though it is, to a certain extent, a daily-changing ‘sampler’ of numerous performa… 

Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time

Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time

Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb. 

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Now enjoying its third year in Edinburgh, the Magic Faraway Cabaret has a reputation for presenting the best burlesque, variety and sideshow skills available in the Scottish capita… 

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Cabarets are, by their very nature, fluid and changeable beasts, especially those in Edinburgh which act as convenient samplers of what’s available elsewhere on the Fringe. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets. 

The Oxford Revue Presents - Free

The Oxford Revue Presents - Free

From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas. 

Late Show

Late Show

In its ninth year; the best late stand-up in an intimate, wee venue. 

Stuart Laws Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until You are Dead (1hr Show)

Stuart Laws Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until You are Dead (1hr Show)

It’s raining outside and our host – Stuart Laws – is on a mission to entertain us. 

The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue are an energetic bunch, never more so than during this show’s opening sketch, a whirlwind rendition of the history of Edinburgh from dinosaurs through William W… 

Paul F Taylor Presents The Greatest Show In The World Ever

Paul F Taylor Presents The Greatest Show In The World Ever

Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him. 

Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)

Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)

I first saw Alexis Dubus perform in 2008, when his ‘A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing’ provided an interesting spine on which to hang some very funny material – and a justificati… 

Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive

Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive

Last year, with Activism is Fun, comedian Chris Coltrane explained how he had returned to political action after years of apathy, not least because – thanks to the likes of direc… 

Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured

Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured

According to the neat-suited Paul Dabek, the Magic Circle demands that all its members must include a card trick at some point in their act, otherwise there’s a terrible risk of ‘m… 

Late Show

Late Show

For its 12th year Comedy Zoo’s Late Show moves to the Cabaret Bar, providing Pleasance Courtyard with a dose of raucous late-night stand-up. 

Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores

Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores

Wonderfully dark and disturbing, Richard Gadd has come to Edinburgh’s Free Fringe not only to make his audience cry with laughter, but also to push the boundaries of physical com… 

Boredom

Boredom

Two girls dressed in leopard print belong in what must be the most boring world possible and for one whole hour let us in on how they pass the time. 

Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH's Free Fringe

Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH's Free Fringe

Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the… 

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketch Show

It was with boundless energy that the five-strong Revue troupe leaped onstage and it seemed that this was an energy which would not dwindle - even as the quality of the proceeding … 

Rob Auton: The Sky Show

Rob Auton: The Sky Show

Like Rob Auton, I’m Yorkshire born and bred so I speak as I find. 

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem. 

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Julian Clary. 

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show

Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two. 

We Are All Orange Ghosts

We Are All Orange Ghosts

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… 

Chaos By Design

Chaos By Design

Rape is a crime against humanity, especially when used as a weapon of war. 

Björn Gustafsson

Björn Gustafsson

From the start, I must point out that I fully accept that standing up on a stage, making people laugh in a foreign language, even if it’s the ‘lingua franca’ of the western world (… 

Grated Expectations

Grated Expectations

For those who are not experts in Dickensian literature, Grated Expectations might well prove hard to understand. 

The Principle of Uncertainty

The Principle of Uncertainty

In The Principle of Uncertainty we have a physics lecture on Quantum Mechanics containing live music with the premise that the only certainty is that nothing in the universe is cer… 

In Tune With Dementia

In Tune With Dementia

It has been said that the one ‘mercy’ dementia offers is that the person who has it doesn’t know they do; so it is with the emotive subject of this solo play written and perf… 

Gay Straight Alliance

Gay Straight Alliance

In some 4,000 High Schools across the US, you’ll find a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) group. 

A Lol-along-a Luc Valvona - Free Show

A Lol-along-a Luc Valvona - Free Show

Cheeky late night songs! Luc Valvona sings you a selection of his funny, witty and sometimes downright filthy songs on the ukulele, guitar and mandolin, and then tries to sell you … 

French Kiss

French Kiss

One of the delights of the Fringe is that it can throw up the unexpected; so, for example, the first time I hear a delightfully bad-taste joke about a recent double suicide in one … 

We, Object

We, Object

‘We, Object. 

The Tom Show: The Grand Tour

The Tom Show: The Grand Tour

The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery. 

Hairy Maclary and Friends Show Featuring Slinky Malinki

Hairy Maclary and Friends Show Featuring Slinky Malinki

There’s no denying the pulling power of Lynley Dodd’s best-selling children’s series Hairy Maclary: with vibrant characters, charming stories and colourful settings they are popula… 

Ruby Heart Entertainment Presents an All Star Diva Tribute Show

Ruby Heart Entertainment Presents an All Star Diva Tribute Show

Ruby Heart Entertainment presents an all-star diva tribute show each night of the week, including world famous divas Adele, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga and Jessie J. 

Macbeth

Macbeth

Returning to, and re-staging, the “classics” is not without challenges, not least because they were often originally written at a time when actors were considerably cheaper to hire… 

Hound Dog

Hound Dog

Although far from perfect, this is a pleasant and, at times, touching comedy about the stresses and strains of family life. 

Alistair Green: Ping Pong

Alistair Green: Ping Pong

Ping Pong is an energetic game usually involving two or four people, but this latest stand-up show from Alistair Green is very much a one-man endeavour, with the only significant b… 

Rick Kiesewetter: Chink

Rick Kiesewetter: Chink

Identity is a complicated matter for Rick Kiesewetter; not least because, as he points out from the start, his Asian face doesn’t match most people’s expectations of his adoptive f… 

Verb Garden: The Decent Chat Show

Verb Garden: The Decent Chat Show

The premise behind the Decent Chat Show is a good one, but unfortunately what I experienced didn’t even come close. 

The Stand Late Show

The Stand Late Show

This is late night comedy at its finest. 

The Year I Was Gifted

The Year I Was Gifted

The anthemic song ‘We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ by The Animals sets the scene for this one-woman, biographical monologue by the writer and performer Monica Bauer. 

American Gun Show

American Gun Show

Chris Harcum is loud, brash, theatrical and oh so American. 

Blues and Burlesque Speakeasy Show

Blues and Burlesque Speakeasy Show

***** ‘Blues and Burlesque is a thoroughly engaging show that gives burlesque a range most other shows aren’t even aware of’ (ThisIsCabaret.com). 

The Liz and Dick Show

The Liz and Dick Show

The complex and often turbulent relationship between one of the 20th Century’s most famous couples, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, has provided much fodder over the years for tablo… 

Three Women

Three Women

Watching Three Women is immensely frustrating. 

Maureen Younger: The Outsider - Free Show

Maureen Younger: The Outsider - Free Show

Maureen Younger presents a solo stand-up show, as part of the Scottish Comedy Festival, which is based around her view of herself as an outsider, both on the comedy circuit and gen… 

The Stand Late Show

The Stand Late Show

The Late Show attracts a lot more of a local audience than most Fringe events and there is a sense that it doesn’t necessarily mind separating itself somewhat from the hustle and b… 

Improvabunga - Some Sort of Improv Show

Improvabunga - Some Sort of Improv Show

Improvabunga, performed by the Watch This improv group, is a fast-paced show where anything can happen. 

Freak Show

Freak Show

In the colourful, cosy confines of Assembly’s Bosco venue, half theatre half circus tent, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland whisks you away for an afternoon to the weird and wo… 

Gay Straight Alliance

Gay Straight Alliance

Nominally, a Gay Straight Alliance is a pupil-based group found in some (though sadly too few) US schools, which meets regularly to discuss issues around homosexuality in order to … 

Sandel

Sandel

‘I’ll save you yet,’ says the precocious Antony Sandel to the object of his desires, David Rogers. 

Seymour Mace Presents, Marmaduke Spatula’s F*ckin’ Spectacular Cabaret of Sunshine Show.

Seymour Mace Presents, Marmaduke Spatula’s F*ckin’ Spectacular Cabaret of Sunshine Show.

I’m afraid I don’t particularly trust shows with exceptionally long titles that are self-claimed ‘spectacular’. 

Kevin Dewsbury Out Now

Kevin Dewsbury Out Now

Kevin Dewsbury is a bloke. 

The Human Condition Free Show

The Human Condition Free Show

An in-depth and correct analysis of man and his obsessions with sex, violence, money, sex, war, breasts and sex. 

Pip Utton: Churchill

Pip Utton: Churchill

Thirteen-O’Clock, Parliament Square, London. 

Real Horror Show

Real Horror Show

It is perhaps embarrassing how long into Colin Hoult’s The Real Horror Show it took me, until I realised what I was watching. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

Much like Arthur’s Seat is the bedrock of Edinburgh, comedy is the bedrock of the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Lebensmüde - a Comedy Show

Lebensmüde - a Comedy Show

Sell-out London shows. 

No Holds Bard

No Holds Bard

If you’ve never been interested in sixteenth century English literature, this might change your mind. 

Full of It: The True or False Game Show - The 2 Fat F*cks on Holiday Tour 2013

Full of It: The True or False Game Show - The 2 Fat F*cks on Holiday Tour 2013

The only game show in the world with one contestant. That might not be true, I mean it’s pretty stupid. But anyway… 

It Goes Without Saying

It Goes Without Saying

When Broadway veteran and world-famous mime Bill Bowers starts his show talking about sitting in a Hollywood make-up truck at three in the morning, with Hugh Grant to his left and … 

Way Back

Way Back

Beachy Head in East Sussex has the tallest chalk sea cliffs in Britain, offering some fabulous views along the south east coast and across the English Channel. 

An Improvised Improv Show - Free Show

An Improvised Improv Show - Free Show

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Burton's Last Call

Burton's Last Call

Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him … 

Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free

Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham. 

[title of show]

[title of show]

A unique concept of a musical about two guys writing a musical thats all about two guys writing a musical, [title of show] made it debut on Broadway back in 2008 but remains unkno… 

The Edinburgh Revue Stand Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue Stand Up Show

Shaggy haired and stunningly bearded, Noah Torn launches the Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show with a bang. 

Do a Show

Do a Show

Ellis and Reece (BBC, ITV, Sky1, E4, CBBC) have decided to do a show. 

Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy

Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy

It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’… 

Lili la Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

Lili la Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show

It’s hard to tire of variety shows such as this, particularly when they are pulling in consistently excellent acts ranging from the highly acclaimed Boy with Tape on his Face to … 

Luke Wright: Essex Lion

Luke Wright: Essex Lion

‘Officer don’t be a Benny/the thing we saw was MGM-y. 

Roll It in Sequins

Roll It in Sequins

There’s a playful, rough-round-the-edges physicality throughout this new show by Megan Heffernan and Sophie Fletcher. 

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

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. 

Silky: It Was This Show Or Have Kids

Silky: It Was This Show Or Have Kids

For his second solo show, Silky sweetly sings and softly swears. 

The Takeaway Story Show

The Takeaway Story Show

‘I knew we should have booked a longer time slot,’ said one of the actors as another struggled to make it offstage while pretending to be a beached shark. 

The Pyramids of Margate

The Pyramids of Margate

While the BBC’s iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who is currently one of the biggest, most popular shows on television at the moment - and it’s likely to be everywhere this November, wh… 

The Edinburgh Revue: Stand-Up Show

The Edinburgh Revue: Stand-Up Show

The University may be out for the summer, but The Edinburgh Revue isn’t and is proud to bring you six of Edinburgh’s best up-and-coming comedians! 

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide

Science reveals, magic conceals, but both can inspire a sense of wonder, according to stage magician Oliver Meech. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way first: this show is certainly value for money. 

Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love

Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love

If you love a good story, then you’ll love this. 

Rob Lloyd: Who, Me

Rob Lloyd: Who, Me

This is not the first time Doctor Who has been put on trial. 

Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free

Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free

In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours. 

Richard Digance

Richard Digance

For fans of Richard Digance, his twenty-two show run at the Fringe is long overdue. 

Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show

Jimmy Savile: The Punch and Judy Show

You can imagine how it might have happened. 

Faux Latino Show Pony

Faux Latino Show Pony

Sometimes, you’ll see a comedian so bad, so poor, so earth-shatteringly unfunny that you’ll ask yourself: is this supposed to happen? Fortunately for Jacob Edwards, it is part … 

Dr Ettrick-Hogg and Guests - Stand-Up Show- Free

Dr Ettrick-Hogg and Guests - Stand-Up Show- Free

Wild, raucous and full of Fringe spirit. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

The first truly laugh-out-loud-funny show I have seen at The Fringe, The Big Value Comedy Show is definitely worth the ticket price. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

Big Value Comedy Show - Early

Our 18th year as the recognised launchpad for future legends, featuring four top comedians. 

Lili la Scala - Another F*cking Variety Show

Lili la Scala - Another F*cking Variety Show

Lili la Scala invites her favourite Fringe reprobates to entertain at this rollicking late show stuffed full of variety. 

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Big Value Comedy Show - Late

Consisting of four different acts each night, Big Value Comedy Late seeks to bring its audience variety and humour in equal measure whilst also giving them a sample of some of the … 

Free Money Magic Show

Free Money Magic Show

Ian Saville, a self-professed ‘socialist magician’, takes you through the history of money and communism by the medium of magic in a free show that pulls off some rather exquis… 

Romeo/Juliet

Romeo/Juliet

Rarely has there been a version of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 

Adam Belbin - The Other Half of Next Year's Show

Adam Belbin - The Other Half of Next Year's Show

Thought I ought to nail down the other half of next year’s show before next year comes around. An all new half-hour of comedy from the once-promising Adam Belbin. 

Kierkegaard Comedy Show - with Claus Damgaard

Kierkegaard Comedy Show - with Claus Damgaard

There are two kinds of people at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - those who run screaming from the phrase ‘Kierkegaard Comedy Show’, and those who run shouting towards it. 

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival

Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything. 

Two Tickets to the Gum Show

Two Tickets to the Gum Show

When Lampaert appears on TV, he gets heckled or internet abuse. 

Mammoth

Mammoth

From Eastern Finland comes Mammoth which is most definitely an acquired taste. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Fun-filled romp with Unkle Paul Nathan: magician - comic - curmudgeon. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely. 

Richard Herring - We're All Going to Die!

Richard Herring - We're All Going to Die!

At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h… 

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist… 

Barry Castagnola: The Donny Donkins 'As (hopefully soon to be) Seen On TV' Show

Barry Castagnola: The Donny Donkins 'As (hopefully soon to be) Seen On TV' Show

Barry Castagnola has summed up all of the most depressing things about Fringe comedy with his newest character. 

I Hate Children Children's Show

I Hate Children Children's Show

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the madness that is the I Hate Children, Children’s Show. 

God Bless Liz Lochhead

God Bless Liz Lochhead

God Bless Liz Lochhead follows three failing actors who attempt to stage an adaptation of Tartuffe, 25 years after a disastrous tour of that production brought chaos to all their l… 

Scott Agnew - Something's Gotta Give

Scott Agnew - Something's Gotta Give

There’s a point in every show when stand-up Scott Agnew drops what he calls ‘the G bomb’; that is, he mentions that he’s gay. 

Little Howard's Big Show for Kids

Little Howard's Big Show for Kids

Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian. 

The  Tim Vine Chat Show

The Tim Vine Chat Show

Tim Vine returns to the Fringe this year with an hour’s worth of puns, silly songs and audience participation. 

Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol

Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol

Dan Nightingale wants us to like him. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

It is a rarity for a Fringe show to give away freebies, so being offered a coffee and a croissant at the Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show was a pleasant surprise. 

Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster: Just a Normal Girl Doing a Cool Show

Amy Hoggart as Pattie Brewster: Just a Normal Girl Doing a Cool Show

Pattie Brewster is a normal girl desperately in need of three things: friends, cat food and a crash course in Microsoft PowerPoint. 

The Tim Vine Chat Show

The Tim Vine Chat Show

The audience are the stars of the show! Tim Vine brings his 2011 sell-out show back to the Fringe. 

Music Show - Wedding!

Music Show - Wedding!

It is rather difficult to pinpoint exactly why Music Show, Wedding! is so enjoyable. 

Bin Laden: The One Man Show
BOBBY WINNER

Bin Laden: The One Man Show

What if I told you that Adolf Hitler was going to do a reading of Mein Kampf for a small audience, offering you tea and biscuits while you sit together and discuss his ideology? No… 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Don’t come for the breakfast. 

Executed for Sodomy: the Life Story of Caterina Linck

Executed for Sodomy: the Life Story of Caterina Linck

Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender. 

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

During the Fringe, a haven for ill equipped hastily prepared venues, it can be reassuring to witness a comedy show at a place dedicated to stand up all year round. 

Famous Taste of Scotland Dinner Show at Prestonfield

Famous Taste of Scotland Dinner Show at Prestonfield

My journey up the driveway of Prestonfield House involved admiring highland cattle and dodging coaches. 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Given that the original award-winning novel by Mark Haddon is told from the very singular, focused perspective of a 15-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, it’s surprising that… 

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek - All New Show

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek - All New Show

In the packed venue an announcement hushes the audience and a video projection introduces the trio: the Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek. 

Richard Herring: Talking C*ck - The Second Coming

Richard Herring: Talking C*ck - The Second Coming

Every man in the audience stiffened as a pulsating phallus inflated on the screen in front of us at the start of the show. 

Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave

Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave

Some suggest that you have to like a performer to be able to laugh at their work. 

Damion Larkin: Cuddly Loser

Damion Larkin: Cuddly Loser

Early in his set Cuddly Loser Damion Larkin describes himself as ‘five foot seven and made of pies. 

The Amazing Bubble Show

The Amazing Bubble Show

Louis Pearl – aka The Amazing Bubble Man - truly deserves his title. 

Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)

Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)

Jessica Almasy is compulsive viewing, much like the material she delivers in her solo performance, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope). 

The Marilyn Monroe Show

The Marilyn Monroe Show

The Marilyn Monroe Show is a new musical written by Michael Dresser and directed by Michael Alvarez. 

Take The Empire: The Great Big Marvellous Victorian Game Show

Take The Empire: The Great Big Marvellous Victorian Game Show

Here’s the pitch and don’t run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob. 

Medicine Show

Medicine Show

When you’re promised with a show that “aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world”, it’s easy to be optimistic. 

Laurent Piron - Unusual Day

Laurent Piron - Unusual Day

Are our lives ruled by fate or chance? It’s hard to decide most of the time but even harder when a stage magician is making the seemingly impossible happen before your eyes. 

The 'Agent, Stylist and PA Wanted' Show - Free

The 'Agent, Stylist and PA Wanted' Show - Free

Amrik Virk looks like a laugh to be with. 

Henning Wehn No Surrender

Henning Wehn No Surrender

This is the second year running that I have seen a Fringe set by Henning Wehn – and although the man is a brilliant stand-up, the common threads running through his material are … 

Hitler! The Musical

Hitler! The Musical

Satirical portraits of Adolf Hitler have been around since Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Great Dictator’, through ‘The Producers’, to the Mr T Experience’s ‘Even Hitler Had A Girlfriend’. 

Alfie Brown - The Love You Take

Alfie Brown - The Love You Take

This is a show which will divide audiences, causing disputes of both an interpersonal and internal nature. 

Allotment

Allotment

At the heart of Allotment is a simple, visual metaphor: the burial and later uncovering of objects in the earth that clearly mirrors the suppression and later resurrection of memor… 

Another Heartbreaking But Ultimately Life-Affirming Show About Death

Another Heartbreaking But Ultimately Life-Affirming Show About Death

Sanderson Jones lost his mother at the age of 10 and has been thinking about death ever since. 

Wondrous Flitting

Wondrous Flitting

The title of Wondrous Flitting is a double reference: it stands for both the miraculous appearance in 24-year-old waster Sam’s house of the Holy House of Loreto, a medieval site of… 

The Pauly Show - Episode One

The Pauly Show - Episode One

The Pauly Show – Episode One, is a brilliant idea on paper: a stand up comedian with a ramshackle sitcom pilot live on stage. 

Arthur Smith's Pissed-Up Chat Show

Arthur Smith's Pissed-Up Chat Show

While Arthur Smith protests that he’s no longer on the sauce, the format and sheer unpredictability of this concept seem like they were conceived on some booze-addled bender. 

Richard Herring - Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming

Richard Herring - Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming

This year, Richard Herring is resurrecting his first ever one-man Fringe show, ‘Christ On A Bike’, which he performed in 2001. 

Endure: A Run Woman Show

Endure: A Run Woman Show

A marathon is a metaphor for life in this interactive, multimedia promenade. 

Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle… 

Little Howard's Big Show

Little Howard's Big Show

It should be no surprise that I am not the only unaccompanied adult at Little Howard’s Big Show. 

Night Heron

Night Heron

If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun … 

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

Who doesn’t want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is … 

Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club

Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club

Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I … 

Richard III

Richard III

Entering the theatre in the midst of a party it was clear that this was going to be an energetic play. 

Paul Dabek - Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Paul Dabek - Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Can a magician’s hand really be faster than the human eye? Paul Dabek may well use that serious question as an excuse for a simple physical joke, but by the end of this excellent… 

Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets

Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets

There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev… 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title. 

Fee Fie Foe Fum

Fee Fie Foe Fum

Kids are a notoriously tough crowd. 

From Houdini to Potter

From Houdini to Potter

Yorkshire-born Chris Cassells seems such a trustworthy young man that it’s somewhat disconcerting to realise that he’s already recognised as a rising star among the UK’s stag… 

Stitching

Stitching

Various media have opted for sex as the defining theme of this year’s Fringe, and a number of the shows I’ve been able to see are characterised by a clear-eyed recognition of the d… 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free

The problems started right from the word go. 

Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser

Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser

It’s hard to fault this set by Ed Byrne, although it’s very tempting to do so. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It’s the Greatest Show on Legs

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It’s the Greatest Show on Legs

This is a sketch show occupying a very special niche in the imagination of the Fringe. 

Wednesday

Wednesday

Brutality is hard to sustain onstage. 

Ted & Co The Dinner Show

Ted & Co The Dinner Show

The idea of the comedy ‘dining experience’ is done most famously at the Fringe by the Fawlty Towers Dining Experience, the concept being that a tribute act to a famous sitcom … 

Wild Allegations

Wild Allegations

Matthew John Curtis is famous. 

Bourne ImprovABLES: Hilarious Improvised Comedy Show

Bourne ImprovABLES: Hilarious Improvised Comedy Show

A fun, eclectic group of amateur comedians took to the stage with an endearing, though not hilarious, improvised comedy set. 

Rob Auton: The Yellow Show

Rob Auton: The Yellow Show

Yesterday I watched a man in a yellow coat talking about his favourite colour for an hour. 

Pappy's: Last Show Ever!

Pappy's: Last Show Ever!

There is no such thing as a show that is too silly. 

Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking

Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking

A dinner party and a stand-up comedy performance might not seem to have much in common - and, in social terms, they don’t - but Xavier Toby gamely welcomed his first Edinburgh au… 

My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver

My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver

Like much of the comedy currently clogging up Edinburgh, Toby Hadoke’s latest show is fundamentally about the man on stage, about his life experiences and his personal relationsh… 

The Rubbish Show

The Rubbish Show

While the usual argument of why comediennes are not prevalent at the Fringe has yet again reared its ugly head, another, of whether there is enough provision for children at the fe… 

Stu and Garry in The Lunchtime Show

Stu and Garry in The Lunchtime Show

Stu and Garry have been working together for twenty years. 

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

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… 

Ian Kendall's Magic Show

Ian Kendall's Magic Show

This is Ian Kendall’s 16th year performing magic at the Edinburgh fringe and his best show yet. 

Belgrave and Manera's Music Club

Belgrave and Manera's Music Club

Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success. 

Spent

Spent

Have you ever seen a man sweat through the back of a business suit? If that’s an experience in which your life is lacking, it’s one of many reasons why you might be interested in s… 

Stinky Show

Stinky Show

Hitch and Mitch’s intentions were to be so bad that they were good. 

The Dark Show

The Dark Show

This one woman sketch show features strangely sinister characters who are both entertaining and unnerving. 

Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart

Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart

Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday. 

My Romantic History

My Romantic History

‘Isn’t memory funny?’, comments Amy, one of the two main characters of DC Jackson’s My Romantic History. 

Bec Hill Didn't Want to Play Your Stupid Game Anyway

Bec Hill Didn't Want to Play Your Stupid Game Anyway

It’s easy to see where Australian comic Bec Hill is coming from in this set about refusing to conform to the pressures of adulthood. 

Matthew Crosby is Matthew Crosby in Matthew Crosby (The Show)

Matthew Crosby is Matthew Crosby in Matthew Crosby (The Show)

Matthew Crosby is a five foot five bearded man with a side parting, who wears short-sleeved checkered shirts and black, thick-framed glasses. 

My Name is Richard

My Name is Richard

Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers. 

The Puppet-Show Man

The Puppet-Show Man

An entertaining hour of fairy tales drawn from Hans Christian Andersen’s collection. 

Bashir Lazhar

Bashir Lazhar

French-Canadian drama Bashir Lazhar draws its tension from the point at which two forms of loneliness intersect – that of an Algerian immigrant trying to make his way in a new wo… 

Stories from the Middle

Stories from the Middle

Contrary to what some critics might suggest, it’s not a comfortable experience seeing someone ‘coming off the rails’ on stage, especially when they’re clearly talented and … 

Doug Segal: How to Read Minds and Influence People

Doug Segal: How to Read Minds and Influence People

If we believe everything we see, at least on the video screen, the stage mentalist Doug Segal can get from his hotel bed to the venue — stopping off mid-route to buy a lottery ti… 

The Late Night Shack Show

The Late Night Shack Show

The Shack Comedy Club is a new venue just beginning to find its feet. 

The Late Show

The Late Show

Compered by Brighton’s Dave Thompson in his mighty velvet suit, The Late Show gave Fringe goers an opportunity to shelter from the crowded bars and fast food stalls in order to e… 

The Liar Show

The Liar Show

Next to breathing and eating, lying is man’s greatest survival tactic. 

Evolution 2018: Reel Talks: Wonder Women of the Arts

Evolution 2018: Reel Talks: Wonder Women of the Arts

Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London. 

Age of the Geek

Age of the Geek

You know you’ve experienced a genuine one-man Fringe show when the guy who’s been performing on stage for the previous 50 minutes has to jump down, run to the tech desk at the … 

Technodelic Comedy Show

Technodelic Comedy Show

Five years in the making and almost stopped by the Japanese earthquake earlier this year, Siro-A blitz the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with outstanding visual trickery. 

Henning Wehn - My Struggle

Henning Wehn - My Struggle

Henning Wehn might be the most bizarre stand-up comedian I have ever seen, but I think that’s intentional. 

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go… 

Monkey Toast: The Improvised Chat Show

Monkey Toast: The Improvised Chat Show

Monkey Toast’s chat show is the Pleasance’s late-night forum for comics to plug their shows and there’s nothing wrong with that – in fact, publicity has rarely been so much fun. 

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- All New Show 2012

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- All New Show 2012

A comedy sketch show, promising 32 new and hilarious sketches in under an hour. 

Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show

Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show

‘How do you come out as straight?’ Dan Student asks the early evening audience at Fingers Piano Bar. 

Last Easter

Last Easter

Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives. 

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking. 

Mr Kolpert

Mr Kolpert

Adapted from a 1990s German play by David Geiselmann, this student production is a thrilling race through the cruelty and aggression underlying social etiquette. 

Project Adorno's Top Ten of Popular Culture

Project Adorno's Top Ten of Popular Culture

Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall… 

All Human One Man Magic Show

All Human One Man Magic Show

Mario Morris presents his comedy magic show, the All Human One Magic Show at Zoo Southside. 

Scotland in Song

Scotland in Song

It’s no small challenge to summarise a country and its history in a single hour, which is perhaps why Carolyn Anona Scott and Jack Foster instead choose to pay ‘homage’ to Sc… 

Adam Larter: Happy New Year - A Free Comedy Show

Adam Larter: Happy New Year - A Free Comedy Show

Adam Larter splatters onto his stage like paint from Jackson Pollock’s paintbrush, ungainly and definitely not graceful as he crashes all over the place. 

Wet Paint: A Magic Show - Free

Wet Paint: A Magic Show - Free

Wet Paint is made up of two magicians, Ben Hart and Neil Kelso, with ‘ideas so fresh they’re still wet’. 

1969 Show and Abbey Road

1969 Show and Abbey Road

The Brighton Beach Boys gave a fairly electric rendition of some of the greatest and most celebrated musical bangers from the year 1969, as well as the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’. 

Chris Martin: No. Not That One

Chris Martin: No. Not That One

Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room. 

An Evening With Dementia

An Evening With Dementia

In his book about the onset of his wife’s dementia, former ITN journalist John Suchet explained that the one ‘mercy’ he could see about the condition was that the person with… 

Chris Addison

Chris Addison

Picture Chris Addison in your mind for a minute. 

Ian Fox - Shutter Monkey (The Comedy Show With Pictures) - Free

Ian Fox - Shutter Monkey (The Comedy Show With Pictures) - Free

Part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival, comedian and photographer Ian Fox delivers an hour of very amusing entertainment through a selection of photos. 

IN TRANSIT a solo show

IN TRANSIT a solo show

It’s clear that Florence Leon is a performer with passion, but you need a little more than that to pull off a solo show. 

Richard Thompson in Concert

Richard Thompson in Concert

There are 21 Richard Thompsons listed in Wikipedia, including a Conservative baronet, a racing driver and a Warner Bros animator. 

Babbling Comedy: The Perfordian Show

Babbling Comedy: The Perfordian Show

From the moment they step on stage, these outsize babies have the audience laughing uncontrollably. 

Richard Herring – ménage à un

Richard Herring – ménage à un

Richard Herring returns to Edinburgh with his 21st show in 15 years. 

Auntie Myra's Fun Show

Auntie Myra's Fun Show

The marketing for Auntie Myra’s Fun Show misleadingly promises something pretty outrageous. 

Pork

Pork

David Egan’s Pork is an interesting stab at an interesting topic; set in a future dystopia where pigs live side by side with feral humans in a sinister charitable enclave known onl… 

Lach: The Day I Went Insane

Lach: The Day I Went Insane

Previous reviewers have compared Lach to Woody Allen and Woody Guthrie, and while these two are good reference points I’d like to start by pointing out just how much he looks, and … 

Re-Animator The Musical

Re-Animator The Musical

You know something’s different about a show when the people in the first three rows - also known as the slosh pit - are issued with cheap Scotland-branded ponchos. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly… 

Caligula

Caligula

Although his writing is poetry as much as philosophy, there is a danger that any performance of a work by Albert Camus might neglect the more intriguingly human aspects of his lite… 

Show Down

Show Down

Show Down is a contemporary dance show based upon Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. 

Sherica

Sherica

Last year, Wednesday by Ian Winterton was one of my picks of the Fringe. 

Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist

Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist

When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes… 

Will and Greg - A Sketch Show

Will and Greg - A Sketch Show

A sterling selection of inspired nonsense. 

No Holes and the Bard

No Holes and the Bard

William (Josef Salvat) is about to perform for the first time in his one-man show and finds himself looking back at his life. 

Shirley & Shirley - The Shirley & Shirley Show

Shirley & Shirley - The Shirley & Shirley Show

Shirley & Shirley sure are one hell of a team. 

Body of Water

Body of Water

There’s a comedy show at this year’s Fringe entitled All Young People Are C*nts. 

The Hurly Burly Show - Naughty But Nice!

The Hurly Burly Show - Naughty But Nice!

Burlesque loves its staples. 

The Curious Couple from Coney

The Curious Couple from Coney

The exquisitely moustached showman Donny Vomit was just 14, visiting an Oklahoma County Fair, when he saw a man swallow a long balloon. 

The Aluminum Show

The Aluminum Show

A high-octane thundering spectacular neatly wrapped in BacoFoil. 

Liam and Owen - A Cracking One Off Show!

Liam and Owen - A Cracking One Off Show!

Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix. 

Irreconcilable Differences

Irreconcilable Differences

There’s one small, very special audience that most of us will be legally obliged to join at some point in our lives — a jury. 

The Super Serious Show

The Super Serious Show

Like so many fringe productions this year, the Super Serious Show looks to be one of those stand-up variety, mash-up shows that is used as a platform for many of the acts out there… 

When Holidays Attack

When Holidays Attack

Given the importance many people put on their annual holiday — the glittering gift to themselves for enduring the hard slog of everyday life for the rest of the year — there�… 

'Dream Man' by James Carroll Pickett

'Dream Man' by James Carroll Pickett

A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now. 

Montmorency

Montmorency

There’s a long tradition of the gentleman thief - not least in Edinburgh, the city of Deacon Brodie - so it probably seemed apt to bring to the Fringe an adaptation of Eleanor Up… 

Déjà Vu – A Mind Reading Show Like You Won't Have Seen Before

Déjà Vu – A Mind Reading Show Like You Won't Have Seen Before

Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation. 

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

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. 

Richard O'Brien's Mephistopheles Smith

Richard O'Brien's Mephistopheles Smith

Having seen the Janus Theatre Company productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, perhaps my expectations were simply too high for Mephistopheles … 

Be a Star in a Juggling Show!

Be a Star in a Juggling Show!

If you’re attending the Festival with some young ‘uns in tow, then I can enthusiastically recommend you drop in on Be a Star in a Juggling Show at Zoo Venues. 

Red Shoes

Red Shoes

Glasgow’s Tramway has a reputation for cutting-edge visual and performing arts; so it’s something of a radical change for them to join Glasgow’s other theatrical venues with … 

Enough Already

Enough Already

Written and animated by the alleged French “polymath” François Sarhan, Enough Already incorporates live music, theatre and film in a frustratingly pretentious, paralysingly du… 

People Show 121: The Detective Show

People Show 121: The Detective Show

The People Show 121 delivers an hour of captivating truly British murder mystery fun in this charming three-person show. 

In Time o' Strife

In Time o' Strife

The Pathhead Halls on the corner of Commercial Street and Broad Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife were built in 1882, originally as a theatre and music hall although one room was later used fo… 

The Grind Show

The Grind Show

The Grind Show takes a look into a surreal world that tests reality. 

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

There’s a brazen, wonderfully self-conscious theatricality in how director Dominic Hill approaches Chris Hannan’s new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s iconic novel, C… 

Nothing to Show

Nothing to Show

Watch This Improv Troupe have set themselves up for quite a fall after confidently naming their act Nothing To Show. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It’s the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show with Miss Behave - and It’s Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It’s the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show with Miss Behave - and It’s Free!

Given the perpetual debate concerning the over-commercialisation of the Fringe that has been prominent this year, it is with a great sigh of relief that events such as the Malcolm … 

Let The Right One In

Let The Right One In

There is one word that, quite deliberately, is never uttered by anyone on stage during the National Theatre of Scotland’s Let The Right One In—vampire. 

Calum's Road

Calum's Road

Although based on true events, the story of Calum’s Road is so unique that it comes with a strong sense of some greater story being told, one of mythical proportions. 

Barry and Stuart - Show and Tell: The Show

Barry and Stuart - Show and Tell: The Show

A magic show is fundamentally different from most other shows – because the success of the show is based on how much trickery can be covered up from the audience, rather than how… 

Carnivale

Carnivale

If you’ve ever seen or read JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls you’ll be broadly familiar with the message of UnWish Theatre’s Carnivale, a dinner party with a difference where the … 

Running On The Cracks

Running On The Cracks

Children’s and young adult’s fiction have long been populated by orphans, characters who are both usefully free from parental restraints while also cut adrift from the traditio… 

Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

Inter-generational relationships are always controversial, especially when questions of predatory abuse arise in these Savile-dominated times. 

Comedy Haircuts – The Show (sort of)

Comedy Haircuts – The Show (sort of)

We’ve all had them – hairdressers who give you constant patter and banter whilst you’re trapped in their chair, but Giovanni Monica - a professional barber from Wiltshire - decide… 

Josie Long: Be Honourable!

Josie Long: Be Honourable!

Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice – not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example. 

Any Objections?

Any Objections?

Can you do anything of theatrical note in under 10 minutes? Is there a place for a theatrical equivalent of flash fiction, whether as a testing ground for new writers or as a form … 

Apples

Apples

Adapted from Richard Milward’s 2006 novel, Apples is a slice of teen life in all its grottiness, expanded to cartoonish proportions from a starting point of Northern reality. 

Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle

Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle

When does real life stop and the cabaret begin? Or the cabaret stop and real life return? On this occasion, Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle offer no simple or easy answers in this in… 

Wet Paint: A Magic Variety Show - Free

Wet Paint: A Magic Variety Show - Free

‘I thought it was a magic show. 

Richard Herring: What is Love Anyway?

Richard Herring: What is Love Anyway?

Love is a pyramid scheme, suggests Richard Herring, in an extended fifteen-minute segment of his strongly-themed set, in which he contemplates the devastating consequences of a lov… 

Don't Call Us We'll Call You

Don't Call Us We'll Call You

Ring-ring! Ring ring! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of ten students from London trying to get to grips with an un-winable war. 

Activism Is Fun

Activism Is Fun

Chris Coltrane is the first to admit that any political radicalism he might once have possessed had faded over time, thanks in part to a depressing sense of powerless after the UK … 

Macbeth

Macbeth

Arguably the most famous Scottish story written by an Englishman is re-imagined as One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest by the National Theatre of Scotland, and showcases a remarkable sol… 

The Submarine Show

The Submarine Show

Fifty minutes of pure immersion. 

The Meeting

The Meeting

Reuben Johnson’s The Meeting commands a strong central performance by Reuben Johnson, speaking the lines of Reuben Johnson under the keen directorial eye of Reuben Johnson. 

The Gilded Red Cage

The Gilded Red Cage

I actually feel guilty about disliking this play so much. 

An Audience With Tomás Ford - Free

An Audience With Tomás Ford - Free

From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman. 

Rob James: Magicana

Rob James: Magicana

The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway… 

Tim Turnbull's Tales of Terror - Free

Tim Turnbull's Tales of Terror - Free

It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t… 

The I Hate Children Children's Show

The I Hate Children Children's Show

The I Hate Children Children’s Show is back for another Fringe and this year, they’re meaner than ever. 

Sex and Hugs and Forward Rolls

Sex and Hugs and Forward Rolls

Thanks to the Five Pound Fringe, you don’t need to be spending huge wads of cash to see quality stand-up. 

Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free

Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free

Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo… 

Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship

Phillipa and Will Are Now in a Relationship

‘I wuv you with the intensity of a thousand suns,’ yells Will (Jack Swain) in Misshapen Theatre’s Phillipa And Will Are Now In A Relationship, a romantic comedy told entirely throu… 

The Amazing Bubble Show

The Amazing Bubble Show

‘Do you like bubbles?’ asks Louis Pearl of the audience, which was mainly comprised of families with small children. 

Richard Parker

Richard Parker

Welsh-born playwright Owen Thomas’ newest play, Richard Parker, explores coincidence – is our life really a series of coincidences, or are they just products of us over-analysi… 

The Jonny and Joe Show

The Jonny and Joe Show

Jonny & Joe are couple of young lads with an inventive and interesting series of sketches. 

Watch This Presents: Nothing to Show

Watch This Presents: Nothing to Show

Here’s a trade secret for you, readers at home: reviewing comedy is the hardest part of this job. 

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Cape Academy of Performing Arts presents a showcase of their students that more than holds its own against many of the professional companies at the Festival. 

Richard III

Richard III

There are places which have unquestionable resonance. 

The Tommy Sheridan Chat Show

The Tommy Sheridan Chat Show

For those Broadway Baby readers unfamiliar with him, Tommy Sheridan is a Scottish left-wing politician who successfully sued the News of the World for suggesting that he’d taken pa… 

Pink Noise by FORK

Pink Noise by FORK

There’s not a lot of pink in this show – the four Scandinavian singers who make up FORK spend most of it clad either in dazzling white or figure-hugging black leather – but the… 

Sheeps: A Sketch Show

Sheeps: A Sketch Show

Any sketch show that opens with the entire plot of Oliver Twist, in song, in three minutes is going to be good. 

Threshold

Threshold

Some would say the journey is more important than the destination, but this rule doesn’t apply to 19;29’s Threshold, a choose-your-own-adventure psychodrama presenting the implosio… 

Gary Delaney: Purist

Gary Delaney: Purist

Most comedy shows, like most reviews, come with some kind of inbuilt narrative, some trajectory from A to B that allows the performer to hook on their best jokes, anecdotes and obs… 

Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary

Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary

If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman. 

The Tim and Pat Show

The Tim and Pat Show

Tim Shishodia and Pat Cahill make up The Tim and Pat Show, a comedy double act proving itself to be a real highlight of the Free Fringe. 

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows. 

Have a Nice Life

Have a Nice Life

In these increasingly cash-strapped times putting on any musical on the Fringe is worthy of praise, even if — with a cast of six accompanied by electric piano and drums — the d… 

Stephen K Amos - Weekend Talk Show

Stephen K Amos - Weekend Talk Show

Stephen K Amos joins the chat show brigade, setting out his sofa in the Teviot Ballroom. 

Nggrfg

Nggrfg

As a show, NGGRFG has one obvious problem: people are either uncertain how to say it, or are simply reluctant to say out loud the two words it represents, because — quite underst… 

The Awesome Show

The Awesome Show

The Awesome Show is a creative project that has been in the making for nine months. 

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo

Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects. 

Mr Snot Bottom's Stinky Silly Show

Mr Snot Bottom's Stinky Silly Show

A sizeable crowd took the brave decision to bring their 6-year-olds to the Gilded Balloon for an hour of bum jokes on Sunday morning. 

End of the World Show 2012

End of the World Show 2012

The End of the World Show is an entertaining whirl through the world’s major religions and their approaches to the eponymous End-Times, written and performed by comedian Mark Spe… 

Jason Byrne’s Telly Idea, Which May Also Work On The Radio…Show!!

Jason Byrne’s Telly Idea, Which May Also Work On The Radio…Show!!

In an increasing trend amongst the big-name comics, this is Jason Byrne’s ‘other show’, and this year involves grabbing four guest celebrities as panellists for the top table, a co… 

The National

The National

There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an… 

Be A Star In A Juggling Show

Be A Star In A Juggling Show

If there were a prize for shows that do exactly what they say on the tin, this one clearly would be walk off with a rosette. 

Legs 11

Legs 11

In an increasingly categorised Fringe (this year added Spoken Word to an already multi-colour-coded Fringe programme), it can still be a delight to come upon a show that just doesn… 

Sammy J and Randy - The Inheritance

Sammy J and Randy - The Inheritance

The Australian duo of musical comedian Sammy J and puppeteer Heath McIvor - best known for his purple puppet Randy - are now experienced Fringe regulars who, quite rightly, are mor… 

Frisky and Mannish: The College Years

Frisky and Mannish: The College Years

I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience – a fresher, as they address me at one point – I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi… 

The Pajama Men's Improv Show

The Pajama Men's Improv Show

Sticking with the name that they have made famous over the last 20 years but going for what they described as ‘more casual’ jeans and shirt attire, The Pajama Men’s Improv Sh… 

Man Who Was Thursday

Man Who Was Thursday

There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them. 

Kin

Kin

Three tables, each filled with the paraphernalia of different daytime meals; on each table, there’s an hourglass, progressively smaller. 

Withered Hand

Withered Hand

‘I’m Withered Hand, and these are my friends’, announces Dan Willson as his three-piece backing band join him on the stage of the Electric Circus. 

The Long and the Short of It

The Long and the Short of It

From the start Richard Purnell (the short one) and Gary From Leeds (the horribly tall one) insist that their teaming up as ‘360 degree poetry consultants’ is not a gimmick. 

Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter To Richard Branson

Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter To Richard Branson

The title of this show hides nothing about its content, as bubbly Northerner Tom Wrigglesworth recounts his tales of woe and confusion on the 10. 

The Chris and Paul Show

The Chris and Paul Show

Sketch comedy duo Chris O’Niell and Paul Valenti started last night with a bit of a mountain to climb. 

The Degenerates

The Degenerates

In a dystopian future society where all homosexuals are ‘rehabilitated’ by being forced to have straight sex in a sinister hostel, one man and one woman do a lot of shouting in Rib… 

Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?

Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?

While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his… 

Murder, Marple and Me

Murder, Marple and Me

Despite a long and successful career in both British film and theatre, Dame Margaret Rutherford is now best remembered for a role she didn’t, initially, care for at all — Agath… 

Mandrake

Mandrake

The Mandrake charts familiar territory for a Renaissance city comedy – cuckoldry, trickery, and professional stereotypes – but as might be expected from a play by Machiavelli, th… 

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

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… 

Davey Connor, Lucy Beaumont and Ed Patrick - The Big Comedy Showcase Show

Davey Connor, Lucy Beaumont and Ed Patrick - The Big Comedy Showcase Show

When your lineup is three unheard-of comedians, and your venue is the Gilded Balloon’s tiny “Wee Room”, calling your show ‘The Big Comedy Showcase’ is actually a pretty s… 

Other Voices: Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices: Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices promised much — ‘comedy, politics, naughty lyrics, free sweets… And a veritable smorgasbord of poetry antics’, but the most significant terminology on its titl… 

Sploshy: A Sketch Show

Sploshy: A Sketch Show

The humour of sketch troupe Sploshy can most realistically be described as lazy. 

Cathedral Concert: Choir of Merton College, Oxford

Cathedral Concert: Choir of Merton College, Oxford

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 Body Tights Man Show

The Body Tights Man Show

The Three Gaga men wear full body tights to produce a show of circus value that balances between being a little bit freakish and providing unique entertainment. 

Mad Science Free Dangerous Family Show

Mad Science Free Dangerous Family Show

Professor Kaos exclaims truimphantly that he has the ‘most popular show in the Fringe!’ and with good cause. 

Firenado! The Sketch Show

Firenado! The Sketch Show

It’s what a performer does in adversity which really shows their true colours. 

The Tempest

The Tempest

Aces High promise a radical, multimedia, re-gendered re-imagination of The Tempest, but deliver a bit of a damp squib, something more like a light drizzle or a power shower when th… 

Allsopp and Henderson's The Jinglists

Allsopp and Henderson's The Jinglists

Comedy is subjective – a cliché the truth of which I’d never truly experienced before seeing Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists. 

Ian Kendall's 18th Birthday Magic Show

Ian Kendall's 18th Birthday Magic Show

This is Ian Kendall’s 18th birthday magic show, having first shared his love of magic with Fringe audiences on the Mound back in 1992. 

Marcel Lucont Etc: A Chat Show

Marcel Lucont Etc: A Chat Show

With his bare feet, eternal glass of red wine and implausibly heavy accent, Marcel Lucont is not one to let his French heritage go unacknowledged. 

The Real Daniel O'Donnell Show Presents: The Clock Hour

The Real Daniel O'Donnell Show Presents: The Clock Hour

Narrator Avis Sherman (Michael Legge) introduces the plan – twelve twisted tales. 

Why We Ate Cliff Richard

Why We Ate Cliff Richard

Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival. 

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a strong pedigree and reputation, built on its debut as part of Glasgow’s Òran Mór’s iconic A Play, … 

Hannah Ringham's Free Show (Bring Money)

Hannah Ringham's Free Show (Bring Money)

The old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’ is not one that Hannah Ringham subscribes to. 

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

The Glasgow King’s Theatre panto, which last year marked its half century, is a much-loved institution in the city. 

Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow

Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow

Mid-afternoon, an audience of just 10 people is not what most standups would want to see in front of them. 

Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show

Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show

First, allow me to vent my admiration for this show with mindless superlatives: Fantastic. 

Guilt & Shame

Guilt & Shame

Guilt and Shame is a sketch show about the failure of a sketch show, or more specifically its utter breakdown. 

The Sound of Music Drag Show

The Sound of Music Drag Show

How do you solve a problem like Maria? Well take all the glitter and Lamee in the world and you’ve got a start. 

Chris Cross: Loose Cannon 2012

Chris Cross: Loose Cannon 2012

There are many things you can say about Chris Cross; that he’s a shrinking violet is not one of them. 

Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass

Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass

‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th… 

Grant's True Tales Presents The Liar Show

Grant's True Tales Presents The Liar Show

Fans of Would I Lie To You? will need no prompting to visit this ingenious variation on the theme of Spot the Porker, in which four storytellers by turns deliver 10-15 minute solo … 

In This Lonely Town

In This Lonely Town

Andrianna Smela and her accompanist Maria Dessena are classically trained musicians playing cabaret music, and my main gripe with this programme of the songs of Kurt Weill and othe… 

The Plan B Show

The Plan B Show

Steve Tooley has 51 minutes to live and only your laughter can save him, or so it states on the flyer for The Plan B Show. 

The SomeNews Live Show - Free

The SomeNews Live Show - Free

‘Nice breasts. 

An Evening With David Sedaris

An Evening With David Sedaris

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… 

Best of Edinburgh - The Showcase Show

Best of Edinburgh - The Showcase Show

The key ingredients to any successful comedy show have to be a friendly audience, a boisterous atmosphere and a packed venue, all of which the Showcase Show had. 

Ward and Bartlett's Double Impact

Ward and Bartlett's Double Impact

If comedy often rises out of adversity, could this help explain how Northern Ireland has proved such fertile ground over the years — from Frank Carson and Roy Walker to Patrick K… 

The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show

The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show

The Soap Kitchen have an act which will be familiar to anyone who’s seen Who’s Line Is It Anyway. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – And It's Free!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It's the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show – And It's Free!

It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards. 

The Gong Show

The Gong Show

A parade of comedians have 90 seconds to impress the crowd before facing the wrath of the gong, plus the special guest judges! Imagine Red Faces crossed with a roast, and you’re ne… 

It's Me, Richard Wright, I'm the Problem It's Me

It's Me, Richard Wright, I'm the Problem It's Me

Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring. 

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

It was the title, I must admit, which first attracted me to review Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation; its promise of combining "stage action and illust… 

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak… 

 I Am Yours Sincerely, Major John Cox MC

I Am Yours Sincerely, Major John Cox MC

Ed Saunders-Lee writes about the research and background to creating his solo show, I Am Yours Sincerely, on the life of his step-grandfather, Major John Cox MC. 

Don’t Put Your Mother On The Stage

Don’t Put Your Mother On The Stage

Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too  

Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto

Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto

Gabriele Uboldi write about Lessons On Revolution: A Meta-theatrical Manifesto 

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about... 

Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Opens

Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Opens

​Submissions are now open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 

​Brendan Shelly - A Lifetime in the Making

​Brendan Shelly - A Lifetime in the Making

​Brendan Shelly talks about Ageless Arts' inaugural production, Porridge Boy at the Greenwich Theatre . 

Frozen: Where Right and Wrong Melt Into One

Frozen: Where Right and Wrong Melt Into One

We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play. 

Edward​ Oulton: Young, Northern and Hopeful with £45,000

Edward​ Oulton: Young, Northern and Hopeful with £45,000

Richard Beck met up with Edward​ Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre. 

The British Theatre Challenge 2024

The British Theatre Challenge 2024

Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers. 

BYMT and Ellie Jones take on Animal Farm

BYMT and Ellie Jones take on Animal Farm

We talk to Ellie Jones and some of the cast about her production of Animal Farm for BYMT. 

Barry McStay: My Story of Breeding

Barry McStay: My Story of Breeding

Barry McStay tells us about his experience of writing and revising his play, Breeding 

Comedian Lama Alfard - Self-Confessed Total Badass Who Truly Stands Out

Comedian Lama Alfard - Self-Confessed Total Badass Who Truly Stands Out

We talk to Lama Alfard about her career in comedy. 

FemFestBrighton Celebrates Five Fabulous Years

FemFestBrighton Celebrates Five Fabulous Years

FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary. 

Merging Metatheatre, Autofiction and Necrophilia

Merging Metatheatre, Autofiction and Necrophilia

We interview the director and cast of ​Sergio Blanco's When You Pass Over My Tomb at the Arcola Theatre. 

EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens

EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens

EdFringe 2024 Registration Opens 

From Lady to Gentleman - That's Shalott

From Lady to Gentleman - That's Shalott

We interview Gareth Watkins about his exciting new play The Gentleman of Shallot. 

Greenside Vacates Old Town Infirmary Street in Move to New Town George Street

Greenside Vacates Old Town Infirmary Street in Move to New Town George Street

​Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe. 

VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024

VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024

VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn. 

Cocktails, Concerts and Carols at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Cocktails, Concerts and Carols at St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin's-in-the-Fields announces it Christmas celebrations. 

Malevo: From La Pampa To The Peacock

Malevo: From La Pampa To The Peacock

Argentine dance sensation Malevo perform at the Peacock Thatre. 

What Price A Slice of Bread?

What Price A Slice of Bread?

This week The Loaf by Alan Booty opens at The Bridge House Theatre in Penge, SE20. We spoke to him about his background, the play and its development. 

Plays and Panto in Penge

Plays and Panto in Penge

The Bridge House Theatre, Penge announces its autumn/winter programme. 

Wandsworth Announces Fringe Funding

Wandsworth Announces Fringe Funding

Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2024 is now open for declarations of interest and grant application  

VAULT Not Opening

VAULT Not Opening

VAULT Festival 2024 will not go ahead. 

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 

Breaking the Sterotype

Breaking the Sterotype

We reunited Lithuanian writer, Gintare Parulyte and Croatian-American performer Kristin Winters to talk online about the one-woman show, Lovefool, they have created and are now bri... 

Georgie Carroll Nurses Her Debut

Georgie Carroll Nurses Her Debut

Georgie Carroll talks to us about her debut show, Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Claire Woolner: Pee Power

Claire Woolner: Pee Power

Claire Woolner, the LA-based absurdist comedian, performance artist and surrealist clown, talks about performing at the Edinburgh Fringe 

Kerry Ipema and KK Apple: Risk Peeing Your Pants

Kerry Ipema and KK Apple: Risk Peeing Your Pants

We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks. 

Pitch: Being Queer and Loving the Beautiful Game

Pitch: Being Queer and Loving the Beautiful Game

Nell Bailey, Artistic Director of November Theatre talks about the company's new play, Pitch at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

17 Minutes- The Afermath of a Shooting

17 Minutes- The Afermath of a Shooting

We invited playwright Scott Organ to tell us about 17 Minutes at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

​​Mervyn Stutter: Fun and Choas Outside a Phone Box

​​Mervyn Stutter: Fun and Choas Outside a Phone Box

​​Mervyn Stutter talks to us about his 31st year at the Fringe, how things have changed and his show, Pick of the Fringe 

Emma Taylor: Making a Revue from the News

Emma Taylor: Making a Revue from the News

We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its ​ 43rd year, about its background and success 

The Empowerment of Edinburgh Fringe

The Empowerment of Edinburgh Fringe

We asked Charlotte Anne-Tilley ​to reflect upon her journey to becoming an actor/writer prior to opening with her show Almost Adult at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Clare Cockburn Blossoms With Her Rose

Clare Cockburn Blossoms With Her Rose

​We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.  

Ed Edwards: Assassinating Michael Gove

Ed Edwards: Assassinating Michael Gove

Ed Edwards gives some observations loosely connected to his new play England & Son at this year's Edinburgh Fringe 

​Chris Grace Performs a Trilogy

​Chris Grace Performs a Trilogy

​Chris Grace is performing in three shows this Fringe: Chris Grace As Scarlett Johannson; Shamilton and Baby Wants Candy all at Assembly George Square. 

Paige Wilhide: Break Up and Empower Yourself

Paige Wilhide: Break Up and Empower Yourself

Paige Wilhide performs for the first time outside of the USA with her show ​Breakup Addict ​at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Jenny Foulds: Dancing on Sticky Floors

Jenny Foulds: Dancing on Sticky Floors

Established spoken word performer Jenny Foulds talks about her show, ​Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human ​​at the Edinburgh Fringe nd her life so far. 

Cast and Crew Set to Crash and Burn

Cast and Crew Set to Crash and Burn

I met up with Playwright/Actor Will Leckie, Director Zoë Morris and the cast to talk about their play, Crash and Burn at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. 

A Baptism of Fire - the Edinburgh Fringe Debut Show

A Baptism of Fire - the Edinburgh Fringe Debut Show

We've seen from shows such as Fleabag in 2013 that success at your Edinburgh debut show can lead to worldwide success. 

Liz Toonkel: Vegan Magic with a Mission

Liz Toonkel: Vegan Magic with a Mission

We talked with Liz Toonkel about her show, Magic for Animals, at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Falling In Love Again - With Clowns

Falling In Love Again - With Clowns

Quebec clowns Rémi Jacques and Jean-Félix Bélanger talk about their art ahead of their show, Brotipo, opeining at the Edinburgh Fringe 

Anu Vaidyanathan: Butter Chicken Is A Conspiracy

Anu Vaidyanathan: Butter Chicken Is A Conspiracy

Anu Vaidyanathan talks about her show, Blimp, at the Edinburgh Fringe and the many influences on her life and achievements. 

Phil Green: Four Weddings & A Breakdown

Phil Green: Four Weddings & A Breakdown

We talked to Phil Green about his background and his show, Four Weddings & A Breakdown at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Lily Wolff Gives Mary Lincoln a Voice

Lily Wolff Gives Mary Lincoln a Voice

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks with director Lily Wolff, who is bringing Mrs President to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. 

Rebecca McGlynn: Toxic Masculinity, Gender Identity & Singing Penises

Rebecca McGlynn: Toxic Masculinity, Gender Identity & Singing Penises

Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Lisa Verlo: Making Up For Lost Time

Lisa Verlo: Making Up For Lost Time

Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.  

Catherine DuBord Takes On The Last Flapper

Catherine DuBord Takes On The Last Flapper

Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe 

Chopped Liver and Unions -The London Matchgirls' Strike

Chopped Liver and Unions -The London Matchgirls' Strike

Richard Beck speaks to Lottie Walker about her Edinburgh Fringe play Chopped Liver and Unions, celebrating one of the early pioneers of women union leaders, the Ukranian Jewish... 

Kevin Quantum: The Magic of Momentum

Kevin Quantum: The Magic of Momentum

Kevin Quantum talks about the science and magic that combine to make his show, Momentum. 

Ted Kaczynski: Parole Board Performance

Ted Kaczynski: Parole Board Performance

John Lampe talks about turning eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski into the subject his musical The TUNEabomber that premiers at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Dennis Elkins - Life in a Cardboard Box

Dennis Elkins - Life in a Cardboard Box

Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Maggie Widdoes - Explosive Piece of Ass

Maggie Widdoes - Explosive Piece of Ass

Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews ​US comedian Maggie Widdoes about her Tweets and forthcoming show Stay Big & Go Get 'Em at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  

Bordesley Balances the Brummie Budget - Bearly

Bordesley Balances the Brummie Budget - Bearly

Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, heads to Birmingham to meet, football mascot Bordesley (pictured), the newly-elected Leader of the Council and the team who created him for Stan'... 

Colin Cloud on his most real and honest show yet

Colin Cloud on his most real and honest show yet

Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with magician and mentalist Colin Cloud to discuss his new Edinburgh Fringe show After Dark, adjusting to Zoom life and why he... 

No Weird Brain, Just Matt Hale.

No Weird Brain, Just Matt Hale.

Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular. 

Cogs set Wheel in Motion for Noah McCreadie

Cogs set Wheel in Motion for Noah McCreadie

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews Noah McCreadie, director of Getaway/Runaway. 

Romeo & Juliet Tours East-End Parks

Romeo & Juliet Tours East-End Parks

The East London Shakespeare Festival (16 June - 13 Aug) promises a ‘summer of partying and love’ and a production of Romeo and Juliet that is ‘riotous and atmospheric’.  

Cast and Director on Vincent River at Greenwich Theatre

Cast and Director on Vincent River at Greenwich Theatre

James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo... 

 “Did I just hear that?”  - Julian Starr.

“Did I just hear that?” - Julian Starr.

Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck 

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

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. 

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

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. 

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

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.  

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at a fringe festival such as Edinburgh with tips on budgets, creating a press release, socia... 

How To Get Broadway Baby To Review Your Show

How To Get Broadway Baby To Review Your Show

Some years ago I wrote an article about the best strategies for getting Broadway Baby to review your show. 

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sam Leishman

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sam Leishman

The final day! Richard's alcohol-fueled quest to find Edinburgh's best bar staff ends up at WestRoom, where he found Sam Leishman, a 20 year old Guinness drinker with a passion for... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Gavin Robertson

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Gavin Robertson

Richard didn't stumble far from yesterday's bar, Foundry 39, as just a few yards up Charlotte Lane he fell into Sygn, a trendy retro-style cocktail bar & diner where Edinburgh Bars... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Brown

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Brown

Tucked on the corner of Queensferry Street and Charlotte Lane you'll find the ultra-hip bar and eatery, Foundry 39. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Nathan Hinze

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Nathan Hinze

Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene. 

Summerhall’s army@TheFringe: An Affront to the Arts or an Ambitious Alliance?

Summerhall’s army@TheFringe: An Affront to the Arts or an Ambitious Alliance?

The Army has set up camp for the first time at the Fringe and is stationed with Summerhall in its own premises. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Dale Welstead

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Dale Welstead

In the heart of the Old Town, Cabaret Voltaire is a legendary live music venue in the vaults beneath North Bridge. 

The Edinburgh Cocktail Festival is this Year’s New Kid on the Block

The Edinburgh Cocktail Festival is this Year’s New Kid on the Block

Back in 1947 the founders of the Edinburgh International Festival could hardly have imagined what their legacy would be. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Lainey Corroon

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Lainey Corroon

The Three Sisters – renamed the Free Sisters during the Fringe – has long been a festival hub and a jewel in the crown of the Free Festival. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Erik Stenersen

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Erik Stenersen

Just around the corner from the iconic Greyfriar's Bobby you'll find the Oz Bar, and that's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Erik Stenersen. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Danny Smith

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Danny Smith

Edinburgh is Festival City for good reason, and amongst all the theatre, comedy, books and arts there's even a Scottish Gin Festival. 

The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices

The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Denise Garland

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Denise Garland

Formerly a parsonage, Cloisters Bar is a uniquely traditional Edinburgh pub. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Maurice Penny

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Maurice Penny

Just off the Royal Mile and Cowgate you'll find a craft beer shop and bar called the Salt Horse. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Tomas Germanavicius

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Tomas Germanavicius

The Heads & Tales bar is the home of Edinburgh Gin, and it's also where Richard found today's Edinburgh Barstar, Tomas Germanavicius, a Lithuanian who's a dab hand at mixing up a c... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Jay Weeks

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Jay Weeks

Richard's headed over to Leith to the eclectic bar that is The Mousetrap where he finds today's Edinburgh Barstar, Jay Weeks. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Molly McCluskey

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Molly McCluskey

Richard is exploring Edinburgh's East End today to discover the Barstar of the Day at The Newsroom, where Glaswegian Molly McCluskey is making plans on photography while sipping a ... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Montse Pearce

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Montse Pearce

Richard's headed south to Clerk Street where at the unique Dog House bar he's discovered today's Edinburgh Barstar, Montse Pearce, a Spanish-born artist with good taste in whisky. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sophie Malone

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sophie Malone

Just off George Street you'll find the Thistle Street Bar (the TSB as it's affectionally known). 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Donald McGhie

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Donald McGhie

An authentic Tiki bar in the New Town? Richard popped on his hula skirt and hotfooted over to the Auld Reekie Tiki Bar to meet today's Edinburgh Barstar - Donald McGhie, former ban... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Briar Russell

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Briar Russell

Hidden away in the Old Town on Advocates Close you'll find The Devil's Advocate, and if you're lucky today's Edinburgh Barstar will also be on shift. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Alan Mulvihill

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Alan Mulvihill

It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ross Bryant

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ross Bryant

Richard's in one of Edinburgh's most unique bars today to meet Ross Bryant, co-owner of Bryant & Mack Private Detectives on Rose Street North Lane. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Robbie Johnston

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Robbie Johnston

Richard is still in New Town, but with great bar staff like Robbie Johnston at Nightcap - why would you want to leave? Nightcap might be a relatively new addition to the Edinburgh... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Kyle Jamieson

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Kyle Jamieson

Richard's in New Town today to meet our Edinburgh Barstar of the Day, the fabulously hirsute Kyle Jamieson who takes care of his punters at Panda and Sons on Queen Street. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Urwin

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Sarah Urwin

Richard takes us just a few steps from Princes Street today for the discovery of Hoot The Redeemer and the wonderful Sarah Urwin serving cocktails. 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Cordelia Toennies

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Cordelia Toennies

Richard ventures over to Broughton Street Lane to the Outhouse where today's EdFringe Barstar is Cordelia Toennies from Germany, who studied drama in Scotland and wants to move to ... 

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ben Howard

Edinburgh Barstar of the Day: Ben Howard

In a sea of celebrities, we chat to the people who really matter - the people serving us a drink. Today we find out a little more about Ben Howard at the Abattoir Bar. 

Ten ways to screw up your show in Edinburgh

Ten ways to screw up your show in Edinburgh

Over 3,000 separate productions will squeeze themselves into Edinburgh this August and the slightly depressing reality is that most will not achieve their objectives for the fest... 

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

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... 

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

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. 

Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis’s Asad Mecci on the Science behind the Show

Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis’s Asad Mecci on the Science behind the Show

You don’t know this, but somewhere inside you is a comedy genius just waiting to be unleashed - all you need is a hypnotist to help you let it out. 

Julia Sutherland on Prison Romance, Staging Radio, and her show Jailmates

Julia Sutherland on Prison Romance, Staging Radio, and her show Jailmates

Based on it’s performers’ real-life stand-up material, Jailmates is a love story about an unlikely couple who meet on a pen-pal website jailmates. 

James Wilson-Taylor's First Show About Himself: Ginger is the New Black

James Wilson-Taylor's First Show About Himself: Ginger is the New Black

The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng... 

Harry Baker on Don't Flop Rap Battle's Influence on The Harry and Chris Show

Harry Baker on Don't Flop Rap Battle's Influence on The Harry and Chris Show

In 2012, Harry Baker became the youngest ever World Poetry Slam Champion. 

Playwright Becky Owen Fisher Lets Actors Change the Order of her Scenes

Playwright Becky Owen Fisher Lets Actors Change the Order of her Scenes

In a world boiling over with police invasion of privacy, romance and rising sea levels, what could possibly go wrong? Part eco-political rally cry, part meditation on the collapse ... 

How To Market Your Show event at C venues on 3rd August

How To Market Your Show event at C venues on 3rd August

Experienced industry professionals are offering personal time and advice to fringe performers at a How to Market Your Show event hosted by C venues. 

Interview: The Tim Bat Trick Show

Interview: The Tim Bat Trick Show

Gentleman Juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb. 

C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge

C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge

Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable. 

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Brighton Fringe has officially launched. 

West End Transfer for Show Boat

West End Transfer for Show Boat

Daniel Evans’ five star production of Show Boat will transfer from Sheffield to the West End in the spring of 2016. 

King's Head show highlights growing Chemsex crisis

King's Head show highlights growing Chemsex crisis

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. 

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre. 

James Plays Playwright Rona Munro does Christmas at the Traverse

James Plays Playwright Rona Munro does Christmas at the Traverse

Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe... 

Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe

Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe

In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ... 

'Wreaking havoc on the interactive whiteboard' - Richard O'Brien's Free For All

'Wreaking havoc on the interactive whiteboard' - Richard O'Brien's Free For All

Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry. 

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

Special guest Pete Shaw, Publisher of Broadway Baby, joins James T Harding and Grace Knight for ice cream and the second episode of Broadway Baby Breakfast. 

Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly

Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly

Acclaimed choreographers and performers Ramesh Meyyappan and Claire Cunningham bring two startling – and highly personal – shows to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

Knowing Smirk is an improv group from Cheltenham. 

Three Minute Interview: Dandy Darkly

Three Minute Interview: Dandy Darkly

New York City's "rapid-fire raconteur of sex and death" returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, where it’s fair to say he’s decidedly Trigger Happy! 

Going To Space: The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Going To Space: The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show promises to amaze adults and kids alike! Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October

Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October

Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October. 

The Richard Alger and Tina Kronis Extended Interview

The Richard Alger and Tina Kronis Extended Interview

Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C... 

The Doctor Austin Three Minute Interview

The Doctor Austin Three Minute Interview

Doctor Austin of the renowned Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, based in the University of Glasgow, has come to educate the Edinburgh Fringe about the inevitable Zombie Apo... 

The David Leddy Three Minute Interview

The David Leddy Three Minute Interview

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... 

The Liam Rudden Three Minute Interview

The Liam Rudden Three Minute Interview

Game-keeper turned poacher? Liam Rudden may be Entertainment Editor for the Edinburgh Evening News, but he also has decades’ experience as a writer and director for the stage–i... 

How To Attract Reviewers To Your Show

How To Attract Reviewers To Your Show

Broadway Baby publisher, Pete Shaw, reveals how reviewers pick the shows they're going to see, including the specific way Broadway Baby handles its selection.