Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Do you ever feel like this isn’t how it was meant to be? You wanted your life to be a series of stylish, cinematic moments… shots of you in a silk robe walk…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, and a sell-out nationwide tour, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of bruta…
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…
Embark on Meg Chizek’s hilariously chaotic quest for perfection, while she follows her dreams and discovers life’s true meaning! As she twirls through rejection, conformity and eve…
Blind Mirth returns to Edinburgh Fringe once again in a blaze of glory and parental disdain.
Tim toured 10 different places last year.
It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha).
Life is too complicated – so Riley Nottingham (Thank God You’re Here, Metro Sexual, Manifesto) is giving up choices altogether.
Award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Austen’s Women) return with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
The needs of many people with migraines remain unmet.
Tune-in for a mockumentary edition of This Is Your Life as our imposter Michael Aspel interviews Ludwig van Beethoven.
Stand-Up comedian Daniel Powell tells the story of how a cat tried to kill him with its arse, destroying his health (and life) in the process.
Love Your Work is a bi-annual work-in-progress showcase dedicated to facilitating dance and mental health.
Who knew the Baroque could be so bawdy? iuchair tells a tale of debauchery played out in the coarsest catches of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries.
For Your Entertainment enters its third year in the Fringe, with the same aim to raise awareness and funds for the Scottish Huntingtons Association.
Bluffing Your Way in Ballet pirouettes its fast-paced and irreverent way through the history of ballet.
Are our memories important in our day-to-day present lives? How can sociologists uncover people’s memories and why should they bother to do so? Delve deeper with Dr Sophie Athert…
You’re cordially invited to learn dark, blue secrets and experiences from the life and perspective of a Muslim(ish), British, Pakistani female straddling two cultures, two lives an…
Two siblings feel disconnected from life in their rural hometown.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Meet the most famous girl group of all time.
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…
Deep in the Scottish Highlands lies Nebula Inc, a private space research facility fronted by egomaniacal billionaire Amadeus Klein.
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure cabaret! Love them or hate them, tribute acts are here to stay.
A comedy show starring comedian Toni Nagy and her 13-year old daughter Adelia Aldrich.
‘Freedom an’ whisky gang thegither’ (Robert Burns).
“Weird Al” Yankovic and Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe were destined to be together onstage, and now they are! (Sort of.
An absurdist character-comedy show from a helpless clown.
Guilty or innocent? You decide! The award-winning, critically acclaimed courtroom roast returns to the Fringe for its eleventh year! You accuse friends and family of crimes, and to…
Title says it all! *Evil laugh*.
Warning: Dark comedy zone! Enter at your own risk! Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
The title of the show says it all.
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, part improv, part video ga…
Welcome to the dark side of laughter, where our comics don’t give a damn about your comfort zone.
One guest.
If you can break up with your dad, you can break up with anyone.
NHS anaesthetist, comedian and author Ed Patrick injects the Edinburgh Fringe with a gut-punch show about becoming a junior doctor, the NHS, the pitfalls of modern medicine and the…
After their sell-out sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Insane Magic are back.
Fringe legend on the worst day of his life and on drugs! First he did his back in, now he’s tripping on Diazepam watching Life of Pi.
Multi award-winning comedian and star of three Amazon Prime specials on finding fun in a chaotic world.
‘Hilarious.
Tom Ward (Live at The Apollo, QI) is back, and talking all the big topics of our times – masculinity, three-star hotels, erectile dysfunction, reality TV, adverts, mental health …
Daniel McKeon has the answers? In this work-in-progress show, Daniel will delve through the highs and lows of his life to bring you the know-how to become your very own Boyboss.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Belles was the it girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl.
The audience is trapped in a retro video game with a sadistic, end-of-level boss.
Musical supernova Jazz Emu (Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) is back with a brand-new show, with a full live band, The Cosmique Perfectión.
A knight pulls a sword from a stone and, as the prophecy foretold – becomes king.
Witness mind-blowing sounds, beats, sketches and vocal agility performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
We’re all alive and we’re all going to die.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
A new solo performance by Funny Women finalist Natalie Bellingham using comedy, storytelling, movement and interaction to celebrate being human in all its banality, sprinkled with …
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
James Barr fearlessly tackles the aftermath of an abusive relationship in an hour of trailblazing stand-up.
Trumpets: parp parp parp paaarp, Fringe favourite and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) descends from his ivory (Fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this m…
Sam Wilson, Class 8C, is obviously the correct choice for Head Boy.
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 …
Due to phenomenal demand, critically acclaimed Your Lie in April will transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre for 12 weeks only.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
What’s wrong with you? Self-described shortcomings inspire darkly hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt new musicals every show from the co-creator of five star, multiple Fringe se…
BUILDING YOUR NETWORK & PRESENTING YOURSELF BEYOND A LOCAL CONTEXT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE)…
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Chris East’s brain is a soup.
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* An hour of fearless stand up comedy from James Barr.
Exploring what it’s like to be a constantly aggrieved hypochondriac with more medical conditions than the BMJ, comedian Daniel Powell recounts the events that saw him run away from…
Balthazar Dark is still the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
Join us for an exciting meetup event hosted by Brighton Cloud to discover ways to drive your learning and development.
Expect funny sets from diverse comedic genres, lovingly introduced by your genial compere, giving you a tantalising taste of the breadth and depth of the city’s comedy scene.
The 2023 Brighton Fringe award-winning show returns! Disability in society: fairytale or pigging nightmare? It seems the Big Bad Wolf’s blown your house down: with two life-cha…
Blue Blood is the extraordinary story of the scandalous adventures of outcast Gabriel Jones as he murders his way through the illustrious Gascoyne family on his way to claiming a d…
Take a trip to the old West and join rootin’ tootin’ improv cowboys Tea & Toast for some songs by the campfire.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23 (The Brighton Seagull) with the second of his two new stand-up shows for 2024.
Rip-roaring, off-the-wall stand-up from one of the silliest people I know.
Crazier than finding a penguin in your fridge.
Matt Lowes brings his debut solo stand up show “Matt Lowes: In Your Endo” to Brighton Fringe for 2023.
Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23 (The Brighton Seagull) with the first of his two new stand-up shows for 2024.
After 10 sold-out West End performances of ‘Death Note the Musical in Concert’, its producers are to stage the European premiere of one of the most popular romantic stories and…
Cold Dark Matters is the story of a writer.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Following sold out performances across the UK, Go Your Own Way, the spellbinding show featuring the music from the legendary multiple Grammy Award Winning Fleetwood Mac &ndash…
You will be lead through the haunted Tudor mansion to take your seat at the séance.
Josh Wolf is a comedian, actor and NY Times Bestselling author best known for his work as a round table guest and writer on E!’s “Chelsea Lately” and &…
A quest that goes wrong.
Two lives come together in an unlikely match.
What if the Big Bad Wolf blew your house down? What if you had to start building your life all over again? Award-winning show about family disability and being an accidental carer…
The foul-mouthed prophet of Australian comedy is back in Edinburgh with a new show and a newer tracksuit.
How To Start Your Own Cult - an hour of brand new character comedy.
How To Start Your Own Cult - an hour of brand new character comedy.
The Dark Arts used by politicians and their advisors, speechwriters, and spin doctors are mired in mystery and their own mythology.
Blanket of the Dark performed by Applause Theatre Group.
Spoken word and performance artist Subira Joy explores their experiences being targeted by the police as a Black, queer and trans person in the UK.
Written and performed by singer songwriter Michaela Betts, Dark Nature is a personal exploration of childhood trauma, transformation, dis-ease and beauty.
Singer songwriter Michaela Betts leads you through her theatrical folk journey of narrative songs about the Dark Nature in all of us.
The Twat out of Hell returns with an exciting new hour to get your day started.
Join author Dina Nayeri and cultural development specialist Fairouz Nishanova in a discussion on listening to different perspectives.
The University of St Andrews’ funniest, sexiest and incidentally only improvised comedy troupe returns to the Fringe and this year, it’s back to school.
“Once upon a time there was a girl who decided to leave.
“Once upon a time there was a girl who decided to leave.
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
Having negotiated quite the challenging childhood – from being a spoilt kid in a private school, to his parents losing it all – Nathan knows nothing about stability.
This is a stand up comedy show about life, specifically Martin Graham’s life.
This is a stand up comedy show about life, specifically Martin Graham’s life.
Dad, Playboy and Me.
Join us for The Piano Supper With Daniel and Sean From The Channel 4 Series The Piano.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
Two very different Daniel’s.
Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired.
Kevin Daniel is a simple Glasgow boy who moved to England in 2000 to make his fortune.
Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired.
Daniel Lambert is deaf.
Daniel Lambert is deaf.
Absurdist theatre maker Geoff Sobelle presents an immersive performance offering a meditation on how and why we eat.
Ed Patrick starts his show Catch Your Breath with a simple, “I’m a doctor, so I’m running late,” a rather light-hearted, if telling, joke that puts us at ease with its self…
Don’t miss the hilarious smash-hit show from Scotland’s international comedy star.
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, improv, video game and cho…
2 nights of hilarious stand up comedy in aid of the Scottish Huntingtons Association, with excellent Scottish up and coming comedians at the ready to make you laugh whilst raising …
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.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
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.
Join me as I put the fun back into searching for meaning in a chaotic universe, if we agree to spell universe as ‘fun-iverse’ which I believe we agreed to.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
When life deals you a grim hand it’s easy to choose oblivion.
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
Time.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
An over-zealous Highlander taking on the British comedy establishment to impress his dad – Daniel Downie is a Jacobite! Award winning Scottish comedian and historian Daniel Down…
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
Phoebe is a young college student navigating her life as different obstacles arise.
Adele’s back, funnier and more dangerous than ever! Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee (2023).
The world’s only stand-up/improv/chat tattoo comedy show hits the Fringe to take you down the hilarious highway of human graffiti.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Join award-winning comedian Kathryn Mather in this slightly dark, slightly whimsical show about finding love and finding yourself against the backdrop of the pandemic.
The foul-mouthed prophet of Australian comedy is back in Edinburgh with a new show and a newer tracksuit.
After a decade of performing all over the world, in over 50 countries and countless viral videos, European-Canadian comedy star Daniel-Ryan Spaulding brings his new solo show to th…
A cheater’s guide to love – Jokes on marriage, divorce, therapy, death and cheating.
Combining two of his great loves – Weird Al Yankovic and Harry Potter – Steve Goodie creates an all-out musical performance with some killer lyrics and accordion skills.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
A late night version of the sell-out unique show.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Multi award-winning comedian Cassidy has been told he must make his stand-up ‘TikTok ready’.
Multi award-winning comedian Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his stand-up “Instagrammable.
Shared hour with two absolute stars of the future.
Ever wonder what it’s like to see a show… without actually seeing it? This piece plunges the audience into darkness, allowing them to step into the shoes of their hosts, VICS, …
Winner of Best Kids Show at Adelaide Fringe 2023.
The night is dark and full of laughs with Black Widows, where the boldest female comedians come to push boundaries and tackle taboo topics.
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
We’ve got news.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action videogame! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An interac…
Returning for its eleventh year at the Edinburgh Fringe, this cult favorite show has lost none of its energy and atmosphere.
***** It’s brilliant, dynamic, explosive! (UngtTeaterblod.
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
Witness mind-blowing sound, energy and vocal dexterity performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
As seen on Reno 911, Key & Peele, and Jackass 4.
A few days ago I saw a little boy slapping a wall.
An absurd sketch show where it’s always 2am, set in the liminal space between screen-lit insomnia and bad dreams.
Award-winning musical comedian and viral internet-hit-maker Anesti Danelis returns with his hit comedy concert that will change your life.
Nathan wants to live in the moment but the past has a way of finding him.
The simple ‘good vs bad’ narrative is present in just about every aspect of our culture and society.
Monster vs Hero, TV Camera vs Reporter, Husband vs Husband: their battles and rituals.
Glaswegian comedian and popular Twitch streamer Rosco McClelland enters clad in a denim biker vest and a spider’s web tattoo coning one elbow.
Cassie is a hot mess.
This returning musical is an exceptionally joyful and tremendously funny look into the lives of food delivery drivers.
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom, written and performed by Raymond Wilson and produced by All Those Figs, is an expert fringe show.
More stories in song from this multi award-winning Edinburgh favourite.
But he’s gay.
Released in 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon is an album that transcends time, appealing as much today as it did in the days of experimental prog rock.
We’ve got news.
We’ve got news.
The Lavender Theatre opens its gates from 17 July 2023 for its inaugural summer season with Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun.
I, Daniel Blake adapted by Dave Johns from the film directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty, and produced by Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen…
You are invited to gather as One Tribe to bring hearts and minds together in a dynamic, creative, healing circle for change and transformation.
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (Horrible Histories, The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, winner of BBC’s prestigious Felix Dexter bursary) takes an analytic…
You are invited to gather as One Tribe to bring hearts and minds together in a dynamic, creative, healing circle for change and transformation.
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (Horrible Histories, The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, winner of BBC’s prestigious Felix Dexter bursary) takes an analytic…
Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
Building your network and presenting yourself beyond a local context Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-directors of Pan-African Creative Exchange (PAC…
Scared of commitment? Drink too much coffee? Own an NFT? Audience problems become a unique and oddly uplifting musical on the spot.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
Head Replacement (they/them) is a poet amongst clowns and a clown amongst poets who not so long ago decided to venture outside of the confines of their dark liar and re-enter the s…
Head Replacement (they/them) is a poet amongst clowns and a clown amongst poets who not so long ago decided to venture outside of the confines of their dark liar and re-enter the s…
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you will learn the art of massage, and the beauty of bodywork.
In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you will learn the art of massage, and the beauty of bodywork.
Balthazar Dark is the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
Balthazar Dark is the greatest wrestler you’ve never heard of.
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Calling the courageous, faithless, devoted and broken Inner Children to a Ceremony of the Dark Mother hosted by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess Lucy Hopkins.
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy wanted to perform the show of his life for his grandma’s 100th birthday, but must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one.
Come experience the joy, the struggles, the beauty and the pain around being a woman, wanting to be one or not being one.
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
Join your hosts, the hilarious Katie and Demetrius, as they introduce memorable hit songs, performed live, from past Eurovision Song Contests.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
Join your hosts, the hilarious Katie and Demetrius, as they introduce memorable hit songs, performed live, from past Eurovision Song Contests.
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
“Dad, Playboy, & Me.
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy has been told he must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Multi award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy has been told he must make his standup ‘TikTok ready’.
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus present their annual Fringe Festival show - After Dark.
Simon Topping showcases the best Fringe comedy, three acts at a time.
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
Sometime in the future, their world ends.
UPDATE: Tickets for tonight’s performance are no longer available through the Fringe Box Office.
In its second Festival year, Extra Topping Showcases the best Fringe comedy, three acts at a time.
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
A night of stand up comedy in aid of Mental Health Charity Sikh Your Mind.
Smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun is to be celebrated with a special one-night only concert production at The London Palladium.
“Full of infectious energy.
This delightful evening of tall tales proves storytelling isn’t just for kids! Join award-winning storytellers Minnie Wilkinson (The Tell Tales) and Niall Moorjani (Mohan: A Par…
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the world’s only live-action, text-based adventure game.
Heroes are boring.
In an elaborately cosmic attempt to reignite the connection to her ancestral inheritance, Takura blends western ideas of quantum physics and astrology with zimbabwean myth to recon…
blurb: Suitable for budding playwrights who want to meet dramaturgical story wizards Eoghan Carrick, Sarah Baxter, Michelle Read and Pamela McQueen to talk about their p…
Theatre interns collect severed horse heads Emily Featherman A play about the inadequacy of plays.
It’s summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England.
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award, writer for Horrible Histories & The Emily Atack Show) takes an analytic look at his…
George has had a tough week.
AboutFACE is delighted to present its 10th annual NEWvember Festival of New Plays! Come and join us for a weekend of rehearsed readings of the most exciting new plays fr…
The intimate and sensual Tango After Dark delves into the world of authentic Argentine tango.
Alice is drowning under misguided medical advice, chirpy Insta-announcements and yet another fucking miscarriage.
The stage has seen plenty of made-up Jews.
Skin is strange and wonderful.
Theodora van der Beek’s Arts Council funded film telling the darkly comedic tale of a YouTuber princess trapped in a tower in a world of only pink.
The comedy fundraiser extravaganza is back! Following a sell-out, all-star line-up in 2019, join us for a night of laughter to show your support for our planet.
It has been a period of upheaval and uncertainty with COVID and the political situation.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
It’s 1664 and the world is on the cusp of a sweeping pandemic which will devastate the population and change lives for everyone.
Daniel Sloss and Kai Humphries have been friends almost as long as they’ve been comedians.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
Surrealist stand-up comedian George Bricher will take you on a path of bizarre thought experiments, strange rants and lessons in how to stay optimistic in the face of middle-class …
Troubled? Weak? Feel like a fraud? Good.
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (written for The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) takes an analytic look at h…
In PRESENT/TENSE comedian Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (written for The Emily Atack Show, The Lenny Henry Show, twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) takes an analytic look at h…
Malcolm is a resident of Morningside, Edinburgh’s douce suburb.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
Mark Borkowski is the doyen of the world’s most controversial artform: the publicity stunt.
A Choose Your Own Adventure comedy show! Mary Flanigan makes the jokes, you make the choices.
2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out! Rocket into space or face the haunted mansion? Say ‘I do!’ or murder the best man? Save the world or end it? In Choose Your Own, you decide…
Immrama: Columba’s Journey, Your Story.
The Great Resignation? We call it The Great Escape! Join hilarious Brits abroad Jess Bauldry and Sharon VS to hear how they broke out from the 9 to 5 and their musings on the meani…
Pioneering theatre company Solar Bear presents a rude, riotous celebration of Scottish deaf talent.
The most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see.
The After-Dinner Joke doesn’t quite land.
Prometheus Bound (Io’s Version) finds itself in a double bind.
Fade In: Heidi sits at her desk writing the blurb for this show.
When the juggler drops, is it on purpose? Daniel Zindler began his career as a busker and is still often found juggling on the Royal Mile.
Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe.
Where are the knights of yesteryear? A masterclass in barebones storytelling, Debbie Cannon’s one-woman Green Knight has us spellbound.
Rory wants to pop the question.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
From a single fateful phone call taken reluctantly from the toilet, a Shakespearean actor finds his world collapsing around him.
When flyered for Matthew Gouldesbrough’s new play Truth / Reconciliation, I was told I could expect “serious theatre” from the Elegy group.
You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the provocative title Olives and Blowjobs at Space Triplex.
After years of patching up a rapidly deteriorating airport on an island lost in a Foie Gras scandal, Lick is staring down the propeller of a cargo plane.
How to remember the hermit of Hull? Almost Instinct, Almost True may refuse us anabsolute answer, but with moments of lyricism, connection and surprising political relevance, it as…
The Edinburgh Fringe may have a porn addiction.
Dark Vanilla Jungle.
Pasty-white, loved a round of golf and a bevy, locked in a bitter dispute between Catholics and Protestants, had an adorable wee Skye Terrier dog, married three times, implicated i…
In 2020, Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan reopened, asking patrons on the rollercoasters to Scream Inside Your Heart.
In 2020, Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan reopened, asking patrons on the rollercoasters to Scream Inside Your Heart.
Your Aunt Fanny are an all-womxn theatre company from the North East of England.
Guilty or innocent? You decide.
She’s back, the 6’5” towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
There is a robot in trouble and it needs your help! The stunning visual effects and immersive interactive technology mean kids aged 5 to 95 will be enthralled in this thrilling, ed…
Who can save us now? God/Nathan Cassidy might be our only hope.
You are blindfolded.
Game changer of an act Sam Serrano showcases their trademark self-deprecating and dark style in their debut show, Make Me Your Queen.
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Scotland’s international comedy star is doing a run of shows to work up some new material for his next tour.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
Knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is bad, Adele is good.
Title says it all! (Evil laugh).
NHS junior doctor, comedian and now author (oooooh, check him) Ed Patrick returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the makings of a new show.
Musical comedian and viral internet songboy, Anesti Danelis, presents a comedy concert inspired by all of those stupid self-help books.
Finally, something Netflix can’t match! Darkest Thoughts offers you the audience a chance to get immediate comedy based on any topic you can think of.
Award-winning stand-up Cassidy with the uplifting, multi-award nominated ‘extraordinary story richly accessorised with laughter’ (Scotsman).
Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day.
Calling the courageous, the devoted, the faithless and the broken to a brand new, unquantifiable, ceremonial experience by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess.
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…
After two sell-out Fringes, Tessa Coates is beside herself with excitement to be back with a brand-new show.
A Dark Place by Boreas Productions at Pleasance Courtyard is an insight into the relationship between friends, Ash and Sam, and how Sam’s mental health struggles have twisted the…
Introducing Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy who debuts at the Fringe this year.
Who is making theatre like YESYESNONO? The Manchester-based company is back with an immersive, story-telling experience.
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
A compilation of jokes, poems, and songs about a breakup, breakdown, breakthrough, and everything in-between.
‘Watching audiences tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it’ (Daily Telegraph).
The Fringe is nearing its close, but do you have space for more? Chris Bush’s bittersweet Hungry is serving up a Fringe hit.
Explosive, gag-packed comedy from Leicester Comedy Festival Award nominees returning to the Fringe following their acclaimed 2021 run.
Magician Kevin Quantum, trained by Penn & Teller, presents a fast-paced, jaw-dropping show, that guarantees to blow your mind.
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…
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An intera…
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
A compilation of jokes, poems, and songs about a breakup, breakdown, breakthrough, and everything in-between.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Durham Fringe.
Blending dark comedy with the surreal, Experiment Human tells the story of Monkion, a non-human creature, curious to understand the world outside their laboratory in the attic.
A rip-roaring ride through the plagues of history! From swarms of locusts to vine-destroying bugs, from the Black Death to Covid.
Monday, June 27th 7:30pm Under Your Nose + Q&ATrailer: https://www.
Comedian Jacqueline Novak’s GET ON YOUR KNEES is the most high-brow show about blow jobs you’ll ever see.
One of comedy’s most exciting rising stars, Steve Bugeja (AKA ‘The Mighty Booj’, ‘Moulin Booj’, or – for December only – &lsquo…
One of comedy’s most exciting rising stars, Steve Bugeja (AKA ‘The Mighty Booj’, ‘Moulin Booj’, or – for December only – &lsquo…
Older & Wiser is a show about life and everything it can throw at you, from the perspective of two different comics.
Screaming Alley debuts Brighton Festival in an effort to prove that romance ain’t dead (and nor is panto season!) gis a kiss.
Screaming Alley debuts Brighton Festival in an effort to prove that romance ain’t dead (and nor is panto season!) gis a kiss.
The Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents a beautifully intimate traditional Flamenco guitar concert complimented by the passion and power of Flamenco dance.
The Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents a beautifully intimate traditional Flamenco guitar concert complimented by the passion and power of Flamenco dance.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, or as we call it the Great Escape.
2021 was the year of the Great Resignation, or as we call it the Great Escape.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Join Vash for an hour of standup comedy and misinformation.
Join Vash for an hour of standup comedy and misinformation.
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
‘Mémoires d’un Amnésique: A piano, a film and Erik Satie, in his own words’ is, in equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique t…
‘Mémoires d’un Amnésique: A piano, a film and Erik Satie, in his own words’ is, in equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique t…
Heather Alexander lit up the stage as she portrayed one of the most fearless female writers in history - Virginia Woolf.
Scared of commitment? Drink too much coffee? Own an NFT? Audience problems become a unique and oddly uplifting musical on the spot.
BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist Ricky Balshaw is a former Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist, and sports pundit, with a penchant for dar…
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Two award-winning comedians, Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx, bring their hilarious new work-in-progress shows ‘The Butch is Back’ and ‘Villain’ to the Brighton Fringe.
Two award-winning comedians, Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx, bring their hilarious new work-in-progress shows ‘The Butch is Back’ and ‘Villain’ to the Brighton Fringe.
You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy with the multi-award nominated and critically acclaimed show about a magical, life-changing year.
The world is fu*ked.
Award-winning comedian Nathan Cassidy with the multi-award nominated and critically acclaimed show about a magical, life-changing year.
The world is fu*ked.
Simon Topping showcases the best Fringe comedy, three acts at a time.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
This Is Not A Theatre Company is pleased to present its live, site-specific, participatory, multi-sensory Play in Your Bathtub 2.
I Couldn’t Do Your Job is a poignant, captivating and timely verbatim play which shows an honest insight into the people behind the uniforms.
Watching the projected opening credits to Dark Sublime it would be easy to mistake it for an actual British sci-fi TV show of the 1980s.
Have you always wanted to go to a presentation about ADHD that veers off into the wacky and wonderful world of Neuroscience, Julie Andrews, Cher and Dolly Parton? Well n…
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
Love lives and dies, onlineTwo rooms, two people, two calls, two times.
Eddie is a single waiter who wasn’t talented enough to die at 27.
Eddie is a single waiter who wasn’t talented enough to die at 27.
Robert Batson (Brighton Fringe Development) will host this session about fundraising options and opportunities.
The story follows a brave young boy on his journey to meet the darkness in his basement, and watches as he eventually learns to befriend it.
In partnership with Gay Community News So, who’s your favourite Irish trans writer? For a small demographic, trans people are a very big subject in I…
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Come and join the QPOCPROJECT’s collaboration with licensed therapist Anthony Davis.
This is an Ecstatic Experiential Mutual Care sharing about using the Tarot to Explore Your Soul and understand Your place in the Universe! Its a weekly Tarot drop-in sharing! …
This is an Ecstatic Experiential Mutual Care sharing about using the Tarot to Explore Your Soul and understand Your place in the Universe! Its a weekly Tarot drop-in sharing! …
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
In this workshop brought to you by queer writing collective, Sapphic Writers, well be exploring what makes sapphic (writing from the perspective of a queer woman or non-binary pers…
Vanessa Kisuule and Safiya Sinclair impart their wide-ranging experiences for an unforgettable A Toast to the People performance.
Éowyn Emerald & Dancers return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a somewhat different context from previous years with their new work Your Tomorrow.
BREAK YOUR BANK!!! A multi brand pop up shop for ONE DAY ONLYBringing you the yummiest garms from UK based sustainable & independent businesses.
Elly spent the last year at a prestigious performing arts school in France.
Daniel’s 11th new show became the world’s first big post-pandemic live tour, selling over 40,000 tickets in Australia in April alone.
Elly spent the last year at a prestigious performing arts school in France.
Looking for justice? ‘Cos we’ve plenty of it.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed and a burglar flees.
In this workshop brought to you by queer writing collective, Sapphic Writers, well be exploring what makes sapphic (writing from the perspective of a queer woman or non-binary pers…
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Following the death of their manager, four bartenders are faced with the impossible task of resurrecting their bar before it is taken over by a massive corporate chain.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
When the juggler drops, is it on purpose? Daniel began his career as a busker and is still often found juggling on the Royal Mile.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed and a burglar flees.
In her work-in-progress show, In the Dark, Adele ponders the power of knowledge, the power in refusing it, and all things that go on when the lights go off.
Multi-award winning comedian Nathan Cassidy's hilarious and thrilling true crime stand-up show.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Join Miss Carmen Aurora for ‘An Hour With The After Dark Cabaret & Burlesque’, offering a glamorous evening right in the heart of Camden.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Norwegian lyric soprano Mari Eriksmoen gives a rare UK performance, joining prize-winning German pianist Daniel Heide for a recital of Romantic songs.
Ben’s getting older, what should be the final flurries of youth sees him fall squarely into middle age with new ailments to contend with, medical dilemmas, alarming levels of grump…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
InHouse Theatre and Assembly invite you back to your favourite haunt for a strong drink and a stranger-than-fiction ghost story.
Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler.
Fresh from winning a Silver Standard Bank Ovation Award at the South African NAF, (Extra)ordinary, (Un)usual is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! This monologue showcase written by A…
Hour of Scotland is Scottish history with lots of jobby jokes – if that sounds like your thing then enjoy an hour of hysterical and historical stand-up with Scottish comedian Dan…
Your Servant, Mephistopheles follows the demonic deuteragonist as they keep up after a young John Faustus and dodge their boss, Lucifer.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
Brand new show In The Dark sees Adele Cliff discuss the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it.
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.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Camden Fringe.
On Your Bike comes with a lot of hype.
In a beautiful blast of profanity, Daniel Sloss takes us through an hour on the art of Scottish swearing, life after lockdown and the hierarchical dynamics of a farm.
Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt, Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you a brand-new interactive musical sho…
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
This Is Your Trial is an improvised comedy show.
The MDs are a group of UCL medical students, whose sketch comedy and stand-up routines reveal a side of medicine that the public has never seen before.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
Professor Claire Smith (Head of Anatomy) and Dr Michael Koenig (Histopathologist) will take you on a journey through your intestines.
Professor Claire Smith (Head of Anatomy) and Dr Michael Koenig (Histopathologist) will take you on a journey through your intestines.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Thought your 2020 was bad? You get home, the door is smashed, a burglar flees.
Going Primal – Chapter 2: Punk your Spirit: Three solo acts of humans unleashing their own inner spirits.
Adele Cliff brings her new show about the power of knowledge and the power in refusing it to the Brighton Fringe Festival.
How have ways of seeing and being seen reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown? Three film vignettes released throughout the year explore the subjective relationships…
How have ways of seeing and being seen reshaped the nuances of accessibility under lockdown? Three film vignettes released throughout the year explore the subjective relationships…
£75 (£60 for students)09.
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
This event has been rescheduled from Fri 20 March 2020.
£7510am-3pmSuitable for ages 18+This workshop is all about signage onto rustic wooden planks that will be prepared for you.
Join Lekhani on her hair journey as she discovers that she can’t wash her hair with 99p Alberto Balsam, that she has no clue how to cornrow and that everyone has something to say a…
£7510am-3pmSuitable for age 18+This workshop is designed for you to put your own design onto local sanded wood or ply to create a detailed piece of pyrography art.
Get started with writing that story you’ve always dreamed of telling in this interactive one-hour workshop.
Charlotte will take you through the timeline of creating your own work, along with a practical element to get you started on your own play.
What would happen if Ludwig van Beethoven met Albert Ammons!? They might play classical and boogie-woogie piano for each other, exchange anecdotes and musical facts, or perhaps eve…
An uplifting comedy confessional hosted by Nancy and Baz Ashmawy, Irish mother and son stars, of Sky One’s Emmy Award-winning TV show – 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy.
Rockin’ blues, stomping boogie-woogie and silky soul jazz! Pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith delivers class and variety, explosive dynamism, classic songs and dry humour.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
All-new 11th solo show! Following his groundbreaking global smash hit, Daniel Sloss: X (UK cinema release, streaming on HBO in USA and Canada), whose tour sold out shows across an …
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: a) Find the light switch? b) Go north? c) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An in…
‘Watching audiences tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it’ (Daily Telegraph).
It’s me, Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks! In this show I’ll examine relationships (all kinds, baby), mental health (other people’s,…
Enjoy the freshest fringe theatre, performance art, dance, music and art classes from the comfort of your own living room, as part of WAF In Your Living Room.
An award winning play by Laura Harper - From the outside, Dawn has it all; nice house, fast car, great friends and family, and a new job out in sunny Dubai.
Matt Hoss is a man on a mission.
Fresh from a slot on James Corden’s Late Late Show, Lou Sanders breezes into Brighton to blow away the grubby taint of the coronavirus—and your dad.
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
Using the world famous PsychOMeterTM this handy show will teach you how to spot your very first psychopath, and how to manage the cheeky little fellow before he eats you…
Are you eager to discover the better comic who is lurking inside you? Do you need a push to break out of a rut with your comedy routine? Are you looking for support to u…
Nightmares and phantom legends form the backdrop of this new interactive séance show presented in one of London’s most haunting venues.
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable…
Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus are back with Give Me Your Love, a funny and profound fable informed by groundbreaking research.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Did Grover drop an F-bomb on Sesame Street? Do the names Yanny and Laurel make you want to fight? You know what your ears tell you; you heard it yourself! But why do so many people…
Lift your spirits with a selection of spine-tingling choral gems to inspire and delight.
Step aside from the frantic streets and slip into a meditative mood with the tranquil harmonies of five centuries from Gibbons and Tallis to Gjeilo, Whitacre and Lauridsen.
Using dark humour and a good dose of brain power, three scientists reveal their stories: what is it like to do research in everyday life? Between anecdotes of late nights in the la…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A talk by Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on their approach for maintaining your traditional building throughout the year.
What do you want to see? A marriage or a funeral? An abandoned spaceship or a creepy dungeon? A murder or a resurrection? In Choose Your Own.
‘What I had experienced had not been a full life, nor was it a full death but it was a real loss.
Jess is sat on the living room floor, nursing a glass of wine… or two… or three.
“Is it a stand-up show, is it a rally?” Nish Kumar certainly blurs the boundaries between the two.
Join us for a one-off comedy extravaganza, raising awareness for one of the most pressing issues of our time – protecting our planet.
Nick is 14 years old.
Imagine Bandersnatch with less clothes, more STDs and an instagram filter over the screen.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Award-winning comedian Cassidy has had a crazy year.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Edinburgh after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
Back to Broadway: returning for their fourth annual evening of (decidedly secular) cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir head Back to Broadway with a glittering progr…
2018’s smash-hit show by Scotland’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning Netflix star (Jigsaw, DARK) returns during its extended worldwide tour! ‘X is a stunner of a show…
Mark Knight had the honour of performing to a packed-out room, clearly up for a fun Friday night of Mind Reading and Hypnosis – any Edinburgh performer’s dream scenario.
Naomi Sheldon (Funny Women Best Show, 2018) returns with a new psychological drama that takes the audience on an exploration of sound and the supernatural.
A riotous romp through the history of the female body, the patriarchy and the bad science behind the titular gender myth.
Total Theatre Award-winning Rachel Mars returns following her gleeful sell-out hit Our Carnal Hearts.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Critically acclaimed award-winning show returns to Edinburgh for a third year.
Transform paper into 3D forms.
What if your mind is not only in your brain? How exactly would your mind extend across brain, body and beyond? Philosopher Dave Chalmers claims that if his iPhone were implanted in…
Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight.
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: With nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce, they disco…
The Malignant Humours have written you a prescription for some medical-grade sketch comedy! Returning for their 20th year at the Edinburgh Fringe, after eight years of back-to-back…
The World premiere of a breathtaking new Cuban dance show, created in Havana.
Very recently Polly Pattison discovered a hoard of letters from her mother to her father in the early years of WWII.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Hell to Play is a bad-taste absurd comedy game show set in Hell.
It’s 1816, and Mary Shelley is about to recite the words that would be Frankenstein.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s and today.
Experience the Trainspotting walking tour on location in Leith.
X is a prisoner confined to the walls of their cell, placed there for a crime they refuse to discuss.
An hour of gorgeous stand-up from two gorgeous comedians.
In the middle of the night, there’s a noise – a snuffling and a shuffling and a splintering of wood.
Should unbreakable data security be made widely available? If so, can it be used for malicious purposes, as well as keeping us secure? Cracking the Enigma codes during World War II…
After international success in Ireland and Australia, the critically acclaimed, award-winning show returns to Edinburgh for a seventh year.
Nathan Hurd: Colour Blind is a show not to miss.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Lola’s funny, confident, and always striving for perfection.
Take Your Brain To Another Dimension II at Edinburgh’s VAB Lab – an exhibition of modern art.
Fresh from selling out their Glasgow Comedy Festival show for two successive years, Daniel and Ralph are bringing their show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Join us – two Scottish comed…
Some people have called it ‘the biggest scam or our age’.
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Glowed Up is an anecdotal anti-romcom from stand-up comedian Nathan Roberts.
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Raul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
A stand-up game show.
Award-winning comedian, writer and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Modern Horror Stories, Daniel Audritt brings his much-anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Here Comes Your Man is a lovely hour of storytelling from a bright new talent Matt Hoss.
Arrested and kicked out of France, this is a show about the misadventures of a comedian in the Calais Jungle.
The hilarious science show is back with a new food-themed show.
Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to tackle our own privilege in an hour of, at times, uncomfortable and, at ti…
‘The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots’ (Edward Longshanks, Braveheart).
The ‘enthralling and hilarious’ **** (One4Review.
John Robertson first premiered his maniacal game show The Dark Room back in 2012.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Will you: A) Find light switch? B) Go north? C) Explode in a shower of stinking guts? An intera…
Multi award-winning musical storytelling from the creator of Jewish Chronicles and Gefilte Fish and Chips.
After a stellar Edinburgh debut in 2018, award-nominated Australian comedian Daniel Connell returns with a brand-new show.
A show about getting lost and getting found.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
Fire emoji.
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
WINNER: BEST KIDS SHOW Leicester Comedy Festival 2018You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in …
"Watching audiences attempt to tackle the challenge and fail is one of the funniest sights around, don’t miss it.
Oli arrives at the door of Marianne, a now-forgotten sci-fi TV icon, impatient to make an impression, to make a friend.
Step back in time to the golden era of music where the jukebox roared and feet didn't touch the floor.
Her voice.
A guided improvisation dance workshop to get in touch with your inner and authentic movement.
Join us for a dance and physical workshop like no other.
An absurd multimedia pelt through the history of everything.
The BSMS anatomy team are at it again, revealing the mysteries of the human body.
Three confused minds, one rather long acronym! Brighton-based trio, Spit the Ink, deliver a fantastic mix of comedy, poetry and spoken word in their Fringe debut.
A combination of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay that gives the audience the opportunity to create the ultimate relationship ‘to do list’.
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Join Fiona Sagar and Vanessa Hammick for this double bill of new comedy: Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show nominee 2016 and 2017, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre, LA) returns to …
Award-winning comedian, writer and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Modern Horror Stories, Daniel Audritt brings a work in progress of his debut hour, to the Brighton Fringe.
‘Saboteur’ is an anecdotal, multimedia stand-up show from movie obsessive Nathan Roberts.
Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s to today.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian.
You awake to find yourself in a dark room.
Stephen Don’s one-man show has him reading his long short story which is about a violent young man with a penchant for Japanese films and samurai swords.
A fast, hard-hitting comedy featuring six characters at the same yoga centre, all eaten up with secrets.
“Conscious Light” is an award-winning documentary film on the extraordinary life of Adi Da Samraj, one of the great spiritual realizers of our time.
Jenny Rowe’s solo show Tiptree: No One Else’s Damn Secret But My Own is about a woman with many lives, who is best known for not being a man.
Award-winning comedian Cassidy with a new show about his crazy year.
After a drug and alcohol-fuelled night of mistakes, three friends become embroiled in a love triangle that makes them question the nature of love and friendship.
Superstar disc jokey Juan Vesuvius delivers the greatest and strangest DJ set you’ve ever experienced.
In this workshop we will start to knit a sock using all those scraps and leftovers sock knitters accumulate.
You have endless knit-spiration but you're not confident you can translate your dreams into actual knitwear.
Anne Gill, Your MothaWhen your creations bite back The Murder Trust of Iron Mike MolloyThe true story of The Rasputin Of The Bronx Anne Gill, Your Motha - Anne Gi…
£3516 February at 2.
The ThinkingDeveloped at FRINGE LAB with support from Dublin Fringe Festival Your Ma & Other Stories.
"Bring Your Own Baby Comedy have transformed parental leave" i paper "Guaranteed to leave at least one of you crying with laughter" Mother and Baby M…
£2010am - 12pmAge 16+ Do you always use your camera on Auto? Why not learn to master the modes and menus so you can become more confident and creative …
Three characters flee the shores of Libya; each on their own personal journey, whilst a tabloid reporter awaits them on the beaches of Greece, seeking stories to fit a cynical narr…
£65 inc.
Babygirl is eighteen, a student, and has just discovered SEX – in spite of her strict Catholic upbringing by two crotchety old women.
Live Nation & MZA present DANIEL SLOSS: X PLUS SPECIAL GUEST KAI HUMPHRIES Don’t miss the stunning new show from Scotland&r…
Live Nation & MZA present DANIEL SLOSS: X PLUS SPECIAL GUEST KAI HUMPHRIES Don’t miss the stunning new show from Scotland&r…
Live Nation & MZA present DANIEL SLOSS: X PLUS SPECIAL GUEST KAI HUMPHRIES Don’t miss the stunning new show from Scotland&r…
Extra Virgin tells the story of the awkward minutes after a Grindr hook-up.
Your Toys is an hour-long performance for children aged 5-9 and their grown ups, where the audience bring their own toys to become the characters in an adventure.
The exceptional Slot Machine Theatre bring their puppetry skills to a show like no other - one that features your very own toys! A heartwarming story about friends pulling togeth…
One night in her attic writing room with her housekeeper and a mysterious guest she reads them a story, not one of her cherished children’s tales, but one of her terrifying early…
Playwright Philip Meeks brings E.
Australian comedian Daniel Muggleton’s blunt and honest stand-up is a breath of fresh air for audiences.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Myths of Our Own is a two-part event celebrating street fashion and fables all as one.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe in partnership with Just Festival.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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.
‘If I had a name for every woman with a story, I’d run out of space and I’d be writing forever’.
What’s the life that lies under the lab coat? Researchers from all across Europe will accompany you on a journey through their research, sharing their most embarrassing and hilario…
Dr Amy Davies (Heriot-Watt University) invites you to delve into the deep oceans and dark forests where enchanting fluorescent creatures such as jellyfish and fireflies live.
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…
Spend an evening in the company of the world team beatbox champions, The Beatbox Collective.
Hoghead Theatre Company Returns to the Fringe with their devised piece In Your Own Sweet Way.
This unbelievably ambitious, deluded, multiple job-applicant failure attempts to inspire his audiences to become the best they can be.
The Other Guys are an all-male all-student a cappella ensemble from St Andrews, with a balanced programme of medleys, mashups and straight songs, as well as plenty of dad dancing, …
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to these questions, this is the event for you! Lea…
This duo will lift you up with their ridiculous stories as you transcend with their emotive songs.
Returning for this their third annual evening of cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir shirk their choir robes once more to perform a sparkling cocktail of (decidedly…
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, rhythmic New Orleans piano, hard bop classics with searing guitar evoking the good-time speakeasy atmosphere.
Blimey! It’s 1958, the Cold War is heating up, and Her Majesty’s finest assassins have gathered to celebrate topping off their prime target.
Childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back after their smash-hit Fringe debut, serving up their dirtiest, most disturbing and patently misguided VHS finds from 25 year…
The Bluebelles are bringing midnight snacks and jazzy tracks to the Edinburgh Fringe with a fantastic a cappella night in! Returning to Edinburgh for their fourth year, following s…
When three sisters come together on their autistic brother’s 30th birthday, they can’t help but mull over their childhood with him, which was shaped by his insistence that he w…
Set in October of 1978, eight women end up together in an abandoned house where Lenora Stark supposedly murdered her parents 13 years ago.
Meet three women whose lives show that vision plus action can change anything! Join Madam C J Walker (the first self-made American female millionaire and hair-product queen), Amy A…
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker left the old country to build a better life for themselves in the new world.
Six feisty older women shine a light on family violence.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a surprisingly silly trek through psychiatric wards, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis.
Daniel and Victoria are two successful professionals in a happy marriage.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Universal Academy, an award-winning charter school from the state of Texas, proudly presents this riveting hit new musical! Featuring a multicultural cast of students, this product…
Because he’s an idiot, in thrall to his own imagined past, Daniel Kitson (41) has decided to perform an unfinished show that starts at midnight in a room that gets debilitatingly h…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A larger-than-life, theatrical celebration of the life and works of Gwyn Thomas.
Edinburgh Fringe is typically visited for a gluttonous helping of comedy and theatre shows.
Bills, dating, raising children – life is challenging enough! Who wants to think about potential future health issues and care needs with more immediate matters to consider? Unfo…
Night time.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland and debut at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tomas is bringing his show back for a fina…
Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.
Mandy Knight has never had a birthday party.
Experience the iconic Trainspotting on location in Leith, including places featured in the book such as Central Station and Leith Dockers Club.
Saunter down the promenade with Northern Power Blouse for a show full of sketches, silly songs and larger-than-life characters.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
If you remember MSN, getting your first DVD player and video game soundtracks from the 90s, then you won’t forget this show.
Award-winning actor Ingvild Haugstad from Det Andre Teatret tells the story of a person who retreats from the world after losing a soulmate to a freak raspberry accident.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story most people know, but the life of Charles Dodgson, alias Lewis Caroll, and the real Alice Liddell is much less popular.
Clif Knight is a trainwreck and he’s bringing comedy, music and mistaken world outlooks to make you feel better about yourselves.
Life is full of accidents, mishaps, frustrations and disappointments.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to f…
Stand-up comic Gareth Berliner was cast in Coronation Street four years ago to play dodgy drug dealer Macca, and was told he didn’t need make-up! He’s also very funny.
The family-friendly version of the UK’s only comedy court returns with a new venue! An improvised show where Steve Bennett invites top comedians to be lawyers, prosecuting and defe…
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and host of The Mash Report trials new material for a national tour.
The UK’s only courtroom-based improvised comedy is back for a sixth year.
Currently residing in New York City, the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer returns to the Fringe to build material.
Award-nominated Australian stand-up Daniel Connell is quite possibly the most relaxed man in Australia.
Nicoletta Wylde Is Afraid of the Dark is a semi-autobiographical, storytelling, spoken word show about living with night terrors.
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…
You awake to find yourself in The Dark Room! You (the audience) must choose an option – will you A) Find the light switch? B) Cry for help? C) Go north? Come and play a live-acti…
The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns.
Later this year Phil embarks on a national tour of his hit show Your Wrong.
Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub…
The Stuntman returns after last year's sell-out run with his surreal off-the-wall tale of triumph.
Daniel Downie takes an irreverent look at Edinburgh’s history that’s more hysterical than historical.
Whip-smart stream-of-consciousness comedy from ‘master of shamelessly silly yet socially conscious clowning’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
‘Hilarious… Sloss is a festival highlight.
Rahul Kohli was unperturbed by the small audience on the evening this reviewer attended, likening it to ‘a Theresa May cabinet meeting’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Strap in for rapid-fire jokes from the Aussie hurricane in this brand-new show.
Watching Daniel Cook run wildly around Pleasance’s Bunker Two, three things are clear: 1.
More stories-in-song from this multi award-winning Jewish songwriter and Fringe favourite.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in this fun, fear-filled interactive adventure.
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC, now see Nottingham-born rising star Sarah Keyworth’s debut hour.
A play promising to be the first of its kind premieres in July at Landor Space, Clapham, inviting audiences to take control of a show where every night really is different.
You and your family are stuck inside a live-action video game! How will you escape?! Pick options off the screen in this fun, fear-filled, text-based interactive adventure game.
We can’t help living in the future – booking flights for holidays, organising birthday parties, writing applications.
Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella does what all modern adaptations of traditional stories should do: it turns it into something new, something pulsing with relevance for the new settin…
Award-winning comedian and ex-banker, Nathan Cassidy, exposes the truth behind the financial crisis of 2008.
Australian Comedian Daniel Muggleton makes his debut at Brighton Fringe in 2018! He released his debut album ‘Let Me Finish’ in 2017 with US label Comedy Dynamics, recorded live at…
No one talks about the parents.
The perfect end to the bank holiday weekend - first a kicking soul gig, then relax with a drink as the weird and wonderful unfolds before you.
Great comedy guy Nathan Willcock presents what promises to be a work-in-progress show.
‘Dark Side of the Mime’ explores the grotesque like nothing else.
What really goes on in our head? Is it true? What we believe to think? Is it beautiful? Is it confronting? And is it honest? What can you learn from your thoughts? They have more t…
Latest smash-hit show from Scotland’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning comedian.
We’ve all had childhoods.
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
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.
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: taking with them nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce…
Saunter down the promenade with Northern Power Blouse for a show full of sketches, songs and larger than life characters, all set by the glamorous northern seaside.
Did Will Shakespeare write his plays? Come and meet the man himself and take the lid off a legend in your local.
Nathan Lang (Pinhead from Neighbours) tells the high-energy, surreal tale of ‘The Stuntman’ through clowning, characters, physical comedy and real onstage stunts.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a personal trek through his mental health history, including his time in a psychiatric ward, suicide attempts, depression an…
What happens to our minds when the lights go out? ‘Nicoletta Wylde is Afraid of the Dark’ is a semi-autobiographical storytelling spoken word show about living with night terrors.
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…
Rising star Sarah Keyworth, tour support for Stewart Francis and Kerry Godliman, brings an hour of brand new stand-up that shines a light on the relationship between a little girl …
Step back in time to the golden era of music where the jukebox roared and feet didn't touch the floor.
We all have that cousin.
A multimedia spectacular from Angel Comedy founder Barry Ferns and Alasdair Beckett-King (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the of Year 2017).
Legally Blonde (based on the movie of the same name) tells the story of Elle Woods, a party girl who decides to go to Harvard Law School to convince her ex-boyfriend that she can b…
Are you eager to discover the better comic who is lurking inside you?Do you need a push to break out of a rut with your comedy routine?Are you looking for support to upg…
You awake to find yourself in a Dark Room! You, the audience must choose an option.
Smash-hit new show from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish comedian.
After a sell-out debut Fringe performance in 2017, ACH Group’s Sing for Joy Choir is back with a brand new show: Colour Your World.
After a stellar 2017 Daniel Connell (as seen on the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala and Roadshow) returns to Adelaide Fringe with a brand new hour of stand-up! This is Daniel’s seve…
Take a guided twilight stroll along North Tce.
Celebrating the timeless music of the multi-grammy award winning four piece that is Fleetwood Mac! Re-live, reminisce and re-discover the sounds of the 70’s through a one hour …
Have you ever imagined your own theme music when STRUTTING down the street? Do you cry when someone eats the last of YOUR chocolate? Do you use UNNECESSARY CAPITALS (and emoji’s) i…
hit107’s Amos Gill remains one of Australia’s most prolific young comedians.
Edinburgh sellout.
Want to be Instagram famous? Or want to know what’s really happening on social media? Get inside the head of an out of control ‘influencer’ and her perfectly curated life throu…
“Who’s Your Daddy? returns to Adelaide with an amazing line-up of both local and International comedians, both Mums & Dads, all talking Parenthood.
The UK’s only courtroom-based improvised comedy returns for a fifth year.
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.
A brand NEW SHOW to top its 15/16 sell out “Turn Up Your Radio” seasons.
When the night falls, the tango is revealed in its most authentic and pure form.
Experience the sublime harmonies of Adelaide’s acclaimed a cappella group Allegria, in the intimate surrounds of a unique underground venue - Adelaide’s Treasury Tunnels.
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…
At Home Records presents The Dark Space Performances.
Inspiring, intriguing, tender and true.
Growing up with the music of Nick Cave resonating in their bones, it seemed only fitting to put together a tribute to the Bad Seed himself.
Sit back, close your eyes and enjoy the symphonic sounds of Fusion Pops Orchestra & Choir as they take you to the underworld, outer space and somewhere in between.
The Sound of Music is a beautiful, uncomplicated musical about courage, love and doing the right thing, and this production is a beautiful, uncomplicated rendition that stays true …
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
She speaks! After two Emmys, a Grammy, decades of starring in television shows and touring, Kathy Griffin is launching her FIRST world tour after suddenly never being more in-deman…
A monstrous force rules the land.
Following the release of last year’s acclaimed Top 10 album Soulsville, singer songwriter and actress Beverley Knight announces a new UK Tour for 2017.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
As part of Fringe Central’s Young Voices: Fresh Perspective programme, the Scottish Drama Training Network presented Creative Solutions for Creative Careers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
George Orwell’s magnum opus novel 1984 is eerily relevant today despite being published in 1949 and shows us a world of constant war, omnipresent surveillance and propaganda cond…
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, this is the event for yo…
Scottish singer/songwriter Natalie Clark returns from America for her first Edinburgh Fringe headline performance.
People say your whole life flashes in front of your eyes before you die but what happens when you have dementia? Where does the brain go before we die? Dark Matter is a devised and…
Bunker Girls shows us two women who worked as secretaries documenting the German perspective on WWII.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
Grab a seat, hold on tight and have as much fun as your kids.
Your Best Guess is a collaboration between the Portuguese theatre company mala voadora and Chris Thorpe.
England, 1823: the Industrial Revolution and a changing world.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
The story of Peter Pan is a familiar one for many and The Talentz present a lovely retelling of the classic tale.
A unique journey into the private life of a gadget you thought was on your side.
Ethereal Theatre Company’s Little Shop of Horrors is a powerhouse of zany energy.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back with a new show for 2017! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland, Tomas is bringing his abilities across the sea to the Edinburgh Frin…
Returning after their first immensely popular After Dark outing last year, the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers return with another sparkling cocktail of decidedly non-sacred…
Ventriloquist extraordinaire Nina Conti is back with her famous masks, ready to use you as her puppet.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
In 1875, a group of first and second generation immigrants, from the greatest refugee crisis of the age, fed up with their lack of opportunity, founded a football team called Hiber…
A dirty, disused room, empty except for a box with lots of holes in it.
The internet has altered many aspects of the world we live in.
Period production set in India in the 1940s, staging a spiritual journey two people take as they step foot into the theatre of life.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
You are guaranteed to be off to a great start when you step into the gorgeous Merchant’s Hall with a G&T in hand.
‘Dazzling wit.
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas is an initiative set up to ‘take the academics out of their ivory towers and engage with the public’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Thought-provoking but with a humorous tone, this spoken word and physical theatre piece explores what it means to be a girl growing up today and the choices offered to young women.
Last Fringe 1,444 people read the entire Chilcot Report in a garden shed next to a double-decker bus.
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedy Award runner-up, presents his debut show about success, our current political situation and a 19th-century textile designer.
A one-woman dramatic monologue performed with great storytelling skills, Green Knight is an enthralling show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Ever woken up in the night screaming at the revelation that Bruno Tonioli is 61 and wondered what happened to your life? Daniel Norcross has.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
He’s back! The Amused Moose People’s Champion returns with another hour of upbeat, fast-paced and hilarious stand-up.
Porn is a musical that aims to show the emotional side of those working in the adult film industry.
When a man and a woman… or a woman and a woman… or a man and a man… or any combination really, love each other very much, they come together – well, not always together.
Static Assembly attempt to give us an insight into the lives and rivalry of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla but really just leaves the audience confused.
The Dark Room is both a literal and moral description.
Sit back and relax for a cinematic treat! Double Dome Nights is showing a combination of two films from Dynamic Earth’s spectacular bank of out of this world 360-degree immersive…
American Performing Arts International return to Edinburgh with their musical theatre revue American Broadway Hits.
In the latest text by Mudar Alhaggi, this play is about daily life in the midst of the Syrian war, the waiting and the disappointed illusion that the next day might bring about cha…
Step into the grand Lafayette big top in Underbelly’s dedicated Circus Hub and witness the spectacle of internationally acclaimed Circa with their 2017 Fringe offering.
Sam is scared of the dark.
Walking into the Krua Thai Cookery School is like being welcomed into a friend’s home.
One of the good things about the Fringe is that the small scale of most of its venues lead to a sort of intimacy in performance that you get almost nowhere else.
If you’re also the kind of person who thinks that you can’t go wrong when starting with a G&T then this is the event for you.
People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies.
Malcolm is from respectable Morningside.
Daniel Piper’s Day Off is a one man comedy show that goes through the different anxieties one feels when calling in sick to work.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New Zealand’s Barnie Duncan has created a perfect comedy persona; he’s believable enough as a character but ridiculous in so many perfectly pitched ways.
Take a deep breath and join me on a multimedia rampage.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows returns following his 2014 show The Ten Best Songs of All Time with a personal trek through his mental health history, including his …
The sell-out unique comedy experience returns.
Sir Michael Caine Award-winning writer and comedian’s new one-man theatre show – a perfect love story in a swimming pool.
This idiot’s back.
Why do they fire a massive canon every day at lunchtime? How many pubs are named after brutal murderers? How did the Stone of Destiny end up back where it never belonged in the fir…
Standing on a stage adorned with all the necessary equipment to run a fully-fledged activity holiday, Alice Devlin is poised and ready to welcome us to her Edinburgh Festival Fring…
After a sold out debut season, Australian comedian Daniel Muggleton returns to Edinburgh in 2017.
Money.
‘Dazzling wit.
There are many different kinds of video games: roleplaying, shoot-em-up, strategy, the list is endless.
Fresh off the series finale of his critically acclaimed American comedy series, Review, Andy Daly (also seen on such shows as Eastbound & Down, The Office and Silicon Valley) makes…
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…
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Buxton Fringe Best Show winner (and triple nominee) explores bravery in a volatile world.
Sir Dickie Benson, king of anarchy, the last of the Hollywood hell-raisers writ large, invites you to a riotous afternoon of heavy drinking, hilarious anecdotes and scandalous cele…
Siren Theatre Co’s Good With Maps is a multi-faceted story masterfully guided by Jane Phegan who takes us through this one woman show.
Bletherbox provide an alternative insight into the lives of the men who worked and died on the Piper Alpha oil rig.
‘Divine’ (Rolling Stone, Germany).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
For the 16th year, twice a week during the festival, Frankenstein’s pub is taken over by Frank N Furter and the gang for Rocky Horror Night! It’s a raucous fun-filled evening o…
The dance world can sometimes take itself a little too seriously, it often seems to be too caught up in technical comparisons to just enjoy itself, however, Chicos Mambo is the opp…
Improvisation and a cappella groups are two a penny at the Fringe, and it can be difficult to find a unique format with which to entertain the crowds.
The year is 991 and the Vikings are coming.
Master songwriter and Fringe favourite returns with more of his trademark smart and funny story songs (plus new gems).
Kae Kurd has the self-possession and charisma of a seasoned performer, which is particularly impressive given that Kurd Your Enthusiasm is his debut Fringe show.
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
Choose Your Battles is Lucy Porter’s 11th Edinburgh Show and it’s a wonderfully crafted hour that is both funny and, at times, a poignant look at someone who goes out of their way …
Sean Kelly, the ever-smiling, ever-shouting auctioneer star of Storage Hunters.
Edinburgh is the greatest place a Harry Potter fan can visit if they’re looking to immerse themselves in an environment that feels authentically wizarding.
The UK’s only comedy court is back, but now, for all the family! An improvised show where Steve Bennett invites top comedians to be lawyers, prosecuting and defending members of th…
When a new couple move in to a north London apartment block their neighbours are quick to invite them over for dinner, though not all is as it seems.
Sean Kelly Sold Your Way! A night of stand-up comedy & charity auction.
Dark Matter is a Devised and Puppetry Performance.
Arthur Millers most-performed, and perhaps most popular, play, The Crucible, is set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
The latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre, was devised by the company at the Bristol Old Vic, led by Sally Cookson.
Award-winning writer and comedian Nathan Cassidy’s new one-man theatre show for 2017.
Nathan Cassidy is pretty angry about a three star review he once received.
Two striking and contrasting puppetry shows form a double bill that explores the journey of dementia patients at the end of their life.
Nathan Carter is one of the biggest names on the Irish music scene and is fast becoming a big name all over the UK with his fine performances that include the mega hit song ‘…
An improvised rock documentary is a tall order, and Jack Left Town sets out with boundless enthusiasm, a strong absurdity curve and sick air guitar to deliver, even if some areas a…
A stand-up show for those who love the ‘special skills’ section of a CV.
Sometimes you stumble on a stand-up so freshly funny that you remember why you started liking unknown comedy shows in the first place.
The original Educating Rita met Buddha of Suburbia and pretended to be an ordinary working class housewife whilst she went on strange spiritual quests, educated herself, and got an…
Writer/director Sofia Rendall and a cast of Sussex University students bring you a brand new satirical piece in several parts that each parody business culture and its various inad…
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 …
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, brings a stand-up show to Brighton Fringe.
Proving himself to be one of the best loved artists of our time, the tour will take in the length and breadth of the UK from Cardiff to Sheffield and onto Edinburgh.
Dark Vanilla Jungle is a beautiful, breathtaking drama by Philip Ridley about a young girl’s quest for perfect family & home revealing a biting commentary on abuses of power in a p…
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…
Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic that brought us endlessly popular tunes such as “Suddenly Seymour” and “Somewhere that’s Green” tells the story of Seymour and…
Wait until Dark is a claustrophobic thriller which finds increasingly clever ways to complicate the limited single setting of a basement apartment.
Pandemonium Performance return to the Abney Park with their new show ‘Fear in the Dark’.
Peaceful Lion Productions presents Orion and the Dark Based on the book by Emma Yarlett, this is a heart-warming tale of friendship, adventure and overcoming your fears.
Sister Act, the ever-popular stage musical based on the successful Whoopie Goldberg film, is a feel-good delight, and this latest production starring X-Factor winner Alexandra Bu…
World-famous musical Chicago follows the lives of two women in a Chicago prison in the 1920s, both awaiting trial for murder.
A comedic play about society’s need for the “ideal body”.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Fusing storytelling, rich imagery and dynamic movement, Murphy scales down and examines his opinions, insecurities, ambitions and the tricky nature of keeping a long-term relations…
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Do you have a cool idea for a new wearable device? Could you be a great inventor? Then this is a great workshop for you.
Using the Microbit device and Microsoft Blocks you will learn to code the Microbit to run a number of games and projects.
Experience the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers as you’ve never heard them before in this decidedly non-sacred cabaret programme.
We all leave a trace.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Lynn Ruth Miller is the poster girl for growing old disgracefully.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Forty five minutes of fun-stuffed, giggle-riddled, family friendly silliness with Fringe veterans Ian Billings and Chris White.
Following extraordinary interest in his 2016 Fringe show, Blue Rose Code has added a second gig at AMC @ St Bride’s for the Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Appearing for the fourth year at the Acoustic Music Centre, Nathan Priestley (Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts) play a unique and diverse blend of acoustic music styles on guitar,…
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Bradford on Avon’s popular poetry series Words & Ears moors up at the Fringe for one night only, with JL Williams (jlwilliamspoetry.
A late-night spectacular of this Fringe favourite! Acts and audiences are plunged into darkness to create one of the most unique and unforgettable comedy experiences.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
What will you choose to do about cancer? Join us for an inspiring hour of interactive games and verbatim theatre taking you on the journeys of patients, clinicians and researchers …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The first thing you are met with when walking into Eagle House School’s Production of Burying Your Brother in the Pavement is approximately 20 young teenagers spaced out on the s…
We Will Rock You meets Yes Prime Minister in this hilarious story of electioneering by 2015 MP candidate Will Goodhand (Channel 4’s Beauty and the Geek, 99 Club stand-up), featur…
This practical workshop will see you use Lego software to programme a robot, You will use basic coding skills, write algorithms, learn how to debug, use variables and solve lots of…
‘Truth hurts, don’t it?’ On a dark and stormy night, Betty, a married, successful dean of the local college, has called upon her resentful, blue-collar brother, Bobby, to help he…
Bringing the brightest and best comedians to the BBC stage.
A gloriously friendly show packed with hopes, dreams, snacks and drums.
You’re an up-and-coming scientist.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle.
This world premiere by Chicago’s award-winning Wego Drama is a family friendly show! The audience gets to choose what adventure Alan will take.
This unique comedy experience returns to the Fringe after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
A supernatural romance between John, a strange witch boy, and human girl Barbara Allen.
How does breaking up work in the digital age? Are we really that OK? A comic examination of one woman’s race to the bottom both on and offline and the gap between the two.
In this one-woman show, Klahr Thorsen takes her audience on a whirlwind journey that dips and glides – sometimes gracefully, sometimes not – between fiction and personal histor…
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
In the award-winning performance of Your Majesties, Navaridas and Deutinger reenact Barack Obama’s Nobel lecture, held at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in 2009.
Your best friend from school has been arrested for having a collection of child pornography on his laptop.
Daniel Audritt, ‘A winning wit’ (Bruce Dessau), and Sean Cannon, ‘A solid newcomer.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A stand-up show based on a true story about how a man (me) went from being an idiot to a (spoiler alert) Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Daniel Piper is in four gangs, and he’s going to tell you about them.
“You awaken to find yourself in a dark room”, it’s a phrase shouted many times during The Dark Room.
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…
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
A madcap stand-up hour that bats around from interactive games to surreal one-liners and some longer bits.
Nathan Cassidy offers comedy fare that fits right in at the Fringe, a mixture of social observation, wordplay, ranting and anecdotal amusement.
Bethany Black is a forthright, funny, and unapologetic comedian, cheerfully rousing the audience as she lets fire her jokes.
Lynn Ruth Miller is the poster girl for growing old disgracefully.
SuZanna GonZo had to abandon cruise ship stardom after she almost murdered the man she had fallen deeply in lust with.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
As seen on Showtime’s Knock, Knock, It’s Tig, and featured in Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist, Ever is bringing her debut show to Edinburgh.
Rhombus Ensemble’s Your Mother’s Vagina is a whirlwind of subject matter wrapped up in the lives of its two protagonists: Layla and Sue Anne.
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
‘Nothing short of hysterical… Stunning’ (Sunday Express).
Life from a bear’s point of view is as strange and wonderful as you would expect it to be.
The strength of this production primarily sits with the intensely provocative script written by Philip Ridley.
90s-kid’s television hero Dave Benson Phillips brings back his hit children’s game-show Get Your Own Back, but there’s a twist.
The UK’s only courtroom based improvised comedy returns for a fourth year.
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
The hype for Nina Conti is huge.
Let Harry Venning, Guardian cartoonist and award-winning writer of BBC Radio 4’s Clare In the Community, help you to Release Your Inner Cartoonist.
Battle the Sith Pirates with real lightsabers! Blast the Dark Side’s droids! Master the Force with Jedi Knight Crusoe! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don’t just want…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Shakespeare’s much performed, much studied and much loved “Scottish Play”, Macbeth, is the third in this year’s “Vaulting Ambition” season of Bard in the Botanics.
Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play, Doctor Faustus, tells the story of a man who, having learned everything it is possible to learn, is tempted to seek greater knowledge b…
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus tells the story of the Roman General Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
Twelfth Night, the opening show in this season’s Bard in the Botanics, takes place outdoors in Glasgow’s beautiful Botanic Gardens.
Nathan Carter is one of the biggest names on the Irish music scene and is fast becoming a big name all over the UK with his fine performances that include the mega hit song ‘…
Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play.
Beverley Knight, the ‘Queen of UK Soul’, and now doyenne of the West End, is back with a brand new album and UK tour for 2016.
A thought-provoking, one-woman show exploring the themes of feminism, love, media, society and nature vs nurture.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart.
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
Lynn Ruth Miller is 82-years-old.
You awake to find yourself in a Dark Room! Choose an option: A) Find The Light Switch.
Pleasing an audience is difficult at the best of times, when they’re on your side you can read the room, and you’re in safe hands if tech and logistics all go to plan.
This original musical tells a fairytale about everyday life - the many voices telling us what to do and who to be.
Broadcaster and comedian Dolan is one of the most in-demand MCs.
An inconspicuous townhouse in Fiveways plays host to the promenade performance Dancing in the Dark.
Orion is scared of more or less everything.
Award-winning comedian with a random set-list in a quest to find the meaning of life.
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, brings you a stand-up show.
In this show Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love story.
Desdemona is dead.
NINA CONTI IN YOUR FACE She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and…
Writer-performer Amy Conway’s new piece takes the form of a verbatim performance of three interviews: one with her mother, one with her grandmother, and one with herself.
Modern-day deadbeat Simon (Eli Kent) would rather natter to his mum, objectify his girlfriend, and play video-games with a pothead gorilla than think about the recent death of hi…
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on April 13) Classic Stage Company’s last work was set in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Citizens’ Theatre’s new production of David Harrower’s Olivier Award Winning 2005 play Blackbird is an engaging and thought-provoking piece of theatre.
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…
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
ON YOUR FEET! is the new Broadway musical about two people who believed in their talent, their music and each other and became an international sensation.
HARLEQUINADE By Terence Rattigan 24 October 2015 - 13 January 2016 In this rarely seen comic gem, a classical theatre company attempts to produce The Winter's Tale and Rom…
JB Priestly’s much beloved, taught-in-schools play, An Inspector Calls, is a perennial favourite with British theatre-goers.
Megan Barker’s courageous new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts follows the story of Helen Alving as she attempts to arrange funding for a children’s home.
About halfway through the second story of three, in the middle of a series of thoughts on the benefits for men of sitting down on the toilet, Daniel Kitson breaks off, looking u…
Former losing contestant on much loved ITV quiz show ‘Blockbusters’, metaphorical swashbuckler DANIEL KITSON hosts an evening of first class stand up comedy in aid of the United Na…
While this troupe normally presents acts based on stories written by and for children, “After Dark” draws from the same material for an adults-only performance.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Oct.
Long-form improv comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, Do Not Adjust Your Stage, based on the past and present of their audience.
She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film – all without moving her …
As your organisation grows, funders and other advisors may suggest you need a more a formal structure.
Bobby Nitro hosts After Dark, a comedy chat show and showcase.
Stand By Your Man: True Crime Cabaret presents chilling, thrilling true stories of regular women with one thing in common: they all fell in love with serial killers.
South Africa’s National Arts Festival is Africa’s largest and most colourful multi-discipline arts event held in Grahamstown each July.
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
The Silver Moon Poetry Collection gives voice to the unspoken voices of the Feminine.
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered yes to these questions,…
Your Aunt Fanny have been performing their unique brand of comedy throughout the North East to sellout audiences since 2013.
The third play in the Denial Trilogy.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee with the final part of this year’s solo show trilogy.
Australian idiot attempts comedy in a bus.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The common phrase ‘an apple a day, keeps the doctor away’ sounds quite sensible in promoting healthy living, doesn’t it? However, a quick internet search suggests that eating an …
A common objective for artists participating in the Fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
Appearing for the third year at the Acoustic Music Centre, Nathan Priestley (Andy Leslie and Steve Roberts) play a unique and diverse blend of acoustic music styles on guitar, mand…
Based upon the life of the influential and acerbic comedian, Bill Hicks: Dark Poet is a fusion between traditional storytelling monodrama and modern stand-up.
Edith Nesbit, author of scary stories for children, jumps from the page to the stage in Edith in the Dark, a story fitting of her preferred genre.
Trevor is back with another late night show.
GM Bacteria? Noooo! But what if I told you that GM Salmonella might save your life one day? Most people remember Salmonella because of the controversy with eggs, and many know that…
Bartlett talks about his experience immersed in the internet’s most shocking and unexplored subcultures, from buying cannabis on the Amazon of drugs to hanging with Bitcoin anarchi…
Daniel Smith Blues Piano.
A political satire and a dark comedy revealing an uncompromised view of our political world from behind the scenes.
John Lennon was not only a Beatle, but also a skilled short fiction writer, poet and doodler.
Dominic Berry takes us on a personal journey in his spoken word show inspired by the world of online gaming.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Learn the secrets of the cartoonists art with the award-winning creator of Clare in the Community (BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian) and Hamlet (the stage and in and around The Pleasan…
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall.
Straight out of the Slipper Room, New York City’s legendary variety theatre, comedy master Mel Frye takes you on a wild ride through his long and storied career.
Shut Your Cakehole.
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist.
Voices returns, pitting the festival’s best comedy performers against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers.
Job losses, painful break ups and junk food - set to music! Get Your Shit Together is the perfect pick me up for 20-somethings in a similar situation, or just a nice dose of Schade…
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
Daniel Sinclair is a grim comedy about two friends lying at the bottom of the cracks in society.
‘Brilliant’ (Mail on Sunday).
Imaan is in Love.
A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club.
Brand new stories-in-song from this award-winning master songwriter.
The show returns after sell-out shows across the UK and Europe.
John Robertson’s send up of classic text based video games succeeds in being an hilarious evening of retro fun.
Bobby Mair, Tim Renkow and Dylan Gott roll out some of the darkest jokes at the Fringe.
For me, beginning any show with Huey Lewis And The News is a good omen, particularly when their hit single The Power of Love featured prominently in the eponymous sci-fi trilogy so…
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.
If your life had a sequel, would it be better, or would you waste that second chance on a story with no soul? Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show winner Buxton Fringe 2014 p…
As the bombastic theme tune starts playing, waves of nostalgia roll across the audience.
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…
The improv concept of This Is Your Trial is sound: two comedians take on the roles of prosecution and defence as they argue over cases that are brought by the audience.
It’s a brave soul who chooses to sit in the front row of In Your Face, Nina Conti’s latest helping of deconstructive ventriloquism.
Once he gets going, Nathan Caton’s anecdotes and stories are funny, clever and a pleasure to listen to.
An audacious, dark and dirty romp that will have Marcel Marceau turning in his grave.
Celebrated children’s author Edith Nesbit retreats to her attic writing room to escape her husband’s annual Christmas party.
This late night special one hour tour takes you on a journey into the darker side of Edinburgh’s underground history.
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…
Live long-form improvised comedy from one of the UK’s leading groups, DNAYS, plus guest groups.
Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the fortunes of King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends, who have made a vow that they will eschew women (among other things) for three years…
Puttin’ on the Ritz is an all-singing, all-dancing tour of the highlights of the 1920s music scene, with occasional forays into the 30s and 40s.
(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…
Saturday May 23rd All Saints Church, Hove, 7:30pm.
Nathan Willcock, Chortle Student Comedy Award Runner Up 2013, works out his debut show.
Franz Stangl oversaw the deaths of almost a million people during the fourteen months he was Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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…
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.
“ I’m going to sort EVERYTHING out! Sort out this troubled nation like an unruly sock drawer at half-term” Lotta Quizeen is returning to Brighton with her unique blend of dome…
French-Mexican acoustic guitar duo JP & Leonardo bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
“Just leave it all to me! I’ll sort this troubled nation like an unruly sock drawer at half term…” A unique combo of domestic audience trials, current affairs quips & rudd…
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 biblical story of Daniel is well-known: the writing on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast, Daniel’s rise to power, his fall at the hands of conspirators - and the lions’ den.
Cassandra Bick is your average London girl who happens to run a dating agency for vampires, and suddenly finds herself getting an awful lot of attention when someone starts killing…
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Best Show Winner at the Buxton Fringe 2014.
Vitriolic political satire meets manic depravity.
Stand-up comedy from the original dork knight. Rob Deb returns as the Duke of Dorkdom as he brings comedy and jokes about a world that hates and fears him.
Richard Crane’s latest play takes as its subject the life of Vlad the Impaler, famous Romanian prince and the inspiration behind Dracula, blending folk songs, the recreation of …
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
Peter Pan Goes Wrong invites you to watch the latest show by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a production of Peter Pan which starts badly and ends in a medley of perfectly…
Free-flowing, long-form improv comedy from Do Not Adjust Your Stage (DNAYS).
Glasgow based playwright Stef Smith’s latest play, The Beat Goes On, ushers us into the lives of Lily and Peter, a couple of Sonny and Cher tribute artists who practice in their …
Acclaimed playwright Alison Carr’s latest offering, Fat Alice, opens on a familiar scene.
Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha is the first of three plays in this season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Russia and Ukraine, curated by playwright Nicola McCartney who also direct…
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche du Bois, a beautiful Southern Belle whose husband commits suicide after she catches him with another m…
After a very strong debut with Squash in last season’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint, playwright Martin McCormick returns with his second play, The Day the Pope Emptied Croy.
Leviathan, produced in association with Sherman Cymru and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, is among the best plays to appear on the Òran Mór stage this season or last.
Rum and Vodka, the 1992 debut play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson, is a simple and effective one man show.
Lifesaving is an entertaining and surreal hour of theatre which focuses on the lives of two teenage siblings, Sandra and Jamie.
(performances start on March 18) Why not follow a wand’rin’ star over to City Center for this Encores! revival of Lerner and Loewe’s 1951 musical set in 1850s Cal…
Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon is an account of what happens when “our man” (Òran Mór veteran Billy Mack) spends four weeks in Japan.
The musical improvisers Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple in the audience about their relationship, then spin an impromptu musical about the couple’s love sto…
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
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As an ongoing celebration of –and opportunity for –new playwriting talent, A Play, a Pie and a Pint – originated at the Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End – has decided to m…
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…
Dave Hill, a suave local favorite, hosts this top-notch night of comedy and music with a Christmas-themed show.
This Israel-born comedian, who now resides in Booklyn, has garnered an impressive fan base with his musical comedy and inventive projection-based performances.
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Bridge opens with a woman sitting on an isolated bridge being harassed by a stranger who won’t let her be.
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar…
Andy Duffy’s new one-man play is a psychological drama following the life of a stock market trader during the economic crash.
Flying with Swans focuses on three women, all now well into retirement, who reignite their old tradition of taking the ferry to watch the arrival of the whooper swans as they mig…
On the day that a Harlem block is officially renamed George Carlin Way, the comedian’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, gathers friends and fans to celebrate and honor the great Mr.
Squash is the third play in this Autumn’s “A Play, A Pie and a Pint”season at Òran Mór produced in association with Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—following on from Flame…
Mrs Barbour’s Daughters centres around Mary, an elderly blind woman who refuses to move out of her tenement flat and into her niece’s home.
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work…
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro…
It’s Only Words tells the story of Mrs Moore, an old woman who has locked herself in a public bathroom while she thinks about her life and the choices she has made.
Director Dominic Hill’s new production of Shakespeare’s most popular play takes the radical step of giving us a Hamlet who is essentially the villain.
The third play in Oran Mor’s Autumn/Winter Season is a breath of fresh air, a nuanced and enjoyable picture of a thoroughly likeable character.
A thorough, measured account of a key moment in the history of Ireland, this opening production in the new run of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West En…
(previews start on Sept.
The groundbreaking ensemble Dark Inventions returns to St Mary’s with a typically eclectic mix of contemporary and earlier works, including a Scottish premiere of Philip Cashian …
Jonathan Wood’s songs have accumulated over four decades.
The point of a thought-experiment is to provide a way of exploring the consequences of an idea, not through a metaphorical prism, but through a literal imagining of what might happ…
Medical science has advanced thanks to what we’ve learnt from patients’ data.
As your organisation grows, funders and other advisors may suggest you need a more a formal structure.
The pioneering Statistical Accounts of Scotland systematically described 18th-century Scotland and its people, capturing glimpses of the daily lives of those forgotten by the histo…
This intelligent piece of theatre focuses on the religious faith of the famous Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell and his trainer, Tom McKerchar.
You, the audience, become the friends and family of this psychotic gangster’s victims.
Pam Ford has taken 40 years to be happy in her skin, she wants everyone to discover their best bits, and get happy right now, what a great way to start the day with a lunchtime sho…
Verbatopolis is the name an ageing anthropologist has given to his series of lectures, delivered for you by a talented group of actors who illustrate the scenes he has studied.
The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator.
The show uses a mixture of devised and traditional songs, short sketches, narration, and pantomime versions of figures from recent history to recount some of the most important e…
John Bird started The Big Issue magazine. His story is achingly funny and powerfully inspiring. It will make you want to rush out and start making changes in your own life.
Superfluous is a show with plenty of energy, enthusiasm and warmth, but a lack of more fundamental theatrical skills means it falls flat.
An interactive experience like no other as you take part in live mind-blowing experiments that will make you laugh, scream and gasp.
The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood.
Presented with the British Council, this event is for artists and producers interested in touring their shows at an international level.
Drew Wright AKA Wounded Knee and Daniel Padden present a striking new song cycle celebrating the seasons, inspired by Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills.
Raymondo is a piece of magical realist storytelling which combines an evocative musical accompaniment with an endlessly strange and beautiful script.
This is a heartfelt piece of theatre which demonstrates just how far passion and enthusiasm can get you.
With over two million YouTube views for their wicked takes on Atomic Kitten, Kylie, Girls Aloud, Steps and Taylor Swift among others, Queens of Pop take over stylish Edinburgh nigh…
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
This is a surprisingly intimate glimpse into the inner world of multimedia artist Nathan Penlington, with plenty of exciting decisions along the way.
University theatre group Gone Rogue Productions brings us a genuinely funny hour’s entertainment with this production of a beloved classic.
An immersive morning dance experience for those who dare to start their day in style! Nothing wakes you up more than a soul-shaking dance, electrifying music, yoga, massage and a m…
Scotland is the ‘sick man of Europe’.
Following 2013’s successful performances, Nathan Priestley (Andy Leslie and Steve Roberts) return to the Fringe with more original songs and instrumentals and interpretations of cl…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Create your very own comic strip in this unique, fun art class, led by Creative Director of Graphic Scotland, Ariadne Cass-Maran.
A common objective for artists participating in the fringe is to create touring opportunities for their work.
My Rabbi follows the story of two best friends: an atheist man (whose family are mostly Muslim) and a Jewish man.
This piece of surrealist theatre successfully dramatises the issues it sets out to explore and uses neat theatrical devices to do it.
The return of Liam McEneaney’s long-running variety show, with performances from the comedians Gilbert Gottfried and Amanda Melson, the musicians Mike Doughty and Kaki King, …
WHYS is the BBC’s global conversation show – tapping into the most talked about news stories each day and getting the people involved to discuss them across radio and social me…
America, 1947.
Down-home blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano/vocals, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
“You don’t know what heckling is!” screams Michael Legge at a woman in the first row, cutting down her contention that the Northern-Irish comedian is lovely.
‘A deeply-felt and virtuosic shout in the darkness’ (John Cameron Mitchell, Creator/Director, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus).
May I Take Your Order? is the hilarious new one-woman show from Gabrielle Killick that lifts the lid on the life of an impoverished student actress struggling to live the dream.
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
The latest offering from the award winning Sh!t Theatre is an all singing, all dancing critique of the pharmaceutical industry which is at all points informative and entertaining.
It is almost worth going to see The Initiate for the theatre space alone.
The Secret Wives of Andy Williams is an enjoyable hour of theatre that is occasionally funny and often moving, with plenty of eccentricity to keep things interesting.
It’s the Late Night Dark Show - take that title as a hint.
With so much improvised comedy coming to Edinburgh every year, it’s important to create a formula for a show that allows it to stand out from the crowd.
Eric Lampaert makes no claims to be tackling the big issues - in Testiculating (Waving Your Arms Talking B*ll*cks), he talks about everything and anything that catches his eye from…
“Gossip,” we’re told, “travels fast in a valley.
Claustrophobia conjures the atmosphere of being trapped extremely effectively, as well as delving into the idea that we are all, in a way, trapped in prisons of our own making.
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee Nathan pays you £5 to watch his show.
The Tulip Tree is a very intelligent piece of theatre that crams a lot of subtlety into a short period of time.
We are all, surely, familiar with the phenomenon of the choose your own adventure novel.
It’s back with a twist for 2014! After rave reviews and sell out performances, The Dark Truth Tour returns for 2014, with a new spin looking into the dark tales of death and deca…
A sturdy tweed jacket hangs on a coat hanger, overlooking the sparse stage.
Despite extremely promising material, Giulietta manages to ultimately be prosaic and, frankly, a bit boring.
Please Don’t Cry (At My Funeral) isn’t exactly the show advertised.
The latest offering from acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau is an ensemble piece in every sense of the word.
Returning to the Fringe for the third year running, this text adventure game-gone-big seems to have more lives than it gives its players.
Does anyone else remember Tom Deacon on BBC Switch’s daily online programme The 5:19 Show? Just me then.
In this captivating and poignant piece of new writing, F Scott Fitzgerald, the author who coined the 1920s The Jazz Age, and his wife Zelda, retell their own story of love, loss an…
To tell the truth, I’m a little bit scared of Dr.
True Brits is an unusually subtle and warm one man show.
If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore.
Meet PR and media insiders: tips on everything from social networking and contacting reviewers to increasing audience numbers.
The first original musical from The Ruby Dolls is a triumph.
New show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
An Audience With Shurl is a highly intimate, moving picture of the inner life of a very lonely woman.
Comedy in the Dark is exactly what it sounds like.
First Class takes the form of three intercutting monologues which follow the lives of three different people.
Capturing the singular Richard Pryor in a staged bio-play is a challenge and this limp, rote production is nowhere near up to it (1:30).
One of the lesser known but better versed performers in The Stand’s programme at this year’s Fringe, Alistair Green’s show Well Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm is a no-frills …
An original multi-media performance, this could be one of the oddest hours of your life. Come with an open mind, leave with a broken one. @electricdada
The award-winning Nathan Caton (BBC2’s Mock the Week, BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, News Quiz and Can’t Tell Nathan Caton Nothing) brings his wonderfully entertaining new show to the…
Michael Puzzo’s popular play is a solid piece of theatre—it knows exactly what it wants to achieve and pulls it off.
Gordon Southern is eager for his tenth solo show to take off with a bang and he certainly gets off to a great start.
An interactive, improvised courtroom drama, This is Your Trial puts the audience under scrutiny, pulling people onto the stage as the accused, charged with ridiculous crimes.
Full disclosure: I came very close to tears during Hardeep is Your Love.
On paper, this looks like a good show: everyone involved has pretty impressive credits to their name and the concept is the sort of thing that’s fantastic when it’s done well.
Brian K.
It is a rare and precious thing to find a show which is not only brilliant, but which is brilliant in such a wide range of ways.
If you want to know what it felt like to be part of one of the most disastrous free concerts of the ’60s, this atmospheric show is a good place to start.
Featuring feuding tailors, a Jewess who joins a 1950s Christian cult, a cocaine-addicted rabbi and many more, this award-winning and ever-evolving Fringe favourite is a joyous and …
Zoe McDonald’s one-woman show is a masterpiece of characterisation, and a very successful piece of comedy.
The Match Game creates a fantastical dystopia and uses it to consider our notions of romance, and the existence of ‘the one’.
Many consider Stuart Goldsmith’s career as a comic to be “living the dream.
Nathan Fielder and Michael Koman, creators of Comedy Central’s cult hit “Nathan for You,” present a preview of the new season.
Dave Hill and his band Valley Lodge host this impressive lineup of comedy and music, with performances from David Cross, Juliana Hatfield, Michael Che, Jean Grae, Kate Berlant, Mar…
Turn off the lights, and the world suddenly becomes a very foreign place.
Julie Klausner hosts this live episode of her über-popular podcast, with the guests Ted Leo, Nellie McKay, Jake Fogelnest and Danielle Henderson.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
To celebrate his company’s 15th anniversary, Mr.
When author Edward Packard created the Choose Your Own Adventure genre in 1979, he probably didn’t expect their huge success.
Since winning the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2007, Deacon has hosted his own BBC Radio 1 show, done some telly (‘The Rob Brydon Show’, ‘Fake Reaction’, Dave’s One Night Stand’…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
All day event with distinguished novelist Philip Hensher, poet Jo Skelt and other compelling speakers.
Acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
We all have ‘daddy issues’ and I’ll share mine.
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.
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…
Get advice on touring your show after the Fringe, both in the UK and internationally.
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee Nathan has a date of death – now you get yours - and £5 at the end of the show (if you don’t die).
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
This is not your typical childish ghost walk filled with tales of ghouls, beasties and ghostly little girls in their pyjamas.
The not-so-silent clown Mr Pineapple Head had children in stitches this Saturday afternoon.
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…
The term ‘live-action video game’ is usually reserved for disappointing Hollywood adaptations of your favourite computer games (Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, the list could go on).
French-American acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
This multilayered collaboration, spearheaded by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty, ensconces two performers (Madeline Best and Carlton Ward) in a convoluted technological landscape of v…
Join industry experts from Arts Council England, The Old Market and BBC Radio Sussex for a workshop exploring all things Marketing.
(in previews; opens on April 21) Playwrights Horizons continues its season with the premiere of this tough-love comedy by Kirk Lynn, the Austin, Tex.
One of Scotland’s foremost chamber ensembles, with a reputation for tackling the major works of the chamber music repertoire alongside pieces that are less frequently heard, play…
This unusual combination of clarinet, violin, cello and piano boasts an orchestral palette of tone colours and an extraordinary dynamic range.
Death is the topic that the performance of For Their Own Good tackles head on.
CoroEdina, a Scottish chamber choir was formed in 2008.
Dark Matter is a piece of theatre that breaks many of its rules and moulds new ones.
Showcasing an exciting selection of the brightest and the best stand up comedians at this year’s Fringe.
Laugh your Farce Off is a collation of three new pieces of farcical writing, performed and produced by multiple artists involved in other shows at the Fringe.
An event for participants interested in touring their shows at an international level.
Following his 2011 sell-out run, the Fringe’s favourite funnyman returns to reflect on romance in middle age. One man, one mic, five nights, 44 years. Book early! **** (Times).
Mind reader, hypnotist and psychic entertainer Ian Harvey Stone presents his brand new show.
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson looks at CVs, showreels, headshots to your presence - essential for actors just starting in the industry or for anyone who could use a refresher.
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
The Superhero Club provides an audience with humour, style and ease.
Luna tackles love, loss, marriage, what it means to be an American woman.
Hungarian virtuoso Tamas Fejes is a delight to listen to.
Explore the folklore and magical properties linked with common cocktail ingredients, with recipes from the most influential occultist of all time, Aleister Crowley.
A rare chance to hear original songs and instrumentals written over 40 plus years, including some never played in public before.
With great loop pedal power, comes great loop pedal responsibility.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Vanessa Knight is the most glamorous thing to come out of Birmingham since Duran Duran.
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…
Buddy Baker, an obedient and hardworking son, moves in with his playboy bachelor brother Alan, in 1960s New York City, turning both their lives upside down in this classic Neil Sim…
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.
Daniel Rigby returns to the Fringe this year with a sketch show that certainly lives up to its name.
In this musical adaptation of the Canterbury Tales, a family go on a pilgrimage with Father Geoffrey in order to restore their unity after months of tiresome quarrelling.
Down a long, winding staircase, far beneath the bustling streets of Edinburgh stands a city frozen in time.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Sadly, this Disney inspired show is lighter and emptier than even Snow White’s mind.
Whispers in the Dark is a harrowing play.
At the start of the show I heard some people remark that they had seen Beth Vyse last year and had come back.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
An entertaining yet highly prurient act, Martin Mor’s How Do You Like Your Blue-eyed Boy Mister Death? offers a reinvigorated, revitalised and thoroughly welcome attitude towards…
After a massive year of live touring, television, his debut DVD release and parties comes the new stand-up show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man…
Unlike history’s megalomaniacs, Gary is too distracted by X Factor, I’m A Celebrity, Facebook and YouTube, to actually take over the world, but it doesn’t stop him expressing a ra…
The beginning of What Is the Weight Of Your Desire?, by Czech company VerTe Dance, makes it clear to the audience that they’re walking into a rather typically odd fringe show.
This was the most confusing performance I have seen this Fringe.
A fairytale for grown-ups … don’t let truth get in the way of magic! Join commuter Sam on his unexpected quest to help The Knight find his voice and rescue The Lady.
The hilarious story of a young girl’s tragic past and terrifying future. On in the morning, we don’t like the dark. ‘A funny and enjoyable show’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
You awaken to find yourself in a dark room: so begins John Robertson’s interactive comedy hour of live text-based gaming that is so much more fun than it sounds.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
The media makes it difficult to feel happy in your skin. It’s taken me 40 years to feel happy in mine. I want everyone to feel it. Let’s sort it out now!
This Was Your Life is a rethink of the classic game show, in which its audience can decide whether its contestant, Michael, will go to heaven or hell.
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee 2012, this year Nathan goes all in for comedy’s biggest prize.
Okay, so we’re going to take the Festival’s best stand-up and sketch comics and freak them out with the voice of God, who’ll get them improvising like you’ve never seen the…
2012’s Fringe hit returns, pitting the festival’s best comedians against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
As well as being one of Scotland’s headline comedians Obie also runs memory training workshops.
A girl appears on a blank stage in a white shirt and jeans and with a flower clip pinning back one side of her hair.
Katie Mulgrew’s debut solo Edinburgh show is a charmingly chatty walk through the comedian’s life, from the large-headed daughter of Jimmy Cricket who struggled as a child in s…
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books, where you got to pick what happens at the end of each page? Nathan Penlington does.
Davey Connor is a charming, unimposing performer whose style washes over the audience and wins them over seemingly without effort.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2), BBC3’s Comedy Marathon, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy.
Norwegian comic and Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2012 presents a brand new show.
The acclaimed trio, Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaac are back in Edinburgh with their latest collaborative project.
Dynamic, physical, moving (literally), touching (even more literally) and hilarious; this is the New Art Club, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, two men who are on a mission to make you …
As a child, William/Billy plays Cowboys and Indians, takes great pride in his cowboy hat, and wants to grow up to become a cowboy like John Wayne, partly because his father nicknam…
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
Master songwriter presents more Jewish chronicles, truisms, and sharp wit, set to music.
Teenage Kicks is Daniel Sloss’s debut full length Edinburgh Festival show and as one of the youngest-ever finalists in So You Think You’re Funny, there’s quite a bit of anticipatio…
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
The self-proclaimed professors of ‘pop hermeneutics’ return in stunning form to the Udderbelly, revealing their miraculous insights into the world of music and mass-culture, li…
Titan Knight sure knows how to put on a show.
Bob and Jim are a self-proclaimed neo-vaudeville phenomenon.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
As with every other play about the experiences within the acting trade, In Your Dreams comes with a reference to RADA, a few mentions of Peter Brook, and suffers from a fetishisati…
This is one of the most evocative and deeply moving shows I have ever seen.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Our protagonist, Moses the cardboard puppet, describes himself as a ‘funny little puppet dancing on the table’, but this piece is so much more than that.
Britain is in a bad way.
John Donne claimed “No man can be an island.
Port Dover, a Canadian High School, brings a simple and charming cod Arthurian fable to Church Hill.
Stand-up comedy is never an easy option and Daniel Simonsen certainly had his work cut out for him in attempting to do so with little by way of preparation.
Comic actor and character comedian Lee Fenwick brings his latest created personality to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Geoff, the loveable tramp.
It is, naturally, a much harder world that comedians may find themselves in at the Fringe compared to those more atoned to the theatre world.
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…
This pair of independent comedians is sure to evoke a titter from even the stoniest of critics.
Tall, skinny and full of nervous energy, West Londoner Nathan Caton is here to entertain us with an hour of laughs.
With 20 million YouTube hits and three number one albums in the iTunes comedy charts, Adam Kay is going from strength to strength.
This one woman sketch show features strangely sinister characters who are both entertaining and unnerving.
The boys and girl comprising The Leeds Tealights performers, and of course their behind-the-scenes team, have created a comedy sketch show that can be hailed as a storming success …
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
Join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they take on a new recruit and set out to rescue the King’s golden plums!In this wonderfully camp late-night operetta jokes fly and genders bend…
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.
Luke Wright doesn’t invite audiences to buy a printed anthology of his work after he performs: he invites them to buy his CD.
Paul Ricketts is a natural storyteller.
A closed wardrobe and a lit keyboard was the opening state for The Making of a Woman, a piece which aimed to tell the story of a man discovering his feminine identity through the c…
Should he go to heaven or face eternal damnation? The audience decide in this fresh and raucously funny musical.
In a grey, raining world, five dancers flail through space trying to enliven it with their toddler-bright candy-colored clothing.
Andrew Lawrence, winner of the BBC New Act of the Year 2004, is at the Pleasance with his first solo show, How to Butcher Your Loved Ones.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
I cannot praise this show highly enough.
Scottish jazz singer Pam Lawson is joined by pianist Tom Finlay and double-bassist Ed Kelly for a musical celebration of the infamous partnership that was Fred Astaire and Ginger R…
In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd.
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
From the moment she wheels on stage on a blue plastic tricycle Cariad Lloyd lights up the room, fizzing with an infectious and vivacious energy.
he headline of this review was the most prolific tweet of the night at Unravel’s ‘Only Gig You Can Control With Your Phone’ and frankly, it’s a good question.
A gloriously British summer afternoon, sipping tea and eating scones; the perfect setting for The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party.
This performance was never going to be a side-splitter.
Mil’s Trills, starring a very bubbly Amelia Robinson on the ukulele, has travelled all the way from New York City to introduce the little ones of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fri…
Camille OSullivan seemed, at one point, set to become an architect.
Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order.
Maybe its just nostalgia, but you know the way things are going, back may be the only way of going forward So speaks Jim one of the many and varied characters that Steve Wate…
This is a very unusual and enjoyable production.
Bringing his YouTube sensation to the Fringe, Australian comic John Robertson’s show The Dark Room is basically a ‘choose your own adventure’ computer game in which selected …
Nathan Caton is possibly the most amiable comedian you will ever witness on a stage.
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.
Despite being Nathan Caton’s first solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe, he talks with such authority and ease that you could easily mistake him for a Fringe veteran.
Molly Naylor is a storyteller and accomplished writer who has written programmes for Radio 4 before her foray into Fringe.
I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute…
The video that Frisky and Mannish play as the audience files in is marvellously appropriate; the pair are shown dominating BBC News 24, both as the stories and as the newsreaders.
Nathan Cassidy opens this show with great energy, telling us with a jig that it’s “all about positivity”.
Shutterland questions: ‘What if one’s life was monitored and watched to the degree that all your actions and choices were imposed and devoid of free will?’ Through the everym…
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Meet Jess, a young woman with whom we can all relate to at some time in our lives.
After selling out Londons Regents Park Open Air Theatre for a series of three special midnight storytelling shows this summer, Daniel Kitson returns once again to the Traverse …
Hide and Seek Theatre certainly didn’t shy away from difficult subject matter in Radha is Looking Good, which expresses the interior thoughts of a severely autistic woman – Rad…
The Magnets are, in their own words, ‘a six-man sound machine’.
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…
Reviewing a play by Bertholt Brecht presents some immediate difficulties as, according to the author’s intentions, whether one enjoys the play means zilch, as he believed that th…
Three characters from The Seagull are in a CND meeting.
Kerry Gilbert describes her show as ‘a low-budget one-woman sitcom in a damp smelly cave’.
This revival of No Way to Treat a Lady, based on a novel by Oscar-winning writer William Goldman, takes us back to 1960s New York, an era of clunky, fixed-line telephones and frill…
Fran Moulds is a chameleon.
Narrator Avis Sherman (Michael Legge) introduces the plan twelve twisted tales.
Overheard at C Soco: Id like to see Your Mum but only if theres room.
This two person show is set in a surreal, but unnervingly, probable world of a massive corporation - where encouraging chirpy American voices in the lift congratulate people on ‘te…
Do Not Adjust Your Stage is an interesting concept.
Nathan Cassidy’s Fantasica had an interesting premise.
‘For Your Entertainment’ is a dazzlingly black exploration of guilt, self-expression and sexuality that touches on paedophilia, masturbation, rape and cancer.
A cappella can be a difficult genre for all-female groups: often they suffer for want of bass notes and decent vocal percussion.
Grapple Theatre Company, starring a cast from Bristol Grammar School, take to the stage in this adaptation of two Gothic stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Norwegian funnyman Daniel Simonsen is one of several Scandinavian comics making waves at this year’s festival fringe.
Despite being named after an album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band famed for its extravagant tendencies, John Robins’ show of the same name is comforting and familiar.
In a tiny venue, with an even smaller audience Off the Cuff was faced with a difficult challenge for their late night improvised comedy act.
Australian comedian and tracksuit enthusiast Daniel Muggleton’s just woke enough to know he’s an asshole.
Daniel’s 11th new show became the world’s first big post-pandemic live tour, selling over 40,000 tickets in Australia in April alone.
80’s wizard Peter Baecker invites everyone to enjoy, visit and contribute to an interactive installation revolving around our love of the 80’s.
Sabina Westrup writes about opportunities for middle-aged women and her play Kara, Mickey and Pol Too
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
We talk to Kerry Ipema and KK Apple present about their UK premiere of Six Chick Flicks.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Serena Flynn might only reveal her darkest secrets after lots of gin, but her on-stage alter ego Prune is grotesque, fragile and ready to bear all.
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...
Some years ago I wrote an article about the best strategies for getting Broadway Baby to review your show.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Warm and welcoming, and always entertaining, 99 Hanover Street is at the heart of Edinburgh's bar scene.
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...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Experienced industry professionals are offering personal time and advice to fringe performers at a How to Market Your Show event hosted by C venues.
Ben Richards will join previously announced Beverley Knight in the international hit musical The Bodyguard when it returns to the West End for a limited six month run in July this ...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Sue MacLaine’s play Can I Start Again Please combines her writing with her other profession as a sign language translator, and uses these two very different languages as a starti...
Deputy Features Editor Grace Knight interviews two artists from opposite ends of the Jane Austen-adaptation spectrum.
Join Broadway Baby Features Team James T Harding and Grace C Knight for the very first ever of all time Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Gideon and Hubcap have toured over 300 of America's living rooms with this, their homemade home-show, and now welcome you into their world of belly laughs, outrageous stories and...
Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more.
Church Night is a Washington based production company bringing a show of the same name to Edinburgh. But this isn't your average service..
Vinay Patel, writer of True Brits, is a young playwright from the Southeast of London who is ashamed to admit he has never lived north of the river Thames.
Anna Girvan is a director who loves the strange and the unique.
Jo Clifford is a writer and actor whose body of work extends to over 70 produced plays, films and radio plays.
Lucy Ayrton made her Fringe debut in 2012 when her first show, Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry, won her a Best Newcomer award at PBH's Free Fringe, along with a host of glowing...
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.