Award-winning performer Sean Alexander writes about touring internationally with his show Moments in Time
International award-winning comic hypnotists, Matt Hale gives an insight into his show Funbelievable! 90s Rewind.
Artists point to funding gaps at Edinburgh Fringe
A live vocal tribute to Celine Dion is heading to the West End this June, and it is all coming back – live vocals, glitter, and one queen centre stage.
Krista Scott writes about the women in Oscar Wilde's works and her Fringe production Wilde Women.
Joann Condon reflects on the continuing gender and age disparity in showbusiness.
Comedian Gwen Coburn was proud of her dark feminist jokes – but didn’t realise they were a warning sign.
Experimental playwright Justin Maxwell explains how he was drawn into the inspiring and chaotic life of one of the world’s greatest artists and how this led to the creation of hi...
If you’ve been hankering for a show to make you feel simultaneously enlightened, exhausted, and emotionally wrung out, Priyanka Shetty’s #CHARLOTTESVILLE might just be your g...
This summer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pleasance will host the premiere of In the Land of Eagles, a new solo show by writer and performer Alex Reynolds.
Soho Theatre has announced the return of My English Persian Kitchen, Hannah Khalil’s acclaimed play inspired by the life of best-selling cookery writer Atoosa Sepehr.
London Clown Festival is back for 2025 with its largest edition to date, promising a collision of physical comedy, theatrical innovation and unpredictable absurdity across two of t...
The Arcola Theatre will host the world premiere of Clive, a new play by Olivier and BAFTA award-winning writer Michael Wynne, from 30 July to 23 August.
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...
In an era where arts journalism is shrinking, the role of public relations agents in shaping narratives has never been more crucial.
Covent Garden was buzzing this Saturday as theatre fans, bargain hunters, and selfie-seekers descended upon St Paul’s Church for the fifth annual Acting for Others Flea Market - ...
On Sunday 25 May 2025, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will host Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year – Live!, an evening celebrating the enduring power of Shakespeare’s wor...
As the Eurovision final looms, 26 countries are prepping to unleash a riot of spectacle, sequins, and, let’s face it, some truly bizarre musical choices.
Scottish Opera has won the coveted Classical:NEXT Innovation Award for its groundbreaking Breath Cycle initiative, a project that uses singing and songwriting to support people wit...
Wackadoo! The much-loved Heeler family is back for a brand new UK and Ireland tour, with tickets available from today.
The National Theatre is reopening its Dorfman Theatre after extensive government-funded capital works, and it is doing so in style.
Vital Xposure, a disabled-led theatre company, is shaking up the stage with its latest research into creative captioning.
If you’ve ever wanted to feel truly noticed, seen, heard and felt, then Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending might just be the ticket.
From scheming street rogues to long-running EastEnders icons, some of Britain’s most notorious soap villains have unexpectedly become fan favourites.
If hell is other people, then the underworld is about to get even more crowded - and Kevin McHale might need a lifeline.
Comedians gearing up for the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 are getting a lifeline from Brass Tacks Comedy - the little grassroots company that’s apparently decided to save everyone from ...
Milton Keynes' biennial festival of bewildering spectacle, absurdity, and outright madness is back.
Love going to the theatre but also enjoy a good soap opera? The team at The Bridge House Theatre, Penge, might have the answer in their latest theatrical venture, Penge West - A Co...
Durham Fringe Festival is back and bigger than ever with its fifth annual celebration of performing arts set to take over Durham City Centre from 23rd to 27th July 2025.
Brace yourselves, culture vultures and masochists alike. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has wheezed out another 1,564 shows for 2025, bringing the total to a casual 3,356.
A woman’s right to choose, coercive relationships and the complexity of female friendship are at the heart of Jumper Bumps, the debut play by Amelia Rodger, premiering at this ye...
The White Chip, the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit by Sean Daniels, is set to make its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 9 July to 16 August 2025.
A new play exploring fractured friendships and post-conflict identity in Northern Ireland is set to premiere at Theatre503 this May.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, today the globe’s largest arts festival, began not with fanfare; but with a snub.
Theatre, we’re often told, is for everyone; Unless, of course, you happen to want a decent view of Hamilton on Broadway, then theatre is for everyone with $400 to spare...
Behind Mark Ravenhill's ten-play marathon at Wilton's Music Hall.
A vibrant programme of comedy, new writing and international theatre makes this hidden gem worth the trip.
Theatre Peckham announces its expanded Fringe.
Background to the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and this year's events.
theSpaceUK announces over 180 shows on sale this year, with a diverse mix of fresh and established acts.
The Background to Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland's Off-Broadway Debut with A Letter To Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First.
Cirque du Soleil: CORTEO makes a swinging return to the Royal Albert Hall with Black Friday ticket prices from £69.
That's right, it's not a myth! More than two and a half decades since the original animated Disney musical, everyone's favourite demi-god is back to flex those biceps on stage.
Voila! Theatre Festival 2024 is Launched at the Cockpit Theatre
Until Friday, 8th of November you can grab yourselves tickets to see Les Misérables at London's Sondheim Theatre for just £31.
Is there anything more enchanting than the picturesque landscapes of Sicily, drenched in the golden hues of October sunshine? As I write these words from the sun-kissed balcony of ...
After a highly successful limited run at Marylebone Theatre this summer, master magician Jamie Allan is bringing his record-breaking, critically-acclaimed show, Amaze, to the West...
Show Racism the Red Card- the UK's leading anti-racism educational charity - has commissioned a new musical drama for Black History Month as part of a campaign to redress a grave i...
Act now to grab the best seats in the house for Les Mis and save up to £62!
New production expanded from the hugely successful Les Misérables The Staged Concert which played for over 200 record-breaking performances in the West End.
Steve Gove announces Prague Fringe 2025, the 1st Prague Comedy Festival and the 1st Mumbai Fringe Festival.
Richard Beck looks into the background of Tom Dugan’s play on SImon Wiesenthal at the Kings Head, Islington.
Broadway Baby presented four more prestigious Bobby Awards at the end of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, making a total of five.
Broadway Baby presented their first prestigious Bobby Award of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe to An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo by Choir Boys & ...
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck looks at the work of Saltire Sky in revealing a darket side of Scotland.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck takes Sue Crawley’s Tweed and Tartan Slow Stitching Workshop.
Alex Franklin writes about life as a trans person post HRT.
Casey Feigh, founder of Holy Shit Improv writes about live performance being even more important in the face of AI.
Comedians Juliet Cowan and John Meagher make their Fringe debut this year. Here they write about how they slid into comedy.
Comedians Anna Akana (l) and Catherine McCafferty (r) make their Fringe debut this year. Here they write about tragedies in thir lives and the healing power of comedy.
Todd Almond talks about the background to his Fringe show, I'm Almost There.
The Bristol-based powerhouse of a mum-cum-Gen X comic, says, “Don't fear the 'bad' review".
Grammy-winning cellist Leah Coloff tells the story behind her Fringe show, Super Second Rate,
Emma from Nova tells the back story to the show.
Lubna Kerr’s write about the background to her Fringe production Chatterbox.
Comedy hypnotist Matt Hale explains that he loves the Fringe because it is a fabulous dreamscape of the imagination.
Scottish playwrightLewis Hetherington write about the climate crisis and his latest work no one is coming to save us,
Edinburgh Deaf Festival is returning this year despite fears about its survival.
Charlotte Walker talks about returning to the Fringe with an extended version of her production of Chopped Liver and Unions.
Charlie MacGechan tells the tale of a wonderful woman, a tragedy and the phoenix that rose out of the ashes. His moving story is being told here for the first time in public.
Rich Spalding writes about turning death into comedy.
New York comedian Julia VanderVeen writes about the relationship between audience and performer.
Carole Levin writes about her background and play The Life of Elizabeth I in Her Own Words.
Prague Fringe Festival Awards 2024
Polka Theatre announces the launch of their inaugural Polka Playwriting Award.
As Brighton and Hove leaves lockdown and enters Tier 2, socially distanced live performances are back on the cards.
Since the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis has caused the world to shut down, the theatre industry has gone dark, at least at first sight.
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
Copstick is back at Surgeons' Hall chatting to Martha McBrier, Darcie Silver, Pope Lonergan and Lisa Frischemeier.
Slaughtered, from the Underbelly Abattoir. Hosted by Copstick, with guests including Alun Cochrane, Luca Cupani, Langston Kerman, Taigé Lauren, and Darius Davies.
Kate Copstick chats to Paul Wady of Stealth Aspies about questioning labels on the topic of autism.
Unlike its sister crawl, Old Town North, Old Town South traverses more of the South Side’s bars that lie adjacent to many Fringe venues.
Kate meets the folks behind the Army@TheFringe and finds out more about this unique venue.
Hosted by Kate Copstick and featuring the equally fierce female voices of Kirsten Vangsness (yes, Penelope Garcia!), Elaine Miller, and Martha McBrier.
Kate Copstick presents episode 1 of Slaughtered at The Surgeon's Hall with President Obonjo and Zach Zucker.
After a year of excellent shows, picking the winner was harder than ever.
There’s been disco-dancing to Madonna in an old church, vegan based stand up in a room above a pub, incredible acrobatics, hilarious cabaret songs about near-death experiences an...
Today theSpaceUK announces its 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Season with over 400 shows and the biggest new-writing programme at the Fringe.
There have been some stellar hits and some definite misses, but with some five star performances just starting their runs it could be that your favourite show of Brighton Fringe 2...
That’s right, we’re already coming towards the halfway point of Brighton Fringe.
From dark comedies, to sci-fi authors, to an uncooked lump of dough, Brighton Fringe certainly offers surprises for everyone as we head into this second weekend.
After taking on a LOT of research to create their new cabaret show, What Doesn’t Kill You [blah blah] Stronger, Tyler and Erin have discovered some tips on how to survive some pr...
The Old Market are excited to announce that they have managed to raise £1,057 for Brighton Women’s Centre throughout their Reigning Women season.
Welcome to Brighton Fringe 2019! We’re ready to welcome back old favourites, discover new talent and generally have a jolly good time.
This week culminates in International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March and The Old Market’s fiery mini-season, Reigning Women, has never seemed so relevant.
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.
The Warren will be relocating for Brighton Fringe 2019 to a brand new venue in the heart of the city
If you’re not a performer, it can be impossible to imagine how anyone is able to get up on stage and entertain.
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.