Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies explores the tragic, hilarious and baffling road of silence travelled by women in Western culture.
Ever been in a relationship that felt a little bit off? Incognito Improv explore all those relationships that have gone from great to ugly.
Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds.
Join Kim Edgar, an experienced choir leader and acclaimed songwriter, to form a scratch choir to learn and perform uplifting, inspiring songs in Kim’s Songs Of Hope concert (7-9p…
You’re at risk of identity theft! Unless you come to this very informative, interactive, luxury seminar in which I, Bernadette (Agnes Carrington), invite you to experience the extr…
If you have seen any of Jay’s shows you will know this will be a funny, meaningful stand-up comedy show.
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Stick your tongue out, do a peace sign, and tilt your head.
This show is a cheeky, hilarious, mellifluous romp through one singer’s colourful (and true!) past of cult-loving husbands, vampiric record producers, jailbird exes, shaggable th…
Spookily accurate (if bonkers) audience readings, songs & 70s team games.
An exploration of Brighton’s identity, through photographs and film, combined with spoken word from Tash Gilbert and dance from Hebe Salmon.
Join ProjectOurs for their debut Brighton Fringe event, which will explore identity, and what it means to find your identity through different communities and personal expression.
Ollie Horn returns to Brighton with an unmissable hour of highly-interactive, energetic and laugh out loud stand-up comedy.
Becky Harrison, “a wonderful a mysterious mind” (EdFringe 2023), is a typical Gen Z (zed): absolutely mortified.
My name’s Bernadette, and let me start by saying you are under siege: it’s high time you started taking Identity Theft seriously.
Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber And The Cool Legends Show .
If Emily Burns’ immaculately realised Love’s Labour's Lost is anything to go by, there is a fresh new breeze whispering through the corridors of the RSC.
MAKOSH a surreal dreamscape: the human psyche Cleanup On Aisle Masculinity For sale: tear ducts, never used MAKOSH - Polina ShapkinaFollow Psyche down the MAKOSH rab…
Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …
After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in…
‘Rebecca’, by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, two of the most successful German-language musical theatre composers, had its world premiere at the VBW-theatre Raimund…
Sing about the opera faces. The age of awakening. Chinese youth traditional repertoire.
Singing Sands is a touching yet dark comedy about how the death of a loved one can sometimes be the only way to restore old bonds.
Glaswegian musician, producer, DJ and curator Rebecca Vasmant, leads a live ensemble featuring some of the movers and shakers of the new Scottish jazz scene.
Olivia aka Big O is delighted to present her second hour of comedy.
This is a heartfelt piece, in which a group of intrepid teens set out to discover monsters… and discover them in the last place they thought to look.
A series of intense poems on sex, gender and revolution by David Lee Morgan, a London, UK and BBC Poetry Slam Champion.
A series of intense poems on sex, gender and revolution by David Lee Morgan, a London, UK and BBC Poetry Slam Champion.
Iain Dale’s ALL TALK political interviews have in recent years become something of a regular fixture of the Fringe circuit.
The conceit of this podcast is that Clive Anderson invites a different member of the comedy circuit to share with him their own seven wonders of the world.
The year is 1943 and famed wit Dorothy Parker sits in her New York apartment, sifting through her works and deciding which will make it into the new anthology ‘The Portable Dorot…
Christopher Marlowe is forever fated to be associated with his peer and likely chum William Shakespeare.
EdFest award winner presents a left-wing love letter to being queer-ish, mixed race-ish and British-ish.
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
Chopped Liver and Unions tells the story of workers’ activist and trades unionist Sara Wesker, now largely lost to the footnotes of twentieth century history, but in her time a n…
Behind the scenes, things aren’t always as they appear! The story of a great moment in movie making history.
This is a strange one.
At at a time when the world has never more needed to heed the whispers of history, when client journalism seeks to sanitise hate speech as a ‘balanced’ opinion, and social medi…
This is how theatre should be.
Best friends Santi and Naz live in pre-partition India.
There are many things which conjure up the spirit of the Fringe.
The Chatham House Rule is an agreement which allows those in power to share ideas with impunity: the discussion itself can be reported upon, but names are protected.
When Adam Lenson was diagnosed with cancer in 2019; it caused all past, present and future versions of him to collide in the oncology department.
Emily’s life is falling apart.
Friend, fan, or foe of Gyles Brandreth, there’s probably one thing upon which all can agree: the man simply cannot stop talking.
This is a brilliant show.
That humour has rarely trodden a more cobbled path than in recent years makes the mean streets of Edinburgh an especially apposite place for the good, the bad, and the downright ug…
The works of Tennessee Williams rank as some of the greatest and most iconic plays ever written.
'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.
Boys don’t cry, they just drink beer, get fat, and then get hit by a truck.
Boys don’t cry, they just drink beer, get fat, and then get hit by a truck.
The Singing Hands show will be an interactive, multi-sensory, Makaton-signed experience featuring many of the much-loved songs from the Singing Hands DVDs and CDs.
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Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber & The Cool Legends Show, including classic songs by Matt Monro, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Elvis Presley & more direct from h…
Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber & The Cool Legends Show, including classic songs by Matt Monro, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Elvis Presley & more direct from h…
The LOL Word Presents: Gender Reveal Party.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
As a fellow early eighties Sagittarius, comedian Julie Jay’s life has had a lot of parallels with Britney Spears.
This Britney Spears love letter is a dark comedy nostalgia-fest for anyone who has ever dropped to that ‘Hit Me Baby’ beat and who came of age against the ba…
Grace Campbell is a one-woman manifesto for body, sex and mental health positivity.
Berkshire Youth Choir, one of the UK’s finest youth choirs, perform a wonderfully varied programme of choral music from Byrd to Beyonce, centred around Bob Chilcott’s brilliant…
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather …
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
Toxic Femininity is a work in progress stand-up show written and performed by Estefania Baha, a hit true-crime podcaster by day, creative director if the money’s right, and stand u…
Toxic Femininity is a work in progress stand-up show written and performed by Estefania Baha, a hit true-crime podcaster by day, creative director if the money’s right, and stand u…
Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe.
There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food.
Three Women and Shakespeare’s Will is is a nice little premise for a play.
To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.
Two American women each perform stand-up comedy about everything from sex and dating to pigeons and society’s relationship to their bodies.
Earwig is an engaging and classy piece which tells the story of entomologist Marigold Webb, trapped in a loveless marriage and a society as uncomfortable with her deafness as it is…
The title of this show and the sweet, open and slightly goofy face staring at you from the posters should tell you everything you need to know about this show: and stand-up Luca Cu…
Marrow is a love letter to memory and to what makes us: us.
Paul Sinha is probably best known as one of Bradley Walsh’s TV team of ‘Chasers’: a characterful crew of six champion quizzers whose aim is to stop four plucky hopefuls getti…
Billed as a ‘queer manifesto against Grindr’, Looking for Fun is one of the new plays showcased at the Paradok Platform.
Award-winning Polish performer Piotr Sikora has created a beautiful hour of family storytelling which uses clowning, mime, ukulele and audience participation to paint the journey o…
NewsRevue – the world’s longest running comedy show – is as central to the Fringe experience as overpriced artisan burgers and destroying rainforests with unwanted flyers.
Rosie Holt is much loved on Twitter for her razor-sharp parodies of the thick Tory politician with Good Hair, haplessly spouting any porkie and defending any porker in the hope of …
I reviewed Forde’s 2019 show Brexit, Pursued by a Bear and wrote of how his political comedy was as therapeutically valuable as it was satirically satisfying.
Pip Utton really is extraordinary.
During the bawdy years of Charles II’s restoration to the throne, one of his more shocking choices was to alleviate the perceived threat to the heterosexuality of female-imperson…
Despite Kindles and Netflix and Twitter and Podcasts, our collective love of books will never die; at least, if the audience of Classic! at Pleasance Courtyard is anything to go by…
Erin Hunter’s Surfing the Holyland is a dynamic and fast-paced one-woman show in which she tells the autobiographical story of her year living in Tel Aviv, the colourful cast of …
Theatre has proved one of the greatest allies of those seeking to speak to truth to power throughout the ages.
Yummy Mummy (and Headmaster’s wife, just for extra grown-up points) Louise runs the school choir and helps her teenaged daughter with her homework.
This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.
We’ve all been there.
When well done, the biographical show is one of the purest theatrical events known to man.
This is really special.
This is a visceral and vitally important piece in which playwright Eliza Gearty and director Alex Kampfner have wrought an exquisite little nugget of social political theatre: subl…
This dark-comedy love letter to Britney Spears is a nostalgia-fest for anyone who has ever dropped to that Hit Me Baby One More Time beat and for anyone who came of age against the…
The central conceit of this production is that Johan Christensen and Ian McKellen slip symbiotically between being Hamlet’s inner voice and outer actor.
On average, one man takes his life every two hours in the UK.
On average, one man takes his life every two hours in the UK.
Tristan Wolfe brings his brand new one-man show to Brighton Fringe.
Tristan Wolfe brings his brand new one-man show to Brighton Fringe.
Award-winning sweet baby angel and notorious exhibitionist BERT ALERT has been having some fuNNy f33linGs about their gender so rather than fork out for therapy they’re gonna hos…
Award-winning sweet baby angel and notorious exhibitionist BERT ALERT has been having some fuNNy f33linGs about their gender so rather than fork out for therapy they’re gonna hos…
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
The Cool Legends “As I approach The Prime of My Life” as Tony Bennett sang, gee I now know exactly what he meant, because as I ain’t no spring chicken now.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou sings classic songs from The Great American Songbook direct from his barbershop via Facebook Live video stream & from The Golden Window on…
The Singing Hands show will be an interactive, multi-sensory, Makaton-signed experience featuring many of the much-loved songs from the Singing Hands DVDs and CDs.
Clintons, Trouser Snakes and Britney SpearsA dark-comedy examination of 90s/00s misogyny which celebrates not just Britney, but everyone who survived an era wherein Timb…
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45.
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…
These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf…
This twelve-strong company are enthusiastic, bright young things who sing, sway and beat-box with great spirit.
This energised group of youngsters bounce about the stage with glee, making a capella look far easier than it truly is and throwing themselves into the Fringe vibe with abandon.
We’re going through big changes in our understanding of sex and sexuality – and of what it means to be human.
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…
Set in the wonderfully open, socially-distanced and drinks-to-your-seats Garden Theatre of theSpaceuk’s Symposium Hall, the a capella group Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with f…
Fringe roulette is part of what keeps us coming back year after year.
As times of heady redolence go, the 1990s lacks the brittle style of the 1920s, sepia-tinted upper-lips of haunted men in WWI uniforms, or groovy pereniorange of the 1960s… And y…
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Love, work and the passage of time.
Love, work and the passage of time.
Songs from much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are reimagined under music director Wayne Marshall in a new staging by Kim Criswell.
There are a handful of stories which truly stand the test of time.
The year is 1894: three years since the world-famous Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarty plunged to their deaths in The Reichenbach Falls.
The History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender residency, 23-26 June, @ ONCA Barge.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou sings classic songs from The Great American Songbook direct from his barbershop via Facebook Live video stream & from The Golden Window on…
Working with a tight script from Stuart Crowther and some inspired direction from Stephen Smith, Threedumb Theatre have created a wonderfully atmospheric version of The Strange Cas…
Join the professional mezzo-soprano, Laura Wright, live as she gives masterclasses to two singers via Zoom.
Exploring how society validates or invalidates Art and artists’ creative expression with their perspectives.
“I lit the spark that burned the world down”, declares Oliver Yellop’s Gavrilo Princip, before a dying trumpet slide suggests the spark may have been, in fact, rather more of…
It shouldn’t be controversial to assume that one’s ability to enjoy this particular interchange may well rest ultimately on personal politics and the level of individual anger …
Lying not too far beneath the CV19 surface of 2020 lie a series of news events that seem to epitomise our times.
This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…
The Boom Room is a sweet little radio play that captures the ennui and idiosyncratic Englishness of lockdown – cleaning out spice racks, a sudden urge to plant potatoes – and p…
The chaos of a house move.
Conceived, written and acted by Timothy Quinlan, this short film features some of the better acting on offer at the Fringe, and like so many others, is inspired by the strange real…
In Nia Williams’ upcoming new musical, Lady Macbeth is a creepy life coach who takes advantage of the collective incapacity of lockdown to bring her own particular brand of… we…
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Have you ever looked into the mirror and don’t like what you see? It’s time to take our masks off with CTC Company’s new hit show: IDENTITY.
George is a fine and recognised singer/songwriter from the old fishing and mining village of Port Seton in East Lothian.
Glits makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their new choral production.
Written by Nicholas Wright for the Chichester Festival, Rattigan’s Nijinsky explores sexuality, privacy, autonomy and unconditional love within the central conceit of why the dyi…
With a highly experienced team behind this production it is no wonder that Identity by CTC COMPANY at Greenside, Infirmary St.
Forty singers including Barbara Dickson, Karine Polwart, Archie Fisher, Adam McNaughtan, Dick Gaughan, Arthur Johnstone, Ian McCalman and Canadian Iain Rankin, singing the great so…
This comic tale examines Phina’s observations on what others have made of her black identity as a model, actress, radio presenter and writer in the fickle media world.
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop icon status for chart-topping hits…
Whatever else the history books will make of UK politics in 2019, it can at least acknowledge some impressive feminist credentials, with women leading parties right, left and centr…
Let’s not mince words – this is a hard watch.
Molly Brenner’s one-woman show about her pursuit of an orgasm is an endearingly-performed trundle through her long search for sexual fulfilment.
Just yards from James Boswell’s Edinburgh birthplace and subsequent residence on the Lawnmarket, MHK Productions & Rhymes with Purple present his famed friendship with Samuel…
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The Artists Collective Theatre consider what could prompt an eighteen year old girl to create one of the most lauded, feared, impressive and appalling tales of the overpowering nee…
Living in Kent - Maxwell tells us – he is surrounded by the sort of puce-faced, fake WWII heroes who seem to think that having once watched a film with John Mills in it automatic…
Rebecca Perry’s one-women tribute to four icons of the Golden Age of cinema is a cheery and bouncy hour celebrating Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball.
Matt Forde’s reputation as one of our finest political satirists moves into even more assured territory with this caustic and superbly angry hour of impressions and observations.
Tucked away upstairs at The Gilded Balloon, nestling right at the heart of comedy central, is an absolute gem which is a must-see for any devotees of real theatre.
The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym…
Those not lucky enough to have enjoyed the naff golden years and dubious social content of 1970s and 80s television may not immediately understand the appeal of a one-woman show ab…
In a time where the country has never been more divided, Stan Wallace has complete conviction in his belief that both Remainers and Leavers need to fuck off, and he’s here to vent …
Come and learn shape note singing with Tim Eriksen! We are delighted to welcome Tim to York to lead a workshop and a singing on the Arts Barge in advance of his evening …
Join us for a dance and physical workshop like no other.
How to improvise a composition together? In this workshop Annelie Koning will help you discover your individual sound.
The Singing Hands show will be an interactive, multi-sensory, Makaton-signed experience featuring many of the much-loved songs from the Singing Hands DVDs and CDs.
Brighton’s singing barber Peter Joannou and The Something For The Weekend Show.
If you love singing and love Motown, then come and learn Motown songs in harmony, led by professional Vocal Coach, Dan Cooper.
One day, the singing mermaid is tempted away from all of her sea creature friends and her peaceful home at Silversands to join a travelling circus.
Lively and light-hearted singing with Barbara Rayner - a chance to share memories and a love of songs of all styles from jazz and show-stoppers to gospel and folk all in…
An evening with Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist and broadcaster Rebeca Wilcox For one night only broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughte…
Two women, one objective: to find out who has it BETTER.
Best Show, Funny Women nominee returns with brand-new school rebel stories, spookily accurate (if bonkers) audience readings plus games! ‘Uplifting celebration of humanity’ (Sc…
Sultry and cool, Carmen is a gender-swapped film noir fantasy.
An interactive, multisensory, Makaton-signed experience featuring many of the much-loved songs from the Singing Hands DVDs and CDs.
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Performers, producers, activists and cultural workers come together to investigate where power really lies and what needs to be done to ensure genuine diversity and equality of exp…
Gender of Attraction is a heartfelt romantic comedy that puts a spotlight on trans relationships.
Henry Ginsberg is not your standard Everyman.
Being – what is it to be a me.
This Welsh comedian was the first major victim of Identity Theft in the UK.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Masculinity – isn’t it, like, over? Or are there new ways to model manliness? Growing up Joe felt less like a boy, more like a Spice Girl.
Toxic is a collection of laugh-out-loud stories from Joe Sutherland’s life in Coventry, London and (briefly) a town in France which, when pieced together, create an intimately ho…
‘Gender Euphoria’ is James Lorien MacDonald’s second solo stand-up show, and this time he’s taking on as many aspects of gender as will fit in his chaotic, mesmerising brain.
Singing Hands bring their unique blend of Makaton and musical fun to Brighton Fringe for the very first time! The Singing Hands show will be an interactive, multi-sensory, Makaton…
Brighton’s singing barber, Peter Joannou, performs his latest song ‘From Ma Window’, from his first floor shop window in The Lanes in the ‘Something For The Weekend’ show.
Join us for some hip-grinding, hair-flipping and leg-splitting Britney action in our workshop featuring the moves of the pop princess who has provided us with fly dance steps for n…
‘Identity Steft’ looks at the fragility of tokenism, how using statistics to replace real life experience as insight is hugely flawed, and how, in the right light, even the darkest…
The Toxic Avenger – The Musical doesn’t take itself seriously.
Join Suzanne and Tracy on a magical, musical journey around the world.
The University of Edinburgh is trying to improve the position of women in higher education with recipes.
Executed by student acting troupe The Hurtwood Corner from performing arts college Hurtwood House, Seven Devils is a play exploring the trials of down-on-their-luck Manhattan resid…
FK Alexander returns with her Total Theatre Award-winning sell-out 2016 show.
Doig, a disgraced businessmen, has fallen into despair.
The Singing Psychic returns! Best Show, Funny Women 2016 nominee.
Criminologist Gemma Flynn (University of Edinburgh) invites you to delve unashamedly into the world of pop culture behemoths The Kardashians.
Taking its title from critic Waldemar Januszczak’s rundown of the 2016 Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy – ‘there is not enough emotion in our art any mo…
Gallery 23’s Queer Pop Exhibition showcases fourteen contemporary Edinburgh-based artists, with an aim to ‘explore some of the many diverse issues surrounding the LGBT+ communi…
Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.
While most sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe play up to their comic roots, Anomaly Theatre Company are adding a touch of the macabre with their dystopian show iDENTiTY.
Meet Frank Lavender, comedian.
Denim, a drag Haus come girl band, are on tour and they’ve finally reached Wembley Arena (actually, the Belly Laugh at Underbelly).
Tom Mayhew’s charmingly awkward persona hides a fantastic alternative comic mind.
Laughing Stock are a sketch comedy foursome who incorporate live music, dance and mime to create a narrative-driven show with hysterical characters and a quick, witty script.
Henry Ginsberg spent most of his adult life envious of his male friends scoring on the weekend.
Based on the 1984 cult classic, The Toxic Avenger captures everything good about spoof musicals.
Matt Forde is a consummate professional, with sharp observations and confident crowd work, it’s just a shame this show lacks the biting satire expected from political comedy at t…
This show is a mixed bag.
Having recently won English Comedian of the Year, Josh Pugh has the air of a rising star.
Before even starting the show, Sara Schaefer has the advantage of a unique perspective.
At the age of 36, Franz Kafka sat down to write a letter to his father that would never be sent.
Burns and Quartermaine are the yin and yang of righteous anger.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is the hilarious new debut hour from Ed Night.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
The Slightly Fat Show harkens back to the Golden Age of variety performance, updated for a twenty-first century audience.
Funny Women’s ‘One to Watch, 2016’ bustles, belts and lunges her way through Hurricane Katie with showmanship and boundless energy.
Having been on the circuit for 6 years and with an impressive CV of competition finals, I went into Simon Caine’s second solo hour show with high expectations.
A joyous and empowering hour of cabaret, burlesque, and labels that just don’t stick.
Left-wing, highbrow, feminist, atheist comedian Kate Smurthwaite finally takes on the issue right at the very heart of women’s rights: men.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
The Singing Hypnotist will change your life.
The Close Shaves brings you its unique ‘Female Barberswing’ sound with 3-part harmony Swing songs from the fabulous Silver Screen era and beyond.
Brighton’s Singing Barber, Peter Joannou, puts his comb to one side, picks up his microphone and sings those classic beautiful songs from the Great American Songbook made famous by…
The Scots Music Group class, Sing Solo, has been preparing all year for this show.
Famed for her portrayal of bisexual coke snorting Liberty Baker on Footballers Wives which won her a Screen Nations Award, Phina’s latest challenge is nine characters: black, white…
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings a night of music and song from the golden age of the crooners.
Embrace the mystical musical mystery of The Singing Psychic as she reads the songs in your heart! With live audience readings and stories of her extraordinary psychic gifts, this f…
The award-winning comedian, campaigner and writer for Have I Got News for You and The Revolution Will Be Televised sizes up the patriarchy and 21st century male culture.
Comedy’s most seductive idiot is back.
Gender Spanner is a joyous and empowering hour of cabaret, burlesque and labels that just don’t stick.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
It’s a strange and unsettling thing being stood stock-still for a few minutes, gazing into a stranger’s eyes.
Quite why Mawaan Rizwan describes himself as a Gender Neutral Concubine Pirate remains a bit of a mystery throughout the show.
‘Still Lives’ hinges on a chance meeting between wheelchair-bound Harriet and lost boy, Fred.
The world’s first singing hypnotist, who uses original songs to induce a trance-like state to hilarious, and life-changing effect.
African, sacred, uplifting and fun group-harmony singing for all, with the unique and inspiring Mahasukha touch.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou will be entertaining you from his upstairs window in The Lanes with his show ‘Next Please!’ Specialising in The Great American Songbook.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Article 12 (UNCRC) says adults must listen to and take account of children’s views and their creative expression should be valued.
The New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir was established on 1 February 2010 from the members of the Liszt Academy’s Alma Mater Choir and from the freshly graduated students of the Lisz…
Dave Pickering takes us on a personal journey through gender as he tries to explain masculinity both to you and to himself.
This unique stand-up panel show explores relationships with sex, sexuality and culture.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
Since 2007, award-winning a cappella sensation In the Smoke has been bringing the cream of London’s vocal talent to audiences across the UK.
When people come together to share their voices in harmony something magical happens! In the magnificent setting of All Saints Church, sing spirit-raising gospels, meditative Taize…
A show about a man known as Benjamin, who created a comedy character known as President Obonjo of Lafta Republic.
The full title of Rebecca Patek’s new work is “The Future Was Looking Better in the Past: My Family Herstory: Or from religious persecution to American greed to murdero…
Next Please! You Choose His Song!! He Chooses Your Style! Peter Joannou, Brighton’s Singing Barber, will be singing and styling from his window on The Lanes.
In Ping Chong & Company’s probing and persuasive new work of interview-based theater, five young New Yorkers — all of them children when the Sept.
The title of Ms.
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…
Daphne du Maurier’s tale of desire, obsession and treachery retold by a vibrant young cast.
Thankfully, there was no combination of singing and acupuncture.
A man once said: ‘Life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it’.
African, sacred, uplifting and fun group harmony singing for all with the unique and inspiring Mahasukha touch.
Drama school theatre and The Crucible are words that fill me with fear.
African,sacred,uplifting and fun group harmony singing for all,with djembe drumming.
Brighton’s Window is a unique platform for vocalists, pianists and great musicians.
I don’t think I’ve felt as privileged to be in a performer’s company at a Fringe show as I felt when watching Keith Jarrett.
Scotland’s favourite children’s entertainers, The Singing Kettle, bring you this special singalong show that is guaranteed to have the whole family dancing, laughing and singin…
Taking a fun, light-hearted look at the arts world and the life of an artist, Toi Toi Toi is a charming, funny and relaxing show, appropriate for opera buffs and newbies alike, whi…
Playing one musical instrument is a talent; playing three or four at once is jaw-dropping.
Chances are you know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ already but you’ve probably never been told those stories quite like this before.
Almond Roca is one of the strangest and funniest things you are likely to see at the Fringe.
SeKret is the first solo work of Taiwanese dancer Wu Tsai-Lin and aims to show us the meta of Mother Earth in dances based on earth, fire, water and so on.
Kiss of the Red Menace is a well-compiled cabaret with great promise, but which, due to poor singing technique and awkward performance, contains very little razzle dazzle.
Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them.
In Young China Shines, Beijing’s No.
Advertised as A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, A Midsummer Night’s Savoy is actually a bizarre tale of love and trickery, with only tenuous lin…
Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves is a dark tale about sexual desire, based on the story of Red Riding Hood.
Mrs Green is a new musical from a promising young cast with the potential to be both touching and charming.
Maddy Anholt’s one-woman impressions show is nothing short of brilliant.
In Last Land and Il gioco, DanceBase presents an engaging double bill of contemporary dance which is certain to be loved by dance connoisseurs.
Missing and Bird’s Eye View is a mixed bag of a showcase at Dance Base, great in some moments and awful in others.
In Status Anxiety and Piece of Mind, Dance Base presents a stellar double bill which compels and amazes at every turn.
I Heart IKEA aims to explore the idea of love being achievable via a handbook, evoking love’s unpredictability and the pain it can bring.
From a capable and interesting LeCoq trained company, La Donna e Mobile is both amusing and bizarre, though certainly not for all audiences.
We’ve all had our fair share of embarrassing moments, and at The Brunswick Chris Mayo, complete with a projection of various photos, is happy enough to share some of his most gut…
MonixArts’ Survival of the Fittest is a meditation on Darwinism and human nature produced by six very talented female dancers and their promising young choreographer, Monica Nic…
There is a very serious man on stage.
Ballet Central’s showcase promises to enchant and captivate its audience and its cast of talented young dancers certainly deliver.
The Barnes Identity is Chris Barnes’ first Edinburgh show.
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.
When the Oxford Imps first come dancing onto the stage, it’s clear this troop have boundless amounts of energy.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
We all have regrets, right? This is the simple premise for Denise Scott’s show, which mainly consists of an hour of embarrassing stories at her own expense.
Fourth Monkey theatre group are impossible to ignore this Fringe with an impressive total of six shows on offer.
I didnt know what to expect from a show with the title Naked Boys Singing.
The songs of Glen Miller and Frank Sinatra are brought back to life by the brilliant big band Moonlight Serenade.
It can be refreshing to see one man stand on a stage without any gimmicks and simply tell a story.
Though the script of Emily Juniper’s Restitution has some engaging elements, I think its transfer to the stage from BBC One’s ‘Baddiel and the Missing Nazi Millions’ is not…
Imprints is a delicate and well thought out production that subtly addresses a serious disease while gracefully demonstrating its damage on a strong and loving relationship.
Everyone struggles with their weight.
If you’re looking for a cheeky musical stop to begin your night at the Fringe, then head to the Gothic room in the Three Sisters for the most bizarre Ukulele banter in town.
The set up of Isabel Salazar’s Becoming Conocido looks and sounds intriguing.
Inventive and skilful storytelling elevate the meeting of Abel and Cain to an imaginative and captivating performance, which Raphael Rodan and Anastasis Sarakatsanos deliver with c…
A young women of 22, recently left unemployed by her beloved ‘Aquatown’ of Luton, reveals her inner thoughts, imaginations and desires to a new pet goldfish, Toby.
‘I’m more British than you’ - undoubtedly a bold statement for a tagline.
There’s no one quite like Roald Dahl for children.
Self deprecation seems to be the dish of the day for this afternoon’s stand up as Damion Larkin presents a showcase of all the problems he deals with on a daily basis.
Five years in the making and almost stopped by the Japanese earthquake earlier this year, Siro-A blitz the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with outstanding visual trickery.
Singing a Different Song was a cosy affair.
Sequels can be risky when they have the hype of a previous show to live up to.
Though queuing outside on a rainy Edinburgh evening is not normally associated with the phrase ‘Soy de Cuba’, the latest Havana dance craze is certainly heating up even the col…
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Situated in the charming Scottish Storytelling Centre, ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ is a delightful wee puppet show which is likely to capture the attention of even the most f…
Catie Wilkins, or ‘sex-positive feminist on the go’ as she likes to refer to herself, is an unlikely comedian.
A Professor tries to find his daughter, Sophie, after the first failed attempt of making a double of her left haunting consequences.
Richard Marsh as his self-styled character, Richard, steals the audience away from the busy and crowded public spaces of the fringe, setting his own pace.
Sovereign debt, bad credit, riots and scandals – the Euro, and the sky, is falling.
Olsson Theatre’s The Ride of the Bluebottles is a dark and funny play which explores the ins-and-outs of band politics.
Adding a dollop of lyrical humour to classic literature is something that never fails to be amusing.
heatre Paradok are renowned for their quirky, innovative theatre and they’re always risk takers.
In Any More Legroom?, Liverpool John Moores University showcases its recent graduates’ dissertation dance pieces.
This Way Up is a lovely, funny piece of theatre featuring David Bowie, space-travel, and awkward office comedy.
It isn’t often as a reviewer that you come across a show with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Babushka’s tale is brought to life with a tatty cloth backdrop, wooden frames and props that litter the stage waiting to be used like playthings from a child’s toy box.
Arnica 9CH is an exposé of a dancer’s private life and the consequences she faces from her determined efforts to meet the level of perfection expected of a dancer.
The production of choice for Phoenix Company tells one man’s love story through the coupling of multimedia and dance.
With an empty spotlight where the physical form of Dr Jacopo Annese should have stood, his recorded voice introduces the audience to the case of Henry Molaison, ‘the most famous …
Brimming with murder, misery, and more murder, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest and shortest plays.
In Muscle, five men, ranging from young to old, explore and play a variety of male characters that challenge what it is it to be a man.
Emerging from the fear cupboard for the climax of Radio 1s one-man shows, Scott Mills chose to re-tell the Bourne Identity with an Abba twist in front of a packed-house last …
Hans Christian Andersen’s stories continue to enchant children and adults alike and ‘The Snow Queen’ remains a popular favourite on stage.
A one-woman show, which explores gender through a set of twins who, inspired by the myth of Hermaphroditus, attempt to unite as one genderless being.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
Muirne Bloomer and Emma O’Kane march and stamp across the space with mocking routines of Swan Lake in this production that takes a sour look into how a career in ballet can be to…
Nursing homes are unsettling places at the best of times and Theatre of the Damned have turned this real-life anxiety into a haunting piece of theatre, using classic horror effects…
After a guitar cover of an American classic, the scene is set; three Italians presenting to a judge in a court room, their manner bizarre, their wrongdoings unknown.
Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, is often sentimentalised, but anyone who has read Tam ‘O Shanter will know that Burns didn’t just write about mice and mountain daisie…
Sometimes music does more than simply entertain you – sometimes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck and makes you sit up and listen.
These are three astonishingly talented musicians; the acclaim surrounding them all is justified.
The Voodoo Rooms provide old-school trendy surroundings for a comedy variety show.
Impressive set design promises a fresh and cutting-edge take on the foul conditions of the trenches during World War I for four men.
How do you get to Sesame Street? This is a question many of us have asked throughout our lives and receiving a ticket to Sesame Street Live was, for me, like someone had suddenly h…
Most people are accustomed to the standard Chinese ornaments and decorations in their local takeaway.
It may seem surprising that Dr Brown, Phil Burgers, has turned his comic taste towards a children’s show, given his panache for brazen vulgarity and extreme physical comedy, ofte…
Jimmy McGhie may sweat away two litres in his hour stand up, but it’s worth it for the amount of people he wins over.
Australian actor, writer and director, Virginia Gay, is bringing a gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.
The producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club have announced that from Monday 25 September 2023, the roles of The Emcee and Sally Bowles will be played by music icons Jake Shears an...
Transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn talks about the background to their show, Asexuality! at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
Jemima Foxtrot is an award-shortlisted performance poet who fuses spoken word and song in her Fringe show, Melody.