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.
‘Who you gonna call?’ The beloved ‘80s sci-fi comedy, Ghostbusters, will join the Royal Albert Hall’s Films in Concert series to celebrate the movie’s 40th anniversary.
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
Alex Newell first garnered attention on screen in FOX’s critically acclaimed series GLEE as transgender student, Wade “Unique” Adams.
Sassy swing and jumpin’ jazz from Scotland’s hugely popular and biggest amateur big band.
Festival Director Nicola Benedetti performs a mesmerising violin solo in a classical programme that explores the animal kingdomSome of the world’s best classical music pieces are…
Malin Byström leads superb cast for Richard Strauss’ final opera.
An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
Treasure Planet – James Newton Howard; Mendelssohn – Concerto No.
Interested in fashion? Loved Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte? Then we have the talk for you! Frances Burney (1752-1830) once said of a concert ‘though everybody seems to admire, hardl…
Prom to after-party via generational identity crisis – what if the best night of your life turns into the rest of it? Set to an original score combining pop, funk, jazz and of co…
Japanese pianist Akiko Okamoto returns to the Fringe after some years’ absence to give a solo recital of music by Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven and others.
You don’t know North Sea Gas?! Where have you been? Over four decades touring around the world with their unique blend of traditional and contemporary folk music.
For three performances only, the four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and star of BBC’s Two Doors Down is back with 2023’s critically-acclaimed, sell-out show.
Programme includes the Partita O Gott, du frommer Gott, Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 535), and a selection of Chorale Preludes, on the world-famous Frobenius organ in the fabulous a…
From 2024 Sondheim/Jonathan Larson Grant Rooftop Writer and 10th-ranked woman poet in the world Gigi Bella, Big Feelings explores mental health, feminism and the gospel of Taco Bel…
Calling all Dancing Queens! Featuring an all-star cast of the UK’s finest musicians and vocalists, ABBA Gold The Concert is packed with all of ABBA’s greatest hits, stunningly auth…
Virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki, whose performances have delighted Fringe audiences at Edinburgh New Town Church most years since 1998, returns with a programme comprising works b…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Canongate Kirk for the 12th time with a programme featuring the brilliant young trumpeter Aaron Akugbo pla…
In this work-in-progress show, Baby Belle’s slightly less glamorous sibling Jax Braithwaite will unwrap the experience of Dealing with Tricky Feelings.
Dom Hutchins – The Big Issues.
One family, one condition, one hell of a hairy baby.
Join a massive line-up of comedy stars for a stupendous evening to fight against brain tumours.
Cobin Millage is f*cking sick and tired of this f*cking sh*t.
This talented London-based cellist returns to the Fringe to give her annual recital of all the Bach Cello Suites over three consecutive days.
Back for their seventh show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Talentz presents the creepy, kooky, mysteriously spooky Addams Family musical.
A whimsical, musical exploration of social versus personal identity from the perspective of a late-identified and diagnosed non-binary autistic person.
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Canongate Kirk for the 12th time with a programme featuring exciting young soloists Angela Hicks (soprano)…
Prepare yourselves for a wild and wonderful variety night hosted by character comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina Bye of critically acclaimed Siblings, starring their family…
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act, The Beached Boys return to the Edinburgh Fringe by popular demand for a third successive year! Hear live hits including Surfin’ USA, I Get …
Join Monski Mouse, and her super-talented friends, for a live musical sing-a-long cabaret of nursery classics, song, puppetry and bonkers fun for 0-5s and their parents/carers.
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
Edinburgh Festival Chorus revives Mendelssohn’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sublime piece about Christ’s last days on earth before his resurrection.
Come have the best night of your life singing karaoke and running into your ex at Monkey Barrel.
Real-life dating, brimming with possibilities for passion, romance, or smashing a stranger in the back of your Toyota Camry while they moan a name you don’t recognise.
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this award-winning, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
SCOTTISH PREMIERE Latin American music meets Afro-Cuban and contemporary classical in this bold interpretation of Christ’s Crucifixion.
26 boxes full of joy and fun.
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big band era.
Join Alex the Magician for an exciting children’s magic show, back for its fourth year at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Queer, chic and outrageous – you’re invited to the biggest, gayest party at the Fringe (fun straights allowed).
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr…
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
A dark romantic comedy that explores the topics of death and the afterlife.
As chilling as if Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock wrote for the theatre, Hush-a-bye Baby unfolds the enigmatic narrative of a spinster whose dark deeds involve the inexplicabl…
Meaty Sue’s parents have gone to the big barbecue in the sky and her impending wedding day is missing her elusive estranged Big Brother Big Farma Phil.
A group of stereotypically attractive and slightly dim young people trapped in a fun fair haunted house.
Get a sneak peek of the upcoming new musical based on the cult-classic film, featuring an original score written by Riki Lindhome (Netflix’s Wednesday).
Big Bad Beck is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down in this WIP show.
Maria Fedulova, award-winning comedian and enemy of the Russian state, talks family, crime, and living the life of a refugee in her hilarious debut hour.
There are three rules every housewife knows: never return a dish empty, always have dinner ready by the time he gets home, and some things are best kept under the table.
It’s almost Mother’s Day.
The average C-section in the USA costs £25-40K, but you can just squat one out in the back like a feral cat for FREE! Comedian and skinflint Leah Renee returns to Fringe with a ne…
25 years ago, Soness swapped Florida for Tokyo to become the voice of many well-known animations.
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
End your day at the Festival in style at our iconic Edinburgh venue with the very best in stand-up talent.
Ever felt down? Like you’re swimming upstream? Like life isn’t all its quacked up to be? You’re not alone! Join award-winning cabaret star Ada Campe for a few flights of fanc…
Big Value Comedy Show is an established showcase of the best new comedic talent.
Exclusive to Fringe 2024! See Edinburgh on two wheels.
Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people.
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Lauren Pattison is back with a brand-new show.
All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin Mor and Logy Logan take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist.
Grace Mulvey wants to be a human adult who has fun.
Rosie and Hugh the Hedgehog are best friends.
Big Fish is Stephanie Bradshaw’s debut stand-up show, inspired by her life as an attention-seeking (anxious, delicate, shy) mega diva, based in the small rural town of Keswick, Cum…
Join Fiddlefox and Baby Shark as they travel to different lands around the world around the world seeking a lost friend, while experiencing the sights and sounds of each culture re…
A bilingual children’s musical in English and Spanish, Baby Rock is the story of Anastasia, a young girl who explores the world and learns how to make a new friend regardless of …
This is an admission of ‘holy sh*t.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out six years running.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Josh Glanc is back with a brand-new show.
In the summer of ‘99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
After a sell-out run at Dublin Fringe, host of Radio 4’s The Divil’s Own John Meagher makes his debut at The Gilded Balloon with his debut show Big Year.
On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand-new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson.
What happens six months after your five minutes of fame? Cyrus and Ben are the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality show.
Good morning Edinburgh! We’re back bringing you brand-new, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15 minute comedies, eccentricities and mini-dramas - all served up with complimentary t…
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 …
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
The tale of hope, redemption and the power of love comes to the Royal Festival Hall for one night only.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of The Lion King with this Film in Concert spectacular.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat…
SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy award-winning musical returns to London for one night only on Sunday 2nd June at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
Welcome to the Russian Mafia Family! Maria Fedulova is a Russian refugee forced to leave her country because she’s against the war.
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
It is our great pleasure to invite you all to The Big Game on Sunday 26th May (bank holiday!!), a collaboration celebration, a psych-circus spectacle, and the biggest gig we’ve b…
RAVE BABY is a neon-soaked family clubbing experience where kids get to bring their grown-ups along for the ride! Expect an hour of soul-inspiring fun, dancing together to the ecle…
The best way to discover your new favourite comedian! We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
Mark Bell (The Play That Goes Wrong) directs a trip to the beach you’ll never forget in a world premiere musical by Brandon Lambert and Martin Landry: Fun at the Beach Ro…
Experience the first on-screen adventure of everyone’s favourite archaeologist/action hero, with live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
Step right up and prepare for pandemonium at the Kids Khaos Carnival Family Show, starring the one and only Logy Logan from Circus Sonas! Get ready to be swept away in a tornado of…
Dave Bibby, ‘“madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BroadwayWorld), set out to create a theatrical masterpiece: A one-man Jurassic Park.
Jacob is about to have a baby.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show BIG FAT GAY (he’s used the title before, it’s a good title).
Naomi Wattis is a stand up comic from London.
This concert will introduce the audience to all the instruments of our orchestra through a performance of Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, as well as take you on El…
THE CIRCUS SONAS FAMILY SHOW All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist.
Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Prepare yourself for a night of laughter with Lily Starr otherwise known affectionately as Big Lez.
From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, sellout Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work in progress show that may or may not b…
A dance workshop full of sparkle and fun to make you smile, while learning easy-to-follow groovy moves to an eclectic mix of Bollywood beats and reimagined dance classics, interspe…
In the summer of ’99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
Have you ever been on several failed dates and lived to tell the tale? Sexy Rude Harp Concert explores the idea of trying to find the perfect match and a happy ever after in an hon…
Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
Big shoes to fill.
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
‘Too Late, Baby’ (WORK IN PROGRESS) is the second comedy hour from acclaimed Canadian stand up comedian Michelle Shaughnessy.
Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people.
This festival concert is a highlight of the year.
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…
There’s magic to do in the 50th anniversary concert production of PIPPIN at the iconic London Palladium starring Tony Award-winning Broadway star of Shucked, Grammy nominated Ale…
“If you want something done, ask a busy woman…” Inspired by a true story and based on the hit film, MADE IN DAGENHAM is a powerhouse musical comedy about friendship, love an…
SIDE SHOW comes to the London Palladium in a special, one-night-only concert spectacular on Sunday 3 March 2024.
It’s 1948 and on board the Windrush Empire, journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie are full of expectations and aspirations.
Following two hugely successful UK and Ireland tours, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, A Musical Comedy will perform live in concert in the West End for the first time at the London Palladium Th…
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Based on conversations with activists, academics and diplomats, theatre maker Chris Thorpe’s new show focuses on the human story of the struggle of nuclear disarmament, and the g…
Junior, a queer sex worker in Hastings is suffering from PTSD.
Junior is a queer sex worker in Hastings suffering from PTSD.
Experience the award-winning La La Land projected in HD with the film’s original composer Justin Hurwitz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra live-to-picture.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
A host of West End rising stars have been announced to join the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) A Christmas Celebration at the iconic St Johns Smith Square, all alumni of this …
For one day only on 12 December 2023, Theatre Royal Drury Lane plays host to My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, featuring a 40-piece orchestra …
SuperYou Musical, starring Lucie Jones, is an uplifting musical, written and composed by Lourds Lane, that centers around the transformative journey of a comic book artist who disc…
To some fans, he’s the Tony Award-winning revolutionary from Evita who grew into a bonafide Broadway star in Sunday in the Park with George.
An Olivier Nominated and multi-award-winning performer, Rachel Tucker will present a concert celebrating her most iconic roles, some of her favourite tunes in musical theatre and s…
The cult classic Bat Boy: The Musical descends on the London Palladium for a Halloween concert with Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Heathers) appearing as fans have never seen …
What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park than seeing the film projected in HD, with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performing John Williams&rsqu…
Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improv comedy to the West End! Fresh from the Fringe, their show features chaotic games, epic scenes, an…
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improvised comedy to the West End! Featuring chaotic g…
In 2020, the world changed forever, as three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
A celebration of the music and lyrics of legendary American composer -Stephen Schwartz, by stars of the West End.
Based on the best-selling Japanese manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, this ground breaking musical (Winner Best Musical, Korea Musical Awards) has a s…
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus are joined by three vocal soloists for this powerful finale to the Usher Hall programme.
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
Four of the West End’s leading names join the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in Battersea Park for an evening of showtunes like no other.
Join the talented young musicians of Big Noise Raploch’s Rinconada Chamber Orchestra as they showcase their skills at this extraordinary concert.
Christine invites you to enjoy JS Bach’s expressive, contemplative Cello Suite No.
Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser is a masterful exploration of the many aspects of love, and of the struggle to reconcile the sensual and the spiritual.
The orchestra rehearses each Monday evening from October to April, and is well-supported by Perth and Kinross Council.
Nashville-based international singer-songwriter Stephanie Staples has shared her passionate and contemplative music for over two decades, performing all over the world.
Have you ever been riding a homosapien and asked (internally): ‘OMG am I squashing this person like a double decker bus’? Or stumbled mentally upon ‘Please lord, let me have shaved…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic Love Never Dies returns to London’s West End this August in a star-studded concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
There are three rules every housewife knows: never return a dish empty, always have dinner ready by the time he gets home, and some things are best kept under the table.
In the stunning setting of Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile, David Hamilton presents a concert of some of Bach’s earliest organ compositions.
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Nestico and Fitzgerald to Earth, Wind and Fire.
An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
Ageing violinist Alan Gottlieb has long been content to sit at the back desk of the seconds, coasting his way to retirement.
The internationally renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings music from coronations and royal occasions past and present.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the beautiful surroundings of Canongate Kirk for their tenth Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Olivia aka Big O is delighted to present her second hour of comedy.
Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl…
Simon Hall started performing comedy in 2020, yeah, that 2020! Since then, performing has not got any easier and life has continually tried to block his progress.
Big Smoke Comedy is stand-up comedy with a fully improvised finale and the only show of its kind.
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a stupendous evening of comedy to help fight against brain tumours.
This talented London-based cellist returns to the Fringe to give her annual recital of all the Bach Cello Suites over three consecutive days.
Join this talented London-based cello/piano duo as they perform, in their second visit to the Fringe together, a series of three consecutive concerts of Sonatas by these musical gi…
What do William Shakespeare and Johann Sebastian Bach have in common? Sebastian Michael, author of The Sonneteer and Sonnetcast podcaster, is trying to find out, bringing you some …
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
This one-act educational outreach play for 5-10 year olds and their families follows Bumble, a honeybee, on an adventure to find a bee balm flower.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
There’s something really unsettling about 1950s suburbia, and What If They Ate The Baby? really taps into that feeling as it plunges deeply into the aesthetic of a stereotypical …
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the beautiful and historic surroundings of Canongate Kirk for their tenth Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A wonderful and varied selection of concert band music from 40 musicians featuring music from stage and screen! A free concert with donations to support Edinburgh Direct Aid.
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
In 2020, the world changed forever, as Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland.
Featuring an all-star cast comprised of some of the UK’s finest musicians, dancers and vocalists.
The undisputed masters of Bach interpretation return to the Festival under the baton of their revered musical director John Butt.
Join a cast of exciting singers and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, led by their Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, for a concert performance of Mozart’s enchanti…
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
The music that filled the dance halls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
Sinéad Walsh has spent over 30 years of putting their big foot in it.
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
Formed in 1983 to revive and promote the playing of Scotland’s ‘other’ bagpipes, the LBPS achieved this aim.
These girls are batshit crazy and I love it.
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act The Beached Boys returns by popular demand to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Join Monski Mouse and her super talented friends, for a live musical sing-a-long cabaret of nursery classics, song, puppetry and bonkers fun for 0-5s and their parents.
Café L’Arté is a brand-new immersive musical set in real time in a coffee shop.
The multi-Grammy® Award-winning singer gives a solo performance at the Usher Hall.
Explore making rubbings, printing, collage and fun with circles and squares, and mixed-media collage.
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big-band era.
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething comedian.
Dick Denham is a non-binary thirtysomething comedian.
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows Legs, Logs and Jeremy Segway) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
She’s a bad-ass rule breaker and has got one hell of a story as a result – just don’t tell her family.
Tan Dun conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in the Scottish premiere of his own Buddha Passion.
Wolfgang David, Austrian violinist, will perform all six Sonatas and Partitas of JS Bach in three programmes, twice each: BWV 1001 & 1002, BWV 1003 & 1004 and BWV 1005 & 1006.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
Award-winning FCT return for their 42nd Fringe with their spooky, kooky production of The Addams Family.
Dave Bibby, ‘madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer’ (BroadwayWorld.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this multi award-nominated, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
A hilarious and heartbreaking dark comedy driven by 20 characters and 11 original songs, in which the heroine, Luna, endeavours to disentangle herself from bad decisions and an ove…
The Addams Family, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princes…
Discover this iconic Flemish play by Cyriel Buysse.
Edward Bloom’s larger-than-life stories delight everyone – much to the dismay of his pragmatic son, Will.
Opening with a voice note of the artist’s mother reflecting on overwork, xenophobia and cultural invisibility through the semiotics of the snake and the ingrained tendency of Hek…
Drawing from an investigation into the lives of women coffee producers and sorters in Pluma Hidalgo, Variaciones sobre el Café invites contemplation and reflection on the processe…
A comedy show where your little one won’t derail everything, in fact, you’ll be hoping they’ll do all the things that normally embarrass you, loudly and proudly.
Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy…
Family Matters: Presents the “full catastrophe” of family life, embracing its comic, dramatic, farcical and tragic realities.
Award-winning interactive video installation full of humour, candour, joy and love.
Come and revel in the earthy tones of this low member of the clarinet family.
Join renowned vocalist Jacqui Dankworth for an unforgettable evening of music, with classic songs by Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, …
Nominated Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023.
All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist.
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
At times hard to follow and at others uniquely resonant, Maggie Widdoes’ one-woman show Stay Big and Go Get ‘Em is the perfect example of how the Fringe brings what you least e…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for eight years now, and it’s time for that to change! So he’s attempting to do something he’s never done before.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
Following a complete sell-out, extended national tour, star of global hit Live Innit, Taskmaster and the first British-Asian stand-up to sell-out London’s Wembley Arena returns to …
This show is a love letter to unique families, queer self-discovery and devoted fathers.
He enters resplendent in his tartan jacket, setting in motion sixty minutes of stunningly acute comic observation laced with some telling introspection all delivered with totally e…
What’s the worst lie you’ve told? How far would you go to keep it a secret? Tom is a charismatic people-pleaser, an expert in empathy, but someone who struggles with the truth.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Following the hiatus since our triumphant run in 2019, we’re thrilled to be back for our 15th year! Bringing you three brand-new, delicious, rotating “menu…
You played, you cried.
When Cirque du Soleil offer you a Las Vegas residency as the first comedian to perform with them, you don’t say no.
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning Evita returns to the West End this summer in an all-star concert at the iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane, accompanied by …
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
Simon Hall is one of the freshest and most exciting voices on the comedy circuit, but his journey has not been plain sailing.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for 8 years now, and it’s time for that to change! Join him as he attempts to do something he’s never done before.
Aaron has been doing stand-up comedy without standing up for 8 years now, and it’s time for that to change! Join him as he attempts to do something he’s never done before.
Hailing from the midlands, Bab is a female sketch duo comprised of Amy Spinks and Lauren Soley.
Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy…
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat…
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animat…
About the show Featuring a large cast and orchestra of young people, NYMT IN CONCERT showcases outstanding UK youth talent in vibrant, staged performances of extracts fr…
Mark Robert Petty presents Don’t Tell The Bishops! The After-Pride Concert at The Actors’ Church on Sunday 2nd July at 7.
Simon Hall has had a hell of a few years.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL Masculinity is in crisis.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
NOMINATED: BEST DEBUT SHOW at LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
Character Comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina Bye, of critically acclaimed ‘Siblings’, are back with another mixed bill variety night starring their weird and wonderful frie…
Experience the European Premiere of Black Panther in Concert as part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Films in Concert series.
Celebrate the start of the May half term with a family friendly pick of the fringe! Enjoy 10 minute performances of Brighton Fringe shows that will be performing over half term we…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Jonny Woo (London drag legend and co-owner gay pub The Glory) returns to Brighton Fringe following hit appearances with Night at The Musicals (with Le Gateau Chocolat) and Transfor…
A family-friendly edition of Bom Bane’s Mix.
A family-friendly edition of Bom Bane’s Mix.
THE CIRCUS SONAS FAMILY SHOW All the way from Northern Ireland, Martin and Logy take the traditional circus double act and give it a unique and modern twist.
For his brand new stand-up show, Phil Wang’s chatting race, family, nipples and everything else that’s been going on in his Philly little life.
Whatever you think Phil Wang’s Wang In There, Baby! Is going to be like, the reality of the show far surpasses it.
In a world full of distractions, survival mode and the crushing weight of “being a good feminist”, is the female orgasm ever going to be a priority? Join Lucy on her personal v…
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
Following a complete sell-out 2021 tour and 2022 extension, star of Taskmaster and global smash hit ‘Live Innit’, Paul Chowdhry brings his hit show ‘Fa…
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
The biggest show on the continent is coming to Liverpool this May and we’re throwing a party! Come and watch the show on a big screen with food, fizz and frie…
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Hatha yoga to ease yourself back into exercising while bonding with your little one.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Inclusive, radical and hella creative, it’s Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant! The hottest ticket of last year’s Fringe returns for the 2023 ed…
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Parent/carer and baby/toddler Hatha yoga to ease yourself back into exercising while bonding with your little one.
Returning after the spectacular success of the 2019 concert, Doctor Zhivago will play The London Palladium for one-night-only in May 2023.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
Music and lyrics by Matthew Strachan, Book by Bernie Gaughan 1950’s Dublin and two families living in adjoining terraced houses, become locked in a bitter matriarchal feud abo…
Join us for an unmissable full-length concert performance of Bizet’s most celebrated opera, Carmen.
Family Tree is a beautifully poetic drama about race, health, the environment, and the incredible legacy of one of the most influential Black women of modern times.
Smash hit musical Annie Get Your Gun is to be celebrated with a special one-night only concert production at The London Palladium.
Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jamie Muscato reunite in a one-night-only concert of this achingly beautiful musical.
The Big O is fast paced, intimate, hilarious and heartfelt exploration of 21st Century attitudes and experiences of female pleasure, orgasm and consent through the eyes of one woma…
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Big TopJoin the circus! Or don't.
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
Stars of the international cabaret scene as you’ve never seen them before, performing lesser-known routines, trialling ridiculous concepts they’ve never dared perform before or eve…
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
6 months after winning TV’s biggest reality dating show, Ben and Cyrus are fed up with fame.
Sunteţi aşteptaţi la un concert extraordinar de Crăciun, organizat de Diaspora Events.
Sunteţi aşteptaţi la un concert extraordinar de Crăciun, organizat de Diaspora Events.
Film Concerts Live! proudly presents the third instalment in the James Bond Concert Series, the world premiere of Spectre in Concert, produced in association with EON Productions a…
Film Concerts Live! proudly presents the second instalment in the James Bond Concert Series, Skyfall in Concert.
The James Bond Concert Series is back.
Alice is drowning under misguided medical advice, chirpy Insta-announcements and yet another fucking miscarriage.
Maestro Qian Junping leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra at this Image China Concert with featured prize-winning soloists Ning Feng and Yang Xuefei.
Join Sir Andrew Davis and the RSNO for the finale of the 2022 International Festival with music to exhilarate, invigorate, calm and console.
This stunning masterpiece and Tony award-winning musical, based on the 1911 novel of the same name, returns to the West End for a one-night-only concert celebration.
It’s time to hang on to what we got and celebrate the iconic sounds of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Celebrating 18 years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland’s record breaking big swing band brings you a night of music and song from the golden age of Swing.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife staff choir, is delighted to be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe following a two-year break.
Principal Clarinettist of the SCO and international soloist Maximiliano Martin accompanied by Scott Mitchell comes to St Mary’s Cathedral to perform works by Poulenc, Saint-Saens, …
Scotland’s number-one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, and record-breaking Scottish Big Band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation invite you to a night full of seductive songs…
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
Big Boys and Friends is a silly lil’ mixed-bill comedy-cabaret from Channel 4’s critically acclaimed Big Boys, comedian Jack Rooke and character comic Jon Pointing.
Rediscover your favourite songs as Miss Kiddy and the Cads steal the biggest contemporary hits and give them a musical makeover of style and sass.
Remember that time you pooed yourself in public? Or when you swore at your mum for asking you to tidy your pigsty of a room? Maybe you’re still blushing over the time someone poi…
Treason is the explosive new musical about the gunpowder plot, set to completely blow you away, featuring stunning music by Ricky Allan and book & lyrics by Ricky Allan & K…
An evening of good old-fashioned Scottish entertainment featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
‘Milkman Amongst Tulips’, possibly the most famous painting of the Baroque period, is the only surviving work by Dutch master Schmurt Veeglik.
The music which filled dance halls during the big band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK with the Glenn Miller and Big Band Spectacular.
Bach’s most spectacular choral work, a delightful mixture of sensitive moments of peace, blistering excitement and majestic hope, performed by chamber choir and orchestra.
In the 2022 Nicolas Shackleton concert supported by University of Edinburgh, Calum Robertson, Sally Carr and Juliette Philogene present an exciting programme of music for clarinet,…
Join Colin MacLeod and friends for an hour’s musical journey through the centre of Edinburgh to discover some of the Celtic music delights, tunes, their stories and the musicians…
Musical influences on JS Bach were many and varied.
Music from across the ages marking important royal events from deaths and funerals to weddings and coronations, sung by ‘one of Scotland’s (indeed the UK’s) musical jewels’…
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE BIG TOP BIRTHDAY! Join Sarah and her best friend Duck as they plan the ultimate circus soiree to help Scarf Lady celebrate her birthday.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to Canongate Kirk for their ninth Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a baroque programme of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
Join this brilliant London-based cello/piano duo as they perform highlights of the cello repertoire in three consecutive concerts by composers of the classical area.
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’s just a nicer word for different.
Meet the Herviss Family and journey to their world.
The gals are back for one night only! Join The Fannies laughing at life from PMT to HRT, fuelled on G’n’T and B&H.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to Canongate Kirk for their ninth Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a baroque programme of Bach, Vivaldi and Handel.
Sassy swing and jumping jazz! Enjoy an evening with the classics and more, from Basie, Miller and Nestico to Fitzgerald and Earth, Wind and Fire.
North Sea Gas are a much-travelled professional trio.
Variety E-Seo is a young company taking the Korean traditional performing arts in a new direction: this concert takes the form of four pieces of yeonhee music and dance, with rhyth…
Award-winning Scottish marimbist and percussionist Calum Huggan performs a captivating and eclectic programme in St Mary’s Cathedral, including works by French composers Séjourné…
Featuring former West End performers, this 2for1 tribute brings you two of the most iconic musicals of all time.
Join Monski Mouse, special guest cabaret superstar Dusty Limits, and friends for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and fun for 0-5s.
Join the South African soprano and winner of the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, with Simon Lepper at the piano in…
Enjoy an hour of classical music performed live by the talented ensemble Classical.
The Mystic Chorale have interactively brought their audiences into the singing experience, creating living communities of world song for more than 30 years.
A favourite of the ROSL recital series, Bach for Breakfast concerts feature the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
1915, Ypres, Belgium.
Returning to the West End for the first time since 2019, Kinky Boots is the exhilarating true story about a struggling shoe factory that will lift you higher than any platform boot…
A comical feast that features an original story that is every father’s nightmare; Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a swee…
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Masculinity is in a state of flux.
Sir Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra launch the 2022 Festival with the spectacular Carmina Burana.
Award-winning flamenco guitarist and composer Daniel Martinez presents a beautifully intimate flamenco guitar concert.
Join us for an afternoon of free jazz every Saturday and Sunday during the Fringe at The Grand Cafe.
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act The Beached Boys comes to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for an epic session of bonkers, bopping, beautiful fun.
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Jack Campbell did his first stand-up gig in 2010, aged 19.
Mick McNeill’s rapid climb up the Scottish comedy ladder has seen him become a weekend favourite at every weekend comedy club in the country.
How do clowns get pregnant? There is no obvious punch line for Little Parts, a clown who has always been pregnant, yet who is not sure if she’ll ever give birth.
After a girls night out, three friends wind down in the local chippy.
Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art.
From a dream over 25 years ago, it has been a long journey! The time has finally come that a number of the eleven McTaggart Siblings are now in a position to sing from the same pag…
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway after their five-star sell-out run in 2019.
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
From the company that brought you the sell-out Fringe smash, Sunshine on Leith, Captivate Theatre presents a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family.
This year, international multi award-winning magician Elliot Bibby is supported by his faithful friend Barry the Beach Ball.
Award-winning Red Bus Bistro and acclaimed comedian Raymond Mearns have teamed up for the duration of the Fringe to offer a unique comedy tour experience travelling round the wonde…
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Circus Sonas are Northern Irish father and son Martin and Logy.
Here comes the bride, forty-foot wide! It’s the wedding of the century and you’re invited as Lucy Frederick – ‘Eye wateringly honest’ (Scotsman) – walks down the aisle.
Nominated for Best Kids’ Show at this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2022.
From Mozart to Muddy Puddles! Peppa Pig – My First Concert is a fun interactive introduction to a live orchestra with everyone’s favourite Pig family! Join Peppa as she discovers…
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
Four of the best newer acts.
A delightful mess of a show combining the electrifying skills of award-winning comedian Jarred Christmas and the vocal genius of world-champion beatboxer Hobbit.
After moving to Switzerland, a wayward Aussie finds out he’ll be a father and so he does the obvious: Leaves everyone to embark on an acting career (AKA cocaine addiction) and accr…
Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a show for all the family, specially written for the live stage and packed with fun and excit…
Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,…
The most iconic film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Interstellar and many more) played live in a unique, e…
Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail.
The best film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Game of Thrones and more) played live in a unique classical-electronic performance featuring violin, …
As we all know, COVID was invented to stop people from enjoying live music, but now Two Hearts are here to help us recover from two years of silence.
Hi, my name is Ray and I’m an Australian stand-up comedian who lives in London.
Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020).
With music by ABBA legends Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and lyrics by the incomparable Sir Tim Rice, the iconic musical Chess returns to the West End for the first time …
This show is all about children’s ideas and stories being brought to life before your very eyes with the help of three talented comedy improvisers - Chris Lumb, Natalie Smeaton & P…
This show is all about children’s ideas and stories being brought to life before your very eyes with the help of three talented comedy improvisers - Chris Lumb, Natalie Smeaton & P…
MTS presents: The Addams Family Musical in Concert! The elite young performers of Musical Theatre Studio Ltd give you an exciting performance of The Addams Family.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
When three desperate housewives in small town America wish for the man of their dreams, they get more than they bargain for in this bewitching musical comedy returning to the West …
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of extreme, unadulterated nonsense featuring trains, brains and babies.
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of extreme, unadulterated nonsense featuring trains, brains and babies.
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
In prison, the only thing they can’t escape is each other.
LET’S KEEP DANCING!Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
LET’S KEEP DANCING! Big Band Burlesque bring a show led by beautiful Belle de Beauvoir and belligerent Beatrix Valhalla.
Join the Sussex Symphony Orchestra for a truly rousing evening full of inspiring and evocative music.
The big band is back at the Spiegeltent for their 6th season at the Fringe.
Brighton Jazz Mafia big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
Six improvisers journey to Brighton in an attempt to break into the big time.
Join the Sussex Symphony Orchestra for a truly rousing evening full of inspiring and evocative music.
Enjoy the digitally remastered hit film like never before on a full-size cinema screen, with a live band and singers performing the film’s iconic songs.
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
BARBARA BROWNSKIRT’S BIG NIGHT OUT.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a ‘Café Through the Ages’ tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
Geoffrey Mead will conduct a ‘Café Through the Ages’ tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s.
Violin and piano concert with discussion
Join us for an accessible storytelling for all children at the Fringe Family Picnic in Pavilion Gardens.
Calling all picnickers; Brighton Fringe’s wildly popular family picnics are back for 2022! Join us as we take over Pavilion Gardens with more free family entertainment than you can…
Join us for a silent disco boogie as part of the fabulous Fringe Family Picnic in Pavilion Gardens.
Calling all picnickers; Brighton Fringe’s wildly popular family picnics are back for 2022! Join us as we take over Pavilion Gardens with more free family entertainment than you can…
Living Paintings are a publisher and library like no other.
Join us for a silent disco boogie as part of the fabulous Fringe Family Picnic in Pavilion Gardens.
Violin and piano concert with discussion
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music.
Join the showbiz sensation Boogaloo Stu for bingo experience filled with frivolity, fun, filth and flashmob dances.
The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…
“I am young, I am naive, I am filled with .
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
BASIL BRUSH’S FAMILY FUN SHOW Broken Robot Productions & So Comedy in association with Basil Brush Limited Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerja…
BASIL BRUSH’S FAMILY FUN SHOW Broken Robot Productions & So Comedy in association with Basil Brush Limited Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerja…
Family Tree is a beautifully poetic drama about race, health, the environment, and the incredible legacy of one of the most influential Black women of modern times.
A comedy show 165 million years in the makingMulti-award-winning comedian, Dave Bibby, is back with a show about parenthood through the eyes of a complete manchild.
Bye Bye Baby are a jaw-dropping tribute to the musical phenomenon ‘Jersey Boys’ and the timeless, iconic music of ‘Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons…
“MOVING, ORIGINAL, DECISIVE THEATRE” - Broadway BabyMeet Billie.
An exploration of the senses, sung to a mesmerising soundtrack, Baby Bear is a playful, interactive puppetry adventure for babies, toddlers and their families.
An exploration of the senses, sung to a mesmerising soundtrack, Baby Bear is a playful, interactive puppetry adventure for babies, toddlers and their families.
Join Rudi Douglas and Grace Shush as they delve into the one and only Adele’s catalogue of music to perform live their favourite songs from 19, 21, 25 & 30.
Darren Pritchard Dance Presents the life-enhancing power of the ballroom.
Can you believe it’s been 18 years since we first saw the Girls on Popstars The Rivals!? To celebrate their birthday and of course mourn the loss of our favourite wild child o…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Hay Babes! Who will be London’s Next BIG Thing?Join Miss Taylor Trash for the most East London drag pageant you have ever seen in your lives!!!12 contestants will battle it ou…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
For the first time in the UK you can now celebrate the music from three of the most iconic artists of all time.
THE BIG GEEK QUIZ 3 - THE GEEK WORLDLondon’s favourite geek quiz is back at the iconic Royal Vauxhall Tavern for its third adventure.
The music that filled the dancehalls during the Big Band era is brought to life again by The Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK.
THE RVT BIG QUIZ - POP PICKERS EDITIONHOSTED BY SIMON LE VANS AND DAVID ROBSON Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the quiz, they’re back! Yep it’s our very …
This one-day boutique event is the only UK family creation show exclusively designed for the LGBTQ+ community informing attendees about UK and International family building options…
Who do you call family? Who is your brother from another mother? Your sistren? Your crew? We are celebrating friendship and the support we give each oth…
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! It’s the show that NOBODY asked for Baby Lame sings Shit! Join punk horror drag superstar Baby Lame as she takes over the Glory intimate soire filled with …
Big Night OutCreated & hosted by Grace n Mads Big Night Out is a night of queer performances.
Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie, invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous tribute to the Canadian Crooner and t…
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
Sunday nights couldnt get more Heavenly! Drag apostles assemble for their congregation at Freedom Cabaret Club every other Sunday 7pm - 10:30pm.
Britain’s most loveable fox returns to Underbelly with his amazing Family Fun Show.
WELCOME to Killer Queens Presents: Choke In The Big Smoke! This is the first London outing of our award winning sell out drag murder mystery shows, and in true Killer Queens fashio…
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Celebrating 40 years on the road, North Sea Gas are back at the AMC again.
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings Fauré’s moving and famous work.
The accomplished German-born but London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer returns to the Fringe to perform the complete set of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello over three days i…
Meet Sarah and her best friend Duck! Join us for a magical adventure live on stage with a whole host of your favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, The Sha…
‘Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter and a national musical treasure’ (SingOut USA), who has developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based songwriting and…
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK.
A charming, funny and touching interactive video installation, Family Portrait by Natasha Gilmore’s Barrowland Ballet features Natasha herself as mother and single parent and her…
Kicking off our 2021 Edinburgh Fringe series we have concerts including: 2020 Gold Medal winner, violinist Eleanor Corr performing with Aleksandra Myslek, who have put together a b…
Did you have a birthday in the last year that was spoilt by COVID? Or an anniversary? Or a Christmas.
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.
Join the Violin Orchestra and the violinists of ViolinSchool for a summer extravaganza of wonderful violin music, including: The Blue Danube, Largo from Xerxes (Handel), the Weller…
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
The spectacle marks the 50th anniversary of Tubular Bells, the debut studio album by English multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter Mike Oldfield.
In 1970 Virgil Fox played the music of JS Bach at the Mecca of rock’n’roll, Fillmore East.
Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a colourful concert that features PIVOT, a new work by New York-based composer Anna Clyne.
He’s back with a brand new comedy show for 2021! Mask off, mic on, laughs had! Four-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
The Big Show returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy’s top-rated, sell-out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15 (not 12th), with a top mixed-bill line-up each even…
Award-winning flamenco guitarist and composer Daniel Martinez presents a truly special guitar concert.
Wallace & Gromit: In Concert.
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.
The original folk music of Glorieta Pines is inspired by the mysticism of the American Southwest.
Winner of Best Ensemble at a Tucson Fringe Festival 2021.
A hyper-reality show portraying the daily life of a cam girl in a Barbie-land gone wrong.
Including The Wrong Trousers.
Johann Sebastian Bach, irascible and turbulent, writes music of sensuous delight for his aristocratic patrons, and gives voice to his deep religious faith in music for the church.
Every Thursday at The Quebec Saucy Sophie brings you the campest quiz in town.
Fresh from appearances on CBBC’s Crackerjack, Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in show for all the family specially written f…
Three couples have signed up for private antenatal classes.
Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y…
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Johann Sebastian Bach, irascible and turbulent, writes music of sensuous delight for his aristocratic patrons, and gives voice to his deep religious faith in music for the church.
With funding from the RVW Trust on the Summer solstice, violinist Sian Philipps will perform “The Lark Ascending” as well as a solo violin work by Sally Beamish, a premiere of “Noc…
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
With funding from the RVW Trust on the Summer solstice, violinist Sian Philipps will perform “The Lark Ascending” as well as a solo violin work by Sally Beamish, a premiere of “Noc…
Come together. Write Now! A brand new event, the POETRY PICNIC! A snack heavy celebration of music and poetry, with poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
A baby rolls into their lives, literally, and it belongs to none of them.
A baby rolls into their lives, literally, and it belongs to none of them.
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.
The Man.
The Man.
Siblings & Sami Character comedians Maddy and Marina Bye are returning to Brighton but this time they have turned up with one of the best clown comics in the UK, Sami Abu Wardeh.
3 - 5th June - Siblings & Sami Character comedians Maddy and Marina Bye are returning to Brighton but this time they have turned up with one of the best clown comics in the UK, Sam…
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a historical tour dating back 100 years to look at founder Mr Herbert Tennent and his cafe family history.
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a historical tour dating back 100 years to look at founder Mr Herbert Tennent and his cafe family history.
Celebrating unconditional love and kinship.
Celebrating unconditional love and kinship.
Big Quiffy Bingo was a show that was full of glitz and glamour, thanks to the host of the evening Boogaloo Stu.
“Donor Conceived Person? Honestly I think I prefer Test Tube Baby” Alice has always been told she was special, but as she reaches adolescence she can’t help but think it’…
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
A deliciously twisted and tender comedy about inner gremlins and awkward romance.
Big Deal Drama will be joining forces with poets, a visual artist and beatboxer/sound artist for Crep Project.
‘Widow Twankey’ and ‘Wishy Washy’ are in a spin! They hear rumours of a cancelled pantomime in Old Peking and can feel that their Christmas ‘Mother Goose’ might well be…
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
Step back in time, to the era of romance.
In a lonely spot by the river Hamlet is challenged by his father’s ghost to avenge his death.
Two hours of big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing from Scotland’s record-breaking big band, Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
Learn the ins and outs of the logistics behind achieving ambitious designs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Anna Driftmier, designer of Army @ The Fringe 2019 show Dead E…
Over the last 40 years, North Sea Gas have travelled the world taking their very own distinctive blend of Scottish music far and wide.
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…
A favourite of the ROSL Recital Series, Bach for Breakfast features the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
Smokey Joe’s Cafe celebrates many of the greatest hits of the golden age of rock’n’roll in America.
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
‘Wonderful silliness’ ***** (GlamAdelaide.
Come see 30 plays in 60 minutes! Created by Greg Allen of the Neo-Futurists Theatre and performed by students from The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California.
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After many successful Fringe sell-outs, we’re back for our fabulous 15th anniversary! Three new, stimulating, delicious, rotating “menus” of 10-15-minute c…
Five-time Latin Grammy Award-winner, Tomatito is recognised as one of the leading guitarists in contemporary flamenco.
“Café Named Desire” is a musical about love, sexuality, and self discovery.
Soho Theatre &Tim Whitehead Management present: Peaches Christ’s Addams Apple Family Values They're creepy and their kooky, mysterious and spoopy! Peaches…
When award-winning comedian Richard Gadd offers a stranger a free cup of tea, he has no sense of the nightmare to come.
Get ready for an absurd explosion of trash-tactic song, interactive comedy, twisted film and furious balls-out performance from renowned drag sensation Baby Lame.
Q The Music Show James Bond Concert Spectacular has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Linda, Brian and Nelly are new to the neighbourhood, everything seems perfect.
Based on the story of Grace O’Malley, the personification of Ireland, The Pirate Queen is a sweeping epic of love, honor, and piracy in Renaissance Ireland.
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
"Comedy gold" – Guardian The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
Two distinguished musicians – violinist Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) – bring their own interpretation to Bach’s profound wor…
Rod Stewart is extending his 2019 UK summer tour into a winter arena tour, which will culminate in two massive shows at The O2 on Tuesday 17 and Thursday 19 December.
Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Nick brings the mellow thunder with a brand-new stand-up show with one of those zeitgeisty titles that kids love the…
Adrian Naidin revine la Leicester Square Theatre, duminică, 29 septembrie, de la ora 19:00, cu un concert extraordinar, pentru publicul român și nu numai.
The heart-warming and hilarious Broadway show based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks, comes to The Dominion Theatre for its West End Premier.
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
The world premiere of Sadie Hasler’s Stiletto Beach has burst onto the stage at the dynamic Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in a bold, brave, fearless and funny exploration of what…
Alasdair Cameron ‘the Master’ (EdinburghGuide.
Insightful compositions from ‘One of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Everyone’s favourite Pig family is back, leading an interactive introduction to live orchestra.
The Scottish Clarinet Quartet return to the Edinburgh Fringe to present the much-loved music of JS Bach, reimagined for multiple clarinets and infused with swing jazz, funk and imp…
Fresh from his recent successful tour, Scotland’s number one Bublé tribute act, Michael Hastie invites you to a night full of seductive songs and big band classics in a fabulous…
Acknowledged as ‘a forerunner in the new generation of classical guitarists’ (BBC Radio 3) and a graduate of the Royal College of Music, Michael Christian Durrant presents a progra…
We will be picking the very best charts from our vast library to celebrate the golden age of the big bands.
At the turn of the 16th century, the first music ever to be printed was published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice.
Returning to the Fringe for its fifth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an incredible evening of exciting jazz and toe-tapping swing from Ellington, Basie and many mo…
The Scots Musical Museum, an enormous pop-song survey produced by enterprising publisher James Johnson with Robert Burns, who, enlisted as editor, became crazed with compiling, fix…
We are a professional, Scotland-based classical music ensemble – a flexible group that explores and performs a variety of pieces from solo to chamber orchestra repertoire.
Celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Back at the Fringe for a fourth sell-out year, the world’s biggest big band (probably!) bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of b…
Central to Bach’s output as a composer are his chorale preludes.
Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife’s staff choir, grew out of the conviction that singing is good for the soul.
Two Scotsmen and an Englishman welcome you to a concert of mostly Scottish traditional music and songs played on guitar, mandola, Scottish small pipes, fiddle and whistle.
An evening of poetry and music given by John Coutts and Ayman Jarjour.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record review).
It’s bingo with loads and loads of prizes.
‘Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer/songwriter and a national musical treasure’ (Sing Out!, USA) who’s developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based songwriting and…
After last year’s sell-out shows, Scotland’s foremost folk entertainers are back.
Perhaps the most insightful left-handed piano player of today, Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West with dazzling performances of his own left-hand arrangeme…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an eighth consecutive year for two concerts.
Dorian Ford, internationally acclaimed jazz pianist, performs Keith Jarrett’s brilliant 1975 iconic improvisation.
Following a sell-out run in Oxford, Family Secrets is a night of comedy and chaos as a family (inspired by your suggestions!) has an entirely improvised reunion.
Join this talented London-based cello/piano duo as they perform a series of three consecutive concerts of music by these composers of the classical era. Not to be missed.
This acclaimed London-based cellist makes her annual visit to the Fringe to perform all Bach’s glorious solo cello suites in three consecutive performances.
Coming off their sold out shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City and Rockwell Table and Stage in Los Angeles, this concert version of Dahan and D’Angelo’s emotional and exp…
Join a massive line-up of the biggest names on the Fringe for a raucous evening of comedy to help the fight against brain tumours.
BBD Productions make their debut at the Fringe with Big Band Does… Broadway.
The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of The Fast Show and Two Doors Down.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Festival Fringe for an eighth consecutive year.
Les Miserables – The Staged Concert opened to critical acclaim at the Sondheim Theatre in December 2020 and was extended twice by public demand.
"I kind of want to die – but I’d really like to get into publishing, too," says Billie (performed by Grainne Dromgoole), as she explains the story of her first real l…
UK’s No 1 swing band, The Jive Aces, present their biggest theatre show to date The Big Beat Revue! Also featuring Kara Lane, Lottie B and Grazia Bevilacqua, this show features t…
Ciara Harvie is an impressively talented mezzo-soprano from Edinburgh.
Accomplished Hungarian violin virtuoso Tamás Fejes returns to this year’s Fringe to perform from his recently released, highly acclaimed album.
Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band based on the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional.
Fringe sell-out ten years running! The original family dance party is back, bigger and better than ever.
This year’s Shackleton memorial concert, featuring horn player Andy Saunders playing the Courtois horn from circa 1840.
An unmissable evening with Edinburgh’s incredible swing, jazz and blues big bands on rotation every Thursday night.
Luth’s on an action-packed circus adventure – but she needs your help! She’s looking for giggle-ready three to seven-year-olds to help her solve a whole host of fun physical chal…
Join us for an evening of stand-up comedy to raise funds for Barnardo’s.
In this special one-off event, Plastic Elvis will thrill you with an evening of full throttle charisma, unstoppable rock’n’roll and jaw-dropping excitement.
The Langonet String Quartet plays a programme contrasting a late work by Haydn, the inventor of the string quartet; an early quartet by Beethoven, the great revolutionary; and Dvor…
Join our curators, conservator and volunteers on special highlight tours of St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home of the University of Edinburgh’s world renown…
Scotch pie push-ups, cludgie clenches, haggis swings anybody? You know you want to gie ‘em a go.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and cabaret superstar Dusty Limits for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and fun for …
A favourite of the ROSL Recital Series, Bach for Breakfast features the world’s finest young classical musicians performing some of the greatest works in the repertoire.
This International Japanese pianist gives two recitals of music mainly by Chopin, to include his second Piano Concerto with the Fyrish String Quartet.
American violist Christine Rutledge returns to the Fringe with her new multimedia program combining music by Bach with newly commissioned works by poets from Detroit, Rutledge’s fi…
Stephen Hough wrote: ‘The music of Federico Mompou is the music of evaporation.
Join Mia, Jacus, Twinkle and their nursery rhyme friends at the world premiere of a brand new live show.
Is the Big Bad Wolf really bad, or just misunderstood and trying to trigger his muddled memory? Could music or something else beginning with M be the answer? Its a mystery that wil…
Left-handed international pianist Christopher Seed performs Beethoven’s Sonata Op 109 and Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke D 946 on his unique backwards fortepiano (high notes to the…
Sundays are the day of rest, but Brewhemians don’t believe in this! We’ve got local blues bands, fantastic choirs and award-winning a cappella groups as well as showstopping silent…
Venture into a magic land of epicness with this film music concert.
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Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Coming to The Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol in the summer holidays, The Bird Show uses live music, puppetry and lots of silly bird puns in this heart-fluttering physical comedy about…
Witness a magical extravaganza where you will marvel at The Biggest Balloon in the World and risk your dryness at the ultimate game of Water Pistol Roulette! All live on stage in f…
Helene is excited to throw Gordon’s birthday party, but Gordon isn’t happy about turning 70.
High-energy powerhouse standup for purists featuring big laughs from a road-hardened pro.
The Addams Family.
Afternoon concerts have long been a feature of our day-to-day activities at St Giles’ Cathedral, and each year we continue to welcome artists from all over the world to perform in …
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world; come find out why.
Time is ticking for Kate to have a baby.
Have you ever been into something before it was cool? An indie band or the latest fashion trend? The Next Next Big Thing is your chance to get in on the ground floor with two of th…
Bare Productions return following their sell-out run in Fringe 2018 with a deliciously wicked musical.
Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon…
Superior home-made Thai cuisine cooked live.
Rising stars Louise Young and Anja Atkinson make their Fringe debut.
Georges Méliès is often described as the inventor of cinema.
A family of improvisers?! Yes! A Family Affair is an improvised show in which personal, sometimes hilarious (but always true), heartfelt stories are told from the perspectives of a…
See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly lunchtime stand-up showcase, from the people behind…
Nick Elleray brings the mellow thunder to the Fringe with a brand-new stand-up show with a great new zeitgeisty title that the kids will love.
2018 was going to be Emily’s year.
After shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns with last year’s hit show on… sports! Yep.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
Martin and Logy are back in Edinburgh and ready to have some fun.
Life’s getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social – life now is guilt, followed by shame.
Four of the best new acts on the circuit, selected by Just the Tonic.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe.
Ray Bradshaw made waves at last year's Fringe for performing stand-up in sign language and English at the same time, a gesture inspired by his own upbringing with deaf parents …
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
Best friends Emm and Leo have made the bold artistic decision to graduate without any skills or job prospects.
Good morning, Edinburgh! After Fringe sell-outs in 2017 and 2018, we’re moving to a lovely new venue.
The biggest, gayest set of tales the Fringe has ever heard comes out to play in this theatrical performance-meets-storytelling competition.
Baby Wants Candy has become almost as much a staple of the Fringe as being slapped in the face with flyers on the Royal Mile.
Helen Bauer hits the Fringe hard with this compelling comedy debut which is slick, sassy and super satisfying.
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
Britain’s most loveable fox takes you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a show for all the family, specially written for the live stage and packed with fun and excit…
In our current day and age with consuming media in whatever shape it may take, it’s not difficult to find an advert, article or commentary about the body and how we should look i…
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Family Yoga on the Arts Barge! This is an informal yoga session that brings together elements of traditional yoga practice, play and discovery.
After over a decade running events across the globe, including 10 consecutive sell-out seasons at Edinburgh Fringe and 3 hugely successful appearances at Great Yorkshire…
In this, the 60th Anniversary of one of the world’s most iconic music venues, the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars take to the road to celebrate the ‘Ronnie Sc…
Rising stars Louise Young and Neil Harris make their Great Yorkshire Fringe debut.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and London cabaret superstar, Dusty Limits, for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, reworked song, puppetry and…
Step into the magical and colourful world of LITTLE BABY BUM.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth.
Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen Buchanan brings his much anticipated debut hour to the Fringe…
Big Box Aliens is an alternative comedy experience like no other.
The world outside is (probably) falling apart.
The Beach Boys return to London for two nights at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to Lighthouse and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham.
SLJO are very excited to introduce their new conductor, James Keirle, to Brighton Fringe.
Pirate Pearl lives aboard the good ship Mirabel with her crusty old Grandpa Bert.
After successfully bribing the Edinburgh Festival 2018 for a four star review, the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’ cruises into Brighton Fringe for three nights.
Following a sell-out run in Oxford, ‘Family Secrets’ is a night of comedy and chaos as a family inspired by your suggestions has an entirely improvised reunion.
The Brighton Beach Boys and Psychedelic Love Orchestra recreate The Beatles classic of 1969, ‘Abbey Road’.
A combination of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay that gives the audience the opportunity to create the ultimate relationship ‘to do list’.
Comedy stalwart Gary G Knightley and miscellaneous wart Dan C Cadey in a comedy about the ones they love and sincerely blame.
Society puts a lot of pressure on Fat Girl.
Know your Austen from your Auster? Or couldn’t spot a novel from a shovel? You’re both welcome.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre is offering a free meditation on the beach with Buddhist monk, Gen Thekchen.
Join Brighton’s award-winning Music Mike in an action-packed musical adventure.
In their Opera Gala Concert, the Sussex Symphony Orchestra is celebrating some of opera’s most iconic heroes and heroines and their wicked stories of lust, passion, death and betra…
Sporting a ridiculous inflatable suit, ill-fitting wig and grey beard, the “hilarious” (The List) Christian Brighty brings to life a man you wish was dead.
Musicians appearing in the 8th Lewes Chamber Music Festival in June 2019 will perform chamber music by Mozart, Faure and the little-known Lekeu in this special Festival Launch conc…
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
Nick Elleray, “quality downbeat comedy” (Chortle), is known for his dry, bleak musings on the dark and squalid aspects of life.
The Klump Company throw open their front door and cordially invite you in to meet The Family Blimp.
The Brighton Beach Boys turn their laser-sharp gaze towards this classic of 70s Rock.
Perth Fringe World Best Comedy nominee Odette is the fun, feisty, incredibly fertile cleaning lady everybody loves to love! Join her for an hour of soap opera silliness as she sha…
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
New parent? You’re probably in need of a laugh.
Media OS 5.
The Three B’s come to lunch at the beautiful Chapel Royal on Tuesdays.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Family fun dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
Calling all picnickers; Brighton Fringe’s wildly popular family picnics are back for 2019! Join us every Saturday in May as we take over Pavilion Gardens with more free family ente…
Award-winning, best-selling author Stuart Reid brings his hilarious blend of bums, bogies and big bottom burps to Brighton.
A gentle and immersive multisensory experience.
We live in a divided world, and we want to cross that divide.
What is Massaoke? The idea is simple: a brilliant live band plays well-known songs, with lyrics on a giant screen, and the whole audience sings along together.
Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert II The second of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musi…
Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert I The first of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musical adventur…
Farnham Festival 2019: Jazz Café The exciting opening to this year’s Festival is an informal late afternoon concert, featuring jazz groups from the local ar…
It's a dismal day at the Addams family's manse, with the ever-approaching storm clouds reflecting the gloomy atmosphere that has beset the household.
The popular Q The Music Orchestra is bringing its James Bond Concert Spectacular to the Adelphi Theatre.
Friday 15th March, 8pmTickets: £22Duration: 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: all ages, but aimed at an adult audience One of a very se…
Duration: Approx 2hrs 30mins There is no doubt that the swinging 60’s was a very special time and will go down in history as being the most imaginative period of m…
A Larger than life show from a Larger than life Band.
No One is ComingMy Mam's different to yours.
In Karyn Kusama’s riveting new crime thriller Destroyer, the receipt of an ink-marked bill in the office mail propels veteran LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidm…
MadeMusic takes him out of dullness BIG GIRLS BLOUSEWhen you assume.
MAKE, LEARN, PLAY and PERFORM on your own fully working ukulele, made from a spread tub! If you don't believe it, take a look at the YouTube extract below.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
Jump, roll and slide at Watermans in this creative movement workshop for children and adults.
Jump, roll and slide at Watermans in this creative movement workshop for children and adults.
Join Ralph and Vanellope in their newest buddy-comedy adventure, and explore the worldwide web in a whole new way.
In Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” an all new original musical and sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find t…
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift.
"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…
Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman stars as the charismatic politician Gary Hart for Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman in the new thrilling drama The Front Run…
Christopher Robin is all grown up and all out of imagination.
Big Fish Little Fish ‘We Can Be Heroes’ themed family rave with DJs Baker & Beale Come make merry again with the award winning, world famous Big Fish Lit…
Mary, Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart.
Sunday 3rd February, 2.
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits.
Strap on your safety goggles boys and girls, due to popular demand Science’s greatest and most volatile live show is returning with a vengeance.
Most recently seen on Dara and Ed’s Road To Mandalay and various Mock The Weeks, Ed has become a household name from his multiple BBC TV appearances.
Friday 1st February, 7.
Smut Slam travels around the world spreading joy, laughs, and lots of education too! Now this community dirty-storytelling show—packed with stories of real life, real lust, real …
Part drag, part cabaret and part theatre, Jock Tamson’s Bairns is an immersive show where the audience is transported to an after hours gay bar and invited to speak their mind.
Starring Steve Coogan and John C.
Tickets: £13.
The BBC Radio 4 Sketchtopia host, Celebrity Big Brother star and Question Time & This Week regular, takes the follow up to his acclaimed 2017 hit on the road mixing his trademark �…
International superstar Hans, the boy wonder of Berlin, serves up an all-singing, all-tap dancing, accordion-pumping, glittering blitzkrieg of cabaret backed by his three-piece ban…
Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer—and he knows better than anyone that the …
Roll out the glittery sparkle carpet, re-fill the party cannons and re-hang that big dirty disco ball – the most outrageous party of the year is back! Queer Haggis welcomes a br…
Tickets: £26Duration: tbcSuitable for: ages 12+ ‘The Greatest Rock & Roll Band In The World’ is a bold statement but Showaddywaddy h…
More theatrical than ever, Le Haggis VI will explode into the centre of the Spiegeltent at high octane speed, shimmering like a tartan sporran hanging off the side of very chiselle…
Celebrating the Bards' birthday in the town where he composed his famous works, the eighth year of Big Burns Supper features eleven days of comedy, cabaret, music, theatre and mor…
Unconventional country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette has married a charismatic egomaniacal man of letters, 14 years her senior, known by the single name, Willy.
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND EXTRA SCREENING ADDED - TUESDAY 22 JANUARY @ 10:30AM Winner of 10 Best British Independent Film Awards 2018 including - Best British Independent Fi…
Peter Rabbit, the mischievous and adventurous hero who has captivated generations of readers, now takes on the starring role of his own irreverent, contemporary comedy w…
Deep in the remote snowy forest an icy wind blows and snowflakes fall from the sky.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Harold Pinter’s first play, The Room, features in a triple-bill directed by Pinter’s colleague and friend, Patrick Marber.
Set in a Mother and Baby Home in December 1964, Be My Baby follows Mary Adams who is unmarried and seven months pregnant.
1964, Mary Adams, unmarried and seven months pregnant, is forcibly sent to a Mother and Baby Home by a mother, intent on keeping up appearances.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Trapped and powerless to escape, Patrick Fowler is cut off from his regiment and must fight his own war of endurance.
Join acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Nick Sharratt to find out how he creates his picture books.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
For the first time ever, Studio Canal and Heyday Films will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Paddington with a performance of their charming and ground-breaking film Paddington in…
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The captivating sound-world of medieval music, featuring Scottish chant from Inchcolm Abbey, music by Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury – an eight-part work by …
Concert starts at 9.
Returning to the Fringe for its fourth year, Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of exciting jazz and swing.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife’s staff choir, together with specially invited guest soloists, is delighted to be returning to the Fringe with a programme of show tunes and popular m…
Back at the Fringe for a third year, the SLJO bring you an all-new set featuring the finest swing, jazz and Latin from the golden era of big band and beyond.
Relive the era when swing was king, with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals from Scotland’s popular record-breaking big swing band – everything from Basie to Bublé.
Perth Youth Orchestra will perform works by Holst (The Planets Suite), Khachaturian, and Weber conducted by Mr Allan Young – with soloists Shona Rae (bassoon), Sophie Chisholm (x…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’.
Toxic masculinity is blamed for everything from the #MeToo movement to rates of male suicide.
Lawrence Dunn (violin) and Gilmour Macleod (piano) perform sonatas by JS Bach, Brahms and Kenneth Leighton and the ever-popular Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens.
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…
Oh no, Eliza the explorer has been kicked out of her kingdom! She needs to go on an adventure to prove she is the best explorer and make it back in time for the summer celebration.
From the company that previously brought you Peter Pan and Elf the Musical comes this spooktacular new musical comedy.
Newtongrange Silver Band (established 1892) is a traditional mining village brass band but their repertoire is far from traditional.
A programme that includes some of Bach’s earliest organ music as well as pieces that are decidedly youthful in spirit including the Prelude and Fugue in D and the Partita on Christ…
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).
Virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West in two recitals centred on favourite works by Bach and Chopin.
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…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a seventh consecutive year for two concerts.
Another AMC Fringe sell-out in 2017.
One man’s intimate story of escape from religion, to love, loss and triumph.
The Edinburgh Chamber Choir returns to the Fringe with two amazing choral works.
This acclaimed London-based cellist makes her annual visit to the Fringe to perform all Bach’s glorious solo cello suites in three consecutive performances.
The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding return to the Fringe to play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and …
Big Love – Charles Mee’s adaption of Aeschylus’ The Suppliants is a modern reexamination of western norms regarding gender and sexuality.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a seventh consecutive year for two concerts.
Hosted by Susan Calman in her only Fringe appearance this year.
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams.
Welcome to the big band era and beyond! The Sound of Seventeen is a jazz orchestra line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a four-piece rhythm section bringing you swing, ja…
‘Scotland’s pre-eminent singer/songwriter and a national musical treasure’ (Sing Out!, USA) with a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based song writing and instrumental composition.
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Join us for a two-hour comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, whilst previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
David Gerrard, the soloist and doctoral student, plays music by JS Bach, favourite composer of the late chairman of the Friends, and by his French contemporary Antoine Forqueray, o…
This young organ scholar at St Andrew’s and St George’s West returns to the Fringe to perform a programme of works by composers including Bach, Widor and Karg-Elert.
Fellswater Celtic music ensemble from Boston, Massachusetts, USA will perform tunes and songs from all the Celtic nations and beyond.
Join Edinburgh trio Curmudgeon for an uplifting evening of songs on the old familiar topics of deception, drunkenness (and dangers thereof), disappointment and lost ways of life in…
If the thought of watching a one woman play about a Kurdish refugee turned lawyer helping to broker a major arms deal for a Swedish law firm doesn’t thrill you then think again, …
Bach for Breakfast features some of the finest young musicians performing some of the greatest works in the classical repertoire.
The accomplished Hungarian violinist Tamas Fejes returns to the Fringe with a selection of Bach’s monumental masterworks written for unaccompanied violin, regarded to be the pinnac…
Sell-out nine years running! The original family dance party is back, bigger and better than ever, celebrating our tenth anniversary on the Fringe.
Henry Café, quiz host and death investigator, investigates death and hosts a quiz.
Spatz & Co Showband interrupt their theatre roadshow tour to perform music from the 30s to the 90s.
All the best stories begin with a game.
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
Let the ‘Queen of silliness (***** BroadwayBaby.
Scottish Chamber OrchestraEdward Gardner Conductor National Youth Choir of ScotlandChristopher Bell Chorus Director Sarah Tynan SopranoRobert Murray TenorNeal Davies Bass Haydn The…
After electrifying US audiences for 25 years, America’s ‘coolest show on earth’ (Newsweek) comes to the UK for the first time.
Cornelius Patrick O’ Sullivan is a comedian and a poet.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Emily Worthington, clarinettist and musicologist, presents 19th-century chamber music on historical clarinets from the world-class Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection,* accompanied …
After two sell-out performances in last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra return once again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an exciting and varied…
Tommy is four-and-a-quarter years old, and a hard-boiled private investigator on the mean streets of Little Monkey’s Daycare.
Caring for kids with a curious craze for karaoke? Then look no further than The Big Balloon Singalong! Fun for all the family and featuring all the greatest hits (.
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
Brenda’s Got a Baby was birthed from a concept created by Molly Rumford, financed via Crowdfunder and the culmination of interviews and news stories from real people.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Why toddle when you can dance!? Sell-out shows around the world, come find out why DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with under fives and their parents/carers.
Peter Hill’s Bach series for Delphian has been described as one of the most impressive solo recording projects of recent years.
Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: two French musical icons.
John Lennon spent his Scottish boyhood holidays in Durness, Sutherland: not fake news! This thoughtful, comic fable of modern Scotland, adapted from the novel by Scottish Governmen…
After winning the Edinburgh Panel Prize in 2014 with Funz and Gamez, Phil’s ready to bring his unique, anarchic and unreliable comedy to the masses.
Funny Happy Stuff presents: Circus Sonas Family Show! A brand-new show from father and son circus performers Martin and Logy.
Toned.
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price. Hand selected from our year-round auditions, this show is quality talent in its prime.
At the centre of its big, warm heart, The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It is a story about a non-activist boy and his activist mother, and by extension a story about all of us and our…
Scotland’s landowners were in retreat.
‘The day I’ve been dreading arrives.
It’s time for the Big Shop, not to be confused with your ‘bits shop’ (which you might do at the little Tesco) or your ‘big wash’ (which is like the Big Shop but that’s not what we’…
Star of FOX’s Showtime at the Apollo, finalist on season eight of NBC Comcast’s knockout television show, Trial By Laughter and runner-up for the woman he loves.
We’re offering the finest upcoming comedians on the UK circuit at a bargain price.
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around historic closes and wynds, then take a visit down into our underground vaults.
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
Power? Sex? Control? Part One: Meet Baby, a prostitute willing to entertain you with Barbie dolls… Experience a bizarre underworld of desire and oppression.
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr…
Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal.
Sex.
Join Paddington Bear on his adventures as he leaves home, meets his new family and enjoys his first concert – not without causing his fair share of mayhem, of course! The charmin…
Storyteller and stand-up comedian John Pendal explores his family tree and discovers mutinies in the 1800s, arson in the 1900s and autism in the 2000s.
Total sell-out 2015, 2016 and 2017! One of the best-known, longest-running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff is tough.
A truly astonishing and hilarious confessional story where the worlds of haute cuisine and high finance collide, bringing about a lucid moment in the life of someone who was lost a…
“Have you ever fantasised about someone like me?” Katy Dye asks the audience, not as an adult woman, not as a performance artist, but as a 15-year-old school girl.
By Magne van den Berg, UK premiere.
The latest Edinburgh Fringe fun from the award-winning and best-selling author Stuart Reid.
Power? Sex? Control? Part Two: Baby, the Barbie doll-playing prostitute, becomes more and more a doll herself.
Good morning, Edinburgh! Three funny, thought-provoking “menus” of ten-minute plays.
Popular comic John Pendal returns to Great Yorkshire Fringe for a third consecutive year.
Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal.
After over a decade of family dayclubbing events across the globe, including 9 consecutive sell-out seasons at Edinburgh Fringe and 2 hugely successful appearances at Great Yorks…
“AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER…FRINGE BRILLIANCE” ★★★★★ - Broadway Baby John Pendal is proud to announce his third full-length solo show: “…
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
The Big Fat Running show is about .
A spectacular musical celebration of the West End to close the Arts Festival, featuring the very best of musicianship from across the College and concluding with a masse…
The Junior School pupils of St Dunstan’s College invite you to attend their annual Summer concert.
Lloyd presents a sort of, work in progress, stand-up comedy show that he hopes to be rough but charming, like an old-timey hobo.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Spiegeltent presents: ‘Brighton Big Drag Pagent’ Kings, Queens, and Inbetweens! Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Join Monski Mouse and friends: Richard Crawley, Amy Gwilliam and London cabaret superstar, Dusty Limits, for a live musical cabaret of nursery classics, originals, puppetry and fun…
The kind of family that goes the extra mile because the brakes are cut and daddy don’t like the UK speed limit.
Kate Stokes and Claudia Summers have their finger on the pulse with this delightful double bill of comedy plays, interspersed with a few shorter sketches.
It has been described as the film of its generation, capturing the hearts of everyone whilst breaking records around the world.
‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ and ‘Amused Moose Laugh Off’ finalist AJ Roberts debuts his solo show.
Professional development workshops for artists.
What an afternoon we have in store for younger people, along with their parents.
The Brighton Beach Boys perform The Beatles ‘White Album’.
RUNNING CAN BE FUN[NY].
Straight No Chaser big band combine with Swing Patrol dancers for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
Pianist Rachel Fryer plays the Aria and 30 Variations that make up J.
Little do we know just what might emerge in this festivity of two hearts coming together as one.
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.
Two word texts, a cat with no name, blood where it shouldn’t be and a fashion show to die for.
Following our completely sold out Fringe 2017 season, ‘Baby Loves Disco’ returns to the funkiest bar on the beachfront with the best sea views in Brighton for 2018! Club DJs spin f…
Eleanor Westbrook embodies what I love about the Fringe.
‘The Boo Hoo Baby’ Inspired by the board book by Cressida Cowell Boo is a baby who needs something but what it is nobody knows.
‘Space Girl’ written & performed by Helen Stanley Mary Moon is 9 years old.
Plus come and see Chase from Paw Patrol - book your free ticket fwith sessions at 11am, 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm.
Plus come and see Marshall from Paw Patrol - book your free ticket fwith sessions at 11.
This is a terrific workshop for children and young people of all ages.
DJ skills workshops are great for children who want to learn to DJing.
Street Dance workshops in a small group. Admission by ticket only.
Whilst working on a half-hour comedy special, Will realised that stand-up was no longer the most important thing in his life.
John Pendal returns with a preview of his new solo stand-up comedy show ‘Family’.
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…
For the first time at Brighton Fringe, Martin brings you ‘BIG FAT GAY’.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join our resident dj-mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for an hour of bopping family fun.
The game show where celebrities compete to become UN Goodwill Ambassadors.
Fringe City Family Picnic is a free outdoor event taking place on the 5th and 26th May in the Pavilion Gardens, a showcase of family friendly shows, plus free fun activities for ch…
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in the friendliest of discos.
Violinist Benedict Cruft and J.
The BB Collective presents an innovative exhibition of ethical designers and artists against a backdrop of sustainable living with a beach and beach-waste theme, and introduces way…
Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts the internationally renowned Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a concert of orchestral works on the main stage.
It is a movie that has touched millions around the world, and has become one of the most iconic films in history.
Send off Adelaide Fringe 2018 with RCC at Big River Motel with headline act Booka Shade Check in. Unpack & forget about a good nights sleep #BigRiverMotel
The Family Bushdance is a live podcast showcasing some of the best live acts going round, from soul and blues to country and good old fashioned rock and roll.
Don’t miss Bingo Jack this Fringe.
Immerse yourself in the Café Cantantes of Old Spain.
As seen on The Project, CRAM & Have You Been Paying Attention? (Network TEN).
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Cafe Boite Presents 3 Friday events presenting a variety of music and dance from SA’s newest communities, Afghan, Persian, Syrian, South Asian and African.
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
Randy Newman announces London Palladium show following the release of his new album Dark Matter, his first album of new material in nine years.
Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew (aka Double Denim) combine forces with DJ Juan Vesuvius to bring you a big party for little humans! Through games, sketches, and music your favourit…
With comedy, cabaret & fun for all the family to enjoy Huggers returns to Adelaide with enough variety to entertain all ages.
An explosive night of work-in-progress for the theatrically adventurous.
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world, come find out why Adelaide’s own, DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with the under fives and their parents/carers.
★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened.
Babies, toddlers, stressed new parents swilling bottles of wine and some top Fringe comedians.
Join acclaimed British writer-performer & newly crowned BBC Poetry Slam Champion Ben Norris as he battles the UK’s most notorious service stations & the perils of lower league fo…
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you multi award winning family friendly cabaret acts from Edinburgh.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
A fun and interactive show for an audience of one at a time! Taking place in a public cafe, but you’re the only one who knows a show is happening.
“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
First time in Adelaide this differs from other kinds of comedy in that the humour comes from the audience rather than a performer on a stage.
A fun filled afternoon with so much for the whole family.
Voted Best Dance 2015 (Weekly Award) and received ★★★★★ reviews, Flamenco Areti return after a sell out season with a brilliant new show! Fresh from the Adelaide Guitar …
Dance, theatre and comedy are fused into a great big hilarious wonderland that you can’t resist! Take a wild ride on this rollicking adventure that unleashes the untamed inner w…
Dave & Kate love to sing for children.
2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe.
Born out of Montreal’s vibrant sketch comedy scene, two JUST FOR LAUGHS Award winning idiots; Al Lafrance (I Think I’m Dead) and Shane Adamczak (The Ballad Of Frank Allen, Sound & …
The Sherrahs Present - Country Gospel Concert Performing soulful tunes such as Amazing Grace - How Great Thou Art - Bluegrass Keep on the Sunny Side to Hank Williams I Saw the …
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Are you an adventurous spirit who appreciates that connecting with others in the present moment of life is what really matters? And may be both highly entertaining and filled with …
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Experience the toe-tapping classical crossover genre as performed by the 2016 Australian National Busking Champions, and get an insight into full-time life on the road ‘living the …
An honest tale of one man’s modern escape from the prison of belief.
The most awesome, exciting and inspirational author event EVER! as award-winning Scottish author Stuart Reid brings his best-selling books to life.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Family Fun Day hosted by the 1st Kilkenny Scout Group.
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
A show for anyone who has ever sat at a family table and thought - not everyone here is sane! Welcome to the Family is a one woman show that mixes stand-up comedy and theatre t…
Cafe Settebello invites you to enjoy a night of pasta, wine and song featuring Adelaide’s renowned blues singer Nicolina Barcello ( Lady Voodoo and the rituals) channelling some …
With seats at the back reserved for the adults, the children are encouraged to sit on the floor right up against the stage for this lovely show that aims to educate and entertain i…
RCC presents Big River Motel, a new immersive entertainment precinct of live music, interactive performances and late-night frivolities.
Open for good time, not a long time, we’re kicking off the opening night of Adelaide Fringe 2018 with our biggest party yet.
Exploring subjects that affect us all: body image, bullying, photoshop, exercise, selfies, diets, weight, beauty treatments, photoshop.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Happily Never After - Created from a single audience suggestion, The Maydays weave a playful tale, full of black comedy and haunting songs.
What is it to really know your own father? Meet Edward Bloom, played by Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe award-winner Kelsey Grammer.
Join award-winning songwriter and musician David Gibb on a musical journey through his hilarious and often surreal imagination.
Pippa Evans Presents… – Join Pippa Evans (founder member of Showstoppers) and some of her favourite improvisers as they explore the world through your eyes and theirs.
Glittering pyrotechnics illuminating Edinburgh’s iconic Castle.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The 2017 International Festival’s Usher Hall concerts come to a resplendent conclusion in a very special concert celebrating 70 years of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Returning after a second highly successful gig in 2016, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
David Hamilton returns to the magnificent setting of Canongate Kirk for a performance including Bach’s Schübler Chorales and Third Organ Sonata.
One of Scotland’s leading folk’n’roll bands entertain you with traditional songs and their own material.
G and Ste are Fringe fanatics who felt that becoming part of the Fringe was the perfect way to celebrate their nuptials.
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band, with another night of toe-tapping music from the era when swing was king.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
We welcome back Coro Vincenzo, directed by Les Shankland, who are to perform J.
Iestyn Davies joins legendary British period-performance ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music for the second of two International Festival concerts celebrating the solo counterten…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
With his vocal finesse, his flawless tone and the disarming directness of his performances, English countertenor Iestyn Davies is one of today’s true vocal stars, both on the ope…
The Mantles have issues that probably need to be addressed, only problem being none of them talk to each other, not properly anyway.
Scotland’s new chamber choir makes its debut, bringing to life three of Bach’s incomparable masterpieces.
Two DJs live on stage and on the mics.
Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest and best mixed bill magic night! The best illusion, magic and cabaret acts from the Fringe have assembled for one night only at Gilded Balloon’s biggest …
I was born to two of the most clueless parents.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).
The relationship between musician and dancer is turned on its head during this unique, intimate gallery performance of Bach Cello Suite No 4 by violist Bridget Kinneary and dancer/…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a sixth consecutive year for two concerts.
Bach takes us from breakfast to bedtime; a perfect way to round off your day.
Big Cat Small Flap – the unique observations from a giant talking cat called Mr Nibbles on the state of humans and the world today, from Trump to Brexit to Instagram, and why the…
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a sixth consecutive year for two concerts.
Can Hamlet please come into the diary room? You’ve had regular Big Brother.
The spooky and kooky Addams Family comes to life in this outrageous musical comedy.
Acclaimed Hungarian violinist Tamás Fejes returns to this year’s Festival Fringe to perform a selection of Bach’s sonatas and partitas from Fejes’s debut solo album.
The Werbeck Ensemble sings folk and religious repertoire from around the world including Barber, Britten, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Rheinberger and Stravinsky.
With the combination of classic melody and innovative performing methodology, the concert will demonstrate the charms of traditional Chinese music and dance with the spirits of the…
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Jamaya come from Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv and have been playing together since they were 16.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join us for a bumper-length comedy extravaganza to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s, while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows.
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
‘Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter and a national musical treasure’ (SingOut USA) who has developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots based songwriting …
Harri Soinila is a Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World, 2016 semi-finalist, headliner of shows in a bunch of countries and the godfather (or baby daddy) of English comedy …
Vuelos is a magical dance theatre work for children and families that challenges you to wonder and to contemplate our eternal dream – to be able to fly.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This Japanese-born international pianist returns to the Fringe with a charming programme of music by Chopin, Bach and Mozart and finishes with Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorg…
The favourite of the ROSL Fringe Series, Bach for Breakfast features some of the finest young musicians, prizewinners of ROSL’s Annual Music Competition and scholars from New Zeala…
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Runaway hit of Fringe 2016, the Pop Bingo Disco gameshow is back and this time it’s all about the kids! Forget smelly bingo halls with OAPs telling you to be quiet.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
With the overwhelming amount of options at the Fringe, Bite-Size allows one to see several short and sweet plays in the space of an hour.
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
A jolt of surprise and a joyful choral celebration launch the 2017 International Festival Usher Hall concerts with an evening of wit and warmth.
Big Brother Hamlet takes the subjects of the all-powerful found in Shakespeare’s script – the King, the Ghost, the Church – and connects them with one of today’s most all-p…
Since 2011, George Wilson and his twin sons have presented Bach at the Canongate.
It was an inauspicious beginning for Martin J Dixon’s new stand-up show, with only 11 audience members, some of whom were loud and rowdy throughout the show.
Why toddle when you can dance?! It’s time to get heads, shoulders, knees and toes bopping along to lashings of swing, pop, rock, latin and more! Selling out shows around the world,…
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
The gameshow where celebrities compete to end world poverty.
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
Sugar Baby satirised the food industry with one eyebrow firmly raised, mocking both the trend of ‘clean eating’ for which vegan titans like ‘Deliciously Ella’ are increasin…
Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel: two French musical icons.
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
Captain Zarg and Williamina Foxx are Guardians of the Universe.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family!
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
Stronger.
The Clan Mucmor Family Circus Show.
With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family!
The 23rd year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Established as one of the best shows of the Fringe. Four comedians, different to the early show. Two hours with tomorrow’s comedy stars. ‘Top value, top comedy’ (List).
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
Two world travelled comedians, Dylan Gott (Canada) and Radu Isac (Romania), perform an hour of sort of clean comedy.
Phineas Wakenshaw is a consummately confident performer, effortlessly charming packed out audiences with a sweet smile and immense stage presence.
Amazing Magic Christopher presents fun at the Fringe – Family Magic Show! The show features magic, balloon modelling, Barney the Puppet Bird and lots and lots of audience partici…
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Award-winning author Stuart Reid will be sharing his books, including his latest release Gorgeous George and His Stupid Stinky Stories, and the audience will be expected to bring t…
‘Nick Cope is the indie-surrealist kids’ entertainer Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett, foolishly distracted by cult status, never were.
The cast and crew of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Plays coax their audience into starting their day bright and early with coffee, croissants and strawberries.
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
Pernilla is a Norwegian on a journey through her past.
Sofie Hagen won an award ages ago and she’s still banging on about it.
This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever.
It’s time to think outside the box, go crazy, go skydiving or just go to a different pub this Friday.
Sketch comedy is the medium in which an original voice is most important in order to be successful.
Be led by a gruesome character from Edinburgh’s dark past around some old streets and wynds, then take a visit down into our Underground Vaults.
Prepare to have your joy levels optimised by “the finest female character comic around” (Time Out) as Pippa Evans presents Joy Provision! Plus BIG NOW and improvisers seen on B…
In 1966, Frank Sinatra performed at the Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel & Casino, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra.
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in City Impro’s debut Edinburgh Fringe show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketch…
Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in a special Edinburgh Fringe preview show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketches …
Much-loved guitarist, Paul Gregory, returns to perform a solo recital of J.
Children’s poet and spoken word theatre maker Justin Coe (‘Big Wow’, ‘Small Wonder’, ‘The Dictionary of Dads’, ‘The Jumble Book’) leads a workshop for adult writers/performers inte…
Go on an award-winning, magical, musical, multi-sensory adventure in the Kalahari desert with Little Meekat and her friends Elephant and Wise Monkey to find out all about Calm and …
We Can Be, LadyG cuts Gaga down to size, with migrant resilience and ‘Yes We Can Be Happy, Initiate’ and so a company taking inspiration from Jean Findlay and TSEliot which produce…
2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Catalan composer Federico Mompou’s death.
Duo Spianato [now renamed Duo Terra Nova], Pierre and Elodie, impressed our audience last year, and so we are delighted to welcome back one of the young French pianists for a solo …
“Cake-mixing, baking and eating fuel, this zingy, high-energy story as a restless baby sets about a night-time adventure.
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.
Through the use of film projection, plays, and music by Justyna Ponikowska, 7090 and Hana present a concert about the malleability of meaning.
St Michael’s are pleased to welcome the Brunswick duo to perform Bach’s 6 Flute Sonatas.
Sussex Jazz Orchestra plays exciting, driving and dynamic big-band music as well as more familiar Jazz standards with a twist.
We are pleased and delighted to be welcoming the return of Pianist Rachel Fryer performing the Goldberg Variations.
Straight No Chaser Big Band combine with JATS swing dance aces Sam and Gabi for a Lindy Hop dance spectacular.
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 …
St Michael’s is pleased to welcome the return of pianist Stefan Warzycki.
St Michael’s welcomes back Pavlos Carvalho to perform Bach’s Cello Suites, over two evenings.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Captivating harp duo, 94 Strings, is a collaboration between Sussex-based harpists Alexandra King and Fiona Hosford.
Brighton’s award-winning Curry Leaf Cafe is running a series of interactive talks & cookery masterclasses at its new Kemptown Kitchen.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Following our legendary Brighton Fringe 2016 appearance, the original family dance party returns for more day-clubbing, this time at the funkiest bar on the beachfront with the bes…
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Fat 45 is a blistering 11-piece big band bringing back the Jump Jive, Rock & Roll and Rhythm & Blues of the 1940s and 50s.
Come to the Brighton Bandstand for some inner peace.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
We welcome violinist Benedict Cruft along with his fine Cruft-Robertson-Pleeth String Trio and guest guitarist, Paul Gregory.
Twig the Pixie has lost his marbles! Help him find them in this hit stand-up comedy spectacular for all generations of the family.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Homegrown Buckle Collective hits Brighton Fringe with a new, experimental black comedy At times moving, at times hilarious, ‘At the Junction Cafe’ is a battle of the generations…
Did you know that every sound has a colour? What are your true colours? And what happens when all those colours blend together in a choir? Come and discover an amazing choral rain…
Fringe City Family Picnic is a free outdoor event taking place on the 6th of May and 27th of May in the Pavilion Gardens.
Roedean community musicians perform classic choral favourites by Monteverdi, Handel and Parry.
Expecting an innovative and funny play, I was left disappointed to come across a heavily clichéd script and very little laughter.
Back by popular demand following a critically-acclaimed West End run and sold out residency at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not the Sitcom is a massively disrespectful …
The 30-strong London Musical Theatre Orchestra and a host of West End stars will take to the London Palladium stage under the baton of its first guest conductor, the show’s c…
As part of its Around Town series, The Orchestra Now will be performing a free concert of works by Glinka, Messiaen, and Tchaikovsky.
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
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…
Multi award nominated comedian and BBC/Virgin Radio Star Inel Tomlinson is relaunching his sell out live roadshow Kinetic Comedy.
The Orchestra Now performs a free concert in the Bronx led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
The Orchestra Now kicks off the 2nd season of its Around Town series with a free concert in Harlem, led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
Justin is the smallest boy in the whole town.
Are you ready? Grab a spoon! Because it’s Pat-a-cake time! Pitter-patter – get the butter! Glitzy-glossy – whisk in sugar! Jokey-yolky – add the eggs! Long Nose Puppets off…
Following their sell-out run in the Welsh Millennium Centre’s 10th Anniversary production Broadway to the Bay, The Novello Orchestra comes to the London Palladium for a night…
In an incredible career spanning over seven decades Petula Clark is a true international superstar and legend.
Tumble, balance and spin on a hairpin: learn circus skills in partnership with your child. Brilliant and bonding!
Following a critically acclaimed, complete sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not The Sitcom comes to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited 5 we…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Organist David Hamilton presents a programme including Bach’s Sei gegrüsset variations and the mighty Passacaglia.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife’s staff choir, grew out of the conviction that singing is good for the soul.
Returning after a sell-out gig in 2015, the Inverkeithing Community Big Band promises an afternoon of riveting jazz and swing.
Four Scottish Dances – Malcolm Arnold.
Peter Hill’s Bach series for Delphian has been described as ‘one of the most impressive solo recording projects of recent years’ (New York Times).
Knowing Smirk return to the Fringe, where BroadwayBaby.
Young Palestinian performers from Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, will come together with Fringe favourites and surprise guests for this unique review show.
Paul Kelly has recorded over 20 albums as well as several film soundtracks.
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a fourth year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
You’ve seen the film, now here’s the musical.
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
Once again the band take the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with great songs taken from their latest album, Fire in the Glen, and material from previous albums.
Born just down the road in Peebles one dark, stormy night in 1944, Eric’s path through life since has been a bit of a twisty one.
That Swing Sensation, Scotland’s record-breaking big swing band brings a night of music and song from the golden age of the crooners.
A concert to celebrate the launch of the choir’s Stravinsky CD, including music by Gesualdo, Bach, Stravinsky and Gabriel Jackson.
Coro Edina return to the Fringe following previous years’ acclaimed performances of Brahms and Mozart Requiems and Handel’s Messiah.
The International Shalom Festival is a celebration of the diverse culture, music, art, dance and food of Israel aiming to build cultural bridges and develop international friendsh…
We return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with our popular annual concert of JS Bach’s magnificent B minor Mass, showcasing the singing virtuosity of ten stellar soloists alongsid…
Come and experience Anne-Isabel Meyer, the London-based cellist who returns again to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform all the Bach Cello Suites over three days.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Satellite images now cover every inch of the world.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
Presented by The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, the programme for this concert comprised of lesser-known and hugely underappreciated works by the three baroque greats: Antonio Vivaldi…
A story of ambition and love, Big Shot captivates with a blend of energy and poignance infused in its music and its characters.
Glasgow’s big darling brings her distinct brand of magic to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Dance, paint, build and design at our fun-filled family day.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Classically-trained Canadian singer Melanie Gall presents this one hour recital of the music of legendary Francophone singers Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, with songs presented them…
Freaky Family are back! Aki Remally, Jamie Graham and Allan Ferguson head this groundbreaking band traversing funk, jazz, hip hop beats and groove sensibility.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a fifth consecutive year for two concerts.
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
Beach Party is a performance devised by 38 Buried Roses influenced by the methodologies and practices of European Theatre in the past century.
It would be hard to find a piano recital in this year’s festivals better than those by this Japanese-born international soloist.
Pick of the Fringe showcase of the best dance, circus and physical theatre shows.
Fat Head and the Big Dog is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Ireland’s fast-rising comedians Aaron McCann and Dave Elliott.
Now parents and kids can run away to the circus.
Bach and contemporaries.
A mixed bill of northern dance theatre our kid (close sibling) would be proud of! Bit brassic (short of cash)? Fear not! Grab yourself a ticket and get two shows for the price of o…
Fringe royalty Ali McGregor takes the helm of this reimagining of the Big Comedy Gala in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, with special guest Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cummin…
Bach’s magnificent Solo Cello Suites are the centrepiece of this candlelit recital from Philip Higham, a cellist lauded by the Strad as having ‘all the qualities of a world-cla…
The accomplished and acclaimed Hungarian-born violinist Tamas Fejes returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform from his debut CD a selection of Sonatas and Partitas by JS …
Real DJs, in real clubs playing real music, free glow sticks and transfer tattoos.
VICE contributor/NY comedian, Harmon Leon has made a career infiltrating extremist hate groups in America.
Big Bite is celebrating it’s 10-year Fringe anniversary with a ‘best of’ showcase: although an enjoyable selection of short pieces - effectively boiling down to long sketches…
Celebrate good times! Come on! The Geordie Giant brings an upbeat hour of observational and joke-filled stand-up about our drinking culture and nights out.
Always a sell-out, the original family dance party returns to Edinburgh’s funkiest nightclub for its eighth Fringe run.
Brother and sister Jack (Durham Revue, So You Think You’re Funny? semi-finalist) and Anna Harris (Bristol Revunions, Fish Finger Fridays) find themselves at another bizarre family …
In their sixth appearance at the Fringe, George, Adam and Tom Wilson have borrowed the title of Wilfred Meller’s book for a programme which will include music for organ, solo violi…
Shanghai Culture Week opens with a concert featuring three of the city’s top orchestras: Shanghai Young Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai City…
Raucous melancholy! Human failure! A whole bunch of jokes! Strong and kind sketch group Beach Hunks are proud to present their debut hour of crushingly absurd comedy.
Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence.
Following the huge success of The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant sell-out Winter Festival ceilidh, we are delighted to be hosting our summer ceilidh, featuring traditional Scottish cei…
A musical based on the iconic family of classic television fame.
Why toddle when you can dance? Get glam and get dancing at this international hit, retro-fabulous vintage disco for under-5s (babies under 6 months can go free).
An actual baby, just.
Gary Dunn comes to the Fringe with his one-man (one chicken) magic show! Sixty minutes of family fun and some great magic from Scotland’s No 1 comedy magician and his trusty side…
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…
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe.
Twenty second year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Classic late show Festival comedy fare.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem on tour.
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
Returning to a bigger room after last year’s sell-outs, MC Andy Stedman hosts a mash-up of some of the top comedians at the Fringe together with up-and-coming newer faces.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
Matty Finlayson, noun – A hard-hitting action-packed gigolo, not dissimilar to a high-class call girl.
On top of the breakfast (croissant, coffee and strawberries), there is a handful of ten-minute theatre pieces that are eccentric, funny and outrageous.
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.
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
In this high-stakes, interactive drama, audience members assume the roles of judge, jury and executioner at an enquiry into recent events at a nuclear power plant.
Nick’s family performances are legendary! He has a fanatical army of little and not so little fans from all over the world.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Clan Mucmor Family Fun Show is family fun for all the family. This show is suitable for people of all ages and abilities.
Pianist and organist Carl Bahoshy performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert and Rachmaninoff in aid of Iraqi Christians in Need (ICIN) charity.
‘Now I’m a Big Boy!’ is written, produced and performed by young people, tackling issues of growing up and the problems surrounding sexual consent.
A pair of comedic short plays simultaneously celebrating and condemning modern life, sandwiched in sketches: A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, and a contemporary fa…
Winner, Best Children’s Show - Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem to a show for the whole family.
Best Newcomer nominees - Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award 2014.
Funk The Family returns for another magical instalment of fantastical fun for all the family.
Brighton Beach Boys with the Psychedelic Love Orchestra present Pet Sounds vs Sgt Pepper.
A twisted, tender comedy about dealing with your dark side.
If like me you find an Irish accent a wondrous tool capable, in a single crank, of spinning the very stars in the gutter, and if, like me also, you enjoy nothing better than a bi…
The Sussex Symphony Orchestra and BBC’s Alistair Appleton present a fun afternoon of music for children and families.
Join the Know My Neighbour campaign for a week of free activities and performances to encourage neighbourliness in our city! Come and be entertained, connect with others and all wh…
Jazz big band, led by effervescent trombonist Mark Bassey, playing exciting contemporary arrangements alongside favourite jazz standards.
Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Great cellist Pavlos Carvalho performs Bach’s solo cello suites on 14 and 15 May.
Pianist Raija Walker performs Beethoven’s Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas on 14 May.
Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed…
The concert, which is being held in the synagogue, is in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the first recorded Jewish family who lived in Brighton at 22 East Street.
The original family dance party returns for more afternoon dayclubbing fun.
Geoffrey Mead will be conducting a special tour dating back over 90 years of cafe and family history.
A pixie-fuelled comedy riot packed with adventure, mischief, stand-up comedy and storytelling to warm your heart and tickle your toes.
Bring your picnic blankets and hamper down to Brighton’s biggest family picnic with free family friendly performances, games, crafts and activities galore.
Violinist Benedict Cruft will perform Bach’s solo works on 7 and 8 May.
Pianist Stefan Warzycki performs works for piano left hand.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
We all know the refuge that music and singing can bring.
The trumpet in the history of jazz featuring compositions and arrangements by the kings of jazz as well as new works.
Through the use of film projection, plays and music by Justyna Ponikowska, PAND7090 and Hana present a concert about the malleability of identity.
All Vampettes of the world, unite! Come and enjoy an evening on unforgettable atmospere on Saturday 2 April 2016! With a brand new album released in November and massive single …
Janet Jackson, one of the best-selling artists in contemporary history, an award-winning singer and actress who's the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians, is back…
Theodora Skipitares’s puppet-filled multimedia investigation of family, creativity and home takes its main inspiration from Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in …
Get excited! Little Mix are coming! March 2016 might sound like an age away, but it can’t come soon enough for the return of Little Mix to The O2.
A-ha Concert and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Norwegian pop icons, A-ha, are back and will enjoy their return in sty…
If you believe ‘youth is wasted on the young’, then just for a second imagine it was lived by the not-so-young.
This impressive period ensemble continues its series of Handel performances in New York, which last season included a memorable “Alcina.
Wet Wet Wet Live and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Be there for an evening of great entertainment, as soft rock legends We…
You’ve taken the journey with them from those first arena auditions, sat on the edge of your sofa during the dramatic six-seat challenge, followed their path to judges’…
All Time Low and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Pop punk darlings All Time Low are thrilled to announce their return to the…
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…
The Corrs and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Irish sister songstresses (and brother), The Corrs, are back in business after…
Tessa Skara and Joe Castle Baker star in this interactive musical comedy about family bonding.
In this idea-heavy one-man show, Steven Friedman, a Renaissance man whose areas of expertise include philosophy, seeks to weave a capsule history of philosophical thought with an a…
Blaktino Dance Concert is the final offering of the month-long BlakTinX performance series, featuring artists – many hailing from the Bronx – who work in a variety of d…
Charles Addams’ cartoons have been adapted numerous times for TV, film and as an animated series.
Since the eminent early music conductor Masaaki Suzuki founded the period-instrument Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, the ensemble has done essential and acclaimed work in its home co…
Beasty Baby at Polka Theatre is great fun for all the family and a fantastic show to introduce the little ones to the world of theatre.
Friendly, beguiling and emphatically humane, this popular circus takes travel as its theme this year, with its performers cavorting as Jazz Age sailors, aviators and sightseers.
Join Fife’s biggest, most fabulous big band for a sumptuous afternoon of classic tunes from Count Basie to Maynard Ferguson.
Settle back and enjoy another big night in with the Silver Darlings.
A toe-tapping evening of music from the era when swing was king with classic instrumentals and laid-back vocals – everything from Basie to Bublé.
Back after a year off, Die Roten Punkte take the helm of this fundraiser for Macmillan.
Lili la Scala (AFVS) hosts this family-friendly variety show in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
The iconic sound of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons recreated in this feel-good concert.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Perth Youth Orchestra is one of the UK’s oldest youth orchestras, having recently celebrated its 50th birthday.
For one night only, Sing in The City’s premier choir The Aw’ Blacks will be performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
‘Be my little baby,’ intone The Ronettes as the Swinging Sixties unleash a wave of sexual liberation for women.
Rare chance to hear Bach’s uplifting Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) complete, plus a dozen modern contributions to the Orgelbüchlein Project – the project aiming to fill the…
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a third year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
Following their 2014 sell-out Fringe performance, the SLJO are back with an all new set featuring the finest tunes from the golden era of Big Band.
For a third year Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the American Songbook,…
Join Sue Perkins for BBC Two’s Festival highlights show, with live music, discussions, performance and comedy.
Organist David Hamilton returns to Canongate with a programme to illustrate the breadth of Bach’s genius.
Powerful music by Haydn in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Come and join French singer/songwriter Farah Rigal as she takes you on a special voyage to the world of folk-rock.
Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Mark Thomas, Susan Calman, Bridget Christie, Liz Lochhead, Arthur Smith, Jo Caulfield, Fred MacAulay and Angela Barnes.
The history of Chinese folk music is one of the longest unbroken musical lineages in the world, representing over three thousand years of tradition.
A bumper-length show giving you the chance to help raise vital funds for Barnardo’s while previewing a selection of this year’s top Fringe shows, courtesy of some of your favourite…
Come and experience once again Anne-Isabel Meyer’s performances of the six Cello Suites over three days in St Cuthbert’s Parish Church.
The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and Brahms’ magnificent Cel…
Come and explore the streets of Milton Keynes.
Mikel N’Dong will play the solo piano part and the orchestra part will be played live by a sequenced virtual symphony orchestra.
The Graduation Show is where BWC’s Fringe Improv Intensive Workshop students strut their stuff in a showcase performance having learnt long-form improv from the finest! Find out …
Award-winning Fringe favourite musical improvisers present an evening of spontaneous music, monologues, mayhem and hilariously insane fun.
The critically acclaimed classical concert for baby, tot and you returns to Edinburgh! Children can dance, roam about and listen to music while you take a moment for yourself and e…
Learn musical improv from the best! Internationally renowned award-winning Chicago troupe, the ‘entertainment phenomenon’ (Scotsman) Baby Wants Candy invites you to learn to improv…
An exciting all Bach programme: Concerto in C major for two Keyboards BWV 1061 with pianists John Cameron and Richard Beauchamp, Solo Cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with sop…
Free morning films for the whole family.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
Philomusica of Edinburgh make a welcome return to the wonderful acoustic venue St Mark’s Unitarian Church, where they were regular performers in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fun for all the family – a hugely popular, inspirational hour.
Unique showcase of highlights from the Fringe’s best dance, circus and physical theatre shows.
16th sell-out series.
Following last year’s sell-out performance, join Edinburgh trio Curmudgeon for more songs on the old familiar topics of deception, drunkenness (dangers thereof), disappointment and…
This acclaimed big band return to the Fringe for the third time, having previously sold out.
Noted US violist Christine Rutledge returns to Edinburgh to perform her new transcription of Bach’s six cello suites.
Harry and Gary: Eldrich and Knightley.
More and more people don’t want children.
Performed by the award-winning, five-star, Norfolk YMT.
Award-winning pianist Sasa Gerzelj-Donaldson returns to the Fringe for Bach’s French Suite No 5, Medtner’s Fairy Tales and Schumann’s Humoreske.
Come and enjoy an hour of sonatas and partitas by J S Bach for solo violin performed by the Hungarian virtuoso, Tamas Fejes.
This double bill of new writing by Tom Coash brings us to Cairo, where we’re welcomed with dates and hookah pipes.
Now parents and kids can run away to the circus.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2014.
For the fourth year, George, described in the Scotsman as ‘a musician of extraordinary flair and sensitivity’ with his twin sons – now aged 13 – will offer insight into Bach’s …
Come and sit in a cinema and watch two dogs show you their tricks.
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
Uncover the linguistic layers of a Russian doll! Hear yourself in Nastya Rybachuk’s contemporary, provocative and witty verses.
Big Silly Midnight Mash-Up: Hot prospects, special guests and host Andy Stedman. Laugh, drink and get your party hat on.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
Our pick of the best new shows opening at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015. Line-up TBC.
With singers from throughout the UK, 200 young musicians from the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain will perform a wide variety of repertoire on their first visit to the…
If you’re living right, this could happen to you.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.
“He is my father… somehow,” says Ben Norris, cutting to the heart of a feeling many people have at some point in their lives.
Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem on tour; a show for the whole family, you can even bring your granny! Brothers Famous Seamus and Sean-tastic will do…
Take a punt at lunchtime.
Our 21st year as the recognised launch pad for future legends.
Established as one of the best shows on the Fringe. Four different comedians to the earlier show. Two hours, four acts for £10 or less. ‘Top comedy, top value’ (List).
American smart ass showcases the wit that got him described as ‘a mix between Jack Dee and Dennis Leary’ (BroadwayBaby.
The Addams Family is an updated take on the iconic family of twisted misfits that brings the story forward from where it left off.
There’s a very fine line between watching an actual, heart-in-mouth onstage breakdown and one that’s convincingly feigned.
This small group of older singers from the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain will perform a rich variety of works, from the glorious tones of the 15th century Ave Verum …
I’m going to start by dismissing the notion that we’re due something entirely new from Joseph Morpurgo, because such thinking ignores the staggeringly high standards to which t…
Gein’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe once again to showcase their brand of dark sketches.
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…
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
If you’re planning on making the trip to see Baby Wants Candy, get your title suggestions ready now! The audience for his fully improvised musical comedy has barely taken their s…
When you’ve a mouth this big, is it any wonder you get into trouble? The Fringe’s favourite comedian, broadcaster, journalist and chef explains all in a brand new show.
Big Shot is subtitled, “This is not The Godfather”.
Tar Baby is a show caught between two worlds, comedy and drama, poignant and silly, white and black.
Jinkx Monsoon is back with a drag show that’s a follow-up to “The Vaudevillians” of 2013.
(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…
Singer/harpist Magdalena Reising is back with her unique blend of jazz/folk fusion with a hint of tango with her international Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble.
Hailing from Leith, and one of the most potent artists to emerge from the Scottish folk-music revival, Dick Gaughan tells it like it is.
Following 2014’s debut, sell-out family festival, FTF return bigger and better! Hove Park is transformed into a musical wonderland.
Brother and sister, Jack (Durham Revue - ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ - semi-finalist) and Anna (‘Elegant Nymphs’, ‘Bristol Revunions’) find themselves at another bizarre family wed…
Be part of a national project and keep a diary of your day on May 12, then bring your family along to our event on 23 May at The Keep and add your diaries to the Mass Observation A…
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Soak up the swing.
One of Brighton’s best kept secrets, the Sussex Jazz Orchestra is a twenty strong big band playing a choice selection of original and familiar tunes.
Three years since her memorable Goldberg Variations debut, pianist Rachel Fryer returns to St.
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…
The consistently excellent St.
Have you ever had an earth-shatteringly good idea? Phil Buckley hasn’t.
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a special historical tour of Founder Mr Herbert Tennent’s café family history dating back over 90 years.
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.
Join Laura and Jason for an inspirational evening of their live song and music, meditation and chant.
The pews were almost full; swathes had come out to enjoy the mellow sounds of that beautiful instrument, the cello.
Miller Theater’s final concert of the year looks enticing, probing the close relationship between Sofia Gubaidulina and Johann Sebastian Bach.
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 pianist Martin James Bartlett plays Mozart Concerto No.
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman… Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family.
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…
I went to India to discover my Iraqi-Jewish heritage.
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
Get digging for neon-jellycakes, fight mad mosquito armies, put a clothes peg on your nose visiting Café Burp [the smelliest cafe in the world] and help row our boat across shark …
MUSICAL BABBLE For twelve years, MJ Paranzino, composer and director has commissioned New Choral Music for Brighton Fringe.
Our Family Picnic is so much fun we’re holding it twice this year.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
It was chilly in the church.
The Catalan early-music specialist Jordi Savall leads this period-instrument ensemble in a vivacious program of French baroque music by composers including Lully, Couperin, Rameau …
Howard Shore’s score for this blockbuster film trilogy gets the live symphonic treatment at Lincoln Center.
New York’s best comedians honor the memory of Mr.
Molly “Equality” Dykeman, the loveable but barely lucid security guard at PS 339 who dabbles in a bit of poetry, a bit of Percocet and a lot of drink is back with an all-new variet…
(previews start on Feb.
Molly’s North Korea Armageddon Family Hour features zombies, giant sink holes, Kim Jong Un and a glitzy array of NY hottest stars! Pack your survival gear and hide your ladies ca…
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…
It’s about time an ensemble chose Haydn’s exhilarating music for holiday fare.
Emmy Blotnick invites two headlining comics to perform 30-minute sets. This month’s guests are Adam Newman and Gary Gulman.
The nimble French star soprano Natalie Dessay sings highlights from Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” alongside the countertenor Christophe Dumaux in a concert p…
The superb organist Paul Jacobs won acclaim early on when in 2000, at 23, he played the complete organ works of Bach in a marathon to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the compose…
“Metamorphosis” is the theme of the latest edition of the Big Apple Circus, now nested at Lincoln Center for the holidays.
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 …
Critically acclaimed prolific songwriter, Ivor Novello Award winner, recipient of BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 20 Guitarists of Al…
Wake up to Bach and a little Shostakovich in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Bach to Baby is the critically-acclaimed classical concert series for babies and their carers to enjoy together.
Come and join us for a show of classic big band music played by this popular band.
Bach’s organ music shows a wealth of foreign stimuli, but it is arguably Italy’s composers and style that made the greatest impression on him.
Enjoy a relaxing evening in an intimate venue with a selection of solo and chamber works ranging from Vivaldi to Shostakovich.
‘You will have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ writes International Record Review of the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral.
A musically intoxicating evening for all.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Luca Villani certainly gives you plenty of Bach for your buck.
Settle back and enjoy ‘a big night in with the Silver Darlings’.
Scotsman Richard Michael leads his talented family on piano with his daughters Hilary Michael on violin and saxophone, Joanna Duncan on violin and xylophone, and nephew Paul Michae…
Franz Tunder (1614-67) was Organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck and one of the most important composers in the north German school of organ composition.
An original musical based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; a grotesque allegory of the American Dream.
Four hands - one piano - Bach chorales - Kurtag - Frank Zappa.
A varied and exciting mainly Bach programme: Concerto in E major BWV 1053 with pianist Richard Beauchamp, Cantata BWV 54 with alto Carole Clarke, Orchestral Suite No.
We’re back with another bumper-length show for a fantastic cause! Hosted by Jo Caulfield, this comedy extravaganza gives you a chance to preview a selection of this year’s top …
Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West with a programme of popular piano favourites by Bach and Chopin.
The choir was founded by Arthur Sutton in 1994 and has performed in Scotland and Germany and we are proud to perform in Edinburgh as a testimony to his vision of two decades ago.
With Fringe sell-out show awards and an appearance in the Guinness Book of Records to their name, Jon Ritchie’s Swing Sensation Big Band makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Fri…
See Wonderland like you’ve never heard it.
For a second year Edinburgh singer-songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together to perform her songs influenced by the song writing traditions of the American Songboo…
Direct from Melbourne, Australia, The Perch Creek Family Jugband are a band of five energetic multi-instrumentalists and vocalists, four of whom happen to be siblings.
At Death Cafés people come together in a relaxed and safe setting to discuss death, drink tea and eat cake.
The accomplished London-based cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and Edinburgh pianist Chris Harding play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamben Sonatas and Brahms’ magnificent Cel…
This accomplished London-based cellist returns once again to the Fringe to perform the six cello suites over three days. Come and enjoy a rarely heard, not to be missed experience.
Fifteenth sell-out series.
The Word Café presents a line-up of stand-up poets, spoken word artists and musicians, which varies from day to day.
A Historical Family Walk starting from Edinburgh Castle, finishing at the Sottish Parliament by travelling down the Royal Mile with a guide.
The Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra returns to the Fringe with a popular programme of English and French Music.
Over the last three years George has performed the six trio sonatas, explored the keys of C minor and G major and minor.
Following more packed houses at Melbourne, Brighton and Adelaide Festivals, the comedy and cabaret show returns to Edinburgh.
American improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy are among the most familiar veterans of the Fringe.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
After many years giving solo recitals at STAGS, Geoffrey is joined in this special year by friends old and new: singers Lesley Bruce and Elizabeth Woollven, pianists Alan Graham an…
Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling.
We offer a chance to discuss the Independence Referendum with people who want to both listen and talk about the issues and raise questions.
Sumptuously celebrating the golden age of shipboard romance, while forging full steam into the future, Scotland’s premier swing sensation The Loveboat Big Band invite you aboard …
Scotland’s ‘crack group of British early-musickers’ (New York Times) perform their popular annual concert of JS Bach’s magnificent B Minor Mass, with four stellar soloists, period …
Dean Friedman shot to fame in the late 70’s with the American hit Ariel in ‘77 and then Lucky Stars which made it to no.
Take two Radio 4 poets, Matt Harvey: ‘.
Cabaret compendium drawn from the best dance, physical theatre and circus shows on the Fringe.
In a world where World War Two never took place, an Austrian politician by the name of Adolf Hitler enters the Big Brother house.
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
DiapasonG choir from Bolzano, northern Italy performing a wide range of music.
A celebration of human flaws.
Every weekend little festival fans take over the site – join us for free family activities with CBBC and CBeebies favourites.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2013.
Thankfully, there was no combination of singing and acupuncture.
Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter and a ‘national musical treasure’ (Sing Out, USA) who has developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots based songwritin…
In coming to write this show I believed my job would be as easy as pie.
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
‘Amazingly jaw dropping, extraordinarily brilliant’ (Fest Magazine).
Café Ruse is a kooky, energetic piece of theatre that’s quite unlike anything else I’ve seen on the Fringe.
Our pick of the best new shows and breakthrough performances from the Edinburgh Festivals 2014.
Uncle Alan’s unveiling of the family tree shook up a hornet’s nest of secrets and shame! Directed by Colin Hoult, regular guest on Talksport, LBC Radio and one third of 2014’s AAA …
Following more packed houses at Melbourne, Brighton and Adelaide Festivals, the comedy and cabaret show returns to Edinburgh.
Ole! Babies, toddlers and mummies gather together to tap, clap and shake to a delightful mixture of flamenco, puppets, storytelling and song.
Big Value Comedy Show (Early) promises two hours of comedy gold with four young stars of tomorrow.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! Parents and under fives are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Come and join us for lunchtime laughs at a special Big Value bargain sized ticket price.
Established as one of the most exciting shows at the Fringe, Big Value brings you the best of the breakthrough talent.
Adapted from the popular children’s book of the same name, Big Red Bath is Full House’s offering for younger children at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe (The Snow Dog is their show f…
Kudos to any improv troupe for even attempting the month-long exercise in uphill walking and sleep-deprivation that is the Fringe.
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has been running in various iterations since 1988, with an ever-changing roster of extremely short “plays.
The Addams Family is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
Even though this isn’t Baby Wants Candy’s headline show at the Fringe, you would still expect much more from such a highly regarded group.
Is your family nuts like mine? Ever wondered what’s really going on in your family? Through exuberant, poignant songs and stories, New York Times and BBC featured comedian/singer…
Ali James, George Kemp and John Oakes comprise Giraffe, a hysterical sketch comedy trio bent on filling an hour of your lives with their own brand of hilarious original comedy.
Little tent.
For those who run at the mere mention of the phrase ‘musical comedy’, this sketch show is for you.
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
This is a show about poo.
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
First of all, let’s get it out of the way, DO NOT go to this show with your mother.
After the success of ‘League of St George’ last year, Bricks and Mortar Theatre are back with their second Edinburgh Fringe production Barge Baby.
In the mid-1990s, Randy Newman’s song cycle about a contemporary deal with the Devil was staged in Los Angeles and Chicago, but never made it to Broadway.
Featuring some of the best music evoking the 1940s including ‘The Dambusters March’, ‘We’ll Meet Again’ plus many more popular pieces to commemorate the events of 6 June 1944, in t…
As part of its annual Beethoven Institute, Mannes College The New School for Music presents two intriguing faculty concerts that will juxtapose chamber and piano works by Beethoven…
This internationally renowned Chicago troupe performs a completely improvised, hourlong musical.
8 hours of funky fun for all the family! Keep the kids happy and the grownups smiling at this seaside festival.
The gleefully irreverent Gein’s Family Giftshop bring their warped world vision to Brighton Fringe, having honed their skills on the North West comedy circuit.
Singer/harpist Magdalena Reising is back with her unique blend of jazz/folk fusion with her international Blue Cafe Jazz Ensemble.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
An atmospheric candlelit cafe-style setting for the captivating vocals and harp of Magdalena Reising with the impeccable musicianship and versatility of Loius Durra (piano) and Gra…
Exploding drag, gender, queer shame and otherness, La Bouche is a human barely understood, born into a universe where conformity is key.
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
Catch the Tiger Lillies on their 25th anniversary world tour and celebrate their unique anarchic Brechtian blues.
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
Jason Stampe is Kind of a big deal.
Ambassadors Theatre: 20th May 7pm.
Love talking about books? Writing your own? For writers: come along to the morning session to seek advice and share experiences with fellow aspiring novelists and a panel of indust…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Awarded Best Children’s Show of Brighton Fringe 2006, ‘Shoe Baby’ is a magical puppet show! A fantastical sing-a-long adventure with a baby who takes to the sea, the air and the zo…
An extravaganza of imaginative themed and extravagantly costumed figure drawing with music accompaniment.
Ben, aged 7, got upset one evening and drew dots on some kitchen towel instead of going to bed.
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances, Puccini and Giordano Operatic Arias, Puccini Crisantemi, Neapolitan Songs, Rossini String Sonata in G.
Hear the thrilling big band sound of 18-piece jazz ensemble Straight No Chaser as they perform original music from their latest CD: Navigation alongside a new piece commissioned fo…
Geoffrey Mead, Brighton’s best known tour guide, will be conducting a special historical tour of founder Mr Herbert Tennent’s Cafe family history, dating back over 90 years.
This organization, with an excellent track record of recognizing new talent, showcases three of its gifted musicians at its annual gala.
Do you like family? Do you like values? Then get ready to see a comedian with no awards to his name break your disappointment hymen.
Fringe sell-out 2012/13.
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.
Join us for a Late Breakfast of international award-winning new plays.
Sketch group Clever Peter (BBC Radio 4) return with brand-new sketches and old favourites in a fun-packed hour of comedy.
One of Brighton’s best kept secrets, the SJO is a twenty strong jazz big band conducted by Mark Bassey.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! DJ Monski Mouse and her team bring high energy smiling in a fabulous retro music and dance event for parents and children under 5.
Have your flags at the ready as the Roedean Community musicians sweep you away with ‘Pomp and Circumstance’, ‘Zadok the Priest’, ‘Rule Britannia’, Elgar’s ‘Sea Pictures’, ‘Nimrod’ …
Join us for a family picnic in Pavilion Gardens.
Friends of the Pavilion Garden’s Café invite you to celebrate the Café’s 70+ years.
This smart, heartfelt and emotionally exhausting work by the devised-theater company CollaborationTown heaves you into the most intimate moments of family life.
This estimable organization presents the cellist Cicely Parnas, accompanied by Noreen Polera, in a program featuring Debussy’s Sonata for cello and piano and works by Brahms,…
Big Jay Oakerson brings his crowd-work show to the Comedy Cellar’s second room, with appearances by Dave Attell, Dan Soder, Luis J. Gomez and others.
The composer Joan Tower welcomes the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble for an evening of conversation between performance of her music and works by Bach.
‘BABY/LON’, the second work by Hackney-based theatre company The Big House, is a big story; one of homelessness, violence, motherhood on the lowest rungs of society and the strug…
THRILLER LIVE is a spectacular concert created to celebrate the career of the world’s greatest entertainer.
Max Silvestri hosts this long-running and incredibly popular stand-up show, which always has a well-curated mix of up-and-comers and established headliners.
Paula Vogel’s 1984 play gets a high-spirited but numbing revival, with its central conceit — grown-ups loudly mimicking three imaginary children before a real one arriv…
“Everyone is Welcome – No Exceptions” is the motto of Rachel’s Café in Bloomington, Indiana, a university town with a liberal and artistic ambience and pretensions.
In his hugely popular free show Think Big, Yianni sets out his ambition to sell-out the biggest venue at the Fringe, have Michael ‘HackIntyre’ open for him and to enter the stage ‘…
Elgar concert overture, In the South (Alassio), Mozart Piano Concerto No.
The internationally renowned Quartetto Energie Nove plays an afternoon concert at the Fringe! Works by Beethoven and Debussy.
Big band hits to make your weekend go with a swing.
Bach arranged many of his own works (and other composers’) for the organ.
The EIO return to the Fringe with another exciting and innovative programme.
The Quartetto Energie Nove play an exciting programme, including the masterpiece Death and the Maiden from Franz Schubert.
The Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra is a self-run orchestra for 14-24 year olds, but this was no school concert: the playing was of the highest level.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
The internationally-renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral pays homage to composer Kenneth Leighton, who died 25 years ago this August.
Perth Youth Orchestra performs at home and abroad but this is its Fringe debut.
Spread over four evenings, John Bryden’s consummate performance of the Well-Tempered Clavier’s second book is the perfect way to unwind after a frantic day at the Fringe.
The critically acclaimed Choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral present a programme of choral, secular and instrumental music.
Combining some of Bach’s most popular music with a few lesser-known pieces, the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh provided a hint at the composer’s stylistic breadth by performing a refre…
Veterans of the folk music scene, North Sea Gas, return to the fringe after four previous sell-out runs.
This lunchtime concert at Canongate Kirk was packed and it was no wonder.
Enjoy oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song in the relaxed ambience of the Storytelling Cafe.
Enjoy oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song in the relaxed ambience of the Storytelling Café.
Up until the 20th century, with a few notable exceptions, the cello was seen as decidedly inferior to the violin.
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
The accomplished cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer returns to the Fringe with Bach’s great masterworks for solo violoncello.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
The accomplished cellist Anne-Isabel Meyer and pianist Peter Croser play three consecutive concerts of Bach’s Gamba sonatas and Brahms’ magnificent cello sonatas.
Fourteenth sell-out series.
Bach for Breakfast is one of a number of mealtime-based concerts at Overseas House.
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
The Boy with Tape on his Face - ‘Amazing’ (Scotsman), hosts pick-of-the-fringe 2011 and 2012 show.
Hosted by Roy Walker (ITV’s Catchphrase).
A Family Beyond The Army shines a human and compassionate light on the many men and women who hold families and daily lives together awaiting news of their loved one far away.
Hungarian virtuoso Tamas Fejes is a delight to listen to.
Thanks to their eager adoption by Pau Casals during the early decades of the 20th century, Bach’s cello suites have grown to become a crucial pillar of the classical pantheon, even…
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom is influenced by the songwriting traditions of the American Songbook, 60s psychedelia, Richard Thompson and rock’n’roll.
Organs.
Students of Baby Wants Candy’s Improv Fringe Intensive strut their stuff in this showcase performance! To find out more or register for the award-winning BWC’s 4-day Improv Intensi…
Scotland’s finest singer-songwriter, internationally renowned for his classic ‘Caledonia’ and ‘Last of the Mohicans’ soundtrack.
Describing himself as a ‘troubadour’ musician, Dougie MacLean returns to the Fringe Festival for the twentieth consecutive year with his classic folk sounds.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Commissioned by a devoutly Catholic prince and covering the whole range of the Church’s liturgy, the Mass in B minor could be seen as something of an anomaly, for it was composed b…
Doogie Paul may not be the most familiar name in music, but amongst those who know him, both directly and indirectly, he is spoken of with a great deal of admiration.
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
Five ridiculously talented musicians, one award-winning comedian and an audience of all ages - this is going to be fun.
Cabaret compendium drawn from the best shows on the Fringe.
The Grammy nominated Olivier award winners return.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
The award-winning interactive installation and fully-functioning cafe returns! Food, service and business are all presented as art with guest waiters, themed days and the sensation…
Yianni’s optimism and trademark nerdiness combine for a show that is refreshingly devoid of cynicism.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Early afternoon gigs are generally seen as low-profile, low-quality slots in the hierarchy of festival scheduling, but sometimes they can hide events that definitely shouldn’t be…
Showstoppers’ spontaneous musical sensation has been a fringe success for many years and the family hour show is no different.
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
Foghorn’s delicious blend of comedy leaves adults awestruck and kids captivated.
Are you a big spoon or more of a little spoon type of person? Come see this stand-up show from two spoon enthusiasts.
Held in one of Edinburgh’s most vibrant and dynamic nightclubs, Electric Circus, Baby Loves Disco is no ordinary disco and describing it as such would be a huge disservice.
“I wuv you” murmured a girl on the dance floor as she collapsed into a boy’s arms.
It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’…
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.
An early afternoon, discount show with another four of the hottest unknown acts on the first step of the ladder to success.
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
Gein’s Family Giftshop is a collection of short stories performed in rapid succession by James, Ed and Cath.
Moving Family is a play written by Paul Charlton, the Geordie from The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek.
Let’s get the obvious joke out of the way first: this show is certainly value for money.
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons and countless more world-wide were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men - S…
The first truly laugh-out-loud-funny show I have seen at The Fringe, The Big Value Comedy Show is definitely worth the ticket price.
Our 18th year as the recognised launchpad for future legends, featuring four top comedians.
Consisting of four different acts each night, Big Value Comedy Late seeks to bring its audience variety and humour in equal measure whilst also giving them a sample of some of the …
If you are over 35 or simply want to hear how middle-aged life is a going to be a blood-stained nightmare, then this is the show for you; for anyone else, sit tight for an uncomfor…
Most of us remember our early teenage years with a mixture of mortification and despair, but then again, most of us don’t have the ability to translate our stories into devilishl…
It seems Will Franken has set himself an impossible task.
Several years ago, John Osborne got a job teaching at a summer school in the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset.
Does My Face Look Big In This is a one-woman show with Caroline Hardie, a relatable, witty and energetic comedian.
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
This delightfully daft and silly send-up of ‘50s film noir is gleefully performed in one of the oddest venue spaces I’ve come across.
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
There’s a cacophony of noise and vision: music belts out, a woman is talking, a curious Pan-like creature reads, there are screens and shadows and it all feels very up close and pe…
Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.
It is a rarity for a Fringe show to give away freebies, so being offered a coffee and a croissant at the Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show was a pleasant surprise.
Don’t come for the breakfast.
The Big Bite-Size Play Factory’s Family Creatures may seem an impenetrable sort of name but early into watching this show it became apparent that this was a sketch show intended …
Bach before breakfast is a rather lovely, if bleary way to start the day.
There’s no better way to start a busy day at the Fringe than with coffee, a croissant, a strawberry and a host of well performed, highly amusing short plays.
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
Future Perfect is a writers’ collective that in several formations organise readings of their own work.
Kev Orkian of Britain’s Got Talent! fame has toured the world and performed for royalty.
There is something uniquely wonderful about Plane Food Café that makes it a perfect fit for the Fringe.
It should be no surprise that I am not the only unaccompanied adult at Little Howard’s Big Show.
Hello Sailor.
Who doesnt want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is …
Same old story, remarks Lucille Goldberg as she discusses her familys past.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Like tightrope walking over the Niagara Falls, Baby Wants Candy is an ambitious concept: either it works or it ends up six miles downstream.
Like a bit of ragtime? Classic tunes from 1912? Henry Mancini ballads in four-part harmony? You’d be in luck with the animated stylings of the Sussex Harmonisers, a nearly 50-…
Two puppets, Lucia and Scot, both love Flamenco dancing, but Scot just can’t find his flamenco rhythm.
I approached “Big Boys Don’t Dance” with trepidation.
This picture-book musical follows a young orphan girl who casts off her mourning clothes and warms the hearts of those around her.
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
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…
Two years ago Richard Tyrone Jones a healthy, gym-going, performance poet was diagnosed with chronic heart failure on the eve of his thirtieth birthday.
There is much to commend in Bob Karpers new one-man show at Zoo.
‘Be my, be my baby’ - since seeing Stagecraft Productions’ performance of this Amanda Whittington play these lyrics have been in my head on a permanent loop.
When it comes to unusual instruments, the harp probably is somewhere in the top 5.
These two Jesus loving friends are here from across the pond on a mission, to raise money to help a little boy with terminal cancer.
You could be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme’s description of singer-songwriter Dean Friedman as ‘legendary’: one single that peaked at #2…
Raise the Roof started IYAF 2013 with a bang.
This concert bore all the hallmarks of a homecoming gig, except that very few people actually seemed to know any of MacLean’s songs.
The Tony Award winning musical revue Smokey Joe’s comes to the Fringe care of Tempo Productions, a native Amateur company with a long history of presenting musicals.
This play is set in England, but in some kind of frightening, futuristic police state.
Sometimes a title of a show can be so specific in its subject matter that it can pull the audience in and deliver exactly what they expect to see.
The morning recital at the Royal Over-Seas Legion was exquisite and perhaps proves once and for all that there is a great deal of truth in the old housewives saying that ‘the ear…
A Parisian café concert in an imposing cathedral, the largest ecclesiastical building in Scotland no less, is an interesting idea and one that, by and large, works.
There are 21 Richard Thompsons listed in Wikipedia, including a Conservative baronet, a racing driver and a Warner Bros animator.
Gein’s Family Giftshop adopts a very particular style of dark humour.
This show was put together by comedian, composer & filmmaker Lauren Maul.
There’s a difference between absurdist theatre and ridiculous theatre.
A gloriously British summer afternoon, sipping tea and eating scones; the perfect setting for The Big Bite-Size Vintage Tea Party.
Smile and Nod are a sunny, engaging college improv group from California, whose show California Beach Bungalow is confident, slick and imaginative.
26-song set divided into two parts in the tall St Cuthbert’s church (which included tea and biscuits at the interval) provided a nostalgic throwback to the 1920s, 30s and early …
Two Brits, one Yank, one Arab and few laughs.
The choir of St.
The Night of the Big Wind is an innovative puppetry performance inspired by the book of the same title, written by Peter Carr.
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.
This is the European debut of Anthony J.
This comedy a cappella troupe is fast becoming one of the biggest sellers of this year’s festival.
Alternative theatre doesn’t get more frantic than this irreverent ancestral comedy from Caligula’s Alibi Theatre Company.
This concert had a programme of instantly recognisable pieces that will no doubt be in the CD or LP collections of most of those present.
I imagine as a children’s performer you’re probably prepared for a great deal.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Big Project’s children’s choir returns for its third year at the Fringe, and if you’ve got children who love nothing more than to sing-a-long to chart toppers this is the…
This show suffers from a major conceptual problem.
Brendon Burns is forty-one.
Packed into a crowded, stuffy room in the turrets of Teviot, Ruaraidh Murray gives a schizophrenic performance in a production that’s somewhere between a play and stand-up comedy.
‘Sorry I dropped the knives a couple of times,’ Perico Circus Express winces.
An impressive and beautiful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s music, performed with great talent by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra.
Rob Rouse, winner of ‘So you think you’re funny?’ in 1998, returns to Edinburgh with his new show ‘My family.
Six actors take turns playing a beachcomber while the rest watch, amused and concerned.
Hurrah! My days of reviewing theatre are over; I’m now a food critic! These were my thoughts en route to the new pop-up Hunt and Darton Café on St Mary’s Street.
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…
When your lineup is three unheard-of comedians, and your venue is the Gilded Balloon’s tiny “Wee Room”, calling your show ‘The Big Comedy Showcase’ is actually a pretty s…
The first thing that was instantly noticeable about this ensemble was its intelligent manipulation of the acoustics of the St Mary’s Cathedral to create appropriate sounds for th…
Warzycki proves that having a disability is no hindrance to virtuosic piano playing.
Professor Kaos exclaims truimphantly that he has the ‘most popular show in the Fringe!’ and with good cause.
Showstoppers have been improvising musicals for several years now and an edited version has had a series on BBC Radio 4.
I have faint memories of being taken to a children’s dance and movement class when I was about two.
Sospiro Baroque are an Edinburgh-based choir specialising in Baroque music.
Nick Cope is the children’s singer-songwriter who brings acoustic, folky indie rock to the under-fives.
Ranking amongst the best Scotland has to offer in folk-rock, The Picts come to the Fringe with a concert show that moves and excites in equal measure.
Baby is Malty & Shires 1983 musical set on a college campus following nine months of three different couples attempting to have a child.
The Baby Diary, a new comic play by Emily Watson Howes first seen on BBC Online, seems to have a lot going for it at first.
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
This all-female cast often talk of their men, the ones who knocked them up or cast them out, and yet not much depends on them and no responsibility is placed at their feet.
The spectacular Virgin Money Fireworks Concert brings together unforgettable orchestral classics from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and fireworks specially choreographed by inter…
Bach Concerto in G minor BWV 1058 Italian Concerto BWV 971Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 In a very special six-concert series at International Festival 2019, some of today’s most…
Bach Concerto in C for three harpsichords BWV 1064 Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV 1050Concerto in D minor for three harpsichords BWV 1063 Italian Concerto (arranged for four…
Bach Concerto in D major BWV 1054Suite in E flat BWV 819Fantasia in C minor BWV 906Concerto in C minor for two harpsichords BWV 1060 Some of today’s finest harpsichordists join …
Bach Concerto in D minor BWV 1059R (reconstructed by Mahan Esfahani)Toccata in D minorConcerto in F major BWV 1057 The second of six concerts in the International Festival’s com…
Bach Fantasia in A minor BWV 904/1Concerto in A major BWV 1055Prelude in F BWV 809/1Concerto in F minor BWV 1056Concerto in C major for two harpsichords BWV 1061 Two of Germany’…
Bach Concerto in E major BWV 1053Toccata in D major BWV 912Concerto in C minor for two harpsichords BWV 1062 A charismatic, captivating musician, Richard Egarr – currently Music…
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
James Macfarlane chats with Dominique Salerno about her debut Fringe show The Box Show, the relationship between creativity and constraint and just what she gets up to in that box.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
‘There are very few things that are universal.
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.
Are you excited about Brighton Fringe yet? We are! And with 988 Brighton Fringe shows and events now listed on Broadway Baby you've found the right place for the best coverage of t...
We don’t know quite how big the 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be this year quite yet – the final number’s a closely guarded secret until the official press launch in Ju...
The internationally celebrated dance company BalletBoyz have announced that they will be taking part in ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge’ from noon on Tuesday 29 November to n...
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
Meet the Media is an annual pitch-fest run by the Fringe Society, giving Edinburgh shows the chance to meet the Broadway Baby team.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
Broadway Baby, one of the longest-established theatre sites on the internet, has named Bethan Troakes as its Brighton Editor.
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ...
Our first Bobby Award of the year goes to the inimitable Luke McQueen, whose playful and genre-breaking show Double Act wowed our comedy editor, Martin Walker, and t...
Special guest Pete Shaw, Publisher of Broadway Baby, joins James T Harding and Grace Knight for ice cream and the second episode of Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Join Broadway Baby Features Team James T Harding and Grace C Knight for the very first ever of all time Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Broadway Baby doesn't often discuss movies, but when the film in question is one of the most hotly anticipated stage musical adaptations of all time (and when the good folk at Disn...
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Broadway Baby are thrilled to introduce a new regular date for West End Wendys and Dagenham Divas.
Broadway Baby's Twitter account has moved to the shorter, more appropriate home of @broadwaybaby - if you were already following us, you don't need to re-follow as you'll auto...
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