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.
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…
When it comes to relationships, Shinanne is all about the D.
In this work-in-progress show, Baby Belle’s slightly less glamorous sibling Jax Braithwaite will unwrap the experience of Dealing with Tricky Feelings.
One family, one condition, one hell of a hairy baby.
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.
From Hillsborough to Grenfell, the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the Miners’ Strike, hear the inspiring tales of 30 years of social justice campaigns.
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.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
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.
Sir Dickie is the last Hollywood hellraiser.
Following last year’s debut Topical Comedian Show at the Fringe, Peter Merrett is back with more news, in fact new news; same venue, earlier time.
Naomi Paul’s (mostly) Jewish show! From the Baltic to Birmingham, from shamash to shellfish, to Hendon and beyond.
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…
Jukebox musical about what life was like growing up in 70s Edinburgh.
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…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
A trawl through the bemused and bewildered mind of a middle-aged teenager coming to terms with aging, technology and reading glasses.
Grace Mulvey wants to be a human adult who has fun.
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.
In the summer of ‘99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
Patti returns to Edinburgh following sell-out runs in 2022-23.
Character Building Experience is a Dungeons-and-Dragons-style comedic interactive roleplaying game show, suitable for the experts, the novices and the uninitiated-but-curious.
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 …
A performance in French Building or the ordinary madness of the corporate world gone wrong.
BUILDING INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS & THE ARTIST AS CULTURAL DIPLOMAT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-Executive directors of the Pan-Afric…
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…
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.
Naomi Wattis is a stand up comic from London.
In the summer of ’99, six-year-old Vlad played a game of chess that changed his life forever.
‘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.
Jamie Osman and Tom Hollings are two old friends who after over thirty combined years in the music industry decided to challenge their relationships with alcohol and dru…
Jamie Osman and Tom Hollings are two old friends who after over thirty combined years in the music industry decided to challenge their relationships with alcohol and dru…
Making your dreams come true.
An original musical love story of one couple’s determination to survive after being forced into a Jewish concentration camp, enduring the unimaginable horrors of WW2.
Junior, a queer sex worker in Hastings is suffering from PTSD.
Junior is a queer sex worker in Hastings suffering from PTSD.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
The must-see comedy of 2023 hits London this Christmas.
Time travel as a sci-fi trope is fascinating and presents us with endless possibilities and frontiers.
What’s wrong with reality? Why do we feel the need to escape it? From its very beginning theatre has offered audiences a chance to escape the world and enter …
In a lab on a spaceship orbiting desecrated earth, two scientists run a failing experiment in procreation.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum presents the 11th annual Scottish Traditional Building Festival by bringing you 12 information-packed shows for those who love, care for, o…
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.
Hot Dub Time Machine is the World’s First Time Travelling DJ, a global festival smash-hit and the best party ever! Hot Dub has broken dance floors at sold-out shows all over the …
Join us in a sensational visual performance from an object-theatre master.
Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can't See Our Noses may be in the running for the Fringe’s wackiest title and the show itself is an equally pl…
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
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 …
Great folk songs of the 60s from Paxton, Dylan, Mitchell, Lightfoot, Collins, Baez, Denver, Simon and more from the Other Great American Songbook.
If with if and a washing machine We walk through it to the mood Have a scene which would bring if with if And take a look at the part you devoted to What is the difference betwee…
If with if and a washing machine We walk through it to the mood Have a scene which would bring if with if And take a look at the part you devoted to What is the difference betwee…
It’s hard to imagine that any show called, in full, A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me could be weirder or more fun than it sounds.
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.
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.
Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and bu…
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…
Sex shops, Robodebt, and roller coasters! ‘Unfailingly funny’ **** (Artshub.
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.
A jukebox musical of what life was like for Jim growing up in 70s Edinburgh.
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.
It’s Naomi Paul’s (mostly) Jewish show! From the Baltic to Birmingham, from shamash to shellfish, from Hendon and beyond.
Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals.
You enter a tavern.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
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.
Ciarán Bartlett is Belfast’s premier musical comedian, known for rapid fire caustic punchlines, filthy songs and mad stories.
Following 2022’s sell-out Edinburgh run, cult-comedy icon Patti Harrison (I Think You Should Leave, The Lost City) returns with an hour of comedy that refuses to be categorized.
I’ve never laughed so much at a someone else’s shortcomings in my life.
When Cirque du Soleil offer you a Las Vegas residency as the first comedian to perform with them, you don’t say no.
Ole John Hastings here, God’s favourite comedian, Fringe regular and public urinator (by circumstance and never choice) has returned with a maximum nonsense and mega-lols show.
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.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
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.
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
Dave Bibby “madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer” (BROADWAY WORLD) is back with a hilarious show about parenthood and dinosaurs.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The first rule of Age Against The Machine: ‘Don’t tell the kids’.
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.
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
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If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
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…
“Recently handpicked by Fred Armisen to be his opener, Josh Weller is a failed musician turned comedian.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows LEGS & LOGS) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
You enter a tavern.
‘…one of the most important events I have seen…’ - Damian Todres, Wells Cathedral School‘…it was stunning and has left an incredible impression …
The Dream Machine is a long-form improv show, based around audience suggestions.
Alice is drowning under misguided medical advice, chirpy Insta-announcements and yet another fucking miscarriage.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
Connect Festival presents iconic rock band Rage Against the Machine who will play their first Scottish headline show in 14 years on the site of Connect Festival at Edinburgh’s Ro…
Set to the last tour of the Tragically Hip, They’ve All Gone and We’ll Go Too explores what it means to be Canadian in an American world, how music can save your life and how the u…
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
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.
Josh Weller is a failed musician turned comedian.
Josh Weller is a failed musician turned comedian.
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.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for an epic session of bonkers, bopping, beautiful fun.
Back for its 10th year this show bounces with energy.
Laurel and Chaplin: Before They Were Famous.
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.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
You enter a tavern.
We all love a good story.
UK Pun finalist and writer of one of Dave’s Best Jokes of the Fringe, Roger Swift resurfaces into the post-lockdown world with an updated version of his whirlwind roller-coaster …
Watch in amazement as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device: the Perpetual Hype Machine.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
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.
A victorian inventor is flung into the distant future where he discovers a seemingly peaceful society; But when his precious Time Machine is stolen the fraught Traveller must place…
'Hello! What time do you call this?' A friendly voice called out to the audience as we entered the Rotunda performance space.
“I am young, I am naive, I am filled with .
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.
Sam Delaney and Andy Dawson have converted their nonsense podcast into a grand theatrical experience once again, with some of the most popular characters and features fr…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
The debut event at the new BOLD Elephant venue, What They Forgot To Tell Us (and other stories) is an immersive promenade theatre experience about the power of stories.
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 …
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.
Designed specifically to be experienced with headphones, alone, with the lights off and the curtains drawn, Covid Lockdown Breath Machine is a fantastical, transformative and uplif…
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.
A hyper-reality show portraying the daily life of a cam girl in a Barbie-land gone wrong.
Three couples have signed up for private antenatal classes.
Tom ‘The Haircut’ Ward is back.
Tom ‘The Haircut’ Ward is back.
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
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.
Family fun, dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
“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 two hour introductory workshop for self-producing artists and others interested in producing.
The Dream Machine: ‘Making your dreams come true’.
Since 1977 the London International Mime Festival has been showcasing the best in visual theatre with venues all around the capital.
A woman tries to reconcile her identity as a Canadian-born child of British parents living in the United States while she desperately tries to score a ticket to the final show of C…
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
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.
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.
Linda, Brian and Nelly are new to the neighbourhood, everything seems perfect.
Andy Dawson and Sam Delaney’s highly-acclaimed podcast is finally reimagined as a theatrical experience.
In 2016 we lost Prince, one of the most prolific and controversial musical icons of all time.
Do you love Georgian architecture? Come and join Graham Hickey, Conservation Director of the Dublin Civic Trust, for a fascinating lecture exploring the architectural development o…
Join us for a unique tour of Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, lead by the British Geological Survey, and learn more about the stones that were used to build Edinburgh! Walk with us …
Four people.
A talk by Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on their approach for maintaining your traditional building throughout the year.
Riddled Image have been invited to a funeral, but something quickly becomes clear when they arrive: the funeral is for one of them.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
This year’s hottest product has just hit the city.
"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…
The Heresy Machine, by Seth Majnoon, claims to be about Alan Turing.
Join us for a magical, marvellous hour of songs from your favourite movie musicals including Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and some Disney classics.
Fringe sell-out ten years running! The original family dance party is back, bigger and better than ever.
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 …
Join Mia, Jacus, Twinkle and their nursery rhyme friends at the world premiere of a brand new live show.
The rising cult comic presents a show for those without hope, looking for some.
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.
Shang is back for its eighth year.
How To Use A Washing Machine is a charming two-hander from emerging company Slam Theatre.
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.
UK Pun finalist and writer of one of Dave’s Best Jokes of the Fringe, Roger Swift returns with his whirlwind rollercoaster ride of non-stop corny jokes, puns, one-liners, wordpla…
Skylar MacDonald loves facts.
You enter a tavern.
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 …
There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
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.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
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.
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…
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.
Direct from sold-out performances in Hollywood & New York and an extended run in San Francisco, Canal Café and Blue Panther Productions are proud to present American actor Steve B…
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…
A show about life.
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.
A combination of clowning, stand-up, storytelling and gameplay that gives the audience the opportunity to create the ultimate relationship ‘to do list’.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
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…
Simon (played by Mark Brailsford) is definitely not going to Russia.
New parent? You’re probably in need of a laugh.
Family fun dancing and socialising for 0 - 5s and their grown-ups.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
I was interested in the credentials of the performer of The Vein, the Fingerprint Machine and the Automatic Speed Detector, whose intense manner and air of authenticity was captiva…
A gentle and immersive multisensory experience.
The Time Machine From the creators of Orlando, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Austen’s Women, Christmas Gothic, Dalloway, I, Elizabeth, The Unremarkable Death of Mar…
Winner of Brighton Fringe’s Best New Play Award 2018 and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence, Passionate Machine is a hilarious and searingly honest story about obses…
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…
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
"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…
Mary, Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart.
Starring Steve Coogan and John C.
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…
Deep in the remote snowy forest an icy wind blows and snowflakes fall from the sky.
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.
Fresh from their sold-out, five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe, join multi-award-winning duo, Zak Ghazi-Torbati & Toby Marlow (co-writer of SIX), for the cabaret comedy extra…
Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’.
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…
The cows that made the milk that went into your tea or your cereal this morning might be housed all-year round in large sheds.
The Time Traveller dedicates his life to creating a time machine in an attempt to alter the moment of his greatest loss.
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.
Porky’s back at the Free Fringe and in rare form after two UK tours supporting The Lovely Eggs as well as his alter ego Phill Jupitus, whom he’s not really that fond of.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
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.
Back for its seventh year at the Fringe! Shang is back! This is life growing up in 70s Scotland.
A show about life.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
After their multi award-winning debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the hot gays are back.
Join us on a thrilling journey to a future age where things are not as they seem.
‘The day I’ve been dreading arrives.
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.
The only winner of the Best Show and Best Newcomer Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns for an encore of his 2017 critically acclaimed hit.
Ben Pope is an award-winning comedian and cosmopolitan mammal.
Sex.
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.
“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.
There are a worrying number of ‘ists’ in society today – racists, sexists, even fascists – who’d have thought they’d make such a comeback?! For her debut Edinburgh show, …
Power? Sex? Control? Part Two: Baby, the Barbie doll-playing prostitute, becomes more and more a doll herself.
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…
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…
‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ and ‘Amused Moose Laugh Off’ finalist AJ Roberts debuts his solo show.
Remember P.
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.
Yes, I’m a millennial.
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…
Step right down for a debauched carnie cabaret within tent, hosted by magic roustabout and snake-oil peddler Paul Zenon, TV trickster and longtime ‘La Clique’ ringmaster.
‘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.
Inspired by the fascinating discovery of neglected suitcases, this talented young ensemble join together to present stories of the real patients of Willard Psychiatric Centre.
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join our resident dj-mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for an hour of bopping family fun.
Michael Mooney hails from Glasgow but has been living in Brighton for 15 years.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in the friendliest of discos.
Fresh from their five-star, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and winners of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2017, ‘Hot Gay Time Machine’ cover all the most important m…
Best Children’s Show Award 2016! Buckle up and take a trip in a giant time machine to get up close and personal with a life sized T-Rex! Incorporating science with circus, pu…
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
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.
Babies, toddlers, stressed new parents swilling bottles of wine and some top Fringe comedians.
“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.
While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te…
The Dreamweaver Quartet invite you to open up your third eye Will Luera is back in London and playing for two nights with a crack team of London improvisers The Owls Are Not What T…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
A trio of improv: The Owls Are Not What They Seem revisits Twin Peaks.
A trio of improv: The Owls Are Not What They Seem will revisit the town of Twin Peaks.
An extremely flamboyant, ‘riotous but subtly moving’ (The List) extravaGAYnza, fresh from its sold-out, award-winning run at Edinburgh.
Loosely inspired by Twin Peaks, The Owls Are Not What They Seem will chart a brand new hidden mystery with each fully improvised performance.
Sitting In a Tin Can (feat.
The cows that made the milk that went into your tea or your cereal this morning might be housed all year-round in large sheds.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
HG Wells’s sci-fi masterpiece is reborn as a brand new musical adventure.
Ever had to walk into that room where your boss, with fake concern in his eyes, tells you that he’s having to let you go? Ever wish you had the balls to say ‘f**k you’? Well, I did…
Two years a Leither and it feels so good! But a Penguin is not a Tim Tam, and a Penguin is not a straw.
Two DJs live on stage and on the mics.
I was born to two of the most clueless parents.
The audience were completely absorbed by Proto-Type Theater’s exposition of global mass-surveillance in A Machine They’re Secretly Building, the title aptly born from whistlebl…
Expect songs of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter Paul and Mary, and more when award-winning singer/songwriter Bruce Davies pres…
Hot Dub Time Machine is the world’s first time travelling dance party, taking festivals, theatres, rooftops and venues all over the world on a transcendent dance through pop musi…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
If you don’t know your Grandmaster Flash from Public Enemy, then Hip Hop Time Machine is going to seem less like a nostalgic reminder of your childhood and more like you’ve act…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
NATO Summit, 2014, Newport, Wales: Pippa is dazed, hungover and staging her own personal protest on the Coldra roundabout.
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.
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
The future is brought to you from the past in this musical adaptation of H.
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 only winner of the Best Show and Best Newcomer Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns for the first time.
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…
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
In his first solo show, stand-up comedian Jacob Hawley (Comedy Store King Gong winner, Fresh Comedian of the Year finalist, four-star Brighton Fringe 2016) brings tales of patrioti…
Tom Ward (Chortle Award Winner 2017, BBC Worldwide, Comedy Central) returns with a picnic of broken dreams to share! And the dome-haired, exuberant loner brings forth quite a banqu…
Phineas Wakenshaw is a consummately confident performer, effortlessly charming packed out audiences with a sweet smile and immense stage presence.
Many will be familiar with the big budget movies inspired by the works of HG Wells (The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man) for example, but fewer might have actually read the…
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…
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
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.
“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.
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 …
What is the meaning of life? Do aliens exist? And how many is too many raisins? This show will answer a maximum of one of these questions.
“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…
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Twelve years ago, Tobias and Alexander came together to form a spiritualist commune based on their shared visions of a peaceful and harmonious community.
The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to.
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…
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…
Celebrate Aardman’s 40th birthday with expert Aardman model maker Jim Parkyn and his Amazing Scene Machine.
Stone me! Luis Albornoz and Paul Everett of the British Geological Survey deliver a rewarding walking talk on Edinburgh’s geology, providing information on the bedrock of our bui…
There’s a very British way of how we process learning about atrocities going on in the world that many of us know little about - first humour, then guilt, a desire to somehow “fi…
Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Two friends get together to write a comedy musical.
Inspired by the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning and the Hatton Garden safe deposit heist this is a dark, psychological thriller being delivered on stage to coincide with its product…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Ever been called into that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you’d fought back and told them exactly what you thought of the whole bollock-brained process? Well,…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Fringe’s best party ever is back! Hot Dub Time Machine returns for its fifth year.
‘We are more than bodies to be fed to a machine.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Always a sell-out, the original family dance party returns to Edinburgh’s funkiest nightclub for its eighth Fringe run.
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).
Join expert model maker and Aardman animator, Jim Parkyn, and make your own mini masterpiece in this hands-on model making workshop.
An actual baby, just.
The best shows at the Edinburgh Fringe are the unexpected ones.
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…
Following a break after two years of sell-out shows, And They Played Shang-A-Lang is coming back! This is what life was like growing up in 70s Edinburgh, told through laughter, tea…
Three brazen comedians bring you a feast of straight talking hilarity.
Three brazen comedians bring you a feast of straight-talking hilarity.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Three brazen comedians bring you a feast of straight-talking hilarity.
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.
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
Escape all that horrible stuff, for about an hour, with comedian Dave Bailey’s debut solo stand-up show: ‘Beige Against The Machine’.
The original family dance party returns for more afternoon dayclubbing fun.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
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…
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.
Randy Sharp’s drama — about 19th-century slavers adrift in the Middle Passage between Africa and the New World — has impressive sets and costumes and salty, punge…
Taking festivals, theatres and rooftops all over the world by storm, Hot Dub Time Machine returns for five nights only, bigger and better than ever! Join DJ Tom Loud on a transcend…
Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting.
‘Be my little baby,’ intone The Ronettes as the Swinging Sixties unleash a wave of sexual liberation for women.
The Times They Are a Changin’ takes you on a journey from the Second World War to the present day.
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…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
More and more people don’t want children.
It’s amazing at times how little Chris Coltrane has to do to make his audience laugh.
Mitch Benn best known to impersonate Elvis.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2014.
Come and sit in a cinema and watch two dogs show you their tricks.
David Lee Morgan’s Building God is a poetry performance that discusses, deals with, judges and examines past state revolutions and the present state of affairs.
Discoteque Machine, brought to us by Gianmarco Pozzoli and Alice Magione is a morphsuits show.
Performed by a superb cast, this is a painful and tragic exploration of Alan Turing’s life and the many attempts to break him as a person.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Enter The CHRISTEENE MACHINE: A gender-blending booty-pounding perversion of punk dragged through a musical theatre gutter, commanded by CHRISTEENE: a human pissoir of foul hilarit…
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…
Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato.
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 …
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
(closes on Thursday) Experimental theater as math problem: In the latest piece from Nellie Tinder, three actors play the same character while telling two tenuously linked stories.
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…
On Broadway, dance is now more like a shot of espresso or a vintage Instagram filter and less of a storytelling tool, like it used to be.
Bach to Baby is the critically-acclaimed classical concert series for babies and their carers to enjoy together.
After last year’s sell-out shows as a duo with Steve Rutherford, and playing guitar on Sydney Carter’s songs and poems with Gordon Funky Socks choir, Mark returns to the Fringe wit…
Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade for 170 years sing and dance its way back together? The story of survival against the odds and how determination can triumph…
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Lebanon is home to most refugees fleeing Syria.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The show is narrated by a theatre director who is reflecting on his school days in 1970’s Edinburgh.
Nevin of Edinburgh and MacKay Decorators Perth Ltd.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings, offering everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build and…
If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
Crazy character comedy, one-liners and audience participation.
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.
Environmentally friendly? Sustainable? More like greenie hogwash! Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn suggests we take off our Clarkson ear muffs and hear a different take.
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
The world’s first time travelling dance party is back, bigger than ever, and still powered by your dancing.
Fringe sell-out 2009-2013.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! Parents and under fives are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Seamlessly shifting between a medley of characters at an alarmingly fast rate, Will Franken’s caustic satire at times verged on the unbalanced, crazed side of affairs, but beneat…
Some Fringe clichés exist for a reason.
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.
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.
The queue for this show was in itself an experience.
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.
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
You wake up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
After the success of ‘League of St George’ last year, Bricks and Mortar Theatre are back with their second Edinburgh Fringe production Barge Baby.
This internationally renowned Chicago troupe performs a completely improvised, hourlong musical.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Exploding drag, gender, queer shame and otherness, La Bouche is a human barely understood, born into a universe where conformity is key.
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…
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.
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.
‘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…
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…
This was really quite a wonderful event, although not one I would have necessarily picked for purely entertainment purposes.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
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…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Imagine a gang of thugs with knives. Now replace the knives with jokes and the thugs with three best friends that want to stab you into fits of laughter. That’s us.
“In Da Club came out in 2003, not 2005!” I found myself shouting across the dance floor at around half past two this morning.
Hook up to the intensive comedy unit for revitalising laughter and life saving fun on the Free Fringe’s biggest stage.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
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.
If you’re looking to travel back through the years and witness witty portrayals of your schooldays, then this show will transport you.
“I wuv you” murmured a girl on the dance floor as she collapsed into a boy’s arms.
Set in 70s Edinburgh, this heart-warming foot-tapping story follows Jim’s life from his school days’ school disco to punk rock, encountering death to first love, told with tears,…
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.
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
A trawl through the bemused and bewildered mind of a middle-aged teenager coming to terms with ageing, technology, fuzzy felt and The Man.
Andy Day, of Cbeebies fame, and Mike James deserve a standing ovation for their efforts to save parents from having to entertain their children on a rainy Sunday morning in Edinbur…
Do not be fooled into thinking that this is simply a tale of a bunch of faded men trying to emulate their teenage youth.
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.
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…
What is it like to sustain a relationship if one of you is dead? Bath Street Productions hurl themselves into this ambitious topic, with a quirky and playful approach.
‘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.
Cricket, as we know, can be an all-consuming passion.
This play is set in England, but in some kind of frightening, futuristic police state.
The scene is set by a pumping house tune with a countdown.
There’s a difference between absurdist theatre and ridiculous theatre.
Waiting for someone to collect her sewing machine, an old woman takes her leave of this last remaining companion.
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 story of the women of Troy, the day after the Greeks have captured the city using their Trojan horse.
On a grey yet promising day in the middle of the Fringe I found myself queuing outside the Pleasance Courtyard, being greeted by a young man in overalls displaying an almost indece…
The absurd and often hilarious What’s He Building In There? from STaG productions opens with a sawdust-spattered man lovingly caressing a chair, and only gets weirder after that.
According to Toby Hadoke, hetrosexual Dr Who fans are about as common as a shop selling ginger hair dye.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Brendon Burns is forty-one.
Making sure that I arrived exactly five minutes early, as instructed by the lady at the box office, I promptly passed my telephone details to a stranger and had left the venue in n…
This is adaptation of a short novel by Horace McCoy, presented by the Italia Conti Ensemble, recalls the Depression in America in 1935 when poverty drove young people to take part …
From the moment the audience is met at the entrance by the overenthusiastic Mr Alesbottom, it becomes clear that the duo are desperate for us to like them.
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…
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
I have faint memories of being taken to a children’s dance and movement class when I was about two.
Baby is Malty & Shires 1983 musical set on a college campus following nine months of three different couples attempting to have a child.
Rachel Rose Reid is a young storyteller who places herself firmly within a long tradition of oral storytelling.
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.
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.
It’s 1870.
The world-famous Hip Hop Time Machine lands in Edinburgh for a special one-off Fringe show! Prepare to be transported in a complete audio/visual, interactive journey through the gr…
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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To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Huws tackles the life and times of Alan Turing.
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